Rebels are we chapter two
a group of soldiers are standing the night watch. i am among them. i steal a peak at Simon and Jeanette's tent. "if only i could
have her to myself." i whisper. Than Sargent pawlicki walks up and says he saw an american patrol about a quarter mile
away. i sound the alarm. it sounds like a school fire alarm. suddenly, there are rebels coming out of there tents. They all have
their weapons in their hands. We are very small-scale, so we only have cheap hunting weapons., there are a variety, and no
two weapons are the same. the Americans open fire. we return fire, but than i realize that captain king is dead.
So after the 5 minute fire fight, we lost 6 of the 10 new recruits. we needed new
tents, because of the bullet holes. we took out the american squad and saved the camp, but not without major costs to us. i
gathered up Dave and the 6 chipmunks in the under ground area. "we were attacked by an american scouting unit. are all 7
of you OK?" i ask. all of them are OK, but a little shaken up about what had happened. "did any of you sneak in and use
an electronic device?" i ask with seriousness. "i did. i thought you were paranoid, and was texting my friend" Brittany
confessed.i don't wanna say what i have to say next. "because of you, i have lost 8 men. 6 of them weren't here a day. now
they'll never get to do what they signed up to do." i say sternly. Brittany is in tears when she realizes what she has done. she
is bawling at the thought of having accedently ended 8 lives. "you guys are welcome to stay, and they probably destroyed
your car, so you guys might be stuck here a while" i informed them in a much lighter mood. Than the metal hatch slides open
and Sargent pawlicki yells down to us. "sir, there aren't more Americans coming, and we wiped out there radios when the
shooting first stated. they wont have reinforcements for a while." "Thanks, care of the dead and than well
let our guests out of this hole." i say. in about 20-25 minutes, we are back on the outside. there are blood pools and bullet shells everywhere. there are partial tents all over the place, were a rebel camp had stood less then an hour before. Alvin
looks out at the damage, and his little eyes go wide. "it must have been so COOL to see what had happened" "Trust me, if you saw what had happened between our two little groups, you would have wished you couldn't have seen it. when
someone dies right in front of you, weather you know them or not, the image is burned into your mind. it can be nearly impossible to forget all of the horrible things that you see in a war." the rest of the them men nodded and muttered there
agreements. I grabbed the food cooler, and brushed off the rubble on top, thankfully, the cooler itself hadn't been shot. i pull out some bagels and cream cheese, a rare treat for us. we cant have things that spoil at our camp in case it goes bad on
us. with money so tight, we cant afford to waste food. there are raisin bagels, plain bagels, and sesame bagels. the cream cheese comes in plain and strawberry. the tired dirty soldiers gather 'round to get there rations of the rare treat. the
chipmunks are off in an empty corner of the tent and i walk over and sit on the ground next to them. They are shivering a lot. i hate to see anyone go without warmth, food, water, clean clothes, etc. but my men and i are often without a lot of
these ourselves. i set down the food on the ground, but there's a dirty metal plate between them. than i get up, and say "ill be right back, don't go anywhere. And if any of the men bother you, let me know when i get back, and ill take care of it."
with that, i leave the dimly lit blue tent. its not really a tent, its just a tarp hung on an arc of re-bar and plastic pipes. its hard to describe to someone who hasn't seen it, and even harder to describe it to someone if im not there in person to use
visuals. but anyway, im over in my sisters old tent. she had died a month ago, and no one had moved in to her tent yet. i go inside, grab her favorite blanket, and stumble back. its still early yet in the day, so its really dark and hard to see much
of anything. i only know were the kids tent is, because i have the tent rows memorized. she used to live in the third row from the enterence, forth from the left, right along the intersection with the vertical trail. the camp is set up with three rows.
the first is closest to the enterence. the second is behind it, and the theirs is behind that. the vertical trail cuts the rows in half. there are four tents on either side of the trail. after i get back to the food tent, the chipmunks are huddled together with
there counterparts. its so sad looking. i give them the tattered old blanket and they look at my with the utmost thankfulness. i apologize "im sorry its the best i can do. i wish that i could give you guys a halfway decent blanket." "don't worry
about it, Vince. i know that you guys don't have much out here, and we all appreciate the gesture." Brittany said. we were all surprised at her sudden kindness. she looks back at us weird, than you can see it on her face that it clicked. "yeah, so
what i have a soft side?" she snaps defensively. i shake my head and walk away. i than turn around realizing that my favorite couple isn't there. i leave the tent and look around the camp site. all the way on the other side of the camp in the first
row, i hear crying. Jeanette is in tears, and Simon is hugging her and trying to quiet her down. i walk up and ask if i can help. Jeanette is crying because she saw all of the blood after the battle. her kind personality made it impossible not to
brake down into tears at the site of the broken bodies of american troops and rebel soldiers. i comfort her the best i can. "its OK Jeanette someday there will be a free america under a legit government that doesn't know the meaning of corrupt."
that doesn't do the trick as well as i thought it would. i sighed. "come here, its all right." i hug the beautiful chipette. she slowly stops crying and i kiss her on the head and remind her again that it will be alright. Simon looks quite pissed at me
that i kissed his girlfriend and that i got her to calm down and not him. i look him straight in the eye and say that im sorry that i did that and that i shouldn't have intervened he looks at my through the dark, and realizes that i mean it. he says
that he forgives me and we fist bump. than i leave them alone and hear kissing noises as i walk away. i smile to myself. i love hearing that noise. i grab the cone and raise it to my lips. i yell through it.i yell an announcement."all but the night
watch report to your tents. we are taking today off. sleep in and around 10 am ill wake you up again. well start by repairing the tents. ill take a squad into town to replace the tents that cant be repaired. once we repair and or replace the tents,
well play cards and loose train today. if you want, you can just sit around and talk. but for the next 6 hours, we are sleeping. ill see you guys in the morning" and with that, we all turn in for whats left of the night.