Camp

"Lauren, are you all packed?! We're leaving in 10 minutes!" My father yelled.

My parents had found out I was a lesbian and was sleeping with my bestfriend. When they found out, were furious.

My family is catholic, so they don't support it at all. So they're sending me to this camp that is supposed to convert you. I was sure those were illegal, but if I'm going to one, then obviously not.

"Yeah dad! I'll be down in a sec," I yelled back. I put my phone and charger in a hidden pouch in her suitcase. After that, I grabbed the suitcase and made my way down the stairs. I walked right passed my dad and to the car.

"Lauren, say bye to your mom and siblings," my father told me.

"And why should I?" I asked. "They think this fucking camp is gonna work?"

"Enough with that language! Now, go say bye."

I sighed and went back into the house. I walked into the kitchen where my mom, brother, and sister were. My mom pulled me into a hug, but I didn't hug her back.

"Why are you being like this?" Clara asked.

"I don't know? Maybe because you're sending me away?"

"It's for your own good. You're sick."

"Whatever," I walked to my siblings and they shook their heads at me, disgusted. "Wow."

I turned around and walked to the car. I put my stuff in the trunk and got in the back, not wanting to interact with him. He got in the drivers seat and didn't even acknowlege me.

An hour later, we pulled up to the building. I got out, slamming the door in the process. I went to the trunk and grabbed my stuff.

"Miss? Do you need help?" I jumped and turned around and gasped. I saw the most beautiful girl in the world.

"U-uhm, no, uhm, I got it," I said with a blush. "I'm Lauren."

"D-Dinah," she said and stuck her hand out with a dark red blush.

We looked into each others eyes for what seemed like hours, not like I wouldn't mind looking into them for that long.

"Lauren, remember why you're here," I heard from behind me. My dad. Dinah looked down with a frown.

"Yeah, like I could forget."

"You know what? Take your stuff in, I'm done with you." He turned around, got in the car and drove off.

"Your dad sent you here?" I nodded.

"My family found out I was gay. My siblings cant even look me in the eyes."

"I'm sorry. I get it though."

"Yeah, should we head in?" I nodded.

When we went inside, it was huge. I learned it had 15 bedrooms with a bathroom connected to each one and 7 people to a room. Dinah walked up to someone and asked which room I would be in.

"Room 8, now show her to her room," he said with an attitude.

She turned and looked at me. "That's my room," she said with a smile.

"Great." She lead me to the room. When we stepped in, there were four other people.

"Guys, this is Lauren, she's new here," I smiled and everyone went around and introduced themselves.

"I'm Shawn, I'm 14, he/him," said the person with short brown hair.

"I'm Harry, 15, gay, he/him."

"Louis, 16, gay, he/him."

"I'm Zayn, 15, and trans, he/him."

"I'm Niall, 16, I'm queer. He/him"

"And I'm Dinah, 16, pansexual, she/her."

I smiled at Dinah with a blush. I hadn't even known her for an hour and I already had a crush on her.

They looked at me, wanting me to introduce myself. "Well, uhm, Hallo, I'm Lauren, 17, gay, she/her."

"I'm gonna show you around," Dinah said. "Trust me, you'll hate it here."

Lauren couldn't help but smile. She followed Dinah as she started walking.

"This is the Cafeteria where you get to eat shitty food. The food isn't even enough to fill you up, but at least we get something," She said kinda annoyed. Lauren nodded and they kept walking. "This is the school part, they have grades 7-12 and one class room for each grade. What grade you in?"

"I'm a Junior," Lauren replied.

"Oh, me too! I guess I'll be seeing you in class, maybe we can sit next to each other.

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After the tour, it was time to eat. We met up with everyone else after we got our food. Dinah was right, we barely got any food to fill us up.

"Liking your stay so far?" Niall joked.

"I feel like I havent seen the worse of it," Lauren said.

"Oh, trust me, you haven't," Shawn said.

"Shawn!" Zayn yelled.

"What? She'll find out sooner or later."

"That is true, that is true," Niall said.

Lunch went by quickly. Zayn and Niall kept messing around the whole time while Lauren and Dinah talked about anything and everything. Often, Lauren would catch herself staring at the blonde beauty and would have to stop herself.

"Alright, everyone listen up!" one of the 'staff' said. Everyone went quiet knowing what would happen if they didn't. "Get to your rooms. Absolutly no leaving your rooms until morning! If I catch you out, well, you'll find out."

After the announcment, they went to their rooms. During lunch, Lauren found out Harry and Louis were together and they were both from England, Zayn and Niall were bestfriends, she also learned that Shawn had a boyfriend named Cameron, and Zayn had a crush on some Liam guy from the room over.

All of a sudden they heard a scream from out in the hall. All conversation stopped and they looked at eachother. Lauren stood up and started to slowly walk towards the door. "Lauren, what are you doing?" Louis hissed.

"To see whats going on."

Lauren opened the door slowly and peeked out. Seeing nothing, she stepped out and walked in the direction of the scream. "Get back in here," Dinah said.

"I have to make sure they're okay," with that, Lauren was gone down the hall.
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Lauren heard another scream and went in that direction. What she saw shocked her. A guard had a girl by the hair and was pulling her away, I heard footsteps and before I could turn around, a hand went over my mouth and another around my waist. The person behind me started to pull me in the direction the guard took the other girl.

She started to thrash around, not wanting to go with the stranger.

"Keep moving and I will make your life even worse," he spit at Lauren.

She instantly stopped moving and slumped in his hold. We got to the destination, the room had chairs and what looked like cuffs connected. He threw her onto a chair and put the cuffs around her wrists.

"What are-" all of a sudden, electricity shot through Laurens body as she spasmed. Tears streamed down her face and it finally stopped. She heard a scream on her right and looked over and saw the girl from earlier in the chair as she shook voiletly. A man then unhooked the handcuffs and pulled her up by her hair and started beating her.

"Stop that! Don't hurt her!" Lauren yelled at the man. Another shot of electricity went through her. Finally he undid the handcuffs around Laurens wrist and pulled her up by her hair. She went with him without a problem, anything is better than that chair.

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This has been in my drafts for maybe 2 years, so I thought I'd post it