Chapter Four- Surprise!
That night as we were eating the man named Mom came in and stood near our table.
"So Wanda how are you doing? Are the boys making your stay pleasant?"
"Yo his name is Speed. No more of that Wanda crap." X-Ray said. I looked up at him and saw that his hand had a band-aid over it were my fork had stabbed him yesterday. " Now, now Theodore. You know I don't go by these ridiculous nicknames you boys give each other. Don't forget about tonight." He warned wondering off. As if expecting me to object to the new name, all the boys looked up and stared at me. I shrugged my shoulders and kept on eating. I saw Zigzag pick up his bread and make an offer to me but I glowered at him until he shrugged and ate it himself. Luckily none of the others saw the exchange.
"Lets go to the wreck room. Maybe someone can teach Squid here some manners." We all followed to the wreck room where I saw the reason for the missed spelled name. Messed couches and tv that apparently didn't work. All of us wondered to the pool table where squid set up. I unzipped the orange jump suit and tied the arms to my waist. Zigzag looked down checking to see if anything could be seen. I happed to see big nose and bushy hair doing the same thing. I looked down myself but I knew the only thing they would see was two miniscule lumps that could easily be mistaken for pecs. I looked up and saw everyone else staring at me as well. I made a "I don't know why they are staring" gesture and picked up a pool cue and practices holding it. The boys all watched while I practiced.
"So Squid are we gonna do this or not?" I gave him my best bored as hell tone. But in truth I loved pool. It was one of the best things my mom ever taught me. I was really good at to. Made a career out of getting money this way too.
"What Speed, do you really think you could beat me?" He put my ass to shame in the first two rounds. But as any successful player knows, you always start by losing so then you could get the best damn reaction when you win. Which I did get. He looked at me like I was the devil and deserved to rule hell. But I just kept on smiling. We left for the tent soon after that. As I was already in my night wear, I just laid on the bed. I saw Zigzag grab his clothes and walked toward bushy head. He tried changing over there but of course I had to say something.
"What Zigzag? You cant change in front of me? What are your boxers hearts?" I laughed as did the rest of the room.
"You know what Speed? You asked for it," but he said it so ominously that I actually shivered. "You know Wanda, you have a nice rack. What would you say they are? 34C?" I think it was the name that threw everyone off for a second, but for me it was the insult. He smirked as if he knew I was about to comment.
"Fuck you. My rack is 36D!" I should have just ignored the taunt because now I had every eye in the tent staring at me in astonishment. Then they all started to converge on me as if about to attack. Then X-Ray lunged at me and I launched him into the other guys but then Magnet had my arms and Armpit was lifting my shirt. Zigzag was yelling at them to leave me alone so was bushy hair and big nose. But Bushy hair was so much as talking but doing. He was pushing all the guys away as was Zigzag.
"Alright! I am a girl. Okay? Damn. What are you guys so damn deprived of girls that you have to see for yourselves?" I asked just to be sure then I walked out of the tent and untied the binding. I walked in and tossed it on the bed. Then I did something that I considered to be highly hilarious. I grabbed my shirt and bra and pulled them down. All the guys tried converging again but the three held them back. I pulled the shirt down and got on my bed. "Night!"
I woke up in the middle of the night to quite a few grunts and whimpers. I wondered about the whimpers but figured someone had stubbed there toe again. I looked at Zigzag surprised to see him staring at me with those dark brown eyes of his. I looked into his dark brown eyes and lost myself. It was like I was swirling through an unknown universe. I know I have been acting like a boy in many ways but I realized that there would always be a vital part of being boy I would always lack. And no it is not the male anatomy. It was the ability to look at girl and convey that she was the only one in the world. I mean yes, as a girl I had to ability to make a guy turn hot and cold. I could convey that the guy I was looking at was the only one for me. That that person was the only one who made my pulses speed up. Made my skin tingle. Made my heart race. Make me mad as hell one minute and turn me into a giggling five year old the next.
Though Zigzag didn't half those things to me, I knew it was only a matter of time before he did. The way he was looking at me I knew that he must have felt the same way as me. I felt something that I had never felt. A warming in my cheeks. I out my hands to them and found them hot. I was blushing! My astonishment must have shown on my face, because suddenly he was chortling softly. As I opened my mouth to say something all I heard was "ringggg ringg rinnnggg". I hopped off my cot and quickly changed into my work outfit. This time I made sure that he wasn't watching. I should have made sure that no one else was either.
"Is she wearing boxers?" I heard on the way to the shovels. I groaned while Zigzag smiled. I grabbed the same shovel as I did yesterday and I walked on. I dug my hole at the same speed as yesterday instead of sitting in my hole the whole time I jumped up and went to find Zigzag. Besides Bushy Head-I just didn't like Zero for a name of a person- Zigzag was the fastest digger. The truck pulled up and we walked over together talking about nothing. Big nose and Bushy Head walked on either side of us and some how managed to push us closer without us suspecting a thing. We took our break by his hole. I jumped in to see how much further he had to go but couldn't get back out. I jumped up and caught the edge but I couldn't pull myself up. Every time I got close more dirt came down with me. Zigzag had to jump in and get me out.
He hoisted me up by my ass. I would have protested but I still could not get out of the damn hole.
"Ziggy get out and pull me out would ya?" I asked so nicely, but to be honest a feeling like I have never known started to surge through me and I wanted it to stop. He tried. He really did. The boys had started to wonder over to us by then. Armpit tried to help me but he slipped into the hole and right on top of me. We both went down pretty hard me hitting my head on the metal part of one of our shovels. Armpit was thrown off me and Zigzag tried to help me up. I stood up but there was a brilliant white light that was coming closer and closer until it was all I heard and saw.
