Yippee! My terrible writer's block is over (fanfic-wise anyway) and I've had an idea for a Holes fic! I just hope it turns out OK. No new girls. Not even a new GUY! Just the D-Tent boys who we all know and love. Let me know if you like this idea. I'm very open to suggestions. And (if you've read my other fic, you'll know what's coming…) keep the criticism CONSTRUCTIVE!!!
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"Weather forecast's bad," Zigzag muttered from the sofa in the wreck room as he gazed intently at the smashed-up TV screen, "Lotta rain's on its way."
The others exchanged glances and rolled their eyes.
"You do know that TV's busted, Zig man?" Squid ventured, flicking a peanut at his friend. Zigzag blushed.
"I… I know," he mumbled, "It's just something to do. Wish it would rain though. Maybe the whole desert would flood and the lake would come back again."
"Yeah, but it'd be harder to dig underwater," Armpit mused, and everyone stared at him. X-Ray opened his mouth to say something, but thought better of it.
"We'd have to build an ark," grinned Squid, "And get two of every animal. Two scorpions, two rattlesnakes…"
"But there's only one Armpit," X-Ray laughed, and everyone joined in, except Armpit, who looked a bit confused.
Clunk!
Everyone looked around. A book had fallen off a nearby table. It was followed by a pen and an empty canteen.
"What's going on?" Caveman said, sitting up on the floor, where he had been lying.
"We're going to die!" Zigzag screamed.
"Chill guys, it was just an earthquake!" X-Ray sighed.
"An earthquake?" Caveman laughed, "I didn't feel a thing. If it was an earthquake, it must've been, what? Minus a million on the Richter scale?"
"Richter scale?" Magnet repeated, looking confused. Caveman shrugged his shoulders and sighed.
"Forget it," he sighed. He lay back down on the floor and put his hands behind his head. Everyone else followed his lead, stretching themselves out across the room.
Then the door slammed shut.
"It's those assholes from A-tent!" X-Ray shouted, jumping up, "Trying to be funny, are you?"
He ran towards the door, and yanked on the handle. When it didn't open, he released a stream of swear words.
"Open the door, you creeps!" he yelled. Everyone else watched with a weird fascination. "This is war, bitches!" shouted Squid, happily joining in X-Ray's anger.
Quietly, Zero slid off the sofa and walked over to the door. He dropped to the floor and looked under the door.
"There's something blocking the door," he muttered, "A lot of stuff. I don't think the guys from A-Tent could have got that much stuff there in that amount of time."
"Hey, what do you know? There was an earthquake," Magnet said. X-Ray ignored him and wrenched on the handle.
"Gimme a hand Zig!" he called. Zigzag got up and began pulling on the door handle. After about five minutes of pushing, pulling, banging and swearing, they both collapsed on the sofa, exhausted.
"Hate to tell you this, guys, but I think we might be stuck in here," Zigzag informed them solemnly.
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An hour later, after a lot of pulling at the door and yelling, they heard Mr Sir's voice outside.
"What's with the yelling, ladies? This ain't a Girl Scout camp, you know!"
Never had they been so happy to hear Mr Sir's voice.
"The door's blocked!" Squid yelled, getting a bit panicky, "Can you open it or unblock it or whatever?"
There was a silence as Mr Sir trudged round to the door side of the wreck room. Then he sighed.
"Sorry ladies, it's seriously blocked. I'm gonna need to call someone to move all this stuff. What happened?"
"Earthquake!" they chorused, starting to panic.
"Whatever you say, girls," Mr Sir sighed, before he trudged off again. Squid let out a yell and slammed his fist against the door.
"I'm not staying in this goddam room until he sees fit!" he shouted. He picked up a chair and flung it across the room in frustration.
"Well there's nothing else we can do!" X-Ray yelled back.
"Well it's your fault!"
"What?" how is it my fault?"
"If you hadn't been such a…"
"Shut up!"
Everyone shut up and turned to stare at Zero, who was standing on the table. Zigzag's mouth dropped open and they all stared at Zero. Nobody had ever heard the kid talk before, never mind yell.
"You can talk?" was all Armpit could say.
"What's up with you guys?" Zero asked, "We've been stuck in here for two minutes and you're biting each other's heads off! How long would we be in here if we weren't stuck? Another hour? And we wouldn't try and kill each other. So get a grip!"
There was a stunned silence. Everyone just stared at Zero, who seemed to be looking more surprised than any of them. Finally, Caveman shrugged.
"I'm with Zero on this one," he said, "We're locked in for five minutes and you're acting like psychos. Chill, dudes."
Slowly, everyone shrugged and agreed. Squid went and sat down on the sofa.
"So," he said, lounging back, "You guys heard about that Crisscross dude from B-Tent?"
"That creep that won't shut up about all the girls he's done?" Magnet asked, sitting next to Squid.
"Yeah!" Squid said with glee, "Well you know that letter he was so secretive about yesterday? Well one of the A-Tent guys got hold if it. It was from his boyfriend!"
X-Ray hooted with laughter. "You're kidding?" he laughed, sitting opposite them on a chair, "He's a homo? No shit?"
"No shit!" Squid grinned, and everyone snorted with laughter. Then, Zigzag spoke up from his chair.
"I was gay once."
Everyone whipped round to look at him. They were all unsure of whether he was joking or not. Armpit had a frozen laugh on his face.
"You kidding, man?" he asked.
Zigzag, however, remained completely serious.
"His name was Kyle," he said, "I'd just broken up with my girlfriend and I was pretty down. I met Kyle at school – he was in the year above me. He was a bit weird, like me and we were really good friends. He came out to me, and told me that he had feelings for me. Well, what was I supposed to do? I was depressed about Kayrie – that was my girlfriend – and I did really like the guy. So I thought hey, why not? We had some laughs. Danced a lot, kissed a lot, the usual things you do in a relationship really. It was actually quite fun."
Everyone just stared at him in disbelief. Finally, Squid shook his head very slowly.
"You're one weird dude, Zig," he sighed.
"Are you still gay then?" Armpit asked suddenly, edging away slightly. Zigzag shook his head.
"I met another girl, Alice. She was hot, and I decided I wasn't gay. Kyle was really nice about it. We don't keep in touch much now though."
There was another silence.
"You're real homophobic, dudes!" Zigzag said to break the silence, "At least I know now that I'm not gay! How do you guys know you're straight if you've never been with a guy?"
Nobody answered. Maybe that was because nobody had an answer. Finally, X-Ray stood up and faced the others.
"You know what?" he said, "Zigzag came out with that – probably one of his biggest secrets – after he was shut in here for a few minutes. We're going to be in here for hours. I bet we can find out a bunch of shit in that time! Who else has a secret like that?"
"Come on, X!" Magnet laughed, "What is this? A,little girl's slumber party? None of us are going to say anything like that!"
Just then, there was a knock at the door and Mr Sir's voice rang into the room.
"Bad news, ladies," he said, and there was no disguising the amusement in his voice. Everyone let out a collective groan. If Mr Sir was happy about it, they were definitely not going to like it.
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OK, that's very sketchy at the moment, but I've got good ideas for it. Just a lot of stuff about their pasts. Secrets, mostly embarrassing, galore! Ideas welcome, and constructive criticism is my friend. But flames just suck! Don't bother flaming me! Because that's smelly! I might take a while to update because I have some major exams coming up and I need to pass them! I don't think this fic's as good as my last one, but that might be because I'm an angst addict.
Laters, dudes
JAR
