Disclaimer - I only own Kobe. Similarities to real people/places/things are purely coincidences.

an - in the last chapter there is a line that says ''...drew smiled weakly.'' it's supposed to be "..kobe smiled weakly."

As Kobe stormed out she let a few angry tears run down her cheeks. She could not let this happen. Then, after she realised that she sounded like a preppy, tight-blonde-pony-tail, polo shirt wearing loser, she stopped. Kobe wiped the tears from her eyes and ran into the wreck-room and pushed herself as far into the sinking couch as possible. You'd be surprised how close she was to the ground. She stayed there, staring at the TV for what seemed like hours. Soon later , though, the boys came pounding up the steps and inside. Right away Squid noticed her. He walked over and sat down on the other cushion. Kobe looked up and smiled meekly before turning back to the fuzzy television. Squid sighed and ran his left hand through his brown hair.

"Look, Kobe, he don't know." he breathed finally.

Kobe sighed and sat so that she was facing him. "That's okay, I'm just worried about what his reaction would be if he DID know." Squid shrugged.

"Look," he began. "We won't let Zig-"

"Let Zig what?" Kobe and Squid looked up behind the couch, at Zigzag, who smiled awkwardly down at them. Kobe's brown eyes grew as big as saucers.

"Nothing, nothing. It's not important." Kobe chuckled, acting as if they were not just talking about her humoungous crush on him. Zigzag eyed them warily and sat down on the floor, in the center of the couch. He stared intently at the TV,reaching up every once in a while to push his hair out of his eyes. Kobe smiled and rolled her head from side-to-side, cathing Squid's glance. He smirked and nodded towards Zigzag. Kobe rolled her eyes and got up to go back to the tent. It was quite a bit hotter in the wreckr-room. The tent was not much better, but it'd do. She arrived to the area where there tent was to discover that it wa fixed! She looked at it strangely before ascending the steps inside. X-Ray was laying on a cot that looked rather new.

"What's with this?" Kobe asked, nodding around at the new cots. X-Ray sat up on his elbows.

"Um...Warden's back. She wants to talk to you, like, now." he told her. Kobe raised an eyebrow before walking down the steps and towards the cabin. Once she reached it she crept up the creaky wooden stairs and threw open the equally creaky screen door.

"Mum? Are you here?" she called, stepping into the living room.

"Yes, dear, I'm in your room." Kobe shrugged her shoulders and ran down the hall, sliding into her bedroom. Her mother was sitting on her bed, folding some clothes Kobe has never seen before.

"Hey...mum..what's this?" she asked with a funny smile.

Louise just kept folding clothes. "Well, darling, while I was gone I was in New York."

"What! Why didn't you bring me! I could've seen some of my old friends!" she yelled, her face turning red in anger. "Calm down baby. I bought you some new clothes, ordered a whole new shipment of food, for us and the camp, and I found out about Oliver..." she said slowly. Kobe froze.

"What," she said icily. The warden turned to face her daughter. "What about him?" she demanded, her hands on her hips.

"WellhekindoftriedtostealsomethingfromKal'sfamilyandtheycaughthimbutlethimgobutthenhetriedtostealsomemarijuanafromadealerbecauseafteryouleftheturnedintoahugepotheadsohimandthedealergotcaughtfightingandtheybothgotarrested."

Kobe sat down slowly. "Back up, please." she said.

Mrs. Walker sighed. "Look, honey, long story short, Oliver and the dealer are going to be coming here."

Kobe's face drained of all it's colour. "Wonderful." she said sarcastically. "Now would you please leave so I can change?" Her mother nodded and left the room. Kobe leafed through the t-shirts, tank tops, shorts and skirts on her bed. She chose a snug baby blue t-shirt and a pair of black soffee cheerleading shorts. She slipped back into her black flip flops before pulling her hair into two low-set braids and walking, zomie-like out of the cabin and back across the lake. Vaguely, she could here her mother come out onto the porch and watch her, but Kobe couldn't be bothered to look back. She was in a slight state of shock. Even though she didn't really feel like talking to anyone Kobe forced herself to walk back into D-tent and collapse onto the cot that had been set-up for her. The boys were all there for a change, and they looked up as she started to shake.

"Kobe, dude what's wrong?" Squid asked. Kobe looked at him, her expression a mixture of pure anger, adrenaline, and extreme sadness.

"He's...he's...arrrghhh!" she started pounding her pillow, causing her tight braids to come loose.

Zigzag, Squid, Armpit, and Magnet walked up and stood around her cot. Armpit wrapped his arms around her and pulled her off. "Baby you's gonna break the cot again if you keep doin' that." Kobe writhed in his grip.

"LET ME GOOOO!" she wailed as angry tears escaped her eyes. Squid dropped her pillow on the ground. Kobe fell to her knees and started beating on it. The guys watched, alarmed, as Kobe reduced the pillow to feathers and ripped fabric.

"Kobe," Zigzag said as he sat on his haunches beside her. "What's going on?"

Kobe rose her angry eyes from the pillow to Zigzag's face. She sighed, looking around at the four guys that surrounded her. "I guess you're going to find out soon enough." she sucked in a harsh breath then it go.

"Find out what, dawg?" X-ray asked as he joined them. Kobe looked up at them again.

"You remember my story about Oliver, right?" she asked slowly, as to ensure she would'nt release any more tears, angry or sad.

They nodded. "Yeah."

"He's coming. He got caught for a fight with some thug drug dealer, who was selling him pot. Apparently he didn't have any money to pay for it at that time, but he already had a 'tab' with this buddy, so Oliver tried to steal it. They ended up fighting. Now let me tell you, Oliver is NOT a small guy anymore. He never used to be muscular or tall. Now he's tall, and from what my mum tells me, he has muscles. No bigger or smaller than your guys', but muscles nonetheless."

Armpit stared off, appearing to be in deep thought. "So where's he going?" Kobe smacked her head.

"He's coming here, hun, he's coming to Camp Green Lake." Armpit made an 'o' sound before returning to his cot. The other 4 boys still standing there.

"Want us to beat him up?" X-ray asked. Kobe shook her head.

"No, no thanks. He just better not end up in here. Or else I will bitch slap him 'til his cheeks bleed. I just don't want to have to be around him, ya know. After everything he's put me through." the guys nodded.

"So when's this buddy coming?" Squid asked, pulling his toothpick out, examining it, and sticking it back between his lips. Kobe's expression changed to 100 percent pure anger, full of hatred and loathing. "Tomorrow." she seethed angrily.

"Tomorrow..that's soon." Zigzag said. Kobe smirked. "Ya think?" she retorted, but auickly took it back.

"I'm sorry, Zig. I'm so sorry. I'm just...argH!" she screamed, starting to pound her pillow again. Zigzag gave her a hug.

"It's okay, it's okay. If you don't want him near you, he won't be." everyone nodded, replying with 'yeah's' and 'for sure's'. Kobe smiled gratefully before climibing back up into her cot, clutching her thin , beat-down pillow.

She lay there a few moments before Magnet spoke up. "Kobe why aren't you in the cabin now? Your mum's home."

"I like it here." she said simply. Squid and Magnet smirked at her answer. She glared at them, but a smile was still on her lips.

"Don't. you. dare." she said with a laugh. The boys chuckled before turning back to their card game. Kobe allowed herself to fall asleep soon after that.

----Next morning----

The next morning Kobe was awaken by Armpit poking her with his boot in the thigh. "C'mon, girl. Get up."

"Shut up, bitchface. I don't have to get up." she murmured, burrowing further into hte blankets. She could tell Armpit was smirking. "Zigzag's going now," he whispered. "And you don't wanna be here when Oliver arrives, now do you? Mom will probably get you to show him around. How AWKWARD." he whispered, but yelled the 'AWKWARD' part. Kobe shot out of bed and quickly changed into her pink t-shirt and blue skort. She put her flip flops on and bolted for the exit.

"What did you say to her, 'pit?" Squid asked. Armpit smiled.

"Ohhh, nothing." he replied slyly as he strode towards the exit.

Squid shrugged and grabbed his boots, pulling them on. He yanked on a dirty white t-shirt and headed for the door. Kobe was already leaning against the library, eyes closed, and her braids extremely messy from having slept on them. Squid motioned for Magnet to join him, and together they snuck up on either side of the snoozing Kobe and took an index finger, and poked her in the side. Her eyes flew open and she glared at each boy out the side of her eye. "If I was sane I'd be sleeping at this time of day." she said dryly.

"To bad you're insane!" Magnet hooted, and Squid joined in. She looked at them with a bored expression on her face.

"Is that all you got?" Kobe responded before heading off in the direction of the digging site, between X-ray and Zigzag. Squid and Magnet followed slowly behind.

Kobe had plugged herself in to her Mp3 player a while ago. By now the boys were almost done, and she was getting extremely bored. So, being the easily amused person she is, Kobe found a short stick and began to draw in the dirt. Until, that is, she saw a yellow bus ramble down the road. Her eyes bulged and she started to choke on the dust that, unbeknownst to her, had been welling up in her throat. "What's wrong, baby girl?"(an- I know Hecates diamon says that alot..lol..one of my friends hu reads hole's ff's said that to me..lol. What's wrong with sayin that? It's CUTE!) Squid called over. Kobe waved her hand wildly towards the road. Then proceeded to fall flat on her stomach. The boys looked up, and for the first time noticed the bus. They glanced at Kobe, who was sitting like a toddler who was rolling a ball back and forth, in the dirt, staring at the bus with disgust.

"That." she hissed acidly.

And so she was left alone to think until Zero and X-ray were done their holes. She saw Zero get up and leave, but she also noticed that X-ray was almost done. He was more likely to protect her from Oliver than Zero (an - No offense to Zero..he's to cute to get pissed! In my story, anyway), so she waited for him. When he was done Kobe got up and trailed along beside him. In the distance, on the other side of a thin dust cloud she could see her mother and Mr. Sir talking to two boys, one was tall with shaggy red hair, and the other was almost as tall, with shaggy brown hair. Oliver. Kobe sucked in her breath. They'd have to pass them on the way to the shovel pile. Kobe put herself behind X-ray, as to not draw attention to herself, and continued walking. As the drew nearer X-ray slowed down and tried his best to cover Kobe. Too late. "Kobe! Hey baby!" her mother called, waving wildly. Oliver, the other boy, and Mr. Sir turned towards X-ray and herself.

Kobe grimaced and gave her mother an angry look as she walked by with X-ray, who had put himself closest to them, so he could prevent Kobe from pouncing on this kid and punching his face in. "Miss. Walker, come here." Mr. Sir said sternly.

Her mother nodded, and Kobe pushed X-ray ahead of her. She gripped the back left shoulder of his jump suit and nudged him towards the 4 people. He looked at the ground as Kobe peeked over his shoulder. "What." she spat, keeping her gaze locked on her mother's face.

"We have two new campers."

"I can see, I'm not blind." she retorted.

"Would you like to show them around?"

"No. C'mon X-ray, let's go." she grabbed his shovel, threw it as close to the pile as she could get it, and dragged him back to D-tent. When they re-entered everyone was back. Squid and Zigzag and Magnet stood up when the noticed Kobe's expression.

"I take it you came across whatshisname."

"..and his dealer. and my mom. and mr. sir." she finished. X-ray shook his head at Squid and nudged Kobe over to her bed. He stood and talked to Zig and Squid for a few minutes, fully aware Kobe was watching them.

"Look , guys, I saw the looks they gave each other. I think it's best, for our saftety, I mean, the look on Kobe's face was pure hatred, that we don't ask her any questions. Okay?" he asked.

Squid and Zigzag nodded. They walked up to Kobe. "Look, um, if you need to talk..you can talk to us." Zigzag said awkwardly. She smiled up at him. "Sure. I will."

Everyone but Zero and Zigzag ''awwwed''. Kobe glared at everyone. They shut up.

"Thank you." she said stifly, retrieving her Mp3 player from her pocket and letting music fill her ears as she rested her head on the edge of her mattress.

Tomorrow was going to be a looooooong day.

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