Suddenly Last Summer #20 by Melissa J. Morgan

Author:Melissa J. Morgan [Morgan, Melissa J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2012-06-01T08:52:17+00:00

chapter SEVEN

Dear Michael,

Sorry I haven’t written in so long! It’s not because I don’t miss you—I miss you like crazy. It’s just that it’s been nuts here and I’ve been super-busy. A few days ago, we found out that Camp Lakeview is scheduled to close next year. Something about the state needs a new highway, blah blah blah. Anyway, we’ve been totally messed up over it—let’s just say we’ve gone through LOTS of Kleenex in the past couple days! But one of my bunkmates, Sloan, came up with a plan, and now we’re going to go to the state capitol to protest the camp closing! I’m so excited, but also stressed out. We have to come up with a really good plan for the protest if our camp leader is going to let us go. And of course, I’m kinda freaked out about camp possibly closing and having to leave all my friends . . . but that won’t matter if our protest works.

Oh, I almost forgot, I got a letter from Cassie the other day talking about her little trip to surf camp! It sounds like she had a really good time. She actually was saying how she thinks I should go with her next year—but of course if this whole protest thing works out, I won’t. I belong at Camp Lakeview with all of my friends.

Love ya,

Tori

“Okay.” Brynn took a deep breath and put her notebook down on the table in front of her. “I hereby call to order our official brainstorming session for the protest to save Camp Lakeview! First, the rules of brainstorming. There are No stupid ideas! Got it? We never know what might work.”

Jenna nodded. “Fair enough.”

Gaby raised her hand. Tori looked over at Brynn and thought she looked a little hesitant as she said, “Go ahead, Gaby.”

Gaby smiled. “I thought we could really make a statement with our protest. Like, you know those ‘truth’ ads on TV about smoking, where all these people pretend to be dead bodies in front of the cigarette companies?”

Sloan nodded. “Sure, okay.”

“Well, I thought we could all dress in white and then pour ketchup all over us to look like blood! And then we could lie in the street with a big sign: CAMP LAKEVIEW’S CLOSURE IS KILLING US.”

Brynn was speechless. Sloan glanced over at her and poked her with her fork. “Are you writing this down?”

“Um,” Brynn muttered, scrambling into action. “Sure. Great. Um, thanks, Gaby. Who’s next?”

Tori looked around the table at her bunkmates. Priya raised her hand. “Well, people really like puppies, right?”

Tori glanced around at her bunkmates, who all nodded. Hard to argue with that.

“I thought maybe we could borrow some puppies,” Priya continued. “From a local shelter or a pet store or something! It would bring attention to us, and then maybe we could give them out to people who promised to support us?”

“Wow,” breathed Brynn.

“I know!” Priya smiled. “It’s out there. But you have to admit, it would definitely draw some attention!”

Brynn nodded slowly, scrawling in her notebook.

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