Wishing for Rain

Holes Fanfiction

MFP, Spitfire, Spider monkey and Frost; 4 different girls brought together by conviction at Travis County Detention center but a mass breakout attempt calls for drastic measures & leads them to Camp Green Lake

Disclaimer: I do not own holes. Louise Sachar does.

Terminology:

Jails and detention centers- These facilities are under city or county jurisdiction. They typically hold offenders awaiting trial or serving short term sentences.

Prisons and Correctional facilities-These are often run by the state or federal government and house offenders who are serving long term sentences…..hence CGL

Chapter 1. Asylums, trials and fights

(Nicknames in the preview will be identified later.)

"It's outrageous how much trash this city dumps off its highways." Maggie grunted as she stabbed the metal stick into a muddy newspaper before lifting it into the black trash bag in the opposite hand.

She whipped the sweat off her forehead and sighed. "Isn't littering supposed to be illegal!"

Three of the other girls nearby nodded in agreement.

"Is that your environmentalist side talking, Maggie? Or are you still just tense about your upcoming trial?" Vanessa called over while lifting up a coke can.

Maggie let her hands limp and stared down at the ground. Her blonde bangs fell onto her face. "A little of both." She replied with a soft monotone.

Her gaze stayed on the ground but her glare soon returned as she stabbed into the trash again. "This is the 25th pack of cigarettes I've had to pick up today!" She barked.

"Girl, we're been around the high way for five hours. You're not the only one in an irritated mood right now so just stop with your constant barking." Vanessa complained in an aggravated tone but no more than a second later did a left over meal from McDonald's fall right onto her head and let the remains of the sandwich slide down her brown hair held in a pony tail.

The other three friends looked on in awe before the four of them shot their gaze to the top of the high way where you could slightly see a red GMC truck zoom on by.

"Screw you, asshole!" Vanessa called after it with her fist in the air.

"Hey watch the language!" One of the patrolling officers watching over them scolded from further up.

"Psh….These losers don't know how to do their job." Tristan dropped her tools to help Vanessa pick out the tomato and pickle in her hair. As for the ketchup and mayonnaise, she'll have to wait til they get back to the detention center to wash it off.

"Yet, they easily enjoy bringing down a few juvenile delinquents." The fourth friend added as she dropped to sit while adjusting the sleeves of her orange jail uniform.

The other friends soon followed soot and sat next to her for a little break.

"How you holding up Ariel?" her best friend Maggie asked from beside her.

"This community service seems as pointless as the graffit. We try to clean it up as much as possible but all the gunk is back in a couple of days." Ariel shook her head at their situation and fixed her pony tail.

"So you said their making the final sentence in two weeks?"

Maggie dropped her face into her hands but you could see her nod. "I don't know what I'm going to do…" Ariel looked just as worried for her friend.

"Maggie things will be fine. You have us with you." Tristan tried to console.

Ariel POV

"Well not for long" Maggie immediately shot up. "I already know what their going to decide." She paced around slowly. "I know what they think of me. They think I'm crazy and their going to send me off to some psychiatric hospital, a mental prison!" Her voice cracked.

There came laughter.

"It's off to the wacky shack for you, Maggie." A girl named Holly and a few of her friends who were held under the same imprisonment as we were laughed as they walked by with their tools in hand.

I glared over at them. I would have said something but Tristan beat me to the punch.

"Shut it and keep walking." Tristan stood up and sent daggers their way as well as myself and Vanessa.

"What are you going to do about it if we don't, slut?" Another girl named Natasha taunted. She was the tallest girl at this facility and held the most muscle.

"We'll shut it for you bitch." I answered as we were all beside Tristan.

"Oh we're so scared." Savannah giggled with an irritating smile.

We took a small step towards them and before they could catch their actions they had shrunk back a bit with caution.

We were all amused instantly. This is all so pathetic.

I guess you could say that Tristan was our leader in a way and she turned to us with a look that said we're just wasting our time with these snobs. We all turned away to go back to our assigned duty but apparently they were offended.

Suddenly Natasha took her bag and shoved some of the trash onto Tristan.

After a slight moment of shock she instantly responded by lunging herself at Natasha.

They were each going at each others throats but Tristan was much more aggressive so Natasha resorted to kicking her. Thinking past the pain, Tristan was able to trip Natasha backwards so they both tumbled to the ground.

It all happened in seconds and suddenly her friends attempted to help Natasha. Savannah pulled Tristan back off of Natasha by her hair.

I instantly sprung forth and shoved her away from Tristan,so her attention shifted to me and we went at it in our own brawl. As we took shots at each other my arms were suddenly held back and Savannah took to the opportunity to slap me across the face. I grew even angrier and kicked her in the stomach.

I was being held back by Holly but Maggie soon intervened by tossing some left over soda from one of the trash bottles into her eyes which loosened her grip and she tackled Holly to the ground.

Everything around us was filled with kicking and screaming. The other girls nearby had rushed over to attempt and separate the fight as well as the patrol officers who were blowing at their whistles.

Natasha and Tristan were still going at it and Vanessa was being double teamed by Mariah and Lucia who had also attempted to help Natasha. Vanessa was holding her own as she dodged a punch by Mariah which hit Lucia instead which knocked her straight to the ground. Vanessa knocked Mariah to the ground but this was when the officers and other girls pulled us all off each other.

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"Well this stinks." Vanessa squinted at the smell and added more bleach into the toilet.

"Literally" Tristan added as she mopped the floors.

Well this is our punishment. We were back at the base of Travis County detention center and everyone who was caught fighting was sentenced to do cleaning all over this place.

Vanessa, Tristan, Maggie and I were cleaning up the restrooms while Natasha and her friends were scrubbing down the kitchen after dinner was over, which we didn't get to eat.

"It was worth it." I for one was pleased with putting those bitches in their place.

The four of us instantly smiled at each other and nodded in agreement. We typically got along well with some of the other girls here. We had acquaintances but we just couldn't stand Savannah, Natasha and their friends.

"We're not going to put up with any of their crap. They need to just stay out of other peoples business." Maggie murmured.

"Every time I hear their squeaky nasally voices I just want to punch their teeth in." Vanessa commented as she stood up.

"Well one things for sure. We'll always have each others backs." Tristan asserted and we all nodded in agreement. "Its 9 o'clock. We can head to our dorm rooms."

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They weren't much like dorm rooms, more like cells; just with doors closed in after 10 o'clock. There were four beds, more specifically bunk beds.

We changed out of our orange jumpsuits and into our night wear. Mine consisted of a blue spaghetti strap with black boxer shorts for girls.

As I organized my things back into my drawer below my bunk I looked over at Maggie who sat slouched on top and her eyes looked to be in space.

Her blonde side bangs swept across her forehead to the right. She was a slim girl with ivory skin, straight blonde hair that reached her mid back and icy blue eyes. She also happens to be my best friend. We've known each other for a long time, but we were apart for years and met back up when we were both confined here. I was sentenced to 1 year here and it's only been 4 months. Maggie arrived a little over 2 months ago and was still awaiting trail. She was still being investigated.

"Are you ok Maggie?" She shrugged and I sat up next to her.

"I can tell you're upset if you're so quite." I put my hand on her shoulder. "Listen to me, you are not crazy. They can't involuntarily sentence you to a psychiatric confinement."

"Ariel if that's what they decide, I won't have a choice." She hugged her knees to her chest and appeared on the brink of tears.

It kills me to see her like this. Even as kids she was always in a happy and energetic mood but as soon as she was brought here, she was a completely different person. After a while of being friends here with Tristan, Vanessa and I she brightened up….until now that is.

"That psychologist is a quack. Who is he to tell you you have some sort of mental disorder? He doesn't know what you've been through; and so you're a bit bipolar, big deal." Vanessa exclaimed as she and Tristan sat down in front of us, each of them in a pair of Sofies and a tank top.

"Well my track record doesn't exactly help my case." Tears streamed down Maggie's face.

"Hey that's all in the past. Things are different now." I reassured as we shared a side hug.

The four of us sat in silence for a moment.

"Its amazing how one mistake…can be so unforgivable." Came Tristan.

"…yeah." We chorused.

"There's no doubt about it." I shook my head. "We're all screwed up. But there's nothing we can do but keep pushing forward; just trying to get along with life."

"But like I said before, we have each other." We all smiled at our unofficial leader.

Tristan and Vanessa had been here only a bit longer than me. Tristan was half black and half brazilian, as well as some Egyptian mix so she had a light brown skin blend and long straight dark brown hair with a few waves. She stood the tallest at 5 ft 6, Vanessa and I at 5 ft 4 and Maggie at 5 ft 3.

Vanessa was Hispanic being part Puerto Rican and part Venezuelan. She had tan skin; her brown hair reached below her shoulder blades and she had hazel eyes.

As for me, I had long wavy black hair with a few tousled curls. In the light, it can look dark brown though. I had light skin like Maggie's and brown eyes.

As the four of us met up we had somehow formed our own little group.

We all have difficult pasts but we've grown to be best friends.

"We have to do something. We can't let them send Maggie away." I spoke up.

Our heads seemed to be scrambling for an idea.

Ms. Simons, our councilor who helps us with our "rehabilitation process", pretty much confirmed to us that's where their decision was headed.

"There isn't much we can do." Vanessa began to pace around. "We've got to get out of here…"

Tristan stood up as well, and she seemed to be juggling something on her mind.

"Tristan?" I called.

"Maybe we can." She spun around back to us.

"That's impossible." Vanessa instantly countered only being sarcastic when she made her previous statement.

"Well it's worth a try don't you think?" Was Tristan serious?

"There's security everywhere. How would we pull it off? Besides it's just four of us." Maggie questioned in a desperately curious manner.

"I've already got a brainstorm going…." Suddenly a devious smile was growing on each of our faces. "But we'd need more people in on it…"

"Count us in." Our look shot up to our door.

"Well, what do we have to lose?"

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Normal POV

"You'd think girls would have better manners. But their just as sloppy as they are over in the boys wings." The lunch man grumbled as he washed through the trays.

"These delinquents are all alike." A guard called over through the open window between the cafeteria and kitchen.

Two girls known as Giselle and Jade soon entered the room.

"It's almost 10 o'clock. You need to head back to your dorm." The guard asserted with crossed arms as he looked her way.

"I think I lost my charm bracelet in here. I just wanted to look for it." Jade explained.

"Make it quick." He ordered as he entered his office which was across the opposite doorway of the cafeteria by the rec room.

Giselle and Jade spread out and pretended to look around for a bracelet.

Giselle then stood on one of the tables seeming to scan the entire room. As she moved to hop off, it would appear she took a bad step and tripped over her own shoes. She fell to the ground while tipping over the table and cried out in pain.

The lunch man at the window rushed to her side as did the guard across the hall.

As Giselle was sprawled out in pain on the floor, Jade took the opportunity to run towards the guard's office. He had left the door open and she instantly spotted his keys.

She rushed back to the Cafeteria with the keys hidden in her pocket and nobody suspected a thing.

The guard and Jade helped Giselle back towards the dorms.

Later once the guard had left back to his station, the other girls gathered around them.

Jade held the keys up and shook them. "We got em."

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Lights out….

A guard was walking through the hallway of dorms, he looked into each room to see if all the girls were asleep in the bed like they were supposed to be.

Everything seemed to be quite and in order.

It was late and he seemed to decide it was time for him to pack it in for the night.

You could hear his footsteps fade down the hallway.

At that moment, Tristan, Vanessa, Maggie and Ariel's eyes shot open.

"Show time"

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Well this is my first holes fanfic. If you have any questions about the characters, I've got my bases covered. Their backgrounds, such as why they were placed in a detention center is the first place will be explained as the story progresses.

Let me know what you think :)