The sun was blazing down upon the tired campers as they dug their daily holes. All of D-Tent were just a little bit worried because a week ago Hector Zeroni hit Mr. Pendanski across the head with a shovel and took off running into the desert with no where to go. And worst of all: no water or food. Surely enough he would be buzzard food.

The other day Stanley Yelnats, also know as Caveman, stole the water truck and drove into a hole, leaving all of C, D, and E to clean up the mess. Stanley didn't know where he was running either but he was determined to find Hector and bring him back to Camp. Alive

Back at camp, the boys of D-tent were in for a surprise. Since Caveman left there had been a vacancy in the list of campers so someone, somewhere was on that yellow school bus heading out in the middle of nowhere.

Her name was Wendy. And she was being sent to Camp Green Lake for something that she didn't do. (Sound familiar?) As she sat on the hot dusty bus she daydreamed, like always. A lock of her thick brunette hair fell into her eyes snapping her out of her gaze.

"So where is this place anyway?" she asked the guard with the shotgun. He didn't answer, he just look at her.

"Fine then!" she whispered sarcastically

She finally saw the camp but it wasn't what she had expected. The guard un-cuffed her and led her down the steps. He took her by the arm and tried to lead her to the Mr. Sir but she yanked her arm out of his grasp and said "I can walk by myself, thanks!"

Mr. Sir gave her a lecture but she was busy looking at the boys who were staring at her like they hadn't seen a girl in forever. Mr. Sir took her to the record room; there was a boy in his teens looking through files. He turned around to see her; a shocked expression came across his face. She was getting tired of this.

Mr. Sir motioned for her to sit on the moth eaten chair in front of the desk. The Warden was sitting behind the desk. The boy was still there lost in his own thoughts.

"Squid, could you get me Miss Lewis's records?" The Warden's voice was smooth, cool and poisonous. The boy didn't say anything he just walked behind Payge and the scanned the files on the bookcase. Wendy turned around to see him but he had already gotten up and returned to the Warden. "Thank you." she said, Squid went to the door and just stood there.

"Well, well, well what do we have here? Wendy Miora Lewis. Top academic grades, captain of the girls' soccer team, and tenth grade homecoming queen. Tut, tut, tut. " Said the warden

"How do you know that?" Payge asked. Squid thought her voice sounded like angels singing, maybe he was over exaggerating but he thought that she was really pretty.

"It's all here, along with your criminal record."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm mean attempted murder won't go well with the rest of the camp so don't pull anything drastic"

"FYI! I didn't try to kill my step-mum, I didn't like her all that much but I didn't try to kill her." her voice had a pinch of a British accent. Squid figured she was from up north. The Warden just rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, your the only female camper here so watch your back." the Warden said getting up and walking over to a cabinet and got two orange jumpsuits and gave them to Wendy, "Put this on over your shorts, here's a weeks worth of shower tokens. Ten minutes and it turns off by it's self" Payge slid the jumpsuit up, tied it off, and took the tokens.

"You either were the yellow tank top you have on or this yellow shirt," said the Warden handing her one, "Mr. Sir should have settled everything else out. Squid will show you to D-tent, were you'll be staying"

Squid walked to his tent withWendy close behind him. He pointed to the cot at the back wall of the tent, with his on the left and Zig Zag's on the right.

"Thanks," she said putting her bag in her crate. Squid sat on his cot and said "Attempted murder?"

"Yeah funny isn't it? No I didn't care what my parent did they never cared about me. It was my father's plan. He went away when I was five and then two months ago he appeared out of the blue with his new wife and kids and job, wanting me back. Mum wouldn't allow it so he figured if he couldn't have me than no one could."Wendy looked at Squid she didn't know why she just let it all out like that but she did and boy, did it feel good.

"Wow." was the only word Squid could muster.

"Yeah it's a real long story. And that's just the summary"

Squid nodded as the door to the tent opened and Zig Zag, X-ray and Twitch walked in.

"So it's true there finally letting girls come to camp!" X-ray goggled.

Mr. Pendanski walked in with Magnet and Armpit.

"Hello, Miss Lewis, now you know that your here because of one person and do you know who that is?" Mom said.

"Judge Nicholson?" Wendy said trying her best to sound innocent. The boys of D-Tent howled with laughter.

"Very funny but no it was you, now boys introduce yourselves,"

"X-ray" said the skinny black boy with huge glasses,

"Rex!" said an annoyed Pendanski

"Magnet" said the Hispanic boy

"Jose!" said Pendanski

"Armpit" said the chubby black boy

"Theodore!"

"Twitch" said the short white boy; Wendy could tell why they called him Twitch he never once stopped moving.

"Brian! Anyway you should all ready know Alan," Pendanski said happily "and remember guys, we're doing The Circle tomorrow. Good night"

Payge was the second to the last to go to sleep she was thinking of Squid and his puppy dog brown eyes. She let out a sigh not knowing that Squid was turned on his side on his cot and was looking at her right that very moment. She quickly fell into a world of dreams. The dreams were about . . . who else? Alan a.k.a. Squid