Camp Confidential 06 - RSVP Read Free

their standings hanging in the balance of this Saturday’s game—after she herself had handed the victory to the Maroon Menace—she knew she couldn’t skip the Saturday morning game.
    She had been very disappointed. But as her mother had pointed out, she would still be able to stay over at Natalie’s all-bunk sleepover on Saturday, after the party at Village Bowl.
    “You can still be a good team member and have fun with your bunk,” her mother had said.
    So she made her decision: skip Friday night at Natalie’s and play the game on Saturday. The rest of the Blue Angels were very envious that she was going to Village Bowl—but even more impressed that she knew Tad Maxwell’s daughter, and would be spending the night at her fancy penthouse apartment.
    Then the trouble started. Like the other girls of Bunk 3C, Alex had been posting her ideas about how to decorate their party table on the bunk blog that Julie, their counselor, had created. Everyone had loved Alex’s idea of using a blue-and-red Color War theme.
    Excited, Alex had hurried out to buy some tablecloths and napkins, using some of her birth day money from her grandmother. And she worked out what she thought was a pretty cool outfit, mixing one of her standard navy polo shirts with khaki pants and red accessories—a red scrunchie and a necklace of red crystal beads.
    But the very next day, Natalie posted that she had learned that Bunk 3A was going with the Color War theme as well. Natalie had insisted that since 3A were 3C’s traditional rivals, they couldn’t possibly use the same theme. When Alex had posted, “Y not?” Natalie had simply replied, “Puh-leeze!”
    Natalie went on to suggest they “be more subtle” by mixing blue and red together, to come up with a purple color scheme. The entire bunk got on board with that and Julie announced that it was official. Before the end of that same day, Natalie had posted an entire list of purple stuff they could buy and websites to order it all online. Julie thanked her for being such a huge help. So did everyone else.
    Except Alex. Alex was really mad. Natalie had taken over the whole thing!
    Frustrated, Alex put all the napkins and tablecloths she had purchased back in their sack so she could return them . . . only to trip in the parking lot of the party store and dump everything into a pothole filled with melting, dirty ice. Two packages of napkins were ruined . . . and the party store clerk refused to refund her money for them.
    Meanwhile, Natalie kept coming up with more and more plans . . . down to the point of assigning each girl what kind of treats to bring. Finally Julie logged in and said that it would probably be easier just to let everyone contribute a surprise.
    To make matters worse, Alex’s mother started fretting about Alex going so far away. Alex couldn’t believe what she was hearing. After all, she was in competitive soccer and her teams traveled all over the place. True, her mom usually accompanied the team as a chaperone, but still.
    She complained to Brynn about it, and it turned out that Brynn’s mother was also a little anxious about Brynn traveling to New York City by herself. So somehow, it got decided that Brynn would stay over at Alex’s on Friday, and the two would go to New York together.
    “A perfect solution!” Brynn had declared.
    For me, anyway , Alex thought. But does Brynn really want to stay here? I’d give anything to go to Natalie’s on Friday. Or at least I would have, before she started running everything. But Brynn doesn’t have any issues with Natalie.
    “We’re going to have so much fun!” Brynn had added. “I can’t wait to see all your trophies and eat your mom’s Korean barbecue!”
    Alex was only semi-convinced. How much fun could they really have when the start time for her Saturday morning game was eight o’clock? Especially given that because of her diabetes, she would have to go to bed super-extra-early?
    Just like in soccer, I’ll do what