Chapter 48: Laundry

The sun dimly shone down on me and the other students as we got out of that stupid bus. They didn't even let us take bathroom breaks! Plus, I could've gotten some popcorn for all the drama happening around me.

"Holy mother of pearl it's cold." Audrey said.

"Really? I didn't notice?" I mumbled whilst pulling down Zack's sweatshirt's sleeves to cover my hands.

Audrey glared at me before we were once again herded into another group. "Hello students! As of right now you are to stand here until all the other buses arrive and everybody gets unloaded!" The ex-drill sergeant yelled.

"What about our bags?" A girl asked.

"What about them?" The chaperone responded.

"When will we get them?" A different girl asked.

"Can't you kids go one day without your damn cellphones?!" He yelled back.

My eyebrows rose in confusion. That's not what she was saying. This man keeps confusing me by the second. We were talking about our belongings and I guess he interpreted that we mean our phones even though we all have ours on us?

"That-that's not what I- oh forget it." The first girl said.

After ten minutes of sniffling and shivering in our little 'group' it was time to be herded again into a group with the whole grade. Do they want us to get pneumonia or something? Well I guess we could sue the school so I mean, why not?

People began to get into their cliques when we all integrated  like a normal grade. Of course me and Audrey just stood by ourselves in the middle of the Sea-of-Peers. "This would be so much better if Evan was here." I whispered to her.

She snorted. "Yeah and a whole lot smokier."

I grinned at her. "Don't lie, you love him."

Audrey sighed. "Well he is like my own brother. An annoying, stupid, ugly brother."

( A/N to clear up any confusion, they love each other platonically)

This time I snorted. "Yeah, I have way too many of those."

"Your brothers aren't ugly." She argued.

"Well you can say that, I can't. And before you go all 'that's so unfair! It's in the constitution I can do that!', you haven't seen-or worse yet- smelled their clothes. It's like a water buffalo died and is now decaying in their pile of laundry!"

"Students! Today as you all know is your field trip," really? I didn't know, "Right now I will be explaining all the rules you must follow. No sleeping in another person's cabin unless you have spoken to me or another chaperone!" The head chaperone who also happened to be the teacher who first ordered us said. I didn't really listen to the rest of the rules. It's going to be the same as school rules with a few more other ones, but those will be obvious.

"Does she really think anyone is listening to her?" Audrey subtly whispered.

I lightly shook my head. "Apparently so."

"-dinner at 8 p.m., and breakfast is at 8:30 a.m., don't miss it because you won't get any other food otherwise," the teacher began to step down when she suddenly remembered something, "Oh and curfew at 9:30 p.m.!"

The whole camp groaned. Well the freshmen but I think I heard some of the camp staff groan too. I heard some shouts of 'This isn't fair!' and 'Nine?! That's when I eat dinner!'. Apparently people have an issue of curfew being 9:30. I don't really care. I know the other campers or students or kids or whatever won't care. There will still be a party happening at eleven. I can feel it.

Me and  Audrey got separated on our way to get our suitcases. If we wanted them we had to line up and get them. Thankfully I wasn't like the other rich girls here and packed my whole entire closet. Although now that I think about it, if I were to go on this trip when I had lived with Carl, I could've pack my whole wardrobe, seeing as it only consisted of six outfits.

I was dragged away to a cabin about ten yards away from where we all huddled up together. I looked at the cabin and sighed. This trip scares me. It is either my maker or my work. Not both. It can never be both.

I heard giggling coming from the inside and sighed again. Knowing my best friend would tell them to shut up immediately or she'll make them shut up, I concluded that we didn't share a cabin. I nervously walked in there and kept my head down. If living with Carl has taught me anything, it's that keeping your head down was crucial to survive a place you don't know real well.

"Hi there! My names Sophia! What's yours?" A girl named Sophia asked as soon as both of my feet entered. I couldn't help but wonder if she was the girl sitting in front of me on the bus.

All of my calmness with Audrey went flying out the window as soon as I heard Hi. I swallowed and replied to the absolute best of my ability. "M-my name's L-Lidia."

She brightly smiled at me. "Well hi Lidia. This here is Lexi," she pointed to a girl with dark skin and her hair had long black braids, "and that over there is Kya," she pointed to a girl with raven black hair and piercing blue eyes and black glasses. Her skin was white-paler than you would ever imagine- and she was curled up on her bed and rocking herself back and forth, "that over there is Cammi," Cammi just looked mean. She didn't wear that much makeup or anything but if looks could kill I would be six feet under right now.

"C-cool." I cleared my throat. I walked over to the bed that didn't either have someone sitting-or in Kya's case, rocking- or if it had someone's belongings on it. I took in Sophia whilst sitting in the uncomfortable silence on my bed that weirdly felt like my bed at Carl's house.

She had long  blonde hair. Her hair was obviously blonder then mine. Like a Taylor Swift kind of blonde. She was wearing a blue shirt and jeans. I don't know how she didn't get cold wearing nothing but a shirt and pants. Now that I kinda look at her, she looks like Taylor Swift. Like if Taylor Swift had an older sister or a closely related cousin.

The silence was broken when Sophia asked me, "Are you Lidia White? Like sister to the White Brothers?" Lexi scoffed at her question. Sophia glared at Lexi and looked at me expectantly. I was caught off guard by her question. I don't know why I was though, I should've seen it coming. I'm the girl who supposedly gave a kid a blowjob and just showed up unannounced as a sister to the famous White Family.

I coughed to hide my embarrassment of being caught off guard. "Uh yes. I'm their little sister."

She smiled widely. "What's it like to live with them?"

I opened my mouth to say something when Lexi interrupted. "Obviously she hears a lot of things. Especially in their bedrooms at night. It's sounds kind of a mix between pain and plea-"

"No! I don't!," I quickly cut her off, "I do not hear any 'things' in my brother's rooms. And although I do agree they sleep around with other women too much, I don't appreciate you making fun of them for it." I sneered. That's right, I sneered at her. You want to call me a bitch, a whore, whatever curse word or slur you can come up with? Sure. But call my brothers that and you're about to wish you didn't have a tongue.

"Of course you say that. You also sleep with everybody. Don't think that we forgot about the picture. And y'know because you're richer than everybody here doesn't mean you can go on and act like bitch." Lexi crossed her arms at me.

I resisted the urge to flinch and instead I raised an eyebrow. I am so done with people assuming things of me since I'm blonde. "First off, that picture was staged. I didn't do anything.

And tell me how I said I was better than every one of you because I'm rich? I was simply defending my brothers. But if you think I'm a bitch based upon one interaction then go on ahead and assume things. You wouldn't be the first person and if I'm being honest, you won't be the last." I said and crossed my arms.

Cammi weirdly started to smile and slow clapping. Kya took a break from her creepy rocking and looked at me. Sophia had shock on her face. I looked around at all them. Why are they acting this way?

"Finally! Someone stands up to you for the first time, and come to find out, it's one of the most bullied and quietest kids in the school!" Cammi laughs to herself and pats Lexi on the back. Lexi just scowls and gave a death glare in my direction.

"I-I'm sorry, what?" I asked confused.

Cammi smiled at me but it wasn't a sweet smile Sophia gave me. It was a sick smile. Not as bad as Carl's that it would make me have a nightmare, but still sick. "You just stood up to Lexi. Now we know we can respect you."

I scrunched my eyebrows. "Was it like initiation or something? Is that what happened to Kya?!"

"What? No! Kya's just um, like that. We didn't do anything to her. Promise." Sophia explained. I don't really believe them but what do I know? All I do is spend my time alone and wish I didn't exist.

I stood up and packed all of my stuff into a drawer. It wasn't very big and only fit my clothes. I can only imagine what those girls who brought their whole closet are doing right now, realizing not even half of their clothes will be able to fit in one of these.

I push my suitcase with the remainder of my stuff under the bed. I decided that if I stay here I will suffocate with all the tension so instead I head outside to the woods. It's probably a bad idea. People might prank me or some wild animal might eat me or something, but frankly, I don't care. At home all the woods I experience is just that single tree with the treehouse that I haven't asked Luke to build. Or have someone build it for him. He's kind of a city slicker.

I walked about thirty yards into the woods and found a nice tree and climb it. I have to remember to keep time so I'm not late for dinner. Who knows what they'll do to me. I also have to remember that I'm not alone here. There's about two-hundred and something other kids here. It's basically school, they just relocated us.

Ugh, two hundred kids running around on a five acre clearing with the rest of the fifty acre property being woods. It's going to be so crowded. I wonder how far I can go into the woods and how close I can get to the property line until I get in trouble.

Somehow it was already time for dinner. I guess all that sorting and unpacking and being interrogated takes a while. I carefully climbed down the tree. No way am I going to fall and break my neck right as we get here. My feet crunched on the leaves and dirt on the ground. You would think being in the woods there would be more dead, fallen leaves on the ground but nope! It's just dirt, a bit of yellow grass, leaves, and branches.

I entered the dinner hall and saw kids already sitting down. I checked my phone. I'm not that late. Only about five minutes. I grabbed my tray full of chicken and dumplings and glanced around to see if I could spot my pink haired best friend.

"Lidia! Lidia over here!" I looked to the noise, expecting to see Audrey calling my name but instead I saw Sophia. No offense to her or anything but I just don't want sit with her and Lexi. Not after what happened in the cabin.

Using my extraordinary lying and acting skills, I swiveled my head to the other side, making it look as if I was looking through the jumbled up mess of students. I finally spotted Audrey and walked down to her.

"Hey, how's your field trip so far?" I asked her.

"Eh it's going. My cabin mates are alright. It's like it's divided though. Like two of my roomies are heavy sports fans while the other two are utterly girly. In other words, they're useless."

I giggled at her choice of words. How she just openly calls her roommates for the next two nights idiots and not care about angering them surprises me. It also may be because I'm a people pleaser.

The rest of the dinner went like how it is at lunch, Audrey talking, me nodding my head and occasionally talking to help the story along. I walked out of the dinner hall with Audrey and we parted ways when we got to my cabin since it was the closest. I opened the creaky door and switched on the light. My bed was looking mighty comfy so I walked over there and laid down immediately. Like I had said earlier, it felt like my bed at Carl's. I just hope I don't have a nightmare.

I turned on my phone and tried to text any of my brothers and tell them how it went but there was no cell service. Is it a bad thing? Maybe this is the universe's way of telling me I rely too much on my brothers and need to take a chill pill and relax for a moment.

Sophia, Lexi, Kya, and Cammi walked in just as I had finished doing my nightly routine and laid in bed. "She's asleep already?" Sophia whispered.

"Hell if I were her I would be too. I am about to be her. Good night you guys." Cammi said.

I laid there, pretending to be asleep. After an hour I eventually prayed to God that I wouldn't have nightmares. Sleep came easily, as much as I didn't want it to.

Back at the house...

It had only been thirteen hours since he had last seen Lidia and it was killing him. It was killing all of them. Zack had became so restless that he had decided to do her laundry. He had brought her clean towels but instead of immediately taking them to her bathroom, he had sat on her bed and was reminding himself of her scent.

What I am doing is so creepy, Zack thought. He eventually stood up, dusted off his work  attire and picked up the freshly folded towels. He slowly opened the doorknob. Not because he was scared of what's inside but out of habit. He had gotten so used to opening the door slowly, giving Lidia time to yell at him to close the door and to give her enough time to dress, that even when she wasn't there he still felt obligated to do it.

He strolled over to her towel cabinet and opened it and carefully placed the towels inside. His hand had accidentally touched the back panel of the cabinet and it lurched to the side. Curious to see what was behind the mysterious panel he took out all of the towels and reached in the cabinet. After some jiggling he finally got it undone and a book fell out. He tilted his head, his hair messy from opening the panel, and took it out.

Diary, he thought, she wouldn't mind if I peaked. And lets be honest, it's my duty as a brother to snoop through her stuff.

He opened it and read the first couple of pages when thumpf! The book had fell to the floor whilst a very emotional White Brother trembled.

He had to go get his brothers.

There they know! Who guessed it by the title? What do you think of Lidia's roomies? I just finished the 3rd hunger games book and its a good book but not my favorite. I almost cried when one my my favorite characters died. I am happy with who she ended up with tho, like so happy I could cry. Thanks for reading I hope you liked it and don't forget to vote, comment and obviously like:)