wait for us! I found your counselor!â Madison yelled.
Madison had Andrea Tisdale with her, which completely stunned me, because Tis was practically Madisonâs age.
Tis was the sporty-girl type, tall and lanky. She always wore her sandy blond hair in a ponytail and dressed in oversize tees with the sleeves rolled up. Hardly anybody called her by her first name. Probably most people atPine Haven didnât even know what it was.
âYouâre a counselor now?â asked Molly, adjusting the duffel bag she had on her shoulder so she could carry it more easily.
âIâm a CA this year. So Iâm half a counselor,â Tis said with a laugh. Counselor Assistants were the youngest counselors, seventeen or eighteen. âIâm so glad Iâve got Maddy Junior in my cabin!â She gave me a pat on the back.
I knew she was trying to be nice, and Tis probably already liked me for one reason: I was Madison Abernathyâs little sister. But it drove me slightly insane to be called Maddy Junior. I hoped she wouldnât keep it up. Madison never got called Jordan Senior, which just goes to show how much discrimination younger siblings face.
âItâs so cool we got one of Madisonâs friends for a counselor!â said Molly. âWhatâs your activity? Whoâs the Side A counselor?â
âIâm on the tennis staff, and my co is Rachel Hoffstedder. Remember her from hiking last year? Sheâs about five foot two, short brown hair?â
âOh yeah, I remember Rachel,â said Molly. âSheâs great. Weâve got two awesome counselors!â
âI knew Eda would make sure of that.â Mama smiledat Tis. She was overjoyed that a friend of Madisonâs was my counselor.
âSo, Juniorâyou talk, right? Madison told me youâre really into riding. She says youâre the adventurous type, and youâre gonna try some cool stunts this summer!â
I felt like hitting Madison right in the face with
my pillow. She walked behind Tis and snickered evilly at me.
âYeah, Molly and I both love horses,â I said to Tis, leaving it at that.
Letâs seeâMadison still had to hire a skywriter to fly over camp and write in smoke letters across the sky,
My little sister is going to jump her horse this summer or else!
Then her plan would be complete.
Major, major mistake ever saying my goal out loud. Now I was starting to wish that I hadnât even told Molly about it.
We walked past the big stone building of Middler Lodge and then climbed up the steps to the long row of cabins called Middler Line. The cabins were built out of plain wooden planks, and their shiny tin roofs were blinding in the sunlight.
Since we were in Cabin 1, we didnât have far to go. Eric propped open the screen door with my overnight bag, and we carried all our luggage inside.
âAll you really need is a roof over your heads, right?â said Eric. He smiled as he looked around, because there really wasnât a lot to Pine Havenâs cabins. Basically, the cabin was divided into two big rooms with bunk beds and single cots lined up along the walls. No bathroom, no shower, hardly even electricity. There were a couple of lightbulbs hanging down from the wooden rafters overhead, but the only time the lights were ever on was at night. During the day, plenty of sunlight came in through the large window screens.
âWere you ever in this cabin?â Molly asked Madison. âIs your name anywhere?â She looked around at where hundreds of girlsâ names were written on every square inch of every wall.
âNo, I was in Cabin Two and Three, so youâll find my name in those cabins in about twenty different places.â
âMolly, honey, Iâll help you make your bed if you find some sheets in your trunk,â Mama told her.
âOkay, thanks, because I want the top bunk. Jordan will take the bottom.â
Madison and Tis left