Chapter 1
(A/N: I dont own Holes or n e of the characters. I know this chapters a bit slow but bare with it, its gets better.)
Stanley stumbled out of Mr. Sirs office, dressed in his orange uniform with DR Pendanski. Pendanski led him to a cream tent (it had probably started out white, but all the dust and dirt that had collected on it had turned it cream) marked "D." "This is D tent, D stands for diligence" he told him, striding towards the flimsy tent. A large black boy followed by two other boys, walked towards D tent. "Theodore!" Pendanski called, in his annoyingly stupid voice. The black boy looked at Pendanski, he paced towards him, "My names not Theodore, its ARMPIT!" he shouted, "And that's Zigzag and Squid" Armpit continued. "And him, he's Mom!" Squid told Stanley, pointing at Pendanski. "They all have their little nicknames for each other" Pendanski said, glazing over his clipboard, "I prefer to call them by their names society recognizes them by" he continued, the three boys all either rolled their eyes or sighed. "Well who-ever your name is!" Pendanski said, pointing at Armpit, "You will be Stanley's mentor" he told him. "Yeah whatever Mom" Armpit sighed.
Suddenly, a blonde girl appeared from behind Zigzag, her hair was tied back in a high pony tail. Her striking blue eyes caught Stanley's gaze, "Who's the new kid?" she asked, looking at him as if he were an alien. Stanley put out his hand, "My names Stanley." Zigzag pushed his hand back and looked at him like he'd done something really wrong. "Don't touch her OK, 'Stanley'"he told Stanley sternly. "Zigzag, calm down baby" the girl asked him, clutching his hand and pulling him back."Im Physco" she said. "Well I'll leave you D-tenters to get better acquainted" Pendanski said cheerfully as he skipped off contented. Zigzag stared at Stanley, "Come on, lets go back to the tent" he said, not taking his eyes off Stanley until he turned. Zigzag, Physco, Armpit and Squid walked towards the tent. Physco turned and smiled at Stanley. Stanley smiled weakly back at her and followed them. When he entered the smelly tent, Stanley was acknowledged by two other boys. One lay on his bed, right at the back of the tent, he was a small boy with big, curly black hair. The other was standing next to a bed nearer the entrance, he had short black hair and a muscular build. He looked at Stanley through a pair of dirty, dusty glasses. He took a step towards him "Who's the Neanderthal?" he asked, staring at him."His names Stanley" Armpit replied "That's X-Ray", he told him, pointing at X-ray, Armpit walked towards one of the empty beds, "This ones yours" he told him. Stanley slowly walked towards the dirty bed, a brown stain still lingered in the mattress. He placed his bag on the bed and tried to avoid the the campers looks. Another boy entered the tent, he saw Stanley, "Who's the new kid?" he asked in a strong Hispanic accent. "Im Stanley" he said quietly, still looking at the floor "Im Magnet" the Hispanic boy replied, pointing at himself. "Whatcha here for Stanley?" Physco asked, as she sat down next to Zigzag on his bed. Stanley looked up at her, "Stealing a pair of shoes" he said, Physco looked at him confused. "Where they in the store, or still on somebody's feet?" Squid laughed. "No, he just killed the guy first, you forget to tell us that part right?" Zigzag asked, which prompted Physco to give him a displeased nudge. "They were Klyde Livingstons shoes" Stanley continued. "What?" Physco asked, not believing what she just heard. "You didn't steal no Klyde Livingston shoes" X-ray said, laying down on his squeaky mattress. The small boy turned towards the rest of the group, "Did they have read X's on em?" he asked. The whole tent (apart from Stanley and Zero) gasped, "You got Zero to talk!" Squid exclaimed. "Yo, what else can you do Zero?" Armpit asked loudly. Stanley looked at Zero, "Yeah, yeah they did"
The Next Day...
Stanley awoke to the sound of a loud horn. The six D-tent boys stumbled towards the shovel cupboard. Physco joined them moments after, obviously fro "womanly reasons" as the warden called it, she had to sleep in a different tent to the boys. She wore a different uniform to the boys, Unlike the orange jumpsuits and white t-shirts the boys wore, she wore a white vest top and orange dungarees, although it was equally unflattering. As Stanley picked up a shovel, he stared at her, as she put on a white 'New York Yankees' cap. She spotted him looking at her, he looked away shiftily then looked back again. She smiled and waved, Stanley smiled back. Zigzag saw Stanley smiling and reached for Physco's hand, he gave him a dirty look and lead Physco to the clearing with him.
As the other residents of Camp Green Lake dragged their shovels to the clearing, they were about the dig, the sun began to rise, an overwhelming heat burst over the horizon. Physco, Zigzag, Magnet, Armpit, X-ray and Zero all watched as Stanley stabbed the shovel into the ground for the firsts time. "1 down, 10 million to go!" Mr. Sir called.