even though no one's reading this, i like writing it. it's fun. woo-hoo.
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The next morning, Zig Zag sat down at his corner of the D table. Normally, he sat alone. Sure he was friends with the others, but he really wasn't a "morning" person that chatted a lot. Not at all. Especially when he was in a bad mood.
"Better steer clear of Zig this morning," Starfish muttered to St. No- No. "Doesn't look too bright and chipper to me." The two of them took seats on the other side of the table.
"I really don't think orange is my color," Dude said to Squid, pinching her shirt sleeve in annoyance. "I mean I DO look nice in it, but I've never really preferred it over something else. Like...black or blue or something."
"I understand completely," Squid sympathized (even though he didn't).
Zig Zag looked up as someone set their tray down in front of him. "Mind if I sit here?" Casey asked, looking at him hopefully.
Had it been anyone else, Zig Zag would've said "Get out of my sight you freak," but he decided to make an exception. "Sure."
There was a long silence between them as they picked at their food, not really eating it. "So...." Casey finally said. "How long have you been here?"
"Seems like longer than I can remember," Zig Zag muttered. "Almost as long as X. He's been here the longest of us all." He looked up at her freckled face; mistaking her for the Warden for a milli-second. "So what'd you do that landed you in this dump?"
"Oh," Casey said, blushing.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to," Zig Zag said quickly. "I mean, if you think it's personal or something..." Girls sometimes did. Starfish had nearly broken his head with a plate when he asked her.
"No, it's okay," Casey sighed. "They said that I was breaking and entering. But it wasn't really my fault! You see, I was the one who'd gotten robbed in the first place!! My ex-boyfriend stole my portable DVD player, and I went to his house to get it back."
"Convienently enough, you went at nighttime, didn't you?" Zig asked.
"Yes. As it turns out, I was convicted of trying to break into their house, and I was sent here. I think that creep sold my DVD player or something. But I know for a fact that he stole it!!"
"I believe you," Zig Zag said truthfully. There was a pause. Casey opened her mouth to say something, then shut it and looked back down. Zig Zag grinned. "You wanna know what I did, didn't you?"
"Erm...well, I was kind of just wondering..." she admitted, blushing.
Leaning back in his chair, Zig Zag thought back. He felt guilty confessing this to Casey, but he didn't exactly know why. "Well...I...you see, I..." Zig wanted to lie by saying he'd been framed too, but he knew he'd feel guilty later. "I was an arsonist at one point in my life."
Casey's eyes widened in shock. "You were?!"
"Yep," Zig Zag sighed. "I was getting mad at the government's decision to drill in Yellowstone for oil, so I decided to burn down the local gas station." He exhaled heavily as Casey gasped. "Yeah. BIG explosion. I was deranged. Determined not to let the environment die....so got in loads of trouble for that. Now I've been sentenced to this hell hole for like three years."
"........wow."
"I know."
"I think it's totally cool that you care about the environment so much," Casey said. "I just think that...burning down a gas station and sparking a huge explosion wasn't as civil as, say, a complaining letter."
"Yeah, I know. Too late now, though."
"Hey, can I sit here?" came a voice.
Casey and Zig Zag looked up to see Stanley. Before either could answer, he set down his tray.
"Hi Stanley," Casey said, in a voice that indicated they had known each other before coming to Camp Green Lake. "We were just talking about how we got landed in here."
"Ah," Stanley said wisely, waiting for one of them to ask what he'd done.
Zig Zag sighed, knowing what Stanley wanted. "What'd you do?"
Suddenly, Stanley felt guilty and annoyance at the same time. "I stole a pair of shoes."
Laughing involuntarily, Zig Zag threw a hashbrown at X-Ray. "Hey, X! Stanley here says he stole a pair of shoes and got sent to Camp Green Lake for it!"
X-Ray laughed too. "Did you get them from a store, or were they on someone's feet when you did it?"
"No, no," said Magnet. "The guy was wearin' the shoes, then he killed 'im and ran off with 'em!!"
Amid howls of laughter, Stanley said, "They were Clyde Livingston's sneakers!!"
"Sweet Feet's?" Ukulele Peanut asked incredulously. "Yeah, right!"
"It's true!" Stanley insisted, as Zig Zag got up to throw away his trash. "But I was framed! I didn't even do it!"
"I'm sure," came Zig Zag's snide remark as he came back to the table and sat down again.
"You callin' me a liar?!" Stanley yelled, getting to his feet in frustration.
"Yeah," Zig Zag said, standing up.
It was then that Stanley realized how tall Zig Zag was. But now that everyone in the cafeteria was staring at them, he wasn't about to back down like a coward.
"Yeah, I'm callin' you a liar," Zig Zag said, giving Stanley a light push. "What're you gonna do about it?" He pushed him again.
"IS THAT ALL YA GOT?!?!" Stanley yelled, giving Zig Zag's arm an embarressingly feeble punch
"Hey man, calm down," Magnet said, pulling on Stanley's shirt. "The last guy you wanna get in a fight with is Zig Zag."
"What, are you calling me scared?!" Stanley demanded.
"Kind of," said Dude. "Only idiots are stupid enough to pick a fight with Zig."
"Yeah, trust me," Eloisha said, carressing her forehead. "I know from personal experience."
"He's not fighting back, he's afraid!" Stanley said, throwing his fist towards Zig Zag's face.
There was a pause, and Zig Zag noticed that there was blood coming out of his nose. "You shouldn't have done that," he whispered. Two seconds later, he swung his fist directly at Stanley, knocking him to the ground. Starfish went into a fit of systematic hysterical screams as Zig Zag leapt on top of Stanley and beat the crap out of him.
"C'mon Zig Zag!" St. No-No said, grabbing his arm. "Let him go!"
"He called me afraid!" Zig Zag shouted.
"Just forget about it!" Squid said, taking his other arm and trying to pull him off of Stanley.
"Hey!" said Dude, slapping Squid's arm. "I wanna watch this, let him go!"
Squid let go.
Out of no where, Zero flew into the scene. He landed on top of Zig Zag, who quickly turned around so that he was pushing Zero into the dirty floor.
"What's going on over here??" yelled Mr. Pendanski, suddenly walking up to them in a haughty manner.
Quickly, Zig Zag stood up. Zero and Stanley rolled over, both of them too weak to get to their feet.
"Sorry sir," said Zig Zag. "Just a little...you know, just a fight. That's all. Nothin' too serious, sir." He quickly wiped the blood coming out of his nose in an effort to stop it. It had already ran onto his clothes, staining them.
"Zig, here," Casey whispered, handing him a tissue that she'd pulled out of her pocket (always be prepared, you know). He took it and held his head back, holding the tissue to his nose.
"Get up, you two," Mr. Pendanski growled at Stanley and Zero. "Now who started this whole mess?"
"Stanley," Casey said quickly. "As much as I hate to say it, Sir, it was Stanley."
"Yeah, he gave Zig a bloody nose," Squid continued. "So naturally, Zig Zag got all mad and tried to beat him up for it."
"Then Zero jumped on Zig Zag and tried to get him off Stanley," Ukulele Peanut said, finishing the story. "And that's basically it."
There was a long silence as Mr. Pendanski looked down at the floor. "All right. Since you're new, Stanley, I won't report this to the Warden. You'd all just better start digging those holes."
A few minutes later, they were all out in the sun, digging away.
"St. No-No, start singing something," Starfish whined.
St. No-No stopped digging for a second. "Why do you want me to sing something?!"
"Because I have that mining song from the Snow White stuck in my head and it won't go away!!!"
"You mean the dwarf song?"
"Yeah."
"I do too!" St. No-No screamed. "The digging song!! It's driving me nuts!!!"
The boys weren't having too much luck, either.
Stanley noticed that piles of dirt were occasionally flying into his hole. He hoisted himself up, and noticed that the boys' other dirt was flinging into his hole in progress. "Um...could you guys throw your dirt somewhere else? It's getting into my hole."
"Oh, it is?" Dude asked, swinging her shovel and causing some dirt to fly in Stanley's face. "Sorry."
"What's the problem?" asked Zig Zag, hitting his dirt pile with his shovel; which subsequently sent dirt billowing into Stanley's hole.
"Just stop, guys," Magnet sighed.
X-Ray looked over at Starfish, and nodded. Simultaneously, they jumped out of their holes. Starfish made her way towards Casey, and X walked towards Stanley.
"Hey Casey," Starfish said, squatting down.
"Yeah?"
"Come up here. We need to talk."
Casey heaved herself out of her hole. "What is it?"
Starfish smiled in an almost devilish manner. "As we both know, you're new here. But as you probably don't know, I've been here longer than all the other girls except Dude. Y'know how Mr. Sir told you if you found anything the Warden liked, you'd get a day off and all that?"
"Yes..."
"During all the time I've spent here, I have NEVER found something. So if you do, you know to give it to me, right? Because I deserve it, right? Cause I've been here longer, right?"
"Um..."
Casey felt that this was unfair. On the other hand, though, she probably didn't want to get Starfish mad. "Yeah. Okay."
"Great," Kathy said grinning, and getting up to walk away. At the same time, X-Ray was walking away from his little "talk" with Stanley.
Zig Zag noticed this, and when the water truck came, he walked over to Casey and grabbed her arm. "Don't feel like you have to listen to her," he said. "If you find something and report it yourself, it's not like she can do anything too lethal to you."
"Right," Casey said, playing along. "Because we both know that she's NOT here for something illegal she did." She smirked, and Zig Zag had to grin a little. "I'm guessing that X-Ray said the same thing to Stanley...?"
"Yeah."
"I think this water is contaminated," Eloisha said, staring at her canteen.
"Only you would say something like that," Starfish sighed, taking off her red bandana and using it to fan herself. "Just be grateful they actually hand out the stuff at all."
"But what if it has some kind of bacteria in it or something??" Eloisha asked worriedly, as Dude took a swig of her own.
"What'd you get in here for, anyway?" Ukulele Peanut asked. "Tampering with government amoeba or something?"
"No, it was for trying to murder Ben Savage, remember?" St. No-No said. "Y'know, the Boy Meets World Guy."
"Oh yes."
Eloisha glanced behind her, deciding to forget the whole conversation had even taken place. "D'you think we should go back there and try to talk to Casey? I feel bad leaving out of our little group."
"Why?" Starfish asked. "She seems to be getting along just fine with Zig Zag."
"Ah, young love!!" Ukulele Peanut cried, skipping giddily among the dirt. There was a short scream as she fell backwards into her own hole. Her colleagues walked over to her pit and peered down at her. U. Peanut had gotten into a very strange position: she was on her back, her arms stretching behind her head, and her legs were flat up against the wall of her hole.
"............ow.........."
"That's why there aren't any giddy girls here," St. No-No sighed, walking away with the others.
X-Ray and Magnet watched Stanley stagger off to his hole, and resume his slouching position again.
"What's with the way he walks, man?" Magnet asked.
"I don't know!" X laughed. "It makes him look like a caveman!!"
The two of them paused. They slowly turned to face each other, then grinned and nodded.
Zero left. St. No-No left. Starfish left.
Zig Zag stood up and jumped out of his hole. He turned around, and spat in it. At the same time, he saw Casey get up and do the same. She walked towards him.
"Not bad for a first time," he commented.
"Well, it's not really my first time," Casey said. "I had to dig all the time at home. I dug trenches to protect me from the Rottweiler next door. One might say that I have a lot of experience.
Taking a swift look behind him, Zig Zag smirked. "I think Stan might be out here a little bit longer than the rest of us."
"Yeah, he's not as much of a digger as I am," Casey sighed. "In case you couldn't already tell, I knew 'im before we both came here. Our moms were friends, and they tried to get us 'together.' Didn't really work out, but he still likes to think of himself as one of my nearest and dearest friends."
"Ah."
Well, Zig Zag knew one thing now: no competition!!
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just a question no one will answer b/c no one's reading this:
who do u think would be most likely 2 start a fight w/ Casey?
A. Dude
B. Starfish
C. Eloisha
D. Ukulele Peanut
E. Jennifer Lopez
thanx, and review......even though no one's reading this.
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The next morning, Zig Zag sat down at his corner of the D table. Normally, he sat alone. Sure he was friends with the others, but he really wasn't a "morning" person that chatted a lot. Not at all. Especially when he was in a bad mood.
"Better steer clear of Zig this morning," Starfish muttered to St. No- No. "Doesn't look too bright and chipper to me." The two of them took seats on the other side of the table.
"I really don't think orange is my color," Dude said to Squid, pinching her shirt sleeve in annoyance. "I mean I DO look nice in it, but I've never really preferred it over something else. Like...black or blue or something."
"I understand completely," Squid sympathized (even though he didn't).
Zig Zag looked up as someone set their tray down in front of him. "Mind if I sit here?" Casey asked, looking at him hopefully.
Had it been anyone else, Zig Zag would've said "Get out of my sight you freak," but he decided to make an exception. "Sure."
There was a long silence between them as they picked at their food, not really eating it. "So...." Casey finally said. "How long have you been here?"
"Seems like longer than I can remember," Zig Zag muttered. "Almost as long as X. He's been here the longest of us all." He looked up at her freckled face; mistaking her for the Warden for a milli-second. "So what'd you do that landed you in this dump?"
"Oh," Casey said, blushing.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to," Zig Zag said quickly. "I mean, if you think it's personal or something..." Girls sometimes did. Starfish had nearly broken his head with a plate when he asked her.
"No, it's okay," Casey sighed. "They said that I was breaking and entering. But it wasn't really my fault! You see, I was the one who'd gotten robbed in the first place!! My ex-boyfriend stole my portable DVD player, and I went to his house to get it back."
"Convienently enough, you went at nighttime, didn't you?" Zig asked.
"Yes. As it turns out, I was convicted of trying to break into their house, and I was sent here. I think that creep sold my DVD player or something. But I know for a fact that he stole it!!"
"I believe you," Zig Zag said truthfully. There was a pause. Casey opened her mouth to say something, then shut it and looked back down. Zig Zag grinned. "You wanna know what I did, didn't you?"
"Erm...well, I was kind of just wondering..." she admitted, blushing.
Leaning back in his chair, Zig Zag thought back. He felt guilty confessing this to Casey, but he didn't exactly know why. "Well...I...you see, I..." Zig wanted to lie by saying he'd been framed too, but he knew he'd feel guilty later. "I was an arsonist at one point in my life."
Casey's eyes widened in shock. "You were?!"
"Yep," Zig Zag sighed. "I was getting mad at the government's decision to drill in Yellowstone for oil, so I decided to burn down the local gas station." He exhaled heavily as Casey gasped. "Yeah. BIG explosion. I was deranged. Determined not to let the environment die....so got in loads of trouble for that. Now I've been sentenced to this hell hole for like three years."
"........wow."
"I know."
"I think it's totally cool that you care about the environment so much," Casey said. "I just think that...burning down a gas station and sparking a huge explosion wasn't as civil as, say, a complaining letter."
"Yeah, I know. Too late now, though."
"Hey, can I sit here?" came a voice.
Casey and Zig Zag looked up to see Stanley. Before either could answer, he set down his tray.
"Hi Stanley," Casey said, in a voice that indicated they had known each other before coming to Camp Green Lake. "We were just talking about how we got landed in here."
"Ah," Stanley said wisely, waiting for one of them to ask what he'd done.
Zig Zag sighed, knowing what Stanley wanted. "What'd you do?"
Suddenly, Stanley felt guilty and annoyance at the same time. "I stole a pair of shoes."
Laughing involuntarily, Zig Zag threw a hashbrown at X-Ray. "Hey, X! Stanley here says he stole a pair of shoes and got sent to Camp Green Lake for it!"
X-Ray laughed too. "Did you get them from a store, or were they on someone's feet when you did it?"
"No, no," said Magnet. "The guy was wearin' the shoes, then he killed 'im and ran off with 'em!!"
Amid howls of laughter, Stanley said, "They were Clyde Livingston's sneakers!!"
"Sweet Feet's?" Ukulele Peanut asked incredulously. "Yeah, right!"
"It's true!" Stanley insisted, as Zig Zag got up to throw away his trash. "But I was framed! I didn't even do it!"
"I'm sure," came Zig Zag's snide remark as he came back to the table and sat down again.
"You callin' me a liar?!" Stanley yelled, getting to his feet in frustration.
"Yeah," Zig Zag said, standing up.
It was then that Stanley realized how tall Zig Zag was. But now that everyone in the cafeteria was staring at them, he wasn't about to back down like a coward.
"Yeah, I'm callin' you a liar," Zig Zag said, giving Stanley a light push. "What're you gonna do about it?" He pushed him again.
"IS THAT ALL YA GOT?!?!" Stanley yelled, giving Zig Zag's arm an embarressingly feeble punch
"Hey man, calm down," Magnet said, pulling on Stanley's shirt. "The last guy you wanna get in a fight with is Zig Zag."
"What, are you calling me scared?!" Stanley demanded.
"Kind of," said Dude. "Only idiots are stupid enough to pick a fight with Zig."
"Yeah, trust me," Eloisha said, carressing her forehead. "I know from personal experience."
"He's not fighting back, he's afraid!" Stanley said, throwing his fist towards Zig Zag's face.
There was a pause, and Zig Zag noticed that there was blood coming out of his nose. "You shouldn't have done that," he whispered. Two seconds later, he swung his fist directly at Stanley, knocking him to the ground. Starfish went into a fit of systematic hysterical screams as Zig Zag leapt on top of Stanley and beat the crap out of him.
"C'mon Zig Zag!" St. No-No said, grabbing his arm. "Let him go!"
"He called me afraid!" Zig Zag shouted.
"Just forget about it!" Squid said, taking his other arm and trying to pull him off of Stanley.
"Hey!" said Dude, slapping Squid's arm. "I wanna watch this, let him go!"
Squid let go.
Out of no where, Zero flew into the scene. He landed on top of Zig Zag, who quickly turned around so that he was pushing Zero into the dirty floor.
"What's going on over here??" yelled Mr. Pendanski, suddenly walking up to them in a haughty manner.
Quickly, Zig Zag stood up. Zero and Stanley rolled over, both of them too weak to get to their feet.
"Sorry sir," said Zig Zag. "Just a little...you know, just a fight. That's all. Nothin' too serious, sir." He quickly wiped the blood coming out of his nose in an effort to stop it. It had already ran onto his clothes, staining them.
"Zig, here," Casey whispered, handing him a tissue that she'd pulled out of her pocket (always be prepared, you know). He took it and held his head back, holding the tissue to his nose.
"Get up, you two," Mr. Pendanski growled at Stanley and Zero. "Now who started this whole mess?"
"Stanley," Casey said quickly. "As much as I hate to say it, Sir, it was Stanley."
"Yeah, he gave Zig a bloody nose," Squid continued. "So naturally, Zig Zag got all mad and tried to beat him up for it."
"Then Zero jumped on Zig Zag and tried to get him off Stanley," Ukulele Peanut said, finishing the story. "And that's basically it."
There was a long silence as Mr. Pendanski looked down at the floor. "All right. Since you're new, Stanley, I won't report this to the Warden. You'd all just better start digging those holes."
A few minutes later, they were all out in the sun, digging away.
"St. No-No, start singing something," Starfish whined.
St. No-No stopped digging for a second. "Why do you want me to sing something?!"
"Because I have that mining song from the Snow White stuck in my head and it won't go away!!!"
"You mean the dwarf song?"
"Yeah."
"I do too!" St. No-No screamed. "The digging song!! It's driving me nuts!!!"
The boys weren't having too much luck, either.
Stanley noticed that piles of dirt were occasionally flying into his hole. He hoisted himself up, and noticed that the boys' other dirt was flinging into his hole in progress. "Um...could you guys throw your dirt somewhere else? It's getting into my hole."
"Oh, it is?" Dude asked, swinging her shovel and causing some dirt to fly in Stanley's face. "Sorry."
"What's the problem?" asked Zig Zag, hitting his dirt pile with his shovel; which subsequently sent dirt billowing into Stanley's hole.
"Just stop, guys," Magnet sighed.
X-Ray looked over at Starfish, and nodded. Simultaneously, they jumped out of their holes. Starfish made her way towards Casey, and X walked towards Stanley.
"Hey Casey," Starfish said, squatting down.
"Yeah?"
"Come up here. We need to talk."
Casey heaved herself out of her hole. "What is it?"
Starfish smiled in an almost devilish manner. "As we both know, you're new here. But as you probably don't know, I've been here longer than all the other girls except Dude. Y'know how Mr. Sir told you if you found anything the Warden liked, you'd get a day off and all that?"
"Yes..."
"During all the time I've spent here, I have NEVER found something. So if you do, you know to give it to me, right? Because I deserve it, right? Cause I've been here longer, right?"
"Um..."
Casey felt that this was unfair. On the other hand, though, she probably didn't want to get Starfish mad. "Yeah. Okay."
"Great," Kathy said grinning, and getting up to walk away. At the same time, X-Ray was walking away from his little "talk" with Stanley.
Zig Zag noticed this, and when the water truck came, he walked over to Casey and grabbed her arm. "Don't feel like you have to listen to her," he said. "If you find something and report it yourself, it's not like she can do anything too lethal to you."
"Right," Casey said, playing along. "Because we both know that she's NOT here for something illegal she did." She smirked, and Zig Zag had to grin a little. "I'm guessing that X-Ray said the same thing to Stanley...?"
"Yeah."
"I think this water is contaminated," Eloisha said, staring at her canteen.
"Only you would say something like that," Starfish sighed, taking off her red bandana and using it to fan herself. "Just be grateful they actually hand out the stuff at all."
"But what if it has some kind of bacteria in it or something??" Eloisha asked worriedly, as Dude took a swig of her own.
"What'd you get in here for, anyway?" Ukulele Peanut asked. "Tampering with government amoeba or something?"
"No, it was for trying to murder Ben Savage, remember?" St. No-No said. "Y'know, the Boy Meets World Guy."
"Oh yes."
Eloisha glanced behind her, deciding to forget the whole conversation had even taken place. "D'you think we should go back there and try to talk to Casey? I feel bad leaving out of our little group."
"Why?" Starfish asked. "She seems to be getting along just fine with Zig Zag."
"Ah, young love!!" Ukulele Peanut cried, skipping giddily among the dirt. There was a short scream as she fell backwards into her own hole. Her colleagues walked over to her pit and peered down at her. U. Peanut had gotten into a very strange position: she was on her back, her arms stretching behind her head, and her legs were flat up against the wall of her hole.
"............ow.........."
"That's why there aren't any giddy girls here," St. No-No sighed, walking away with the others.
X-Ray and Magnet watched Stanley stagger off to his hole, and resume his slouching position again.
"What's with the way he walks, man?" Magnet asked.
"I don't know!" X laughed. "It makes him look like a caveman!!"
The two of them paused. They slowly turned to face each other, then grinned and nodded.
Zero left. St. No-No left. Starfish left.
Zig Zag stood up and jumped out of his hole. He turned around, and spat in it. At the same time, he saw Casey get up and do the same. She walked towards him.
"Not bad for a first time," he commented.
"Well, it's not really my first time," Casey said. "I had to dig all the time at home. I dug trenches to protect me from the Rottweiler next door. One might say that I have a lot of experience.
Taking a swift look behind him, Zig Zag smirked. "I think Stan might be out here a little bit longer than the rest of us."
"Yeah, he's not as much of a digger as I am," Casey sighed. "In case you couldn't already tell, I knew 'im before we both came here. Our moms were friends, and they tried to get us 'together.' Didn't really work out, but he still likes to think of himself as one of my nearest and dearest friends."
"Ah."
Well, Zig Zag knew one thing now: no competition!!
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just a question no one will answer b/c no one's reading this:
who do u think would be most likely 2 start a fight w/ Casey?
A. Dude
B. Starfish
C. Eloisha
D. Ukulele Peanut
E. Jennifer Lopez
thanx, and review......even though no one's reading this.