Survival Week

Sweet Revenge

The morning of the third day at camp, Naomi, Elaina, and Jenna are awakened by a loud scream. Voices can be heard through their tent. Elaina unzips the tent slightly and motions the other two forward so they can hear better.

LINDSAY: (screaming) What is this??

CARLY: It's all over me!

SUE: Eww, it smells awful!

LINDSAY: Evacuate the tent! Evacuate the tent!

CARLY: It looks like the tuna fish from lunch yesterday.

SUE: But how did it get here?

LINDSAY: (sarcastically) Gee, I wonder. Think about it Sue. Who are we currently at war with?

SUE: (pauses for five seconds, and then gasps) You think Naomi did this?

From inside the tent

NAOMI: What? Why do they immediately go to me? You guys are here too!

JENNA: Shh! Listen!

Back outside

LINDSAY: I'm sure she did it. Along with her friends. But believe me, this war is far from over. They started this thing and we're going to end it.

SUE: What are we going to do?

LINDSAY: We are going to prank them so hard that they won't even know that they've been pranked.

CARLY: (after an awkward pause) Um, what's the point of pranking them if they won't know they've been pranked?

LINDSAY: (frowns) It's a figure of speech!

SUE: Like "look what the cat blew in?"

LINDSAY: What? No. That's completely off the sub—(shakes her head and decides against what she was going to say. She takes a deep breath of irritation and begins again) Susie. Please focus. We have a war at hand right now.

SUE: (turning red) Sorry.

LINDSAY: Now we need to rid our tent of the tuna and then formulate our new plan.

CARLY: Which is...?

LINDSAY: We can't talk about it here. They (gestures toward Naomi's tent) might be listening.

SUE: When are we going to do this fantastic prank of yours?

LINDSAY: (with an evil grin) When they least expect it.

Elaina zips the tent back up.

NAOMI: I don't like the sound of that. Operation Tuna wasn't ending the war. It just made the enemy even more vengeful!

JENNA: Yeah... we really didn't think this through. I blame Elaina.

ELAINA: Everybody just calm down. We can figure this out. All we have to do is anticipate any action brought on by the enemy and we'll be fine. We will have to secure our headquarters at all times to make sure it doesn't get taken over.

NAOMI: Is all this really necessary?

ELAINA: Of course it is. Otherwise we'd have to give up the best campsite ever and have to live in a tuna-filled tent in the middle of a swamp.

JENNA: We can't give up now.

NAOMI: But we still have three more days left of camp. Do we really want to be at war with Lindsay's crew the entire time?

JENNA and ELAINA: Yes we do.

ELAINA: Wow. We have telepathy.

JENNA: Quick, what number am I thinking of?

ELAINA: Seven?

JENNA: Woah that's amazing!

ELAINA: Was I right?

JENNA: Yes! Okay, your turn. Think of something.

NAOMI: Um, sorry to interrupt... whatever this is. But shouldn't we be getting to breakfast?

ELAINA: That's right. We have to forage today. But how are we going to do that when Lindsay Valentine is still here? She'll try to take over our tent as soon as we're all gone!

JENNA: Well, we'll just have to make sure that we never leave our tent completely empty.

ELAINA: I sense another plan coming on.

NAOMI: Oh no.

JENNA: Think about it. As long as one of us stays in the tent at all times, then Lindsay can't make us move. We'll just stay put.

NAOMI: Unless they put a skunk in here. I draw the line at that.

JENNA: I don't think they'll ruin the tent. Theirs is already ruined, so now they not only want our campsite, but our tent as well. If they ruin this one, then we'll both be out of luck.

ELAINA: Smart. I agree with Jenna's plan.

NAOMI: But what about activities? We can't just not show up.

JENNA: Two of us will go and one of us will stay here and make up an excuse for why they can't go.

NAOMI: I don't think the "my grandma died" trick is going to work during Survival Week. And if one of us is sick, they'll just send us home along with the requirements of the twenty page paper. I don't think it's possible to stay here twenty-four seven.

JENNA: We'll just try our best. I mean, Lindsay's crew has to go to all the activities too. As long as we leave after them and return back before them, we should be just fine.

NAOMI: I hope you're right.

ELAINA: I have faith in Jenna.

NAOMI: I don't.