Squid slowly walked into the meeting room, trying to look as relaxed as he could. He slumped into the nearest empty chair and looked around the room. One word to describe them all?:
Well, he thought to himself, I guess there's more than one.
Huge, enormous, immense, big, bulky, jumbo, tall (with the exception of a teen around his height), expressionless, rugged, smelly..gosh he could go on for ever.
"Guys," Alex began, making Squid come out of his thoughts, "This is Alan. Alan these are the guys: C.J," Alex pointed over toward the smallest boy across from where his was sitting. Yet, he did not have the smallest expression. In fact, it looked like he never smiled. A frown was taped on his face, his eyebrows almost knitted together in an evil looking way,
"That's Colin," Squid looked over to his left and saw a fairly tall boy sitting. Colin made a small wave, and what appeared to be a small smile.
"Over here is Trey," Squid eyed the boy sitting next to him.
"Yo, what's up?" He stuck his hand out firmly for a handshake, and Squid returned it. Trey had brown hair that was all over the place, almost identical to Zigzag, although, Trey appeared to be taller.
"This is Mitch." Squid peered over to the large (not in fat, but in muscle) teen sitting two seats the right. Mitch didn't seem at all, in the least bit, interested in him. So Squid looked away over to Alex who said, "He only talks to his friends."
Well, thank you.
"Over here is Reese." Squid looked all the way across the room to the boy that was smiling oddly. Reese got up from his chair, and walked up to Squid,
"Hey, I'm Reese, how ya doin'?" He stuck his hand in Squid's face. Trey and Colin laughed aloud.
"Reese, cut it out." Alex spoke seriously then turned over to Squid, "Don't mind him. He always acts immature." Reese walked away, and sat down on his chair, grinning.
"And last and definitely least, is Justin." Justin glared over to Alex, and then turned back to Squid, eying him carefully.
"Hey." Justin greeted with a small nod of his head. Squid was just about to answer back when Joe interrupted,
"Okay now that you know everyone, we can get on with our meeting.," Joe, the camp owner and counselor, began, "Alan, you seem to be an interesting character. Why don't you tell us about yourself?"
"I used to go to Camp Greenlake-"
"DUDE!" Trey yelled out loud, "I used to go there too! I was in tent E, what were you in?"
"D." After making sure that no one else had anything to say, he continued, "Uhh, my mom is still fuckin' drinking."
"Welcome to the club." Reese rolled his eyes.
"No profanity, please, Alan." Joe said.
"This is a delinquent school, what do you expect from new comers?" Reese laughed, Colin joining in.
"I expect you, and everyone else, to be a role model for this 'new comer'."
Squid rolled his eyes. What was this, second grade??
"Whatever." Reese slouched back into his chair, muttering to himself.
"He's schitzo. Don't mind him…just don't give any hints that you wanna be killed." Trey warned, yet amusement hanging slightly in his voice.
"Shut up!" Reese shouted. Trey laughed,
"Come and make me!"
"I'd be glad to-"
"NO!" Joe yelled standing up, "You both shut up, sit down, and get through the rest of the short half an hour that we'll be spending here! Now I think you can manage that!"
"Fine." Reese muttered, plopping down hardly into his chair, glaring at both Squid and Trey.
Good job, Squid. You've all ready got yourself fan club
Just another half an hour, and he was free from these 6 boys.
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X-ray sighed in his bed. Every one had apparently fallen asleep but him. All he could think about was how Squid could've all ready gotten himself trouble.
What had it been 3, 4 days? He hadn't kept track.
"X, you 'wake?" Armpit whispered from the cot next to him.
"I'm awake."
"Do you miss Squiddy?"
"Go to sleep, Pit." Silence, and then a loud snore, followed by another one.
So much for that conversation.
~*~
It had been 2:00 before anyone had finished. The sun seemed abnormally hot, and the air was muggy. X-ray could've sworn that he sweat 2 times more than usual.
After taking a much needed shower, X-ray met up with the rest of the guys from D-tent in the Wreck Room.
"I'm gonna have a good nights reset tonight!" He sighed, sitting in one of the broken chairs.
"X-ray, boys!" Mr. Pendanski called, walking into the room with a wrinkled envelope in his hand.
"Seems you boys got a letter." He said as D-tent gathered around, "It's from…the Brezacks?"
"Yeah, lemme see." X-ray grabbed the letter and headed off to the dusty table. Once the guys had settled around he read aloud,
Dear D-tent,
I suppose you know who we are—Alan's foster parents. I've just come to tell you that he had gotten into trouble and has gone off to another Facility. If you would like to talk to him, the address is at the bottom of the page.
X-ray paused and glanced down the bottom of the page where the address was written. He then continued reading,
I hope you'll talk to him soon. He's been talking us all about you. Good wishes to all of you guys.
With Love,
The Brezacks.
X-ray looked at the handwriting once more before looking up to the guys.
"You wanna write?"
"Did you seriously just ask that question?" Magnet laughed. X-ray rolled his eyes.
"All we need is a piece of paper."
The guys looked around, seeing none, then sighed.
"I guess we'll just have to improvise." And they sent off to work.
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