Chapter 8; camping

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"What are you doing on the computer?" Camm asked curiously.

 Valerie turned around in her chair. "It's called Facebook. Mum just let Allysin and I make an account. We usually only play games on it though."

"Oh that sounds cool," Camm nodded.

Camm sat in the couch across the room looking for something to watch. Her sister Nelly flue back to her college campus a couple months ago, without really saying  word. Camm called her a couple times while she was gone, and it seemed like she was the only one Nelly would allow herself to talk to.

"Hey I have an idea!" Ray blurted out. "You should see if you can make one, so we can talk to each other all the time!"

"Yeah that'd be a good idea, so you guys can keep in contact this summer," said Ray's mom as she walked into the living room, where the little girls were staring at the screen. "But you'd have to call your mom and ask if you can have an account. Sometimes the internet can be a scary place!"

"I'll ask when I go home, then I'll add you guys." replied Camm.

Ray and her sisters, Ally and Emilie, are all like family to Camm. When she had troubles at home, she always came over. Ever since Nelly left for college, she hated to be alone, because she wasn't used to it. So when Camm's parents went out to a place where Camm couldn't come, they'd drop her off at either Ray's house, or Tanashia's, if she could. For some reason, half the time Camm wasn't allowed to go over to Tanashia's house. She told Camm it was for family reasons, but she never understood, she just went with it.

***

Camm arrived home and logged onto the computer, in her sister's now older room, with mum. She had said it was fine, as long as she was kept safe, so she'd to a annual check up on her profile.

After her mum helped her create a Facebook account, she left her to figure out the site. It took her a couple hours, but she finally got the hang of it, and added the entire Linen's family, since they were the ones who had the idea for her to make one. Then added her mum, and sisters, Nelly and Aurora.

As Camm continued to concentrate on the computer screen, a big furry head pooped onto her lap. Camm was startled at first, but then forgot she never greeted Tikky when she came home, and stroked her head. Tikky's entire head was easily as big as her lap. She loved having a big dog, it made her feel comfortable. Small dogs are so annoying.

"Want to go on a long walk tomorrow? To clear out heads? Does that sounds good?" Camm asked in a high voice to Tikky, who was now sliding her head off of Camm's lap slowly and plopping herself contently next to the chair Camm was sitting in. She looked up with big orange eyes, her ears flopping behind her head. She blinked, and wagged her tail. Camm guessed she was fine with it.

Hopefully nothing strange would happen like it did last time they went for a walk around the neighborhood.

***

Fourth grade has finally ended, and Camm was excited for next year. It was going to be a good year.

Hopefully.

Camm and Tikky sat in the back of the motorhome, watching Nelly and her friend play a card game. Nelly came to visit during the summers, and the family relationship was a lot better since she'd first left. Mum and dad sat in the front two seats. Dad was driving, because mum couldn't handle driving a huge motorhome while towing a wide pontoon boat on the hitch.

The family drove north for about three hours until they finally reached their favorite camping ground, right on the lake.

***

After dad backed the boat and unhitched it into the boat lot and parked the motorhome in it's correct spot, everyone started to set things up to get comfortable. Except Camm and Tikky.

As soon as the motorhome came to a stop, Camm and Tikky jumped out of the door, and played around in the campground. Tikky rolled around in the left over sticky flowers from the trees above, and got it all over her fur. It took almost 2 hours for Camm to pick all of them out.

Dinner finally came, with steak and seasoned potato peels. Nelly's favorite.

After all, this was her 20th birthday party.

***

As soon as dark hit, everyone gathered around the picnic table for the decoration of cupcakes on a tray, shaped into the number 20. Camm's grandparents came, and a couple other friends of Nelly's came to celebrate. Everyone sang Happy Birthday, and right before Nelly was about to blow out her birthday candles to announce she was officially 20 years old, - even though her birthday was a couple months ago - her friend Shania picked up a cupcake with chocolate frosting, and smashed it in her face, smearing the frosting all over her hair. Nelly gasped, and grabbed a vanilla cupcake, slamming it into Shania's freckled face, making her ginger hair fall in front of her face. She started to smear some of the frosting off her eyes with her fingers, and was about to wipe it back on Nelly, until another of Nelly's friends, Cathy, threw two cupcakes right on top of Nelly's eyes.

"Oh, so this is how you want to play it?" Nelly threatened with a wide smile on her face. "Bring it on!"

Nelly grabbed a couple other cupcakes, and turned to her sister. "Come here Camm, this is for all the times I couldn't get you back!" and playfully chased after the little girl, trying not to get frosting on her new shirt. But Nelly was much faster, and wrapped her arms around her sister, lifting her up, and smeared the cupcake all over her sisters neck, missing her mouth, making Camm squeal. Then Nelly smeared the rest of the frosting in the little girls' brown shoulder-length hair, making the chocolate cupcake invisible in her hair.

Nelly finally let her sister down after all of the squirming and squealing, and Camm turned towards the campsite, another 20 feet away. "Hey, Cathy, want to toss me a cupcake?" Camm laughed.

With an excited gesture, she happily tossed the cupcake to Camm. She caught it in her hands perfectly, sneaking up behind Nelly as she was giggling with Shania. She smiled as Camm snuck up behind Nelly, reaching her hands high, and twisting them around into Nelly's face. making it smear back all the way to her ears. Nelly gasped, and got knocked back on top of Camm, turning around and wrestling her to the ground, pinning her.

"How do you like that?" Nelly yelled at Camm's face, struggling to keep a straight face. Failing, they both burst into laughter.

It was good to finally have her sister back, Camm thought.

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