The Ghost of Summer Camp

2 The Ghost of Summer Camp Every year I go to a girls' camp for two weeks during the summer holidays. This year, I went to a camp that was right across from another girls' camp. One night, we did something that we should not have done. We made a plan with four girls from the other camp. We would wait until everyone was asleep, borrow a canoe and meet on a little island with an old shack on it. The shack was supposed to be haunted. We thought it would be exciting. But we didn't know just how exciting our evening would turn out to be. We made it to the island and waited for the other girls. There was no sign of them. We waited in the old shack for about ten minutes. Those ten minutes seemed like hours. Every strange sound made us jump. Then, we heard a person whispering and saw a strange light coming towards the shack. It was green and it looked very spooky in the mist!

We all screamed and ran to the water. We jumped in the canoe and never looked back. We didn't stop paddling until we got to our camp, which was about a mile away. The next night, we met with the girls from the other camp. We asked them if it was they who had frightened us. “ We never left the camp, " they told us. “ One of the adults caught us. " Suddenly, we heard a whisper coming from the forest and then we saw the strange green light again. Had it followed us here? Then, our camp leader Jessica appeared. " Hi girls, " she said, smiling. “ Remember me? I followed you out to the island last night to keep an eye on you. When I saw you sneaking away, I figured I should teach you a lesson. " Then, she put the green flashlight under her chin to make a scary face and said with a smile, “ If you go out in one of those canoes at night again, it won't be ghosts you'll have to worry about! Understand?" From that moment on, we were the best-behaved kids at camp!