I reckon we all must have been acting pretty odd after we found out a girl was coming, Mom wanted to know if we'd eaten something that wasn't good for us. But it wasn't like that; it was just everywhere you went there was a guy from D-Tent smiling. We stayed up nights talking about April, and talked about stuff like this:
"How long's it been since you saw a girl, Squid?" Zigzag ask staring up at the top of the tent.
"A while," I reply thinking back, "last girl I saw was in the jury at my trail."
Zigzag scratches his head, "yeah, I think there was one at mine too, but the last time I saw a girl was when my mom hugged me good bye. She came with me to wait for the bus."
Nobody says anything after that, we all know Zigzag never knew his mom. It must be really tough for him, I guess it's tough for me too, but I mean, his mom wasn't an alcoholic.
Zigzag sighs and rolls over, "What about you, Pit, when's the last time you saw a girl?"
"Night before I got caught." He mutters, not really wanting to talk about it.
"When's the last time you saw a girl, X-Ray?"
Our leader snorts, "man, stop brinin' up ancient history, I'm just thinking about what's coming, that's good enough for me."
We all nod, thinking about April. I mean all of us but not Magnet. X-Ray notices, "Cheer up, dog, we got a chick coming here, remember?"
Magnet doesn't say anything, but I can tell he's thinkin' real hard. "She's coming in a week," he says to himself at last, "and she's staying with us…. In this tent…. In Baurf Bag's cot…."
I turn and look at the empty cot to mine, heck I couldn't wait till it got filled up again. But I wished I was a little closer, just so, you know, I could be by her. Our leader seemed to be thinkin' the same thing.
"Hey Pit," He ordered, "switch cots with me."
"Why?"
"Just because."
Armpit shakes his head, "not happening man, I'm staying here. I know why you want my cot and I'm not giving it up."
"Who said you had a chose?" X-Ray wanted to know, "you can stay there for now, but come next week, you're switchin' spots with me weather you like it or not!"
No body says anything, my but ain't X-Ray actin' weird. Everybody's acting weird. Even the next day when X asked Mister Sir about April he acted weird. And that's sayin' a lot.
We were standing in line waiting for Mister Sir to refill our canteens.
X starts talking, "so mister Sir I heard April First is coming."
In front of me, Magnet flinched. Mister Sir looked wary.
"Yeah," he mumbled while handing the leader his canteen, "April Fist is coming up, but you boys better not try anything."
"Who us?" X calls like we're angels or something.
He walks off smiling to himself, but I wanna hit him more than anything.
Magnet came into our tent on Sunday morning lookin' really nervous. I was the only one in the tent, so I asked him what was up. "April First is going to be here today." He told me.
"Really?" I ask "When's she comin' in?"
He looks down, "this afternoon."
"Hey man," I start crossing over to where he's at, "I'm sorry about the whole X-Ray thing."
"Yeah, thanks." Magnet mutters not looking up.
I start out the tent, "I guess we should go tell the others."
"They already know."
I look at his face and see how scared he is, "hey don't worry about it Magnet, she most likely won't like X and he'll give up after a while." But even as I said it, I knew that was fair from the truth, X would do what he wanted weather April liked it or not.
A little while later we went outside a noticed a huge crowd in front of Mister Sir's office. All the guys were there, waiting. After a while, we notice a small yellow dot coming down the road.
"This is it dogs," X mutters walkin forward, "I get her first, then you all can have what's left."
"Now wait just one minute, X-Ray," I call going after him, "don't you think maybe we should let April pick who she likes?"
Rex smiles at me like I'm Zigzag, "I think my ways better, anybody else not think it is?" Nobody said nothing. "Tough luck, Squid."
The bus comes up closer, the guys all start yellin' things at it like "hey baby," and "Sketch E tent, don't forget, I'm the hottest guy here!" and a whole lot of other stuff I wouldn't even say.
Well, the bus pulls up to the sidewalk and the door opens. X licks his lips and Magnet starts bitin' his fingers. There's a fat mean guard just inside the door, no surprise there, he yells at us to all move back, but nobody's really listening. In the end, they get us all to back off, and the other person comes out. We all crane our necks trying to see and they step out.
Everybody stares for a long time, and then I say, "Well either she's turned gay and turned real homely since you knew her Magnet, or this ain't the same April."
What can I tell you? He just started cracking up right then. "April Fools!" He calls out holding his sides, "you guys are nothing but stupid April Fools!"
None of us knew what to do, especially not the new kid he just kinda tried to get back into the bus.
"You're gonna pay for what you've done dog!" X-Ray calls his hands made into fist.
"I didn't do anything, you guys took care of all the hard part for me! April First, Hah! Happy April Fools day you Idiots!" He shouts while running away, "Nobody in their right mind would dump a girl in here with you!"
I could tell you how we ran after Magnet, beat him up, and left him in a hole, but I'm really not in the mood. No girls coming here and that's the whole point, instead we got some kid
named Stanly Ylnats stupid fool, got arrested for stealing a pair of shoes.
So that's about it, things calmed down everyday's the same again. Magnet isn't X's favorite person, never was, but X changed the whole water tuck line and everything this time. Magnet's behind me now and he doesn't like it.
That's all, I kinda wish we'd get a girl here, but not if X-Ray's just going to trash her. I don't think we'd let him though.
A/N; Sorry it took so long to put up I've been really busy, remember even though the first is over, it's never too late to be a fool! Hope you all enjoyed!-OyNebach42
