Chapter # 4 - Kobe Comes Home
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Kobe spun around to see who was talking to her. It was none other than Squid. "Yes?" she asked politely, looking up at him. He was almost a foot and a half taller than she was.

Squid shifted around from foot-to-foot. "Uhm, we were wonderin', since we don't get many new faces 'round here, if you wantd to come hang out, play a game with us after dinner?" He adjusted his cap and doo-rag so the beak of his hat shaded his eyes a bit more.

"Sure! Where do you want me to meet you?" Kobe asked, bouncing around hyperly.

"Uh, are you eating in the mess-hall tonight?" He asked, all the boys watched Kobe for an answer. Wow.

"Probably. Mum says she's only going to have me eat dinner in the cabin twice a week. I don't know why, she's just weird like that." she rambled.

"Okay, so, uh, maybe you could eat with us, and then just come chill with us afterwards." Squid suggested.

Kobe nodded feverently. "Yeah, sure, that'd be cool," she glanced around. "I'd love to stay and chat, boys, really, I would, but there will be plenty of time for that later. Right now I reeeeeeeaallllly have to go find mum. Ciao." and with that Kobe tore across the sand to the cabin. Upon arriving she tripped up the splintery wooden stairs, earning herself a few new splinters. 'Grrreeeeeeat,' she thought. After removing the disgusting inconveinences Kobe went into her room to change. She selected a hot pink baby-tee that fit her like a glove, and a pair of short, shiney black soccer shorts and her favorite black flip flops. She pulled her long brown hair up into a high sixty-esque bouncy pony-tail and went out to find her mum once more. This time she succeeded.

Her mother saw her first, though. "Kobe Adrienne Walker! Where have you been?" she demanded.

Kobe cocked an eyebrow at her. "Chill, mum, I've been looking for you!" Mrs. Walker gave her daughter a 'don't-cop-that-attitude-with-me-missy' look before opening her mouth again.

"Fine. Whatever, dear. I just thought I'd let you know you're eating in the mess-hall tonight. Be there at 5:30, or you might miss the good stuff." Lou tossed a delicate blue-strapped watch to her daughter before quickly turning and stalking back to the cabin. Kobe trailed slowly behind her. Greeeeeat, her mum was mad at her.

When Kobe reached the cabin she completely ignored her mother on the porch swing, and went straight into the washroom. She looked at herself in the mirror. Ick. Immediately she grabbed some mascara, cover-up, and sheer lip-gloss, smudged some on, and left. On her way out the door she picked up the soccer-ball her nanny had packed because Kobe loved soccer, and made her way to the dining hall. It was 5:15, so she should be there in plenty of time. Kobe was right. So, instead of waiting around, and risk getting attacked by some random, she made her way to D-Tent.

"Hello?" she called, just outside the flaps.

"Who is it?" A voice mumbled.

"Kobe. . ." she responded slowly. After the shuffle of feet and creaking of cots had ceased the tent flap flew open and Armpit stepped out.

"Hey, uh, Squid and Zig and Magnet are off takin showers or in the wreck-room or something...but X and I are here," he said slowly. "You can come in and chill if you want."

"Sure, that's cool." Kobe shrugged, following him back up the tent-steps and into the smelly, grubby structure. She wrinkled her pert ski-jump nose as she looked around.

X-Ray noticed her reaction. "You get used to it." was his comment.

Kobe nodded her head and pursed her lips and she gave the place the once-over. "I see, I see." she said softly as she took a seat on someone's cot just as the door opened. In stepped Caveman and Zero. They both walked in Kobe's direction. Stanley took a seat on the cot across from Kobe, while Zero just stood there, looking awkwardly at Kobe.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed, jumping up. Zero just shrugged and laid down on his cot. Kobe smiled weakly before turning and walking towards X-Ray's cot, where he was playing cards or something.

"Hey." he mumbled, not looking up from...rocks?

"Hi!" Kobe said brightly. "Can I sit?" she asked.

He blinked up at her. "Sure, go ahead."

Kobe sat there, watching X-Ray play with rocks for 5 more minutes before the flap swished open, and Squid, Zigzag, and Magnet came trooping in. All of them were dripping wet, with towels around them. Squid and Zigzag's hair was soaked and fell in there faces. Kobe giggled.

"Hey boys." she smirked.

"Ah!" the screamed, when they noticed Kobe.

"Don't worry, I don't bite." she quipped, stealing a rock from X-Ray and throwing it up at the ceiling and catching it again.

"Uh, Kobe, we, uh, kinda gotta get changed." Squid said akwardly rubbing the back of his neck.

Kobe looked up at him. "Yeah? I'm not going to look, you know. I'm busy playing...uh...this." she grinned widely and held up a rock before hurling it at the ceiling again. The boys mumbled a bit.

"Fine. Whatever." Squid said, waiting until Kobe had turned to face X-Ray.

"What's this game called, anyway." she asked, trying to make conversation.

X-Ray looked at her dryly. "Rocks."

Kobe's mouth formed an 'O' shape. "Are you boys done yet!" she yelled over her shoulder.

This time ZigZag was the one to respond. "We're in our boxers."

Kobe squealed. "Oh goodie! ABS!" and she bounced on X-Ray's cot so hard she fell off. "OW!"

ZigZag walked over and helped her up. "Here," he said. He had nice abs. Kobe's mouth fell opened when she looked at the other two boys.

"WOW!" she giggled, taking turns running her pointer finger up and down their abs. They kept pushing her away until they each had a t-shirt on. "Awww, damn." she pouted her glossy lips. This made the boys laugh.

"Uh, Kobe, chica, you're drooling all over your lips."

Kobe stared at Magnet. "Are you stupid?" she asked, before bursting out laughing.

Magnet was about to protest, when Squid interrupted. "Heeeeyy, Kobe, is that a soccer ball I see there?" he pointed to underneath X-Ray's cot.

Kobe nodded. "Yep! My nanny packed it for me! Wanna play? I love soccer, it's my favourite."

They all looked at her. "Are you KIDDING! Of course we wanna play!" ZigZag exclaimed, getting up and stealing the ball from Kobe's hands. She made a face.

"Okay, let's go!" she smiled like an idiot and led them all outside. Once the 7 of them (Zero stayed inside; poor guy:( ) were a safe distance away from the buildings, Kobe stole the ball back from ZigZag.

"Hey!" he complained, but didn't even protest beyond that. Kobe smirked at him, before dropping the ball in the dirt and placing her foot on top of it.

"Okay, is there anyone who doesn't want to play? Or who can't?" she asked.

Armpit raised his hand. "I don't want to, I could keep score I guess." he shrugged. Kobe nodded and then turned to face the other 5.

"Alrighty, I'm going to divide us up into teams. Me, ZigZag, Magnet. X-Ray, Squid, Caveman. SEPARATE!" she yelled. Quickly they formed lines and Kobe walked into the middle. "Alright, now I have one rule when I play soccer without a real team. There are no rules, we do WHATEVER we have to to get the ball into the other teams 'net'. Alright? Let's go!" she screeched excitedly, kicking the ball and running back to her line.

"1, 2, 3!" X-ray yelled, and they all dove for the it.

They played soccer for pretty near an hour or so when Dr. Pendanski came out to them. "Okay, boys. Time for counselling, be in the mess-hall in 5 minutes." and then he walked away to prepare.

Kobe pouted. "I don't want you to go!" she whined, sitting on the ground and grabbing Squid's and Magnet's legs. The tried to shake her off , but she was unshakable.

"Kobe, we have to go to counselling or we have to put up with a week or so of mom guilt-tripping us." Squid said, bending down to pry Kobe off of him.

"Yeah, chica, that totally sucks, beliiieve me." Magnet said, doing the same. Kobe squinted evily up at them.

"Fine. I'm going to go back to the cabin and watch MTV all night. Goodbye." she twirled around, grabbed the soccer ball, and ran back home, leaving the boys to stare after her.

When she reached the rickety door, she pulled it open slowly and stepped inside, wiping sweat off her forehead. She went into the kitchen and got a glass of water. The truth was, she felt guilty about the way she left off with the boys, but her guilty conscience was interrupted by her mum, who walked through the door at that moment.

"Koko? Are you here?" she called.

Kobe wiped a hand over her face. "Yes mum, I'm in the kitchen."

Mrs. Walker stepped into the kitchen doorway and stared at her daughter. "Honey, I have some bad news. I have a buisness meeting to deal with tonight, well, for a few hours anyway, so I need you to stay over at camp 'til I come get you."

"What! What the hell am I supposed to do over there at night!" Kobe demanded, her face flushing angrily.

Lou looked tiredly at her daughter. "Well," she began. "Since you are starting to become friends with D-Tent I was wondering if you would mind. . ." she faltered.

Kobe choked on the water in her mouth. "What? You mean spend the NIGHT with them!"

Lou looked at the ground. "Uhm, yeah, kinda. You don't mind, do you darling?" she asked hopefully.

Kobe stared disgustingly at her mother. "No, of course not!" she quipped sarcastically.

"Oh, sweetie don't worry, there's an extra cot set up for you."

Kobe rolled her eyes. "Oh well that makes it AAAALLL better, doesn't it?" her mother looked at her pleadingly, and Kobe gave in. "Fine, when do I have to go over there?"

"In, uhm...5 minutes..." her mum said quickly.

Kobe screeched in frustration before running to her room and quickly throwing some new underwear, a few t-shirts, a skirt, and a pair of hip-hugging capris into a bag. She changed into her pajamas (a tight red racer-back tank top and a pair of black-and-red family guy boxers, with stewie's face all over them), grabbed her bag, stepped into her black flip flops, and stormed out. Her mother called after her;

"Go to the mess hall,darling!" So Kobe had to veer in the other direction, towards the mess-hall. When she reached the door she opened it with a tentative hand and stepped inside. All eyes were quickly on her.

"My, my..mum sent me here." she whispered quietly.

Dr.Pendanski stood up and trotted over. "Your mum has informed everyone about your stay on the grounds tonight! I hope they all treat you with as much respect as they treat me."

Kobe blanched. "Yeah, me too," she said awkwardly before taking a seat between Magnet and X-Ray, the only other empty one. The boys all looked at her strangely. "Uh, Mr.Pendanski, sir, have THEY been informed." she asked, gesturing at the circle of boys. Pendanski shifter nervously.

"Uh, no. They haven't. I guess now would be a good time to do that, now wouldn't it." Kobe rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, I think it would."

Pendanski stood up, clapping his hands. "Well, boys! I just wanted to let you know that Ms. Walker, here, will be staying with you tonight! The warden has some important buisness meetings to attend with several officials and cannot be disturbed, so she has sent her daughter over here for the night and some of tomorrow. She will be staying with you boys, in your tent, since you 8 seem to be becoming friends. There is an extra cot in there, just for her. I expect you all to treat each other nicely, and with respect. Got it?" by the end of Pendanski's speech the boys' jaws had hit the floor.

"You- you- you mean she's SLEEPING in our tent?" Squid stuttered.

"Ye - Ye- YES, I think that's what he meant." X-Ray mocked him.

Kobe folded her arms over her chest. "Yep. I am."

Pendanski released them, and Zigzag stood up. "Wow, I bet this'll be interestin', eh boys?" he asked.

You have no idea.