A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it's been so long since I've posted, but I'm letting you know I am not gonna take that long of break again. I revised the first ten chapters for spelling errors, and here's the eleventh chapter. Thanks so much for following this story!

The next morning was the hottest day I had ever lived through. A perfect day to find something interesting. Lucky X-Ray, poor us. Stanley pesters X at breakfast, trying to ask him if he has the tube, but X-Ray tells him to get away. I chuckle to myself, he doesn't want his cover blown.

Mr. Sir draws an X on the ground with his shoe and tells me to get started, spitting a sun flower seed shell in front of my feet. I glance over at Zigzag and roll my eyes. He shakes his head and smiles, plunging his shovel into the ground.

I'm in a pissed off mood. I want to find something, I was so tired of digging. We did it every single day and nothing ever changed. Same sun, same dirt, same humidity. Not to mention there was no reward at the end of the day. All we got was shitty food, scratchy cots, and deadly lizards. I even kind of miss the day that rattlesnake bit Barf Bag, at least it was something new and interesting.

My mind drifts to him. Where was he? We hadn't heard anything about him since he left. I wonder if he's okay. Maybe he's home right now, missing a foot, but still in the air conditioning and watching Saturday morning cartoons. What day of the week is it?

The water truck pulls up next to our group. I adjust my hat and hair wrap. I added a hair wrap around my hair line, so it wouldn't be so obvious that it was all pushed back. I feel like people have been noticing that I'm different lately.

Everyone watches X-Ray approach Mom, but he acts totally normal. What is this kid doing? Get the day off already! I shake my head and wait my turn.

"Mr. Pendanski!" X-Ray calls from his hole after Zero's canteen was full. "Wait! Mr. Pendanski! I think I might've found something!" We all jump out of our holes and walk over, acting like we didn't know he was going to find something.

"I think the Warden is going to like this." Mom smiled. Well, about time I see who this damn Warden is, I've only been digging for him for the past few months.

"Does X-Ray get the day off?" I ask, trying to shield my annoyed tone.

"Just keep digging until someone says otherwise." Pendanski instructs. "But if I were you, Rex, I wouldn't dig too hard."

I glance at Caveman as I walk back to my hole. He looks annoyed as he watches Mom drive back towards camp, skipping E Tents water refill. I feel bad for them, it's way too hot today to skip a water break.

The car returned almost instantly. Mom jumps out of the driver's seat with a stupid smile plastered onto his small face. The passenger door opens, and I know the Warden is among us. She is. She's dressed like a cowgirl with fiery ginger hair and freckles scattered all over her visible skin.

She walks directly to X-Ray. I'm surprised. She never seems to come out of her cabin yet she knows which one of us is X-Ray. I shiver. Maybe Zig was right, she did have the whole place wired up. Which means she might know about me. I hide in my hole.

"This where you found it?" The Warden asks.

"Yes ma'am."

She smiled. "Your good work will be rewarded." Hey lady, I've been digging my holes for months, where's my reward? "Drive X-Ray back to camp." She instructed Pendanski. "Let him take a double shower, and give him some clean clothes." That's the reward? Never mind. "But first I want you to fill everyone's canteens!"

"I just filled them a little while ago." Pendanski smiled. The hot air suddenly turned icy as the Warden's mood drained. She turned to Pendanski, looking suddenly pissed.

"Excuse me."

"I had just filled them when Rex-"He began.

"Excuse me." She cut him off. "Did I ask you when you last filled them?" I can't help but laugh quietly along with the other guys, seeing Mom get scolded was one of the best things I've ever seen. It was about time the bastard got bitched out.

"No, but it's just-"

"Excuse me." She interrupted again. God that was getting annoyed. Excuse me! "It's hot and it's only going to get hotter. Now these fine boys have been working hard. Don't you think it might be possible that they have taken a drink since you last filled their canteens?"

Yeah, Pendanski! Give me some more water!

"Caveman, will you come here please?" She asked. Cavemen walked slowly towards her, looking terrified.

"I still have plenty left." Caveman answered when the Warden asked if he had taken a drink. Something told me she wasn't going to like that answer, she didn't look like the type of lady who would easily be defeated in an argument.

"Excuse me."

"Yeah I drank some." He murmured. She asked for his canteen and she took it without hesitation. Turning to Pendanski, she shook it.

"Do you hear the empty spaces?" This woman had more sass than anyone person I've ever met. Pendanski told her he could. "Then fill it. And next time I tell you to do something, I expect you to do it without questioning my authority. If it's too much trouble for you to fill a canteen, I'll give you a shovel. You can dig the hole, and the Cavemen can fill your canteen." She turned back to an awestruck Caveman. "I don't think that would be too much trouble for you, would it?"

After our canteen were re-filled, the Warden began to poke through X-Ray's dirt with a pitchfork, looking for something else. Part of me wanted to tell her where the real hole was, but I didn't say anything. Maybe now we would figure out what we were looking for.

I knew all along we were looking for something. I mean, who decided that digging holes built character? It made boys pissed off and muscular, not exactly how you want a juvenile delinquent thrown back into society. The tube must have been not exactly what she wanted, but have some sort of connection to her goal.

But what would be buried out in a dried up lake in the middle of Texas?

The Warden instructed Pendanski to bring back three wheelbarrows after he dropped off X-Ray, and told Zero to take over X-Ray's hole. The lady seemed to quite a lot about us, even details she shouldn't know like Zero being a fast digger.

Armpit and I were told to keep digging where we were, but were given helpers. Although Zigzag was assigned Armpit, he jumped into my hole, Magnet not bothered by the switch.

"It was a lipstick tube." Zigzag mutters to me as he begins digging. "I got a better look."

"She's digging up this entire lake to find old make-up?" I asked, even more confused than I was before I know what the object was.

"This camp isn't for character building." Zig said. "Something isn't right about this place."