D-tent walked into the large room and took their seats without saying anything to each other. Mom came on after them smiling and being obnoxiously perky like always. Armpit glowered. He always hated the meetings they had every month or so. He thought it was a complete waste of time and most of the time this was true. They got nothing accomplished except make D-tent even pissier then normal. X-Ray was the first to say something.
"Mom, how come we are in here instead of the usual room?"
"Well Rex, some of the other boys thought it would be funny to vandalize the room we normally meet in. Since that room is now dysfunctional this is the next best thing."
Everyone laughed. Some of the guys got together a few nights ago and completely tore the room apart. They graffitied the walls tee-peed the entire building and egged everything outside and inside the room. It was mostly guys from A and B tent but a few guys from E-tent joined in. Clearly D-tent was not the only tent that hated their meetings.
"Boys vandalism is not funny. It is wrong and I know you boys know better."
This made everyone laugh harder. They all knew that if someone would have told them about their plans they would have helped them out, but since they were younger than the other boys they were one of the last ones to know anything.
"Now today we will be talking about when you finally return to society. What are you going to do with yourselves? Are you going to continue school? Jose why don't you start?"
Magnet rolled his eyes and groaned.
"Haven't we already talked about this?"
"No Jose."
"My name is Magnet."
"Well as you well know I prefer to call you by the name your mother and father gave you…the name society will recognize you by."
"Yah…whatever. Yah I might go back to school I guess I don't have anything better to do."
"That's a good boy! Won't it feel good when you get that high school diploma?"
"I dunno."
"Oh I am sure it will feel wonderful! Now Alan what about you?"
Squid removed the toothpick from his mouth and looked at the floor.
"I ain't going back to no fucking school."
"Alan, let's keep the profanity down please. Why don't you want to go back to school like Jose?"
Magnet looked at mom and tried to defend himself.
"I didn't say I wanted to go back to school. I just don't have anything better to do."
"Now Jose school is a privilege and you should do the best with that pr-"
"Mom what is up those stairs?"
Everyone looked at Zigzag. He was looking at the flight of stairs that was behind X-Ray and Armpit. Mr. Pendancski got very serious and looked almost angry.
"Ricky that is none of your business! There is nothing up there!"
Zigzag looked taken aback from Mom's sudden mood swing. He sat there completely overwhelmed by his thoughts as the rest of the tent continued with their conversation without saying anything more about the stairs.
Back in the tent later that night:
"Man did you see how pissy Mom was when Zigzag mentioned those stairs?" X-ray looked around at the guys and wiped his glasses clean with a corner of his orange jumpsuit.
"Yah! He got so mad! I wonder what is up there."
Zigzag looked nervously around the tent.
"Maybe that is where the Warden watches everything. You know like a little control center or something."
Armpit threw a pillow at Zigzag.
"Man I told you there ain't no cameras and microphones!"
"I dunno Armpit, how come she knows everything then?"
Armpit just shrugged.
"She just knows. I think that is where all the crazy shit goes down."
X-ray shook his head.
"Armpit there is no crazy shit that goes down. We are here to build character and that's it. No crazy shit. Now go to sleep."
Once X-Ray gave an order everyone listened. One by one they rolled over and went to sleep.
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