[FEAR STREET X OCS]
"The more that you say, the less I know. Wherever you stray, I follow."
All Reyes ever wanted was simple; defeat Sunnyvale, reunite her two best friends who had been torn apart by misunderstandings, and maybe, just maybe, convinc...
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IX. first day
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"Ella, the bus will be here in ten minutes!"
Ella barely registered her sister's shout over the crackling tunes of her Fleetwood Mac album. She was throwing things into her duffel bag at lightning speed, reluctantly packing for a camp she had absolutely no desire to attend. But there was no getting out of it. Malinda, her older sister, had declared she needed a break, being a single mom to one-year-old Reyes had taken its toll. And in the chaos, Ella's parents had decided that sending her to Camp Nightwing was the simplest solution.
There was so much wrong with this camp it almost made Ella nauseous. For one, Shadysiders like her always got treated like dirt. She'd never been there herself, but her ex-best friend Ziggy had told her all about it. And that was another huge problem, Ziggy would be there. Their fallout last year was messy, painful, and left an unspoken wall between them. The two of them hadn't managed to be in the same room for months, and Ella knew she only had herself to blame for it.
"I'm coming! Can't you wait like two minutes?" Ella snapped, switching off the record player with a sigh. She grabbed her bag, muttering under her breath, and jogged downstairs to find Malinda bouncing Reyes on her hip while scribbling something on a clipboard.
"Shouldn't Mom or Dad be doing that?" Ella asked, grabbing an apple from the fruit bowl.
"They would if they hadn't run off to Grandma's for the week." Malinda replied with a shrug. The resentment in her voice was obvious.
Ella's parents had always been complicated. The news of Malinda's pregnancy with Reyes had sent them spiralling. Despite their unconventional lives, they clung to traditional values. Their disappointment in Malinda was palpable, and their way of coping was to flee, as always, leaving Ella to deal with the fallout.
"Where's Alejandro, anyway?" Ella teased, biting into her apple.
"Not here, obviously." Malinda said with a wry smile, adjusting Reyes on her hip. "But thanks for reminding me."
Ella smirked. "You're welcome."
"You'll be fine, Ella. And hey, maybe you and Ziggy will work things out." Malinda's eyes softened, as though this hope might somehow fix her own mess, too.
