• Megan sat on her knees and opened the window next to the bottom bunk of her bed and listened to the crickets chirping and watching the fireflies dance. She got out her cellphone, trying to tune out the girls' squeeing about boys and Twilight and such. She pulled up her contacts and selected her friend, Lyndsay. She texted her "Get me out of here!" and hit send. She pulled up her pictures and looked at the pictures of her mom and her baby brother. She didn't notice one of the older girls, Felicia, was standing over her.
    "What are you doing?" she said, with a mean smile on her face. Before she could respond, her phone was snatched from her hand and she and the other girls were snooping through her pictures.
    "Aww. She has pictures of her mommy on her phone."
    "Give it back!" she shouted snatching for her phone. But the girl was much taller than her and held it high over her head.
    "Come on! Jump for it!" Megan was being talked to as if she was a dog. Felicia giggled evilly.
    "Kihihihi. Of course, if you want it back, you'll have to go through initiation." Megan glared at her, at first, but then she smiled, cockily and folded her arms.
    "Fine. I'm sure it's no big deal." Felicia raised an eyebrow.
    "Oh really, now?" she said as she took a shot glass out of her pocket. She walked over to her bed and reached under it, pulling out a jug of vinegar and a six pack of beer. She stared as the girls filled half the shot glass vinegar and the rest with beer. Megan covered her mouth in disgust as they each let loose a giant, lime-green, loogie into the shot glass. They smiled and handed the glass to her.
    "You have to drink all of it." Oh my God, she thought. But she still smiled.
    "well, bottoms up." and she poured the whole shot in her mouth. She tried to swallow the disgusting drink, but it wouldn't go down and she held it in her mouth for a minute before finally swallowing it down. She gagged and coughed, about ready to throw up.
    "Go on puke it up, you'll lose if you do." Felicia smiled. Megan let out one more gag before finally getting her breath back.
    "See? No big deal." she lied. Felicia looked like she had been backhand smacked.
    "W-well that wasn't all. You have to run to the dock and back."
    "Ok"
    "Naked." she finished. Her eyes widened at the thought of running to the dock and back in the nude.
    "You're kidding, right?"
    "Nope. Start stripping." Don't worry, everybody's asleep and it's dark, nobody would see you., she thought a she walked out to the porch and started taking off her shirt. Once her clothes were off, she covered her body with her arms and turned around facing the lake.
    "On your mark...get set...go!" Megan ran as fast as she could trying to get to the dock as quickly as possible. Get it done and over with. All she could think about the what ifs. What if somebody wakes up and sees me? What if I fall? What if they rip up my clothes? When she finally reached the end of the dock, she stopped to catch her breath. Suddenly she felt a shove to her back and she plunged into the freezing cold water. She tried to breath but inhaled a mouth full of water. She swam up to the surface, coughing and spluttering. She looked up and on the dock was Felicia and her friends. They were all teary eyed and red faced with laughter.
    "Aw don't you look cute all confused and shaking. Oh, by the way, here's your phone back." Megan watched as Felicia dangled her phone from her thumb and index finger and flung it into the water.
    "No!" But it was too late the the phone landed in the water with a "ploop." The girls started back for the cabin, stumbling from laughing so much.
    "Oh my God. What will I tell my mom?" She hauled herself out of the water, grabbed a towel off the towel rack, and began to wipe her face off. Then, as if it couldn't get any worse, she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around slowly, and there was her crush, Josh. He blushed and turned around.
    "O-oh my God. I-I'm so sorry. I just heard something and I-I..." Not wanting to here anymore, Megan ran past him toward her cabin. When she got there, she found her sleeping bag, her pillow, and her pjs on the porch outside the cabin.
    "Guess I'm sleeping outside." she muttered. She quickly put her pjs back on and curled up in her sleeping bag, shivering.
    "I'll get her back, somehow." She murmured before quickly falling asleep.