Chapter 1
Adora bounced her leg insistently under the table, waiting for what felt like hours as she watched the hand on the clock edge closer to the magical time that would end her suffering.
The school bell ringing set her free and she packed her pencil and notebook and ran out of the classroom before her teacher, Ms. Weaver, could even attempt to ask her to stay back.
It was finally summer vacation and there was no way she was going to miss Catra's free invitation to her mysterious summer camp for the fifth year in a row . Catra's been trying to get Adora to come with her since they were 13, and now they were in their last summer of high school and--
"Hey Adora," a familiar voice rasped behind her. Adora jumped with a yelp as her friend began to cackle beside her.
"Catra!" Adora sent her a glare as she struggled to recover her breath.
"You should've seen the look on your face!" She wheezed, draping herself against Adora's shoulder, "you were all-- 'Ahhhh! Noooo! Betrayal! '"
Adora sighed as they continued walking down the street away from school, Catra walking with deft poise through the crowd like a cat on one of those tiktoks-- the ones with all the stuff on the ground and they have to like walk through it without knocking them over and--
Catra was snapping her fingers in front of her face.
“Uh sorry, what did you say?”
Catra puffed a small sigh, “I was asking if you already got everything packed?”
“Oh yeah!” Adora reached around to pat her extra stuffed backpack a couple of times, “Got everything I need right here.” Catra raised her eyebrow but accepted the answer, grabbing her hand to help guide her through the crowd faster.
“Alright dork, come on then-- we don’t want to be late for the bus.”