When my parents found out about the many adventures that left me without a stitch of clothing, they were furious.
At first, they refused to buy me new clothes, opting instead to keep me grounded and dressed in bedsheets and whatever rags we had, and when the graduation ceremony rolled around, where I found myself attending naked under my gown, thankfully, that was the extent of it and nobody really realized that I had nothing else on.
Afterwards, I was told that instead of getting to have fun during my summer vacation, I would be sent to a correctional camp, a place that was typically reserved for the incarcerated delinquent children of families who wanted to return their children to the straight and narrow, this particular one was for the variety of kids got caught by the authorities doing something illegal but not that dangerous. So it wasn't strict enough to be called a boot camp.
That was how I found myself on a bus to Camp Eldervale for Delinquent Children, it was a surprisingly empty bus; besides the driver, only 5 other people were on it, three girls sitting in the back and another girl sitting with a boy up front.
I was wearing an old shirt and swimming shorts that my parents had given me to wear whenever I went outside, which I was only allowed to do under their watch, I wasn't even allowed to talk to the neighbors during that time.
One the one hand, I certainly missed talking and playing around with Maya and Sara, on the other, I somehow managed to retain this singular set of clothes that I owned for more than two weeks.
As I was minding my own business, prepared to sit here bored out of my skull for the next couple of hors, I heard the girls behind me, who up to this point were giggling and whispering to each other, call out to me:
"Hey, hey you!" one of them said in a hushed voice, I turned around and saw a redheaded girl talking to me, she motioned for me to come sit with them, and I nervously got up and approached them, two were sitting on either side of the last bench, and one of them sat in the row ahead, since there was a space right in the middle of the last row, I chose to sit there.
"My name's Rebecca, you can call me Becky for short." The redhead, a slender girl wearing jeans shorts and a black tanktop that complemented her curly hair, pointed to the other two girls as sh introduced them "this one is Kaylee, and the other is Jackie."
"Hi." both Jackie and Kaylee greeted me respectively, I greeted them back:
"Hi, my name's Luna." I said, feeling slightly awkward.
"So Luna, what're you in here for?" Rebecca, who was apparently the leader of this newly formed clique, asked bluntly "I'm here for having a knack for a certain medicinal herb."
"I got caught shoplifting, worst is, I was doing it on a dare." Jackie, a girl with short blonde haired and breasts about as big as mine, wearing a pair of overalls and a blue shirt, took her turn explaining how she got busted for trying to sneak out of a small mom and pop shop with a bathing suit under her clothes, they noticed the tag and caught her "I tried paying for it afterwards, but they wouldn't have any of it."
"I just crashed into some big shot's car, I have to do this as part of my community service if I don't want him suing the pants off my parents." last was Kaylee, a black girl with long flowing hair and wearing tight black jeans and a white blouse.
"So what's your crime, inmate?" Rebecca turned her attention back to me, and I froze in place, how should I explain this?
"I uh... I would rather not say..." I tried to weasel out of answering, but the girls were having none of it.
"Come on, we told you what we're here for, at least do the same for us." Jackie objected, she wasn't the only one.
"Okay okay, here's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna try and guess and you tell me if it's right," Rebecca calmed the other girls down, and started thinking "let's see, you're not here for anything like what we did, that wouldn't make sense..."
"Are you here for beating someone up?" Rebecca asked, I shook my head "Of course not, they wouldn't send you here if your did."
"You into graffiti?" Kaylee asked, I replied with a no.
"Did you kill someone?" Rebecca asked, a wry grin on her face, it was clear that she enjoyed the shocked look on my face.
"Public indecency!" And that one made me nervous, which was apparently a dead giveaway, because as soon as Jackie said that, Rebecca's expression changed into a serious and surprised one.
"Wait, really? Holy shit!" Rebecca exclaimed her surprise rather loudly, causing me to blush as the other girls to make sure that nobody heard that exclamation, when they were sure, Rebecca leaned in and whispered her question "really?"
I gave in and nodded, the cat was out of the bag anyways, and I started to retell some of my stories, which really interested the girls enough for them to pester me into retelling the majority of my stories.
"Wow, you're a real freak Luna." Kaylee said breathlessly, she looked like she just got off a roller coaster ride "So wait, are you saying you don't have a bra on?"