Story: Camp Pawa (all chapters)

A long yellow school bus roamed down a old highway under a warm sun and brilliant blue skies. Huge stands of trees lined either side of the road as it went, seemingly getting thicker and thicker with each second that it traveled, obviously heading into the great rural areas.

The bus seemed to be filled with many boys and girls, who were talking amongst one another with almost a fevered pitch. The children seemed to range from as young as eight, to perhaps upwards to fifteen or sixteen and were as diverse as they were numerous. All of the kids were rambunctious and very excited, as the bus wound it way down the road.

Near the back of the bus, a lone figure sat on one of the benches all by herself. The quite petite, long haired girl seemed to be one of a very few of the children that was not going absolutely crazy on the bus. The dark haired girl with the ivory skin was simply sitting there and staring out of the bus window, watching the world outside whiz past in a blur as she blankly stared out

She would glance back into the interior of the bus, stoically watching the others around her get more and more excited. She would only give a small sigh and return to watching the scenery pass by at a alarming speed.

A red headed girl with patches of freckles on her cheeks plopped herself beside the lone girl and smirked.

" Hey!" She greeted the girl with her grin.

" Hey!" The girl replied back, her voice not even close to the happy tone the red head had.

Giving a look of not understanding, the red head looked at the girl with a odd stare.

" Aren’t you excited to finally be going to camp for most of the summer?" She asked, fixing the bright green hat she wore better on to her head. " School has been out for four days now... you should be just a little happy with that, Mandy?"

" I’m just not..." The dark haired girl said, her voice quite flat and emotionless.

The long haired girl turned to look at the all too bubbly redhead, wishing she was feeling the same way.

" It won’t be as fun this year..." She said plainly.

" No fun?" Came back the girl, shocked to hear the dark haired girl’s statement. " Come on there... We are going to be at camp for over a month, away from nosey parents, irritating brothers and sisters and all of that crap from the city... this is not just camp... It’s heaven!"

Mandy sighed and looked away for a moment, her mind seemed to drift away for a second or two.

" Without Lacy being there this year... I think I wont have much fun, Donna." She said.

The red head sighed, as she now understood why the girl seemed to be so down-in-the-dumps.

" I know it’s hard that she moved away, but look at it this way..." Implored the girl. " We are fourteen now, and we have the right to be up in the senior cabins this year. Think of it!! No more bunking with yappy little girls that cramped out style, no more Barbie doll crap or anything like that. We are now older and will be more respected that ever from ever councilor, Think of it!!." Donna said. " An the boys this year... The Boys!!! Think of it, Mandy, think of it."

" I know all of that... but it does not seem the same..." Mandy vocalized, looking over at the girl. "Lacy and I have gone to Camp Pawa together since we were both eight years old, it seems almost to be useless with her not being here with me."

" Come on, you’ll have fun this year... We are senior campers now!!" Donna urged, giving a impish grin. " You’ll see... We’ll get there, and you will have fun, make a few new friends and everything! "

" Don’t you miss Lucy?" Mandy asked. " We all have gone to Camp Pawa together for years."

" It is different... You were the closest one to her..." Admitted the girl, her brow furrowing a little. " It is a little strange not to have her around... but that don’t mean we can’t get there and have fun."

Mandy shrugged, as the girl seemed so wound up over getting to camp. She was not even close to that feeling.

" You’ll see when you get there then!" Donna sighed and moved quickly up the bus isle to talk to a somewhat chubbier girl in a pink top sitting in a seat a few rows up.

Somberly, the black haired girl watched Donna leave, and was somewhat glad to be left alone for awhile. She felt like all of this was going to be truly a waste of time. Mandy’s thoughts soon drifted back to her missing friend Lacy, the long blonde haired girl that had been her friend since the first grade.

The two of them had done everything imaginable together, never once really being apart for very long in the process of their lives. Gymnastics, art classes, brownies, sports, shopping and pretty much everything and anything else... it was like they were attached to one another throughout their lives. They always were a team, always best of friends and almost like sisters as well. Now she found herself on the long winding road out to Camp Pawa without Lacy. It felt as if she was missing a piece of herself.

Lacy was like her, not quite the most popular girl in school but still well liked. They were sort of different in the eyes of some of their classmates because of who they were, but their uniqueness had solidified them friends since an early age. Those who hung around with them, accepted them regardless of their quirks. They both loved art, music and had a passion for making clothing and reading... it was as if they were twins.

Mandy drifted back to the day when Lacy had told her that she was moving away with her family. That day, a lot of tears were shed as the reality of losing her best friend in the world stared her right in the face. It was the lowest point of her life, hearing that this pixie of a girl was moving all the way across the country. Her heart felt like it was going to crumble and fade away, her world collapsing around her.

The last time she saw Lacy, was barely four months past almost to the day. The hole in her life was now occupied by the heaviness of sadness, a sadness that had never left her heart. Since that moment, she had only one letter come from her friend, one that she had tucked away in the pocket of her shorts she wore.

Mandy sighed and looked around at all the other kids on the bus, wanting to at least to break herself out of this funk she was in. Most of the kids in the bus, she had known for years, but that did not help her out right now. Her best friend was still gone, and nothing in this world would or could change that. She sighed and hoped that something good would come out going to camp, but she really doubted it. It was the beginning of a summers he wanted nothing more than to forget about.

A very slender lad with a curly head of unruly hair turned in the seat in front of Mandy. The lad smiled and stuck out his tongue. She could not help but actually crack a bit of a smile. This was her other friend since grade one, the one-boy comedic steamroller named Zachary Keegan.

She smiled finally, as having the lad jerk with her like he always did, somehow lifted her mood to a small extent. He smiled broadly, his bluish green eyes seemed to sparkle.

" Cheer up why dont’cha?" Zachary said impishly, obviously very hyper.

" Why?" She asked.

" Well, duh... why not?" he asked through a large smirk.

Mandy found herself actually breaking a smile, as he always seemed to do for her.

" All right already... I’ll try..." She conceded, finding herself giggling a little.

" Better..." He happily said with a smirk and a wink. " We don’t need a gloomy Gus goin’ to camp."

The lad turned back and began to talk with a boy beside him. He seemed almost excited as Donna was. Mandy was still yearning for Lacy to be there, but she honestly hoped that a month at camp was not going to be as bad as she was thinking it might. With a sigh, she made up her mind to give it a try.

Siting there, she looked around to see if there were any new faces on the bus. Most of them she did know, if only by sight. A few were gone from the group, as they had gotten too old for the camp program or simply did not want to any longer. It always happened like that every year.

A couple of new faces were there as well, but she knew that more people would be on the other bus that had left before her’s had. Some of the missing people she knew might be on that one, she told herself, and more than likely new people would be on it as well.

Her eyes fell to the back of the bus, and to a unfamiliar face. Mandy had never seen the girl when she had gotten on for the ride to camp, and she would have remembered seeing this girl if she had.

The girl had long black hair, like she did, but had it done up in long pigtails with black ribbons that went along with her dark makeup. She was dressed fully in black, oddly having a motorcycle leather jacked over a studded tank top and finished off by a black jean skirt she had on. The girl also wore army styled boots over black knee socks, which seemed strange considering the heat. The girl sported many rings that gleamed on her black nail polished fingers, most of them had grotesque skulls and other ghastly images that gleamed with sheen as the girl was sitting there holding a rather large book . This very out of place girl quietly read without even looking up at anyone around her.

Dressed like a goth, the new girl really stood out amongst the others, but Mandy wondered why she had not noticed this girl earlier on. Mandy never did like the gothic style of dressing, finding it a little tacky, but with the style on the girl it...it actually worked. She found herself thinking that the goth girl was really attractive, her way of dressing accenting perfectly her features.

Mandy then gasped and shied away from the thoughts she had towards this unique girl, thought she had never even imagined before. She had found herself actually staring at the girl, nearly mesmerized, thinking that she was the most beautiful girl she had ever seen, and wanted herself to stop.

Retrieving her own book she had brought from her book bag, she hoped that reading would stem her weird and unusual thought she was having, and also make the rest of the two hour plus drive to Camp Pawa feel less long. Without Lacy, she still wondered what the summer might bring, and hoped that it would be good.

Taking a last glance over at the goth girl, she dove into the book. She found herself still being very fascinated by the girl, almost as if she was attracted in some way. Forcing herself to read, she blocked whatever it was that was drawing her to look at the girl and let her mind go into the pages.

Camp Pawa had not changed any in they year since Mandy had been there. The three main buildings of the dining hall, recreation hall and the first aid building looked exactly like it had. The cabins that dotted around the large open drive area were freshly painted, but other than that, were also the same.

The mass of children had been unloaded, and were checking the bulletin board for their names and which cabin they were to be assigned into. The crowd jostled and moved almost like a unsynchronized ballet, as one kid found his or her name, another one quickly stepped up to do the same.

Mandy looked for her name for her assigned cabin quickly, hoping that she would have one of the newer ones that were nearest the waters of Lake Pawa, or at least have a direct path to the dining hall..

" Did you see my name there?" Asked Donna, who stood just behind the dark haired lass.

" Find your own there... I have not found mine yet." Replied back Mandy, half ignoring the pushy girl.

Mandy found her name, and she was assigned to Senior cabin number five. She was sort of happy about the placement she had been handed, as that particular cabin was one of the better ones in Camp Pawa. The cabin was one of the smaller ones, just past the dock to the boats and right next to the bathrooms. The cabin only had six beds in it, plus one extra for a live in councillor

" I have number five." She said, as Donna elbowed her way past and got to the bulletin board.

" Me too." The red head squealed. " We are cabin buddies again."

That was not a surprise to Mandy, she always ended up with Donna as a cabin mate. She sighed and walked off. With Donna in the cabin, she knew that the girl’s bouts of earthshaking snoring would make the time living there interesting. She giggled, as if there might be a new girl in the cabin, she may or may not enjoy it too much hearing the jet engine that was Donna..

Gathering up her suitcase and her bookbag from the pile left by the bus driver, Mandy hurried to get to the cabin, as others raced around the dirt paths to do the same like ants at a picnic.

The little cabin was very clean, painted a odd shade of off white and had new linens on the beds. Mandy noted that on every headboard, was a name written on a brownish-grey piece of cardboard. She looked around the small space, to see just where her bed would be for the next month.

On the left hand side of the room were three beds that were lined up, the middle bed had the name ‘ Mandy Thayer’ emblazoned in red marker on the headboard.

" There it is..." She thought to herself, moving to where it was.

The bed was right under the small window, with its school locker type of cabinet sitting beside it. She looked at it and shrugged. It was not much to look at, but it was going to be home for the time being. She set to work unpacking some things into the cabinet, stowing the rest of it still in her suitcase and pushing it under the bed. She knew the drill perfectly by now, maximize your space, that what Lacy always said. She missed hearing that..

Done in a matter of minutes, Mandy took a look at the other names of the beds on both sides of her. She was hoping that she would not draw Donna to be sleeping right next to her. At this close of range, it would be almost impossible to ignore the girl if she started her ‘buzzsaw’ routine at night, that horrible noise she made could literally scrape the paint off of walls at times.

The bed closest to the door of the cabin was Lori Casper’s bunk. She knew exactly who it was, but never had got to know her despite having her as a cabinmate for the last two years running. The girl was a extremely quiet one, to the point of disabling shyness, but she seemed to be nice enough aside from her inverted nature. She looked over to the one on her right to see who would be the other girl on this side of the cabin with her.

Mandy read the name, and did not recognize it as anyone that had been to camp before.. The cardboard read ‘ Crystal Campbell’ in the same writing as was on her’s. She let herself crack a smile, as the realization that the noisy sleeper Donna was assigned on the other side of the cabin, and that was a good thing. She knew she would get a little better sleep than those unfortunate people that were sleeping across the way.

Some of the others were coming in also, dragging their things behind themselves. There was Mary Grisson, a tall slender girl with short blonde hair that went to her school and was sort of a friend. Donna Vincent was at her bunk now, who she already knew was here and then there was Tracy McDonald. She was a very snobby cheerleader type of girl who always thought that she was above everyone else around her. The girl knew she was pretty, and would flaunt it at all just because she could. Now, only Lori and this Crystal girl was left to complete the cabin.

Demure Lori came in and quickly started to unload her stuff. The plainly dressed girl gave Mandy a shy greeting, but soon was busy with unpacking her belongings into the all too small storage they had. The girl had not changed in the least, she thought, as the girl kept her head down a little as she put her things away..

The buzzing of the room was becoming deafening, as people greeted one another as they set themselves up for the camping experience. Mandy was already done settling herself in, and was just talking with Mary, while trying to ignore the complaining of Tracy who was already spouting off about how little space she had for her clothes. It was always the same with the prima donna, and that was not changed either.

The room suddenly went hushed for a moment, as the last of the campers came in. All eyes looked over at the door, as a leather wearing figure strode in with a subtle defiance. It was the goth girl from the back of the bus, who seemed to be the final camper.

Tracy stared at the new girl, and give a sound of disgust.

" We have a freak in her this year!" She said, giving a cold look to the leather wearing girl. " We always get a freak."

" She’s a goth..." Mary said, her voice not very powerful.

" She’s still a freak! Look at her make up... looks like she was attacked by a blind cosmetician in a cemetery" Spat Tracy, making sure that the new girl could hear her ever venomous word.

The goth girl shot a cold look at Tracy for a moment, then simply ignored the words Tracy had spouted. The new girl looked around until she saw the name on the empty bed next to Mandy’s. The very tall girl hefted what appeared to be a navy issue dufflebag with surprising ease and headed straight over to the bed in question. Tracy sneered and went back to her bunk, as the rest of the people fell silent.

The girl simply shucked off her leather, stuffing it into the locker. She opened up her bag and began to shuttle things into it confines with apparent ease. She seemed to be ignoring everyone, not even making any sort of eye contact.

Mandy went over to her bed, while the others were beginning to talk about the welcome lunch that was scheduled to be served very soon. She was not really afraid of the girl, but she did make her nervous for some odd reason..

" Hi there..." Mandy said, trying to be more friendly than the others in the cabin.. " Crystal is it?"

The goth girl looked up at Mandy and seemed more than just a little surprised that the short girl had even greeted her, considering she heard the things that were being said about her. She looked at Mandy for a moment, not quite knowing how to reply.

This girl’s sleek angular face then turned up into a smile, and she looked right at Mandy with more of a friendly way. She stuck out her hand over the bed, and shook the girl’s hand

" Call me CC." She said

" Mandy... Mandy Thayer." The smaller of the two replied, a smile pouring across her face.

Looking into the deep brown eyes of the goth girl, Mandy actually felt herself shiver a little. The girl’s eyes were so alive and deep, that something inside of her felt as if it jumped, and not out of fear or anything else. The girl was mesmerizing her in a way that was so complete, and Mandy did not know why.

Mandy was going to continue speaking, but a bell rang out loud and clear from outside. Her cabin mates started to move to the door, but the black wearing girl seemed puzzled by the sound.

" That is the bell for us to gather at the Dining hall" She explained.

" For what?" The girl questioned.

" It is the traditional lunch that welcomes up to Camp Pawa." She said. " They feed us, while they explain the different activities and programs that we will be doing during our stay here.

" Cool." Said the girl, her smile making her black makeup look less menacing by the second. " Where the heck is the Dining Hall around here?"

Mandy giggled, CC seemed to be friendlier than she had expected..

" First time here at our camp?" She asked.

" I stick out like a sore thumb ‘round here... Yeah, it is!" The girl laughed, the sound was almost musical.

" Come with me... I’ll show you where to go!" Invited Mandy. " It’s not too far."

" Cool!" The girl said, as the two headed off. " Lead on!"

******

The rest of the day, everyone was checking out what Camp Pawa had to offer. Old favorites and new programs were on tap, which excited everybody. Even Mandy was starting to look forward to the summer, although she still would have preferred that Lacy could have been there. It helped though, that she was showing CC around, but the constant verbal barrage that Tracy was loading on to the new girl was making Mandy a little angry, but the new girl seemed to be taking int in stride.

Nighttime was on the camp, as kids started to ready themselves for the first sleep of the long summer. Crickets outside chirped their songs into the darkness, creating a blissful symphony that only could have been enjoyed in the great outdoors.

Mandy readied herself for bed, slipping on her favorite ‘Garfield’ nightshirt. She was feeling tired from the days busyness, and was looking forward to slipping into her camp bed and getting some sleep.

Mandy looked over, and saw CC reading herself for bed too. The girl had undressed fully, and slipped on a very long black teeshirt, which had the picture of a large skull holding a wilted rose in it’s teeth. The shirt was very unique and Mandy thought it was very cool looking, as it clung to the body of the goth girl. She noted that CC had taken off her makeup as well and had pulled the pigtails out of her hair, and thought to herself that she looked as beautiful as she did all gothed up.

Tracy suddenly appeared, dressed in a expensive silk nightgown. She was looking at CC dressed for bed, and gave a scoffing laugh.

" Are you going to wear that to bed?" She said with a highfaluting snuff. " Did you raid The Adams family closet or something?"

" What the hell do you find wrong with my nightshirt?" Asked CC, obviously annoyed with the girl finally.

Tracy made a face, like it should have been obvious what she was saying.

" You dress like you are going to a some sort of funeral or satanic rite and you do that on purpose??" She said dripping with sarcasm. " If you dress like a freak, people will see you as a freak."

" I dress the way I dress because that is who I am." Said CC, through gritted teeth." Got a problem with that?"

" Dressed in that what are you going to do? Sleep in a casket or hang upside down like a bat?" Shot back the blond haired girl, flipping her hair with a hand.

CC got up off her bed and looked at the blonde, staring her down. She pulled off her teeshirt and stood there completely naked and stared at the girl.

" I usually sleep naked anyway!" She calmly said, her eyes twinkling with anger. " Guess I am going to do just that, since my nightshirt seems to bother you so much, Princess."

Mandy gasped, looking at the now nude CC. The girl’s body was slim and smooth with ivory skin, her lines were trim and curvy with long athletic legs She had quite large breasts that were well rounded and were jutting out, topped by dusty pink nipples that perked out in the coolness of the cabin. The girl had no pubic hair to speak of as she obviously shaves herself, and right where the hair would have been was a bold tattoo of a winged dragon sitting on a rock.

Mandy stared at the girl, enthralled by the girl’s beauty, even naked. She could not make herself look away from the pretty goth girl.

Tracy wrinkled her face as the girl stood there defiantly in the buff. She put up her hand and shook her head.

" Ewwwh!" She said loudly. " I don’t want to see you naked.... and that Tattoo."

" Deal with it..." Smirked CC, defiantly.

Mandy moved next to the naked girl and stared at Tracy.

" She can do what she wants to, dress how she wants and even sleep in the nude if she wants.... and doesn’t need your approval for anything." She said right to Tracy. " I like the way she dresses, if you want my opinion."

" You would..." Said Tracy, turning away from the nakedness of CC. " You have always been weird anyway, Mandy, are you going to turn into a freak like her also."

" Maybe, maybe not." Mandy smirked. " I just think she is who she is."

" Are you going to sleep naked like her as well?" The girl said. " That is just ... Eeewh!!"

In response to Tracy’s words, Mandy hoisted her nightgown up and over her head and threw it on her bed, then pulled off her panties as well and deposited them with her nightshirt. She stood up straight beside the nearly half a head taller girl, now herself completely naked in support of CC, and stared down the feathered haired girl in the silk nightgown..

" Does that answer you?" Said Mandy.

Tracy gave a squeak of dislike and went back to herself of the cabin, her tongue now silenced. The others in the cabin laughed and then left without anyone speaking.

CC turned to Mandy and smiled.

" That is the first time anyone has stood up for me..." She began. " I always get that from people, just for how I am."

" I think your ok the way you are." Mandy said, trying not to star at the naked beauty as she stood there.

" Thanks!" Said CC, her voice showing her appreciation.

The goth girl smiled, then turned. She slid into bed, keeping to her word of sleeping naked. She smiled and looked at Mandy as she covered herself with the blankets.

" Good night and thanks again."

Mandy nodded, and slipped herself also into bed. Someone turned off the lights, and the cabin settled in for a good nights sleep.

Mandy layed there for awhile, her mind playing over the image of the Naked goth girl. She shivered as she thought about CC, her mind not forgetting one inch of luxuriously sleek curves the girl had. She felt herself getting wet between her legs, and the giddiness that was building in her chest, making her heart pound like crazy.

She had never felt like this before, and was a little afraid of how it made her feel. What was it about CC that was making her feel like this, she kept asking herself. All she knew was that the goth girl was right there, in her mind, as she tried to get to sleep.

She began to try and stop herself from thinking on it, but the fact that CC was only a few feet away and laying in her bed naked, excited her even more. She closed her eyes tighter, and willed herself to fall asleep, and soon was successful. Her dreams though, always held the beauty and fascination that she found with the goth girl.

Streaks of brilliant oranges and amazing yellows painted the sky over Camp Pawa, as the sun broke the darkness of night. Morning was breaking over the sleepy lake in spectacular fashion, bringing a new day to the land. As it rose, the warming rays lifted a light fog off the lake surface and let the very light breeze drift it away.

Mandy awoke slowly, after having a half restless and half fitful sleep. She opened her eyes and let out a small groan, wanting nothing more than to be back sleeping right then. As the girl layed there, she suddenly an urge from her body telling her she needed to pee, an knew that she could not dismiss it easily. Looking up at a old hand made clock that was hanging on the wall, it told her that it was a little after five in the morning.

The girl groaned and shoved her face into the pillow, as she was not having to be up for another hour and a half for breakfast. Despite the time, nature was cruelly urging her to get up and empty her bladder. She tried hard to fake her body out by convincing it that she did not have to go and that she should go back to sleep, but her body was not buying it. It felt like her own small frame was trying to hold back a waterfall, and it was threatening it was not going to work. Sighing and beginning to make her arms and legs move, she knew she had to pul herself out of bed and go.

The room was very still at this time, only the breathing of everyone else sleeping could be heard. Mandy identified that Donna was snoring away like mad in her bed, yet found that it was a little surprising that the snores were not even close to what volume it usually was blaring out at. The girl give herself a muffled giggled, as Donna’s nocturnal rumbles were still a little funny to hear.

She donned the nightshirt that she had discarded the night before, to protect her against both her own modesty and the cool morning air she expected when going to the bathroom cabin that was only a few feet away from her cabin. Now covered, Mandy crept up to her feet, and made no sound whatsoever as she began to cautiously walk to the door.

The girl looked over to her left as she moved, and noticed that CC’s bed was empty and the skull and rose teeshirt was also not there. She had to simply surmise that the new girl also had to get up and use the bathroom in a hurry. Knowing how badly she felt the need to go, she could understand CC’s quick departure very clearly. Hurrying her feet as she went for the door, she knew that of she would pause any longer, it just might lead to a very embarrassing situation happening.

She quietly made her way out of the cabin door, trying her hardest not to accidentally wake anyone up as she exited. She strained to listen just outside of the doorway, and their was no indication that anyone was even stirring in any of the beds, and that made Mandy relax a little, but her need to pee was getting bad. She leaped off the little step and started to quick walk her way across the grass, as now it was getting more than urgent to get to the facilities, or she may end up watering the ground.

A minute after rushing into the bathroom, the girl felt so much better after she came out of the stall, but now was puzzled as well. The bathroom area was empty when she hurried into a stall top relief herself. With the other stalls standing open, she could clearly see that CC was not in there like she thought. She just assumed that the girl might have gone for a early walk around the camp after using the bathroom, and she just should only head herself back to bed to get a little more sleep.

As she made her way back to Cabin five, she caught sight of someone standing out on the far side of the cabin, hidden by some cover made by a few straggly trees that grew next to the building. She kept walking towards the cabin and smiled, already figuring out just who this would be standing there in the light coolness of the morning air. Getting even closer, she figured out who this person was. It was the missing CC, who she had found was standing out on this crisp and clean dawn.

The girl was standing there, leaned up against the outer wall of the cabin, still dressed only in the skull teeshirt. She seemed not to be bothered by the coolness, as her long lean legs that were prevalent in the growing light of morning, seemed not even to be goosebumped. In CC’s hand was a lit cigarette that dangled loosely between two fingers as a plume of smoke rose as she exhaled.

CC spotted the approaching Mandy, and her face broke out into a very inviting smile. The smaller girl waved to her and headed straight over to her. The goth girl waited for the girl to near, never once trying to his the fact she was smoking.

" Morning..." Mandy greeted as soon as she was close enough..

" Hey!" CC said, eyeing the girl.

CC broke another smile as she flicked an ash from her smoke. She stood herself up a little straighter, but did not stop herself from leaning against the wall, as she was comfortable in that position. She looked at the petite girl that had joined her, and seemed to almost pause for a split second.

" Dare I ask if you slept well last night" The goth girl inquired, smirking with a seemingly mischievous way as she raised one of her eyebrows.

" I really did." Mandy said, deciding not to spill that her dreams had consistently been all about the girl most of night.

" I know the feeling! Sleepin’ naked has always had that effect on me, been sleeping that way since I was ten.." CC giggled with great delight, turning around in place with her hand outstretched to accent her words. " Freedom... that is what it’s all about."

Mandy laughed at the animated gestures CC did. Even though she had ended up dreaming all night long, she had to admit that sleeping ‘au naturel’ like she had really did make for a good nights sleep. She never had slept naked before this, but now thinking on how she had slept, she just decided that she might do it for a little longer. She smiled, agreeing with the girl’s insight.

" You up early...." She commented, then smirked. " Had to go to the bathroom too or what?"

" That was first thing I needed this morning... then I really needed a smoke..." CC said with a snicker and a roll of her eyes. " I don’t smoke much, but I do usually end up needing at least one in morning." She smiled a little more and took a small drag from cigarette. " Tell me somethin’... Do they make coffee here for us campers or what?"

" I hope they still do..." Mandy commented, knowing that was what she would be scouting around for the very same thing in about ninety minutes. Coffee and her were very well acquainted by now. " I need one myself."

" Ah... Beauty!" The goth girl said happily. " Good news straight from a fellow coffeeholic."

Mandy just stayed with the pretty goth girl, watching the much taller girl smoke away and found it was nearly memorizing to watch. Even if she wanted to go back in, Mandy probably would not have. She just stayed where she was, enjoying watching CC and appreciating the quiet of the morning

The gothic girl looked over and grinned, then stuck out her arm. In her had she held out the open pack for Mandy

" How rude am I? You smoke?" CC said, giving herself a playful slap on the forehead. " If you do, go ahead and grab one.... I brought a few packs with me for good measure."

Mandy had smoked occasionally over the last few years. Her and Lacy had tried it many times together. Neither one had actually picked up the habit, but Mandy found that she did enjoy having one once in awhile... and the one that CC was smoking did smell so very inviting this morning.

" I have a few times.." She said, reaching for one cigarette in the pack.

CC suddenly pulled the pack away from Mandy’s hand and looked at the girl with a small smile. Looking back at CC’s odd expression, the girl was not really sure just what this was all about.

" Do you smoke regularly?" CC posed the question, sounding somewhat concerned.

" Just off and on..." Admitted the small girl.

" You sure of that? Your not just doing this crap because I am?" She asked, then paused. Suddenly she let out a laugh and looked at Mandy. " I have this hunch that your are not following me just to follow. Someone who follows would not get herself fully naked to back up someone she has barely met, who was already standing in the middle of strangers totally buck-assed naked."

" Just me, I guess." Mandy said with a crack of a grin and a shy shrug of her shoulders. " I felt like that was the right thing to do... Tracy was being such a pain in the ass to you."

" I applaud you then for ‘baring’ it all to help me." The goth girl announced, bowing her head to the smaller gal.

" It was ‘barely’ a problem for me.." Mandy said, her cheeky side showing through to CC.

" Funny!" Said the goth girl, shaking her head.

CC offered her the pack up again, with a smile and a nod. Mandy thanked her and took one smoke out and placed it between her lips. The goth girl leaned in closer, firing up the lighter so the girl could use the flame to start the cigarette, her eyes seemed to meet with Mandy’s for a moment.

Mandy leaned in herself, getting close enough to light up. With the girl now so close to her, Mandy found herself enthralled with a glorious mixture of cigarette smoke harmoniously winding together with the girl’s faint but distinct musky odor, the locking of her gaze with CC’s seemed to really heighten everything ten fold.

She felt herself shiver a little, as the amazing essence she caught a whiff of was more than just plesant. It was sending many spidery tingles of pleasure racing the length of her body, and right into places that were so private. She drew a breath in as the smoke flared to life, and once more the girl’s wonderful personal muskiness massaged and intoxicated her senses and lit another rush of tingling sensations..

She broke the gaze with CC and took in a lungfull of the smoke, hoping that it would somehow hide her unusual reactions she was having from CC being so close to her. If the girl ended up seeing that she was trembling, she had no idea how to try and start to explain it, for she had no clue herself what was happening. She glanced at the girl, and then away a few times as she tried to figure out just what was happening to her.

Calming herself by concentrating wholly on her smoke, Mandy just tried to act as normal as possible could, but still being so close to CC had a interesting effect on her, as she was now noticing that she was starting to sweat even just standing in the coolness that the air held at this hour.

Soon the two finished their smoke, and then quickly snuck back in to the cabin. Each one of them wanted to grab a little more shut-eye, before the call for breakfast, as that time was close to a hour away.

The two shed what they were wearing and jumped into bed almost in unison. CC looked over the covers that she had tightly brought up around her shoulder.

" See you in a hour..."She whispered.

" Yeah..." Mandy said, settling herself into bed.

The ivory skinned girl suddenly got a very mischievous smile cross her face as she layed there. The girl lifted her head off the pillow, causing Mandy to look over, wondering what was so funny to her cabinmate.

" What do you think that Tracy girl would do if I jumped into bed with her naked?" The goth girl asked, holding back a bellylaugh as hard as she could with her whispers.

" Probably fill her pants..." Replied the girl, trying to hold back a fit of laughter with what CC purposed.

" That would not be that bad for her then... she definitely thinks her shit don’t stink." The unique girl quipped, then had to stick her face into the pillow to muffle a explosion of laughter.

Mandy stifled her own laughs with her own pillow, as tears rolled down her cheeks. They finally stopped laughing after a few minutes, and they purposely did not look at one another for fear that the giggles would return.

They each rolled over and soon fell back asleep for the small bit of time they had left.

The dining hall was jammed nearly as full as it could get, a new morning had came, and a new breakfast was being served up. The Campers of Pawa were electrified with the start of the first full day at Camp. Every Camper was wanting hurry there breakfasts so they could go off and see just what the camp would have in store for them this year.

Mandy, Donna and CC were along waking together, going to the dinning hall, and purposely walking with the others. Tracy had been being a pain once again this morning, getting into it with CC over the same things as the night before. Ignoring the girl helped all three stop feeling the urge to ‘bitch-slapping’ her into next week, as CC had so eloquently suggested doing to the prima donna.

As they made their way to the dining hall, the three came on a young couple who were just off the path they were walking. The two were half hidden behind a rather larger tree just past where the medical building, called ‘The Pill Box’ was, locked in a very steamy embrace with hands roving over clothes hungrily.

The young lovers were completely oblivious to anyone being around them, as the two were entwined tightly together, the lad’s hand squeezing the girl behind as he kissed her with such fervor, the girl had her arms tightly wrapped around the broadness of his torso. The tall blonde boy’s other hand seemed to be rather busy feeling her left breast through the thin fabric of her tank-top.

CC saw the other two girl shaking there heads, and was a little perplexed at their reaction to what they saw. She glanced over at the couple that was making out against the tree, then back over to her cabinmates.

" I take it that you both know those two who are sucking each other’s fillings out over there?" She asked.

" The couple over there?" Donna asked, almost dumbly. " Unfortunately we do."

" Yeah..." answered Mandy.

Mandy turned to the lean gothic girl, after giving a long look over at the couple who were groping each other like mad.

" The boy there is Lance Oldham, the resident sports star and all time jerk here at Camp." She said, then sighed " The girl is Sasha McDonald, the most popular girl that ever has came to Camp Pawa."

" Wait a minute...Hold up!!" Said CC, looking over at the blond girl that was kissing the tall youth so passionately against the tree. " Sasha McDonald? Is she related to our ‘beloved’ Tracy?"

" Yep..." Jumped in Donna. " That is Tracy’s older sister, and the only one who could out bitch Tracy. Those two have been a couple for about two years now... Ever since they locked eyes on one another, it seems like they have been attached by a full blown lust for each other. Rumor has it that they were found doing it behind most of the buildings more than once by the powers that be here..."

" Judging by how they are sandwiched together right now, I would give that rumor has more than enough merit." Commented CC, her face suddenly losing it’s expression.

Donna licked her lips, a she eyed the very busy couple.

" I wish that fine looking boy would just up and kiss me like that, rather than that skank he’s sucking on..." She commented with a sigh. " I would be happy to show him how it is done..."

" Is that all you think about?" Asked Mandy, trying to pester her friend..

" Oh give it up, Mandy..." Said the girl back, putting both hands on her hips. " He may be a total jerk, but look at him... Lance is so fine looking, I could look past his sometime jerkish nature thanks to him having that amazing ass of his. Don’t try to tell me that you would not just love to be in place of Sasha right now... " The girl got a dreamy look in her eyes as she spoke. " That boy can play with me anytime he wants.... and I mean anytine!"

Mandy shrugged, as the three of them started to walk off and left the two simply paw at one another on their own.

" He’s not my type I guess..." She said flatly.

" Not your type? Then what is your type, girl?" Donna said, eyeing the short girl for a moment as she paused. " Come to think of it... I have not seen you have not even one boyfriend or be out on a date as far as I can remember. " The girl then looked at her with a strange look. " Tell me what is your type, I will find that boy for you."

Mandy went silent, her face showing that she was a little uneasy with the girl’s words to her.

" Guess I have not found a boy I like yet, so I don’t know the type ." Mandy simply answered, the words just coming out. She lowered her head, went quiet.

" Come on!! There is so many awesome looking guys right here around camp..." Donna implored with a smile. " We are senior campers now, and you know what that means.. the choice of the hunks here could be ours for the picking... and here you go and tell me that you have not actually looked around and spotted a boy you like?"

Mandy looked at her friend and sighed. Her friend was trying to be helpful in her own way, but she had no idea how to respond to the girl.

" Never thought about it, I guess." She finally said, finding that was the only thing she could say.

" What about Zachary Keegan?" Donna suggested.. " He starting to look real good.... he’s funny and does not act like a jerk like some of the other guys here."

" He’s nice and all..." Mandy sighed. " I just have not found a boy that I like in that way yet."

" That ... just don’t make any sense at all!" The red head said, obviously frustrated with the small girl.

" It makes sense to me.." She meekly replied.

" When you figure out what your ‘Type’ is then... talk to me..." Donna gasped. " When that finally comes, you will be needing a while lot of help."

Donna just shook her head and started off walking to the dining hall, muttering to herself as she went. Mandy followed the girl in silent thought, trying to ignore the girl’s muttering. Everything she had said to Donna was all true, and that was the way she felt - but how Donna had reacted to her truthfulness, made her feel so awkward and unsure with herself. You could say, she was feeling like a freak.

Mandy turned her head to look over at CC as they went along. She found the tall girl demeanor changed from just a few minutes ago. She regarded the girl to see what was up, which made her quickly forget about her little conversation with Donna.

The girl seemed almost to be upset or something, her head tilted a little bit forward as she walked, shoulder held in a slump. She was going to ask the dark clad girl what was wrong, but quickly had stopped herself. She had a feeling like the girl was not in the mood at the moment to talk. She thought that it was something that Donna had said, had hurt her feelings, but Mandy could not figure out what that could be. She wanted to ask still, but thought she simply shouldn’t.

Continuing on while telling herself not to pry into CC’s business, Mandy headed for breakfast

******

After breakfast, Mandy and the rest of her cabin were led down to the docks, by Olivia Stern, their stuffy and very uptight acting live in councillor. The six girls were to be the first ones of the year that were going to have canoeing lessons on the glass calm waters of Lake Pawa. Because it was a very hot day already, even Tracy seemed to really like the idea.

The girl’s of Cabin five were putting on floatation vests for the boat rides just in front of the old boathouse. Tracy had already changed to complaining about the heat as Mary helped the drama queen do up her vest. The more Mary tried to help get the vest the way the girl was shouting for her to do, the more Tracy would snap at her like a trapped viper.

Grumbling under her breath, the girl would just try again. She still was getting so much verbal onslaught from the self proclaimed princess of Cabin five, but oddly had caved in to taking ever stinging syllable Tracy threw at her.

Councillor Stern just was nearby, rolling her eyes as she listed to the girl bitch and complain over and over again. She had Tracy more than a few times over the years as a camper, and she was now clearly remembering each and every year of that, thanks to the girl’s incessant griping. The girl had not changed one iota.

" Give me strength!" The pony tailed woman could be heard sharply under her breath more than once already this morning in reaction to the girl.

Mandy was helping out CC with making the ugly yellow colored vest fit snugly on the tall girl’s body, but could not help noticing that the girl was still being way more quiet than she had been earlier. The short girl debated on whether or not to ask what was going on with her, but more than a few times, she tried not to say anything.

Being very worried, Mandy finally decided to take a chance, as just see what was going on with her new friend.

" Why so quiet, CC..." She finally inquired.

As if snapped out of thought, CC turned to look at her new friend as if she had not fully understand what the girl had asked.

" Hu?" She asked, oddly she sounded a little flustered. " I guess I was not listening really go to you."

" I asked you why you are being so quiet." The shorter girl restated. " You’ve been acting like this since before breakfast."

CC seemed to be thinking on what Mandy had asked, but her eyes never left the girl. She saw how Mandy was looking at her, and she felt the concern that was coming out for her.

" I’m feeling a little down, I guess." She finally said.

" Feeling down?" Mandy echoed, hearing the tightness that was in the girl’s voice. " What’s bothering you? Ever since we saw Lance and Sasha sucking face together, you automatically have suddenly gotten quiet and seemed to me that you wanted to be somewhere else..."

The pretty goth girl give a single sighing sound to her new friend, as if she was trying to pass this all off.

" It’s nothing... just a silly, selfish thing..." She said with her voice very flat sounding " Can you just forget about it?"

" Don’t look like it’s nothing... and I wont forget either." Pointed out Mandy. " I have only met you, and can actually see something is bothering you."

CC paused for a moment, a look of anguish came over her face.

" Your right... there is something..." She said, finally giving in. " Seeing those two together, made me start to think..."

" What were you thinking?" Mandy prodded as gently as she could, knowing there was going to be way more to this.

The tall girl took a seat on a old stump that was beside the boathouse outer wall, as people readied the canoes for them all. She began to play with one of the studded wristbands she was wearing.

" Here is the thing... I just got out of a relationship with someone only eight weeks ago... we had been together for over a year when it ended, and ended badly...." She started, her voice showing how hard it was to start. " I guess I am still feeling very emotional with it, and seeing those two nearly going at it out in the open, sort of brought everything back so strongly..."

" I can understand that..." Said Mandy calmly.

" We broke up over many things...things that I could not ignore, no matter how hard I tried to." CC continued, her voice turning much softer than it usually seemed to be. " They were things I never ever could have done myself... things that I never dreamed could have been done to me..."

Mandy took a seat, using a overturned bucket as a stool. She put her hand on the girl’s knee, in support.

" Could I ask what the boy did that hurt you?" Mandy asked, as gently as she could.

The dark dressed girl’s began to shake badly, tears started to run down her cheek one after another, making many channels through her makeup. CC clenched her hands tightly into a balled fists, holding them until her knuckles turned white as new fallen snow between the rows of rings she wore. Mandy was staying very quiet, sensing that she should not push the girl anymore than she had. She simply let herself sit there and watched as wave after wave of emotions flew through the girl.

Gasping a little while wiping some of the tears while trying not to smudge her make-up, CC seemed to slowly gathered back some of her composure. She took a deep breath and patted the hand on her knee, a small twinkle came back in her dark browns..

" Hey... Let’s not talk about this now... Ok?" CC asked, her voice still wavering as she spoke " It’s just a little overwhelming here... I want to have a break."

" Ok, we can do that, but if you want to talk about it anytime... you know where I am..." Soothed the girl, knowing it was time to step back. " I am the one sleeping in the next bed over."

" Thanks... ": CC said, her face showing that she was starting to calm down.

Now feeling bad that she had opened up a whole can of worms for CC, she was just going to be a ‘silent’ friend for awhile. If the girl was wanting her to know about this later, Mandy knew to just let her come in her own time and terms.

" Let’s just go out and enjoy the canoe rides then..." Mandy said soothingly, keeping her word. " Looks like it will be a blast."

The tall girl stood up and took a look over at the canoes that now were waiting beside the dock. She turned to look at Mandy and it appeared that she was starting to feel a little better.

" Can we throw Tracy into the lake when we are far out in the middle of this pond?" Said CC with a mischievous smirk, obviously trying to make herself feel better.

" Hate to point this out for you...She can swim." Mandy replied, adding with a sputtering giggle. " The other drawback is that we could be charged with her murder, if we threw her in."

" How unfortunate for us!" Came back CC with comic dryness.

The two started to laugh uncontrollably, getting squinted looks from their fellow campers like they were going insane and should be locked up somewhere. Even the councillor looked at them with a odd stare, then simply turned her head as the boats were in the water by then. It probably looked to the woman like every teenaged girl was totally and officially crazy.

CC smirked, as this little pressure valve of humor seemed to have broke her out of her sadness.

" Come on then, Mandy-girl.." She said turning in the direction of the lake. " The boats await... and hopefully some mysterious unknown monster of Lake Pawa will rise from the depths and eat her instead."

" Can’t do that to the poor monster..." Sniggered Mandy, nearly ending up making a very unseemly snorting sound. " Would that be cruel for that monster."

" Damn... you learn fast..." Howled CC, the tears that now ran down her face was from the laughter.

The black clad girl stood up and pointed to the dock with a grand sweep of one hand, still trying to stop herself from having the giggles... and failing miserably. Mandy stood up too, but she was still in the middle of a unstoppable wave of laughter that made her face glow a bright shade of red.

" Onward., fellow fair maiden... the lake doth awatith!!" She yelled out, with a very bad Shakespearian flair, and a even worse english accent as she led Mandy with an imaginary sword held high.

Laughing still, the two girl’s go into the canoe that was readied for them, and thankfully they did not have to share the space with Tracy.

It was the night of the fourth day at Camp Pawa. The came was very still, sweating under the heat that had been beating down on the summer retreat, as the night had brought little if no relief from the stickiness. The mercury had rose to over one hundred degrees, and had barely dropped to the mid nineties.

Cabin five was not immune to the heat. People slept without the blankets, and still sweated through the night, tossing and turning with the uncomfortableness of the relentless humidity. The cabin felt like a very large sweatbox on this night.

Even Tracy had stopped complaining as much about CC, and now Mandy, sleeping in the nude. The self-diva styled girl was forced for the last few nights to sleep dressed only in the flimsiest underwear that she owned to try and stave off the effects of the night heat.

Half asleep, Mandy found herself tossing in her bed, trying to find a more comfortable position to lay and get away from the sticky feeling sheets. Finally finding a way that was not as uncomfortable to lay in, she knew that this way was not going to be comfortable for long. She just layed there and tried to enjoy it for as long as it would end up lasting. She was sure if she had been wearing clothes to bed, it would be worse.

The girl heard that even CC was rustling around over in her bed, understanding the restlessness this night was bringing for everyone in Camp. She just sighed, and tried to drift back off to sleep.

A hand touched Mandy’s shoulder lightly, and she turned over. CC was standing there, smirking as she was shrouded in the darkness..

" Wanna go out for a smoke?" CC whispered.

" What time is it?" Mandy asked back very softly.

" It’s just past one right now..." She said. " I finally came to the conclusion that I can’t sleep."

" Too hot?" Mandy asked.

" Even sleepin’ naked, I cant get comfortable." CC said, sighing as sweat rolled down her face. " Maybe going out might help. So... want to go for that smoke?

Mandy nodded and sat up, she was up for trying anything at this point. She thought that a late night smoke might help her fall asleep after giving her body a chance to realize that it was actually tired. It was worth a shot, she told herself.

Grabbing her nightshirt she had layed out at the end of the bed in case of a bathroom emergency, she popped it on and readied herself to accompany the Goth girl for that smoke. CC had donned a shirt of her own. It was a very long one tee with three very big tarantula spiders viciously attacking a lady on the front, with a pool of bright red blood spattering everywhere..

The shorter girl looked at CC, and noticed how the long garment seemed to really clung to the tall goth girl’s lean body as she moved, and the sight of the curves and sways she saw made her sweat even harder. Even with just a shirt on, Mandy eyes took in all of the long legged beauty, and that made her feel a little uneasy as she realized just what it was that she was doing.

The two snuck out of the cabin, and hurried off a short distance away, knowing of a large clump of trees set behind the bathroom cabin was a perfect place to have their smoke. They had discovered the place, after nearly getting caught smoking on the second night. Since then, it’s been almost like a ‘clubhouse’ without walls for them, going there between camp activities to light up a smoke before hurrying off to the next thing..

CC sat herself on a low limb of a tree, seemingly wanting to relish the smoke she held. Mandy leaned up against the trunk of the same tree, also planning to enjoy the cigarette. With it being so hot, it was weird that there were not very many mosquitos out and about, but neither girl was going to start complain about that. Mandy thought that it just might be way too hot even for those flying beggars to be out on a night such as it was.

Mandy felt a little exposed as she stood there. She thought of that fact that she was standing outside and quite a’ways away from the cabin clad only in her nightshirt, without even having a pair pf underwear on underneath. It may have felt like that, but it also did feel so comfortable against the heat. It was not very cooling though, but it did help with the feeling of stickiness that the air was so heavy with.

When Mandy looked over at the girl who was perched on the large branch, she found that she could see right up the hem of the CC’s shirt. She wanted to avert her eyes from what she was secretly spying, but she was finding herself unable to look away. So in tranced by what she was seeing, her eyes firmly set themselves squarely on the girl’s little peeking treasure.

The small girl could see CC’s private area so clearly, even under the light of the full moon overhead. She marveled at how pink and smooth it’s shaven surface was, her eyes slowly were drawn to rest longingly at the little flower that was visible. She felt so drawn to it’s simple and delicate beauty, feeling a strong urge that she wanted to lean over and touch it, to have a chance to see it’s wonder up close and to revel in it. The sleek legs that were on either side also had the same effect, as well as when she looked up at CC’s face had done. Even when she was so entranced by what she saw, she was feeling afraid at what it was making her feel like all through her body.

Swallowing hard, she turned her head away, so confused with why she was feeling so excited at seeing the girl’s body like this. One of the things that she could explain it with was... she was acting like a Lesbian, a girl who was sexually and emotionally attracted to other girls. She shuttered with the thought, but all of these things seemed to be flying around her head in a dance of amazing colors. The question she kept hearing was: Was she acting like a lesbian?

Besides the often bad connotations she had heard about it throughout her life, she now found herself faced wondering if she was one of them. Feeling so attracted to the girl ever since seeing the goth girl on the bus on the way out to camp, that thought had come up often- but not in this clear of a light.

This question was now out of hiding again, and had a name to tag it with. She felt uneasy about finding an answer to it. She knew that an answer that might be already in her, and she was nervous about that.

Not knowing what else to do, she took a long drag of her smoke with her nervousness building in herself, hoping that whatever this was that was making her think this way, would just slip away somehow. The smoke helped her feel a little more calmer as she took a few drags in succession, but it was not even close to getting rid of the overwhelming attraction she was still feeling when she was around the pretty gothic girl.

Almost finished with her own smoke, CC looked over at the smaller girl. The girl in the black tee seemed to look at Mandy for a moment, her eyes seemingly tracing up and down the small body of her friend for a moment or two. The girl let out a little sigh, then leaned in more towards Mandy.

" Could I ... talk to you here?" She asked, after a spit second of thought..

" Sure..." Mandy said, glad that the girl was going to talk, and help her mind shift away for awhile.

CC fiddled with the cigarette pack she held in one hand, and seemed to pull something out of it from behind the foil. Sighing, she looked up at the girl that was with her, there was a little bit of apprehension in her face.

" You know a few days ago... when I was really feeling down because of my break up I told you about" She said.

" Yeah..." Mandy said.

" Well... I want to continue that..." She said with a air of finality.

Hopping off the limb, flashing her legs until the material of her shirt settled, CC looked at the girl.. She moved closer to Mandy’s side.

" You have been almost a instant friend to me from the moment we met face to face... and when I said I did not want to talk about it...well, that part was true, it was so overwhelming, but...." She said, pausing. " There was another reason, a hidden one, was why I did not want to continue also. The reason I stopped was because I did not want to reveal something to you.."

" Not tell me something?" Mandy said, looking right into the girl’s face.

" Yeah... I did not know how you would take somethin’." She said with a lowered tone.

" You can tell me anything..." Said Mandy, smiling at the girl. " Whatever it is.. I will listen... Guess that is just me...""

" I know that now..." Said CC with a giggle of understanding, her make-up less face showing a little smile in the moonlight. " That is why I wanted to clear this up now..."

The gothic girl handed Mandy what she had pulled out of her pack, and took a long breath. She seemed a little apprehensive about doing it though.

" Here, look at this..." CC said with a waver in her voice. " This will help, as I explain a few things..."

Mandy took whatever it was, and looked at it closely. The object turned out to be a small photograph that she had been handed. In the moonlight streaming down from overhead, she was able to make out the images that were on its shiny paper rather well. She gasped, as the image told one hell of a story all by itself.

The picture was of CC, and a pretty gothed out girl in front of what appears to be a very large merry-go-round. The two were holding hands in front of their chests, the noticeably shorter girl with long dark poker straight locks was kissing CC on the cheek with a softness that jumped from the picture. Mandy noticed that CC was smiling like she never had seen the girl before do. The whole thing was so surreal, yet something in her was touched.

" Her name was Melissa Cale, nicknamed Raven by out friends." CC said. " That is who I was with, and together with, for over a year."

" Your girlfriend?" Said Mandy, shocked with the information.

The goth girl nodded in answer to the smaller girl’s surprise.

" She was the first one I had..." Informed CC, with a deepened sigh. " We broke up because I was not ready to go to the next level... having sex, yet. She was though, and did not understand why I did not." CC’s face turned blank, as she continued. " She turned around only two weeks after that picture was taken, and cheated on me with another girl who was more than ready and willing to have sex." The girl shook her head a little, the pain evident on her face. " I found out the hard way when I walked into her room and found her naked with this other girl... and as I was backing out, she looked over the girl’s back, and gave me this very smug type of smile. She knew that I was right there."

" What did you do?" Mandy got out.

" I ran home and hid for a week..." She said. " I was crushed, but now I am trying to put that all behind me."

Mandy felt herself trembling a little, as this information was a big shock. She handed the picture back to CC and took the last drag from her smoke, trying to calm her body down. CC just lowered her head, her face sowing the pain that brought her.

" That is why I was sad..." She said softly . " That was why I never continued to tell you... I was afraid to tell you that I was lesbian."

Mandy paused, getting herself collected a little.

" If you were not ready... you were not..." Was her statement. " I can see that..."

" That is what I said..." CC said, also throwing away her butt. " But it still hurts like hell. That was why my mom signed me up for coming here... she wanted me to get out of my ’funk’ as she put it... and thought a month of being at camp this summer would end up helping me."

Mandy nodded to let CC know she had been listening, but her mind was swimming with things. Her own feelings towards CC, the fact that CC was a lesbian all were the topics that crowded her mind. She could not stop any of it, as al of this seemed to inundate her. Mandy did not know what to do, what to say or anything. She knew that she could not say any of this stuff that was in her head to CC, for how could she because she was not sure of anything. She decided that she would just go along with things as they were, and hoped to stop it as soon as possible.

CC was a friend... and that was how it was going to stay. The fact that she had only known her for a little while was irrelevant... That was how far she had to go. She knew that much, but it was her own heart that was aching with that part of her decision, as it was like she was not telling the truth to CC, and Mandy hated lying or being lied too. Sadly, she saw no other way until she could figure her own self out..

The two girl’s ended up having a second smoke together under the moon, eventually talking more about nothing in particularly, seemingly turning to getting to know each other even better. They both seemed to be getting relaxed with one another

The two girls soon decided that they should return to their beds in the cabin, while hoping that the relentless weight of heat would allow them to finally get some sleep as it climbed deeper into the night. They entered as silently as they had left, keeping themselves from getting the giggles with a monumental effort

CC seemed to be feeling quite relived about telling Mandy, her whole demeanor had changed to a state of relaxed and calm. When the girl had climbed back into bed, it only took a short space of just a few minutes of settling in, before the goth girl had slipped away into a fitful sleep.

Mandy on the other hand, had slipped herself into bed but still could not get herself to sleep. She layed in her bed for long time, her mind was way too busy for allowing her a chance to meet the sandman. She just layed there in the heated stillness and was trying to figure all of these things that jumbled her mind so.

The fact that CC was a lesbian really was not a problem to Mandy in the first place... it was ending up on her own questions directed to her own sexuality that was creating this firestorm of thoughts. She thought through just how she was so inexplicably attracted to the pretty girl. It seemed that she was attracted to CC in more than one way.. which she sort of understood already, the question posed to herself was a clear cut one... was this interest.. this attraction, a sign that she might be a lesbian?

Was she or wasn’t she? That was the single most questing that seemed to dominate her mind. Laying there, she found that just thinking about CC even a little, made her heart feel a little lighter, her mood lifting as she pictured the smile CC had... was this the sign that points to an answer? She found her self fighting that battle over and over again as she layed there, fighting with her own self, and years of what she had heard on girl meeting girl things..

The long haired girl finally did drift off to sleep, exhausted with mulling everything over and over again.. All that she really knew when she fell asleep, was she extremely confused, but she did feel something for the beautiful girl that clad herself in black. That was about the extent that she could get to.

A new day donned very bright, and extremely hot. With it being just seven thirty in the morning, the mercury had already been touching ninety six, and was in fact, rising even higher to the triple digits. Camp Pawa was now literally baking under the oppressive heat that covered it.

Despite the brutal heat of the morning, the kids of the camp were already finished their breakfast, and on their was across the camp back to their designated cabins, ful of excitement of what the day was going to bring

The girl’s of Cabin five were no different. CC walked just beside Mandy and Donna, as they strolled back to their cabin, to get the day’s activities layed out after they changed into lighter clothing to fend off the heat.

As the tall girl walked along with her friend, she had a very strange feeling hit her that something seemed as little off this morning. She could feel a sort of vibe that came from one of the other two girls, and felt like it was something deep and brooding. She was not sure of who it was, but she looked at each girl in silence, trying to read the faces.

The tall girl first looked a Donna, who seemed unfazed by anything, then looked over to the shorter girl that she walked with. She noticed that Mandy’s face and whole way of acting was more somber and serious than she had seen the girl before. Watching the girl for a few moments as they walked, she instantly had the sense again that something was not quite right with her new friend. She could not exactly put her finger on what it could be, but it was clear that the girl was deeply troubled..

Thinking back, the small girl was been almost as quiet as the girl named Lori always was. Her mind flittered to that fact that she had seen it happening over the last day or so. It was not as if Mandy was ignoring her, or anyone else in the cabin, but she was acting just a little off. It was as if the girl’s mind was preoccupied with something, or if she was heavily thinking. Either way, it was not like her as far as she knew.

CC thought back to earlier this morning, when they had snuck out together for their morning smoke behind the bathrooms. The goth girl was mad at herself, as she had not seen it right off. She now recognized that their was a glassy, very far away look held in those brown orbs of Mandy’s when they were smoking, as if the girl was miles away from where she actually was.

Troubled with her friends unusual behavior, the goth girl wondered if it had anything to do with her decision to tell Mandy about her secret. Could have that been one of the reasons for the girl’s sudden stoic and silent behavior. She thought that possibility through, as she continued to follow the others.

In her heart she knew. CC did feel that her admission was not the reason behind the girl’s sudden change of mood, but without an answer replace her fear, she still gravely worried about her friend. Only thing she knew, something was making the girl act like this, but all she could do for her friend, was to hope that sometime soon, her friendship would be deep enough that she would come out with it to her.

CC sighed and noticed that they had arrived back at the cabin, Mandy had already headed inside, not one word had been spoken in the time it took to get from the dining hall to the cabin. Pushing the girl would solve nothing, she knew, so she just decided to give the girl the time and space to think.

Once inside, the tall goth girl noticed that Tracy was also inside the cabin and already complaining away in her whiny best, as usual. CC just shook her head at the very annoying girl and headed over to her bunk to wait for the counselor to come in and read out the list of activities that were for the day.

She looked over and saw that Mandy had went over and took a seat on her own bed. The girl looked over at her for a moment, and a small smile broke the serious mask that had been hanging on her all morning. CC returned the brief smile, beginning to hope that the small smile she had gotten, no matter how long it had been flashed to her, was a good sign.

The very loud Tracy was in perfect form for her, as she was now complaining so hard over the heat of the day, to everyone that was unfortunate to be in earshot..

" Look at my hair..." She said loudly, staring into a mirror she had perched on the small sidetable next to her bunk. She flipped the ends of her long blonde locks, as she peered at her own reflection " All of this humidity has totally ruined it."

" You look fine!" Said Mary, the only one that seemed to even hang around with her, sighing. It was obvious that even she was getting fed up with the girl already this morning.

" With that mousy hair of your’s Mary... I would not want to talk about being ‘fine’..." The girl jabbed, with a scoffing sound.

Mary seemed to take the hurtful words in stride somehow, as she silently handed the girl a hairbrush she produced from a large square travel trunk just beside the bed. Tracy nearly tore the brush out of Mary’s hands, not even pausing to give a small word of gratitude in the process. She just took it and began brushing her long hair out, while sharply complaining about things as she did

CC just sat on her bunk and give a sneer to herself, as she was feeling so disgusted with the blonde girl’s attitude this morning. The girl had been a pain over the first six days that they had been at camp, and now it seemed as if the girl was building to be a even bigger pain in the ass ever waking moment. The goth maiden shook her head as she looked over her shoulder, as the Tracy’s voice was now beyond just being grating on her, it was feeling more like a chainsaw to her head.

Tracy spotted the goth girl shaking her head and seemed to know who the shake of contempt was for. She threw her brush on top the floor, attracting the attention of everyone in the room.

" You making fun of me over there, freak?" She said loudly from across the room, getting the young teen in black’s attention as well..

CC calmly lifted her head, fearlessly locking eyes onto the cabin’s diva. She had never been intimidated by anyone, especially not by some blond bimbo like Tracy.

" I’m just laughing at just how shallow of a person you really are, Tracy." She said flatly. " That’s all!"

The beauty queen sneered, as if the girl’s word did not even hold any weight for her.

" At least I have style grace that all of boys go for, rather than your mix and matched graveyard robbed look you so proudly wear." Tracy said, her words dripping with snideness. " I really don’t think that anyone could get any more ‘shallower’ than what can be dug out of a grave."

" I actually like who and what I am, thank you very much..." Said CC, her eyes never leaving the girl’s " at least I don’t look like some scrawny retarded Barbie doll in clothes that her mommy payed for her."

The girl gave a small snuff of being condescension, and stared down the lass in black.

" You could not possibly look this good, even if you tried, freak..." started Tracy, a evil gleam coming into her eye. " The only thing you would ever end up attracting would be corpses anyway, or at the very best, living alone with twenty cats."

CC looked over to the girl, a small smug grin now was on her face

" I know how you end up attracting the boys, Princess..." She said, never flinching under the girl’s stony gaze. " If I had to take a guess how you actually get the guys to notice you, you probably either sneak into the boys bathroom and write your number on the wall, or do you give it away for the price of a Big Mac, to dole out your ‘services’?"

Tracy sputtered with anger and stormed over across the cabin’s interior and right to the girl. She stood there, her eyes now turning a shade of red as she glared down at the smirking CC.

" At least they would want me, rather than a reject from some really bad horror picture, Cunt!!." Spat Tracy, leaning over the girl sitting and locking eyes. " I got the looks, the style and everything else that you don’t... what could guys ever possibly might want with a broom riding witch like you?"

" I am sure they want to be with someone that is... Human, rather than a walking poster for botox!" CC said with a smirk.

Tracy screamed in rage and gave the girl a vicious open hand slap right across the face, which knock the girl off the bed and to the floor. Now in a frenzy, Tracy jumped on CC with her manicured hands locking themselves through the girl’s long dark hair and ending up pulling out a small handful out in her anger.

CC rolled onto her back and pushed the girl off of her with one of her knees, standing the girl up with her strength.

" Your totally fucking nuts, don’t you know that!!" CC verbalized loudly.

The goth girl went to get up from her disadvantaged place on the floor, but the blonde kicked out her own foot, and caught the black dressed right between the legs while she clamored to get up. CC sprawled her to the ground a second time with a small yelp, her face contorting with the pain that came with the underhanded blow the girl did. As she layed there, she groaned a little with the onset of more pain.

Writhing on the floor as she tried to catch her breath, CC looked up at the girl that stood over her menacingly, a mocking smirk on the face of the girl.

" Don’t think you’ll be using that any time soon, bitch..." Hissed Tracy, seeing how the girl was in pain. " Probably smells like fish anyway!"

Surprisingly, CC was back on her feet almost instantly, her scowling face only inches from the blonde girl’s. In a single instant, CC shoved the girl back, then followed that up with a perfect straight left hook with ever ounce of strength behind it. The punch connected squarely with the side of the blond’s jaw, and sent the all pink dressed girl sprawling to the floor in a heap.

" Fuck you... little rich bitch!!" Screamed CC, her eyes flaring with her anger as it was now her turn to loom over the girl on the floor. " I should kick your sorry ass for that!"

" Kiss my ass, dyke..." Squeaked the girl from the floor, as she tried to get herself back to her feet, although much slower than CC had earlier.

CC was going jump on the girl and finish the job with a flurry of punches to the face before Tracy had the chance to set herself when Mandy quickly appeared and grabbed her from behind. CC was going to fight herself away from whoever it was that was holding her back, but quickly she had realized who it was that restrained her.

" She is not worth getting yourself kicked out of here for..." Mandy said, barely being able to hold back the much taller and much madder girl.

" Let me just kick the crap her!!" She spat. " Just let me!!"

" Is...It...Worth... It?" Said the smaller girl, putting an accent on each word, in hope that CC would listen to her

CC felt her coming back to her senses, Mandy’s words had taken the fire of her rage and dowsed it. The very words she had been told to her, now rang very true in her mind.

" Your right..." Hissed the Gothic girl, stopping her struggles and then standing stone still. " Miss plastic there is not worth anything like that!"

Tracy finally scrambled to her feet, and quickly slunk back to her bunk. Mary helped her keep on her feet, but there was a secret smile on her face as she did.. It appeared that the blonde girl’s yearning for a fight was all gone.

" You’ll pay for this, you mutant freak..." She said, looking at the girl with hatred flaring.

" As if!!" Spat back CC, as Mandy finally released her from the bear-hug she had used to control her.

Councilor Olivia stormed in a moment later, her eyes flashing with her own anger. She stood in the middle of the cabin, her face was red and her posture ridged.

" Girls!! What in the name of God is goin’ on here? I can hear the frickin’ lot of you from the dining hall going off like a wild pack of animals" She screamed, looking around at everyone. No one answered, and the woman plopped her hands on her hips. " Answer me girls...!!"

The group was very silent for a moment, as the woman looked at every face one after another. She did stop at Tracy, who stood there with her head down, and eyed her for a moment or two.

" Nothing..." Spoke up CC, glaring at the girl with the swollen cheek. " Just a difference of opinions, Miss Olivia."

" We have... worked some stuff out, Miss Olivia..." Said Tracy back, her eyes going down to the floor.

" Really?" She snuffed. " By making noises like a band of orangutans, you have brokered a peace accord with all of that caterwauling? Call the middle east, they have not tried that yet!"

" We just have made peace here, Ma’am..." CC said, sitting down on her bunk.

Miss. Olivia sighed and shook her head. She had her suspicions about what had happened, but seemed to be letting that go for the time being.

:" As long as you gals have worked out things..." She said, looking at the clipboard. We have our itinerary, and a special announcement..."

The group perked up on hearing the words from the lady. It seemed that for the time being, the little scuffle was washed away by interest in just what news the lady had brought for them all.

We are going to ready ourselves for a little camping trip into the wilderness today..." The woman announced. " We are going to camp out on a island out at the far end of Lake Pawa."

" Blake Island?" Asked Mary.

" The very one...." She said. " We are going to set up camp there, and learn simple survival tactics. We are all going to split up into groups of two, and stagger our camping places on the island so we are near enough to one another, for safety, but far enough that each team has to cook, gather water and wood and other things for survival by themselves."

Tracy groaned, as the thought of camping out in the wilds seemed not to be her idea of fun. With a disgusted scrunch of her face, she looked up and glared at the leader of her cabin.

" Are you having a problem with going camping, Miss McDonald?" Olivia asked.

" Do we hafta?" The girl whined. " I think that sleeping outside, and ick.... Going to the you-know-what outside, is not my idea of fun in any way, Miss Olivia..."

" Well, you can just stay back at camp here, and Administrator Kirkwood would be in charge of you the whole time." Said the Councillor flatly. " Staying back hear means that you will be put to work in the camp’s mess hall and work in the laundry until we come back in two days, and then join us for the remainder of your stay here. Would you like to be doing that, Miss. McDonald?"

The girl sighed, showing that plan clearly was not what she wanted either. Sighing, she looked at the taller middle aged woman, her face showing that she already had made a decision based on that.

" I’ll go..." She muttered in defeat.

" I thought you’d might join us in the great outdoors...Welcome to our expedition!" Miss Olivia smirked with almost glee. " Every team will each get a two person tent, sleeping bags, flint, water, a few cooking and eating utensils and enough food for two days out there... follow me and we will go and grab this stuff... after I assign the groups." She looked at her clipboard. " Tracy and Mary are together, Donna and Lori and the last but not least, Mandy and Crystal."

Mandy shivered, as she thought of being with CC all alone like that. Her mind was split between feeling excitement , and fear of her own self and feelings that circled inside of her. She stayed silent, hoping that she might find a solution to this and fast... but it seemed that there was no answer.

With the others, she followed to pick up the supplies for the next few days. Blake island would be a crossroads for her, and she already knew that.

Blake Island was located ten miles down the Lake from Camp Pawa. It was over a mile long and over three hundred yards wide piece of rock, dirt and trees place that was set in the very center of the lake at the widest and deepest part. The island had sandy shorelines and was mainly flat throughout. It was perfect for what it was being used for.

It sat with the closest people was the camp, and had been deeded to them by the local government. It was the jewel, the pride of the Camp, the perfect place in all of the surrounding areas.

Early morning was so beautiful, as Blake island sat in the growing heat. The boat caring the first campers of the year had arrived just as the land was waking. Under the blazing sun, the campers set up camps, probably wanting to get it done before it got hotter than it already was.

The girl’s of Cabin five were hard at work. Councilor Olivia had made them set up camp at a prescribed length apart from on another. Each twosome could see the other’s camps, but was a firm distance away.

CC and Mandy were hard at work, setting up their camp. The gothic girl, dressed inner black tank top and shorts set, worked hard at making a fire pit out of rocks she found all up and down the shoreline that was about thirty feet in front of their camp. Mandy had chosen to set up the tent, and she too, was hard at work.

The goth girl took a moment of pause to wipe the swear from her long dark bangs, as she had opted to go with just a long ponytail rather than her trademarked pigtails. She looked over to see how the smaller girl was getting along with the task she had taken. She was surprised at what she saw.

The smaller girl had the tent almost set up, and the food already stowed away to be carted into the tent. The girl was working so hard, her pink top set she wore showed the heaviness of her own sweat.

" Jesus!" Said CC up to the girl. " Where in the hell did you learn to set up tents like that?"

The girl turned and paused herself, she seemed to be a little less preoccupied in the mind for the time being.

" My mom and Dad were avid campers when I was little..." She said, showing the first smile that she had since landing on Blake. " Guess I picked it up from them."

" Picked it up?" Gasped CC. " You picked it up, and ran with it, by the looks of it, mastered it."

" Looks like you have made a fire pit more than once yourself." Mandy commented back, eyeing the girl’s handiwork. " Seems like I don’t know all of your talents yet either!"

" My parents were totally nuts about the outdoors too, old flower children types...." CC said, then laughed. " Hell, I was a girl scout once too, just to be ‘normal’.."

Mandy finally let a giggle.

" You? You were a Girl Scout?"

" Yep.. for two years...’ CC laughed, liking that the girl seemed a little closer to being herself. " Guess I also have learned a lot more than I thought I had. My secret was that I actually liked it"

A loud voice could be heard from down the shore, screaming and spluttering without one inkling of what the words actually were. Mandy and CC stopped talking and looked over to see what the hell was happening.

A tent had fallen down, and Mary was standing outside of it laughing. The screeching of Tracy was heard, although none of the words cold not be made out from where they were standing, but they could guess just what those words just might be..

" I think our princess does not have a rustic spirit..." CC said, through heavy laughter.

" Me thinks she don’t even know the word ‘rustic’..." Giggled Mandy, looking at the lump inside of the tent moving around so frantically.

Laughing, Mandy and CC returned to finish setting up their camp. They were just going to let poor Mary deal with the diva’s diatribe and complaining... they had a job to so before the sun was at it’s peak in the sky.

As the set back to work, their eyes met as they were standing quite close to one another. CC saw Mandy take a sharp breath in and gasped, as the locked gazes, then she turned away quickly, going back to finalizing the tent set up. The sudden change did not pass the goth girl’s notice, and she was now sure that it was the fact that she had been honest and divulged what her sexual orientation was, but something also nagged at her that it was not the reason. She wanted to ask about it, but the councilor came over to check on their progress.

CC decided that at some point that she would have to find out what was what. Putting in the back of her mind, and delt with the woman that had came over to see what they had done already.

******

The sun was now high in the sky, and everyone had their camps set up and ready to be used. Because of the head, the girl’s all up and down the shore were changing into their swimwear to take a dip in the inviting wetness of the lake, as sort of gift to themselves for getting things set up in a very timely fashion, and before they got down to starting to make the noon meal for themselves.

Mandy splashed around in the water in front of their campsite, enjoying Lake Pawa’s coolness on her hot skin. Dressed in her best all white bikini, she was glad to have as little as possible on at this point. She looked over at the tent, seeing if CC was going to come out and into the water as well, finding herself excited at the thought of getting to see the girl in a bathing suit.

She was still trying to figure out things in her head, as the attraction she was feeling for the long legged girl was not going away. In truth, they were getting stronger and harder to ignore. The fact that they were being thrown together to live, eat and sleep next to one another was not helping any, her feelings were growing and building, confusing her to no end.

Mandy saw the girl step out of the tent right that moment and she gulped hard. She found a vision that looked like no other, and she was standing on shore right then under the spotlight of the sun.

CC was dressed in a very skimpy black bikini, that hugged her curves like a second skin, the skeleton print on the fabric just adding to the look. The tattoo on CC’s lower part peeked out from over the bottoms, drawing Mandy’s eyes to trace the flat lines of the girl’s muscular abdomen and then follow the curves of her hips, noting that the stringed bottoms also showed off every curve everywhere else.

Just the sight of CC’s long legs and flat stomach made Mandy feel all tingly everywhere, especially down in the spot between her legs, as it too jumped and throbbed as her eyes drank in the young goth. Noticing her own nipples had became rock hard and were jutting out from under the fabric of her bikini top, took Mandy by surprise as well. CC was a vision like out of a magazine or something, the most beautiful thing Mandy had ever seen.

The girl slowly waded into the water, and seemed to also be looking right at her. Mandy turned her head ans slipped into deeper water, trying not to show just how much this girl was affecting her, as she felt her own face turn hotter than what it had been feeling a few moments ago. Unknowing what to do now, she just treaded water and watched CC come deeper into the cool solitude that was the lake.

Mandy was unsure of what the terms ‘turned on’ or ‘sexually excited’ were actually suppose to feel like, but she was now beginning to figure out that all of these feelings she was having flying through her like a freight train, probably would be just that. With all f the sensations flying through her, and the way she could not get herself to stop looking at CC, that probably was what was happening to her

Mandy swam around, hoping that the cool water would lessen all of these feelings, but she was finding out that it was not working. Sneaking peeks over at the now wet girl as she entered the water from dunking herself, The smaller girl could see how her snowy white skin seemed to sparkled in the sun, did not help her either. CC was like a goddess as she stood there in thigh deep water, her body and face seeming so perfect in every way, inviting, captivating, that Mandy could not even begin to think of anything else..

To have time to calm down and think things out, Mandy made a decision and swam around a small rocky outcrop just a hundred feet past where she was treading water. She was so confused at the moment, but her heart was seeming to be not at all confused. With her mind and heart at odds, she needed some time to figure things out... and that was hard when you were always being so close to the one that made her heart flutter, her knees go weak and your mind wander to things that normally were not even there.

On to one large rock behind the stack of many that made the point, Mandy pulled herself out on to the granite blob. The surface of the grey lump that jutted out of the water was smooth and very hot feeling on her backside, but the silence that was at the point made her feel like she could begin to ponder on her little problem, at least for a few minutes. Settling herself to simply sit, she was going to take advantage of the out of the way place.

She sat, looking out over the calm waters that shone in the brightness, her mind already wandering to the amazing image that CC made in her swim suit, and she felt her private areas twitch even harder. These feelings also unlocking many more feelings besides her ‘lust’, and that was overwhelming.

" What am I thinking? Why am I thinking like this... It don’t make sense...does it?" She kept asking herself, her mind flying with so many things. " She’s a girl, I’m a girl... What does it mean... how I am feeling... thinking... Am I gay?"

She took a deep breath to try and settle herself to think, but that was not even helping things. Her whole being was confused with the conflicts that raged inside. She closed her eyes again, trying to piece things together.

A splashing sound kicked her out of her thoughts, she looked over and she found herself unable to breath for a moment. The girl that she was just thinking about was pulling herself on to the rock beside her,.and her heart felt like it had stopped in mid beat.

" You ok here?" Asked CC, looking at her with her eyes wide and deep.

Mandy looked at the girl, still surprised that she had shown up at the rocks

" I’m just sitting for a moment..." The smaller framed girl answered, although even she could hear that her words could be considered unconvincing.

" All the way over here?" CC asked with a waver.

" It’s quiet here... and I like it..." Mandy said, her words still not even close to being convincing.

The tall girl settled herself on the rock, then looked at Mandy, her eyes searching her face for the longest of times.

" I feel that there is something going wrong here..." CC said, her voice starting off a littler wavy with emotions. " Actually... I really do sense that there is something wrong with you."

" Wrong? What could be wrong?" Stammered the smaller girl, looking at CC, surprised at the girl’s insight.

" You have been my friend since we met that first day...." CC started, making sure that she faced Mandy. " I don’t make friends easy, and I have a feeling that you are the same way... so that is why I feel deep down that something is really wrong... I can usually sense these things...."

Mandy didn’t react, as her face was stoic, as if she did not know what to say. She looked deeply into CC’s eyes, and saw the sincerity that she spoke with. She lowered her gaze, and she sighed, as she was still not sure whether or not if she should just come out with what she has been feeling for so long, but it was a fear that kept her silent right now, a fear that CC might not feel the same about her.

CC reached out and lifted the smaller girl’s head, making Mandy able to only look right at her.

" Tell me the truth...." She started, the normally strong CC seemed to almost have tears starting to fill her eyes. " Is the fact that I told you I am gay, making you not want to be friends with me?"

" No!" Said Mandy sternly with the one word answer, then turning rather passive in her ways. " It is not that... Don’t ever think that is what’s wrong here..."

" Then what the hell is it?" She pleaded, her deep brown eyes holding on to Mandy’s. " I care about you more than you will know... I see something, and I worry for you, just like when you got me to talk... now, what is it?"

" I... don’t want to say... " Mandy said as her eyes filling with a few tears under the intense stare from CC. " I don’t know what you’ll think of it..."

The gothic beauty stroked Mandy’s cheek softly, her eyes filling with more and more tears.

" What ever it is... just tell me... I don’t think that I could ever think badly of you" CC said, now worried a great amount. " You have become so very important to me... and I am very concerned about whatever it is that bothers you like this..." She paused to make her eyes tightly locked on to Mandy’s when she continued. " Please... Simply let me in, like you have allowed me to be with you..."

They looked at one another, one was in waiting for an answer to come out, the other deeply contemplating whatever she should answer. Time seemed to stop right there, as each girl looked at the other.

Mandy took a deep breath, and suddenly leaned over. Softly, she placed a soft yet very passion-filled kiss on the taller girl’s lips and backed away shyly. She lifted her eyes and stared straight into CC dark browns, reading the girl’s shock at her action.

" It is that... I think I have fallen in love with you." She said her voice never sounding so sure of itself before, as she released the truth that she had felt for so long. " That’s what."

The smaller girl lowered her head, and let herself slip into the cool waters of the lake. As a stunned CC sat there, Mandy swam away and went around the point to return to the beach in front of their encampment.

Shocked with the admission and the kiss, CC sat there for a long time. She watched the girl swim around the point and out of sight, but never once moved. She just sat for the longest time, thinking on what had happened, but her heart was already yelling. She felt it beating away in her chest, as she too, had a secret that was now pushing it’s way to the surface. She could not stop it, could not push it away.. .It was now talking to her.

Her Heart was reminding her, that she had been feeling the same thing towards Mandy too. She had fallen in love with Mandy from day one, but because of her short time past being with Raven... she knew that she had blocked it out. Now, she found that her feelings could not be blocked any longer.

The day wore on, three teams of girl’s worked to take care of themselves as the heat became near unbearable, yet still learning skills under the watchful eye of Councilor Olivia. The coming evening time was indicating that there would be no relief from this weather any time soon for the island..

The camping team of CC and Mandy were very organized, and they both showed their amazing prowess at the task of camping, yet neither one spoke to one another as they did. It seemed that they only spoke in single sentences to get tasks done when needed, the tension between them was quite high... but seemed that no one else in the group really noticed this fact either.

Night had completely fallen over the island, four separate campfires burned brightly in the darkness. Councilor Olivia was at her own campsite, relaxing in front of her tent as she let the girl’s go at it on their own all up and down the beach..

Mary was siting on front of here tent, listening to the soft lapping of the water against the short and trying to ignore the constant complaining of her tent mate. Tracy was now complaining after going off into the bushes to go to the bathroom, making it clear that she did not think this was ‘civilized’ for her to be doing, and how her air was ’flattened totally down’ by the heat among many of her whining. Mary calmly ignoring the blonde girl who had been bitching and beaking ever since they arrived, opting to let herself just enjoy the calmness of Blake Island

Lori and Donna’s camp was located farther up the beach was much more quiet than Mary and Tracy’s was, as the two seemed to have settled in to relax for the night and take in the fresh yet very hot air the night was presenting for them. Sitting at the fire side, they seemed to be talking low between them, with Donna doing ninety percent of the taking... the normal routine for anyone who was paired with the ultra shy Lori.

Mandy and CC camp was more than just quiet, as the two had not really spoken one word since supper. They only exchanged nervous glances and long sighs, as neither on of them really knew what to say now as all of these feelings and emotions and thoughts were so very new to them both.

Even the normally unflappable CC found herself unable to explain herself, which the outspoken girl never had any trouble doing normally, her own feelings overwhelming her. Mandy also seemed like no words were there for her either, her silence a testament to the large mountain of confusion that filled her.

It was getting late, as the heat seemed to hang over everyone that was on the island. CC watched as Mandy walked off into the darkness, not even say anything as she did. The goth girl just guessed that the girl had to go to the bathroom, and was taking a walk back into the brush to do just that, disappearing into the darkness.

CC stretched out a little to watch the fire crackle and dance in the pit, trying to figure out how to broker a way of talking to the girl, and to get out everything into the open. It seemed all too clear that they both were finding it very hard to speak about what was going on, the girl thought to herself. She was unsure of her own self as well, as she pondered the question that was in her head.

Almost twenty minutes went by, and Mandy still had not came back from her little bathroom break. The goth girl was starting to get a little worried about her tentmate, knowing that going would not take this long. She looked over in the direction Mandy had headed off into, and made a plan that if the girl was not back in a few minutes, she may have to go and search for Mandy. She sat back and simply waited.

The girl still was still not back after fifteen minutes more, and CC new what she must do. Heading off in search of her friend, she left the fire to lead them the path back.. Plunging into the scrub and trees nearest her camp, CC was quite thankful that a bright shining moon hung overhead , clearly lighting her way as she searched.

After a few minutes of looking around, CC came upon where Mandy had been all of this time, quite a ways off from where their camp had been pitched.

The girl was sitting on a small outcrop of ground that jutted into the water on the south end of Blake Island. She was just sitting there so still, her head leaned a little forward and hands crossed on her raised knees. CC looked at the girl for long moments, contemplating what to do now that she found her. The goth girl made a quick decision, squirreled up her feelings, and headed over to the silent form.

The tall angular girl took a seat beside Mandy and looked over at the girl. Mandy was a little shocked to see CC there, but she did not say one word.

"Hey..." CC said nervously.

" Hey!" Mandy said back, her eyes locking on to CC’s.

" Nice night to be watching the lake..." She said, feeling uneasy with making small talk.

" It’s calming... soothing I guess..." Answered back Mandy, her voice also registering a little tightness.

The two looked at on another of and on for awhile, each face showing that there was a tidal wave of things going on with both of them, but not being said. CC finally took a long breath, knowing that she needed to break this.

" This is stupid here... we barely have talked to each other in hours..." She started. " I have a idea... Let just get all of this silence out of the way and get things out in the open, so we can deal with this..."

Mandy snuffed a little, while her eyes searched CC’s face.

" You mean about the fact that I kissed you, and told you I love you out of the blue..." She half asked, half commented..

" Now there is a start..." Grinned CC, giving a little nervous giggle. " I should add in there that the truth is that I have been hiding the same feelings from you, that I am amazingly and totally falling for you!"

Mandy blinked rapidly a few times, as CC’s words hit home for her... the meaning sinking in quite rapidly.

" You... are starting to love me?" She said, wanting to clarify what she had just heard.

The goth girl nodded, locking eyes with the much smaller girl that stared back at her.

" I fought the feelings for a few days... after what happened with Raven, I was hesitant and not quite sure of anything... I thought it was a rebound thing or something..." She started, actually blushing.

" You are feeling all of this, towards me?" Mandy said in reaction.

" I saw you on the bus coming out here, and immediately, I felt this huge attraction for you, one that I could not explain. I just thought I was bein’ nuts, after my break up and how bad it was, but as we started to become friends and then close... I could not shake the feeling that were there, they have simply grown and strengthen."

" It was like that for me too... It seemed like I could not take my eyes off of you, no matter how hard I was trying..." Admitted the smaller girl. " Just in looking at you, I find you so amazing...someone who is always being herself, and never getting swayed by anyone or anything no matter how much you are different!"

CC blushed a little, her hidden shyness coming out. She gazed lovingly into Mandy’s face and could not help but crack a very broad smile.

" Well, it’s that way for me, to you.. I find you completely awesomely and so clearly amazing in every way I look at you..." CC said, eyes twinkling like the stars over them both.

" Why do you think that? I am nothing special..." Blinked the girl, her cheeks flushing with a shade of red that was almost fire like. " Look at me... I’m very short, have poker straight hair and I don’t like even wearing make-up or fancy clothes..."

" I love how you look... It’s natural yet so much more... You befriended me when everyone else around you thought I was just a bloody freak dressed in black, and you seemed to easily see through it. And there is the fact that you got naked along side with me to support me- and Made the statement that being different was not quite so bad... and all of that without once ever changing or altering who you are in the process..." Said CC smiling. " If that ain’t someone who’s is special, then I just say that I have absolutely no damned clue to what it really is."

" Thank you..." Blushed Mandy, her own shyness flashing through.

The two sat for long seconds, the only sounds were coming from the night all around them both. That air of unable to say anything seemed to have came upon them once more.

" Now what then?" Said Mandy, her inexperience with emotions like this all fueling her question.

CC lifted her hand, and cupped the girl’s cheek with a light touch. She gently pulled Mandy towards her, staring deep into those eyes as they came closer. Her lips then cautiously grazed the obviously nervous girl’s like a low whisper on the breeze, CC tasting the girl for the first time, and feeling Mandy tremble slightly against her own body

Mandy paused for only a second as CC’s kiss made contact, then her eyes reflexively closed and she began to kiss the girl back, drinking in all of the sensations that leapt from her actions. They both then folded their arms around each other, their bodies coming together in a tight embrace. The kiss became much deeper, sounds of sighs radiating off into the darkness, as they experienced one another under the pleasing glow of the moon and stars high up in the cloudless sky.

After a long time, they broke from the kiss. They kept their embrace one one another, looking deeply into their faces.

" Wow..." Said Mandy covering her mouth with a hand, then blushing.

" I’d say fucking wow!" CC said, catching her breath. Both girl’s giggled as one, and came togther in a kiss again..

The two sat for awhile on that little ground outcropping, embracing while they listened to the soft sounds of the water, crickets and a lone owl hooting somewhere off in the distance from the main shore, kissing periodically. With their feelings finally out and seen, the two relaxed and just enjoyed being there together.

They finally headed back, knowing that Olivia probably would be checking on them one more time before turning in for the night. They thought it prudent to be there when that happened, as they were gone for quite some time.

******

The two came back just in the nick of time as Councilor Olivia had called for everyone to gather at her camp. While everyone roasted a few marshmallows over her fire, she just outlined about all of the things that was going to be taught the next day. The group all listened, while eating the blackened gooey treats one after another, taking mental notes to their assignments.

Not long later, everyone retired back to their camps to try and get some sleep if they could in the heat. Even the councillor was looking as if she was suffering from the weather, as her hair drooped into her face from the humidity that had gripped the camp for days, and her fatigue more than evident on her entire person.

Mandy and CC returned to their camp, feeling very weary, but happy how the day had finally resolved itself. It had been more than just simply interesting.

They both set about putting dousing the fire out with water and storing their food, before they could finally pile into the tent for sleep. They did the work, while play pushing one another in the process, eliciting many giggled and snorts that ended up turning into out and out laughter that rang into the night. Once finally finished, they play shoved one another into the tent.

Mandy paused to zip closed the flap for the night, that was when CC got a impish look cross her face. Stealthily as she could, CC snuck up behind the smaller girl while holding back a large giggle. Just as Mandy finished securing the opening, the other girl wrapped her arms around her playfully and pulled her back. They both fell to the ground where the sleeping bags were, laughing as they wrestled with each other.

CC got the upper hand, successfully pinning Mandy with her arms over the head down. CC looked deeply into the girl’s dark and sparkling hazel eyes, and she felt herself beginning to breath harder than what she had been. She noticed how the girl’s small but lean body felt against her, as her own body was draped over Mandy.

" What?" Asked Mandy, seeing CC hesitate.

With a little blush appearing on her cheeks, the goth girl stared at the girl pinned under her.

" I want to kiss you like crazy right now..." She said.

" Go ahead..." Giggled the girl, her face lighting up.

" But I...." She stammered, that rare shyness coming through. " ... want to do much more..."

Mandy instantly knew just what the girl was talking about and give a shy smile. She freed one of her hands and reached up to cup CC’s face. CC lowered her head and kissed the girl softly, her lips sensually brushing the softness. Mandy could not help but give a groan of pleasure then kissed back, pulling the girl completely on top of her.

CC trailed her now freed hand onto the girl’s side, feeling the smoothness of her skin where the halter top stopped on the girl’s. She sighed into Mandy’s mouth, feeling how much it felt to her. Mandy’s skin under her touch, felt like velvet as she stroked with a light contact. The smaller girl kissed her deeper, then reacted by pulling the girl even closer against her as they layed there. Each girl could feel the other, and seemed to simply melt into one another with no hesitation.

The goth girl broke her lip lock and gazed at the girl, her breathing now so very deep and fast. She could see the flaring of passion caught in Mandy’s eye, and that made her own passions also flair.

" I have never... you know... came close to doing things like this before" CC said, her inner fire igniting.

" I know..." Whispered Mandy. " Neither have I."

" Should we cool it?" CC said, nervous at the answer.

Mandy wriggled her other hand free and brought her arms up to her own neck. CC went to pull away, thinking that the girl was signaling that she was not ready for this, also hesitant that she was not ready either because with Raven. She watched, reading herself to pull back in respect for the girl.

The short girl moved her hands behind her neck, and undid the flimsy ties to her halter. It was undone in seconds, and then Mandy and pulled it down and let her breasts show. CC watched with excitement, her mind spinning.

The goth girl looked at the small breasts that were bared for her, and traced every line. They were small but amazingly rounded, the light pink of the skin accented the very deep pinkness of the nipples that seemed to float on them. She looked at Mandy and then lowered her head to the juncture between the two lovely mounds. She kissed the skin softly, taking in the salty taste that she found on the smooth skin. She heard Mandy gasp, and felt the girl put her hands gently against the back of her head, holding her there to give little pecks on the creamy pinkish white skin. CC fell into total rapture, kissing the skin while moving across each naked mound so purposely.

Mandy felt herself writhing under CC’s butterfly feeling kisses, feeling huge rushes of sensations that overtook her in every way. She arched her back as the girl started to trail downwards, skipping over where her halter was bunched, and then landing on the sensitive skin of her stomach.. When the girl finally was kissing her bellybutton, she let out a sharp burst of air as her body shuttered with the sensuality of it. Mandy cooed a little, when she felt that the girl’s one hand came to rest lightly on the front of her shorts, right on where her tingling sensations collected.

CC stopped and sat up, keeping her eyes focused on Mandy’s. She swept off her own tank top and tossed it off into a corner of the tent. The smaller girl looked at CC’s breast hungrily, taking in the much larger bosom the girl had. To her, they were more than perfect, as sweat made them glisten in the light of the gas light in the corner. CC slowly lowered herself back down onto Mandy, her breasts mashing against Mandy’s smaller mounds... the girl gasped with the bare skin contact.

Mandy cooed into CC’s mouth as they kissed, feeling the girl’s body now against hers. Her head swooned, as that now familiar aroma of cigarettes and the light musk wafted to her once more, she pressed herself up to rub her body against the girl in response to the stimulus, feeling the heat of skin on her skin. She felt CC’s hand now was rubbing against her lower private part through the fabric that was the only barrier to it. She gasped and her hips instantly thrust up, making the sensations deeper and more pleasurable as she felt the hand rubbing circles.

CC moved her hand up until it was at the very top of the shorts Mandy wore. With a rush of excitement, she popped the button on them, and slid her hand inside while looking right at the girl’s face. The girl did not make a move to stop her, as she dipped her had under the fabric and feeling the heat radiating off of the parts she now caressing. The satiny skin and soft pubes she probed, made CC shiver.

Thrusting her hips up as the fingers of the goth girl came in contact with her private treasure, Mandy found her mind swooning, as the tips of the digits caressed her sensitive folds and causing her to gasp in such pleasure in to the goth girl’s mouth as they continued to kiss. She moved her own hands down her body and pushed down the shorts and underwear over her small shapely hips. The shorts easily slid down her shapely legs, and ended up kicking off the shorts and underwear Instinct drove her now, as she opened her legs widely, allowing CC to have more access to her now exposed and excited area. By the way it tingled and throbbed, and the wetness that was there, Mandy waited for more contact to come.

CC crawled off the girl a little, still having one hand in contact with the girl’s stimulated secret spot. She contorted with the other arm and slipped out of her own clothes, toss all of her stuff off in a frenzy. Now naked, CC moved down the leanness of the girl’s body, kissing the inside of Mandy’s legs as her finger found the special spot, one that she had often stimulated in private on herself and traced her fingernail tip over it’s engorged surface. The girl let a moan out, opening her legs as wide as they could go, allowing CC to be able to see her in all of her glory.

Mandy’s little treasure was framed by just a light patch of dark pubic hair, the pinkness was there so soft looking and inviting. Mandy’s little petal shone in the dim light, opening up for her in blooming, excreting a very soft and amazing aroma to her that was wanting in nature. She lowered her head to the juncture, watching the girl watch her.

" May I kiss it?" She whispered in a exited tone as she hovered just over the girl’s excitement.

" Is that what we do?" Panted Mandy, her eyes glazed over with a hungry look.

" I’m not sure what we are suppose to do...but that is what I want to do to you." CC breathed back.

" I... I want you too..." Said the shorter girl, her eyes now twinkling.

The tall goth gal lowered her head, her lips now brushing the outer folds as she gave it a kiss. Mandy’s hips thrust up with the contact, propelling it against CC lips with yearning. The taste of the girl on her lips, made CC stick her tongue out and begin to draw little circles over the flower petals of pink. The smaller girl moaned and gasped as she initially probed her, Making CC tongue want to go faster and faster while, reveling in the amazing sweetness that now seeped out of the opening. Getting lost in the sweetness, CC closed her eyes and drank in everything about the girl as she continued.

Eyes closed and head tilted back, Mandy could not even describe the many sensations that were shooting through her. As CC’s tongue now lapped her, she could feel something building inside of her. It was like all of the energy in her body was coiling like a animal, ready to strike in a explosion of pure power. She bucked her hips against the goth girl’s lovings, wanting nothing more than the girl to bring whatever it was, to a climax, and it seemed that the girl between her legs was going to do just that.

After awhile of orally caressing the girl, CC felt Mandy starting to tremble and shake. Moans had become pants and words were now simple babbling, telling the goth girl that her small lover was on the brink of an orgasm... possibly her first orgasm by what she knew of the girl. She moved her tongue and found the little button again, and whipped the tip around the nub with as much speed as she could muster to push the girl over into orgasm.

" A little more..." She told Mandy in her head, feeling just how close the girl really was. She reversed direction with her tongue and slipped a finger of one of her hands deftly and deeply into the girl. She felt the velvety channel spasm and grip her finger tightly, and she knew that was it. " Bingo!!"

With a Kaleidoscope of colors spinning in her head while her body now shook and bucking with power, Mandy felt her first orgasm rip her over the brink. She arched up off of the ground, slamming her hips into the girl’s face as the crescendo came overwhelming her with a sense of pure rapture mixed with a release. As her climax overtook her, Mandy found herself crying out CC’s name over and over again, as CC’s tongue drew out every last ounce of her passion.

Mandy her body react, the climax letting her ride the huge waves of ecstasy she felt shooting through her being, clutching her mind body and soul in its rapturous grasp for the longest time. It finally began to pass, ebbing slowly off, then was finally finished, with a sigh of satisfaction and wonder Mandy let her whole body collapsed limply to the ground, and the peacefulness now cover her.

CC lifted her head, her face shiny with wetness, and smiled. She knew what had happened to Mandy, and she was proud to give the girl what she had done.

" How was it?" She asked coyly.

" I.. I don’t know how to explain it..." Shakily replied Mandy, trying to recover from the enthralling power she had just experienced.

" How did it feel?" CC asked, smirking a little as she waited.

" Amazing!!" Mandy said, her face beaming with a large smile.

The smaller girl sat up and guided CC to the ground beside her. She began to rub the girl’s very large breast with both hands, watching the girl sigh under her touches. They were so firm, warm and silky that Mandy was in awe at just how wonderful the girl really felt under her palms. Long and sleek, Mandy took great pleasure in feeling every inch of muscle and softness the girl had to offer.

Mandy looked down at the shaved beauty of the juncture of the long legged girl, and saw it was all bloomed and was glistening with moisture, the musk smell was now stronger and more inviting.

" May I try what you did... on you?" She said, half bashful and half enthused as she was drawn to taste the beautiful flower that sparkled at her.

" Yes..." CC said, her chest heaving.

Mandy crawled between the shapely legs of CC, and eyed the girl’s shaved prettiness up close. She was unsure of exactly what to do, so she simply started to kiss at CC’s outer areas softly, feeling a shutter go through the girl when she did. She smiled and closed her eyes, taking the first lick of the wonderful flower. She heard the girl moan and gasp her name, as she found a spot that seemed to bring this all out.

CC tasted like pure honey, her musk wafting into her nose and igniting the need to please the goth girl. Mandy kept on lapping on every inch of the pink folds, as the girl spread her legs widely so she could move in even closer, mashing her little flower into her face with every contact her tongue made. She drew one of the folds into her mouth, and found CC flower releasing more of the sweet liquid for her to taste.

Mandy wondered if she could bring forth the exact thing as CC did on her, but she was going to try with every little bit of love she had for the girl. She kept her eyes closed, and concentrated fully on finding every single spot CC might have, instinctually knowing where some of them lay on the girl’s impressive body.

In the end, Mandy did bring CC to one hell of a very earth shattering orgasm, lapping up the girl’s sweet juices while the goth shook and vibrated under her loving licks. Mandy felt a sense of happiness she never had found before, as she realized that she had made the girl cum... and she could not wait to do it all again, for her.

The layed for awhile, side by side, caressing one another and whispering low. Neither girl had ever felt such contentment or such a deep bliss. They just wanted to stay like this forever, but soon even more pleasurable pursuits came back into their head.

For many hours, the two explored one another’s bodies, experiencing heightened raptures brought on one after another. As one, they felt the connection that could only come from love... and they expressed that many more times.

Finally sweaty and out of energy, they just layed there on top of the sleeping bags, holding their sweat drenched forms against the other as they drifted off to sleep. As they drifted off, it seemed that the night would never be willing to tell what had just happened in the little tent, or the love that was finally released. It just let the two enjoy what it was and what it will be.

Tired and dirty, the girls of Cabin five arrived back in Camp Pawa at mid morning, the heat still very oppressive through the breezeless air. They all trudged into the little cabin, after returning every part of the camping gear to the storage area, each so thankful for being back in their cabins.

Donna gave a sigh and flopped on her bunk, seemingly totally out of energy right at that point.

" I never thought seeing this wretched little bundle of wood cabin, would feel so damned good." She commented. " Bit dammit... It’s great!"

" Back in civilization... now here is where I belong!" Crabbed Tracy with a air of irritated anger with what she had been through. " Clean sheets, running water and a proper toilet... this is more like it."

The other girls of Cabin Five were simply ignored the blonde girl ravings, as she had been grousing all the way through this ordeal... even keeping up the constant whining while they were paddling the canoes back to camp. They had simply tuned her out, the usual response they have adopted during camp, as the girl would not ever stop it.

It seemed not to matter to Tracy one little bit that her cabinmates were continually ignoring her. It clearly seemed to everyone that somehow her bitching and complaining like she did gave her some sick form of pleasure to hear herself complaining away like she does. That was just how Tracy was, simply she was spoiled, annoying and all over a prized pest.

Councilor Olivia stood in the very center of the cabin, seeming like she too was grateful that she was back and safe in Pawa. Clipboard in hand, she waved a hand to get everyone’s attention onto her.

" Lunch will be in two hours ladies..." She said. " Take this time to scrape off the layers of Blake Island off of you all... the showers have been booked for you gals only... with that said, go take a long shower, clean up and feel better."

Tracy grabbed her towel and the rest of her toiletries as she glared at the councilor, almost as if she was a major roadblock for her life

" Finally!!" She spat, a disgusted tone locked in her voice once again. " I need to ready myself for what they are calling lunch around her... I’m getting to the showers and return to my normal self ."

" Who died and made you Queen to go first?" CC spoke out, as the girl started to storm out of the cabin towards the showers.

" I always go first, freak..." Was her parting shot to CC, with a air of total snobbery. " I at least take pride in how I look."

CC stuck up her middle finger on her left hand in response while the girl was leaving, but the princess never saw the ‘salute’ that was lofted her way. Shaking her head at the pompous ass of a girl, The goth girl just went back to ignoring the annoying Tracy and calmly went about gathering her own things up to clean herself up with from her cupboard storage.

Always was the first one to leave for the showers, Tracy stormed out of the Cabin, physically pushing her way past Lori who was standing just in the entrance way listening to the councilor speak. Mary followed like a puppy, seeming as if she was attached to the girl with crazy glue today, but she did mouthing an apology to Lori for the obviously unapologetic Tracy.

Lori flashed a rare look of being annoyed at the self centered young girl, glared at the girl’s back, then silently went over to her bunk. Olivia had seen this all transpire, and shook her head at the back of the blonde girl.

" That kid is such a damned little brat!" She commented with a whisper to herself, turning to where her bed was to also take advantage of the time needed to shower.

The others gathered up their own shower gear, also wanting to get clean once again. They straggled off to the showers, hoping that Tracy would be quick in the showers... tired of putting up with her shit. How the girl would linger in the showers like some sort of evil prima donna, they knew that they just might have to ignore her all over again

The girls of Cabin five showered, relishing that they actually had hot water to use. The norm was that by the time they usually got the showers, it was more like luke warm and getting colder. The six girls dwindled down slowly to two, as the other’s showered and left to have a little while to rest before lunch was to be served.

Mandy stood under the stream of hot water, relishing the feeling of it on her body. She could honestly feel the dirt and grime being stripped off of her, as she lathered up. CC was next to her, also getting the layers of the island off of her as fast as she could.

" This feels way better..." Commented CC., looking up into the stream of water from overhead. " I can feel the layers of shit just rolling off of me..."

" Too bad that once we get out into the heat again, and just end up being sweaty again and sticky all over again." Signed The shorter of the two.

" Yes... but at least we can be feeling somewhat fresher for awhile." The tall girl said, reveling in the hot water tat steamed all around her.

Mandy nodded and returned to her own showering. The heat of the water was also making her feel better by the moment, and she offhandedly wished the feeling would last longer than it would end up doing once outside . She sighed and relished in the water cascading around here, knowing that she had to enjoy this part of her day for as long as it would last.

Mandy turned around to face the much taller girl to talk while cleaning herself, and found that the pretty girl had crossed into her spot in the showers. CC grinned and pulled the wet girl against her own water soaked body, and give her a deep kiss while backing Mandy softly into the wall of the shower.

" Since we are... alone for a while right now..." She said, snaking her hand down to stroke Mandy’s little soaped treasure. " I will take a little advantage of it."

" What if someone comes in and sees us..." Giggled the girl, feeling her knees weaken as the girl’s touch on her very sensitive area sent shockwaves of shivers flooding throughout her body.

The tall girl kissed the girl on the neck softly, her hand tracing through the thin patch of pubes with a light touch.

" Then we have to do this... I’d say rather quickly..." CC said, sliding a finger inside Mandy slowly.

" Quickly?" Mandy moaned, as the girl’s movements made her head spin with great pleasures. " Can we do ths quickly..."

" We can always try.. and have fun at the same time!" The goth girl said, smiling wryly.

The two kissed and embraced, each feeling the other’s soapiness. CC continued to move her hand, reaching deep in to the girl’s willingness. The shorter girl quivered with pleasure as her lover kept up her little playing. She began to rub CC’s breasts, trying to reciprocate her lover’s actions, but when the girl dove two fingers into her with a very loving but all too deft move, all she could do was moan loudly as the sensations flashed tough her. Giving herself to CC like she had done over the past two days, she moved her legs more open and kissed the girl passionately.

CC nibbled on the girl’s neck with light play bites while her hand worked methodically in sync, she soon brought the girl to a world of earth shattering orgasms in a matter of minutes, making Mandy moan and whimper as each wave hit and spread. CC kept her hand moving, continuing to pull out more than just a few more orgasms.. getting them to come out one after another and making the smaller framed girl call out her name to the steam that rose and dance all around them both.

With her climax finally ending, Mandy nearly slipped to the tile floor and into a limp blob. All of the orgasms had a very striking effect, as they had totally robbed her of any strength throughout her body, making her need to wrap her arms around the girl’s sleek frame to keep from going down. The shorter girl bit her lip as she started to catch her breath while she looked deeply into CC’s eyes. The girl’s deep well of brown were positively sparkling right at her, and made her shiver in delight.

Mandy wanted right now to return the favor, and give CC the same pleasure, but suddenly she heard someone coming in to the dressing room area, just off of the shower room. She frowned a little, as she knew her time was not now, knowing that CC had already heard it as well.

" I am going to get you back..." She playfully warned in a whisper to the gorgeous wet girl, giving her a peck on the cheek. " I promise..."

" I know!" Whispered back CC, a mischievous smirk flashing across her pretty face, showing that she already knew that the girl would be good to her word. " The pleasure will be all mine I guess!!"

Hearing who ever it was moving around in the dressing room, both girls knew that they had to hurry and get themselves out of the showers. They moved very quickly through the hanging clouds of steam, pausing for only the briefest of moments to quickly rinse themselves off, before exiting

The girls found that it was the light brown haired young woman who cleaned the showers for them daily, was the one that had came in. The college aged woman seemed not to even be suspecting any of what had been going on only moments earlier, her positively sour looking face proving that fact to a tee.

With their little secret tucked away safely, the two campers of Cabin five dressed rather quickly, almost uncontrollably giggling low between one another. The young cleaning woman glanced at the giggling two as she passed, then simply shook her head and muttered something about girls while dragging with her a mop and a pail to clean up after the girl’s showers. CC and Mandy could only laugh harder, as the giggles got out of control.

The heat was heavy outside of the shower area, as the two now in fresh clothes and washed up came out. They both headed to their cabin to put away their showering stuff and to wait for lunch, when they noticed that a large bus pull had in to the compound just then.

They paused as one, seeing kids piling off of the bus, as a second one pulled up just behind the first.

" What the..." CC said, eyeing the bus that had stopped.

" Those are with a program that come out later, because they are with a private school up in the city... the far side cabins are always open for more people. And another program"

" So... we will have more kids in camp?" Said the tall dark tressed beauty.

" Way more... by how full that bus is... many" Mandy said.

" Great..." Smirked CC. " We already have to fight for shower space most of the time, and wait in line when getting our meals..."

" And it will now be getting a whole lot harder..." Put in Mandy with a long sigh of her own..

" Like I said..." Started CC, shaking her head as she looked at the bus. " Just fuckin’ great!!"

The two watched as kids of all shapes and sizes piled off of the bus. By the looks of it, the last eight or nine cabins behind the main administration building were going to be rather full... and Camp Pawa will be full as well. The girls knew they should be getting back, but they both had decided to loiter where they were for a while longer, and watch the newcomers scamper around like people did arriving here.

Mandy watched as they filed off, seeing the excitement that was in each face, and seeing a couple kids that were not quite sure of the place. She giggled, as she remembered her first time at Pawa, and how excited she had gotten, getting lost around the grounds many times before some councilor finally rescued her from herself. That was just six years ago, yet it was feeling like only yesterday that it happened.

She turned to tell CC the story of her first day, hoping that she would also get a laugh at it like she was just remembering it all. She turned, but her words stopped and trailed off as a wave of confusion hit her. Mandy found that the beautiful tall goth girl was not standing beside her any longer... CC had simply vanished

Mandy looked around herself, trying to see where the girl had walked off to. It was clear within a few moments of scanning the area, the girl was nowhere to be seen... and no indication of where she had gone to.

" That is odd..." She said to herself, now ignoring all of the newbies that were mulling around just a few yards away.

A girl a little taller than her suddenly appeared in Mandy’s line of sight. Dressed in a flowing skirt and a white blouse, the girl was relatively nondescript, but the face and the long ponytail of very straight hair the girl sported seemed to indicate that she just might actually know the girl. She looked at the girl curiously, her mind trying very hard to place just where she knew her from.

The girl with the very ivory looking face gave a demure smile, as she looked right at Mandy.

" Excuse me..." She said, very politely. " But I thought that someone I knew was with you a moment ago..."

Mandy gasped, as the face became clear. She knew exactly who this was standing in front of her, and felt her heart skip a beat or two..

" Your Raven..." Mandy gasped, stammering the last word out

" Why yes... that is my nickname..." The girl said, her face showing a mixture of smile and questioning. " Was that a girl called ‘CC’?"

Mandy could feel her heart drop, and the reason for CC disappearing like she did came all to clear. This was the girl that had hurt CC so much, and now she was a camper here at Lake Pawa.

Mandy found CC sitting near the boathouse where no one else was at this point of time, a lit smoke going in her hand. The shorter girl went up to the black clad girl and took a seat next to her with a smooth move, her eyes locked on to her.

Mandy looked at her girlfriend, and saw the stress that was flowing through. Softly, she put her hand on the girl’s shoulder, showing that she was not upset at all by this little turn of events. CC smiled a little, as the contact was made, but her look was one that made Mandy seem worried.

CC took a long drag from her smoke, and made eye contact with the shorter gal, handing her the half empty pack

" I swear... I did not know that she was coming here..." She said, her eyes locked on to Mandy.

" I know..." Said the girl back, lighting one for herself.

She leaned over and gave a little peck on the cheek, her free arm snaking around to hold the taller girl. CC smiled, as she looked deeply into the girl’s face.

" I have no damned idea how she knew I was here...." She said. " I wanted to get away and clear my mind..." She smiled and cupped Mandy’s cheek softly. " Meeting you, has done that... and a whole lot more... seeing her has brought back so damned much right now... I simply ran because I didn’t know how to handle it..."

" I sort of figured that..." Mandy said.

The girl took another drag off of the smoke, dropping her head a little as her brow furrowed in a moment of thought.

" Of all the fucking places to bump into Raven... this was the one place in the entire world that I thought I would not ever see her again..." CC said, her voice tightened. " I step out of a shower, having a great day and minding my own business then... WHAM! There she is getting off a damned bus!"

Mandy just cuddled into her girl, feeling the lean body finally relaxing as she spoke. CC pulled her closer and give a little kiss on top of the head

" She did come up to me and asked me something..." Mandy said, hesitantly.

" She did?" Said CC, surprised at this. " What did she ask you?"

" She just asked me if ‘ that was a girl called CC’ that she saw with me"

" Did you tell her that it was me?" Asked the girl, almost calmly.

" Sort of yes... an a sort of no..." Mandy replied.

" Sort of?" Asked CC, waiting for an explanation to this. " What do you me by ‘Sort of’?"

The shorter girl looked into CC’s face

" One of the greeters called them to gather to get their assigned cabins and bags before I could..." Mandy informed.

" So she does not know? She ran off without the answer from you... right?""

" I believe she has a clue... I sort of stupidly let it slip that I knew her name was ‘Raven’." She admitted. " Sorry."

The tall girl shook her head, she understood what the girl was saying now..

" Whether or not she got it or not, it don’t matter..." CC whispered, calming the distress of her Girlfriend. " Either way, in this sort of a small place, she is bound to find out sooner or later."

" Your... not mad with me? Did you want her to know that you were here?" Asked Mandy cautiously.

" It sort of ... just came out for you..." She smiled warmly. " I have done things like that so often, I know it was simply a reaction from you. Everyone just blurts out things every once in a while... we are human." She paused to smile, showing that she was not upset in the least with Mandy. " She would end up finding out that it is me anyways... No big!"

CC just looked skyward, stopping talking for a couple of moments as she hugged the girl close to her.

" Looks like we might be bumping into her a few times around camp..." The tall girl said with a small giggle of nervous tension. " It’s inevitable."

" Your with me now... hopefully that helps." Mandy said, feeling better that she had not done something wrong.

" Already is helpin’ me..." She giggled, enjoying the feeling of the girl’s closeness to her. She kissed the girl lightly and smirked. " At least I am not with her... got ya right here!"

" She is... pretty..." Commented Mandy.

" I think your way prettier, way more!" Smiled CC.

Mandy sighed on hearing the girl’s words, feeling the love that was right there. She felt very affirmed, and not threatened by CC’s history with Raven.. but some part of her was still worried if this girl could be some sort of trouble. If Raven was unaffected by her girlfriend walking in on her while she was with another girl having sex... what would this gal do? That was her only worry at the moment. Mandy was sure of CC’s commitment to her right now... but the wild card was this other girl.

CC’s starting to talk, breaking the shorter of the two out of her thoughts.

" Come on then... We cannot let her get in between us..." The girl said. " We’ll go to lunch.. hopefully it is edible... do our camp thing and just have fun... I say to hell with her... I have you!!"

" Yeah..." Said Mandy, happy to see the confident and very assured CC back in charge, then a thought suddenly entered her mind. " No one knows of our relationship, right... would Raven if she found out, and if she is that nasty of a person... ‘out’ you for being a lesbian to get back at you for some warped reason?"

CC paused, a little shocked at the question that the girl had just came out with. Her face quickly softened, as Mandy waited for her to say something back.

" Never thought of that...I see why you had to go there though..." CC said, thinking for a second. " You know.. I think she would not do that..."

" You sure of that?" Mandy asked while taking a drag from her cigarette.

" She would have to out herself in the process, to prove that fact... so she probably won’t though..." CC said, her voice coming out strongly. " I know that her family has no clue to the fact that she is a lesbian, and she always said that she was fine with them never ever knowing that... my parents already know that I am attracted to girls, and has accepted it... but I don’t go around announcing that I am a lesbian either."

" So she is still not going to end up saying a word of it around here, you really think?" Probed Mandy, making sure of the facts.

CC shook her head and squeezed the girl tighter to her.

" I truly don’t think that she could never go that far with her own life... She manipulative, but not stupid either..." Thought CC, then looking into Mandy’s eyes. " I am more than pretty sure that she won’t say a word. she was the one that cheated on me anyways."

" That’s right..." Mandy said, feeling a little better.

" So hopefully, we don’t have any trouble from that skank little whore." Spat CC, the noticeable accent on the last swear words pointed to her still large feelings of hurt that she had endured from Raven. " Let’s go and eat then!!"

The two girl’s leave the lakeside after tossing what was left of their smokes, and head off to get their lunch, as the heat of the day seemed to have gotten even hotter in the last few minutes. Holding hands until getting to the top of the hill, they both were reaffirming on another in silence.

******

Late afternoon came, and the humidity of the air was literally squeezing down on the entire camp. Many of the activities were cancelled because of the heat, and lake swimming was the order of the day.

Cabin five had been down at the lake swimming as well, cooling down after being broiled by the sun. It had helped. But now they were just lazing around their bunk area, waiting for Miss. Olivia to devise some activity that would not be involving the sizzling orb in the sky for the rest of the day, until supper would be served

CC had gone off with Councilor Olivia, to help gather up some stuff for an activity she had came up with, while most of the others waited in the barely cooler Cabin. Sweaty and restless, the group just tried to relax but the heat even inside was next to intolerable.

Mandy had just changed into her only sundress she owned, hoping that it would help out against the heat. It did to some small extent, but she still felt very sticky and uncomfortable. She giggled, as she found herself wishing that Camp Pawa was a ‘Nudist Camp’ for the length of the heat wave.

" That’s just silly!" She said to herself, amused at herself for even coming up with it. She wanted to tell CC what she had been thinking, knowing the girl would get a big laugh out of it.

Donna suddenly appeared from nowhere, and tapped the girl on the shoulder. The girl had been the only other one that had been missing from the cabin while the councilor and CC was gone,. Knowing how the girl was and all, perhaps she had seen ‘a hunk’ or something and wanted to tell her all about it.

" Hey, Hey..." She said, still as overly bubbly as ever. " Have I got a whale of a surprise for you!!"

Mandy turned and smiled ast her friend.

" A surprise?" She asked, almost not wanting to ask.

" Yep.. a damn good one at that." Donna said, seemingly almost ready to burst.

" What has your mind cooked up now?" Said a suspicious Mandy, knowing very well that Donna’s surprises were always way out in left field.

The red head giggled and hopped once in place, the excitement that she was feeling very evident. Mandy waited, knowing that this might be one real whopper she was going to drop on her.

" I found you a way amazing boy... and he has seen ya around, and liked ya." She said, her words literally racing out of her.

" Donna!!" She gasped.

" Well since you have been so hesitant to meet boys here, I thought you needed a good ol’ kick in the ass... and I went searchin’ for you" She smirked, almost exploding with her own enthusiasm. " I promise he is very cute, clean cut and o so fine!!"

Mandy looked at the girl, and shook her head.

" Why did you do that?" She sighed, looking at the girl as she was not quite knowing how to respond to this.

" You were bing such a stick-in-the-mud..." Donna said, a little confused at the lack of reaction from her friend.. " You needed a push... He’s the friend of Barry, the boy I like... so I thought we could hook up with them together... that way you are not trying to wait for the boy you like... meeting boys help that out."

Mandy shook her head.

" No thanks!" She said, not knowing how to bridge this situation, as her mind fluttered to CC.

" What the hell?" She said. " Are you crazy , gay or something? I have found you a very yummy looking guy, who seems so nice... and you are not going to take that chance and run wit it"

" I would like to choose on my own..." She said, trying not to lie or show her uneasiness to Donna

" What is there to say? You don’t have a boy... I found you one..." Pleaded Donna a little more. " I took the hard part away... all you got to do is meet him, and let the sparks fly, girl!"

" I would like to choose who I like or not like, and not be pushed into things..." Mandy restated, trying not to hurt the girl’s feelings. She knew that Donna was only trying to help in her own way.

Donna shook her head.

" Just come with me this evening and meet him after campfire for a bit..." The girl pleaded. "Barry and Kirk, that is his name by the way, is looking forward to meetin’ you... come on and take the plunge!! The guy oozes with foxiness!"

" I don’t know..." Mandy muttered nervously.

" Oh come on... just for a few minutes.. at least check this dude out... you might change your mind... he is beyond cute!"

Mandy sighed, as she felt cornered by the well intentioned girl She could not reveal her relationship with CC, or her now understood ‘preference’ towards girls... she really did not want to hurt her friend’s feelings either. This felt like a no win situation, and she was sandwiched right in between.

The short girl rubbed her sweat covered brow, while Donna waited for some sort of answer from her.

" Let me think about it then.... I don’t wanna rush into anything..." She came up with, the only thing she could of without lying.

" That’s the spirit! That’s all I could ask for I guess!!" She said, almost as excited as if Mandy had agreed right off the bat. " If you do come and meet Kirk, I think that you won’t regret it!! He is such a looker!" Said the girl, as she skipped away. " I’ll talk to ya about it after supper."

Donna skipped off to talk with the very demure Lori while she waited, perhaps the redhead had found a guy for the meek girl as well. Mandy did not doubt that Donna could have found a boy for the very introverted Lori, because of the fact that she was probably the most boy crazy girl in this entire place.

Mandy moved and sat on her bed, her mind now was going like crazy. She thought of these types of situation since she had finally admitted to herself that she was not attracted to boys, expecting that something like this might happen. With Donna around, and the fact of who she was, she should have seen it coming a mile away. Admittedly, she had totally missed the boat on this one.

For awhile before her best friend had moved away, the both of them had been talking about this exact thing. Lucy had always wondered if Mandy was gay, and had given every indication that whether or not she was, it would never have mattered to her. For Mandy, it was not official in her mind back then, but she always had felt very different even when Lacy had a boyfriend. Meeting CC here at camp had finally put that question to bed, but the fear of the bad stigma attached to it had made her wonder and fear all at the same time.

Now it felt a little scary for people might figure out that she was attracted to girls, she had no clue how to straighten things out without being found out. No one would understand her... and she was very afraid of things that might come out after, if she had admitted to how she felt. She put her head in her hands, trying to think on what it was that she needed to do.

She looked up and saw CC come in with a huge armload of stuff just behind Miss Olivia. As the woman took the odd looking things from CC, Mandy waved to her and beckoned her to follow. She nodded slowly towards the girl, seemingly knowing that something was very much up with Mandy.

CC was finally emptied of her load, then followed quickly, seeing the very stressed look on Mandy’s prettiness. Miss. Olivia just let the two girls go off, opting to explain things to the remaining cabin girls in their absence... rolling her eyes a little in the process.

The evening campfire burned brightly, adding the fiery heat to an already sweltering night. The large bonfire burned, crackling away, as the whole camp sang along to the cheesiest, yet well loved camping songs that echoed over the lake.

Mandy was in the crowd, but seemed like she was not to into any of the songs that boomed out from her fellow campers. She looked over at CC, who was actually going along and singing with the others, but even the sight of her girl did not lighten her mood. She just was not into any of this.

She had avoided Donna for the most part, as the girl was too occupied by the tall yet very striking looking boy named Barry. Mandy had seen them more than once, hunkered behind a building or just hidden by a bus, kissing away like crazy like they were attached to one another. The lad was not too bad to look at, he was a seriously a good looking lad as Donna had stated, but Mandy was not into meeting this Kirk person Donna had told her about.

CC was just logical about it when Mandy had explained the situation to her. She kept saying that she could meet him, and just say that he was not her type or something like that. Knowing Donna, that would not be enough, but she was hoping to slip back to the cabin and just avoid it.

The campfire soon broke up and campers went back to each one’s cabins for bed. CC and Mandy hurried off towards their far flung cabin, still feeling the heaviness of the night’s heat.

" Did ya see Donna?" Asked CC.

" Never saw her at the fire..." She said, obviously relived. " It seems like she snuck out on supper as well..."

" She’s suckin’ face with that boy probably somewhere in this darkness." Giggled the goth girl. " She probably has long forgotten her little ‘set up’ for you, when that dude started to try and take out her tonsils with his tongue." She smirked and whispered with a impish tone. " I sort of do the same, kissing you."

Mandy laughed at the girl’s rather crud observation of the situation, and at the little admission she made for themselves...as CC thoughts were probably the exact reason for Donna’s absence this night. She began to feel a little more relaxed, Thankful for not having to brush off this boy like she had to. She did not want to hurt anybody’s feelings in any way... but the way she felt and all made her know that was more than likely would have happened in the end.

When they neared the cabin, Mandy spotted something laying just in a grassy area next to a crop of trees. She was unsure of just what it was, but she knew that something was there, and had not been there before.

Mandy tried to look at whatever it was in the grass, the darkness making it rather hard to actually identify what was laying there. She stopped walking to look at it a little more from the distance she was at, but when she did drew a sideways look from a curious CC.

" What the hell?" The girl asked, seeing Mandy stopped like this. " Why did you stop?"

" Look over there... next to the trees..." Mandy said. " There is something laying over there."

" What?" CC said, looking through the darkness. " I don’t see a damned thing."

" Beside those trees..." Mandy said, trying to explain where she was looking.

With CC still unable to see what it was the girl was pointing out, Mandy hurried over to the object as she thought it looked more than familiar. CC watched, still seemingly a little perplexed at what the shorter girl was seeing.

Mandy Got real close to the object, then she realized what she had stumbled upon.. something more horrible than she ever had seen in her short life.

" Oh my god!!" She spat, actually screaming the words..

Laying int the bushes was a bloody and battered form. She saw it was Donna laying there half naked, clad only in her tank top. The missing shorts and underwear lay tattered and ripped a few yard away. Blood heavily coated her the white skin of her inner thighs, and big blotchy marks covered her face, neck and stomach.

" CC... Get Miss Olivia!! Get anyone!!" She said, falling to her knees beside the groaning form that writhed in obvious pain. " It’s Donna!!"

" Jesus fucking Christ!!" Said CC, realizing the gravity of the situation as she spun on her heels and was off..

As CC raced off back up the trail to the administration building, Mandy tried to comfort the girl, who was breathing very oddly, her eyes filled with fear.

" Help is coming..." She whispered, stroking her blood covered hair in an attempt to comfort the girl.

" B...Barry... girl..." She moaned, a trickle of blood flowing out of the corner of her mouth.

" Easy there... we are going to get help!" Mandy said, noting the girl’s words as she tried to settle the girl.

Mandy watched as the girl lapsed quickly in to unconsciousness, and fear began to grip her. As She wondered what was taking so long to get help, she started to hear the running of many feet and the din of many voices hurrying down the path, but all she could while waiting for the last few moments was to cradle the girl’s head in her lap.

******

It was very late in the evening, everyone in Cabin Five was awake. Each one seemed to be staring at the empty bed that was Donna’s. Even the normally irritating Tracy was silenced.

" She was raped?" Said Mary with a very soft tone, seemingly in near tears.

" Are they sure of anything? Who would do this?" Asked Tracy, looking right at the councilor.

The woman nodded her head, her eyes showing her own disbelief at what had happened only hours ago.

" It is clear that she was raped and beaten up pretty badly, girls... She was taken to the city’s hospital by MedicVac flight..." Said Miss Olivia, standing there in the dead silence of the cabin. " The Local police are her in Camp and are already investigating right now the boy named Barry who was the last one to be seen with her.."

" Did he do that?" Lori surprisingly spoke up, her shyness probably overshadowed by her intense fear.

Miss Olivia looked at the frightened girl and took a long breath in. She stood there and looked at ever face that was on her.

" We are not sure of anything right now..." She said, seeing the distress that this was putting on everyone. " All that we know is that Barry Windam was the last person seen with her, just after supper tonight... that was all we could venture to know right at this moment. The officers are checking everything out and hopefully will get answers fast."

Lori nodded and went quiet again, the answer she had gotten obviously did not make her, or anyone else in the cabin, feel better. It was the fear of the unknown factor of this, that each were struggling with at the moment. No one felt safe right at the moment.

CC stood up and started to walked off.

" I’ll be back in a few minutes, Miss Olivia.." She said, her voice tight. " I need some air."

" Take Mandy...." Said Miss Olivia. " No one is allowed out there to be alone until the Police have the time they need to figure out of this stuff here... that is not a suggestion girls, it is straight from the administration.."

Mandy hurried with the tall girl, as CC only paused long enough for her to catch up. The two left the cabin, and headed for their little hidden smoking area with a quickened step.

The two stood there, smoking away faster than usual. CC seemed more than a little disturbed with the events of the night. Mandy seemed to be as well, but her concerns were with the very upset girl next to her.

" I cant believe someone raped Donna..." CC said, trembling a little bit. " Jesus... first my ex shows up, then this... man, this is all so fucked up!"

" I know..." Mandy said, leaning into the girl. " There is talk about cancelling the rest of the Camp time and sending all of us home."

" I heard the rumor also..."CC said, after taking a pull from her smoke. " That is just as fucked."

" What if they decide to actually cancel the rest of Camp just like that?" Posed Mandy.

" Right now... let’s just not think about it." Suggested CC. " Noting has been settled on... we have no power to change it if it does happen."

Mandy could not dispute how CC was feeling or the insight brought forth, as she herself also had the same exact feelings. She took a puff and looked at the girl. CC leaned in and kissed the shorter girl on the cheek, then snuck on right on the lips. Mandy sighed and kissed back, as that single action made her feel better.

A movement from the darkness made the two girl look over, a little surprised. A figure stood there, looking at them both.

Raven stood there in the darkness, lit by the moon overhead. Her eyes were piercingly dark, as she stared at them

" I see you have found another girl, CC." She said, dripping with indignance. " Hope she is looking for a frigid bitch."

" I told you that I was not ready yet..." Said CC, her eyes turning into anger. " And you were the one who cheated on me when I asked to wait."

" Wait for what? For you to actually show me what you were feeling for me? I give you two weeks, and you simply were not at al showing me anything" She spat back. " Was I suppose to do? Buy a dildo and entertain myself while I waited around for your ass to be ready?"

Mandy felt her anger getting up, and turned to face the girl that stood there.

" She wanted to wait because she was not ready for a step like that." She said, defending her girlfriend.

" Oh, ho... it speaks!" Said Raven. " The virginal doll doth speak."

" Hey... shut the hell up!" Jumped in CC, her one anger now very much out.

" Have you given her the cold shoulder yet?" Raven smugly shot, glaring at CC. " Is she going to have to wait until your lesbian virgin ass is ready as well... "

CC looked right at the girl and gave a large grin, but said nothing. Raven stared at the goth girl’s face then got a very disgusted look on her face.

" You already have done it with this little doll of a girl... haven’t you?" She almost growled.

" If it is any business of yours...Yes.. we have!" Mandy piped up with a smirk of her own. " we were each other’s first!"

Raven stormed right up to Mandy first. The girl with the piercing eyes stood nose to nose with Mandy, as CC tried to push the two apart.

" What did you have to do to that tall dyke? Get her drunk? High? She could have had me, but she gave it to you?" She questioned with a huff. " What is it about you, that made her give it up to you? She could of had me!"

" Because I’m not a slut!" Plainly said Mandy, a grin flashing to the girl. " I see her for her.. and she is a kind and good person...In short, I have fallen in love with her for exactly who she is!"

Mandy’s words were cut off by a sudden flurry of lobbing punches from Raven. One actually caught Mandy on the side of the head and she spun to the left but she stayed on her feet. The short girl whirled around with anger flaring, ready to launch herself at her attacker, CC had already stepped in between them both and violently had shoved Raven away.

" Fucking cool it!" She shouted, giving the girl a second harder shove that took the girl off her feet. " Don’t fuckin’ hit my girl, ever!!"

Raven fell back on the grass unceremoniously, and just stayed there for a moment and glared up at the two.

" Fuckin’ tease of a bitch!" She hissed, dripping with hatred that was directed straight at the goth girl. " Your getting what you wanted... a little doll rather than someone who could have taught you so many things?"

" You should know about ‘Bitches’.. " Shot back CC. " That ’doll’ is a doll, because she loves me, not for what I can do for her or her for me."

The girl glared at CC, seeing her looming over her with her fists at the ready.

" What are you gonna do? Beat me up now?" Said Raven, scrambling back to her feet. " Come on then... we settle it right now, you Bitch!"

" I should deck you for what you did to me, and to Mandy..." Warned CC, her fists clenched if the girl was going to get physical again. " I am seeing that your not worth the trouble of bruising my hands."

The girl stood there, weighing her options. She started to back off, seeing that more brawling would not be a good option. She started to slink back into the darkness, her voice came out one last time as she vanished.

" You’ll be sorry for ever giving it up to that little cunt... you’ll see..." She spat with such venom. " You’ll end up regretting never doing it with me! You were suppose to be mine!"

Mandy looked at CC, as the girl finally was gone.

" What do you think she meant by that?"

" I am not sure...." The goth girl said, as she lovingly touched the red mark on her Girlfriend’s face. " She’s not the girl I had fell for.. or the one I thought she was either."

" You said that she could do nothing..."

" I really don’t know what, if anything she is planning..." CC said, taking Mandy’s hand in her’s. " All I can say is that it don’t change a thing between us."

" She thinks that she owns you.." Pointed out Mandy.

" I own me..." Said CC, seemingly calming down just a little bit. " You love me.. there is a difference."

" I know..." Mandy whispered, melting int CC lean frame. " But I am afraid of what she could do to you..."

" She can’t do anything to me.. she already hurt me.. and you..." Whispered back the tall girl, pulling Mandy into herself. " Can’t hurt what has been destroyed."

The two embraced and kissed, listening to the silence of the Camp around them. They were both worried about the state of the camp with what had happened, and slightly fearful of the hollow styled threats made by Raven, but they were somewhat optimistic. They had each other right now.. for the time being, that was good enough.

Camp Pawa was deep into the night time, but rest was coming very hard for it’s inhabitants. Between the relentless heat that had gripped the camp, to what had happened to Donna... the two made for a very non-restful night for most. Two days after the attack, no one felt safe, even though Camp was still continuing.

Mandy found herself in the same boat as most had the past few days. She had layed there for hours, trying to sleep. Her slumber was not coming, and she was thinking too much. A very bad combination. With Donna’s attack, the scuffle with Raven and everything, it was as if her mind was on super overload, an was about to explode. With camp barely nine days into it, camp was going to be one that she could never forget.

Frustrated, she sat up, tossing the sheet off of herself. She groaned, seeing the time was nearing three by the big clock. Grabbing her long nightshirt, she was going to make a trip to the bathroom, get a drink of water and hopefully could return to bed to get a few hours of sleep.

CC’s whispering voice came out of the dark, as she propped herself up on one arm on the pillow.

" Can’t sleep?"

" Going for a drink of water, hoping that might help." She said.

" Want me to go with you?" CC asked. " We could have a smoke..."

" I just want a drink and get back to bed..." Said Mandy. " That is all... I won’t be too long"

The girl in the bed went silent for a moment.

" Keep safe..." CC warned. " I know the police have arrested Barry already, but still be careful..

" They have police around gathering evidence and such till..." Mandy whispered back, reaching out and putting her hand on CC’s. " I should be safe..."

" I am a little concerned about Raven..." Stated CC

" With the police around... would she try anything?"

" I don’t think she would, but..." The goth girl said.

" I promise I will just be a few minutes."

CC layed down again, and Mandy hurried off.

The night was very heavy and clammy feeling, as the short girl made her way to the bathroom cabin. It was a little unsettling, as she made her way. She could hear the officers in the near distance, searching for the now disappeared Barry. She sighed and kept going, arriving at her destination.

The water felt good on her throat, reliving the gravel like sensations that had made their home there since the advent of the heat. She threw the small dixie cup into the garbage and felt refreshed. She entered a stall, thinking that a little pit-stop was also in the cards before heading back to the cabin.

She heard a few footsteps come into the bathroom, obviously some others who could not sleep had the same idea as she did. She finished up and exited the small space, her mind now trying to convince the rest of her body that it could sleep now.

Mandy just stepped out , and she instantly was grabbed violently by two unknown girl’s dressed in nightgowns. The two slammed her against the stall door with such force, that she felt her breath rush out of her.

" This one’s that dyke!!" Said one of the two, as the other one kneed her in the stomach.

Mandy felt what was left in her system flood out of her mouth as she coughed hard. She reeled, knowing that at her only four foot ten frame could not stand against both of these taller girls. She backpedaled into the stall as she had no other way of going, but they followed her in like sharks after prey.

" Dyke, we don’t want your kind around here..." shouted one, as a second blow hit her in the stomach.

" Your just damned sick, lezzie’!" Said the other, a knee catching Mandy right between her legs full force.

Reeling and in pain, Mandy tried to curl up int a ball just in front of the toilet, and the two took full advantage of her covering up. The girls rained down with flurries of kicks and punches, pummeling the small form for long moments. Mandy screamed for help, hoping the police that were still around would hear her, but still her attackers pummeled her with fury, spitting flaming words at her.

The attack stopped, the girls were gone. Mandy was left on the floor of the stall, bloody and in pain. She rolled a little, gasping for breath through the coppery taste of blood in her mouth. She found that her nightshirt had been literally ripped from her body, leaving her naked and crumpled. Looking around, she could not see it.

Mandy pushed herself up with the side wall, feeling the pain that flowed through her. She moved stiffly, trying to get herself out of bathroom safely. She exited the stall and made her way to the door. A figure was blocking her way.

Raven stood there smirking, holding something red in color in her hand, the two girl’s that had pummeled her on either side of her.

" Well, well..." She smirked with a malevolence stare. " We have that strange goth girl’s little play doll here..."

Mandy even in the amount of pain she was in, stood up straighter. Naked, battered and beaten, she was not going to show the fear she was having.

" Your behind this..." She said defiantly, fighting the pain that shot through her like hot pokers..

" Reality is such a bitch, is it not...." Raven said. " Did you think that you could pull off being ‘normal’ here?"

" Normal?" She sputtered back. " What in the hell are you talking about?"

Raven smiled wickedly.

" You being gay, you hid your sick habit and actually tried to pass your self off as normal, Bitch." She answered. " Faking me out, until you hit on me..."

Mandy gasped, hearing the lies that were coming out of the girl’s mouth. She shot a look of hatred at the girl, who seemed not to be bothered by it.

" So are you..." Said the girl back, her mind trying to find a way out of the bathroom. " You are gay, just like I am!"

" Liar!!" Spat back Raven, with the vilest gleam in her eyes. " A liar and a dyke... you are some piece of work...See girls, she admits that she is a cunt lover... Just like I said.." She glared at Mandy. " She hits on me, and now she is accusing me of doing the same sick shit... You probably think telling people that I am gay will make things better?"

" But you are gay... You have lied... I dare your friends to go talk to CC..." Shouted Mandy. " Afraid of having them see you as a lesbian too?"

" You should be ashamed at being such a sicko..." Said Rave, feinting her exasperation. " Why would we talk to your lover? She would lie too..."

With Mandy realizing that the girl had totally duped the others with her lies, using their hatred of gay people to her advantage, she was very much in the frying pan.

" What should we do with this girl then, Melissa?" Asked one of the two girls, using Raven’s real name. " Another beating might be what she needs..."

" I might have an idea or two..." Raven said with calculated slowness, her cold eyes showing the deviousness of whatever she was thinking. " Maybe a lesson being made for her?"

Mandy instantly figured out Raven’s entire insane game in the moment of pure clarity. The girl had hid that she was in fact a lesbian, and used it to get some type of revenge on Both CC and herself by enlisting these two very homophobic girls to help her exact her very disturbed sense of needing revenge. It also appeared that a bonus with all this that it was for Raven’s own warped delight.

With the three girl’s blocking the only exit out of this situation, and the police or anyone else unable to hear her while inside, Mandy knew that she was in a world of trouble.

Raven smiled with a coldness that could freeze fire on the spot, eyes locked on to the shorter girl that stood there. Mandy knew, this little she-devil had already had something planned out.

" I think that is the way to go... Let’s teach her just what it is that a girl should know..." She said slowly, almost relishing her own words. " She probably has never been taught what was right in the first place."

The two larger girls lunged past Raven, grabbing the naked girl by each arm. Mandy’s battered body was not up to the task of defending herself, but she still tried with whatever she had left to fight her way free. Both girls were larger and much too strong, dwarfing their victim who was nearly half of their size. They lifted her off of the ground, all the while Rave watched.

The two slammed the petite girl to the ground, pinning Mandy in a very compromising position on the tiles. Each girl ended up sitting on one arm to immobilize them, then they pulled her legs grotesquely open and up to expose her lower private area to their ringleader. Mandy saw Raven hold up what ever she had been holding, and screamed at the sight.

The thing was a long and very thick red object, made out of plastic with a thing shiny coating of rubber. The object looked exactly like a male’s penis, something she had been taught in health classes. It was ten inches long, shiny and menacingly scary.

" Let me show you what is suppose to go in your little cunt... A proper sex-ed lesson so to speak..." Raven smirked, holding up the fake male member like a weapon. " This is like a dick...boys have one for your pleasure. Since you never have had the pleasure of one in real life, or ever wanted one...I will be so honored to show you just where this is suppose to go in, and how it will feel..."

Raven knelt down between Mandy’s bare legs and pushed the large plastic thing against her sex roughly. Mandy was so fearful, as she knew that this crazy person was out to hurt her.. all for the sick sense of getting CC back for not having sex with her.

" Don’t...please!!" Gasped Mandy, knowing exactly what she was going to do. " I will do anything..."

" You need to know the right parts, and where they are meant to go my darling little lezzie doll..." She said ignoring the girl’s pleas, as the two girls looked on. " So you can see the error of your ways..."

" Show this dyke what a dick can do for her... and teach her what a real girl needs." Hissed the taller of the two girls that were helping, while they pulled her legs apart even wider.

Raven smiled and shoved the fake member deep into Mandy’s opening. The girl screamed, as the pain was so intense, as Raven plunged it deep into her softness. Mandy struggled, but her already injury ridden body could not do a damned thing, as the fake penis continued to be shoved into her

" This is what should be filling your gay twat, not fingers and tongues..." Raven said, obviously throughly enjoying the pain she was causing.

She rammed the sexual toy in many more times, as hard as she possibly could, making the helpless Mandy cry out in pain again and again even loudly. The girl named Raven seemed to smile every time she heard the girl, almost waiting for the next cry of agony to come to her waiting ears.

Mandy screamed and yelled, hoping for help to arrive, but no one was coming. Raven kept battering the fake maleness into the girl over and over again for many minutes, almost transfixed by blood that now flowed down Mandy’s thighs and ass... then pool on the tile floor.

After what seemed to be an eternity, Raven made one more hard thrust with the sex toy and then simply stood up, leaving the red thing jammed still deeply into Mandy’s vagina.

" There your little ‘lesson’ is now complete!" She said with a crooked smile, as the two other’s let the now unmoving form go.

The larger girls hurried out of the door, laughing with what they had done. Raven leaned over the prone form once the others were outside. She kissed the battered form on the lips, and looked at her fiendishly right in the eyes.

" This was so fun...." She cackled in the girl’s face. " Tell CC how much fun we had... She might kiss your ’boo-boos’ better!" She smirked and licked her lips. " In another time, I might have wanted to take you sweet ass for myself but whatever...." She sighed and touched Mandy’s bruised face. " With that boy raping that fat cow from your cabin, was simply an inspiration time for me.. It gave me the idea of just how to exact my revenge, and have some fun doing it."

Raven tweaked one of Mandy’s breasts as she stood up. She took one last look down at the girl she left sprawled in a pool of blood, and walked out. Obviously beyond pleased with herself, she called to her cohorts to slow down, a evil laughter under it. The threes joy could be heard for long moments by the now destroyed girl.

Mandy layed there, limp and broken with the fake penis still in her. She could not move, her brain was foggy from pain and her breathing was very labored. She gasped once, and that was all she remembered as she lapsed into darkness.

Everyone in Cabin Five was shocked awake by screams and wails from just outside the cabin itself. The screams that were coming in, were almost bloodcurdling in nature and held a terror in them all.

Bolting up straight in bed, the screams had brought her out of a sound sleep. CC twisted to glance automatically at the bed beside her. Mandy was not in her bed, and CC noted that over an hour had passed since she had remembered the girl had gotten up for that drink. She suddenly got a chill and jumped from bed, as the emptiness of Mandy’s bunk brought out many fears.

"Where is Mandy!!" She shouted with her realization.

The goth girl was out of bed in a blink of an eye, out the door and many yards down the trail before she even had slipped on her nightshirt on to her bare form. She just had ran, tugging the long shirt over her head as she ran. The dark haired beauty’s focus was on getting to the bathroom cabin as fast as she could , as her heart pounded inside of her chest..

There was a group of girls screaming outside the little cabin, and CC heart dropped fast as another feeling of dread hit her again. Roughly, she shoved a path for herself through the crowd like a someone possessed. Getting to the door, she bolted inside, her ming flying with what she might end up finding.

CC’s eyes found her pretty Mandy splayed on the floor, totally naked, her body covered in red marks and bloody. The girl was being attended to by a one of the surprisingly thin Councilors that headed Cabin two. CC cross the interior of the bathroom with great speed, and was on her knees at Mandy’s side in a heartbeat.

Mandy’s normally fair skin was pale and almost grey, Mandy’s breathing was very shallow. As the goth girl started to comfort the girl, she saw a trickle of blood that was coming out of the girl’s private treasure, telling a very violent story by its own..The goth girl looked around her prone lover, her eyes landing on a red colored dildo that layed on the floor next Mandy. Despite the things red coloring, CC could see that it was literally covered with fresh blood.

CC scowled, her face flooded with a look of pure anger, she stared at the sex toy laying on the floor, and automatically she recognized the thing right off, and knew who the owner was

It was the same specially made dildo that Raven had shown her when they were dating, and it was the same sex toy she also had refused to use. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, CC knew that this was a sick type of calling card, for her to see. Raven’s devilish twist of leaving her mark there was a statement.

" That fucking little bitch did this!!" She spat, as her mind fit all of the pieces together.

She saw that Mandy was coming around again, moaning lowly with pain as her body began to shake and vibrate. The girl locked eyes with CC, her eyes showing that she was in total panic.

" I’m here... I’m here..." CC whispered, stroking the girl’s cheek to try and help the one she loved.

Mandy’s eyes held the goth girl’s, her eyes filled with so much pain, fear and a sense of bewilderment

"CC..." She weakly said, as she gasped a little. " I hurt..."

" I know... I’m here..."The goth girl said, looking at the pretty girl that could barely move. " Your safe now..."

" Raven..." Mandy pushed out with great effort, her eyes full of tears. " It..was... Raven..."

" I know it was!" CC whispered, choking back her own tears. " She is going to pay..."

" She’ll... hurt you..." Mandy gasped out, barely audible to even CC, who was nearest to her now. "... two others are... with..."

" I saw the two girls with her at supper..." Assured CC, knowing what she was talking about. " Don’t worry... they all will pay for this..."

Mandy tried to say something more, but had suddenly passed out from all of the pain. The Councilor that was there used her own bathrobe she had been wearing to cover the naked girl, as medics from the first aid cabin arrived, closely followed by two female officers that were apart of the investigative team that was working the rape of Donna. The medical people swooped down on Mandy, pushing past both the councilor and CC.

CC simply backed off to let the people attend to her girlfriend, yet a seething anger now was welled up in her breast. She knew that the people were going to care for Mandy now, and she could do no more, so she quickly slipped out of the bathroom cabin. Once outside, CC raced off to her cabin, a very determined look of anger flashed in her eyes, like some wild animal that was cornered.

As CC raced off into the darkness, one of the female officers had stepped out of the bathroom, and spotted the fleet footed girl heading off. She glanced back for a moment to watch the girls and boys who were still milling around the outside of the bathroom cabin, but seemed to continually be turning her head to watch the girl head back up the trail. She snuffed, and started to follow the young girl.

Cabin five was empty, as the screams had brought everyone out of the little place to see what was happening. The goth girl did not even care if there was people in the place, she entered with her eyes fixed, and her steps speeded up

Alone in the cabin, CC stripped of what she was wearing and tossed it off into a corner, and began to rifle through all of her belongings with a sense of urgency. She pulled out some things from the locker, and hurriedly began to dress in the clothing and other things she had pulled out.

She decked herself out in form fitting spandex bicycle pants, a tight black tank top that had a cat caught in the cross hairs of a rifle scope and she retrieved black army boots that she had not worn since coming to Camp Pawa where they had been... under the bed After slipping the boots on, she filled her fingers with her gothic styled rings, ending off her dressing by pulling her hair back into a pony tail. She now was readied for war... war on Raven.

As CC turned to leave the cabin, she found someone was in the cabin. A woman with blond hair and dressed in a blue uniform, stood looking at her, arms crossed. CC knew that this was a police officer she saw come into the bathroom cabin as she was leaving, but it did not really matter to her right then.

The very tall officer looked at the goth girl, decked out in her outfit. The officer stood,, her person blocking the doorway.

" Seems like your decking yourself out to wage one hell of a war, girl..." The officer asked, staring down the tall teenaged girl.

When CC did not answer her, and continued to put on a couple more spiky looking rings on her fingers. The policewoman took a few steps farther into the cabin.

" You know who did that to your friend, don’t you?" She said slowly.

" Just mind your business, Officer..." Said a very angered CC, moving to step past the policewoman. " This thing is mine to settle... you can have what might be left when I am done."

The officer was very quick moving, grabbing the tall teenager in a heartbeat before even getting near the doorway. She flung her by the elbow back into the main area of the cabin and took a stand in front of the black clad girl, keeping a tight grasp on her.

" Now wait just a minute, Girl..." She said, stopping the girl cold, holding her arm tightly. " Where do you think your going? I have asked you a question!"

" Let me fucking go..." Said CC, her anger flashing in her eyes as she struggled to get loose of the woman’s grasp, but finding it hard.

" Not until you actually answer my few questions, Young Lady." She said, pulling back the teen into further back into the cabin as if she weighed nothing.

CC ripped free finally, but found herself backed into a corner between the wall and her own bed at the back of the cabin area.

" Just let me go..." Spat CC, angry at the insistence of this officer to stop her need to go and find Raven.

" I know that you know something about this, girl, and can understand your feeling like you need to deal with the scum that did this to that girl..." Said the lady sternly. " But I have a job to do here, Missy, and I will get to the bottom of all of this... so ...I suggest very strongly that you put away this tough little bitch attitude of yours and cooperate with me on this..."

" What are you going to do if I don’t?"

" I am a cop here... I could do many things to stop a little hot-head like your sorry ass."

CC looked at the lady with a very perplexed look, shocked at the ease that the woman had stopped her with.. and how the woman never once backed down. Taking a long breath to calm herself , the tall goth girl regarded the woman officer with a toned down version of her attitude. The cop seemed to see that the girl had done as she asked, and also loosened up a little.

" I am Officer Dana Livingstone..." Said the officer, changing her own approach to one that was more friendly. " Now tell me who you think it was that did that to your friend down there.?"

The goth girl swallowed hard, looking at the woman while her anger literally boiled under the surface, but that anger was now giving way to tears in her deep brown eyes. Startled, Officer Livingstone looked back for a moment, then it seemed like the woman’s all business face suddenly had begun to really softened in seconds..

" Let me rephrase that..." She said with a voice that was much softer. " Who did that to your girlfriend?"

CC’s mouth dropped open, her heart stopping. The officer had literally blown the young goth girl’s mind.

" How did you..." She sputtered.

" I just know by what I saw in your eyes, girl... " Said the officer, taking the moment of calmness to hand her a leather billfold from her back pocket of her pants. " Look at this."

" But how did you know that Mandy’s my girlfriend..." CC asked, sputtering a little more.

The Officer gave a smile of friendliness, as she continued to hold out the small leather billfold to the girl

" The two pictures that are inside of this will answer the reason that I know ..." She informed. " Look at them, then you will then know why I had sensed what was in your heart."

The goth girl opened the billfold and looked at two pictures that were tucked in the tiny folded leather holder It held pictures of the very pretty officer and another woman, also in some sort of uniform, sitting on a park bench.. The two kissing softly in one pose, the other photo showed them embracing one another lovingly while comically mugging for the camera..

" I have been with my partner and lover, Jennifer, for seven wonderful years last May..." The officer offered up, smiling when she said. " I looked into your eyes, saw the obvious concern and surge of love for the girl that is hurt in the bathroom... and I just knew that the injured girl down there was simply not just ‘a friend’ to you...."

The goth girl looked at Officer Livingstone, and blushed slightly

" Your lesbian too?" CC whispered in shock.

" Don’t be so shocked...Cops can be gay too..." She smirked, seeing the girl had now let down her defenses. " We just don’t announce it... we are who we are."

" I don’t know what to say..." CC said. " I am just worried about Mandy right now..."

" Don’t expect you to know..." She said kindly. " I only told you all of this for a reason... and that was to get you to talk to me!" She winked. " I guess I accomplished that."

The girl handed the billfold back and nodded, her feelings towards the officer now much more friendlier than what it had been a minute ago. She paused and lowered her head.

" I know who it was that hurt Mandy..." Admitted the teen.

" First tell me your name... then let’s hear everything that you know." She said, stepping close to the girl.

" I’m Crystal Campbell... I’m usually called CC..." She started, feeling much more at ease.

Officer Livingstone smiled and took the goth’s hand, seeing the teens face turning from rage, to near crying.

" Well then, CC..." Officer Livingstone said with a very calming tone. " First thing is for you to spill me everything you know...And then I will help arrest whoever it was that did this despicable act on your girlfriend, and if she is taken to the hospital, I will personally take you to see her."

CC smiled, but her tears started to flow.

" I’m sorry, Officer..." She said, uncharacteristically. " I don’t usually cry like this... but..."

" When the one you love is hurt, like your girlfriend is... It is more than understandable that your sad." Officer Livingstone said. " To help your lover...lay out everything that you know... even if it is something that you just simply suspect.. and I promise that I will help you in any way."

" Thanks..." Said CC, looking at the nice Officer.

For the next while, CC told her about Mandy and her, the actions of Raven and what she had seen next to Mandy. The officer simply listened intently.

Mandy layed back in the hospital bed, looking at the pale whiteness of the ceiling. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath in as she thought of what had happened this night, and found her bruised rib cage did not really like that in any way. She winced, and made herself take smaller breaths.

She looked over at one of the nurses who was just outside the observation room, and she was talking to one officer that had accompanied her in the ambulance ride to the hospital. She snuffed and just layed back a little more in the bed, her anger was starting to come out of her, a rage that she never knew she even possessed.

Mandy knew that she was waiting for the go ahead from doctors to leave the hospital right now, her tests showed she was very battered and bruised up... but she had no real injuries that needed her to stay overnight. She did incur a ripped hymen from what Raven and her two cronies had done... and she was very sore all over her body, but there was luckily no lasting damage to speak of.

Physically, she would be fine...it was her spirit that was an injury no hospital could really fix. That was not quite broken... but it was cracked more than just a little.

She already knew that she had to go back to the camp. Her parents were out of the country on important business for most of the time she would be at camp. Where they were, it would be almost impossible to contact them, as they traveled to eastern Europe to set up businesses there. She did have one aunt that lived in a nearby city... but because of that relative’s mental state, it would not be a good place to go until her parents came back into the country With that, she had to go back to camp where it all had happened.

She was just getting restless, her mind swimming with various emotions when she saw a couple of figures enter the room where she was. A very tall blonde police woman had came in, with the unmistakable CC following right behind her. Mandy nearly started to cried when she saw her girlfriend. CC had hurriedly sprint around the officer, and made a bolting run right over to her.

They came together in a embrace, each simply wanting nothing more that to feel the other right then. Each were crying... half in relief and half in sadness.

" Mandy..." Whispered CC, with a sob, her arms nearly crushing the smaller girl in a love embrace. " I’m here... and I am sorry for not going with you..."

" Not your fault!" Was the only reply from the girl in the bed, who had latched on to the tall goth girl.

Mandy began to cry, her heart thankful for the appearance of the girl at her bedside. The goth girl kissed the girl on top of the head and continued to hold her so tightly, it was more than obvious that the girl was thankful to be able to see the girl again.

" Your safe now..." CC said, looking up at the officer who watched them with such a large smile on her face.

" With you here....Yes!" Sighed the girl, already looking more relaxed.

" I love you so..." CC said, her heart telling her feelings. " I really do..."

" I love you too..." Mandy replied, burrowing her head into the girl’s chest.

The officer let the two have the moment, content just to watching the reunion with a tear forming in her own eyes. The tall peace officer then gathered herself and took a few steps over to where the two were.

" I hate to break up such a loving sight like this..." Said Officer Livingstone. " But I have to get some information from Mandy here, for my report... if you are you up to it?"

Mandy looked over at the lady and nodded. The fear was partially gone from her deep brown eyes, and a look of determination now flared in them. It seemed as the spirit that had been fractured was now fighting to heal itself, even after everything that Mandy had been through. The officer smiled, reading the expression. She knew inner strength when she saw it.

" What would need to know to arrest them?" Mandy said defiantly and very determinedly.

" I see that you are a determined young girl, aren’t you..." The officer commented with a smile, then took a look at CC. " I can really see that you have a very strong girl... that you love..."

" That I already knew all along..." The goth girl said, her arms still holding Mandy tightly.

Mandy blinked, as the woman was writing a few things in a small notebook, the comment catching her off guard. She looked up at her lover, with a stare of not understanding what the lady cop had just said.

CC looked down at the girl in her arms, and knew what the girl was non-verbally asking her..

" She knows about us..." She informed. " I did not really have to say even a word, and she just knew that our relationship was what it is..."

" How?" She asked, a little afraid that someone actually knew the truth of herself.

" I am curious to find out as well..." CC said, looking over at the very beautiful officer.

Officer Livingstone looked up and gave a chuckle in her chest, hearing the question that had been posed.

" Let’s just say my that my girl friend and I were just like the both of you once too... long ago when we started being together" She said, with a wink. " It was more than obvious in CC’s eyes, the extent she loved you..."

" Your gay too?" Sputtered Mandy, hardly believing the admission from the policewoman.

" Why... yes..." The officer replied back, smirking. " I am!"

" But how did you know for sure?" CC broke in.

The police woman looked at the girl, and leaned toward her with the biggest smile that Mandy had ever seen.

" I really did see it in CC’s eyes..." Said the officer. " I am a cop, so I certainly can see things like reactions... and I saw the telling deep feelings that were there... and this young lady has it for you in the biggest way, Mandy."

Mandy felt the rest of her nervousness leave, as the woman seemed to really have a understanding that went deeper than her badge would ever convey. With out a stitch of hesitation, the short girl started to retell what had happened to her inside the small confines of the bathroom area earlier. Through a mix of tears and obvious anger, she told about the attack in quite graphic details.. and all with such fearlessness.

The officer quickly wrote everything down, her soft and kind voice came out sporadically to help the girl tell exactly what had transpired. Never once being judgmental in any way, the officer seemed to take in every horrible detail

CC also listened and held Mandy in support, but her face showed her outrage that was rising by the moment. The violence that was perpetrated, the callousness and just the plain and simple evilness of what Raven and her new friends had done to the small girl. The things told, sent a deathly chill through CC, having it all very hard to handle. This was now really fueling even more anger that the goth girl had, and it now it very much seethed and grew with every despicable act she heard about.

After taking ever word of Mandy’s statement down, the Officer looked at Mandy and smiled.

" We got them all now... this is more than enough to charge them with a cornucopia of charges and put them away for a very long time..." She said, then she looked at Mandy with a little smile " But your girlfriend and I have a little plan of our own to play out and make sure to have her indited... by getting her new buddies to spill all what they know and what parts they had in all of this, before I end up hauling the lot of them to jail."

" I won’t take any of the credit for this plan... Officer Livingstone decided on the plan in the first place." CC said, smiling a little more than what she had been. " It will teach her something that all the time in jail could never do."

Mandy looked at the lady, then up at CC. She was unsure of just what she had heard at that moment. She saw only that the two seemed to be almost excited with this all.

" A... Plan.?" She asked slowly.

" And it is a plan that will put a exclamation mark on, and one that will leave a everlasting mark on this girl named Raven..." The officer said. " I will just let CC be the one who explains all of this to you."

CC looked over at the woman, and nodded. The girl then looked directly into Mandy’s questioning eyes.

" It’s a plan to teach that ex of mine a real lesson, and to make sure that she is put away for a very long time in the process..."

" A lesson?" Asked Mandy, still not getting any information that would point to whatever the plan was.

CC leaned in and give a kiss on her young lover’s cheek, then looked once again straight into that wonderful little face that looked at her with such questioning, that it was positively beautiful.

" Let’s just say that good ol’ Raven would get her just rewards in spades, before she is carted off for the sexual attack she committed on you...." Giggled CC, almost laughing as she started. " She would expect some sort of retaliation on our part, since the cops have not talked to her on purpose... as asked by officer Livingstone here. Let’s just say that we have layed out a way to teach her one hell of a fucking lesson, and without resorting to any sort of violence in any way, shape or form in the process."

" Will it be... good?" Mandy asked

" More than just good, beautiful..." Smirked CC.

Mandy waited for an explanation to come, confused with her lover’s words. The three girl’s huddled together, and the Police officer and the goth layed out their little plan, all the while Mandy listened with ever little bit of her mind and soul.

Clouds obscured the hot sun from view, bringing a dulled end to the oppressive heat that had literally baked Camp Pawa mercilessly for days. The dark and brooding nimbus clouds that were rolling across in the sky, were already signaling that there would be a very heavy thunderstorm pending in it’s blackened grasp, and the storm that would come along would bring with a fury that had been forgotten.

A short figure hurried between two of the larger building on the camp land, and seemed to be headed towards the arts and crafts part of the recreation building, which the entrance was at the very back of the structure. The person seemed to be moving a very quick pace between the two buildings, but it seemed that the person was not actually in a hurry at the moment dispite the gloomy clouds.

The figure was none than of Raven, who was going to be entering the building. She seemed almost audacious in the way she walked, her small face held a very sinister smile on it’s fairness. The girl seemed to take a moment to pause and look up at the darkening clouds in the skies. She smirked and entered the building after a second or two, seemingly unaffected by the threat of the storm that was more than just upcoming.. she seemed actually to be rather happy this day.

Stepping into the large open area that was the crafts area, Raven quickly spotted the two cabinmates she has been hanging with since coming to Camp. She let herself smile broadly just to herself, seeing the girls there. Raven made her way over to where the two were busy making little beaded ornaments out of cut strips of leather, thread and small glass balls at a large table set in the corner.

The obviously larger and taller of the two girls at the table saw Raven approaching them both. The girl quickly put down her little beaded leather project and her head followed the girl’s approach.

" Did you see that the cops had left really early this morning?" The girl said, when Raven had finally got to where they were..

" Sure did, Sharon..." Said a very calm Raven, cracking a wry sort of smile right at her friend. " It seems to me like they have already finished their investigation, finished gathering things for that Donna girl’s attack also....and left."

" They had left camp even before breakfast was served this morning..." The girl named Sharon informed Raven with giving a wiggle of her eyebrows. " They just picked up and...poof... left... just like that!"

Raven paused for a moment, her eyes showing that behind those orbs, her mind was at very seriously at work. After contemplating something, she examined Sharon’s face with almost an unnoticeable sideways look.

" Did the cops ever talk to either of you about our little thing?" Raven asked, questioning the girl with a cautious tone in her voice.

The brown haired larger framed girl slightly nodded, as she shifted her eyes to see if anyone was listening to her. She leaned towards Raven so as not to let perked ears actually hear her.

" Yeah, they interviewed both Brenda and me last night, right after they had talked to you..." She giggled maliciously. " I just told them that I knew nothing, and that I had heard nothing as well..."

" It appears they don’t know squat on who did it... and that dyke bitch has obviously not said anything to the cops." The second girl said, jumping into the conversation. " In all... the cops don’t even seem to have a clue."

" Yeah... They asked if I knew anything about the girl getting ’attacked’ in the bathroom, or if I knew or heard of who had done it...and I told them that I didn’t know a damned thing." Sharon said.

" Hell... I just acted as shocked as everyone was acting like...’an they bought it." The second girl piped up, smiling with pride. " Bet if the others around here knew about this little gay bitch hittin’ on girls here, we might not have had done what we did... and let somebody else deal with her..."

" That may be true there, Brenda..." The girl Sharon said, adding with a giggle and slap the girl’s on the back. " But we need to admit that it just felt so goddamn good to do anyways."

" Yeah... just thinkin’ about what ’those type of girls’ actually do really gives me areal sick feeling in my stomach." Spat Brenda, shivering with the disdain of her thoughts on the matter. " It seems so.. unnatural...so..ugh.. freaky, ya know."

The three girls tried to stifle their laughter, but only drew a few glares from across the room art their outbursts. The looked at each other, eyeing one another with a large beaming smiles.

" It is so unnatural when she came on to me..." Said Raven, her grin widening as she talked... along with this cold and very unemotional gleam in her eyes. " We just ended up teaching her a few things."

" I think she will never forget it..." Sharon said, her eyes showing the unlimited joy she had gotten out of their little act.

The shorter girl with the very light auburn hair laughed, and looked at Raven and her friend.

" I saw that Lesbo girl was back in camp..." Brenda said, grinning with glee. " She has said nothing...we layed it down, and she simply know we are not playing any games here!"

" That is one of those sickos that has ‘learned where her place was’ the hard way." Sharon agreed, giggling with her self importance.

" Yeah..she’ll think twice before doing the nasty with any of her kind again..." Brenda said, her voice trying to be hushed, but losing the fight of the laughter that was boiling up in her.

Breaking down and howling, dispite all of them trying not to be loud, the three started to shake with laughter. The small group were now getting even more stares of annoyance from everyone in the room as they all returned to their art project. They quieted down a little, but they continued to talk low as they worked on their artistic cliché of another thing at camp, the topic still on their vial thoughts on the matter..

Raven just sat there, her mind filling with thoughts of the dark clad girl called CC. She felt herself being overly- pleased with herself.

" I think you have learn not to deny me any more, CC dear..." She said with glee to herself. " Your little doll has also learned a very valuable lesson from me... and you even more! Perhaps I could have taught your little doll a thing or two more..." She shook her head and laughed inside of herself. " No! Not after that little doll had been ‘with’ you... CC darling!"

******

Rain pelted down, as the afternoon explosion of thunder and lightning gave way to a deluge of epic rainfall. Throughout supper and into the waning daylight of evening, the storm raged and whipped with a fury that only mother nature could ever enjoy as it drove away the heat in it’s way.

The camp was mostly all in the dining hall, as the rain made for a bad bonfire song time. Some had simply stayed indoors in the cabins, reading or playing a little cards. All were torn between the relief the rain brought from the heat, and the miserable way it made things feel in the grip of the water whipped tempest.

Raven hurried herself back to her cabin, which was located at the opposite end of the camp, not wanting to stay at the sing-a-long any longer than she needed to be. She seemed a little disappointed and frustrated at the moment, as she had a plan that did not really work out in the end.

The girl had left, because she could not see any signs of either CC or her girlfriend. She had been anxiously wanting to see exactly what damage she had created for both of her ‘targets’, but without them at the indoor campfire gathering, or anywhere else she had looked... she found the singing too stupid to be doing and left.

Raven decided to go and get her two friends, and perhaps go into the rec room for the rest of the time until bed to find something to do on this wet evening. Tomorrow she would be able to see just what havoc she had brought down on CC. She wanted to see if her revenge had been sweet, sweeter or just plain glorious.

Raven entered in to her assigned cabin twenty seven, the rain had really drenched her hair in just a very short amount of time. She looked around for any signs of her partners in crime, hoping to salvage something fun at least until tomorrow came. The girl quickly spotted two people who were her counterparts, standing near where their bunks were located, at the very far end of the cabin.

Oddly, Raven’s ears were picking up very angered voices rising in the quietness of the place. With her friends the only two that were in the cabin at the time, she knew that it was coming from them. Curiously to why they seemed to be fuming mad like this, she approached the two to actually find out.

" Hey girls...What’s up?" She called out, hoping that she could use this for something else at a later date.

Sharon and Brenda turned around and glared at Raven with wild looked. Both girl’s eyes held a very cold and piercing feel to them, and they seemed to be focused right on her at the time. Raven stopped completely in her tracks, as her instincts were suddenly screaming at her that something was not quite right.

" Fuck there you are, you little fucking puss-bag!" Said Sharon, anger painting every words that came out.

" What?" Said, Raven, taking a step back from where she was. " What is going on here?" She said, her voice wavering.

" You little bitch... you used us" Sharon spat back, causing a chill to go down Raven’s spine..

Before Raven could turn and run, Sharon had grabbed her and flung her over a bottom bunk. The girl sailed across the bunk without touching it and crashed to the floor with a loud bang. She gasped, as the pain shot through her.

As fast as she could, Raven tried to get herself up and run, but she was already pulled back to her feet, then slammed hard into a wall a few feet behind her. There was Brenda and Sharon holding her, glaring right into her face from only a few inches away. She gasped and struggled against the two, but found that she had no where to run, or wriggle to.

Scared, Raven could only now stare into the faces of her two cabinmates. In both of the girl’s eyes could only see a all fired and seething anger that flowed in them. Raven did not know what was going on, but she knew that she was not at a party.

" W...What?" She said again, feeling the two were holding her hard against the wall.

Sharon pulled out two small photos and flashed them around in front of Raven’s face, while her strong knee kept her pinned to the wall.

" You used us, dyke slut!" She said. " You lied, then used those lies to make us help you do your twisted deeds!"

" How did I do that?" Said Raven, hoping to bluff her way out of this.

" You already know that, bitch..." Brenda jumped in. " You used us to beat up someone... and all based on lies and revenge

" Just tell me what you mean by ‘using you’... there will be a simple explanation for whatever you are thinking..." Raven stammered, as the two kept her pinned tight against the wall.

Sharon slapped the girl hard once across the face, and pinned her even tighter against the wall as she glared at her.

" If you have not used us for some sort of sick and perverted revenge plot... you can explain all of this shit to us real fast!" She said, pushing the two pictures she waved right into the girl’s face.

Raven gulped hard, as the images on the photographs were all too known to her. One was of her and CC, taken at the merry-go-round in a park in the city, and she was kissing CC’s cheek in a way that never could be mistaken for friendly. The second one, was a picture of CC with the girl named Mandy. They were embracing one another too, CC kissing the smaller girl on the cheek. In the two pictures, CC looked exactly the same, right down to what she was wearing in both.

Raven knew that her little plan of getting back at CC had now seriously backfired. In the grips of the two she had lied to, gotten to pound the living shit out Mandy and all that, she was in a world of trouble now.

" You’re a fucking lesbian like that girl..." Spat Brenda, her anger flowing out of her.

" You got us to beat up your ex-girlfriend’s new girl... and lied to us that she had came on to you!!" Growled Sharon. " All that time, you were using us as your personal goons to do what you wanted, get some sick pleasure out of it... and you probably were going to rat us out all along too!!"

" You used us to get back at your girlfriend, help us actually rape that girl with your fucking dildo and everything else... bitch!" Brenda said, shouting right into the girl’s face. " You made us rape that girl... we are no better than that boy who did that to the other girl!!"

" I... I can explain.." Said Raven, the dripping water off of her hair was now mostly sweat. " Honestly here is..."

Sharon slammed her fist into the girl’s face, causing blood to gush out of a split lip she had made, and stopped Raven’s words dead. Brenda followed up her friend’s actions by slamming her own fist right into Raven’s face. The result of that blow causing a large stream of blood to come from the nose, one that was obviously broken.

" You little goddamned lesbian fucking cunt!" Brenda yelled , as the girl coughed and sputtered as blood flowed down her face. " Here is what we do to people who use us like this!!"

As the girl reared back to hit the girl again, a hand stopped her. She tried to move, but the hand had her solidly in place, and unable to finish coming down on the girl.

Brenda looked over her shoulder, and saw her hand had been stopped by a tall blonde policewoman. The officer was with a large group of other officers, and flanked by CC and Mandy who watched.

" That is enough.. we will take her for now!!" Said the officer, pulling off the girl from Raven and slamming her against the same wall. " You are under arrest for Aggravated Rape, Sodomy and Aggravated assault for the time being!"

" She made us do it... I will tell you everything!!" Brenda said loudly to the police officer that had her. " It was all Melissa’s idea! We can tell you everything!"

" You both can tell us everything, once we get you into custody and back to headquarters..." Officer Livingstone said, making sure the cuffs were on both of them. " We already know mostly what you three did to Mandy here... perhaps when you tell your side, that just would help you and your friend her out draw a lesser sentence."

The tall Sharon looked right at the officer, as she stopped struggling against her cuffs. She glanced over at Raven for a second, then back to the officer that had Brenda

" If you put it like that...What do you want to know about this little piss of a girl?" Sharon said, as she too, had been quickly handcuffed by an officer. She stared back down at Raven, who had fallen to the floor and scowled. " I am going to tell the cops everything little thing, you skanky little bitch, the whole fucking thing!! I don’t care if I go to jail for ever...your broken nose is hardly a payment for this, bitch!!"

A nose bloodied Raven went to move, but she was already was being held where she had landed by a very muscular policeman who was reading her rights while locking the cuffs on her. She looked up, and saw that CC and Mandy were there, and looking at her.

" Fuck!!" She spat, as she already knew that Mandy had told everything. " Sharon... Brenda... they did it all..." She tried to say

CC looked right into Raven’s eyes, and could see the horror of getting caught like she had deeply in the eyes. She smirked and nodded right at Raven

" Your fucked!" She spat with a venom that was unmistakable. " An all of this shit was because I would not sleep with you when you wanted me to.. and hurt your warped sense of pride. I am glad that we broke up.. you hurt me by sleeping with that other girl.. now karma has boomeranged and gotten back at you."

" You are the fool here... with me, you could have it all..." Raven said, but got no response back from the tall goth girl.

Mandy looked at the girl, her anger was all to apparent. She stepped forward, but was held back by her girlfriends soft but firm grasp on the arm.

" I hope you just go to hell!" Said the girl, her voice low but steady. " Even though hell is too good for you!"

" At least I have the final laugh..." Smirked Raven. " Seeing you layed out like that, with that vibrator stuck in your twat and you bleeding everywhere...that completes my revenge..."

Calmly, Mandy regarded the girl. She looked over at CC, and smiled, then turned her attention fully on Raven as she now stood there in shackles.

"I love CC... and CC loves me... You lost, and CC has won!" Said Mandy back, her voice eerily calm, but her eyes locked right on to Raven’s. " I think there was a final laugh in all of this... She still loves me, and I will not end up letting what you did to me, break me in any way." Mandy actually broke a smile. " I will love CC, and respect her... you are just going to end up being another little bitch locked up, and probably used as a play toy to someone on the inside.."

Raven dropped her head for a moment or two, then raised it up and began to scream incoherently at Mandy and CC at the top of her lungs, while she was being dragged away kicking and screaming by the officer that had her. The girl had definitely came to have a realization that what Mandy had said to her was all true, and that basic fact was now driving her crazy. Her revenge was for nothing, and that was a small piece of reality that she seemed not to be willing to admit.

The other two handcuffed girls were more quiet, letting themselves be led away. They watched the raving and ranting girl as they were taken out, they each seemed to be taking great pleasure of seeing Raven like this. It was, very much, a fitting and just end to all of this stiff, and both Brenda and Sharon knew that.

Officer Livingstone turned to CC and Mandy, as the girl’s were led away.

" Told you leaving those pictures on one of Raven’s accomplices’s beds and us hiding to hear the fall out... would bring out what we needed to make her go to jail." She smirked. " Now that her friends falling all over one another to confess and have the chance to point to Raven as the one who masterminded this, we are more than assured of getting her locked up for one hell of a long time."

" I wondered if it could work...." CC said. " I’m glad that I simply took that chance."

" Thank you so much!!!" Said Sharon.

" Yes... I am glad that you did this..." Cc said, her face showing just how much this was meaning to her.

The police woman smiled, as the beaming faces of the two young lovers were more than thanks for herself. She sighed and wiped her brow, as her long day was now seemingly done.

" I’m just glad that my superiors actually let me run with this idea of mine!" The officer said with a relived smile.

Mandy and CC hugged one another with great adulation, holding on tightly, whispering lowly to one another as they did. They could still hear the mindless yelling of Raven outside, even through the pouring rain. It was very clear to everyone still in the cabin, that Raven was a sore loser.

Officer Livingstone could see that the two lovers were turning to leave. She stepped near them both and put a hand on each one of them, stopping the two leaving.

Hold up there for one moment more..." She said, softly. " I got one more surprise in store for the both of you."

CC and Mandy looked at the lady, each one of them was confused at the moment.

" A surprise?" Asked CC, looking at her new friend in blue.

" Like what?" Mandy came in with.

The lady give a imp-like smile to the both of them, taking a few steps to be looking at them from in front.

" Just meet me at the rec center in one hour..." She said.

" Bit that is lights out by then..." CC said, still not quite sure of things.

" I have cleared that with the administration..." The woman said, smiling even broader than she had been. " Knowing this place since I was small, going her many times and knowing the people who own Camp Pawa... let’s just say that I have pulled a few favors out of my hat." She giggled. " Just meet me as I asked."

Not knowing any more than they had, CC and Mandy nodded, knowing that they had to wait to see just what the woman had in store for the both of them.

In the backseat of a large dark burgundy car, sat the figures of CC and Mandy. Officer Livingstone was the one driving the car, minus her police uniform. The three were just driving along, heading away from Camp Pawa, south along a older road that skirted the lake side.

The two young girl’s were unsure of where they were actually going with the officer, but they trusted her totally. It was not as the officer was anything to worry about, they were very curious to where the woman was taking them. They simply held hands in the back seat, and watched as the darkness moved outside of the window, lit only by the moon and the car’s very bright headlights.

The were about twenty or so minutes away from the camp, Rolling along a deserted looking back road. CC looked out of the car window, watching the trees go by in the dimness of the night that surrounded the automobile. She was not even sure where they were going at this point.

" Where are we going, Officer Livingstone?" She asked, trying to figure things out.

" First thing is... I am not a Law Officer right now... you can simply call me Dana..." The woman said, with a smile. " The second thing... you will just have to wait for a few minutes longer, and everything will slip into place."

Both young girls looked at each other, not knowing quite what to make of all of this. They were so curious to find out where they were going this late at night It was a mystery, but thankfully it was a good one.

Dana watched the two girls in the back in her rearview mirror, studying each of their faces individually. The woman cracked a small grin and kept herself driving, expelling a little giggle lowly so the two in the back would not end up hearing her. It was almost as if she was excited about what was unfolding right now.

At the southern most end of Lake Pawa, the car abruptly swung in to a driveway that was hidden in the midst of a large stand of trees. A dirt and gravel road was now stretching out, and the car simply followed this path into the pitch blackness of night. The two young girl’s took note of this directional turn, and was now really wondering just where it was they were going at this hour.

Finally at the end of the road the car found two small cabins sitting in a clearing, against the backdrop of the very calm waters of the lake. The tempest of the storm had broke not long after the capture of Raven and her two partners in crime, and now the moon was high in the rapidly clearing sky, illuminating the two little summer houses..

" Here we are!" Said The officer called Dana, smiling while throwing the car into park.

" But... Where is it that we are ‘here’?" Asked CC, looking through the window at the small cabins nestled against the lakeshore. " I don’t know anyone way out here..."

" Neither do I..." Mandy said, also looking at the two little cabins as the sat in the light of the moon.

" You both will end up seeing what this is all about in a matter of moments..." Said the woman, getting out of the car.

CC and Mandy looked at one another, each were confused and excited at this. The two girls got out of the car and followed the very tall woman up to the door. They could see no name plates on the door, or anything that would indicate who would be the owners of the cabins. They were just simply very nondescript cabins, not unlike any of the others that dotted all around the shores of the lake.

Dana knocked on the door with a strong rapping sound, as all three of them stood on the small porch, while hearing the electric bug-zapper getting a few more of the summer’s pests. After a few seconds of waiting, the door swung opened and a fairly tall woman stepped to the screen door and peered out.

" You are here!" Said the woman, standing tall in the light that cascaded past her from inside.

Mandy gasped, as she saw the woman standing there. The woman who stood in the doorway of the little structure was someone who she had known for a very long time. The tall woman who was in the doorway looking out at them was none other than Mrs. Vincent, Donna’s mother.

" Mrs. Vincent..." Mandy said, with a gasp, dispite herself.

Mrs. Vincent smiled and nodded, noting the look of shock the young girl had on her face.

" It is so nice to see you again, Mandy..." The woman said. giving a small smile of warmth. " I think it’s been... almost a year, I think since the last time we saw you..."

" Last summer, when camp had ended, Mrs. Vincent.." Mandy said, looking over at Dana, who was not saying a word right now. " It is nice to see you again, but I am not understanding why we were brought here."

The woman nodded, giving a very soft smile to the very perplexed Mandy. Mrs. Vincent then give a glance over to the equally confused CC beside her.

" I really sure that this is all so strange for the both of you to be brought out here like this..." The lady said, her warmth radiating from her smile.

" It is... more than just strange..." Admitted Mandy.

" I can understand that...." The woman said with a little titter of a giggle, stepping back from the screen door as she spoke. " The three of you come right on in, and then we will all tell you two just what it is that your doing here."

The woman motioned for the three to come into the cabin. CC and Mandy now were really confused with this turn of events, this night had just gotten more and more fascinating as well, even without knowing what was going on With the invitation, both girls entered the cabin to find out just what was going on.

The interior of the cabin was very small, way smaller than even their own Cabin five back at Camp Pawa. The place was at least, very cozy, furnished warmly with furniture that set that tone clearly.

Mandy spotted the tall and gawkily thin built Mr. Vincent sitting on a small sofa, beside Donna’s older sister, named Jennifer, who she had met many times before over the years back at Camp Pawa. Donna’s father and sister greeted them with great warmth, as Dana took a seat at a small table in the corner of the room.

Mandy and CC were still not even close to grasping just what was going on, and fought their urge to hold one another’s hand. Mrs. Vincent looked that them both with a warm look, settling them down a little. The woman started to speak, her way was as always a very straight forward way.

" You know what happened to Donna... right...?" She asked.

" I found her after..." Started the small girl, then her words seemed to trail off.

CC nodded for her girlfriend, feeling a little uneasy with what happened to the red headed girl, considering what also had happened to Mandy. From Mandy’s voice trailing off like that, CC knew the girl had returned to that bad point in time. The goth girl wanted to take that away from the pretty girl, but knew that it won’t for a very long time.

Mrs. Vincent took a deep breath in through her mouth, as this topic was more than just a little hard even for this usually very confident woman to be speaking of.

" You are both here because Donna asked for the both of you to be." She said, her words just coming out.

" She’s here?" Asked Mandy, feeling a little excited to hear that her old friend was supposedly there.

Mrs. Vincent nodded, and regarded the two girl’s with a much smaller smile

" In the back room." Donna’s mother said. " She is physically much better right now, and it was her that had been asking for the both of you to come here."

" How is she otherwise?" Asked Mandy, knowing that physically she might be fine.

" Just like Donna, she seems to be taking things rather well under the circumstances..." The woman informed, then her face fell a little. " But, I wonder nonetheless, what effect it might have had deeper."

" I think I might know..." Was all Mandy said.

The woman looked at the girl, and her warm smile slipped back on to her tired looking face.

" Perhaps you do, Mandy..." Mrs. Vincent said, nodding.

The cabin got really quiet for a few moments, as each person seemed to be thinking on things. CC then broke the silence, as her curiosity had now came back and with a vengeance.

" You had said Donna asked for both of us to come here...Why the both of us?" Asked CC, in her usual up front way. " Donna has known Mandy for a very long time, and you know that she hardly knows me."

" It was what she said she really wanted... to see the two of you..." The woman said, her smile coming back more brighter. " I can’t divulge the reason why she wanted to see you both, she asked me not to... I guess you two both go back to her room, and she will explain everything."

The girl’s nodded and began walking to where the woman had been pointing at. The others seemed to just stay silent in the room.

******

CC and Mandy found Donna sitting up in a bed in a little small room. The girl looked still bruised and battered, but seemed to be in high spirits considering what had happened to her only a few short days ago. The three girl’s all looked at one another, as the room was deathly silent. The tension in the room was heavy.

Donna took a small sigh, as she moved her red hair from her face. She locked eyes on to the smaller of the two girl’s that stood there.

" I heard what happened at camp to you..." She said. " I was... worried about you, Mandy."

Mandy dropped her eyes, as the memories flooded back. Instinctively, CC put her arm around her, the goth girl just knew what was going on inside of her. The girl in the bed did not even flinch with the goth’ girl’s action.

" I wanted to let you know that I knew about the both of you, and was worried about you both after what happened..." Said Donna.

" You know of our... relationship?" Said Mandy, shocked to hear it from her usually boy crazy friend.

" I will explain that as well..." Nodded Donna and giggling a little, then smiling. " I was just really worried about the both of you..."

This was almost like a dream or something, as Donna’s face showed her sincerity of what she was saying.

"Worried?" Asked Mandy, snapping out of her sadness.

" Me as well?" Asked a now very intrigued CC. " I am really as confused as Mandy to hear that from you... especially you!!" She put a hand on her hip. " I hardly know you in the first place."

" I guess my way of acting towards you have not been saying that... has it?" Smile Donna, sitting up straighter in bed. " I guess I really have said nothing really give you that impression..."

" If you knew about Mandy and myself... Why did you try and set up Mandy with a boy?" CC said.

Donna smiled meekly and sat up in the bed a little more. Her eyes locked on to the two girl’s in front of her.

" Guess I will just have to explain a few things..." She said a little meekly, as CC waited for an answer to come.

Donna Cleared her throat and looked at the two girls.

" First off... I guess I knew that Mandy was ‘different’ for a long time..." She said, unflinchingly. " I just had gotten that feeling even before I knew what the terms ‘lesbians’ or ‘gay’ really was all about."

" So... You sort of had a feeling that I was gay all along?" Asked Mandy.

" I did for the longest of times... Even Lacy really thought that also...." Informed the red head. " She said she always wondered..."

" She said that to you?" Asked Mandy, shocked to hear that, even thought Lacy and her had only talked about it a few times.

Donna nodded, and shifted to look at the girl more straighter than she had been. She made sure to look at the two even more as she did.

" She was not in any way ashamed of the fact that you might be gay...." Donna said with a sigh. " In fact, she was so worried that you would not come to grips with the fact of what you were..... She loved you so much... just like a like a sister, and was worried about it because you felt things so strongly..."

" She... was that worried about me?" Said a shaking Mandy.

" She was...." Said the girl, with conviction. " But because of her moving away, she did not want to bring it up... she wanted to have good memories with you, not bad ones that could have been left if she had brought it up at that time."

Mandy stopped and thought on it for a moment or two. It was all way too overwhelming to hear all of this.

" If you also had a feeling that I was gay... why did you try and hook me up with a boy, if you had that strong of a suspicion that I was gay... and what does it all have to so with you wanting to see CC and me?"

" That... is a simple answer, yet it is one that was very hard for me to end up swallowing..." Donna said, her eyes locking onto the short girl’s gaze. " I was in sort of denial about my oldest sister, who I idolized so much, being a lesbian too.... guess I tried to ‘hook up’ Mandy because I was not willing to accept either my sister’s... or one of my best friends’s homosexuality"

" You have a older sister? Other than Jennifer?" Slowly responded Mandy, a little shocked at the information. " I never knew that you had another sister."

Donna nodded her head, understanding the shock of what she had said did. She seemed to ready herself to speak more, as the girl’s waited.

" Yeah..." Said Donna. " Her name is Terri..." She said, then she lowered her head. " She is older than me. She is twenty three and she is dating a policewoman right now.... one that you now know..."

CC gasped, as too did the short dark haired girl that stood with her. Each seemingly getting the same thought at the same time.

" Officer Livingstone?" The goth girl breathed

" Yes... That was my sister Terri’s girlfriend is the officer that responded to what happened to me... and to Mandy too, as well as the one who has brought both of you here to see me." She said. " Through Dana, that is how I found out what happened to you, and that you were ‘involved’ with CC here."

Mandy nodded in thanks, but CC seemed to have a few more questions rattling around in her head.

" That all explains some things to me..." CC said, her face a little blank. " that really still doesn’t explain why you were worried about me through all of this crap." The goth girl made solid eye contact with the girl in the bed, with a still blank expression. " You did not know me or nuthin’... how come you are worrying about someone that you only have known for a little over a week or so?"

The girl looked at CC, then at Mandy. She smiled.

" You are going out with one of my best friends that I have known for years... If Mandy loves you, like I think she does...." Donna said, her smile was warm and full of sheer honesty. " I just want to honor that love unconditionally now, and to see if we can become friends as well, CC, and to not hid from my own denial that I have inside my own family tree."

The goth girl looked at the redhead, her face now showing more than a blank look of trying to understand things.

" Friends?" Said CC.

" Yes you..." Nodded Donna, her voice steady and assured. " Your someone who has gotten Mandy out of her shell, and into her life in such a big way.. I needed to be friends with that person Mandy loves so much."

CC looked at the girl , her face was stone for a few moments. It seemed that the girl in black was mulling over what the redhead was saying. Mandy and Donna both simply waited in silence, not quite sure what might be the response. The room almost echoed with the sudden silence.

The goth girl suddenly cracked a smile.

" What the hell, Donna..." She giggled. " We all need friends!"

" I think that might be a awesome thing..." Smiled Donna. " You are unique and interesting as hell, and I want to get to know you better..."

" I think that we can all be friends here...." Said Mandy, happier than she ever had been.

" Your all right..." Piped in CC, adding with a giggle. " Guess I never saw that either."

The two girl’s hurried over to the bed and got on it with a rousing chorus of giggled and laughter. In an instant, they all were hugging, the tension of the meeting seemed to know had drained away.

" Just a note though..." Said Donna, her own laughter nearly making her cry. " I wanna say one thing...."

" What would that be?" Said CC, looking at her newly acquired friend.

" I want to make sure to say this... then it will be forgotten forever..." Said the redhead. " I’m straight!"

Mandy looked at CC, and CC looked back. Through their giggles, the turned to face the read head and in unison, said.

" Nobody’s perfect."

The three girls shook the room with their laughter that blasted from them with uncontrolled power. They were sure that Donna’s family and the friend were all thinking they were quite nuts by now. Perhaps they were right to think that, but after all... if you cant be nuts with friends, who can you be nuts with?

For a few hours or so, the three talked amongst one another. Two getting reacquainted and one who was just getting use to the whole idea of friendship... and all stemming from two separate and very horrible things. It was like fat had taken bad shit... and turned them into something very wonderful.

Midnight was on the lake, the stillness broken many times by a loon somewhere out on the glass still waters. After the huge storm that had passed through, it was finally once more a peaceful place to be.

CC and Mandy were given a room in the cabin next to Donna’s family’s, as it was way too late to travel back to Camp. They had talked until then with Donna, their world was now feeling more expanded that ever before, friendships forged and now growing.

The two girls ended up sharing the cabin with Dana and Terri, who had arrived while they had been talking with the red head in the back room. They were glad for the offer, as this had expended their energies both physically and mentally. Emotionally, they were more than spent, they seemed to have emptied that wholly.

Mandy layed next to CC in the large bed, curled against the taller girl’s side. She felt the girl’s naked body against hers, and found it to be very comforting. It had been a couple of days of pure hell, and just being able to be herself, cradled in her lover’s arms with their bare bodies pressed together, just help some of what she was feeling slip away to the point of it not even mattering much.

CC pulled the smaller girl against herself, and smiled into the darkness of the room. She looked down at the girl shrouded in th dark, her embrace of Mandy could have been called more than just tentative. She watched the girl and waited to see, looking for any signs that the small girl was scared or uncomfortable in anyway.

Mandy was a little bodily stiff, but not even once did she shy away from CC’s soft embrace.

" Is it alright to do this... or are you not wanting to?" She said, adding to try and make the girl as comfortable as possible. " I could put on my shirt or something to make you more comfortable..."

" Your body does not scare me....you don’t either" Whispered back Mandy, feeling the girl’s firm breast against her cheek.

" I don’t want to scare or hurt you in any way..." CC said, her voice having a little waver in it. " What Raven did ... even though directed at me.... it must have ben scary." She said with a pause. " I don’t want to do anything that crosses that sort of line, or to scare you in any way!"

Mandy lifted her head to look at the girl in the face. Even in the low light from outside the window, CC was perfectly beautiful. She put her small hand on the tall girl’s left breast, and heard a sigh of contentment come from the gothic gal.

" Your body never scared me... you don’t scare me either. Not now, not ever!" She whispered. " And it does not right now also."

" I could not handle if it ever did..." CC said, feeling emotional all of a sudden, something she did not like to feel, but now did. " I will never hurt you, Mandy, I love you too much for my own damned ‘horniness’ to override what has happened to you."

" Your not responsible for Raven’s actions..." The girl said, seeing the emotions flood out.

" I feel like it is..." CC said, her voice soft and apologetic. " I don’t want to touch you for fear that you might think it was Raven all over again... but I still want too at the same time."

Mandy sat up, her eyes locking onto her lover’s squarely.

" I want to feel you, you to feel me... Make me yours and yours alone!" Mandy said. " Just like before... do it now and always... because that is truth of who we are, and out love as well... plain and simply... The truth!!"

CC was surprised at Mandy’s words, and the strength the small gal seemed to have in her. CC knew that she was very strong, but through all of this, it was clear that Mandy possessed much more She looked down at the girl, and saw the truth shown in those sparkling brown eyes, the truth that came from the heart... and was her’s for the taking.

" But Raven... well... for, lack of the term... raped you.." Said CC, worried still. " I did not want to scare you at all... Just love you... something that Raven never seemed to have figured out, or learned how to do and I don’t want to push myself on..."

Mandy lifted her hand and put a finger to CC’s lips, effectively stopping the girl’s words dead before the rest could come out.

" You cannot scare me, never in a million years!" Mandy said with a sternness that was tempered with love. " It was Raven who was trying to control and manipulate things for her own need for retaliation of you not wanting her that way... trying to have some sick sort of payback by hurting me" Mandy smiled, her confidence fully shining even in the low light of the room. " Raven did scare me, but I already know that she is not going to control me either. She did not control you, and I will not let her control me!"

" Then... what?" Said a cautious goth girl, feeling such pride and respect for the girl right at that moment.

Mandy replied quite quickly to the girl, without a moment hesitating.

" Even though I am scared somewhat from the other night, I really want you to touch me... to make love to me... like before."

" You do?" Asked the dark tressed girl, seeing the glow in the eyes that looked at her.

The small girl blushed slightly, but her eyes were dazzling with the light that burned in them.

" Love is healing... your love!" Mandy said calmly, stroking the girl’s cheek with a soft touch. " I love you so much, more than I have ever loved someone in my life.... I have never actually told you that yet... but I am telling you right now! I love you, Crystal Campbell!!" She leaned in her head so their faces were only inches apart. " It is you I love, you who I want to touch me and I want to touch you with all the love in my heart!" A tear came to her eye. " Heal me!"

Mandy leaned in and her lips went on to CC’s. A spark was felt by both, a spark that seemed more deep that even the first time, their combined musk smells now rising with the body heat they gave off. Folding into one another, they kept on kissing while their hands felt one another’s body with a need that was almost uncontrollable.

They traced the other’s skin with fingertips, and reveling in every soft curve and angle that they encountered. Their lips hungrily sot the saltiness of the other’s lips as well, one soft body now touching the other soft body as the girl’s hearts releasing what they felt in an expression of pure passion. They were now as if they were in a world of their own making, one that had a population of two.

Hungrily, Mandy soon slipped one of her hands between their bodies, her fingers quickly finding the shaved pinkness of the goth girl’s silken treasure. She found CC’s love flower was very wet already, the opening was now right there under her fingers, inviting her to come and explore it workings. Sliding a finger into the girl, Mandy felt the girl moan into her mouth while her digit slipped effortlessly right up to her furthest knuckle of her hand.

The young girl opened her eyes and watched CC’s eyes twinkle and dance as the passions rose in her. She pulled her finger out slowly, feeling the girl’s body tense and vibrate, then she slowly return it back in once again as deep as she could get it to go in to the velvet wetness. The goth girl’s moans were louder, as she kept on with her motions.

CC’s sleek and lean hips bucked up against Mandy’s hand, her long lines already starting to glisten with sweat, making her naked breasts sparkle in the low light.

" Oh God!!" CC said, her body reacting to her lover’s action by making her head loll back against the pillow and away from the kiss. Her body vibrate with the sensations that came with each motion. " Mandy... Oh, God!!"

" I remembered I was going to get you back for the time in the showers..." Mandy whispered into CC’s ear, while rhythmically moving her hand. " Your chance will come a little later... this is my time for you!"

Mandy kissed the goth girl again, her hand continuing to work as her thumb now had found the little love button to add in to everything. The long haired girl vibrated and layed back deeper into the mattress with a moan, as Mandy’s thumb began to rub slowly but so deliberately, making even her shaved pinkness vibrate with the attention it was getting. She looked over at Mandy, and traced the face visually. In that instant, CC found that all she was wanting right then, was the girl.

CC lifted her arm and cupped the breasts of her lover in response, feeling her own legs opening to let Mandy in even more. The smaller girl did not even falter, as a second finger of her’s joined the first, causing CC to shutter. The smaller form leaned into the girl, her hand still bringing the goth girl to higher reaches of sensations.

Young Mandy began to kiss the goth on the neck while still using her finger, and by what the girl’s body was responding like, she already knew that it would not be very long for one hell of an orgasm to be brought out of her pretty girl. Pumping hard with her hand, she only wanted CC to feel every little pleasurable shockwave as possible.. and was determined to do just that.

With in minutes, waves of orgasms soon exploded through every inch of the tall girl, causing CC to cry out Mandy’s name repeatedly as her hips slammed up to meet her lovers hand. Mandy just kept her hand moving steadily, wanting to make the girl as happy as she was feeling right now. Being with the girl she loved like this, Mandy’s only mission was for CC to feel that way also.

Spent of ever ounce of orgasmic pleasure, CC finally sat up and gently pulled Mandy down beside her. She scooted herself between the shapely short thighs, and looked at Mandy with passions blazing away in her face.

" Are you still sore down there... from what happened?" CC asked the girl, wanting to make sure.

Mandy opened her legs in answer, her eyes glowing with her own growing passion.

" Make love to me..." She whispered with excitement, watching the girl smile at her. " Make me feel whole... again."

CC smiled back and lowered her head. Soon her lips were touching the treasure that awaited her, the soft muskiness calling her like a siren’s song all over again. Her first kiss to the sensitive flower excited her, wanting to taste the girl’s sweetness more and more. A gasp of pleasure came out of Mandy’s mouth, assuring the young goth girl that her lover was alright with this. She closed her eyes, and began kissing the girl’s outer folds ever so softly, feeling the rose soft skin around Mandy’s private area begin to twitch with delight.

Mandy was soon moaning and gasping, pushing her hips up to meet CC and her lovings. To the goth girl, the reactions only made her more determined to give back what Mandy had given her.. which was herself. She began to use her tongue so determinedly to show this, and felt the girl shutter under each gentle lap she took. She sighed, and just let herself get lost in the simple pleasures of loving someone who loved her back

The rest of the night went like that, as the two girl’s reaffirmed their love. They passionately fell into one another until they had exhausted themselves thoroughly. They fell asleep against one another’s sweat covered body, feeling the rapture of being happy just to be there, together, and content to be like that..

******

The next day, two smiling faces came out into the smaller cabin’s kitchen. CC and Mandy’s emerged from their room, faces were so tired looking, but the noticeable happiness shone through like a bright light on a foggy day.

Dana looked up from what she had been reading right at the two, and could not help but have a smile painting her face. Donna’s sister, Terri, seemed to be hard at work trying to suppress a huge bout of the giggles as they both looked at the two.

Mandy instantly figured out why the two women were acting like they were, and started to blush brightly. She put a hand over her mouth, while trying not to let them see how red she was getting, but CC was not as embarrassed

" You heard us last night, didn’t you?" CC said plainly, also knowing exactly why the two women were chuckling.

Dana nodded her head, as a roar of laughter flooded out of her.

" I don’t remember a time when Terri and I were quite like that..." She said with a cheeky tone in her voice.

" Oh, God ‘o’ mighty..." Said Mandy, hiding her deepening crimson colored face in CC’s shoulder. " How embarrassing."

Dana shook her head at hearing the short girl’s voice.

" Don’t feel like that..." The woman said, picking up a smoke that was going in a ashtray on the table. " We are only teasing you a little."

" Yeah..." Said Terri. " In fact, it made us ... err, feel happy!"

" You mean hearing them had made us so damned horny as well..." Bluntly said Dana.

" That too..." Said Terri, joining Mandy i blushing like a ripe tomato.

The four in the kitchen found themselves laughing so uncontrollably. Mandy and Terri were the ones that were blushing brightly, the other’s seemed to be getting more of a laugh out of it all. They laughed for a few minutes as one, then settled down to have some morning coffee together.

Dana finished what was left of the coffee in her purple mug, and looked at CC, who was enjoying her cup.

" Have you told her your ‘little’ news yet?" She asked of the goth girl

" No, I have not!" Said CC, with a impish look crossing her face.

Mandy looked over at her girl, with a very questioning look.

" Little news?" She asked.

" Yeah... I have some.." Said CC, smirking.

" Are you going to share it with me?" Mandy said, seeing that the girl was toying with it.

" Well..." Said the tall girl, her face breaking out into a split-ass grin. " ...I don’t know... Hummm... should I."

" CC!!" Said the shorter gal, bouncing in her chair as she wanted to hear the news from the girl.

The goth girl chuckled, as her girlfriend shook her playfully. She stopped the girl’s jerking of her arm, and looked at her.

" Here what it is..." Started the girl, looking right at Mandy. " I found out a few things, while you were in the hospital being checked out..."

" What type of things?"

" Things..." Said CC, playing a little more.

" CC!!" Said Mandy again, beginning to shake the girl again.

" One..." CC said, drawing it out playfully. " I found out that I will be going to your school in the fall. It is the school called Howard Landon Junior and Senior High?"

Mandy squealed in delight, making Dana raise her eyebrows at the high pitch of her noises.

" Yes! Yes it is..." Said Mandy.

" You like that idea, eh?"

" I was so worried about what would happen to us after the summer.... I sort had not let myself even start to think on that..." Admitted Mandy.

" I thought you could be worrying about that..." Said CC, pausing for a moment to move a stray strand of hair from the girl’s face. " I talked to my mother, while getting things ready with our lovable Officer here to net one Raven... and found out that part of my news."

Mandy hugged the taller girl’s arm. She kissed the taller girl on the cheek with a loud smack, causing CC to giggle with it.

" So... your parents knows about me then?"

" Yes, they do..." The goth girl said. "My mother is absolutely excited to meet you... she never liked Raven in the first place."

" She knows about Raven too?" Said Mandy, almost hesitantly.

" I told her everything that happened already... knowing my mother would just listen to me" Admitted CC, adding. " A girl needs her mom once in a while."

Mandy went silent for a moment. CC looked at the small girl, and was wondering what had stopped her jovial attitude dead like this.

" Is everything alright?" She asked. " Is it something I said?"

Mandy shook her head, and made eye contact with CC.

" My Mom and dad do not know about me being gay and all..." Said Mandy, seemingly realizing the situation for the first time. " I never knew connected the fact that I was attracted to girls... just that I was a little different that others..."

" But you see that you were being attracted now?" Said CC, obviously knowing what the girl was trying to say.

" Uh, yeah... that is it." Said the girl back.

" I thought so... I was the same way, knowing that something was very different with me since I was little." Said CC. " Are you going to tell them eventually, or wait for awhile to accept it yourself?"

Mandy thought on it for a moment, seemingly a little distressed with the very thought of telling her mother.

" I have already accepted who I am, si I am thinking tat I would have to tell them more sooner than later... It’s not something that is easy to hid I think..." The small girl said. " Was it hard to do with your parents?"

" You mean when I told them I was a lesbian?"

" Yeah... How did you tell them that you liked girls, and not boys?"

CC sighed and smiled at Mandy.

" I did not really have to actually ‘come out’ to them, like you see in those after school specials or movies..." CC said. " My mother already had thought that I might be gay all along, but it took them awhile to become comfortable with who I am. My father it took a little while, but he has seen that I am me, regardless if I liked boys or girls"

" I’m not sure how to approach them with this, CC." Mandy said, her face showing the fear behind that notion.

" You’ll know when that time will be...." CC encouraged.

" That might have to depend on things..." Said Mandy, thinking aloud to herself.

CC put her arm around the girl and squeezed, making Mandy relax a little.

" When you do finally decide to tell them... I know that my Mom and Dad would be happy to help you tell them.. They know how hard it would be, and coming from a family that has a daughter that is gay, they know that might really ’break the ice’ so to speak"

" They... would do that?"

" Sure they would... and that leads me on to the next part of my next news..."

Mandy blinked, as she was really unsure of what the girl was trying to get at. CC saw the look, and rubbed her hand.

" Help... me... second part?" She stammered, as she obviously wondered what the girl was going to say next.

CC smiled and took the girl’s hand in hers.

" The second part was, while I was at camp, they were going to be moving us to a new house way across town..." She smiled. " We figured out, after a little digging thanks to Officer Livingstone’s help, that I would be living one block over from you, eight hundred block of St Patrick Avenue."

" I’m on the eight hundred block of Adrian court." Said a very happy girl.

" one measly block over" Said CC, hugging the girl. " Things have a way of working out."

The two hugged tightly, as the news could not have been more great than what it had been. Dana and Terri were both sitting there, with tears welling up in their eyes.

" Enough of this sappy crap!" Dana said playfully stern, wiping the stray tears away. " We should get you two back to camp, ‘cause you still have a few weeks of fun in the sun. Finish your coffees and we will get you back in time to get what those people pass off as breakfast."

The girl nodded and returned to their coffee cups, their large smiles still beaming out like the sun. They just looked at one another as they sipped away, hands clasped on the table top. Each seemed more than just simply happy, more than even content... they felt complete.

What a summer it had been so far, what a camp also. Who would have ever thought that a simple hot summer at a camp miles from the big city, would alter things so much for both girls. Finding love, getting attacked and everything else that had happened so far... it was not a normal summer by any stretch of the imagination.

To CC and Mandy, there was a very clear cut answer to all of the doubts of the future. Anything was possible... the summer already spent at Camp Pawa was a shiny testament to that. After camp inevitable end, it really seemed to be filled with bright and shining possibilities for both CC and Mandy.

The future was an unknown factor right now, but the girl’s were very hopeful. They had weathered a great deal in the short time that they have been together.. now they thought that they could face down anything, as long as they were together. And it was assured that they would be for the coming time.

Finally returning to camp with the women, they continued to see that the possibilities were boundless, for they were together.

The End