Morning (Lucy's POV)
"Smiling faces, smiling faces. The early mole digs the deepest hole." Mom yells as us campers drag our selfs to the "Library" to get our shovels.
"Come and get them. Let's go. C'mon Magnet open them peepers." Mr. Sir yells as he opens the "Library". We start grabbing shovels and getting breakfast. Well I don't. I mean I grab my shovel just not breakfast. Slinging the shovel across my shoulders I turn around just in time to see Stanley's shovel taken by X-Ray and another one thrown down by his feet.
"You picked up X-Ray's shovel. It's shorter than the rest of them." Squid says rubbing his eyes to get the sleep out.
"Smaller shovel, smaller hole." Magnet says in between bits of his breakfast. After breakfast we start heading towards the digging site.
"Dig here. If you find anything interesting you are to report it to me or Pendanski." Mr. Sir says marking mine and Stanley's digging spot with an X with the heel of his boot.
"What are we looking for?, Mr. Sir." Stanley asks leaning up against his shovel.
"Nothing." He says before walking off. Stanley placed his shovel in the dirt and jumped on it with both feet and fell right on his butt.
"Hahaha, you okay?" I laughed helping him to his feet.
"Yeah." He replied.
"One down a billion more to go." Mr. Sir said. So we all started digging. The sun was starting to rise. Stanley's hole was near X-Ray's, Magnet's, and Squid's hole while mine was near Zero's. Digging was boring so I decided to sing/hum to my favorite song by Avril Lavigne.
Waking up I see that everything is OK
The first time in my life and now it's so great
Slowing down I look around and I am so amazed
I think about the little things that make life great
I wouldn't change a thing about it
This is the best feeling
[Chorus]
This innocence is brilliant
I hope that it will stay
This moment is perfect
Please don't go away
I need you now
And I'll hold on to it
Don't you let it pass you by
I found a place so safe, not a single tear
The first time in my life and now it's so clear
Feel calm, I belong, I'm so happy here
It's so strong and now I let myself be sincere
I wouldn't change a thing about it
This is the best feeling
[Chorus]
It's a state of bliss, you think you're dreaming
It's the happiness inside that you're feeling
It's so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
It's a state of bliss, you think you're dreaming
It's the happiness inside that you're feeling
It's so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
It's so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
This innocence is brilliant
Makes you wanna cry
This innocence is brilliance
Please don't go away
Cause I need you now
And I'll hold on to it
Don't you let it pass you by
[Chorus]
"Damn, girl. You're pretty good. You never told us you could sing." X-Ray said popping his head out of his hole. I already had my jumper tied around my waist.
"Yeah, chica. You good." Squid says. All the others including Zero nodded their head as if agreeing with the two.
"Thank you. No one has ever liked my singing before." I replied back as Zero climbed out his hole and spit in it.
"Don't tell me he's done." Me and Stanley said at the same time.
"No one told you. Zero's like the fastest digger. I think he eats the dirt." ZigZag said as Zero stalked back to camp.
"I'm almost done. About five more shovel fulls and I'll be done and I don't think he eats the dirt, ZigZag." I say shoveling another shovel full out my hole.
"Ok now I'm done. Exactly how do I get out? Any ideas? Anyone? Okay looks like I'm trying this on my own." I say trying to get out the hole I just dug. I grip the side and pull myself up only to fall back down.
"Aww, come on. I really wish someone would help me out of this hell hole please." I reply.
"Here. Take my hand." A shadow comes into view. It's Stanley.
"Thank you, Stanley. At least someone has some manners around here." I say taking his hand thinking how a nice man like him could end up in a place like this.
"We're criminals. We don't help people." X-Ray answers.
"Well that's a nice answer." I say swinging the shovel across my shoulder heading back to camp. The walk back was long. The tents was a sight of relief. I threw the shovel in the pile of one shovel and walked to the tent. I walked in and flopped down on my bed not even noticing that Zero laid on his. My hair was a mess. Sticking out in every direction clumps of dirt matted in from where I fell in the hole. Blisters covered both my hands and were very painful. I grabbed my brush and brushed my way through the dirt.
"I don't know how you work so fast without getting many blisters." I said brushing as much dirt out as possible out my hair.
"It's easy really as long as you work fast. And plus I love digging holes." He replies sitting up a bit.
"Well that explains why you are such a fast digger. Doesn't your hair ever get like this?" I replied.
"Yeah it did, once. On my first day. I didn't have the hat I have now so when I went to get out the hole I fell back in. Dirt covered my hair from one end to the other. Took me forever to get all of it out. Here hand me the brush. We got plenty of time." Zero said sitting all the way up patting the seat beside him. I handed him the brush and sat down my back towards him.
"I started at the bottom and worked my way up. Trying to get it all at once just hurt too much. He stroked the bottom part a couple of time double checking for dirt and worked his way up.
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"When I was about 4 years old. I was at the park with my best friend. I don't remember her name. But we were on the jungle gym, hanging upside down when I flipped over and fell in the dirt. Dirt covered my hair. She was going somewhere so she had her brush with her and taught me how to brush out dirt without taking your head off." Zero answered.
"Wow. I had a best friend that looked just like you except without the hat." I said. He had just finished my hair.
"Here you might need this. You know you remind a lot of her too." He says placing a hat on my head and walking out the tent. No it couldn't be? Could it? I think I have a crush on this one. I carefully took the hat off and stared at it. It was his hat. His green hat. I sat in confusion until X-Ray walked in.
"Hey. What are you doing sitting on Zero's bed?" He asked. I didn't notice I was still sitting on his bed.
"Nothing, X." I said jumped to my bed and shoved the hat under my pillow not wanting X to know what had just happened.