Summer Camp Love: A Bekah's Clean Romance Story (Bekah's Good Clean Romance Stories Book 1) Read Free

and Victoria, and began talking excitedly. All three girls kept glancing at her from across the room.
    That’s weird, she thought.
    Raven came out of the line with her tray, and sat on the opposite end of the adults’ table. Lissa ignored her. A short while later, Josh came out with his tray. He sat down across from Lissa. Raven shot them both a look.
    “Hey, how’s it going? Everything starting to click?”
    Lissa smiled.
    “Yeah, everything’s going great. The girls are having so much fun.”
    He kept up a casual banter through the rest of the meal. Lissa couldn’t decide if he was flirting with her or not. He never once looked at the other girls at the table, even as it filled up with counselors, the nurse, and everyone else. All he did was talk with her.
    She noticed Raven kept shooting them looks, so Lissa kept talking and smiling at Josh, just to tweak her a little.
    ~~~
    Lissa didn’t see the girls again until after supper, when everybody had some free time. She walked back to the Adventurers cabin early. When she walked into the common room, Victoria and the two sisters were sharing a table.
    “There she is!”
    “Omigosh, Miss Lissa, you should hear this. Tell her, Alexis!”
    Alexis blushed and looked down at the table.
    “Tell me what?”
    Lissa walked over and grabbed a chair to sit down at their table.
    “Well, you should hear what Miss Raven has been saying about you. It’s some pretty nasty stuff.”
    Lissa stood up again, and pushed the chair back under the table.
    “That’s okay. I really don’t want to hear it. Let this be a life lesson to you girls. Don’t ever let somebody else get you down. And Alexis, you can go back to your cabin and tell the girls there that I don’t have anything bad to say about Miss Raven. That’s the way to handle things, not get into a contest about who can say the most hurtful words about someone behind their back.”
    With that, she retired to her room. But as soon as she shut the door, she let the emotions wash over her.
    What kind of person would say cruel things about her to a bunch of middle school girls? Who does that? It felt worse than someone saying something to her face, trying to hurt her feelings directly. It felt more like a betrayal.
    She sat on the bed, and tried to read her book, but she couldn’t concentrate on it. Finally she gave up, and decided to go for a walk. Maybe being out in the night air would help calm her down.
    As she walked out, she waved at Victoria and the sisters.
    “Remember, lights out at ten. Alexis, be sure and leave with plenty of time to get back to your cabin.”
    ~~~
    Most of the sidewalks around the campgrounds were lit up at night. They had five-foot-high posts with a light bulb aimed down so you could see where you were walking. The pathways connected the buildings together, but one led toward the back of the main grounds, past the pool and to an amphitheater nestled among the trees at the base of a hill. The girls were going to put on a talent show the last night of camp, and they would use the amphitheater for it.
    She took the back path and walked out toward the amphitheater, hoping to be alone and let the night air soothe her bruised feelings. Lissa tried to think about anything besides Raven and how mean she was.
    Finally she neared the amphitheater and she stopped, listening. She thought she heard music in the distance.
    That’s odd this time of night, she thought.
    She walked to the edge of the darkened amphitheater and looked down. As soon as she reached the top seat, the full sound of a piano being played on the stage below reached her ears.
    The amphitheater was built as a classic one, like the Greeks and Romans used way before electronics and microphones and speaker systems were around. The sound carried perfectly from the stage at the bottom up to the seats that surrounded it in a big half-circle. Outside the seats, the sound didn’t carry as far. That was why Lissa couldn’t really hear the piano