Disclaimer: I do not own Holes. I only own Kat.

Sy: Yes, I am rewriting Key to my Heart. I feel I can do much better on it than what I did. Yes that also means I am rewriting Friends Are Forever.

Squid: Why do you always insist on rewriting your crap?

Sy: So it's not crap. Jade, roll the tape!

Key to my Heart

Enlightenment

Kathereine Shinero sat in a dirty, brown, almost-rusted-through-but-still-in-the-bane-of-exsistence bus in the middle of a hot desert. To anyone that wasn't sure what was going on, this could seem a bit weird. Hopefully if you're reading this you know what's going on but for those who don't I'll enlighten you.

Katherine (or Kat if you want to survive meeting her) was what some would classify as "a juvenile delinquent". She denies it stating, "I'm not a delinquent persay... I just like to break the law." In the state of Texas juvenile delinquents get sent to Juvenile Detention Centres or in some cases Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake was a detention camp for boys. Kat was headed for CGL. Why? I hear you ask. Well... I'm not even sure and I'm writing this so...

Anyway, the bus pulled to a stop in front of the camp's main office that was really nothing more than an old cabin with a desk and a swivel chair. Kat jumped off the bus swinging her tattered, old backpack over her shoulder. Her dark brown eyes surveyed the area, her olive hands pulling her black hair away from her neck.

The guard from the bus grabbed Kat's arm and dragged her into the office. She scowled at him but followed. Inside the dingy, make-shift office there was a creepy old man with the weirdest sideburns Kat had ever seen. He had a kind of grimace permanantly etched on his face. He took one look at Kat and glared. The guard handed him a file and left. The man gestured for Kat to sit down. She did.

The man opened the file and began slowly reading through it. Kat began to question whether he even knew how to read. Finally he set the folder down.

"Well, Katherine Shinero, I am Mr. Sir. You will always address me by my full name, that clear?"

"Yes Mr. Sir, sir!" Kat said in a cadet voice, while saluting.

"You're gonna be a problem," Mr. Sir muttered.

Kat smiled proudly. Mr. Sir led her to a small building lined with orange jump suits. He handed her two of them and began explaining the rules of laundry and other random camp things. As Mr. Sir was finishing, a short bouncy man entered the room excitedly.

"Katherine Shinero, I'm Mr. Pendanski, your councellor. I want you to know that I beleive in second chances."

"Do you beleive in third chances?" Kat asked with a smirk.

Mr. Pendanski was silenced for a split second before he was bouncing around and ushering Kat out the door once again.

"You'll be in D-tent, D stands for diligence!" Mr. Pendanski said, as they walked towards a group of tents.

"D also stands for death... Destruction... Decapitation..." Kat began listing off words.

As they came to a stop in front of a huge tent, Mr. Pendanski pushed her inside. Inside was eight orange jumpsuit clad boys, all in various stages of relaxation. When Mr. Pendanski entered they all looked up. Upon sighting Kat they began to talk wildly.

"Woah... A chica!"

"A girl!"

"Dare I beleive it?"

"Holy crap!"

"Boys, this is Katherine, you new tent mate!" Mr. Pendanski beamed.

"Mom, what the Hell is a GIRL doin' here?" a black boy with thick glasses questioned, stepping forward.

"Language Rex. Katherine, like you boys, made some bad choices, the government decided it was best if she came to Camp Green Lake, despitethe fact that she's a girl," Mr. Pendanski said.

"That's good enough for me! Welcome to D-tent, chica!" a Hispanic boy cried, standing up from his cot.

"¡Hey individuos! Oh... Llámeme chica una más vez, y le mataré," Kat said in fluid Spanish. (Hey guys! Oh... Call me chica one more time, and I'll kill you)

Yeah she could speak it. Perhaps it was due to the fact that she was half Hispanic. Yes, fear her multicultural background.

"Oh independant... Tengo gusto," the hispanic boy said again. (Oh, independant... I like)

Kat glared. He shut up.

"Well I'l lleave you here to get better acquainted," Mr. Pendanski bubbled before leaving the tent.

Kat had a look on her face like 'do NOT leave me with these people!'

"So chica, I'm X-Ray. that's Squid, Armpit, Magnet, Zigzag, Caveman, Zero and Twitch," the boy with glasses introduced.

"I'm Kat. And don't call me chica," Kat replied.

"Why not... Chica?" Squid smirked.

"Call me chica one more time," Kat said cracking her knuckles.

"Whatever, chica," Squid smirked again.

"Oh you are so dead," Kat threatened leaping for Squid.

X-Ray, who was the closest grabbed her and held her back.

"Hey! No fighting on your first day!"

"He started it!" Kat complained, humphing and sitting down on an empty cot.

"So, Katherine..." Magnet started.

"Kat."

"Whatever. What did you do to get here?" he asked.

"A number of things. A number of different times. This isn't my first time at a detention camp ya know," Kat said, rolling her eyes.

"Really. Well... Where are you from?" X-Ray asked.

"Different places. You guys suck at conversations," Kat said, lying back on her bad.

The boys looked at each other.

"You should probably put your jumpsuit on," Armpit stated.

"You man the orange thing? Okay, turn around, perverts!" Kat said grabbing the jumpsuit.

The boys turned around and Kat slid her jeans off and pulled the jumpsuit on. She tied the arms around herwaist and left her blue 'I know how you feel, I just don't care' shirt on.

"Okay, you can turn around now."

As they turned around a bell rang from the office. The boys stood up and left, Kat followed them. They led her to a big cabin type building with a sign that read 'Mess Hall'. Kat winced. Food. Detention centre/camp food. Not good. Hence the wince.

The boys entered the building and joined the line. Kat did as well.The stuff that was splattered on her plate didn't looke to appealing. Though the bread only had one spot of mold on it. After she got her food, she looked around and saw D-tent waving her over to a table. She sat down inbetween Squid and Zero.

"Well Kat, since you didn't dig today, how 'bout givin' your bread to somebody who did?" X-Ray asked.

"No way in Hell. I need sustenance."

"C'mon."

"You touch my bread and I'll make sure you never have children."

Aw, a threat many boys took to heart. Kat had used it so many times, it almost lost meaning to her, but it still worked, so she didn't give up on it yet.

"So Kat, you never told us what landed you in dear old CGL," Magnet said, takinga bite of bread.

"What landed me in CGL? Well... I picklocked into a bank. Stole three-thousand dollars. Nothing out of the ordinary," Kat said as if it was an everyday thing.

"That's gotta be the worst offence I've heard yet," Armpit stated, shaking his head.

"Really? Huh. I guess no one here murdured anyone..." Kat said, poking at her... food...

"You didn't murder someone too, did you?" Caveman asked, looking scared.

"What? No way! At another detention camp someone had killed their brother so..." Kat replied.

Everyone nodded and went back to eating. Later that night Kat sat in a circle with the rest of D-tent and Mr. Pendanski.

"Well Katherine, why don't you tell us about your life?" Mr. Pendanski asked.

"It's Kat, and sure why not," Kat started. "The first thing I can remember is my sixth birthday. My mom (the adopted one) had just died so I didn't get a party, my dad (also adopted one) came home really drunk... He started to abuse me and what not, so when I turned thirteen I ran away. I found my real mom and lived with her, still do actually, but she started drinking or something so I started stealing and what-not. Alas, here I am."

So Kat could rant. Well. Very well. But she could also give off useful information in a rant, not something fulfilled by many ranters.

After her rant the boys just kind of stared at her. Not because of her ranting skills but because of the way she didn't seem to care about her life. Maybe that was just who she was. Not very many people didn't care but the few that did not care, REALLY didn't care.

"Aaaaaaaand I'm gone," Kat said standing up and slipping into her cot.

The boys looked at each other before following Kat's example. When Kat was sure everyone wa asleep she quietly stood up from her cot and went outside. She sat down a little ways away from the tent. Leaning back she looked up at the stars. You couldn't see stars where she was from.

She heard footsteps and quickly sat up.

"What?" she demanded angrilly.

"I don't have parents either," a small voice said from behind her.

Kat turned around and saw Zero standing behind her. She smiled and Zero sat next to her. They both just sat silently, looking at the stars.

Inside the tent, a figure let the flap shut and slid to a sitting position.

Sy: YAY! Chapter one is finished! I'll try really hard to update once a week (or day) until I'm completely caught up.

Review please! I beg you! BEG YOU I SAY!