This Ain't No Girl Scout Camp
Note: I do not own any of Holes characters. Holes is © to Louis Sachar.
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"This is gonna be so boring." A short, small dark haired girl said quietly. She had smooth black hair that was a few inches past her shoulders, medium almond shaped eyes, and a small voice. She had a tough but cute look.
"Did you come from right from China?" An American girl with red hair and pale, pale white skin and big blue innocent eyes turned around and asked. The tips of her red hair were white. She didn't look like she would get into trouble.in fact, she looked almost like an angel!
"Uh, no. What makes you think that?"
The girl shrugged.
"I'm from New York, foo." She grinned.
She was cut off when the bus came to a jerking stop and an African American girl walked onto the bus carrying a rather large backpack. Her hair was in two braids and she wore a baseball cap. She had a very bold, funny look. She didn't wear a bit of make-up, but she had so much natural beauty that she didn't need any. "Hey peeps... Ya'll excited for this girly camp?"
"Wha'da you think?" A Mexican girl who was sitting next to the Chinese girl said. "We gonna be bakin' cookies and doing arts and crafts da whole time, man." She had long, silky smooth dark brown hair. Her face was a bit dirty, but she, like all of the other girls, had a nice, lovely look also.
"I don't understand." Another girl with dirty blonde hair said hesitantly. She leaned back on her seat. "Why did they send me here? I'm not the type of girl who'd go to this girl camp." Behind all of the war paint, she actually looked kind of pretty.
"Ohhh, tough shot." The African American girl said. "What's your name, girl?"
"Alexis."
"This be Yelena." The Mexican girl said, pointing to herself.
"I'm Chun." The Chinese girl said.
"And I'm Tavvi." The red haired girl answered.
"Natasha in the house!" The African American girl laughed, raising her hands to 'raise the roof'. "Now that we all know each otha and junk, why don't we tell a little story so this dang bus ride won't be so borin'. Anyone got a good one?"
Yelena started. "It's not really a story, it's more like a rumor."
"Oh go on girl, we all listenin'!"
"About a year ago there was a rumor goin' around that this used to be a little boy's camp. They used to dig for some old man's buried treasure, then his great-great grand kid or whatever came along, got it from digging up holes and it was all some happy ending."
All of the girls cracked up.
"Oooh yeah, like that's true." Tavvi said enthusiastically.
"You know it just might be." Yelena said bitterly because nobody seemed to believe her story.
"I don't wanna be here anyway." Alexis sneered. "My parents made me go here to get 'disciplined'. They hate my boyfriend."
"Who is your boyfriend?" Tavvi asked, interested.
"He's in jail."
Her eyes widened. "Um... How old is he?"
"And why do you care, foxtail?" Alexis said grimly. Tavvi shut up and gave a glare to Alexis.
"My parents thought that I'd stop stealing candy from seven-eleven if I went to this lame Girl Scout camp." Yelena said, kicking her feet up and laying down.
Natasha laughed. "They thought that this would stop me from gettin' into fights in the alleyway."
"I've been sent here because steal food. No biggie." Chun said smoothly. "It's not like my mom has the money to afford it anyway."
"I'm here because I stole shampoo, conditioner, a hairdryer, a curling iron and make-up." Tavvi said bitterly. "Come on, I mean even those things were on sale, their prices were way too high. My dad said I should learn how to act like a lady. And ladies don't steal."
"Guess you ain't a lady then." Natasha said.
Everyone laughed, even Tavvi.
Silence.
"So we've all committed a crime." Natasha glanced at Alexis. "Or somebody we knew committed a crime." She looked out the window. "And we're all going to the same place."
"Yeah, to camp 'I-think-my-kid-will-be-disciplined-when-they-are-baking- cookies'." Chun said in a bored tone of voice.
"If my parents hadn't gotten that stupid pamphlet in the mail, I would've never been here." Alexis pulled it out of her baggy pocket. "Listen to this. 'Your child will be turned into a lady instantly the day she gets here. A proper lady with discipline, manners and politeness all over'."
"And we'll learn that by baking cookies?" Tavvi asked.
"Hey, It'd be betta than digging holes all day. Like that rumor." Yelena mumbled.
"Pshhha girl would you forget that rumor?!" Natasha said. "That's so fake it's cheesy? You'd have to do betta than that to get us to believe it!"
"I'd like to see you try." Yelena said.
"Look!"
A dry, dusty place was what appeared. It looked so old and run down that a homeless person wouldn't want to go there. There was a bit of green around one large, fancy cabin and the rest was a bunch of small tents propped around it. The showers were wide open, and the water faucets were so rusty it looked like they were about to fall off. Holes in the sand were everywhere.
"Gross..." Tavvi started. She was cut off by a loudspeaker. "Come on, move out, hustle people HUSTLE!"
The girls along with others piled out of the bus with their bags and pillows. Immediately two ladies confiscated all of the girls' backpacks and supplies. Tavvi reached out when one lady took hers. "Give it back, lady! It has all of my shampoo in there-" Natasha held her back.
Out stepped a lady with dark red curly hair. She wore a cowboy hat, a clean plaid shirt, boot cut jeans and cowboy boots. She had the reddest nails anyone had ever seen.
"You know, you little girlies all remind me of someone." She said coolly while walking around. "Me." She stopped. "You've been sent here cause you were bad. And now we're gonna turn you into good little girls. Just like the pamphlet said. Get in line." Her voice was dangerous. All of the girls immediately rustled into a messy line. "Pass them out their clothes." A sharp looking lady started passing out two pairs of bright orange jumpsuits and black boots.
"What the heck is this?" Yelena whispered furiously to Natasha. "Where's all the cookies?"
"Don't look at me."
"Next!"
Natasha stepped up and got her clothes and boots. She turned back to Yelena and shrugged.
After everyone had gotten their clothes and boots, the lady gestured for all of the girls to follow her. So they did.
They got to a small barn looking building with chipping paint. She threw it open. Inside there were dozens and dozens of old, rusty shovels. "We like to stay true to our pamphlets." The lady said in a quiet voice. "You'll learn discipline." She picked out a shovel and threw it to Chun, who caught it clumsily. "Manners." She threw one to Tavvi, who practically fell over. "I'm sorry. Was I too hard on you?" She went up to Tavvi and gave her a sharp, mean look.
"N-no ma'am." Tavvi said in fright.
"Good." She walked back to the small shovel barn. "And politeness all over." She threw one to Natasha. "What do you say now?"
"Thank you, Ma'am." Natasha mumbled.
"That's right." She said with a smile. "I am the Warden. I will be your leader, and your mother for the next eighteen months. You can talk to me about anything." She glanced over the girls. "And if you ever find anything interesting..report it to me or these ladies right away. They are your councilors." She pointed to a few women.
"What are we looking for?" Yelena called out.
The Warden stepped up and faced Yelena. "Excuse me? Did I ask you to talk?"
Yelena cowered in her shadow. "N-no Ma'am."
"Thank you." She replied. "You're not looking for anything. You're going to be building character and learning discipline. I want one hole a day. Five feet deep. Five feet wide." She turned around. "You will use your shovel to measure it. And if I, or any of these ladies, don't like what they see, you'll have to dig another one. And so on." Her beady eyes scanned the group. "Ya'll tired? Thirsty?"
"Yes Ma'am." A few girls answered.
"Get used to it." She said. "Today will be the last day that you'll be relaxing for a mighty long time. Now go. Go into your tents. Ooooh I'm feeling nice today." She said with a sly grin. "Go ahead and pick your own tentmates."
Immediately Natasha, Yelena, Tavvi, Chun and Alexis grouped together and piled into D-tent. Their councilor entered. "I am the Misses." She said boldly. "You will call me that at all times. Got it?"
The girls nodded.
"Good." She left.
"I don't think we're going to be baking cookies." Tavvi said with wide eyes as the Misses left.
"And when did you figure that out?" Alexis said, laying out her bedspread.
"Dang, this is just like that rumor." Yelena said, kicking her bed. "I knew it!"
"You'd better shut up before anyone hears you." Natasha warned.
Chun laughed.
"We're gonna have to dig HOLES?" Tavvi did still not believe what had just happened. "But why?"
"Didn't you hear? So we can 'build character'." Yelena said, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, like that's really why. She wants something, and she wants US to find it."
"Sure, whatever." Natasha laid down on her bed.
"I wonder." Alexis said, looking out the tent window. "What it's going to be like."
"We'll find out soon enough tomorrow." Natasha said.
"Yeah. I guess."
And tomorrow would come too soon.
Note: I do not own any of Holes characters. Holes is © to Louis Sachar.
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"This is gonna be so boring." A short, small dark haired girl said quietly. She had smooth black hair that was a few inches past her shoulders, medium almond shaped eyes, and a small voice. She had a tough but cute look.
"Did you come from right from China?" An American girl with red hair and pale, pale white skin and big blue innocent eyes turned around and asked. The tips of her red hair were white. She didn't look like she would get into trouble.in fact, she looked almost like an angel!
"Uh, no. What makes you think that?"
The girl shrugged.
"I'm from New York, foo." She grinned.
She was cut off when the bus came to a jerking stop and an African American girl walked onto the bus carrying a rather large backpack. Her hair was in two braids and she wore a baseball cap. She had a very bold, funny look. She didn't wear a bit of make-up, but she had so much natural beauty that she didn't need any. "Hey peeps... Ya'll excited for this girly camp?"
"Wha'da you think?" A Mexican girl who was sitting next to the Chinese girl said. "We gonna be bakin' cookies and doing arts and crafts da whole time, man." She had long, silky smooth dark brown hair. Her face was a bit dirty, but she, like all of the other girls, had a nice, lovely look also.
"I don't understand." Another girl with dirty blonde hair said hesitantly. She leaned back on her seat. "Why did they send me here? I'm not the type of girl who'd go to this girl camp." Behind all of the war paint, she actually looked kind of pretty.
"Ohhh, tough shot." The African American girl said. "What's your name, girl?"
"Alexis."
"This be Yelena." The Mexican girl said, pointing to herself.
"I'm Chun." The Chinese girl said.
"And I'm Tavvi." The red haired girl answered.
"Natasha in the house!" The African American girl laughed, raising her hands to 'raise the roof'. "Now that we all know each otha and junk, why don't we tell a little story so this dang bus ride won't be so borin'. Anyone got a good one?"
Yelena started. "It's not really a story, it's more like a rumor."
"Oh go on girl, we all listenin'!"
"About a year ago there was a rumor goin' around that this used to be a little boy's camp. They used to dig for some old man's buried treasure, then his great-great grand kid or whatever came along, got it from digging up holes and it was all some happy ending."
All of the girls cracked up.
"Oooh yeah, like that's true." Tavvi said enthusiastically.
"You know it just might be." Yelena said bitterly because nobody seemed to believe her story.
"I don't wanna be here anyway." Alexis sneered. "My parents made me go here to get 'disciplined'. They hate my boyfriend."
"Who is your boyfriend?" Tavvi asked, interested.
"He's in jail."
Her eyes widened. "Um... How old is he?"
"And why do you care, foxtail?" Alexis said grimly. Tavvi shut up and gave a glare to Alexis.
"My parents thought that I'd stop stealing candy from seven-eleven if I went to this lame Girl Scout camp." Yelena said, kicking her feet up and laying down.
Natasha laughed. "They thought that this would stop me from gettin' into fights in the alleyway."
"I've been sent here because steal food. No biggie." Chun said smoothly. "It's not like my mom has the money to afford it anyway."
"I'm here because I stole shampoo, conditioner, a hairdryer, a curling iron and make-up." Tavvi said bitterly. "Come on, I mean even those things were on sale, their prices were way too high. My dad said I should learn how to act like a lady. And ladies don't steal."
"Guess you ain't a lady then." Natasha said.
Everyone laughed, even Tavvi.
Silence.
"So we've all committed a crime." Natasha glanced at Alexis. "Or somebody we knew committed a crime." She looked out the window. "And we're all going to the same place."
"Yeah, to camp 'I-think-my-kid-will-be-disciplined-when-they-are-baking- cookies'." Chun said in a bored tone of voice.
"If my parents hadn't gotten that stupid pamphlet in the mail, I would've never been here." Alexis pulled it out of her baggy pocket. "Listen to this. 'Your child will be turned into a lady instantly the day she gets here. A proper lady with discipline, manners and politeness all over'."
"And we'll learn that by baking cookies?" Tavvi asked.
"Hey, It'd be betta than digging holes all day. Like that rumor." Yelena mumbled.
"Pshhha girl would you forget that rumor?!" Natasha said. "That's so fake it's cheesy? You'd have to do betta than that to get us to believe it!"
"I'd like to see you try." Yelena said.
"Look!"
A dry, dusty place was what appeared. It looked so old and run down that a homeless person wouldn't want to go there. There was a bit of green around one large, fancy cabin and the rest was a bunch of small tents propped around it. The showers were wide open, and the water faucets were so rusty it looked like they were about to fall off. Holes in the sand were everywhere.
"Gross..." Tavvi started. She was cut off by a loudspeaker. "Come on, move out, hustle people HUSTLE!"
The girls along with others piled out of the bus with their bags and pillows. Immediately two ladies confiscated all of the girls' backpacks and supplies. Tavvi reached out when one lady took hers. "Give it back, lady! It has all of my shampoo in there-" Natasha held her back.
Out stepped a lady with dark red curly hair. She wore a cowboy hat, a clean plaid shirt, boot cut jeans and cowboy boots. She had the reddest nails anyone had ever seen.
"You know, you little girlies all remind me of someone." She said coolly while walking around. "Me." She stopped. "You've been sent here cause you were bad. And now we're gonna turn you into good little girls. Just like the pamphlet said. Get in line." Her voice was dangerous. All of the girls immediately rustled into a messy line. "Pass them out their clothes." A sharp looking lady started passing out two pairs of bright orange jumpsuits and black boots.
"What the heck is this?" Yelena whispered furiously to Natasha. "Where's all the cookies?"
"Don't look at me."
"Next!"
Natasha stepped up and got her clothes and boots. She turned back to Yelena and shrugged.
After everyone had gotten their clothes and boots, the lady gestured for all of the girls to follow her. So they did.
They got to a small barn looking building with chipping paint. She threw it open. Inside there were dozens and dozens of old, rusty shovels. "We like to stay true to our pamphlets." The lady said in a quiet voice. "You'll learn discipline." She picked out a shovel and threw it to Chun, who caught it clumsily. "Manners." She threw one to Tavvi, who practically fell over. "I'm sorry. Was I too hard on you?" She went up to Tavvi and gave her a sharp, mean look.
"N-no ma'am." Tavvi said in fright.
"Good." She walked back to the small shovel barn. "And politeness all over." She threw one to Natasha. "What do you say now?"
"Thank you, Ma'am." Natasha mumbled.
"That's right." She said with a smile. "I am the Warden. I will be your leader, and your mother for the next eighteen months. You can talk to me about anything." She glanced over the girls. "And if you ever find anything interesting..report it to me or these ladies right away. They are your councilors." She pointed to a few women.
"What are we looking for?" Yelena called out.
The Warden stepped up and faced Yelena. "Excuse me? Did I ask you to talk?"
Yelena cowered in her shadow. "N-no Ma'am."
"Thank you." She replied. "You're not looking for anything. You're going to be building character and learning discipline. I want one hole a day. Five feet deep. Five feet wide." She turned around. "You will use your shovel to measure it. And if I, or any of these ladies, don't like what they see, you'll have to dig another one. And so on." Her beady eyes scanned the group. "Ya'll tired? Thirsty?"
"Yes Ma'am." A few girls answered.
"Get used to it." She said. "Today will be the last day that you'll be relaxing for a mighty long time. Now go. Go into your tents. Ooooh I'm feeling nice today." She said with a sly grin. "Go ahead and pick your own tentmates."
Immediately Natasha, Yelena, Tavvi, Chun and Alexis grouped together and piled into D-tent. Their councilor entered. "I am the Misses." She said boldly. "You will call me that at all times. Got it?"
The girls nodded.
"Good." She left.
"I don't think we're going to be baking cookies." Tavvi said with wide eyes as the Misses left.
"And when did you figure that out?" Alexis said, laying out her bedspread.
"Dang, this is just like that rumor." Yelena said, kicking her bed. "I knew it!"
"You'd better shut up before anyone hears you." Natasha warned.
Chun laughed.
"We're gonna have to dig HOLES?" Tavvi did still not believe what had just happened. "But why?"
"Didn't you hear? So we can 'build character'." Yelena said, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, like that's really why. She wants something, and she wants US to find it."
"Sure, whatever." Natasha laid down on her bed.
"I wonder." Alexis said, looking out the tent window. "What it's going to be like."
"We'll find out soon enough tomorrow." Natasha said.
"Yeah. I guess."
And tomorrow would come too soon.