New chapter. Enjoy.
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Jonesy looked around the room at his customers. There was a rich looking lady who didn't belong here. There was the man that the gang called 'The Bungalow Dude' who didn't belong here. Wally, the annoying guy who had yelled at an obviously fake Jude when he had ditched Stick-It, who didn't belong here. Stanley was there and his mother, who always called herself Diane. Neither belonged here, but Diane could go anywhere she pleased in Jonesy's mind. Steven, Jen's trainee at The Penalty Box, and... Jen? Neither of them belonged here either.
Jen was looking very annoyed, and that was not a good thing for Jen to be. Steven was looking annoyed too. Both of them had their arms crossed, and were not looking at each other; rather, they were glaring at everything they saw.
"Um... ok, people. Quiet up please." Jonesy said somewhat nervously, even though none of them were talking. "You are here to spend 24 hours camping, with me. The first order of business is going to be making sure everyone is here."
Jonesy pulled out an attendance sheet. He skimmed through it. He looked up. "Is Storra Arkes here?" He waited. "No? Then let's get going."
Jonesy walked through the 'forest,' with his customers walking behind him. He got to an open area and stopped.
"Okay, half of you guys will be staying here for the night. Another guide will be arriving in less than a minute." Jonesy said. He then read through the names that were going to stay here to himself, and was disappointed to find out that Diane was going to have to stay here. He took his pen out and crossed her name off of group one and placed her in Group Two. He then placed the girl that wasn't there in Group One.
"He he. Genius." Jonesy muttered to himself and then read off the group names out loud. He had Bungalow Dude, Jen, Diane, and Steven in his group.
"Okay, you guys follow me." He said to his group and walked though a group of fake looking trees to a staircase in the corner of the room.
"I didn't know they had staircases in the wild." Jen said, giving Jonesy an annoyed look. Jonesy pouted then walked up the stairs.
They came into the room directly above the bottom camping area, which Jonesy had never been in before, and all stopped to stair at what was around them.
Unlike the bottom floor of the room; which had soil, trees, and a few birdcages to simulate the sound of wildlife; they had a room with a wooden floor, stuffed birds and raccoons, and the trees...
Jen walked over to one and poked it. It fell over with a thud. "Your trees are made out of cardboard." She said rather bluntly.
"Um..." Jonesy replied, "I think we set up camp over here." He then pointed to an area that had a picture of a tent painted onto the wall.
Jen stared at Jonesy, then back at the 'tent.' "I was forced to postpone a date for this?"
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Jude stared at the door in the back of the freezer room. He had walked past it four times now and still hadn't opened it. Who knew what was in there? Maybe there was another freezer room, or an office, or maybe... a clone of himself!
"No way am I opening that door, dude!" Jude said to himself.
"Jude! Come on! We need to get going to the library!" Star yelled to Jude. Jude stared at the door one last time then turned around and joined Starr.
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"So, where are we going?" Wyatt asked Natty, who was now pulling him into a section of the mall he hardly ever visited.
"Shopping, duh. I already told you that." Natty replied to Wyatt.
"I know that, but where?" He asked her.
"Um... let's try Albatross and Finch." Natty said as she dragged Wyatt into the store to their right.
She picked up a pair of long shorts, held them up to Wyatt, and then tossed them back onto the clothes rack.
She moved through the clothes racks quickly and Wyatt quickly lost sight of her. He went the way that she went and bumped into many-a-clothes rack before he bumped into a girl wearing the exact same outfit that Natty was just wearing. It wasn't Natty though.
"Wyatt?" Nikki asked him, staring. "What are you doing here?"
"Um... I'm-" Wyatt got cut off by Natty, who had just appeared out of nowhere.
"Hey, you must be Nikki, the new employee, right?" Natty asked her.
Nikki looked over Natty and noticed that they were wearing the same outfit. "You work here too?"
"Yeah, I've been working here for most of the summer." Natty replied.
Wyatt swallowed. What was going on here? Nikki, someone who hated clothing stores, was now working at Albatross and Finch? What had happened to her other job? Also, Natty worked at Albatross and Finch, too?
Wyatt swallowed again. Something wasn't right here. How of a sudden did he become cool enough to date an Albatross and Finch girl?
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Caitlin and Mandy walked by Albatross and Finch on their way to the Khaki Barn. They had been shopping together for over an hour, and so far had three bags of clothing. They'd be done once they shopped at the Khaki Barn. Then again... there was that nice place with the cute guys in it...
Mandy and Caitlin turned into the Khaki Barn and stopped in their places when they spotted Trisha. "Trisha." Caitlin said, sneering.
Trisha turns around. "Mandy." Trisha said, also sneering.
Caitlin stopped sneering and blinked. 'Mandy?' What about her?
"Trisha." Mandy sneered.
"What are you doing here?" Trisha asked Mandy.
"I'm shopping here." Mandy replied to Trisha with a glare.
Caitlin blinked again. Trisha was fighting with Mandy, not her. That meant that... she no longer had a rival! Caitlin smiled, then gasped as she realized how much of a bad thing this was. If Mandy was Trisha's new rival then what did that mean for her?
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"Hey, look at this." Starr said, pointing to a book she had just found near the entrance of the mall library. Yep. The mall had a library.
"What is it?" Jude asked as he stood up and came over to Starr.
"It's you!" Starr said, giving the book to Jude.
Jude took a good look at it. There was a German soldier in a tank with an army helmet on. It looked like him. He flipped open the book and looked through the credits. 'Picture taken by Paul Smith in 1943 of Tom Tomson and a German soldier.
"It's my great-grandfather!" Jude said, staring back at the picture on the book. The other man in the photo, Tom Tomson - an American soldier, was pointing a gun at Roger Lizowski. His finger had pushed the trigger. "That man killed my great-grandfather!"
"What?" Starr asked, confused.
"My great-grandfather's name is Roger Lizowski, and he died in World War II. He was a German soldier and this picture shows him getting shot!"
"Are you sure it's him? Maybe he just looks similar to him?" Starr questioned.
"No way, that is definitely him." Jude replied, eyes still glued to the book.
"Jude, calm-" Starr got interrupted by Jude's screaming.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Jude started running around in a circle.
The old-lady librarian ran towards him, and with football star grace; tackled him to the ground and took the book from him.
"Get out of the library!" She yelled while twisting Jude's arm. He yelled again, but this time in pain. She then picked him up and through him out of the library. Starr followed.
"No! Wait! The book!" Jude yelled as the librarian closed the door on him. He sobbed. "Now will I find out about him?"
"Well, we could go to the town library," Starr suggested, "Or we could ask somebody who knows about war."
Jude looked up at Starr with an evil grin. "The rent-a-cop!"
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Possibly what will happen next time: Jude approaches the rent a cop, Wyatt deals with the fact that he's part of the cool crowd, Jonesy's camping adventure goes insane, Mandy and Trisha battle it out, Caitlin looks for a new rival, Jen tries to run away from the camping experience so she can go on her date with Talon, and Nikki deals with customers that expect her to help.
