Caves
I DO NOT own Holes. This sequel to Holes is just a story that came into my mind. *
Part one:
As you all remember for the end of the first story, Camp Greenlake had been turned into a Girl's Camp. But that's not what really happened.
No, some other crazy lady came trying to find something else of Kissing Kate's. But this time, it wasn't a treasure. Or maybe it was. None of us know what's inside her- hey! You can't know what she's looking for yet! You'll have to wait!
So as I was saying, one side of Camp Greenlake was a girls camp, and the other side was where the crazy lady had her boys digging holes-
Again.
Why was she allowed to let them dig more holes? She had convinced them that she wasn't looking for anything else and that digging some more actually WOULD help the boy's character. How did she do this? I do not know.
*
"We've got a new one." said one of the workers for the camp, dropping a pile of folders onto The Warden's desk. She wasn't the old Warden of course, but the new owner of the boy's side of Camp Greenlake.
"Really? What is his name?" asked the Warden.
"It's a she." said the worker, a grin twisting onto his face.
"Ah, a she, you say? Excellent. When will she be arriving?" asked The Warden.
"In about 3 hours."
"Just enough time." she said, laughing to herself as she took another breath of her cigarette.
*
"STOP TALKING!" The Warden barked. All the boys instantly went silent and sat up straight. It was about lunchtime, and they had just finished eating when she had called them over.
"I have called you all over today, because we will be having a new camper here today. She'll probably arrive pretty soon." she said to them all.
"So? We've have a lot of new members before." said Armpit.
"Don't talk back to me!" she said sharply. "As I was saying, this camper is different. For one thing, it's a SHE."
The boys instantly started talking.
"A she? What's a GIRL doing coming over here?" asked Twitch.
"I'm already taken, no problem for me." said X-Ray, laughing a little.
"Quiet! I just wanted to get you all set up to greet this LADY in a proper way. Hit the showers. NOW!" she barked, and the boys quickly scrambled up and stumbled towards the showers.
"A girl here? Man, that's wacked." a boy named Magnet asked on the way to the showers.
"Why? I think it'll be fun." said Zig Zag mischievously.
"Yeah, you just want to spy on her when she's in the shower." said Armpit, laughing.
"I still think it's wacked! I mean, she'll probably ruin all our fun-"
"HURRY UP!" shouted the Warden from her cabin door.
*
The bus rolled down the bumpy road that ran from the girl's Camp to the Boys Camp. A girl about 15 years old was on there, staring out the window. The landscape wasn't that dry anymore, and it rained every once in a while. But the sky was clear blue now. The girl sighed.
This girl's name was Becky, and she had been at the Girl Scout Camp that summer, on the other side of Camp Greenlake. Somehow she had been accused of stealing a lot of money from the camp that had been for some important fund-raiser.
"But I didn't do it!" she had said.
"That's what they all say." said the camp counselor.
The bus came to a stop and Becky could see the boys walking toward the bus, though not very clearly, for the windows were smudged and hard to see through.
"Great." she muttered to herself, as she got up out of her seat and followed the guard out.
She was relieved when her handcuffs came off, and she was rubbing her wrists when the Warden and the boys stopped in front of her.
"Hello Becky Stell." said The Warden, much too sweetly.
"Hello." she answered back. She was staring at the boys, and they were staring at her.
"Boys," she said sharply, and all their heads quickly turned to her. "Say hello to our new camper.
"Hello." they all mumbled. Becky just smiled, though not a very happy smile, and looked around the camp.
"Welcome to Camp Greenlake. For the next 18 months you will be digging one hole each day, 5 feet wide, 5 feet deep. If you find anything interesting, show it to me, and you just might get the day off. You will be assigned to a tent, either A, B, C, D, E, F, or G. A water truck will come around 3 times a day to fill your canteen. The showers are only 1 minute long. Got it?" said the Warden, and some boys behind her were snickering as they heard about the showers. Becky glared at them, a little embarrassed.
"Stop that laughing. D Tent! GET OVER HERE!" shouted the Warden, and Becky watched some boys step forward from near the back.
"Magnet, Armpit, Twitch, ZigZag, Squid, X-Ray! Becky will be joining your tent. I'll be very pleased if you will show her where to go and where everything is....... NOW!"
The boys jumped at the tone of her voice and gabbed Becky and pulled her out of the scene.
"Ow! Why are you grabbing me let me go!" she said, pulling her arm away and rubbing it.
"Just follow us." said X-Ray.
She obeyed as they walked towards one of the tents.
"This is our tent." said X-Ray, climbing in first. All of the boys pushed past her, and then let her in last. She sighed angrily, and climbed up the stairs.
The tent was rather filthy, and the only bed left was in the far left corner, where the boy who was named Magnet's bed was next to.
"Great, I have to sleep in a room full of smelly guys." she muttered.
"What was that?" asked Armpit, turning toward her in an angry kind of way.
"Oh, nothing." she said, and put her backpack down on her dirty and hard bed.
"Here's your work clothes and you're relaxing clothes." said Squid, taking out a pair of clothes from a dresser nearby. Becky took them from him, then stared at all of the,
"Where do I change?"
"In here of course." said ZigZag, grinning.
"Ew no of course not! That's disgusting! Really, where do I change?"
"There's no where else but in here. Or you'll just have to go outside behind the tent." said Magnet, who was grinning as well.
Becky glared at them hard before turning around and heading outside behind the tent to change.
It was horrible. Of course no one could see her from behind the tent, but she still felt uncomfortable, and when she got her new clothes on she instantly started to feel warm from the heat. Before she had been wearing shorts and a tanktop, and now she was wearing those orange uniforms everyone was wearing.
She took out two hair elastics and put her hair up in two side ponytails, and came back in the tent, scowling. "You better not have been spying on me." she said bitterly.
"Even if we wanted to we wouldn't have been able too. No windows." said ZigZag.
Becky threw her old clothes on her bed, and sat down, her back facing them, her chin in her hands. What had she done to deserve to live in a place like this for almost a whole year.
Suddenly all the boys started to leave. "Where are you going?" she asked.
"We have to finish our holes!" said Twitch, turning to leave. Becky watched them go, then she stood in the doorway and watched what she would have to do for the next 18 months.
She saw all the boys getting in line for water now. Magnet was trying to get second in line, but X-Ray pushed him back. "Stay in your own spot, Magnet." he said.
After that they went to dig. Now they dug their holes very near the mountain. You know, the mountain with God's Thumb. They didn't know why, though. They just did. Becky sighed, then groaned, then started fanning herself, trying to keep cool.
*
The next morning Becky sat up as the alarm went off for them to all get up. She groaned and rubbed her eyes. The boys were already up. She got out her brush and started to brush her hair, and put on her glasses. She stood in front of the broken mirror, trying to get her hair less knotty.
At breakfast, Becky sat next to Magnet, but was eating in silence.
"Hey, the new girl's been very quiet today. She reminds me of someone. What do you think, Zigzag?" said Armpit.
"Yeah, she does. A good friend of ours, actually." said ZigZag.
"And who would that be?" Becky said, not sounding at all interested.
"His name was Zero." said Zigzag, and that's when they all started to tell her about Stanley and Zero.
"And you're all STILL digging? That's completely stupid!" she said, rolling her eyes when they were done.
"Well, I don't think we're looking for anything anymore." said Magnet.
"How do you know?" she asked.
"Well, why would they let this new Warden make this camp if we were looking for something again?" he said, and all of the other boys nodded their heads in agreement, and Becky rolled her eyes.
They were all out digging now, and Becky forced her shovel into the dirt. It was much harder than she thought it would be. And the boys were not making it any easier. Especially Magnet.
When she was almost halfway deep, and about a half way wide, Magnet started to throw some of his dirt into her hole.
"Hey! Stop it!" she said angrily, throwing some at him from her shovel.
"Hey! I'm not doing anything!" he said, taking a heap of dirt out and throwing it at her. Armpit was laughing, watching them. Some of the others were grinning.
Becky tried to ignore him, but she wasn't getting any farther as he threw his dirt into her hole. And it wouldn't help if she kept throwing it back at him. Instead she threw him a scorned look, and kept digging.
After a while he started throwing dirt into her hole again. She sighed, annoyed, then stood up straight, smiling sweetly at him.
"Magnet, why are you throwing your dirt in my hole?" she asked in a sweet voice.
"Because, your stupid hole is in my pile space!" he said.
"No, you just like annoying me!" she said.
"Maybe." he said, grinning at her. She stomped her foot.
"Well stop it!"
"Why?"
"BECAUSE!" Suddenly she picked up her shovel and poured all her dirt on top of his head, and pushed him a little. He stumbled backwards, then fell into his hole. All the guys started laughing, leaning on their shovels.
"Hey!" Magnet's voice came from under the dirt, sounding angry.
Becky was still standing near his hole, looking shocked at what she had just done. But she also looked a little proud. She had never done anything like that before.
Magnet stood up, wiping the dirt off of him, when one of the cars with the workers for the camp came driving up.
"What is going on here?" one asked, getting out of the car.
"She pushed me!" said Magnet, and at the same time Becky said, "He kept throwing his dirt in my hole!"
They both glared at eachother.
"It was just something we always do to new campers!" said Magnet.
"Well don't do it to a girl! Especially a girl like me!" she shouted back at him.
"Oh yeah?"
"YEAH!"
"That's it! Stop it! You too our digging two extra feet today!" said the guard, then got back in his car, leaving the two of them open mouthed.
"Now look what you did! This is only my first day!" she said.
"It's all your fault! Stupid girl!"
"Oh yeah? Well, you're a stupid guy!" she said, grabbing her shovel. Magnet snorted, getting back to work as well.
*
Being with Magnet by herself was very different than being with him with everyone else around them. When they were the last diggers out, she felt tongue-tied and she couldn't think straight. Before she had be so angry with him and muttering to herself how mean he was, but after everyone started to leave, those thoughts started to leave her head. She suddenly felt nervous.
There was no sound except the scraping of their shovels. When Becky was finally donw with her two extra feet, she was so tired she couldn't climb out. She also couldn't climb out because of the huge blisters she already had.
Suddenly a hand reached down to her, and she looked up. It was Magnet.
"Here, let me help you out." he said.
She took his hand, feeling a bit awkward, and he helped her out of her hole.
"Er......... thanks." she said.
"No problem." he said, then turned to leave.
*
They both headed towards the showers. The shower stalls had been built taller now, though they didn't have a roof. Someone could easily just pull himself up onto the faucet, and look over the edge and watch you while you took your shower.
Becky stepped into the shower and put her clothes over the top of the door. Magnet looked at them, with a mischievous look on his face. Then he grabbed them.
"HEY!" Becky shrieked. She had seen him take them. "Why you little.."
"Didn't you ever hear that my fingers are like little magnets?" he said, and she could hear him laughing.
"That is it!" she said loudly, and she took his clothes.
"Hey! You can't do that!" he said.
"Oh yes I can! Now give me my clothes back!"
"You'll have to come and get them." he said.
She sighed, then took his shirt, and put it on, while muttering. "What a brat......." she said, then he put her foot on the faucet. She hoisted herself up over the edge, then closed her eyes.
"Hand them over! Now!" he said, sticking her hand out.
"Why do you have your eyes closed?" she heard him say from right in front of her.
"Because you're-" she couldn't help but open her eyes, and she saw that he was also standing on the faucet, but he had a towel around his waist, and he was face to face with her. She stared at him for a second.
"Er......can I have my clothes back please?" she said, awkwardly.
"Well........"
"Come on!" she said.
"Alright. Here. Now give me mine."
She took her clothes, lowered herself, and took off Magnet's shirt and threw it over the top at him.
"There was no point in taking my clothes." she said angrily.
Then, finally, she took her shower in peace.
*
At dinner, Becky sat silently, as everyone else talked and laughed.
"So did you see her in the shower?" said ZigZag, winking.
"Yeah." said Magnet, laughing. Becky glared at him, but stayed silent.
"Yeah right." said Armpit.
"Well, maybe not...... I stole her clothes though." he added in a whisper.
They broke out in laughs, and Becky could feel herself turning red.
"But seriously, that push she gave you, that was awesome." said ZigZag.
"Will you guys stop talking about me like I'm not here?" she said savagely.
"Hey, are you gonna finish that?" asked X-Ray, pointing to her dinner, ignoring what she had just said.
Becky glared at him for a second, but then said, "No. You go on and have it. I'm going back to the tent." then she got up and left.
"We got her really mad, man." said Magnet.
"So?" said ZigZag.
Magnet just shrugged, but he watched her leave. She was looking at her blisters as she left. They looked terribly bad, and she could hardly move her hands.
*
Becky had been the only one in the tent or a while, and when she came back from going to the bathroom, she instantly wished she hadn't come in. Magnet was the only one inside now.
Nothing was said. Becky went and opened her bag, looking for something, and Magnet was also getting something out of his bag.
"Here." he said, handing her something. She looked at it suspiciously, then took it. It was a bottle of something. It was really dirty so she had to wipe it to see what it was. It was some kind of lotion.
"What's this for?" she asked.
"You're blisters. We.......We let all the new kids use it for their blisters." he said quickly.
She raised an eyebrow at the tone of his voice, but squirted some on her hands anyway. They stung for a second, but then they suddenly felt better.
"Thanks." she said, and handed it back to him.
"No problem." he said.
They could hear the rest of the boys coming back, and Becky rushed back to her bed, and pulled out a book.
They were laughing as the door opened, but Becky didn't know what they had been talking about.
"Hey, Becky, you need a nickname. We've been trying to find one but we couldn't think of any good ones for a girl."
Becky sat up on her elbows and gave them a look. "Like what kind of nickname?"
"We donno. Like I said, we can't think of one for a girl." said Twitch.
"Why not?"
"Because you're the first girl to come to this camp and all we've been nicknaming is guys." said ZigZag.
"Well, how do you usually nickname them?" she asked.
"Well, my nickname is Armpit because I smell bad, Magnet's is Magnet because he says his fingers are like little magnets, Twitch'' nickname is twitch because he twitches a lot, and so on." said Armpit.
"Ah, I see." then she started to think on what her nickname should be.
"What about Bookworm? I mean, she did have millions of books in her bag......." said X-Ray.
"HEY! How did you know what was in my bag?"
"The Warden makes us look through new campers bags for anything..... illegal." answered X-Ray.
"But why would I bring in anything like that? I didn't even steal that money!" she protested.
"She reminding me of someone again." said ZigZag. Becky rolled her eyes and lay back on her bed, annoyed again.
part two soon!
I DO NOT own Holes. This sequel to Holes is just a story that came into my mind. *
Part one:
As you all remember for the end of the first story, Camp Greenlake had been turned into a Girl's Camp. But that's not what really happened.
No, some other crazy lady came trying to find something else of Kissing Kate's. But this time, it wasn't a treasure. Or maybe it was. None of us know what's inside her- hey! You can't know what she's looking for yet! You'll have to wait!
So as I was saying, one side of Camp Greenlake was a girls camp, and the other side was where the crazy lady had her boys digging holes-
Again.
Why was she allowed to let them dig more holes? She had convinced them that she wasn't looking for anything else and that digging some more actually WOULD help the boy's character. How did she do this? I do not know.
*
"We've got a new one." said one of the workers for the camp, dropping a pile of folders onto The Warden's desk. She wasn't the old Warden of course, but the new owner of the boy's side of Camp Greenlake.
"Really? What is his name?" asked the Warden.
"It's a she." said the worker, a grin twisting onto his face.
"Ah, a she, you say? Excellent. When will she be arriving?" asked The Warden.
"In about 3 hours."
"Just enough time." she said, laughing to herself as she took another breath of her cigarette.
*
"STOP TALKING!" The Warden barked. All the boys instantly went silent and sat up straight. It was about lunchtime, and they had just finished eating when she had called them over.
"I have called you all over today, because we will be having a new camper here today. She'll probably arrive pretty soon." she said to them all.
"So? We've have a lot of new members before." said Armpit.
"Don't talk back to me!" she said sharply. "As I was saying, this camper is different. For one thing, it's a SHE."
The boys instantly started talking.
"A she? What's a GIRL doing coming over here?" asked Twitch.
"I'm already taken, no problem for me." said X-Ray, laughing a little.
"Quiet! I just wanted to get you all set up to greet this LADY in a proper way. Hit the showers. NOW!" she barked, and the boys quickly scrambled up and stumbled towards the showers.
"A girl here? Man, that's wacked." a boy named Magnet asked on the way to the showers.
"Why? I think it'll be fun." said Zig Zag mischievously.
"Yeah, you just want to spy on her when she's in the shower." said Armpit, laughing.
"I still think it's wacked! I mean, she'll probably ruin all our fun-"
"HURRY UP!" shouted the Warden from her cabin door.
*
The bus rolled down the bumpy road that ran from the girl's Camp to the Boys Camp. A girl about 15 years old was on there, staring out the window. The landscape wasn't that dry anymore, and it rained every once in a while. But the sky was clear blue now. The girl sighed.
This girl's name was Becky, and she had been at the Girl Scout Camp that summer, on the other side of Camp Greenlake. Somehow she had been accused of stealing a lot of money from the camp that had been for some important fund-raiser.
"But I didn't do it!" she had said.
"That's what they all say." said the camp counselor.
The bus came to a stop and Becky could see the boys walking toward the bus, though not very clearly, for the windows were smudged and hard to see through.
"Great." she muttered to herself, as she got up out of her seat and followed the guard out.
She was relieved when her handcuffs came off, and she was rubbing her wrists when the Warden and the boys stopped in front of her.
"Hello Becky Stell." said The Warden, much too sweetly.
"Hello." she answered back. She was staring at the boys, and they were staring at her.
"Boys," she said sharply, and all their heads quickly turned to her. "Say hello to our new camper.
"Hello." they all mumbled. Becky just smiled, though not a very happy smile, and looked around the camp.
"Welcome to Camp Greenlake. For the next 18 months you will be digging one hole each day, 5 feet wide, 5 feet deep. If you find anything interesting, show it to me, and you just might get the day off. You will be assigned to a tent, either A, B, C, D, E, F, or G. A water truck will come around 3 times a day to fill your canteen. The showers are only 1 minute long. Got it?" said the Warden, and some boys behind her were snickering as they heard about the showers. Becky glared at them, a little embarrassed.
"Stop that laughing. D Tent! GET OVER HERE!" shouted the Warden, and Becky watched some boys step forward from near the back.
"Magnet, Armpit, Twitch, ZigZag, Squid, X-Ray! Becky will be joining your tent. I'll be very pleased if you will show her where to go and where everything is....... NOW!"
The boys jumped at the tone of her voice and gabbed Becky and pulled her out of the scene.
"Ow! Why are you grabbing me let me go!" she said, pulling her arm away and rubbing it.
"Just follow us." said X-Ray.
She obeyed as they walked towards one of the tents.
"This is our tent." said X-Ray, climbing in first. All of the boys pushed past her, and then let her in last. She sighed angrily, and climbed up the stairs.
The tent was rather filthy, and the only bed left was in the far left corner, where the boy who was named Magnet's bed was next to.
"Great, I have to sleep in a room full of smelly guys." she muttered.
"What was that?" asked Armpit, turning toward her in an angry kind of way.
"Oh, nothing." she said, and put her backpack down on her dirty and hard bed.
"Here's your work clothes and you're relaxing clothes." said Squid, taking out a pair of clothes from a dresser nearby. Becky took them from him, then stared at all of the,
"Where do I change?"
"In here of course." said ZigZag, grinning.
"Ew no of course not! That's disgusting! Really, where do I change?"
"There's no where else but in here. Or you'll just have to go outside behind the tent." said Magnet, who was grinning as well.
Becky glared at them hard before turning around and heading outside behind the tent to change.
It was horrible. Of course no one could see her from behind the tent, but she still felt uncomfortable, and when she got her new clothes on she instantly started to feel warm from the heat. Before she had been wearing shorts and a tanktop, and now she was wearing those orange uniforms everyone was wearing.
She took out two hair elastics and put her hair up in two side ponytails, and came back in the tent, scowling. "You better not have been spying on me." she said bitterly.
"Even if we wanted to we wouldn't have been able too. No windows." said ZigZag.
Becky threw her old clothes on her bed, and sat down, her back facing them, her chin in her hands. What had she done to deserve to live in a place like this for almost a whole year.
Suddenly all the boys started to leave. "Where are you going?" she asked.
"We have to finish our holes!" said Twitch, turning to leave. Becky watched them go, then she stood in the doorway and watched what she would have to do for the next 18 months.
She saw all the boys getting in line for water now. Magnet was trying to get second in line, but X-Ray pushed him back. "Stay in your own spot, Magnet." he said.
After that they went to dig. Now they dug their holes very near the mountain. You know, the mountain with God's Thumb. They didn't know why, though. They just did. Becky sighed, then groaned, then started fanning herself, trying to keep cool.
*
The next morning Becky sat up as the alarm went off for them to all get up. She groaned and rubbed her eyes. The boys were already up. She got out her brush and started to brush her hair, and put on her glasses. She stood in front of the broken mirror, trying to get her hair less knotty.
At breakfast, Becky sat next to Magnet, but was eating in silence.
"Hey, the new girl's been very quiet today. She reminds me of someone. What do you think, Zigzag?" said Armpit.
"Yeah, she does. A good friend of ours, actually." said ZigZag.
"And who would that be?" Becky said, not sounding at all interested.
"His name was Zero." said Zigzag, and that's when they all started to tell her about Stanley and Zero.
"And you're all STILL digging? That's completely stupid!" she said, rolling her eyes when they were done.
"Well, I don't think we're looking for anything anymore." said Magnet.
"How do you know?" she asked.
"Well, why would they let this new Warden make this camp if we were looking for something again?" he said, and all of the other boys nodded their heads in agreement, and Becky rolled her eyes.
They were all out digging now, and Becky forced her shovel into the dirt. It was much harder than she thought it would be. And the boys were not making it any easier. Especially Magnet.
When she was almost halfway deep, and about a half way wide, Magnet started to throw some of his dirt into her hole.
"Hey! Stop it!" she said angrily, throwing some at him from her shovel.
"Hey! I'm not doing anything!" he said, taking a heap of dirt out and throwing it at her. Armpit was laughing, watching them. Some of the others were grinning.
Becky tried to ignore him, but she wasn't getting any farther as he threw his dirt into her hole. And it wouldn't help if she kept throwing it back at him. Instead she threw him a scorned look, and kept digging.
After a while he started throwing dirt into her hole again. She sighed, annoyed, then stood up straight, smiling sweetly at him.
"Magnet, why are you throwing your dirt in my hole?" she asked in a sweet voice.
"Because, your stupid hole is in my pile space!" he said.
"No, you just like annoying me!" she said.
"Maybe." he said, grinning at her. She stomped her foot.
"Well stop it!"
"Why?"
"BECAUSE!" Suddenly she picked up her shovel and poured all her dirt on top of his head, and pushed him a little. He stumbled backwards, then fell into his hole. All the guys started laughing, leaning on their shovels.
"Hey!" Magnet's voice came from under the dirt, sounding angry.
Becky was still standing near his hole, looking shocked at what she had just done. But she also looked a little proud. She had never done anything like that before.
Magnet stood up, wiping the dirt off of him, when one of the cars with the workers for the camp came driving up.
"What is going on here?" one asked, getting out of the car.
"She pushed me!" said Magnet, and at the same time Becky said, "He kept throwing his dirt in my hole!"
They both glared at eachother.
"It was just something we always do to new campers!" said Magnet.
"Well don't do it to a girl! Especially a girl like me!" she shouted back at him.
"Oh yeah?"
"YEAH!"
"That's it! Stop it! You too our digging two extra feet today!" said the guard, then got back in his car, leaving the two of them open mouthed.
"Now look what you did! This is only my first day!" she said.
"It's all your fault! Stupid girl!"
"Oh yeah? Well, you're a stupid guy!" she said, grabbing her shovel. Magnet snorted, getting back to work as well.
*
Being with Magnet by herself was very different than being with him with everyone else around them. When they were the last diggers out, she felt tongue-tied and she couldn't think straight. Before she had be so angry with him and muttering to herself how mean he was, but after everyone started to leave, those thoughts started to leave her head. She suddenly felt nervous.
There was no sound except the scraping of their shovels. When Becky was finally donw with her two extra feet, she was so tired she couldn't climb out. She also couldn't climb out because of the huge blisters she already had.
Suddenly a hand reached down to her, and she looked up. It was Magnet.
"Here, let me help you out." he said.
She took his hand, feeling a bit awkward, and he helped her out of her hole.
"Er......... thanks." she said.
"No problem." he said, then turned to leave.
*
They both headed towards the showers. The shower stalls had been built taller now, though they didn't have a roof. Someone could easily just pull himself up onto the faucet, and look over the edge and watch you while you took your shower.
Becky stepped into the shower and put her clothes over the top of the door. Magnet looked at them, with a mischievous look on his face. Then he grabbed them.
"HEY!" Becky shrieked. She had seen him take them. "Why you little.."
"Didn't you ever hear that my fingers are like little magnets?" he said, and she could hear him laughing.
"That is it!" she said loudly, and she took his clothes.
"Hey! You can't do that!" he said.
"Oh yes I can! Now give me my clothes back!"
"You'll have to come and get them." he said.
She sighed, then took his shirt, and put it on, while muttering. "What a brat......." she said, then he put her foot on the faucet. She hoisted herself up over the edge, then closed her eyes.
"Hand them over! Now!" he said, sticking her hand out.
"Why do you have your eyes closed?" she heard him say from right in front of her.
"Because you're-" she couldn't help but open her eyes, and she saw that he was also standing on the faucet, but he had a towel around his waist, and he was face to face with her. She stared at him for a second.
"Er......can I have my clothes back please?" she said, awkwardly.
"Well........"
"Come on!" she said.
"Alright. Here. Now give me mine."
She took her clothes, lowered herself, and took off Magnet's shirt and threw it over the top at him.
"There was no point in taking my clothes." she said angrily.
Then, finally, she took her shower in peace.
*
At dinner, Becky sat silently, as everyone else talked and laughed.
"So did you see her in the shower?" said ZigZag, winking.
"Yeah." said Magnet, laughing. Becky glared at him, but stayed silent.
"Yeah right." said Armpit.
"Well, maybe not...... I stole her clothes though." he added in a whisper.
They broke out in laughs, and Becky could feel herself turning red.
"But seriously, that push she gave you, that was awesome." said ZigZag.
"Will you guys stop talking about me like I'm not here?" she said savagely.
"Hey, are you gonna finish that?" asked X-Ray, pointing to her dinner, ignoring what she had just said.
Becky glared at him for a second, but then said, "No. You go on and have it. I'm going back to the tent." then she got up and left.
"We got her really mad, man." said Magnet.
"So?" said ZigZag.
Magnet just shrugged, but he watched her leave. She was looking at her blisters as she left. They looked terribly bad, and she could hardly move her hands.
*
Becky had been the only one in the tent or a while, and when she came back from going to the bathroom, she instantly wished she hadn't come in. Magnet was the only one inside now.
Nothing was said. Becky went and opened her bag, looking for something, and Magnet was also getting something out of his bag.
"Here." he said, handing her something. She looked at it suspiciously, then took it. It was a bottle of something. It was really dirty so she had to wipe it to see what it was. It was some kind of lotion.
"What's this for?" she asked.
"You're blisters. We.......We let all the new kids use it for their blisters." he said quickly.
She raised an eyebrow at the tone of his voice, but squirted some on her hands anyway. They stung for a second, but then they suddenly felt better.
"Thanks." she said, and handed it back to him.
"No problem." he said.
They could hear the rest of the boys coming back, and Becky rushed back to her bed, and pulled out a book.
They were laughing as the door opened, but Becky didn't know what they had been talking about.
"Hey, Becky, you need a nickname. We've been trying to find one but we couldn't think of any good ones for a girl."
Becky sat up on her elbows and gave them a look. "Like what kind of nickname?"
"We donno. Like I said, we can't think of one for a girl." said Twitch.
"Why not?"
"Because you're the first girl to come to this camp and all we've been nicknaming is guys." said ZigZag.
"Well, how do you usually nickname them?" she asked.
"Well, my nickname is Armpit because I smell bad, Magnet's is Magnet because he says his fingers are like little magnets, Twitch'' nickname is twitch because he twitches a lot, and so on." said Armpit.
"Ah, I see." then she started to think on what her nickname should be.
"What about Bookworm? I mean, she did have millions of books in her bag......." said X-Ray.
"HEY! How did you know what was in my bag?"
"The Warden makes us look through new campers bags for anything..... illegal." answered X-Ray.
"But why would I bring in anything like that? I didn't even steal that money!" she protested.
"She reminding me of someone again." said ZigZag. Becky rolled her eyes and lay back on her bed, annoyed again.
part two soon!