Roxie's POV
-- call ends --
Roxie gets worried about her sister so decides to call her again, although failing miserably numerous times, she wasn't giving up just yet.
Dials again...
-- busy on another call --
Keeps dialling...
-- disconnected --
-- unreachable --
-- switched off --
-- didn't connect --
-- didn't connect --
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*Voice mail*
Hello, yeah? *pause*
Haha just kidding. Raven this side, probably busy enjoying my summer vacay don't bother reaching me! Toodles!!
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And the call gets disconnected yet again. Directing her to the same recorded voice message over and over again, every time she dialed her number up.
Frustrated and anxious, she yells, "I sometimes don't understand what goes on up inside Raven's head! "
-- didn't connect --
Multiple calls didn't connect anymore.
"What was that email she sent me, again??" she mumbles.
-- checks forwarded email --
sender: ############
Receiver: roxie-roxanne@mymail.com
Subject: ############
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###########
###########
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"What the heckery is this now? It was just right there a minute ago and now it's just encrypted into some other language?"
" Is this some kind of a joke? Did she do it on purpose?"
"Urgh Raven!!!! What is wrong with you??!!" She yells, inside her head. What was she to do, feeling all helpless and her anxiety getting the best of her?
This is Roxie, Roxanne; Raven's elder sister. She only cares about two things in the whole world: her sister Raven & her "work".
"How do I reach her now??"
"It was some camp right?"
"What was the name!!!!!", unable to remember, she gets more anxious.
Roxie cares about her sister more than anything in the world, she is more like her guardian angel and sometimes a furious and nagging mother. All because she cares extremely for her unappreciative baby sister.
Furiously, Roxie keeps dialling Raven with no luck...
2 hours later...
" I have to do something now!"
Roxie who had been standing all this while, walks to her desk and takes out the chair. Sits on the chair and opens her dear old laptop; wishing to find if there was any other way or even slightest of a clue on how to reach her short-tempered sister.
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MOOGLE SEARCH
-- UPCOMING SUMMER CAMPS
RESULTS
1,000,000+
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" Seems like it's going to be a long road to find her" sighs Roxie.
-- calls all the possible camps she could have registered for --
" Ma'am sorry, your voice is not clear"
" We can't hear you properly"
" There's some static from your side"
.
.
.
The same reply, framed differently is the answer from everyone for her queries while most were manually handled, there was one call that led to an automated voice but before she could hang up she got a reply.
" We can't share the information but, do you want to register?"
" No, thank you"
-- Disappointed she hangs up --
Roxie has now reached a point where she was at the lowest and soon before it was almost sunrise and Roxie doesn't realize until the rays of the sunbeams fall on her desk.
" Damnit", she mutters.
"It's morning already!"
" Even if I leave right now, It will still take 9 hours to reach her place"
"It's no use though she might leave at any moment, how do I find her?"
Sighs in despair...
Fixates her sight on the ray of light as she ponders what other ways she has...
As she was completely absorbed in her thoughts, soon she found herself staring at the pinboard in front of her.
"Wait what is that??", Roxie noticed a postcard pinned up on the board.
"The Camp", Roxie reads off the now unpinned postcard with a scenery of a typical camping site.
"Rokvale Forest." Roxie mumbles as she flips it around.
"That sounds quite familiar, though I can't remember", Roxie said to herself with a doubt.
"Ahh my head hurts"
"Must be because of staying up for so long" Roxie continued.
As she tries to remember what 'Rokvale Forest' was or rather where it was, her body rapidly gets unsteady and she becomes lightheaded, followed by a tingling sensation of pain as if her body remembers it even though she doesn't.
"I think it's all the caffeine acting up, shouldn't have had it that much" Roxie words it as she starts to feel dizzy.
Right then her phone beeps,
--beep beep beep--
-- A new Message --
Unknown: "Come to Aldore and find it yourself, let's see if you can save her or she just turns into another you but better; Dead ;)"
Roxie reads with her now half-shut eyes and tries to frame a reply
Roxie: "She is my sister, don't u..."
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And soon Roxie drops her phone and loses consciousness leading her to fall off the chair.
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The Camp
Mystery / ThrillerFirst Draft of " The Camp" Raven; tired of listening stories of how her classmates spent their summer break with their parents, decides to go alone to a summer camp when her sister refuses to tag along. Only to find out "The Camp" isn't like any oth...
