The Search

The Septems

"It has to be here, I'm sure!" exclaimed Laura.

"Are you sure that's where you kept it yesterday?" asked Madison Closs, one of Laura's best friends', she was a blonde girl from the Closs family that had really strict parents. She had come there fifteen minutes earlier.
 She had a galaxy colour badge on her chest in the left corner with a writing in white: The Septems. It was their group name of their friends. 'Septem'  meant 'seven' in Latin. The group was obviously of seven people : Laura and Madison themselves along with Noah Storm, Sebastian Dogrey, Mark Harrison, Grace Ethans and Leah Watt. They wore this badge whenever they had a meeting. Laura had texted them all to come over to their house for discussing the plan and the things they had to bring for camp but it was before she had lost her paper.

"Yes! I was ready for bed and I remember keeping it inside this drawer!" Laura said pointing at the drawer in her high study table. They were talking about the confirmation paper.

"So what do we do if we don't find it?" Madison asked who also wanted to enter this camp so badly but didn't want to go without Laura. 

"I don't know, Mum said that Dad could talk to the Head but I don't think she really meant, she must've said it just to stop us arguing..."

"The Head?" asked Madison shocked.

"Yeah...what?"

"No...you can't ask the Head , your gonna die!"

"What's wrong with asking the Head?" Laura was confused.

"The Head is really strict - like literally stricter than my parents" she added when she saw Laura's expression. "You know the girl living in the other side of the street, the one that always has plated hair and has braces..." Laura was trying hard to remember the girl while Madison was explaining all the very detail that she could.

"...the one with....um...." Madison went on rubbing her head.

"Oh yes! Yeah...I remember her." Laura said finally picturing the girl in her head. "What about her?"

"She had lost her confirmation paper last year just like you did and her mother tried calling the Head and...um...I don't really know what happened next but...erm....I just know that she never got to enter the camp again."

"Wow! Thank you Madison you just made things a lot better." Laura said, disappointed.

"Oh...I-I'm sorry-I didn't mean-I was just trying to warn-", Madison sighed and then asked, "So what do we do now?"  

But then the bell rang from downstairs. Laura and Madison looked at each other for a second then stormed out of the room downstairs. Mr. Hutchins had already reached there to open the door. It was their friends, Noah and Sebastian.

 "Oh hey guys! How are you?" asked Mr. Hutchins.

"Hello Mr. Hutchins, we're good," said Sebastian, the taller one with big oval-shaped glasses and his hair was a colour somewhat near to golden but not golden.

"How 'bout you?" asked Noah, he was handsome and had dark black silky hair falling on the side.
Both of them were wearing The Septems  badge like they should.

"I'm good, yeah I'm good." Mr. Hutchins replied then looking at their badges he said smiling, "Oooh looks like The Septems are having a meeting." Then he looked over to Laura in the stairs still smiling.

"Oh Dad, I'm sorry I forgot to tell you that they're coming over..." Laura said.

"It's alright!" he said grinning.

"Hey Laura!" Noah said looking at her "Oh hey Madison!" he said to when he saw Madison coming down behind Laura.

"Where were you guys?" asked Madison looking at their shirts. It had stains of chocolate on them. "We were down the street where they put up the new stalls then we saw Laura's text" Sebastian replied. "By the way we all should go there it has many nice treats and chocolates and it's only for a week so I thought we could go there before we go to camp."

Laura's face turned gloomy when she heard about camp. She almost forgot about the confirmation paper and she also forgot to tell all the others about it.

"So..?" asked Noah awkwardly when there was a big silence.
"Come on, let's go to my room." Laura said. And all four of them went upstairs to Laura's room.