Umm, nothin much to say today..just hope you enjoy!

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Sincerily…

            X-ray paused, erased the ending, and then called out to the guys, "How do you spell 'sincerely'?"

            "Umm…" Magnet thought for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders.

            "S-i-n-c-e-r-e-l-y." Stanley spelled from his bunk, without looking over the rest of D-tent.

            "Why does Stanley get to be so smart?" Armpit questioned with a tilt to his head. Zigzag rolled his eyes,

            "Cuz he went to school."

            "…oohh."

            X-ray sighed, blew out a deep breath, mainly because of Armpit's uncanny personality. Again, he wrote,

            Sincerely,

                        The guys

            Proud of his accomplishment to write a letter with his, and everyone's, feelings, X-ray folded the thin piece of paper in half and settled into his cot.

            "I'm ready for a goods night rest. How 'bout you guys?"

            "MmmHmm." Armpit answered, flopping down onto his bunk. Zigzag, Magnet, and Caveman agreed. Zero just rolled onto his side, and laid perfectly still.

            "Night." Magnet yawned, and fell into a sleep that would settle until 4:30 in the morning.

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            Just as Squid stepped out of the car that brought him to this camp, he regretted stealing immediately. There were boys. Not just boys. But tough looking, and big boys. The camp was totally different from Camp Green Lake. Even though it was surrounded with green trees, and grass, there was a barb wired fence surrounding the whole place—correction, surrounding the huge red building. Squid guessed that would be 'home' of this camp. Boys were in uniforms, just like his old camp, and they were still orange, yet they each had a separate number printed in bold across their left chest.

Trying to keep his cool, Squid followed the man that had driven him here, as at least 5 teen boys glared at him. He gulped.

This was not his kind home.

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Jane paced around the kitchen, a hand on her head, while Jim was at the table, thinking.

"What are we going to do?" She sputtered, "Our first chance as a foster family, and he just goes and steals 2 cds!...and he could have asked for the money anyway.

"Honey, he was new here. Probably put under some pressure. I'm sure he'll tell-"

"Tell us what? And when?! We may never get a chance to see him again." Jane whimpered.

"Jane!" A voice boomed from the hallway. Jimmy came walking in, holding the mail in his hands, and looked up to his mother and father, "Alan got some mail…" He looked down to the letter seeing the printing 'D-tent', "..from D-tent. Or whoever that is." Jane walked over, snatched the letter from his hands, and sighed.

"How are we going to give him this?"

"Next time we see him. Maybe we'll get a chance later to go and see him at his new Camp…possibly we could just send him the letter."

"All right. We'll do it first thing in the morning." And for the first time in 4 days, Jane smiled.

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"…and this'll be your home for the next 2 years." Joe, the head of the camp, grumbled. Squid chuckled in his head, just like Mr. Sir. Squid looked around at his room. At least he only shared it with one other person. 2 beds were lined up on the walls on opposite sides of the room. The color pained on the walls was a light blue, and the floor was..well, Squid couldn't really tell. It was a mixture of dull green and peach.

"And this," Joe turned around, revealing a boy that was standing behind him, "Is your roommate. His name is Alex. You'll be sharing your whole room with him, and most of your time." Squid eyed the boy. He was around his height, maybe a little taller. Brown hair, brown eyes. Typical for any of the boys here at the camp. Occasionally, you'd see a teen that had dyed their hair green at one point, and the color was only on the ends of their hair.

"Hey." Squid murmured, shifting from one foot to another. This was getting real uncomfortable. The boy nodded.

"Have a nice time. Do whatever you want. I don't care. You'll be expected within the next week to do some community service around the building." And with that said, Joe left, shutting the door quite loudly.

Squid's eyes cast downwards, as the other teen eyed him carefully.

"What are you here for?" Alex asked. He walked over to his bed and sat down, slouching just the slightest.

"Stealing."

"Stealing what?"

After a few seconds Squid admitted, "Cds."

"You know, you can sit down." Actually, it sounded more like an order than an option. Walking slowly, Squid crossed the room, and sat. The bed wasn't as nice as his at home, but it would do.

"What's your name?" Alex questioned.

"Umm, Alan, I guess."

"Why, 'you guess'?"

"Uhh…I had a different name…that my friends called me."

"What?" Man, he was noisy! Squid thought.

"Nothing." He answered without hesitation. At the moment, Squid kinda sounded like a dumb name.

"They called you Nothing?" Alex asked.

"No, just…never mind."

"All right, then." Alex got up and walked to the door, "you, me, and some friends got a meeting tonight with our counselor. Don't miss it." He walked out the door, shutting it loudly, again. Jeez, does everyone slam doors around here?

Squid slowly examined their room. There were many pro's and con's…well, not many pro's..but that was okay.

He would live.

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Okay..I spent a little more time on that chapter than the last. Hopefully, you'll like it better. Review, please! Later.

~B.