Chapter One: Raven's POV
Chapter One:
Raven’s POV
** New Email**
--opens--
Receiver: ravencool@mymail.com
Sender: campforyouth134@mymail.com
Subject: Summer Camp Registration
Dear Raven,
The three-year-long wait is over. It’s time to sweat out and enjoy the summer heat. We present to you “The camp” known to be held every three years and every time with much more exciting adventures and mysteries. This year’s campsite is the famous “Rookie Forest”.The camp is targeted to those enthusiastic people who are up for a thrill. Are you one of them?
Go ahead and click on the link below to register right now www.campforyouth134.com/Iamin
Hurry special offer for limited students!
P.S.: The rest of the details shall be mailed to you once you have successfully registered. After all, what's the fun in knowing everything beforehand?
WARNING: once registered, you cannot revert.
Bonus: As you are one of the pre-selected students, we will send a bus or jeep to pick you up.
Regards
The Camp
As she marked the mail spam, she wondered "How should I spend the upcoming summer vacations anyway? A camp does sound nice but, who goes to one these days? She could always sunbathe on the beach that her family-owned and she’d rather stay in her air-conditioned room rather than go out in the scorching heat!
“My name is Raven, a popular sophisticated high school girl. Not really. Well, I'm not so normal either in fact, my parents are always on the go; travelling from country to country for business trips. Sometimes I wish they had enough time to spend with me so that I don't have to feel so lonely all the time but, money conquers all! Nothing compares to the riches my parents have bestowed upon me.”
It was time for Raven to feed her pets. A turtle and a hamster; Ozzy and Fufu were their names. Cute if you think about it, she got them on her 13th birthday as a gift from her parents. They kept her company in her not so happening day to day life. They were the only thing that made her feel less lonely, they were her family while her real family was always on the go. Both of them had their cages since she couldn’t bear to waste time looking for them in her huge room, it was tiring.
She only had them for a couple of years but, she loved them more than her own family since they never could find time to spend with her. After she was done feeding Ozzy and Fufu she headed off, back to her bed and decided to check-in on ongoing stuff on her mac.
The bed was soft and fluffy like a cloud. She doesn’t quite remember when she had gotten the mattress but it was probably a gift or more like a souvenir from her parent’s trip. She kept it crowded with numerous cushions and pillows made up of the same material as the mattress.
Her iPhone(latest) kept on chiming as she received numerous texts in her class group chat. Irritated with the continuous pinging, she decides to put away her Mac and reach out for her dear trashy ( as she likes to call it) iPhone to see what the fuss was about.
She picks up her phone.
-Enter Passcode-
1..3..1..4..
-unlocked-
The phone unlocks to reveal a picture of two girls that was set as the background. They were sitting next to each other hand in hand, what seemed like to in a beach; one had thick black hair with a pair of blue eyes, with a bright smile on her face, & goggles up her hair. While the other with the same blue eyes but long dark brown hair, she was looking at the other girl with the same smile as if identical with the former. Both of them seemed to be happy & lively. From the look of it, the black-haired girl appears to be Raven. Raven.
She, without wasting much more time looks at the notification;
**134 group messages**
"Ashley: As always the same plan but, I'll be taking my love Mark with me "
"Lucas: Ah… are you planning to run away Ashy??”
"Ashley: on my parent's new private island, asshole"
"Lucas: don't come back maybe, you should take more care of your kingdom :p"
"Ashley: If you are calling me a queen, then well I'm one ;)"
"Mark: Queen or not, you are my princess ;)"
"Lucas: here comes the jock or jackass!"
"Ashley: he is your team's captain Luc"
"Lucas: take his ass with you"
"Ashley: I'm"
-Lucas left the group
The drama in the group as usual and Raven would always add Lucas back, after all, they were best friends. She quickly closes the group chat and finds Lucas already texting her. Same old Lucas. She already had a clear idea of what Lucas was going to say or talk about. It was always the same.
Private message:
Lucas: Hey! Raven
Raven: yeah?
Lucas: remind me again, why is Ashley dating that jackass?
Raven: Because you didn't have the guts to tell her that you like her :)
Lucas: forget it, have fun
Raven: fun?
Lucas: You must be going to an island as well like Ash
Raven: um, no I got bored with them when I was a kid :)
Lucas: biatchhh!!!
Raven: yours ;)
Lucas: what would I do without a best friend like you?
Raven: You’d prolly just be dead a long time ago bwahahaha
Lucas: Well, it seems like another summer without any sunshine. Take care! You owe me a treat after the break, do not forget!
Raven: Try not to die, or no treat :P
Lucas: *rolls eyes* yeah yeah, bye now!
And the sarcastic replies goes on in the group chat, to think it had exceeded over 100 messages in a very short period. Well, that's Ashley and Lucas for you. The highlights of the class and well, Lucas has been by my side for the longest time that I can recall.
(A little secret between you and me, Lucas is in love with Ash ever since they were practically in diapers but his coward ass never dared to ask her out)
Raven is always the least bothered about what goes on around in her class other than when it comes to her buddies, she couldn't care less about it. While still ignoring all the nonsense her classmates have been spatting, she manages to take another look at the email she had just received.
"Camp for youth? " She chuckled thinking someone must have been high to have sent her an email about such a thing considering the fact that she was nowhere interested in it or even could be in such a thing.
Then on second thought, keeping in mind that she might be left doing nothing at all during the summer, she decides to go for it 'cause why not? It's better than to be left miserably alone.
--dials on the phone—
--ringing—
“Hey Roxie, did you get the email I forwarded?” Raven asked hopefully.
“Yes”
“So? What do you say? Would you like to tag along with me? Pretty Please, you know I don't like to be alone! It would be nice to have a trekking buddy.. " Raven switched to her convincing voice.
“I’m sorry Raven but I really won’t be able to make it. I’ve got a lot of work piled up. Honey, I’ll make it up to you as soon as I can.” She sounded as low as one could.
“Okay, I’ll just go alone then…. that's what I do!” Raven replied sarcastically.
Raven’s voice breaks and soon she is left feeling disappointed and upset.
--ends call—
She hung up the call abruptly while cursing her sister for being the same as their parents and never spending time with her.
Roxie is such a… why do I always have to be the one alone? Maybe I should invite Lucas to tag along? Or no, maybe Valerie.
But here's the thing about Raven, once she has decided onto something, she will get it done no matter what. As spontaneous as she can get, after getting denied by her only sister she quickly decides to invite one of her classmates, ‘Valerie’ to go with her. No matter what, she was determined to go onto this adventure that the mail had promised her although at some point she might have thought someone was pranking on her.
-- dials Valerie --
Raven: “Get your ass packed up, we are leaving in the morning! No questions asked, just pack, chop chop!!”
Valerie: “Vut in de world?? ahhh aight..phine...”
Valerie can't complain but agrees because as mean as Raven can sound, she does have a soft spot for other people. Like she rescued Valerie from getting bullied multiple times because of her different ethnicity. Rest aside, in the end, Raven was going either way, with or without her sister.
Bored and with nothing interesting to do she lays on her bed and her eyes wander around in her room. From one thing to another, her sight jumps; be it her modern furniture or all the latest things one could afford. Her room was huge for a bedroom. The walls were covered with beautiful lavender - floral print wallpaper, it looked nothing but elegant the way she puts it.
She kept her pets close, not far but a couple of steps away from her bed. This way she could easily keep her eyes on them and also they could accompany her at all times. Her desk served the sole purpose of display-only, as she spent most of her time studying on her bed instead. She wasn’t a bad or average student; with nothing much to do (as she was bored of doing most stuff) she always managed to get straight A’s which again made her centre of attention for the class bitches.
Looking at the floor, the room was covered with fur carpeting all across, since she hated how cold floors felt during winters. The windows were tinted, and the curtains were drawn across. She could see a bit of the sun still shining.
Finally, her eyes settle and stare into the abyss of her ceiling, which makes them slowly start to roll down and close, she is falling asleep. It felt lonely.
--phone ringing--
She wakes up to her phone ringing, again and again. Who must be it? Why would someone call her so many times? She was so deep in her slumber she didn't wanna pick it up, her afternoon nap was getting disturbed. Until she realized who it was. She had set different ringtones for each of her close ones. This one was Lucas.
"urgh…Let me sleep", Raven yells - now annoyed but picks up the call anyway.
Lucas was panting on the other side of the phone, his voice is trembling.
"Ra..Raven..?? It's Ash, something happened to her.." Lucas sounded terribly scared and in a state of panic.
"Woah woah, calm down, tell me what is it?" Raven wakes up with a shock and starts to worry.
"Come over to the city hospital ER ward right now, I can't do this alone Raven, please it's an emergency. Hurry!" Lucas' voice breaks on the other side of the phone.
-Call disconnects...
To Be Continued...