The next couple days I did my best to avoid Nick, I didn't want to deal with anymore of his antics.
All of Sunnyvale was as obnoxious as usual. We were now referred to as Shadyshide trash.
Oh how nice that was to constantly hear.
We spent most of our time picking up trash, cleaning the mess hall and the art room, both those places were left messes after meals and projects. Our next task was assumed to be cleaning the outhouses being that was the main thing Ziggy and I tried avoiding.
Thankfully the task schedule was changed last minute, to where Tommy and Cindy were to clean the out houses in an hour or so. "This is such bull sh!t. Using a pie contest as an excuse so we'd have to clean the entire camp...again." I was angry while brushing the dirt that was on my clothes. This was disgusting and no one even saw anything wrong with it. None of the Sunnyvalers anyway.
"Were supposed to be enjoying ourselves at summer camp, not cleaning up other peoples sh!t" Ziggy chimed in as we washed our hands in the Mess hall kitchen. I couldn't stand Kurt getting his way all of the time, "we need to get even with them." A devilish plan popped into my head, we could get revenge on Sheila and her idiotic friends that follow her around like a couple of lost dogs. There was a few moments of silence between Ziggy and I before we both grinned. "Whats your idea?" she brushed a few strands of hair behind her ear. "I think its finally time to get Sheila back."
Some time had past while Ziggy and I had been under the giant tree that was planted in the middle of the camp, or more known to me as the place Nick first talked to me.
We wanted to do something to Sheila that would actually mean something to her.
"What if we snuck into her bunk and stole her money? Maybe we'll find some other hidden treasures while were there" I grinned once again, I could tell almost immediately Ziggy was on board with my plan.
Meanwhile the rest of the campers were at lunch...
We sneaked into their cabin and began rummaging around, trying to find cash or anything that was of value. At first it seemed like we had ran out of things to search, there was a small black box that was lying underneath some clothing in her camp dresser, "I think I got something." I sat on a bed with the box in my head, which quickly drew Ziggy's attention.
I undid the clip that kept the box together, inside was a great arrangement of things, some too explicit for my eyes to try and erase, but most importantly there was money. "A whole $50-" I was in disbelief, that was a great sum of money.
"Come on, I want to get cleaned up for colors war." I heard a familiar and quite obnoxious voice call out.
"Sh!t" Was all I was able to get out with the amount of shock I was in. I grabbed as much money as my stiff fingers would. Very quickly Ziggy and I left the cabin running the opposite way, I was hoping we'd get away without being seen, but it was too late, Sheila and her friends were already too close to the cabin.
"We need to get out of here." Ziggy grabbed my hand, as I was running with her we each stuffed a few dollars into our pockets. We ran as fast as we could through the woods, weaving through the branches and bushes that corroded the area. It was only a few moments before I watched Ziggy get smacked to the ground by Will. Next thing I knew everything was black for me too.
I woke up, the sun seemed brighter than before, and my nose was now bleeded. Sheila was busy commanding her friends to tie Ziggy up to the tree, she was struggling to get out of the rope that held her hands up high, she was even shouting things like "Let me down you sh!ts!" It didn't take me long to realize what they were planning.
"Sheila, you b!tch! Let her down!" I yelled out, my attempts did nothing, as assumed. Instead all it got me was one of her friends grabbing a hold of my hair and standing me up, they began to tie my hands behind my back, my body still not fully recovered from the knockout was weaker than usual.
Sheila did the usual, she threatened to hurt Ziggy, she began making a circle around her as she searched her pockets for the money we had taken.|
Of course we were going to deny it, even if they did see us sprinting away from the cabin, they deserved this.
She pulled out the money, "well well, what do we have here?" she began with the money held proudly.
"G0d d@mn thief!" will called out, "no no....she's no thief, shes' possessed by the witch." Sheila quickly followed up her sentence as she got in Ziggy's face, "Its the only way to explain her phyco behavior!"
I was shocked to see Ziggy shout as she elbowed Sheila in the face, a small smirk crawled onto her face, "guess were even now.'
"You do know what they did to Sarah Fier, right? They hanged her. On this very tree, but she would've died forever if you did what you always do to witches"... a creeping silence filled the air for a few moments, "You burn them."
She got a lighter from Will even though he was semi hesitant to give it to her, he still did. Ziggy was struggling to try and get away from Sheila, the rest of us were trying to get Sheila to stop, but she didn't.
She held the lighter up to ziggys arm where it burned her for a few seconds before she was stopped by a loud whistle. We all looked across the field to see Nick and Kurt running towards us.
"Let them out will! I swear to G0d I'll tell mom!"
Of course that was enough to get will moving so he untied ziggy first, then moved over and did me.
Kurt made us all stand in one line, asking what had happened.
Of course will and Sheila talked about Ziggy stealing her money, and how they all saw. But none of them mentioned me, which is when I realized they never checked my pockets for money.
"And why are you here Schmidt? You have some secret part in all this?" Kurt said as he paced back and fourth, keeping his gaze on me.
I looked to ziggy then back at Kurt, "I guess I just got caught up in the mess."
As the questioning continued, Ziggy kept budding in to get her side of the story across, even though we had taken money from them it was nothing compared to Sheila trying to burn Ziggy.
Kurt was getting pissed off by her antics, "Well thats it Berman, 5 strikes, youre out."
Immediately I could see Sheila's face light up with happiness, she'd finally get what she wanted if Ziggy got kicked out.
"I'm out?! They just tried to murder me." She shouted
"Yeah, and i'll deal with them, but first get back to camp, call mommy, cause you're done at Nightwing" Kurt spoke in a more quiet and taunting voice as he said these things.
"I didn't do it." Was all Ziggy said as she crossed her arms.
"Oh yeah? Just like you didn't set the camp flag on fire, or let out the camp rabbits, or graffiti the outhouse stalls?" His tone was now back to being loud as usual.
"Kurt its not her fault..really" Sheila said with a straight face until she turned over to Ziggy to face her once again, "She's possessed by Sarah Fier."
"You b!tch" Ziggy said before charging at Sheila, but she didn't get far without Nick grabbing her from behind to hold her back.
I got my hands out of the rope, my wrists were now red because of the friction, I began walking back to camp, not too much time had passed before I was met with Ziggy walking besides me, "Ziggy I- G0d I'm so sorry" I felt terrible that I got us in this mess.
"Its fine" she responded in an upset tone, I assumed she was mad at me for all this, honestly she had every right to be. She furthered off into camp while I just stood there for a moment, soaking in the few moments of silence before I was met with another voice, "you alright?"
I saw Nick walking towards me as he spoke, "I'm fine, no damage done." the only really being done to my wrists.
"You could have Nurse Lane check you out." He said grabbing a hold of one of my wrists where he saw the marks, I pulled my arm away and cleared my throat, "I said ill be fine."
"What I don't even get a thank you?" I couldn't tell if he was joking, but I realized very quick that he wasn't.
"Oh I' sorry I forgot, thank you king of Sunnyvale, future police chief, Nick Goode, for rescuing poor, helpless, Shadysider me!" I scoffed, "How could I ever repay you? Oh I know, i'll just bat my eyes at you like all the other dumb@ass girls." I couldn't believe he was asking for a thank you in this moment, yes, he did help Ziggy and I in a bad situation, but to ask for praise so soon was sickening. Sunnyvalers just cant get enough of it I guess.
I walked towards the camp sign before I turned around and flipped nick off, finishing my walk throughout the camp so I could go get something on my wrists I kept thinking....
"He deserved that."
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A/N
I made this chapter pretty long ✌🏼 so I hope you guys enjoy that. We're getting pretty close to the slayings by mr slater.