Part 6: A Shocking Madness
The next morning Becky took out her CD player and hid it in her pocket, hoping she'd be able to listen to it while she dug. She was in a very good mood that morning, but she didn't really know why...... It might have been the spin the bottle last night.....
"So, who's up for another game?" asked Squid at breakfast.
"No thanks," Becky said, sitting down, giving them all looks. "I've had enough of rigged bottle for a while." she smirked. Still no one answered her when she mentioned the rigged spinning bottle.
She took out one of her hair elastics, put her hair in a high ponytail, then she picked up her fork, sick of the silence. Eventually she decided to bring up the subject of digging in the mountain.
"Did Magnet happen to tell you anything about my 'plan'?" she asked.
"Sort of..... I think it's whack." said Armpit. Becky rolled her eyes.
"Fine. If YOU don't want to be a hero like Caveman and Zero, fine." and with that, she shoved her fork down on her plate, but only caused some of her breakfast to fly off the table. "Oops."
"Look, how do you know there's something in there?" asked X-Ray.
Becky stopped, and stared at him, giving him a "HELLO!" kind of look. "Well, think about it. Kissing Kate Barlow was really Miss Kathrine that used to live here a hundred years ago, who fell in love with a man named Sam. But the sheriff liked Kathrine and he burned down the school Sam helped fix up for revenge, then they shot Sam and the donkey, right? Well, Sam's onion farm is on this mountain, and after Sam died, maybe Kathrine put something in the mountain or something like that."
They all stared at her.
'How did you know that?" asked Magnet.
"I actually don't know......" she answered, wondering where she had gotten that from. "Well, I AM related to her so maybe I know these things.. as a matter of fact...." she suddenly stopped. Her thoughts went back to the moment she had a while ago when she thought she saw a ghost... That moment when she saw that man carrying onions in his cart, with his donkey.....
"SAM!" she suddenly shouted.
"What?" said Squid, lifting his eyebrows at her.
"Oh... nothing. it's nothing...." she said nervously.
*
Becky hooked her CD player to her pants, and put in her headphones. She adjusted them under her hat so the guards wouldn't see them. She hoped it wasn't too loud.
A while later she started singing to herself without even realizing it...
"And I wake up, put on my make-up,
Pick up the phone, nobody's home,
I need to break out, get me some takeout,
Stand inside a crowd, I want to scream aloud, That Ill be ok...."
While Becky was listening to her music, Magnet tried to persuade the other guys.
"Come on! What she said at breakfast convinced me." he said.
"Man, who is she related to Kate Barlow anyway?" said Amrpit, leaning on his shovel.
"Didn't she tell you?" said Magnet.
"She might have, but I have a bad memory." said Armpit. Magnet shook his head and told Armpit about what the Warden was really talking about to her when she was sent in.
"Anything ring a bell?" asked Magnet.
"Nope...Wait a minute. How do YOU know about it, if WE don't know about it?" asked Armpit.
"Well... she told me.." he said. The boys of D-tent put down all their shovels, and walked over to Magnet's hole. Becky still didn't notice anything was going on.
"Why didn't she tell us?" asked Squid.
"I don't know. I thought she would." said Magnet, shrugging.
"Then why didn't YOU tell us?" asked X-Ray, pushing him a bit.
"Maybe she told him not to." said Twitch.
"No.. I don't think so..." said X-Ray.
"Why not? I mean, if she didn't tell us, and he didn't tell us, then she probably didn't want anyone else to know.."
"Look, she told me to wait for her somewhere after we walked back from trying to 'rescue' her and then she told me about it. Then she called me and idiot and a moron." said Magnet.
"HEY! What are you doing outside your holes? The only reason you should be around his hole is if he found anything!" shouting one of the guards who had his back turned for a while. X-Ray, Armpit, and Squid dumped a little dirt inside his hole, and walked away, shaking their heads.
"Man, what the heck is bothering them?" Magnet said to Twitch, who was still standing there.
Twitch shrugged. "I don't know. I guess they think Becky's sharing secrets with you or something."
Magnet sat, thinking for a while. "She did tell me a lot of things in the cabin, but it sounded like she aslo told Squid...."
"It's a mystery.. now I better get back to my hole before that guard runs me over with that VERY nice car by the way..." said Twitch.
*
Becky went to the wreck room, NOT wearing her relaxing clothes this time. She was wearing shorts and a T-shirt that said King Richard's Faire across it, and it had a fairy on it. Below that it said DO YOU BELIEVE? She had her hair in two side pony tails again, though two very messy ones.
She yawned, and sat down next to the broken stereo, where all the D-Tent boys were.
"So.. did you even think about my idea at ALL today?" she asked, confused on why it was so quiet.
The door opened and slammed, causing Becky to look over, alittle shocked. It was one of the guards, and The Warden. The Warden took off her sunglasses, and was looking directly at Becky. Everyone was looking at her.
"Why aren't you wearing your relaxing clothes?" she asked her sharply.
"They were dirty.." Becky said, a little uncertainly.
The Warden put her hands on her hips. "What do you mean they were dirty? Washing day was yesterday."
Becky's eyes looking around for a second, while she thought. "Well, I didn't get to putting them in the wash."
The Warden was still staring at her, angrily. "Excuse me?"
So, it was that "Excuse me" thing again, thought Becky. The guys from D- Tent had told her about the old Warden who had been arrested.
"I didn't have time." Becky repeated. The Warden motioned her to stand. Becky rose out of her chair slowly, glancing at the other guys.
Suddenly the Warden grabbed the shirt Becky had on now, and ribbed it off. Luckily Becky had a white tanktop under that. She looked at her shirt, ignoring the shocked looked on Becky's face, then she started to rip it up.
Becky just stood there, transfixed, then she felt like she was going to start crying. But she couldn't cry here, in front of everyone. In front of all these BOYS.
D-tent was silent on the couch.
The Warden threw the pieces of her shirt onto the floor. Then she turned her head towards the guard. "Should I take the tanktop off too, and make her run to her cabin and grab her relaxing clothes, then make her change, right HERE?"
None of the boys sniggered, like they probably would have, if Becky didn't seem so upset, or if this had been her first day. The guard didn't even answer. The Warden just sighed.
"Get your work clothes. DON'T put them on until you get back here." barked the Warden.
Becky turned towards the door, trying to ignore all the stares, then she left. Some of the boys started to talk. "NO TALKING!" bared the Warden.
*
Once Becky was a reasonable distance away, she started to cry. What was so bad about not wearing your work clothes? She was half angry, half upset. When she reached the cabin, she was already drowned with her tears. She tried to cry more, but she seemed to have run out.
When she got back, everyone was still where they were before, except the Warden was pacing back and forth. Becky suddenly wished she hadn't come on, because now everyone could see she had been crying from her blotchy face. But she has a plan. She smiled, but no one saw it.
"Awww, do you miss your shirt?" snapped the Warden, who started to trample on it. Becky ignored it, walking back to the spot where she was before.
In the middle of the whole Wreck Room.
"Now, as you're punishment, you'll have to get dressed right here. Hopefully it will teach you to clean and wear your relaxing clothes when you're supposed to." ordered the Warden.
Becky didn't move.
"Did you hear me?"
"Yes." she answered.
"Then do it!"
Becky didn't say anything for a few seconds, then she looked up at the Warden. "Why?"
There were some voices coming out of some of the boys, but none came out of the very surprised and taken aback Warden. Becky inhaled, then exhaled.
"How DARE you say that to me!" yelled the Warden.
"You mean 'why'? Why shouldn't I be able to ask you that?" she said mysteriously, starting to ripe her relaxing shirt, very slowly though.
D-Tent started to whisper. "Whoa, she's gonna get in SOOO much trouble..." said Armpit.
"True, but can you believe she's doing that? She's the only one to stand up to THIS Warden!" said Magnet.
"I wouldn't be brave enough..." said Twitch.
The Warden stared at her, her eyes trying to pierce here, though Becky ignored them.
"WHY are you making us dive so near the mountain. Am I allowed to ask you that? Or WHY are you trying so hard to get back at me because I'm related to Kate Barlow?"
A couple of gasps.
She almost looked like she had gone mad. She was just ripping the shirt, slowly, smiling a little to herself, her eyes glaring at the Warden though.
"What? What are you talking about?" stammered the Warden.
Becky suddenly looked like she was listening to an invisible person.
"Sam here says you're digging too close to Miss Kathrine's 'hideout' as YOU call it..." she said, throwing her shirt on the ground.
The Warden gasped. "I KNEW she knew!" she staggered back, pointing at Becky. Becky just smiled. "No I didn't. Sam just told me....You know, the man Miss Kathrine loved..."
"SHE'S MAD!" screamed the Warden. "KILL HER!"
Too late, Becky was already running out of the room and out into the desert.
[ok, this chapter might be really odd, but you'll understand EVERYTHING in the next couple of chapters. Please just keep reading and you'll understand why she suddenly started to act like she's mad and why she's saying she's talking to Sam.]
The next morning Becky took out her CD player and hid it in her pocket, hoping she'd be able to listen to it while she dug. She was in a very good mood that morning, but she didn't really know why...... It might have been the spin the bottle last night.....
"So, who's up for another game?" asked Squid at breakfast.
"No thanks," Becky said, sitting down, giving them all looks. "I've had enough of rigged bottle for a while." she smirked. Still no one answered her when she mentioned the rigged spinning bottle.
She took out one of her hair elastics, put her hair in a high ponytail, then she picked up her fork, sick of the silence. Eventually she decided to bring up the subject of digging in the mountain.
"Did Magnet happen to tell you anything about my 'plan'?" she asked.
"Sort of..... I think it's whack." said Armpit. Becky rolled her eyes.
"Fine. If YOU don't want to be a hero like Caveman and Zero, fine." and with that, she shoved her fork down on her plate, but only caused some of her breakfast to fly off the table. "Oops."
"Look, how do you know there's something in there?" asked X-Ray.
Becky stopped, and stared at him, giving him a "HELLO!" kind of look. "Well, think about it. Kissing Kate Barlow was really Miss Kathrine that used to live here a hundred years ago, who fell in love with a man named Sam. But the sheriff liked Kathrine and he burned down the school Sam helped fix up for revenge, then they shot Sam and the donkey, right? Well, Sam's onion farm is on this mountain, and after Sam died, maybe Kathrine put something in the mountain or something like that."
They all stared at her.
'How did you know that?" asked Magnet.
"I actually don't know......" she answered, wondering where she had gotten that from. "Well, I AM related to her so maybe I know these things.. as a matter of fact...." she suddenly stopped. Her thoughts went back to the moment she had a while ago when she thought she saw a ghost... That moment when she saw that man carrying onions in his cart, with his donkey.....
"SAM!" she suddenly shouted.
"What?" said Squid, lifting his eyebrows at her.
"Oh... nothing. it's nothing...." she said nervously.
*
Becky hooked her CD player to her pants, and put in her headphones. She adjusted them under her hat so the guards wouldn't see them. She hoped it wasn't too loud.
A while later she started singing to herself without even realizing it...
"And I wake up, put on my make-up,
Pick up the phone, nobody's home,
I need to break out, get me some takeout,
Stand inside a crowd, I want to scream aloud, That Ill be ok...."
While Becky was listening to her music, Magnet tried to persuade the other guys.
"Come on! What she said at breakfast convinced me." he said.
"Man, who is she related to Kate Barlow anyway?" said Amrpit, leaning on his shovel.
"Didn't she tell you?" said Magnet.
"She might have, but I have a bad memory." said Armpit. Magnet shook his head and told Armpit about what the Warden was really talking about to her when she was sent in.
"Anything ring a bell?" asked Magnet.
"Nope...Wait a minute. How do YOU know about it, if WE don't know about it?" asked Armpit.
"Well... she told me.." he said. The boys of D-tent put down all their shovels, and walked over to Magnet's hole. Becky still didn't notice anything was going on.
"Why didn't she tell us?" asked Squid.
"I don't know. I thought she would." said Magnet, shrugging.
"Then why didn't YOU tell us?" asked X-Ray, pushing him a bit.
"Maybe she told him not to." said Twitch.
"No.. I don't think so..." said X-Ray.
"Why not? I mean, if she didn't tell us, and he didn't tell us, then she probably didn't want anyone else to know.."
"Look, she told me to wait for her somewhere after we walked back from trying to 'rescue' her and then she told me about it. Then she called me and idiot and a moron." said Magnet.
"HEY! What are you doing outside your holes? The only reason you should be around his hole is if he found anything!" shouting one of the guards who had his back turned for a while. X-Ray, Armpit, and Squid dumped a little dirt inside his hole, and walked away, shaking their heads.
"Man, what the heck is bothering them?" Magnet said to Twitch, who was still standing there.
Twitch shrugged. "I don't know. I guess they think Becky's sharing secrets with you or something."
Magnet sat, thinking for a while. "She did tell me a lot of things in the cabin, but it sounded like she aslo told Squid...."
"It's a mystery.. now I better get back to my hole before that guard runs me over with that VERY nice car by the way..." said Twitch.
*
Becky went to the wreck room, NOT wearing her relaxing clothes this time. She was wearing shorts and a T-shirt that said King Richard's Faire across it, and it had a fairy on it. Below that it said DO YOU BELIEVE? She had her hair in two side pony tails again, though two very messy ones.
She yawned, and sat down next to the broken stereo, where all the D-Tent boys were.
"So.. did you even think about my idea at ALL today?" she asked, confused on why it was so quiet.
The door opened and slammed, causing Becky to look over, alittle shocked. It was one of the guards, and The Warden. The Warden took off her sunglasses, and was looking directly at Becky. Everyone was looking at her.
"Why aren't you wearing your relaxing clothes?" she asked her sharply.
"They were dirty.." Becky said, a little uncertainly.
The Warden put her hands on her hips. "What do you mean they were dirty? Washing day was yesterday."
Becky's eyes looking around for a second, while she thought. "Well, I didn't get to putting them in the wash."
The Warden was still staring at her, angrily. "Excuse me?"
So, it was that "Excuse me" thing again, thought Becky. The guys from D- Tent had told her about the old Warden who had been arrested.
"I didn't have time." Becky repeated. The Warden motioned her to stand. Becky rose out of her chair slowly, glancing at the other guys.
Suddenly the Warden grabbed the shirt Becky had on now, and ribbed it off. Luckily Becky had a white tanktop under that. She looked at her shirt, ignoring the shocked looked on Becky's face, then she started to rip it up.
Becky just stood there, transfixed, then she felt like she was going to start crying. But she couldn't cry here, in front of everyone. In front of all these BOYS.
D-tent was silent on the couch.
The Warden threw the pieces of her shirt onto the floor. Then she turned her head towards the guard. "Should I take the tanktop off too, and make her run to her cabin and grab her relaxing clothes, then make her change, right HERE?"
None of the boys sniggered, like they probably would have, if Becky didn't seem so upset, or if this had been her first day. The guard didn't even answer. The Warden just sighed.
"Get your work clothes. DON'T put them on until you get back here." barked the Warden.
Becky turned towards the door, trying to ignore all the stares, then she left. Some of the boys started to talk. "NO TALKING!" bared the Warden.
*
Once Becky was a reasonable distance away, she started to cry. What was so bad about not wearing your work clothes? She was half angry, half upset. When she reached the cabin, she was already drowned with her tears. She tried to cry more, but she seemed to have run out.
When she got back, everyone was still where they were before, except the Warden was pacing back and forth. Becky suddenly wished she hadn't come on, because now everyone could see she had been crying from her blotchy face. But she has a plan. She smiled, but no one saw it.
"Awww, do you miss your shirt?" snapped the Warden, who started to trample on it. Becky ignored it, walking back to the spot where she was before.
In the middle of the whole Wreck Room.
"Now, as you're punishment, you'll have to get dressed right here. Hopefully it will teach you to clean and wear your relaxing clothes when you're supposed to." ordered the Warden.
Becky didn't move.
"Did you hear me?"
"Yes." she answered.
"Then do it!"
Becky didn't say anything for a few seconds, then she looked up at the Warden. "Why?"
There were some voices coming out of some of the boys, but none came out of the very surprised and taken aback Warden. Becky inhaled, then exhaled.
"How DARE you say that to me!" yelled the Warden.
"You mean 'why'? Why shouldn't I be able to ask you that?" she said mysteriously, starting to ripe her relaxing shirt, very slowly though.
D-Tent started to whisper. "Whoa, she's gonna get in SOOO much trouble..." said Armpit.
"True, but can you believe she's doing that? She's the only one to stand up to THIS Warden!" said Magnet.
"I wouldn't be brave enough..." said Twitch.
The Warden stared at her, her eyes trying to pierce here, though Becky ignored them.
"WHY are you making us dive so near the mountain. Am I allowed to ask you that? Or WHY are you trying so hard to get back at me because I'm related to Kate Barlow?"
A couple of gasps.
She almost looked like she had gone mad. She was just ripping the shirt, slowly, smiling a little to herself, her eyes glaring at the Warden though.
"What? What are you talking about?" stammered the Warden.
Becky suddenly looked like she was listening to an invisible person.
"Sam here says you're digging too close to Miss Kathrine's 'hideout' as YOU call it..." she said, throwing her shirt on the ground.
The Warden gasped. "I KNEW she knew!" she staggered back, pointing at Becky. Becky just smiled. "No I didn't. Sam just told me....You know, the man Miss Kathrine loved..."
"SHE'S MAD!" screamed the Warden. "KILL HER!"
Too late, Becky was already running out of the room and out into the desert.
[ok, this chapter might be really odd, but you'll understand EVERYTHING in the next couple of chapters. Please just keep reading and you'll understand why she suddenly started to act like she's mad and why she's saying she's talking to Sam.]