Myth Camp

Chapter 4

        Lila sat up on one of the four evenly spread beds in the hut and started reading. She didn’t notice how quite the room was because everyone was looking at her. After a few minutes of this unusual silence everyone remembered why they were here and started unpacking, they all did it except Lila. The little girl still thought that her being in such a wonderful place was just a dream and looking back on her terrible and full of sad surprises life she nearly knew that any minute someone is going to take her away from this paradise. She didn’t want to think like that she wanted to think optimistically because she was happy but something really deep in her core told her it would all end in a wink of an eye so she just continued to read her book. Suddenly the quite stopped…

“Oh my Goodness how are all my clothes meant to fit in this little thing” Abigail complained.

      Erika laughed in a low voice loud enough for everyone to hear except Abi who was too busy trying to close the lovely painted and carved recycled crate which was stuffed with her clothes.  The other two also giggled.  Lila stopped reading and put down her book. She finally decided to unpack herself but even though she was very independent she struggled to do it with one arm. Suzie decided to help her since she was done unpacking and had a sister her age at home.

“You need help?” Suzie asked politely, unzipping Lila’s suitcase.

“Thanks”, Lila answered quietly and smiled faintly.

       The little girl was surprised and a little embarrassed and ashamed of herself. All her life she has been very strong, independent and the exact opposite of shy, but here she was not able to talk because she was too scared. It was not like her.

    Then suddenly she decided that there was no reason to be scared, she was in the most beautiful and wonderful place on earth and she was very happy. Now after the belongings were out of her bag she was bursting with excitement and all the bad feelings went away.

    Erika was feeling miserable, all she could think about is how all the popular girls and soccer players from her school that she totally hates are at great vacations all over the world. All other poorer and less popular kids will probably have much more fun than she will.

    Abi also had very dark thoughts, she just could not bear the fact that her worst enemy Jennifer Fleet will have a better summer than she will and will brag about it, then tell the other rich kids how bad Abigail’s was. Everyone, evev her friends were going to laugh at her.

    Suzie was thinking the exact opposite and deep down she knew this was going to be the best summer ever.

     Suddenly they heard a loud knock on the door. The girls looked at each other. They were too tired to go open the door. The person outside got tired of waiting and banged on the door again, this time as loud as possible. Finally after 5 minutes of staring into the girls' eyes Susan decided to get up and open the door to the stranger.

    She didn’t know what amazed her more, the sky already getting dark in what seemed to her like such a short period of time or the strange costume the man was wearing. She looked at the watch; 2 hours had passed since she was sent to her cabin.

    Her eyes went up again and examined the person in front of her. He was about 2 meters tall and had big brown eyes but they could have belonged to the costume, she wasn’t sure. It was a costume of a bear, monkey or maybe a monster, it seemed like a Sasquatch, with tick dark hair covering it’s inhuman shape. The costume was very convincing and realistic and if she was a few years younger she would probably believe it was a real monster.

“Sorry for keeping you waiting, hello”, she said smiling at the strangely dressed human.

He just grunted and handed her a lovely light green envelope and walked away in the direction of the next cabin.