Melody nudges me and I turn to look at her, unsurprised to see the small bruise on the side of her chin. According to her and the other girls in my cabin, she’d ‘slipped’ and accidentally taken down the boy who hit me with a paddle. With her fist. According to Daniel, though he’d been sheepish when he’d said it, the kid had deserved it. He’d thought it was funny that he’d knocked me into the river, and funnier still that Kayde needed to fish me out. The boy was telling everyone at the beach about it, before Melody’s little ‘accident’ knocked him into the lake, off the dock, and into the arms
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