Disclaimer: I own Leigh, and the people of Haven. I also own the girls of J Tent. And their "counselor". I also own the new Warden. ANd the new Mr. Sir type person.
Author's Note: The Warden and Mr. Sir were arrested. I don't remember if Pendanski was or not. So he's here still. But there's a new warden. And a new Mr. Sir. A.k.a. Warden & Mr. Ellis. Dun Dun Dun... And Leigh's last name is pronounced Vay-Den
We're Just Like You
Chapter 1
My arm was burning up. Haven got pretty warm, but it was never this bad. I was currently handcuffed to a bus seat. Oh boy did I have the wrong idea of Greenlake.
But I was dumb to think it was anything different. The bus pulled up to the camp. I got out, and was brought up to a man. My eyes were tortured. The mess of orange was aggravating me. "I'm Mr. Ellis." The man said to me. "You're here because you messed up."
"Really?" I retorted, "I would've never guessed."
I heard a couple of boys laugh. Mr. Ellis looked at me, "I see we've got an attitude on our hands."
I looked at my hands, and then at his, "I don't." He glared at me again. He walked me to a building. "You get two orange jumpsuits. One for work, and one for relaxing. We do laundry every 3 days. On laundry day your relaxing suit becomes your work one."
"Sounds easy enough."
"The rattlesnakes and scorpions can kill you. But the worst are the yellow-spotted lizards." He looked at me, as if trying to scare me. "You see that we have no fences?"
"Not exactly the first thing on my mind."
"Run if you want. But we have the only water for miles." He said, "The buzzards will get you before we find you."
"Oh darn, you crushed those dreams." I muttered, rolling my eyes, I changed into one of the orange jumpsuits. After I changed, Mr. Ellis was replaced with a girl with black hair that was up in a bun, "Hi, I'm Mrs. Mitchellson." She said, "I'm the counselor of J Tent. You must be Leigh Vaaden."
"Who else could I be?"
She simply smiled, that ws going to get a tad bit annoying. We started walking towards a mess of tents. Five of them looked newer than the others. "You are in J Tent. With five other girls." She pulled back the flap. "These are Cathryn," She pointed to a girl with curly red hair, "Taylor," She pointed to a short girl with really short brown hair, "Becca," A girl with blonde wavy hair, "And Jaime." The last girl had short black hair, much like Mrs. Mithcellson's.
Cathryn glared at Mrs. Mitchellson, "Those aren't our names." She retorted.
"Could've fooled me." I muttered, glaring at this one.
"You think you're something?" She asked. "You're nothing here. You're just scum on the bottom of the shoes of the establishment!"
"Did you just learn that word?" I asked her, "That sounds like a little too much for your small mind." I saw Taylor and Becca hold back a laugh.
Cathryn glared at me as Mrs. Mitchellson left. "Why don't I tell you our real names." She pointed to her self, "I'm Chief." She pointed to Taylor and Becca, "Shrimp and Flame." Her finger then moved to Jaime, "And that's Stretch."
"Great, I'm Leigh." I said, shrugging.
Taylor looked at me, "No, you're Star."
"Star?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
Becca nodded, "Yeah, the fact that you actually made yourself known a little before your first hole."
"It's something most people don't dare to do." Taylor replied, smiling.
Cath- Chief glared at me as she stormed out of the tent.
"She's a bitch." Jaime/Stretch retorted. "She really thinks she's better than everyone else because she was here before us."
Taylor/Shrimp seemed somewhat eager, "What got you here?" She asked, looking at me.
"I stole a Mustang." I said, shrugging, not even telling the whole story. "You?" I asked the three.
Becca/Flame smiled, "I burned down a hospital." Well, that explains a nickname. "My worst enemy was in there, and I was the cause. I decided to finish her off without physical contact."
"Whoa." I said, my eyes grew wide, "Holy crap."
"I didn't do anything!" Taylor then exclaimed, "My ex-boyfriend shot someone, and then shot himself. I was in shock, and I didn't start to run until the cops showed up. Therefore they thought I did it."
"That sucks." I replied, somewhat sympathetically.
Jaime/Stretch looked at me this time, "I freed the Buffalo Zoo." She said, leaning against her bed. "Lions and tigers and bears were everywhere. They don't deserve to be caged up like that!"
I smiled, at least someone agreed with me. "I definitely agree."
Chief stormed back in, "Stretch, ZigZag is looking for you!" She glared at me, then turned back to Ja-Stretch, "And watch out. Armpit is following him around."
"Arm...pit...?" I dragged out the syllables.
Shrimp looked at me, "He smells like major ass."
"Good nickname then."
"How old are you?" Chief asked me.
"15."
"So are Shrimp and Stretch." Chief retorted. I would've thought Taylor was about 13, and I thought Jaime was at least 16. "Flame is 14, and I'm 16."
"Therefore you dubbed yourself Chief because you're the oldest?" She stormed out again.
"You can really get under her skin." Becca said, smiling at me.
I looked at her, "She's easily pissed."
Jaime looked at all of us, "I better go find ZigZag before Pendanski drags him to his tent again..." She left.
"Who are ZigZag and Armpit?" I asked, looking at Taylor and Becca.
Taylor began, "ZigZag and Armpit are two of the boys from D Tent. They're our 'partner tent'. Twitch, Squid, X-Ray, and Magnet are in there too."
"Let me guess. X-Ray has like extreme vision or something?" I rolled my eyes at the thought.
"Nope." Becca said, "He has the biggest glasses ever. X-Ray is simply pig latin for his real name, Rex."
"Ohh, creativity in D Tent." I said, snickering.
We left the tent, and I saw two boys with brown hair and a hispanic boy walking towards us, the shorter of the two brown-haired boys wrapped his arm around Becca/Flame. "Hey Flame, what's up?"
"Nothing Twitch." She said, smiling, "I wonder if the food is edible today."
The hispanic boy laughed, "You hear that Squid? She actually thinks that the food might be edible."
"Flame, you should know by now, this food is definitely unedible." The one they called Squid retorted.
"Definitely feeling out of the loop here." I said, looking at the five. Squid had his arm around Shrimp now.
"I'm Magnet." The hispanic one said, putting his hand out.
"Leigh, but they call me Star."
"Star?"
"I really have no idea."
Shrimp smirked at me, "She bitched out Cheif the moment she walked in."
"Ohhh. Like a movie star sort of? Making yourself well known?" Magnet asked me.
"Sure why not?" The six of us walked to the mess hall, where we saw Cheif sitting with a boy with huge glasses. We also saw Stretch with another tall boy with static-ish blonde hair, and a rather heavy black boy.
Another girl stumbled into the mess hall, she had red hair to her ears, "Hey Cheif, hey Shrimp, hey Flame, hey Stretch." She turned to me, "Who are you?"
"Star." I said, suddenly sinking into my nickname.
She nodded, "I'm Predator."
I looked at Shrimp and Flame. "Huh?" I asked her.
"I stay out with at the holes for a while, and hunt the yellow-spotted lizards." Predator said, I turned to Shrimp, "Real name?"
"Nicolette." She replied, we all sat down. I was in between Magnet and Flame, Flame was in between me and Twitch, who was next to Shrimp, who was next to Squid.
I was beginning to like the people of D Tent and J Tent. Magnet was pretty cute, Flame and Shrimp were pretty nice, Stretch was nice too, in a darkish way. Cheif on the other hand, was a bitch, and Predator scared me.
The next day we woke up at 4:30. We ate (or attempted to eat) our breakfast and went out and grabbed shovels. X-Ray and I grabbed the same one, he attempted to take it from me. "I don't think so." I said, snatching it back and walking towards where our tent was digging. Flame and Shrimp grabbed their shovels as well, "Why'd you do that?"
"It's a shovel..." Me.
"It's shorter than the rest." Flame.
"By 3/4 of an inch." Shrimp.
I shrugged, "Smaller hole."
"Less time." Flame replied.
"Of course! The geniusness of it." I said, smiling.
We began digging, and Stretch, Predator, and Cheif walked over. Cheif glared at me as she began digging her hole. Mrs. Mitchellson came over and looked at us, "You know the deal, if you find something interesting, show me or Mr. Ellis, or Mr. Pendanski. If it's interesting enough we'll show the Warden and you'll get the day off." She looked at us, "When the water truck gets here, you can have water."
"Hence the title." I muttered as she walked away.
The boys of D Tent were set up a little ways away from us.
When the water truck pulled up a few hours later we all lined up.
The line went like this...
X-Ray, Cheif, Armpit, Squid, Shrimp, Stretch, ZigZag, Twitch, Flame, Predator, Magnet, Me. According to Flame, if I did something that Cheif and X-Ray liked, I'd get moved up in line. I realized everyone was with their "pair".
When I got to the front of the line, Mr. Pendanski filled my canteen, "You must be new. I'm Mr. Pendanski. That's pronounced Pen-Dance-Key."
"Okay then." I went back to my hole and resumed my digging.
Cheif and X-Ray kept glaring at me, as I quickly dug my hole. I wasn't going faster than anyone else, but according to Flame, I was going pretty fast for a newcomer. Her exact words were, "Damn. I wish I could've dug that fast when I first got here. I'd probably be done soon, if I got faster every day."
Flame, Shrimp, and I got along pretty well. I was kind of glad. But I missed Brenna, and I even missed the Golden Boy a little.
I heard something, I hopped out of my hole and put my hand to my eyes, there was a car approaching, and it wasn't the water truck.
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