The next day D-Tent was quiet as they dug on the lake, at least for a little while. They had all heard about Dish and Squid, and no one wanted to say anything to set them off. But this did not suit Twitch at all. His jaw twitched, his fingers drummed on his shovel and finally he burst out

"Hey Dish did you really call Squid a bastard? And hell sent? And he didn't do anything? Wow, he must like you or something. I wouldn't let anyone call me that, even a girl, without punching them, and Squids way tougher than me. Ain't that right Squid?"

Squid glared at Twitch and Dish ignored them. X looked up from his hole.

"Twitch" he said

"Yea?" said Twitch

"Shut up"

"Ok, I wi-"

"What did I just say?"

"To shut up"

"So why aren't you shutting up?"

After this, Twitch fell silent, concentrating his extra energy on digging his hole.

The water truck came and went, and came again with lunch. The campers sprawled out eating the sandwiches, with Dish and Squid as far away from each other as possible. Shorts sat by Dish at first, and tried to strike up a conversation, but when Dish didn't answer, she moved and started arguing with Magnet. Shorts and Magnet had struck up an odd friendship, mostly consisting of arguing and Shorts learning how to swear in Spanish, which she used at every opportunity. Once her argument with Magnet had finished, Shorts sat next to ZigZag and absentmindedly twirled some of his frizzy hair around her finger.

"Why doesn't your hair ever go flat on your head?" she asked him

"I dunno" said Zig, blushing a bit and trying to flatten his hair, but not getting anywhere.

"Don't" said Shorts "It looks cool"

"Er, ok" said ZigZag as shorts fluffed up his hair some more

"Man," said Armpit disgustedly "Why don't you two just kiss and get together instead of flirting like a pair of mad ducks?"

"Yea man" said Magnet "Unless your scared 'cause you've never kissed a girl before"

Twitch grinned "Who would want to kiss Zig?" he asked

ZigZag was blushing and Shorts was grinning

"Why not?" she said "Ziggy?"

ZigZag nodded and Shorts kissed him, Zig kissed back and when they broke, off Shorts grinned at the boys

"Happy now? We kissed, and just to let you know, Ziggys a good kisser"

"Her tongues pierced" said Zig in a dazed voice "That makes things a lot more interesting"

X raised an eyebrow and Magnet cracked up.

"Couple one is matched up, so lets get back to digging" said X standing up and going back to his hole. Everyone else followed suit.

Soon, an argument between Shorts and Magnet strung up, and everyone got involved, excluding Squid and Dish. In the end, no one could remember what the argument was about, but Magnet insisted he won.

Dish had once again finished last and as she dragged her tired body back to camp she tripped and fell into a hole.

"Aw dammit" she muttered, and after a bit of struggling, managed to pull herself out and headed towards camp once more. Then, she felt something on her leg, a kind of soft touching on her skin, ticklish and itchy at the same time. She stiffened and slowly pulled up her pant leg. A tarantula was climbing on her leg, it must of climbed on when she fell into the hole. She stared at it for a moment, and then screamed, shaking her leg violently. But the spider hug on and clung onto her sock. So, screaming her head off, she ran to camp, trying to get the spider off her leg. But the tarantula held on, and finally in camp, she ran smack dab into Squid who was coming back from the shower, wearing only his jumpsuit with the sleeves tied around his waist. Dish's monument kept her moving forwards and Squid fell backwards. Dish fell on top of him. Still scared, Dish looked at her leg. The tarantula had finally fallen off. Dish could see two of is legs poking out from under Squids leg.

"Man, you two seemed to have gotten over things" a voice cut through the air to them. Armpits voice. Dish scrambled off Squid and Squid got up slowly.

"Shut up Pit" Dish said coldly "I ran into him and we fell"

"Sure, I believe you" said Armpit

"You'd better!" said Dish as the rest of D-Tent gathered.

"It didn't look like it!" piped up Magnet

"Next time, get a room" said ZigZag

"Dish! I never thought you would!" said Shorts

"Shut up, all of you!" said Dish "I was running, I hit Squid and we fell. You can even ask him"

"Its true" said Squid "But it is odd that you ran strait into me…" Dish glared at him.

"Why were you running?" asked X

"Because there was a big spider on my leg" said Dish blushing

"Where is it now?" asked Twitch

"On Squids leg" said Dish

Squid looked down at his leg. The squished spider was sticking to his pant leg, guts oozing down to his booted foot. Disgusted, Squid used his towel to wipe it off.

"Aw girl, tarantulas aren't that bad, just big n' hairy" said Armpit

"Yea, like Mr. Sir said, their bark is worse than their bite" said Magnet

Shorts pointed out the obvious "They can't bark"

"Yes they can" said ZigZag "I heard one"

"So, anyway" said X "You were running into camp because there was a spider on your leg, you hit right into our pal Squiddy here who from the looks of it is getting a black eye, who killed the spider"

"Yes" said Dish

"Well then you'd better thank him" X replied to her. Dish turned to Squid who was indeed getting a black eye, but also grinning.

"Yea, I would like to be thanked for killing that awful spider" he said. Dish scowled at him

"Thanks" she said and turned to go, but X nodded to Armpit and he blocked her way

"Say it nicely" he said

"I did" growled Dish

"You can't leave until you say it nicely" replied X

"Fine then you self centered-" Dish began

"Self centered what?" asked X and Armpits eyebrows narrowed

"Nothing" Dish finished lamely, then she said to Squid "I'm so happy that you killed the spider for me. Thanks"

"That's better" said X, and Squid grinned once more

"Your Welcome"

Dish turned to go when Twitch once more interrupted at the wrong time

"That's weird! Your scared for spiders, but not insulting Squid?"

Dish growled at Twitch and went to take a shower, and sort out her thoughts. Most of them about Squid

Squid sat in a understuffed chair in the Wreck Room when Mr. Pendanski walked in. he tried to cover his eye, but Pendanski saw it.

"What happened to your eye Alan?" he asked

"Mom, its Squid" said Squid "And the tent door slammed on it"

"Yea, those doors are dangerous" said Armpit

"They strike when you least expect it" added ZigZag

"I know!" said Magnet "Remember that one time when.."

Mr. Pendanski raised an eyebrow, but went off to some other part of the camp.

"The tent doors?" questioned Shorts when Mr. Pendanski was gone

"Whenever anyone gets hurt here, you say the tent doors hit you. You never rat, even if it was an accident" X answered

"But there are only canvas flaps for doors" said Shorts

"So?" said Magnet "Those flaps are dangerous"

By now Dish was out of the shower and changed. She had laid on her lumpy cot for a while, and decided to apologize to Squid. She wouldn't usually do something like that, but there was something about Squid that made her want him to like her. So, running her fingers through her hair and typing her jumpsuit sleeves around her waist, she walked out of the tent, straitened her tank top and headed for the Wreck Room.

D-Tent had started a game of pool, but Squid had decided to sit it out. His eye was an interesting shade of purple and blue, with a bit of black around the eyebrow. He sat sprawled out on a chair watching the static TV when Dish walked in and sat on the footstool before the TV, across from Squid.

"Hey Squid.." she began

Squid opened his good eye wider in surprise. Dish was talking to him, normally!

"What?" he asked with surprise in his voice, but he guessed later that Dish thought he was angry

"I need to tell you something.." she said

"Spit it out" said Squid

"I just wanted to apologize for calling you-"

Squid laughed out loud, something that didn't happen very often.

"I never thought I'd see the day when you would apologize!"

"And what is that supposed to mean?" asked Dish in a dangerously quiet voice

"That you're a evil girl sometimes" said Squid "And this is totally unlike you"

"Well, I was going to apologize, but I'm not going to anymore, if that's what you think of me" snapped Dish

"Whatever" said Squid. Dish stormed out and Squid cursed himself, wondering what made him say that stuff.

"Maybe I am a hell sent loser" he muttered "If I wont even let her apologize. And now I'll have to. Dam dam DAM!"