Chapter two

"D-tent? What the heck is a D-Tent?" the girl asked Mr. Pendanski. "It's where you're gonna live while you're here." He said her, forcing his cheesy, sort of 'I hate you so deal with it' smile. She followed him to the tent. "In you go." He said, keeping his smile. She walked into the tent. He pointed out a bed to her. "Wait for the boys to come back." He said. Then he left. Zero walked in casually, acting like he had seen and heard nothing, holding his head down. He sat down on his bead. "So, what's your name?" the girl asked him. Zero looked up. "Um, me?" he asked, nervously. "You're the only one here, and I'm not talking to myself." The girl laughed. "Um. Hector Zeronie. Zero." Zero sighed. "You?" he added. The girl looked at him with her dark eyes. "I never knew my real name. My parents just called me 'child' when they were there." She sighed, looking down at her guitar. "So. Let's give you a name." Zero suggested. The girl looked up and stared at Zero for several minutes. "I. I don't want a name." The girl said, picking up her guitar. She began to strum several of the strings. Zero looked down at his hands. Scarred and bruised. He lay onto his bed and went deep into thought.

Several hours later, the rest of the boys came in. "Hey, Rock star. What you in for?" X-Ray asked the girl. "I'll bet she killed someone with that guitar and then painted the whole thing blue." Zigzag said, pointing at the guitar. The girl stopped strumming the strings and dropped the guitar onto the floor. She looked up at Zigzag. She then laid back and covered her face with the pillow on her bed. "Congrats, Ziggy. Someone finally weirder than you." Stanley said to Zigzag, laughing.

"Hey. It's time for dinner." Zero said, shaking Rock star. She pulled her head out from underneath the pillow. "I'll starve." Rock star sighed. "I'll die before I ever eat another meal."