Cam Valdez and the Lost Origins: The Unkown Twin

I get a Visit from Snoogles

    My fingers were sore from running the tips of them across the edges of the stupid broken medalion which I'd taken from the Jonses' house. Even if my fingers hurt I wasn't going to stop because right then I needed to be moving and as well as stubborn and sulky.

     I sat on my bunk bed with my back to the rest of the cabin. Another reason why I was rubbing my fingertips sore on the rough metal was because I was doing my best not to cry. And I hated myself for wanting to cry. Why should I cry? Did I really think anyone at this stupid camp--in this stupid cabin--would be different from all of the terrible people I have encountered throughout my life?

     They were all the same.

     But the real question that nagged at me was: why did I care? Why did I care that I'd messed up Andrew and that girl, Riley's, friendship? Why did I care that after I demanded answers from Nico (I didn't get any) he and Will got into a fight and Nico had locked himself in his cabin? Why did I care that Nico had ignored me all week? 

     Someone tapped my shoulder. I turned, ready to yell at whoever the heck it was until I saw Mckenna's blue eyes peeking over my bunk.

     "Help," she squeaked.  

     I realized she was dangling from my bunk, unable to climb all the way up on her little legs. I pulled her up and saw she had a backpack on and soon found out that it was stuffed to the ripping point with as many teddy bears as the young girl could have possibly put in there.

    Mckenna, was the most adorable little kid I'd ever seen--next to Aspen. She had short brown hair, bright blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and a round and adorable face that was splashed with freckles. And her crazy obsession with plush bears added a +10 on her cuteness scale.

     Mckenna picked up one of the bears she'd dumped on my bed. "Snoogles wants to make Cam happy," she said in a funny voice pretending to be the bear she dubbed 'Snoogles'. She'd probably been trying to combine the words 'snuggles' and 'googly eyes' because of the bear's huge eyes, resulting in an even cuter name. 

     "Snoogles wants to know why Cam is sad," Mckenna continued, putting the huge-eyed bear close to my face. "Snoogles wants to know if Cam is sad because she got in a fight with Andrew?"

     That comment annoyed me so I pushed the bear away from me trying my best to be gentle. I liked Mckenna, and I liked little kids, I really did, though right now I wished everyone would disappear, even Mckenna. Younger kids were just easier to be around. They didn't care if you were a social outcast, heck, they wouldn't care if you were an alien there to steal all of earth's pencils as long as you'd be willing to reenact The Lion King with them.  

     But for now, I pushed my anger aside, determined not to make another person hate me. So I nodded and said, "He said I was a 'pretty powerful daughter of Hephaestus.' Any clue what that means?"

    "Yup! It means that Hephaestus is your daddy. He's pretty cool. My best friend is in that cabin and he weaponized some of my teddy bears!"

     I eyed a few of the bears cautiously then the real thing hit me, "Wait... if there’s a cabin for kids of Hephaestus then why am I here instead?"

     "Um…" Mckenna looked very nervous all of a sudden.

     "Please, Mckenna. I need to know and no one else will tell me, so that means you're my last hope." Yeah, I know, a dirty trick to play on a little kid, but she really was my only hope.

     "Okay… but if anyone asks who told you, blame Snoogles." When I nodded she continued. "So I know Nico has been trying to learn more about you, he hasn't found much. And I know that no one has heard from this place called the Waystation where another child of Hephaestus lives with his girlfriend after he died and came back to life."

     Now that is a story I'd have to hear... eventually.

     "Well, everyone thinks that something's wrong at the Waystation though we don't know what. I think that Nico thinks you have something to do with it," she finished. 

     So, Nico suspected I had something to do with a place called the Waystation? Well he was wrong, I hadn't even heard the name until then.

     I opened my mouth to press her more but Will called for everyone to return to their own beds ("Noel, if I catch you trying to play Monopoly with Sarah past lights out one more time…") and turned off the lights. I never remember falling asleep but as soon as I did I reappeared in the middle of a dream.

                 
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