Summer Camp

Chapter Seventy Six

Pretty hurts
Shine the light on whatever's worse
Perfection is the disease of a nation
Pretty hurts
Shine the light on whatever's worse
Tryna fix something
But you can't fix what you can't see
It's the soul that needs the surgeryBlonder hair, flat chest
TV says bigger is better
South beach, sugar free
Vogue says
Thinner is better

~Pretty Hurts, Beyonce

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** Alex's POV **

"You're doing good aren't you," said Cayla, grinning at me on my bed.

"What are you talking about," I asked.

"He kissed you in front of me, and it didn't look like the first time," said Cayla.

"No it was," I admitted, "He liked to touch me, like hug me, and hold me."

"Really," asked Cayla, "I didn't think that you'd be as far as you already are with the King."

"I think he really likes me," I told her honestly, "He's been so nice to me. Nicer than he was before. I mean he'd give me almost anything that I could want."

"I didn't think that it would be this easy," muttered Cayla, "But what all have you done with the King."

I felt my cheeks burn as I though about what happened when we were drinking.

"Can we not," I asked, looking away from Cayla, "I want to do something normal, something that we could do back at home."

"Like what," asked Cayla. I grinned and flownced over to the light switch. I hit the button next to it, and plopped back my Cayla on my bed.

"What did you just do," asked Cayla.

"You'll see," I told her, I knew that my call would be answered in minutes. And soon my door opened.

"Alex," called Pixie's voice, as he opened the door. A look of surprise and pure happiness covered her face as she saw Cayla. Pixie dropped what she was carrying, and ran to Cayla, hugging her tightly. 

I smiled at the scene, felling out of place, but in the perfect stop all at once. 

"What are you doing here," asked Pixie.

"I'm visiting Alex," said Cayla.

"How long are you staying," asked Pixie, excitment running through her.

"She'll be here for the week," I told Pixie.

We were all quite as we realized that our little gang was all together again. We all smiled, and hugged each other, actually happy for the first time in a while.

"I never thought that I would see either of you again," I said quitely, "I thought that you were both sent off, well I know that you were Cayla."

"Yeah," said Cayla, "But it didn't last long, Jace rescued me."

"Really," I asked, I hadn't wondered how she met Jace, before.

"Yeah, when the dude that I was sold to was sleeping Jace snuck in and helped me out. He brought me back to his hideout. He was going to bring me home, but he found out that I was from the overland, and I just started helping them."

"Wow," said Pixie, "Are you the only girl?"

"No," said Cayla, "Jace had a little sister names Lisa, who's a sweety, and there is a girl named Maddie who's younger than me. But it's hard to talk to them because I grew up so differently than them, we all did."

I nodded, "I'm glad I have you guys to talk to."

"Me too," said Pixie.

"Yeah," said Cayla.

Suddenly there was a beeping noise.

"What is that," I asked, looking around the room.

"That's me," said Pixie, "I have to go."

Cayla hugged Pixie again, and whispered something to her.

"Bye," I said, as Pixie left, "See you soon." 

Pixie left her bag in the room, winking at me, and I grinned back at her.

I grabbed the bag off the floor, and pulled it onto the bed.

"What are you planning with the King," asked Cayla, as I rifled through the bag.

"I don't want to," I told her.

"Don't want what," asked Cayla.

"I don't want to talk about him," I told her.

"I know," said Cayla, "But it's important"

"Yeah," I said, "But I don't even know what I'm doing, No on explained it very well."

"We just need information," said Cayla, "Things about the kidnappings, directions, pictures, graphs things like that."

"Can we talk about this later," I ask, "I just want to have a good time with a friend. We can talk about this later, we have all week."

"Yeah," Said Cayla, "But we will talk about this."