Rebecka Mahan walked into her high school at 11:00 am it was first recess and everyone was out eating lunch and playing sport or reading or just talking.Becka was wearing her dull grey formal sport uniform, and in her long dark red hair she wore to feathery black hair clips. Her bag matched her books and pens they were all black. The bag was a inflatable see through black bag and her books and pencils were covered in feathers.
Becka walked down the main path of the school with her see through black back pack. Trailing behind her was a Taxi driver carrying two large black suitcases, Beckaturned and directed him to place the bags just inside the office doors and then paid her fair and gave him a large tip. Once she had signed in with the office staff because of her late entry she headed out of the office and down to the oval terraces. Tanya's gaze skipped the crowd as if she were looking for someone in particular.
Suddenly a loud voice shouted out excitedly, "Flame this way, over here you who, Hoy Flame." Becka smiled and looked over and waved at July the small Auburn haired, Aqua eyed beauty.
Sitting next to each other laughing hysterically at July was, Filly, the smallest girl in their group, that along with her long brown hair with red highlight’s and pale features, gave her the look of a small china doll, and brought out everyone's protective instincts.
Filly's best friend was completely the opposite of her, Flex was a tall muscular brunette with a quick grin and a deep tan. It was the things that Flex could do with her body that got her, her nickname. She was the most flexible person in their group and probably the whole school. She was also a national competion level gymanist.
Flame made her way over to them and hugged everyone coming lastly to her best friend from kindergarden, Shady. She was by far the prettiest in the group, everyone knew it but Shady didn't make anything out of it. With her long blondey, browny, coppery hair and her sparkling brown eye’s, her slender figure and her petite height of 5’2 Shady was never short of admirers.
Shady asked Flame in false acuzation, "Now where the hell were you this morning we thought you had left us at the mercy of the boy's for 2 weeks."
Flame grinned, "would I be so cruel? No the thing is my brother chucked a tantrum over something my parents said and it took me an hour to calm him down enough for him to drive me to school, but on the way here, the car broke down and Brad had to phone RACQ to come and get us.
"Then we had to wait another 1 hour for them to come and pick us up, that made it 10:00 then when we finally got to the garage Brad decided that it would be best if I got a Taxi to school so by the time I was picked up and driven here it was 11:00 so after I signed in I came down here." Flame said and grinned again.
"So speaking of the unholy terror's of the deep where are the boys? They are coming to the camp aren't they? Cause if they get out of it then so do we." Flame grinned.
"No there's no such luck. We are stuck going to camp AND we're stuck with the boys, and dentures." Flex grimaced at the mention of there history teacher. At just that moment the boys came up the steps off the oval in one rather large group of 11.
They were, Jack-cowboy-Kelley, Brooklyn-Spot-Conlon, Micheal-Mush-Ericsson, David-the mouth-Jacobs, Max-Racetrack-Cassella, Brandon-Boots-Adams, Micheal-Kid Blink-Allen, Joshua-Cutchy-Germaine, Skyes-Skittery-Antony, Jye-Specs-Baller, William, Randolf, Arthur-Dutchy-Windsor the III and finally pulling up the rear, Mexican exchange student, Enrico-Bumlets-Paloa.
Spot, so named because he hated his real name, smiled at Flame and said, "we thought you'd skinned out on us. The thought of 2 week's with guy's as gorgeous as us and old Dentures was just to much for you huh?"
Flame rolled her eye's at the girls and then smiled and said in a southern accent, "Well may good sir, I was afraid that I might swoon at your beastly attractiveness, but rarely I have got control of may emotions I'm quite sure."
"Besides," Flame said in her normal Australian twang, "when have I EVER been scared of you sorry little shrimps. You seem to have forgotten that until last year Nearly all of us girls towered over all of you, bar Bumlets" Flame said smirking, even though she had no idea why everyone called him Bumlets, it was some joke or something among the guys.
Cowboy, who had got his name from his love of horse's and station (ranch life), smirked and held his hands up as a sign of retreat, "whoa there girl, Stop the steam train before you hit some one." Flame pretended to glare at the cocky Manhattenite, "and just when did I give you perrimission to talk Jackey-Boy?" Flame said archly.
Cowboy looked at Flame in pretend indignation, "you give me perrimission? It is I that should be giving you perrimsion you fiery wench. Now come and apoligise." Flame looked at Cowboy for a moment before standing and then grinning and shaking her free red hair, "Not on your life old man."
"Old Man why come here you cheeky little brat." Cowboy roared loudly and chased after Flame as she headed off the oval and towards the libary. The rest of the group grinned and clambered after them.
Flame dodged and ducked people until Cowboy grabbed her around the waist, and swung her around before stopping and quickly putting her down but still keeping his arms around her waist ready to attack when Dentures left but at the moment Dentures stood looking down at the group that was gathering in front of him.
"Ahh you are just the people I was looking for. The problem that I had to take care of this morning had to do with the rest of the history class that is meant to be going to the camp with us. 4 of them have Debating finals that they must attend. Another 3 have come down with some virus and another 2, the twins, have had a family emergeny concerning their mother so, we will only have all 17 of you. Ohhh and the Delancey boy's will be coming as well." Dentures said of the 4 biggest brown nosers in the school.
" Plus we are meeting up with 10 girls from the nearby all girls school, and they shall bring a female chaperon for you 5 girls and their 10 girls. We will leave at12:00 o'clock midday sharp so don't be late I hope that you all brought your thing with you and you have the hour between now and then free, we won't need to go to 4th or 5th period. But I will only allow this if you promise not to disrupt the rest of the school. Do I have your word? Good then I'll be waiting at the front gate at 12:00 sharp." Mr-Dentures-Denton.
"Ohhh no a close all girls private school, damn it that has to be Saint Ursuala's. Man this camp was so close to being fun." Filly muttered to herself more then anyone else. Kid Blink, so named because of the patch he wore over his right eye, threw an arm around Filly and hugged her, "Filly girl don't worry about it. It'll still be fun, I mean Dentures may be ancient but he is fun, come on don't get down." Kid blink told Mushes twin sister.
Flame nodded in agreement, "Yeah if they're any trouble just remember that there is 17 of us and 6 of them, besides they will probably spend all their time drooling over theses guys. I know I know, drooling over these guy's by any girl is crazy but remember that these girls come from a school without guys of any kind." Flame teased the guys slyly.
July looked up at Flame and said quite loudly, " aren'y you forgetting that some us are going out with these guys?" July smiled up at her bespecticled boyfriend, Specs, he smiled back, kissed her nose and pulled her into his warm arms.
Flame grinned ans shrugged her slim shoulders, "what can I say there is no accounting for taste." July looked frustratedly at her best friend then added slyly, "But you could be charged with the same crime girl, cause I remember not long ago you and a Mr Conlon were an item, quite a hot one at that."
Flame smiled, "I know I know, I'm the poster child for tempory insanity." She said noticing that Jacks arms was still around her waist. She smiled slighty then muttered something about getting some food and felt Jacks arm's fall away quickly.
"So what are we going to do for the hour before we go hmmmmmm?" The group muttered different things each heading off to do their own thing except for, Spot, Jack, Flex and Bumlets.
"Okay let's go get me some lunch then we can sit around and talk." Flame said smiling as she walked off towards the canteen. Jack grinned at Spot and Spot said in his fake flattery voice, "Man I love a woman that can take control. Why ever did we break up Flame?" Spot said wrapping an arm around her waist mockingly.
"That would be the blonde, then the burnette, then another blonde, a couple of Pixie haired beauty's and another blonde." Flame grinned, Spot had never cheated on her exactly but he did have a lot of admirers and that had lead to a lot of trouble.
"Awwwww but you know I have a think for red heads, Flamey." Spot said.
"Ohhh really what a shame cause I don't know any red heads that have a crush on you? You must be really bummed out huh?" Flame teased.
"Ohhhh man your harsh girl." Spot said throwing the arm around her waist around her shoulders. "So what are you gonna get a pie, a sauage roll, what about a pack of greasy chips." Spot taunted the staunch vegetarian and health food freak.
"Arghhhhhh you are disgusting you kill helpless animals then prepare to kill yourself with all that fat and grease and bad stuff." Flame said in her age old fight against the boy's bad eating habits. Flame payed for her salad roll and then sat down on the picnic table near the canteen.
Flame looked over at Jack as he sat down across from her, she smiled quitely and then turned to Bumlets. "So Bumlets can you teach me some more spanish on the way to the camp?" Flames asked her unofficial Spanish tutor.
"Sure that'll be fine." Bumlets said shyly.
"Man it must be great to live in Mexico or America. You two are so lucky." Flame said to Bumlets and Jack. "Nah Australia is better it is nice and quite, and It has cute girls." Jack said looking at Flame pointedly.
Flex took the hint that the other 2 boy's didn't, "Hey Bumlets, Spot can you come with me I need to lift something heavy from near my locker." Flex said practically dragging them away from the picnic table and Flame and Jack.
Flame watched as Jack made his way to her side of the picnic table. "Hey Flame I gotta ask you something."
Flame smiled hopefully, she had been crushing on Jack for weeks. "Ya know you can ask me anything."
"Yeah but this is kinda harder then usual, you see I wanted to know if you would go out with me but if you would prefer to be friends then that's alright too." Jack put in quickly.
Flame smiled slightly and lent over and kissed him gently then said, "Of course I'll go out with you."
Jack beamed happily and kissed Flame again. "Wow this is great. Don't laugh but I've had a thing for you ever since I came here. But there was Kid and then Spot so I couldn't ask you out."
Flame looked confused, "What do you mean there was kid? Blink and I never went out ever. He is one of my best friends brother, that is a big no no." Flame smiled slightly. "I did have a crush on him though. In the 5 grade." Flame added giggling.
Jack looked at her in fake sterness, "you like teasing me don't you?"
Flame nodded shamelessly and continued as if he hadn't spoke, "He was so much taller then me and he had beautiful well one beuatiful blue eye. He was always happy nothing ever got him down. Actually he is still like that, oh no wait I have a crush on Blink I must have locked it in my sub-concious what a bummer. you must be pretty cut." Flame mocked and then squealed when he chased her.
Flame ran past July and Specs laughing hysterically, "Ohhh no those two are at it again shesh. They should go out with each other." July said jokingly then saw jack catch Flame and kiss her deeply. July and Specs looked at each other and raised opposite eyebrows. "maybe they are one step ahead of us my dear." Specs said and then dragged a gaping July away.
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July and Specs were the first two out of the bus. Then the Delancey's Boy's, Oscar Morris, William, Joseph, then Kid Blink and Mush, then Spot and Race, then Boots and Bumlets, Shady and Crutchy, the back seat five, Filly, Flex, Skittery, Dutchy and Davy and the ones closest to the bus door but the last off were Flame and Jack.
Dentures was wearing a safari suit and a horrid bow tie. He adjusted his glasses and then headed off in the direction of the main office. The girls and guys grabbed their suitcases and headed for the cabin's. The five girls spilt from the guy's and headed to their half of the camp.
The camp was 2 large identical Queenslander, connected in the middle (you have to see to know it but basically wood built and large and open). The girls house was the left one. It was a large four bedroom home. The girls walked through the loungeroom and into one bedroom. The bedroom was large and spacious. Each room had four beds, one facing north, south, east, and west.
"This place is gorgeous." Flame said excitedly. Shady was silent in her awe. "Shady I know that you like houses but close your mouth, you might sallow a fly. Yuck." Filly shuddered and caused the girls to all burst out laughing.
"I wonder who each of us are rooming with? Dentures said that there was a list organized. Ohh well while we're waiting lets look around the house totally." Shady said finding it hard to contain her excitement.
July grinned and said, "It's not her fault she comes from a long line of arcitect's. Just keep saying that girls it'll be fine trust me." For that comment she recieved a punch in the shoulder.
The girls headed out in the the loungeroom it had 3 large couch's and 4 matching armchairs. "They are actual velvet girls look real velvet of my god." Filly said shocked.
"Wow look at this...." Flex said overcome by the beauty of what she was seeing. The other four girls headed out to the balcony that Flex was on. All stopped and caught their breath. "Ohhh it's gorgeous."
They each said in turn staring out over a huge rainforest. The long stems of the trees went up and up, and it crinked the girls next to look at the canopy of the forest. It was lush with green leaves and plumage. The Tree's were magnificent, they had strong trunks and gorgeous heads on them. There was animals scattered throught the tree's intent on collecting and gathering their own precious things.
They were in no way afraid of the five gawking humans. The seemed to eminate the feeling that they knew it was their forest and their domain, and they were doing the girls a favour by letting them observe it.
"Ohhh my god it's gorgeous, this must be one of the very few in all of Australia. This camp is great, beautiful room's, gorgeous lounge, and a view to die for. I'm in heaven." July said quitely causing Flame to wonder absently at the fact that this was probably the first time she had heard July use a soft voice.
Suddenly the door was thrown open and the girl went into the loungeroom to see a gorgeous blond woman with legs up to her neck enter the cabin, then she was followed by four prefectly dressed girls. Then 10 porter's and another 6 girls.
"Wow it looks like they're moving in." Filly muttered. The gorgeous blonde creature turned around and bestowed a dazzling smile on the five girls. "Hi you must be the five girls from Harristown, I am Medda, I am a sweddish exchange teacher. I'm also your chaperon.
"Let me introduce the girls, this is Indie, Dusk, Mooch, Dot, Patch, Coneflower, Clink, Owl, Cooper, and Pixie." The 10 girls shook hands with the five girls in turn then crowded around in a little group behind Medda.
Flame asked nastily, "Is it just me or does someone else feel like they were just watching the nature channel?" The five girls broke into a mad fit of giggles. Medda looked at the girls strangely but smiled and asked, "And what are your names?"
Flame stepped forward and did the introductions, "I'm Flame this is July, Flex, Shady, and Filly."
"Yeah that looks right." one of the girls said derogatively. The five girls didn't know what that meant but the knew it was an insult so they glared at the other 10 girls.
"Well let's all get settled in shall we, I'll go and get the room roster and be right back." Please don't kill each other while I'm gone, Medda thought to herself fearfully.
"Look you don't belong here." One of the snobs said menacingly, Flame looked at them in shock. "Us we were planning on being here before we even knew that we had to suffer through your company." Flame snarled.
"Arghhhh well I was here long before you ever were, my daddy own's it." Flame groaned, that'd be right now she was goign to play the my daddy will get you card. "Like I care. We payed to be here, so build a bridge," Flame said then after a pause added, with attitude, "Get over it."
"Mooch No don't!" another one of the girls said pulling the fiery red head back. "Leave it be, I don't want any more fighting. God can't we all just get along?" The quitest of the lot said in exasperation.
"Yeah that's really going to happen with you acting like snobs." July said angirly, if there was one thing she couldn't stand it was snobs.
"Oh Puhlease you judged us the moment we walked in, We hadn't said a word and you already teased us. We only gave back what we got. If you ask me you are the snobs."
The five state schoolers stood staring at the private schoolers in shock. They hadn't thought of it that way. They had just judged the private schooler's before they had a chance to judge them.
It was just then that Filly stepped forward, "I think we got off on the wrong foot, I'm Filly these are my best friends. I believe we will be sharing the cabin with you, welcome."
The other girls looked at Filly for a moment deciding wheather there was any mocking in teh gesture then decided that they were on the level and shock their hands, reintroducing themselves.
"Well that was another storm we managed to get through," the private schoolers teased their friend Mooch. " I was good I didn't say a word not one." The pretty red head said smiling. "Yeah that was because Clink, stopped you." The girl, Indie she thought, had said smiling.
"Well you all know that I work up quickly and let down just as quickly." Flex grinned and looked pointedly at Flame, "You aren't the only one with a quick temper and an equally quick deflation speed. Our Flamey doesn't get her name because of the colour of her hair."
Shady looked up and grinned, "Hey I don't agree, why do you think she has such a quick temper. It's that hair I tell you. She is as Irish as they come." Flame chose to ignore them all smiling at Mooch.
"It isn't our fault that we are quicker then everyone else is it?" Mooch nodded in agreement, "Yeah they just jealous." Dot scoffed and asked, "Jealous of what. The fact that you share one brain cell between you." Dot huffed into a room and put her suitcase in there.
The shy girl, Clink, looked after Dot then back to the state schoolers, "I'm really sorry about that Dot is in a bad mood today........."
Filly cut her off, "Don't worry we have one of those, we call him Skittery. It think I hear the boy's thumping down here now, so you’ll get to meet him. Don't take anything he say's seriously."
"We find him a whole lot easier to take with Kid Blink. He's the one with the eye patch. If you want to talk about constantly happy that's Kid. He has been called up to take numerous drug test's cause the school can't believe that he is so happy all the time." July said grining.
Indie smiled and flicked a blonde girl's ringlets before saying, "That's the same as Dusk here, she is all ways happy. Hench the...." Indie cut off as the boy's stormed into the room and half were grinning like idiot's the other half were talking and doing there own things.
" Ahhh here the are now, the artilary." Flame grinned and ducked a lollipop that was thrown at her. "Us the artilary? You 5 could kill a nations finest solider with your constant talking," Kid Blink said laughingly.
Bumlets smiles at Flex and walks to her wrapping his arm's around her waist and kissing her cheek. Pixie looks over at Bumlets catching her breath at the good looking Mexican. He was gorgeous, just the type she liked. A pity she couldn't do anything to get him for her own, him having a girlfriend and all.
July smiled and said in her loud voice, "K let's do a little introducing, Indie, Patch, Dot, Coneflower, Clink, Cooper, Pixie, Mooch, and Dusk, Girls this is..." July walked up to Kid Blink, "Kid Blink," she said of the gorgeous blond, with his eye patch.
Next she walked to, the brunette bean pole with a crutch under his right arm. "This is Crutchy, and this is Boot's," She said of the short black boy with a weird grin. Then she moved to her dark haired boyfriend and his gorgeous blond friend, "This is Spec's my boyfriend and his best friend Dutchy."
She then moved to a gorgeous guy with a muscle shirt on and a chiselled torso imprinted in the tight shirt, "This is Filly's twin Mush," Owl let out a low wolf whistle,and said, "Yeah baby, I feel like some mush for desert." Some of the less outgoing girls blushed in embarrassment some of the other's added other comment along the line's of Owl’s.
Mush blushed slightly, he wasn't used to being the center of attention not with Spot around. Sure everyone in the group knew that he was the cutest physically, but Spot had something about him that sent the girls ga ga.
Then July turned to the Italian character who had lighted up a cigar, that he must have snuck into the camp, he flipped out his lucky dice key chain, that he had hanging from his belt thingy. "Double or nothing, that, Mush doesn't get one moment's peace from the girls over the camp. What's ya bet." Race track grinned and whispered to the guys, "That is Racetrack Higgin's the boy with a gambling problem."
Race looked slightly miffed, " i don't have a gambling problem, I bet ya a week's wages that I don't." July laughed wirily and moved on. Racetrack then realized what he had said and frowned in consternation, "That not what I meant. I bet you thought that I was betting with ya, but I wasn't it is totally against all the odds that I would be that stup....."
"Shad up, Race before you hurt yourself." Mush said slapping him on the side of the face jokingly. Davy the quite brunette looked at July, wanting her to introduce him but being to shy to do it himself. "This is Davy The walking mouth. Shy as anyone but a literal genius." Davy blushed and fell further back into the crowd.
July turned to Flex and Bumlets, "This is Bumlets, don't even ask about the name. He is a mexican exchange student, also he is Flex's boyfriend." July said, sending boy's into hysterics at the thougt of how he had gotten his name.
Skittery looked sourly at everyone, "So what the guy is from Mexico that's through him a party." July smiled and went over to Skittery and put an arm on his shoulder, "This ray of sunshine is Skittery Anthony." Cowboy snortted amicable at the reference to Skittery and ray of sunshine in the same sentence.
July turned to Flame and grinned evily she had been waiting all day to say this, "and this is Jack Cowboy, Kelley, Flamey's new boyfriend." Flame gasped how had she known. Cowboy looked at her as if to say, 'did you tell them?' Flame simply shook her head.
They both grinned and walked to each other, it wasn't like they were finding it in the first place they just hadn't realeased that anyone else knew about it. "So you found out, gosh darn it know I'll have to kill you all." Flame said and then raised her head as Jack went down to kiss her.
Just then Spot ran down the ramp yelling over his shoulder, "Sure Mr Dentur...Denton I'll tell them." Spot stood out side the door and shouted into the Room, "what's the big idea of leaving me to deal with Dentures, Jackey boy."
Jack shook his head and went out the door, "Sorry spot I totally.....arghhhh" Jack yelled as Spot hit him on the head with his golden cane. "yeah right ya lying sod." Spot said walking into the room and talking off his antiquainted 1890 hat.
The girls all gasped in shock, as locks of gorgeous blondy brown hair came tumbling out and his blue/green eye's sparkled with victory. "Nevah fear Brooklyn's here." Said his trade mark sentence.
At that precise moment Dusk walked out of the bathroom. Spot walked over to her and said "my name is Spot, What's yours?" "Dusk" she whispered. "Well I'm going over to the lake later on would you like to join me?" Spot said and turned to his friends and smiled a rather devilish smile.
Dusk nodded slowly and said, “I’ll bring some food as well” “Sounds like a plan,” Spot said, then winked at her and exited the room. Everyone else followed Spot. They left the private schoolers in the room by themselves.
By the time they reached the the double house junction Flex leaned against the railing and said, “5.....4....3.....2...1...0,” they then heard an “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” emerge from the house. Bumlets stared at Flex in wonderment, “How did you know that?” Flex grinned and kissed, Bumlet’s on the cheek, “Honey it’s a girl thing.”
Flame, July, Filly, Shady and Flex all smiled secretive grin’s that had the boy’s wondering what they had missed. The girls knew what kind of effect Spot Conlon had on girls, since they had all had the same feeling when they had met him.
“Ohhhhh my god he is soooooo cute. Did you see that, hair,” “Don’t worry about the hair did you see that smile.” “NO NO NO girls you got it all wrong it’s those gorgeous eye’s. I could drown in those eye’s.” All the girl’s squealed again in unison.
The girls outside thanked god that Spot couldn’t here that, that would send his ego into overdrive. As the group of girls and boy’s made there way up to the dining hall which was situated between the two dorm houses.
Spot headed off to get ready for a swim with Dusk. Flame couldn’t help but feel something strange inside her stomach. What was she doing, she was going out with Jack now not Spot if he wanted to go out with Dusk that was fine with her. To prove it Flame went up to Jack and grabbed his hand in both of her’s smiling up at him.
Shady whispered to Flame, “ Hey Flame is Spot going to miss the orrintation meeting from Dentures or what?” Flame grinned and nodded, “I think so. He has something more important to concentrate on now.” Flame said finding the grin strain across her face.
Shady watched for best friend, worriedly. If Flame was going out with Cowboy why was she so worried about Spot’s new girlfriends. Shady shrugged her slim shoulders and looked once more at her friend before turning around and sitting back to back with Racetrack.
Flex and Bumlet were sitting together arms wrapped around each other. The Delancey’s were up the front with note books and pen’s ready to write down Dentures every instruction. Boot’s, Crutchy, and Davy were is a little group with, Indie, Patch, Dot, Pixie and Mooch. Dutchy, July, Copper and Specs were sitting talking by themselves. The other girl’s Coneflower, Owl, Clink and Cooper were sitting with, Filly, Skittery, and Kid Blink.
Dentures headed up to the PC system, with Medda close behind him. Dentures had gotten out of his god awful Safari suit and was now wearing, a pair of brown trouser’s and a old looking coat and shirt, and a strange hat.
Race looked up at Shady and laughed, “Look at him he looks like he just stepped out of the 1900’s.” Race laughed again.
Owl grinned at the girls and Skittery and said, “Wow is that guy meant to be here or a hundred year’s in the past?” Everyone cracked up even Skittery and Shady explained, “That’s Dentures, he is off his rocker but he make History fun, he dresses in like whatever time period it is we’re studing to ‘enhance the experience’” Shady quoted wirily.
Copper looked at Shady,Race, Skittery, Blink and Filly, disbelievingly, "Your not serious he actually dresses like that normally?" The five state schooler's smiled and nodded. Kid Blink wore his usually grin but it was tinted with a evil little smirk.
Clink looked at Blink analitacally, "What's that look for?" Blink looked at Skittery and they both started laughing hard. Causing Dentures speech to fade out. Filly glared jokingly at them both, "don't be mean you have to tell them now." Skittery still smirked but htis time at Kid Blink who had stopped laughing.
"Couldn't we just let Dentures spring it on them?" Filly shook her head seriously, "nope u have to tell them," Filly said firmly. Indie stuck her head over in the direction of the frowning Blink and asked, "Tell them what? Who's them?" Filly grinned and folded her hands across her chest, "go on Blink the longer you wait the more you have to tell."
Blink smiled slightly and shrugged his shoulders, "alright then, Dentures dresses in period costume all the time that's true. But the rumour around school is that he makes the student's he takes on Camp dress up and act out a script he writes on the time period. You might not have to do it but we probably will." Blink grinned and struck a pose of a English gentleman, "I say I say I do believe that I need a shoe shine." Filly burst out laughing and started rolling along the floor it fits of laughter at Blink's accent.
Filly closed her eye's as tears streamed down her face and she laughed so hard that it was just motions and no sound. When she opened her eye's again, Dentures was standing over her not looking amused.
"Ahhh Mr Denton sir I am.....I was....." Dentures sighed slightly and asked her resignedly, "What exactly was it that you were doing Miss Ingles?" Filly started to go red and said nothing, Skittery chuckled slightly. He thought it was cute when she got embarrassed. But Filly didn't so she scowled at him from under her lashes.
"No answer? No explanation? I'll take that as a 'I wasn't listening to you Mr Denton and I really want to go up and check the mail. Even though it's a long walk I'd love to do it.' Would I be right?" Filly didn't have a chose so she nodded and grumbled to herself as she stood and walked towards the gate they had arrived in.
"Miss Ingles, the mail box is that way." Dentures said pointing in the opposite direction. "Right that way, sure I knew that I was just going to take the scenic route." She said and headed off in the direction that Dentures was pointing.
Filly glared jokingly at Patches, "Your dad would have to own a bloody stadium wouldn't he?" Filly walked away gumbling about the size of the walk.
Coneflower who had been quite up until then suddenly spoke up, "I think that's a cool idea. You know dressing up and all that." The group turned to look at Coneflower strangely. Then they all started grinning and talking.
Boots sat quitely not saying much. Every so often he would nod or say a one syllable word. Davey finally noticed how quite he was, and asked him quitely, "what the matter Boots? You don't seem that with it."
Boots grimaced and said sorrowfully, " I miss West I'm worried about her mother." Davey nodded sagely and said, "yeah I can understand the feeling." He said and went back talking to the girls. Boots thought to himself 'great davey thanks for the support and help'.
Dentures suddenly started talking about his scrpit. "This script is for a total of 35 people. I'll need a Pulitzer, and a Warden Snyder, and a pair of boy's peferable who will be brothers, and they run the disturbition centre, where the newsies get they're papes. I have a Denton a journalist, I think I'll play that part, and for Miss Larkson I have a vaudeville singer that is friends with one of the strike leaders and a deep supporter of there, strike endevours."
The four Delancey brothers had immediately raised their hands at the prossition of being the main characters. Denton looked at the 4 boy's and nodded alright you may each be one of the parts I suggested. William why don't you be Pulitzer, Joseph why don't you be Warden Snyder. Oscar and Morris you 2 can be the distrubution officers, and they can be called, Oscar and Morris Delancey in honour of you both." The youngest two Delancey's smiled with pride.
"The rest of you will have character's assigned to you. Miss Larkson shall do the Females and I the males. I understand that some of you have nickname's and such, I suggest you use them, since many of the newsie that we will be emulating had nick name's and used them instead of there actual names. If you don't have a nick name then I suggest you make one up." Dentures said then went into discussion with Miss Larkson.
The state schoolers and Private schoolers looked at each other in confusion. "What the hell is the old man on about?" Mooch asked. "I really think he's lost it this time guys." Skittery said actually looking worried.
Suddenly Filly came racing into the dinner hall grinning from ear to ear, "You will never guess who is here, never never never." She jumped up and down in excitement. Mush looked at his twin and frowned, "Filly are you alright did the sun get to hot for you?" Filly grinned stupidly at her brother.
"No I'm serious, they just arrived." Filly squealed again and ran back out coming back in with 4 suitcase's.....well actually the were shoulder bags. "What about this are these a clue?" she asked and Mush stood up grinning and grabbed one, "This looks likes Ruby’s." Filly jumped up and down nodding wildely, "We have a winner. Any one for the second bag?"
“That’s Lily’s I would know that bag anywhere.” Cowboy said grinning. Filly nodded again and then turned to the third bag, “Okay what about the third one.” Race looked at the bag and grinned slowly, and affectionately, “That’s gotta be Ace’s”
“Got it in one Race, now the third one this one is easy trust me.” Filly said grinning from ear to ear.
All the kids looked at the bag and all came up with blanks. Filly sighed and walked up to Boot's shoving the bag right in his face, "Take a good look Boots!" She ordered him. "It looks like........." he stopped an arrested expression on his face as West breezed into the room grinning happily.
Boots jumped up and ran to West grinning idiotically hugging her tightly and spinning her around in circles, as she laughed. Filly wore a stupid grin as well, "Isn't this cool. the whole group is here now." Filly giggled into her hand that was covered by her long jumper.
Lily, Ace and Ruby both entered behind West, Lily looking at her sister and boyfriend, wirily and walked in to sit with Filly and Skittery and Kid Blink. Ace headed a little bit further and sat with Race, Dutchy walking over to sit with her. West sat down with boot’s talking a mile a minute. and Ruby went to sit with Spec’s and the rest.
Dentures frowned at the interruption to his orderly class. "Alright welcome Ruby, Lily, Ace, and West please be seated." They all nodded and sat, leaving Filly standing alone like a fool. "Was there any mail Filly?" Filly grinned and shock her head, "Male's no and I bet you didn't think there was going to be any mail mail cause we just got here but your wrong cause there was a letter see." Filly said pulling the slightly crumpled letter out of the sleeve of her jumper and handed it to Dentures.
Dentures quickly purused the letter and handed it hurriedly to Miss Larkson who read it quickly also and then Dentures said hurriedly, "Something had occured that we must see to right away, you may go out and spend time doing as you please but be back here at 5 o'clock by then we should have assigned you your characters."
He said then ushered himself and Medda quickly out of the dinning hall and into the main office. Slowly the crowd got up and went their seperate ways. All planning on doing different things and particulary activities that included members of the opposite sex.
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Part 2