Clarity (A Luke Hemmings Fanfiction)

The Tween Years

(I apologize for all the jumping between points of views but I had no other way to write it)

11 year old Aria's POV

After that summer, I kept in touch with Zoe by emailing her. 5th grade was a great year and soon I was going back to camp. I was so excited to get to move to a new cabin and meet new people being a year older now. It was nice seeing that the camp hasn't changed in a year. Nothing really memorable happened that year. It was just the same old do activities all day and sing camp songs by the fire. It's not that that year wasn't fun but it was just like last year. I was happy that nothing was changing, I was starting to really get comfortable at this place and I didn't want that feeling to go away. This place was really my home away from home.

11 year old Luke's POV

During that school year I began to forget that camp. So much was happening with school and my friends that it all just became a blur.

That year I learned how to play the guitar. I really liked listening to bands and I wanted to play the guitar and sing like them one day.

Calum also started playing the guitar but he didn't play it as often as I did. Every day after school I would finish my homework and then play the guitar in my room till dinner time. After a while my parents started to get really worried that I wasn't being social that year. She would always say to me that I needed other friends than just Calum and Ashton. I just never wanted other friends than them.

Since flying to America and going to this camp was really expensive, I didn't get to go to the camp the next year. I actually didn't get to go to the camp again till I was 13.

12 year old Aria's POV

This year was the strangest year. I went to camp like normal but something very odd happened to me one day while I was doing archery.

I started to feel like I was peeing my pants and when I went to the bathroom there was blood all over my underwear. I didn't know what was happening to me. I thought maybe somebody hit me with the archery arrow. I soon went out to find my counselor. I told her what happened and she laughed at me. I remember her having to then explain to me what a period was and how to use a pad. It was the most embarrassing and awkward thing I've ever been through. I remember talking to my mom on the pay phone there telling her what happened and her saying "I never would have thought you were going to get that at camp. I got mine when I was 14. I was going to tell you this year about it but I never got to it."

When I got home my mother made sure to explain to me what happens during puberty. I began shaving, wearing bras, and I had crazy mood swings at times. At the end of that year I was glad it was finally over.

13 year old Aria's POV

Being 13 was a big deal. It meant that I was finally a teenager and not just a little kid anymore. My parents got me my first cell phone which was some "flip" phone. It still called people and texted people which was good enough for me.

Being 13 also meant that I was in middle school (secondary school) and I started to lose some friends. It was amazing how many people changed after getting out of elementary school (primary school).

I was just glad that I was never bullied at school like what happens in the movies. I had a lot of friends at school. Making friends was never a problem for me. You can never have too many friends so I thought that the more friends the better.

Camp that year was another story.

It was like all the girls in my cabin were boy crazy. They would always talk about what boys were cute or what boy camp counselors were cute. I started to like boys too but I was getting tired of hearing them talk about it 24/7.