I screeched to a stop. Swung around. And ran
back toward my sister.
I could see her sprawled facedown on the
ground. She was kicking her legs hard, pounding
the grass with both fists.
"Boone-help me!" she cried.
And then I saw the silvery snake wrapped
around her ankle. And the other snakes wrig-
gling close behind her.
"Stop moving! Freeze!" I shouted to her.
Then I dove to the ground. Landed hard on
I carefully wrapped my hand around the cot-
I lifted the head away from my sister's leg.
my knees.
tonmouth, grasping it tightly behind its head.
Then slowly... slowly...I unwrapped the
Heather pushed herself up. She elimbed
snake from her ankle.
quickly to her feet.
Ohhhh," 8he moaned. "I don't believe this. I
We saw Nathan before breakfast. He came into
the cabin and woke us up by playing a kazo00 in
our ears.
Yawning, I glanced out the window. The sun
was just rising over the trees.
"Rise and shine!" Nathan chanted. "Rise and
I dropped to the floor. My pajama bottoms
Nathan laughed. He started tooting his kazoo
I grabbed it away from him. "We've got to talk
His grin faded. "What's your problem, dude?"
shine, guys!" He began spraying us with Sun-Glo.
were all twisted. I shielded my eyes from the
spray. "Give me a break!" I shouted.
again.
to you," I said.
"We went to your cabin last night, Sid said.
"Yeah, where were the counselors?" I
"Poisonous snakes," Kelly said.
"Where were you?"
demanded. "Your cabin was filled with snakes."
The three of us surrounded him. We stood
with our fists on our hips, watching him, waiting
for answers.
Nathan blinked. "Take a breath," he said.
"What were you guys doing out last night?"
"Just answer our questions," I said.
"I don't know anything about snakes," Nathan
said. "We were camping. All the counselors. We
slept in tents down by the lake."
I stared at him. Was he lying?
"It's a tradition," Nathan said. "The counsel ows
always have a campout the first week of camp'»
I poked the plastic kazoo into Nathan's stom
ach. "But what about the snakes sleeping in your
beds?" I demanded.
He shrugged. "I don't know. I don't understand
it. Guess they saw an empty cabin. So they
jumped at the chance for a warm bed."
He's totally lying, I decided.
"Nathan, we're not stupid. They were all ven-
omous snakes. Even pit vipers," I said. "All
deadly. They didn't just sneak into your cabin
because it was empty."
Nathan shrugged again. *"I just went to my
cabin to change. I didn't see any snakes."
He laughed. "You sure you little boys didn't
have a scary nightmare?" he asked in a babyish
voice.
"All of us?" Kelly cried. "You think we all had
the same nightmare?"
"Beats me," Nathan said. "Really. I was in a
tent all night. I don't know anything about
snakes."
I balled my hands into tight fists. He was defi-
nitely lying. How could I get him to tell us the
truth?
Maybe wve should follow Roddy's eæample, 1
suddenly thought. Maybe we should get out of
this camp as fast as we can.
Nathan grabbed the kazzo out of my hand. He said . get dressed dudes ". "Stop Staring at me like frightened rabbits . wear your swim trunks to breakfast. "
Swimming trunks why ? I asked . he replied .
This morning you are going to practice for cabin wars . you are going to swim across the lake ," Nathan said.
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