Layla Grey's Story

No Service. Raquel read the two words in top right corner of her iPhone 5s to herself for what felt like the millionth time in the last hour. She couldn't call anyone. Couldn't text. The only thing her phone was good for at this point was listening to music and playing apps. Which is exactly what she did. Laying her head against the glass window she put her playlist on shuffle and listened to the random songs that came sounding through her Beats earbuds. She played Candy Crush until she ran out of lives and then switched to Flappy Bird as she waited out the time until she regained lives to resume playing Candy Crush.

She repeated this playing cycle between the two games until the bus finally came to a stop when they arrived at their destination. Once the person sitting beside her got up and move out into the aisle Raquel stood up taking a moment to stretch. They had been sitting for hours and it felt good being able to stretch her legs. She noticed a guy seated all the way at end of bus fast asleep. No else looked like there were going to wake him up so Raquel decided to walking to the back of the bus. Placing a hand on the guy's shoulder she gently shook him, "Hey. We're at the camp." Stepping aside as the attractively tall guy got up putting the strap of his bag over his head and across his neck he gave her a simple "Thanks", as he walked by her as he walked up the aisle. "No hay problema."

Getting off the bus behind him she stood amongst the other teens and several adults as everyone's luggage was unloaded. When she spotted her bags she grabbed them and walked over to where she saw people huddled by a bulletin board. On the board was a piece of paper with a list of names and cabin numbers. There were two people to every cabin which meant she would be sharing. Layla Grey. Lord. I hope she not a bitch. Raquel thought as she found her name as well as the name of her summer roommate on the paper.

Turning from the bulletin she walked across the camp grounds until she found her cabin. Could be worst, she thought to herself as she walked into the empty cabin. From what she could tell she had made it to the cabin first. Which meant dibs. It took about fifteen or so minutes for Raquel to unpack all of her belongings and when she was done she wasn't exactly sure what she was suppose to do next. She had never done the whole summer camp experience thing before. When it had become clear that her mother was sending her whether she liked it or not she had promised herself that she would give it chance. However, the idea of an entire summer without internet and cell reception was just not her idea of the best summer ever.

She sat in quiet boredom tapping her tropical leopard print nails against the wooden bed frame as she attempted to wait for her roommate to arrive. Succumbing to the boredom that she felt in attempt to find something to do she left her cabin and went to see the sights. As she walked she braided her hair into a side french braid that hung down past her bust. It was a nice summer day out. Hot but not humid and there was a nice breeze blowing. Raquel wore a simple all white flowy crop top that left the tattoo on her side visible and a pair of denim laced shorts. Two light necklaces decorated her neck, a bracelet on her right wrist and a pair of sandals.

Christian was pretty quiet during their walk to his cabin as he seemed pretty focused on observing the cabin numbers as they passed the cabins. It turned out that Christian wasn't the only late arrival as a blonde passed the two of them holding bags in her hands. Had Raquel known that the bus ride was optional and she could arrive late she would have taken a road trip of sorts before showing up.

"Late arrival." Christian spoke finally giving an answer to her earlier asked question. "I just got-" As Christian stopped talking in mid-sentence Raquel made a small gasping sound as the blonde walking in front of them hit a sign. "Damn. That looked like that hurt." He said speaking the obvious. "No shit. I hope she's okay." She was about to suggest they go check on her when Aiden appeared at the blonde's side. "I guess this is me." She turned around noticing Christian had stopped in front of cabin fifteen. "Am Christian by the way. You know in case you were wondering." Realizing that she had never properly introduced herself she smiled, "Raquel."

She noticed that a bunch of campers were starting to head in the direction of the cafeteria. She hadn't eaten anything since yesterday as she had woken up late today and had to skip breakfast in order to catch the bus. "Looks like it's about to be meal time." She said looking back at Christian as the wind picked up a little sending a chill throughout her body. Her clothing didn't do much in the sense of keeping her warm as she was in only a crop top, a pair of shorts and sandals. "I think I should head to cabin now and change into something a little less summery. Am in cabin six. If you want swing by in a few minutes and we can walk to the cafe together."

With a final smile she left cabin in front of his cabin as she went back to her own. It wasn't a long walk but by the time she got there goosebumps had formed all along her body. Entering her cabin she noticed a girl sitting on the edge of the second bed with headphones on and a sketchpad in hand. So this is my roommate she thought to herself as she closed the cabin door behind her. She seemed to be in a zone of some sort so Raquel didn't interrupt as went to her dresser and began rummaging through the drawers for something warmer to put on.

She took out her ex's red plaid shirt that she had never returned and for whatever reason packed and taken along with her and a pair of ripped style skinny's she went into the bathroom to change as she wasn't sure how her roommate felt about things along the line of nudity and such. Exiting the bathroom a couple of minutes later she figured she should inform her roomie about everyone heading to the cafeteria. Walking over to her she gently tapped her shoulder, "Hey. Am Raquel and I guess if this is your cabin your my summer roomie." She turned walking over to her strappy black heels plopping down on her the edge of her bed she continue talking as she put them on. "Not sure if you knew this or not but everyone seems to be heading over to the cafe. We can got together if you want?" She said getting up and going to the bathroom.

Picking up her dirty clothes she tossed them into the hamper that was in the room before walking back out undoing the french braid she had done early. Running her fingers through her hair as she walked back over to her dresser she got the brush that rested on top of it and gently ran it through her hair. When satisfied with the results it had produced she put on some lip gloss and was ready to go. Turning around to face her roommate she asked "So, you coming with?"

"Looks like it's about to be meal time." Christian looked around at the campers all walking in the same direction. He hadn't been there long enough to know what was in what direction so he took Raquel's word for it. "I think I should head to cabin now and change into something a little less summery. Am in cabin six. If you want swing by in a few minutes and we can walk to the cafe together." His gaze went back to her when she spoke. With nighttime quickly approaching the temperature outside was steadily dropping. Raquel was dressed for the early morning summertime weather but as a frequent camper he knew when you came out to places like these it got darker and far colder than in the cities.

"Cool. I'll stop by after I finish putting my things away." She smiled at him than went on her way to her cabin. Entering his cabin Christan was surprised to see that the cabin was unoccupied. He didn't want to get to excited about this but by the way it was looking either he was by himself for the summer or his roommate was running even later than him. He didn't have time to think about it as he had to get to Raquel's cabin. He threw his bags onto the closest bed to him and unloaded it making sure to leave room just encase it turned out that he did have a roomie.

It didn't take him real long to unpack his things as he just stuffed his already folded clothing into the drawers. He lined up his footwear beside the dresser and but his bathroom supplies in the bathroom. Everything else he had he just put onto of the dresser and he was ready to go. Grabbing his grey sweater he put it on as he exited his cabin. It wasn't a long walk to cabin six and he reached the cabin just as Raquel and a black-hair girl who he assumed was her roommate was exiting the cabin. "Don't tell me your were about to leave without me." He said speaking to Raquel as he approached the two girls. "Hi. Am Christian." He said this time introducing himself to the new girl who he was just meeting.