I didn't know that this would be my last experience chewing gum.
I chewed and chewed and chewed. Never ending flavors of tooth rotting goodness that lasted hours on end. Well…at least until I got caught with a group of friends who had stolen some rare diamonds or something from the nearby jewelry store. It turns out that they took the stuff a few weeks ago, and I was framed for being one of the culprits. Personally I didn't know anything, so I thought It unfair as the police read the Miranda warning as they pushed my head under the roof of the cop car.
I was tried a few weeks later, and found guilty for something I didn't do. But what can I do now? I know I didn't do it, so I don't have a dirty conscience. The opposing force, as I like to call them, had shown everyone the surveillance video of a group of teenagers robbing the store. There were the two boys who originally stole it (and were stupid enough to show their faces to the camera), then there was a few other girls who were unidentified. One sort of looked like me, with long white hair. Yes, I'm not exactly normal…more albino than anything. But they found two suspects for that girl, and I was one of them. We were both somewhat similar. I'm perfectly albino though, with red eyes and really pale skin, while her hair is a light died color and bad make up. her eyes are brown too, and the person in the video looked EXACTLY like her…yet I was found guilty.
"so April nahmally, what will it be? Juvey? Rehab?" I crossed my arms and leaned back against the wall behind the podium. My face was flushed from anger, and I wasn't planning on going to juvey or anything.
"I didn't do it!"
"you have been convicted and tried against the crime of theft at the local jewelry store, you have been found guilty against the char. Choose your future now, or I will for you." the judge seemed set on sending me away, and I wasn't to happy about it.
"fine. But I'm not going to juvey." The judge thought about this for a moment with a large scowl that seemed forever stuck to his weird looking face.
"I'll make you a deal. You admit to it, and we wont send you to juvey. But, considering you did it, we will have to press charges otherwise…"
"fine! I did it, but-"
"there we go, now… how about you pack your bags and we'll ship you off to camp green lake."
"but sir!" piped up one of the lawyers from the jewelry store. He ran to the judge and shoved some papers at him. "they don't admit girls!"
"well get someone on the phone, read their papers and stuff, I want her sent to camp green lake! They cannot justify a judge order." And I was sent there.
Now I'm sitting on a bus, headed into some mountians. So far the scenery was green and fertile, so I'm guessing this is an actual camp. But there is a lot of sunshine, and considering I'm albino, I brought A LOT of sunscreen. I can burn easily, and get cancer because of it. I knew I would be outside a little bit at the least. This is a minor correction facility, so we must be doing some kind of labor or classes or something.
As the bus crossed the last bend to get over the mountain, I couldn't help the shock that swept over me.
Dirt.
Dirt…and dust…and holes…