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Chapter #12;
The
next morning Kobe woke up first, she had a terrible time sleeping
that night, knowing Oliver could be somewhere close by. 'Why did this
have to happen!' she thought angrily. When X-ray had told her her
mother wanted to see her she never imagined THAT is what she'd have
to say. Kobe drew her knees up to her chest and buried her face in
her arms. This is going to suck. Hopefully Oliver won't be digging
near the boys. Or maybe Kobe just won't go out there today, just
incase. No. She could not let his being here ruin her fun. That'd
just be foolish. She let out a loud groan and fell back into bed,
snuggling into her blankets. It was almost too quiet in the tent. She
started to suspect something. She couldn't even hear the boys'
breathing. Which was unusual. Kobe slowly sat up on her elbows and
looked around. She saw that Magnet and Caveman were staring at her.
She rolled her eyes.
"What!" she asked in a harsh whisper.
"Nothing, you were just tossing and turning alot." Magnet whispered back.
"Well if it was tossing and turning alot wouldn't they other boys be awake?" she demanded, slightly angry.
"They are." Caveman started to laugh outloud. Magnet reached over and hit him in the shoulder.
"Man, shut up!" he groaned.
Kobe rose an eyebrow as the other boys started to sit up. "Then why were you whispering to me?" she hissed.
Magnet and Caveman exchanged glances. "No reason, chica. No reason." he trailed off.
Kobe pouted. "Fine. Whatever." she said before falling back into her bed.
A few minutes later the bugle recording sounded and the boys all rolled out of bed. "Coming out today, Kobe?" Zigzag asked as he loomed at the end of her cot. Kobe shaded her eyes, even though there was no need, and looked up at him.
"Err," she began. "Not right now, I think I'm going to go back to the cabin, see what else mum got me in New York." Zigzag shook his head.
"Alright." he said, in a voice that dripped with disappointment.
Kobe sighed sadly. "Zig?"
"Yeah?" he asked, whirling around.
"I'll come out after lunch, okay?"
Zigzag smiled. "Okay, see ya then." he said before trailing slowly behing the other boys. Kobe shook her head with laughter as she rolled off the cot and opened her suitcase. Out she pulled a pair of khaki clam diggers that went to just above her ankles, and a thermal tank-top (think a tank-top made of the type of material that long johns are made out of), that was striped navy blue, hunter green, dark red, white, and yellow. A tiny bit of lace trim adorned the neckline of it, and there was a tiny white-silk bow in the center. She pulled the top on, it fit her like a glove, then the clam diggers, before stepping into her trusty flip flops, and walking out the tent flap. In the distance she saw the boys heading out to dig. Zigzag had his right hand in his pocket, and his left was gripping the shovel. His wild blonde hair was blowing backwards. Kobe smiled, but quickly started to move on towards the cabin when she heard another group of boys heading her way. She took off at a run, letting her hair fall out of the pony-tail and cascade wildly around her shoulders. She burst right through the door and collapsed onto the living room couch.
"Hey mum!" she yelled breathlessly.
"Hey, baby. Why aren't you out with the boys?" she called back from the bathroom.
Kobe shrugged. "I donno," she answered as she pulled at a split end. "I guess I came back to see the stuff you got in New York."
"Oh, okay darling, but you saw everything yesterday," the warden paused for a moment. "Oh! Baby I almost forgot! Go look inside the top drawer of your bureau!"
"Why?" Kobe asked. She swung her legs to the floor.
"It's a surpriiiiiise!" Louise sang. Kobe laughed.
"Alright," Kobe walked down the hall to her bedroom and walked over to the bureau. She pulled open the dresser drawer. Inside sat a thin, sleek black rectanglish square. "Mum, what's this?" she questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"For goodness sake, dear, take it out!" Kobe did as she was told, and almost dropped it. Her mother got her a laptop!
"Are you shittin' me!" she shrieked excitedly.
Mrs. Walker appeared in the doorway. "Nope, I know how much you miss your friends, and how angry you'd be I never told you I was going to New York. I would've gave it to you yesterday, but I guess it slipped my mind."
Kobe's eyes glazed over and she jumped up and down. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" she screeched. "Does it have internet?"
"It has everything." Louise told her with a big red-lipsticked smile. Kobe put the laptop back onto the bed and hugged her mother.
"I love it!" she squealed.
"I'm glad, but there is only one condition."
Kobe's face fell. "What?"
"Do not let any of the boys touch it. I don't care how good of friends of yours they are, they are not to touch it. And if anyone starts to get rough and you have it out, get away. Either that or holler for Pendanski or Mr. Sir, understand?"
Kobe nodded vigoursly. "Of course, yes. Is it ready to go?"
"It should be."
"Okay! Great! 'Bye!" she yelled, picking up the laptop and tearing out onto the lakebed. She searched for D-tent. There they were, not too far out, so Kobe decided to walk.
She was about halfway there, walking past another tent's digging area, when someone called her name. "Yo, Kobe." the voice said.
Kobe whirled around, a smile on her face. A smile on her face til she saw who was calling her.
"What the fuck do you want." she demanded, staring Oliver straight in the eyes with enough hatred to make Saddamn Hussein scared.
"Just to talk." he shrugged, hopping out of his hole.
"Well I don't want to talk to you. Do you not understand that?"
"Why not?" he asked, looking slightly hurt.
Kobe stared at him blankly. "Why not? Why the fuck WOULD I! You cheated on me, you ass hole! With my BEST FUCKING FRIEND! MY BEST FRIEND!" she screamed, tears welling up. The other boys started to notice. A little ways away she could see D-tent look up. They noticed her.
"I'm sooo sorry, I, I, I just don't know what I was thinking. I was messed up." Oliver said, stepping towards her.
Kobe looked at him, bleary eyed. "Yeah, you were."
"Please, can you forgive me? I really like you."
"No! I will
not fucking forgive you! DO YOU NOT REALISE THAT! BESIDES, I LIKE
SOMEONE ELSE NOW. SO LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!" she yelled before
storming off towards D-tent. When she reached them she sat down a few
meters away without a word, and flipped open her laptop. She turned
it on and immeadiately opened an Internet Explorer window. She typed
in the address for the email site and logged and began to write an
e-mail to her ex-best friend,
Kal.
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Hello, Kal. This is Kobe, your ex-best friend. Just thought I'd let you know, bcuz u r clearly to stupid to think to read email address...or think about hooking up with your best friend's boyfriend. Anyways, guess what? Your ass-hole boyfriend. MY ex-boyfriend, is here CGL. Yes. Oliver. He tried to talk to me today, but I told him to fuck off, basically. Just writing to let you know that if I see your bitch-ass, dirty boyfriend stealing face come down here to visit him, I don't know what I'll do. But it won't be very nice. I'm sorry for the insults, I just have ALOT of pent-up anger because of you, so I feel I should take it out on you rather than my new friends. Anyways, I gotta go. Hope I never see your sorry ass face again!
--Kobe--
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After Kobe was done writing the e-mail she hit send and closed the computer. She looked up and met Zigzag's gaze. She got up, went over to his hole, and sat on the edge of it. "Told you I'd come visit." she smirked. He looked up at his, shading his eyes from the harsh glare.
"I knew you would." he laughed.
"I know. . " she trailed off, her mind racing back to the confrontation with Oliver.
She must have looked pretty zoned out. "Kobe, are you alright?" Zigzag asked eventually.
Her head snapped up. "Wha-, yeah, yeah I'm fine." she stammered.
"No, no something's bothering you. What is it?" he asked.
Kobe sighed. "I ran into...Oliver." she said finally.
Zigzag looked at her. "What? How?"
"Well, I was on my way out here, and I was walking past...B or C tent's digging site, and he was there. I never noticed him, but he saw me and started talking. I told him to fuck off, but he kept being persistent, asking me to forgive him and he still likes me and all that shit."
"...and now you like someone else." Zigzag said in a whisper.
"Pardon?" Kobe asked.
"...and now you like someone else. You guys were fighting pretty loud." he said.
Kobe's face turned bright red. "Oh, sorry about that.." she trailed off.
"It's alright, no biggie." Zigzag chuckled as he jumped back down into his hole.
"Thanks." Kobe laughed, letting her head fall back and her hair fall down her back. "Sure is hot out here."
"Yeah, it's rough. But it gets worse sometimes." Zigzag stated.
Kobe brought herself back upright. "Jesus. I don't know how you guys do it." she murmured.
"We're used to it." he mumbled as another pile of dirt was flung over his shoulder. For the first time since she started coming out with them to the digging spot she noticed how filthy their shirts and things were.
"How often is laundry done around here?" she asked. He looked up at her.
"I 'unno, every 2 or 3 days, something like that." he said slowly. "Why?"
"Eh, just wonderin'." she told him.
Zigzag rose an eyebrow. "O..kay...hey! What's that?" he asked, pointing at the laptop.
"Mum got it for me in New York, so I could keep in touch with my friends." Kobe mumbled quietly.
"Awesome." he nodded. Kobe smiled. Thank god he wasn't one to be all annoying and beg-y.
"Thanks." she replied, tucking the laptop into it's carrying case so it wouldn't get dirt inside it.
The boys continued digging for a little while longer. Kobe even jumped down to help Zigzag for a few minutes, using her feet to loosen the dirt. Now she was all dirty. Ew. Oh well. The first ones to be done were the usual. Zero, X-ray, Armpit. Squid, Magnet, and Caveman were still out there when Zigzag finished. "All done." he announced proudly, tossing his shovel over the edge and onto the dirt. He hopped out of his holes, forgetting for a second that Kobe was still there. He spit it in, nearly missing Kobe's head.
"Ewww!" she screeched, scrunching up her pert tiny freckle dotten nose.
"Shit! I'm sorry, Kobe." he blushed, extendin a hand down to her. She tried to grab it, but failed. However she did manage to get one foot into a hole in the dirt. Zigzag reached down and placed both strong hands under her arms and lifted her out.
"Thanks, Zig." she said in mock anger. "You almost spit on me!"
"Well geez, you could've said something!" he retorted.
Kobe playfully punched him in the arm. "Ahhh!" he yelped, grabbing the spot she hit. Kobe jumped.
Zigzag looked at her, she looked like she was about to cry. "Oh gosh, oh gosh, I'm so sorry!" she rambled.
"It's..it's okay, Kobe. Calm down. I just have a reeeeealllllllyyy bad sunburn under there." he chuckled, lightly patting the arm of the hideous orange jumpsuit.
Kobe frowned. "Don't you use sunscreen?"
"No.." he replied slowly.
Kobe's mouth fell open. "You guys could get heatstroke, sunstroke, SKIN CANCER!" she yelled.
Zigzag looked taken aback. "I know, but they haven't given us any."
As they wandered slowly back to the camp grounds Kobe pondered this. That isn't right. The boys could get very sick. She decided to take initiative. "Zig, would you LIKE sunscreen?" she asked as they sat cross-legged from each other on his cot. He looked up from the card game they were playing.
"Sure, I mean, anything would be better than dealin' with this." he lightly poked his sun burnt arm.
Kobe got up off the cot. "Be right back." Zigzag nodded as he tried to make a card castle. Kobe stormed out of the tent and ran over towards where Pendanski and Mr. Sir were standing, arguing about food or something. Unbeknowst to Kobe though, Zigzag, X-ray, and Magnet, who were all in the tent at the time she stormed out, were watching her from the tent steps. If she had known they were watching she wouldn't do what she's about to do, but she doesn't, so she's going to.
"Hey! YO PENDANSKI! C'MERE!" she yelled. The boys' eyes bulged as they stifled laughter.
"Yes, Ms. Walker what can I do for you!" he asked cheerfully.
"WHY THE HELL DON'T THE BOYS GET SUNSCREEN!" she demanded loudly.
"Why, Kobe, we don't have very much of it."
"BECAUSE IT'S ALL ON THAT BIG HONKER OF A NOSE YOU GOT THERE!" Kobe screamed. Magnet and X-ray and Zigzag started laughing, but quickly shut up when Kobe's head began to turn. She didn't notice them, but she did notice a few other boys. "GET BACK TO YOUR TENTS, LOSERS!" she yelled at them before turning back to Pendanski.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Walker." he stuttered.
"GO BRING ME ATLEAST 6 BOTTLES OF IT, I KNOW YOU GOT IT." she yelled, her face getting red in anger.
"But.." he began.
"JUST DO IT!" 'Nike moment!' she thought jokingly to herself.
Pendanski immeadiately ran to the shed and retrieved 8 bottles of sunscreen. "There you are, Ms. Walker." he said nervously.
"Thank you," she replied quietly. "NOW GET TO WORK!" she started to laugh.
"What are you laughing at, Ms. Walker." Pendanski asked.
"THE FACT THAT I JUST GOT YOU TO FORK OVER 8 BOTTLES OF SUNSCREEN!" she howled with laughter as she took off running towards D-tent. When the 3 boys noticed her running they ducked back inside and got in the positions they were in before she left. Kobe burst through the flap and let the bottles drop out of her arm as she collapsed over them in laughter.
"Wow..how did you get those." X-ray asked in pretend amazement.
Kobe beamed up at him. "Well, Zigzag has a really bad sunburn, so I went to see Pendanski, he wouldn't hand 'em over at first, so I started freaking out! Just like my mum!"
Zigzag laughed. "Yeah we-"
"We are very grateful. Now do we each get a bottle?"
Kobe nodded as she tossed a bottle at each of them. She was about to toss one onto Squid's cot when he came through the door, so she turned quickly and threw it at him. "THINK FAST SQUIDLY!" she yelled. Squid's eyes darted all around, but he ducked when he noticed the bottle hurtling towards his head. It flew out the door. Squid looked back and forth between the flap and Kobe. She nodded.
"Go get it." Squid retrieved the bottle.
"Thanks..Kobe. How'd you get 'em?" he asked. Kobe smiled a sly smile.
"I have my ways." she said mysteriously.
"More like she totally flipped at Pendanski!" X-ray hooted. Kobe shot him a look.
"Why'd you do that?" Squid asked.
Kobe's eyes darted towards Zigzag, who was reading the label on his sunscreen, to the tent flap. "No reason." she said quickly.
Squid nodded knowingly. "I see. I see. Are you sure?"
Kobe glared at him. "Squid!" she whined. "Don't start teasing me now! I should never have told you that!"
"Told him what?" Zigzag asked, now suddenly attentive.
"That Kobe li-" Squid began. Kobe slapped a hand over his mouth.
"NOTHING! NOTHING! Now everyone put on some sunscreen!" she chirped happily, her hand still over Squid's mouth. "Now you promise not to say it." she asked in a low voice. Squid nodded, his eyes held a mischevious expression. Kobe tightened the grip. "Promise!" she insisted. Squid nodded, then licked Kobe's hand.
"KOBE LIKES ZIG!" he yelled as he jumped up and took off running. Kobe's eyes widened as EVERYONE's gaze turned to her. She turned red before bolting after Squid, leaving Zigzag confused and everyone else shocked.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" she screeched.
a/n
- WOO! My writers block is GONE! But that wasn't the only reason I
haven't been updating, it has been exam week all week..and 2 weeks
before that I was studyin. So yeah...TOMORROW IS MY LAST EXAM! IT'S
ENGLISH, BOO YAAAAHHH! lmfao..Excuse that, I'm just really happy.
Anyways, READ AND REVIEW! I'LL LOVE YOU FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER!
xoKate Luv u lots like JELLY TOTS and VODKA SHOTS
