My relationship with my father has been not so good, ever since he started to date Priscilla or Honey Bun as he calls her. Ever since she convinced my dad to marry her, and to move to Beverly Hills she has been keeping a sharp eye on me, so I give her something to watch. It’s not hard since all my friends and I have ever done is go shopping and date. Well, they shopped and I dated.
The guy that had the last straw, at least with Honey Bun, was senior Josh Tilton. We were in my garden, walking under the full moon’s magic. We were just passing a bush, and as the gentlemen he is, he plucked a perfect white rose bud, and offered it to me. I sniffed it and yes it did smell good. He had just whispered “So do you want to go to the prom?” and my first thought was Um your supper cute- Duh! I was just saying “That would be so-” when all the sprinklers went on. Josh, as a gentlemen, pulled me under a tree to take cover, he looked at me in the eye with his blue ones and then to my lips. Oh man! He wanted to kiss me.
Had Priscilla not screamed “Step away from the boy!” he would have had kissed me. Her screams had caused poor Josh to jump a feet away from me.
“You’ve got to be kidding” I fired back. “I’m helping Josh with his poster for the charity car wash”
“In the dark?” Priscilla’s frown deepened.
“Well, we’re not making the posters now, obviously,” I said.
Josh stepped toward her “Let me explain,” he began.
Priscilla smiled thinly at Josh. “That’s not necessary. I see exactly what’s going on here. Romeo you can hit the road. And Shelby, your coming with me.”
With that, in a few days they had packed up my stuff and had send me away to brat camp! To Camp Crescent to be exact. At least it sounded normal from what we read from the brochures when I was caught ,by Honey Bun, with Josh. I was just waiting on the Stop sign, when I recognized this girl that was on the same plane that I was on. Well it was more like she noticed me. She was like an elf not the Lord of the Rings type just like short and with pointy ears. Just as they were checking our luggage(Seriously! Who does that?) we, being elf-girl and me, meat this red-headed girl, her name was Jenna. While elf-girl’s name was Ariel. Instantly people found out my dad was Locke and they had asked me about my dad’s plastic surgery drug. All except Ariel.
We had made a stop and that was when I saw him for the first time. Austin Bridges the Third. Apparently it was rare that he was at camp, but I guess that what happens to rock-star-sons. Later that day he had ran after a kid named Charles that had apparently had taken his backpack. I like the total moron that I was ran after him ignoring Mr. Winters’ (our “supervisor”) screams.
In the forest I had found Mr. Winters but lost track of him and simply followed a stream (which sucked because I had to go pee!) that lead to where Austin was. I wasn’t the only one who had lost track but it wasn’t long before we found Stupid Charles walking with Austin’s backpack. It seemed like Austin had drugs in his bag sooo Mr. Winters had taken it away from him.
For most of the time he had been asking me for help, well help to steal his “medicine”. I was not going to help him if he wouldn’t of had confessed that he was a werewolf! Jees- talk about weird! At first I didn’t believe him but one look at his serious face (well it was more like several times) that I started to believe him. The one time I truly believed him was when I saw him change when we had gotten outside, well he was going to leave or Ditch! I had to go with him and we had to find the way back without water, or a map! We were leaving on our own sides when an animal had been chasing me. Wouldn’t have Austin been there (in his werewolf form) had saved me but got really injured.
When we got back to camp Mr. winters had treated Austin and me. Well because I had gotten a few scratches from falling on a stupid root. It was like hell broke loose, when it all had finally ended they had contacted my parents, more like Honey Bun and was sent to Red Canyon Ranch, which is literally Hell! what do you expect from running a marathon on the desert, and being screamed orders? Just to find out that Austin had followed me here. My first thought when Vanessa whistled before saying “Oooh, that one in the leather jacket is fine” was “Hold up. Leather in the desert?“ When we had new arrivals. There was only one person that had brought a leather jacket to brat camp was someone I knew too well. Austin had come all this way just to give me a kiss. A kiss that made me lose all senses of my surroundings. Nothing except Austin and me.
The kind of kiss that certain sergeants arriving on the scene found objective between two reform cadets…
The kind of kiss that made scrubbing burned gravy pots after dinner that night pleasant work…
The kind of kiss that made digging a new latrine hole the next day fun…
Then again I learned that moonlight might have special powers, but love works the real magic in the world.
Only Love.
The guy that had the last straw, at least with Honey Bun, was senior Josh Tilton. We were in my garden, walking under the full moon’s magic. We were just passing a bush, and as the gentlemen he is, he plucked a perfect white rose bud, and offered it to me. I sniffed it and yes it did smell good. He had just whispered “So do you want to go to the prom?” and my first thought was Um your supper cute- Duh! I was just saying “That would be so-” when all the sprinklers went on. Josh, as a gentlemen, pulled me under a tree to take cover, he looked at me in the eye with his blue ones and then to my lips. Oh man! He wanted to kiss me.
Had Priscilla not screamed “Step away from the boy!” he would have had kissed me. Her screams had caused poor Josh to jump a feet away from me.
“You’ve got to be kidding” I fired back. “I’m helping Josh with his poster for the charity car wash”
“In the dark?” Priscilla’s frown deepened.
“Well, we’re not making the posters now, obviously,” I said.
Josh stepped toward her “Let me explain,” he began.
Priscilla smiled thinly at Josh. “That’s not necessary. I see exactly what’s going on here. Romeo you can hit the road. And Shelby, your coming with me.”
With that, in a few days they had packed up my stuff and had send me away to brat camp! To Camp Crescent to be exact. At least it sounded normal from what we read from the brochures when I was caught ,by Honey Bun, with Josh. I was just waiting on the Stop sign, when I recognized this girl that was on the same plane that I was on. Well it was more like she noticed me. She was like an elf not the Lord of the Rings type just like short and with pointy ears. Just as they were checking our luggage(Seriously! Who does that?) we, being elf-girl and me, meat this red-headed girl, her name was Jenna. While elf-girl’s name was Ariel. Instantly people found out my dad was Locke and they had asked me about my dad’s plastic surgery drug. All except Ariel.
We had made a stop and that was when I saw him for the first time. Austin Bridges the Third. Apparently it was rare that he was at camp, but I guess that what happens to rock-star-sons. Later that day he had ran after a kid named Charles that had apparently had taken his backpack. I like the total moron that I was ran after him ignoring Mr. Winters’ (our “supervisor”) screams.
In the forest I had found Mr. Winters but lost track of him and simply followed a stream (which sucked because I had to go pee!) that lead to where Austin was. I wasn’t the only one who had lost track but it wasn’t long before we found Stupid Charles walking with Austin’s backpack. It seemed like Austin had drugs in his bag sooo Mr. Winters had taken it away from him.
For most of the time he had been asking me for help, well help to steal his “medicine”. I was not going to help him if he wouldn’t of had confessed that he was a werewolf! Jees- talk about weird! At first I didn’t believe him but one look at his serious face (well it was more like several times) that I started to believe him. The one time I truly believed him was when I saw him change when we had gotten outside, well he was going to leave or Ditch! I had to go with him and we had to find the way back without water, or a map! We were leaving on our own sides when an animal had been chasing me. Wouldn’t have Austin been there (in his werewolf form) had saved me but got really injured.
When we got back to camp Mr. winters had treated Austin and me. Well because I had gotten a few scratches from falling on a stupid root. It was like hell broke loose, when it all had finally ended they had contacted my parents, more like Honey Bun and was sent to Red Canyon Ranch, which is literally Hell! what do you expect from running a marathon on the desert, and being screamed orders? Just to find out that Austin had followed me here. My first thought when Vanessa whistled before saying “Oooh, that one in the leather jacket is fine” was “Hold up. Leather in the desert?“ When we had new arrivals. There was only one person that had brought a leather jacket to brat camp was someone I knew too well. Austin had come all this way just to give me a kiss. A kiss that made me lose all senses of my surroundings. Nothing except Austin and me.
The kind of kiss that certain sergeants arriving on the scene found objective between two reform cadets…
The kind of kiss that made scrubbing burned gravy pots after dinner that night pleasant work…
The kind of kiss that made digging a new latrine hole the next day fun…
Then again I learned that moonlight might have special powers, but love works the real magic in the world.
Only Love.
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| Shelby! |
