well, its been while since i've updated this, hasnt it? well, i've written
more!! (yee-haw)
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"Hey look over there," said Armpit, putting a hand over his eyes and looking to his left. "It's the bus!"
"Ooh, yay, the bus," Starfish said in a bored monotone. "Let's all dance around and sing for joy." She gazed towards the right as she heard a motor running. "Here's the water truck--something to be happyl about." Lazily, Starfish got out of her hole.
"Joy," remarked X-Ray, as they approached the truck of their lunches. "More of this disgusting preserved foodstuff."
"Now, now, Rex," scolded Mr. Pendandski lightly, waggling his finger at him. "You should be more grateful to get this kind of food."
"THANK YOU, GOD!!" Eloisha suddenly shouted, dropping to her knees and raising her hands to the sky. "AND WE ASK YOU TO BLESS THIS DELICIOUS CANNED FOOD WE ARE ABOUT TO RECIEVE!!"
There was a long silence as Eloisha dusted herself off and stood up.
"You're scaring me," Mr. Pendanski finally said. "You're not getting a lunch."
"WHAT?! GOD, PUT A CURSE ON HIM!!!"
"Hey, I was just joking!" Mr. Pendanski said hastily, throwing a sandwhich at Eloisha. "Yeesh." Walking away, Eloisha began muttering something in Korean. "This is America, we speak English here," he called after her.
"Don't I know it," sighed Magnet, taking his lunch and heading back to his hole. "Aye Carumba!"
"Magnet, what did I just say?" the counselor asked.
Magnet ignored him.
"I wish Caveman was still here," Zig Zag sighed wistfully, slowly taking a bite out of his sandwhich.
"...WHAT?!" Hammer yelled, nearly falling backwards into her hole from shock.
"Y'know, so I could have someone to beat up."
"That makes a lot of sense," Dude said understandingly.
"Yeah," said Armpit, joining the small circle that the diggers had formed. "Dude used to go around at school, robbing every sixth grader of their lunch money, or demanding that they hand it over."
"You made that up!" Dude insisted (even though it was something she would really do--jk, elise).
"Well at my old school, all the boys knew to leave me alone," Zig Zag said, rolling up the short sleeves on his school. Making an exaggerated (and unneccessary) California governor-like grunt, he flexed his arm muscle.
"Wow, this digging's really been a work out for you, hasn't it?" Starfish asked, leaning forward and feeling the muscle. "Hoo-ee!"
"What are you, a pig?" X-Ray asked.
"That was uncalled for."
"SO," said Magnet, breaking a long silence. "I wonder if this new kid's gonna be anything like Stanley."
"I hope not," said Ukulele Peanut, at the same time as Zig Zag said "I hope so."
"You're so sadistic," sighed Hammer, leaning back on the palms of her hands. "Which is of course very favorable in my view."
"I'm not the scary one," Eloisha said. She pointed at Hammer. "YOU are."
"Aren't you the one who tried to kill Ben Savage?!" Ukulele Peanut asked. "You're practically a savage!" She began to laugh hysterically. "Ha ha!! GET it?! Savage, savage? HA HA!!!!!!"
"Man, you're weird," said Squid.
"HEY, PEOPLE!!!" shouted Mr. Pendanski. "THIS IS NOT SOCIAL GATHERING TIME!!! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO EAT YOUR FOOD, THEN KEEP ON DIGGIN' YOUR HOLES!!!!!!!!"
"You know," said Squid, getting to his feet and picking up his shovel. "I made up a little rap song about us digging."
"Yes, I'm sure we'd all like to hear it," Dude said sarcastically, resuming her digging. "But maybe some other time, so you can serenade me privately." Even though she would prefer Amy Lee over him any day.
"Who's Amy Lee?" X-Ray The Ignorant asked the narrator.
"Dude, you don't know who Amy Lee is?" Ukulele Peanut asked, wondering if she did herself (sry caroline, i dont know if u do or not. u probly do and i sound really stupid right now. but w/e).
"Of COURSE I know who Amy Lee is!!!" Dude shouted.
"Grrr," growled Peanut. "I meant X-Ray!!"
"Enlighten me," X-Ray said.
Suddenly, the D-Tent girls broke into a loud chorus of Bring Me To Life (completely scaring the boys beyond words).
"Y'all have problems," Armpit said, trying vainly to talk over the loud commotion they were making. "But of course, there's nothing bad about a free concert."
"There is when the Warden finds out about it," Magnet said, looking over the ground at the Chevrolet approaching them. "This can't be good." Well, I think THAT could qualify as the biggest understatement of the year.
Or not.
"WOO-HOO!" screamed the Warden, jumping out of her car and starting to lower her tough image by dancing around to the wild music. "Bring Me To Life! I LOVE EVANESCENCE!!!!!!!!!!"
"Okay," said X-Ray. "Either the Warden's on helium, or she's had a little too much to drink."
"Perhaps both," suggested Zig Zag. "Zero, you done with your hole already?"
"Stating the obvious, as usual," sighed Armpit. "Hey, where'd Eloisha go?"
"I dunno," said Magnet, twisting around. "But it looks like her hole's done already. Which is really strange."
"Hi, Zero," Eloisha said warmly, once she'd made her way back to the tent. She was not surprised when he greeted here with a blank stare. Whistling a strange hokey tune, Eloisha lay down on the floor with a notebook, and her pen zigzagged across the paper as she wrote.
His curiosity aroused, Zero lazily got off his bed and walked over to where Eloisha was laying. Staring at the paper, he tried to read what she was writing. His eyes widened. "How do you do that?" he asked.
"Do what?" she inquired, looking up at him.
"Write so good! That all looks like. . .like. . ." He stuttered, trying to describe what the English looked like to him. Zero sighed. "It all looks like Chinese to me."
Eloisha looked back down at her paper. "That's. . .because it IS Chinese."
Zero looked at it again. "Oh. Sorry."
Sitting up, Eloisha flipped her hair like Lucy Liu again. "Sorry for what?"
Shrugging, Zero sat down and said, "I can't read."
Eloisha stared sympathetically at him. "You can't? You can't read?" This was such heartbreaking news. *smirk*
"I didn't really ever. . .y'know, have much of an education. I grew up in an orphanage, and they didn't really. . .well, they taught some of us, but I just couldn't get it." Zero sighed melodramatically again. "I guess because of my age, they automatically just thought I could read."
"Well why didn't you say something?" Eloisha asked.
Zero shrugged again. "I dunno. I was afraid of what the other guys'd say. Y'know, I felt stupid."
"So you're saying you. . .don't feel stupid now?" Eloisha asked, blinking.
Zero stared at the distant space in front of him. "Can you teach me?"
"You. . .you mean how to read?"
"Yeah. I was gonna ask that Caveman dude to do it, but there were two reasons why I didn't." He held up a finger. "One, he acted like a complete idiot." (Eloisha laughed). "And two, he spontaneously combusted."
"Yes, that is a problem, isn't it?" It was now Eloisha's turn to sigh. "Maybe I could teach you to read a little. . .I mean, I AM the smartest kid here and all. . .but I'm just too tired today. Y'know, tryin' to impersonate Amy Lee and all gets kinda tiring."
Zero gave her Bambi eyes.
"You know, I draw people like that," Eloisha said, with a lopsided grin. She paused, then said, "I'll start teaching you today, on one condition: you let me draw you with my super-duper PENCIL AND SHEET OF PAPER!!!!!!! EEEEEEEE!!!"
Staring at her with confusion, Zero slowly nodded. "Okay. . ."
"Coolio."
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Meanwhile, the D-Tent girls's Evanescence concert had ended. The Warden drove away, and the rest of them had managed to finish their holes.
"Dude," said Squid. "We need to talk."
"Oh NO!!" shouted Dude, clasping her hands to her cheeks. "THOSE ARE THE WORST FOUR WORDS A GUY CAN SAY TO HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE HOLE HISTORY OF- -"
"Dude, Dude, get a grip on yourself," Squid said. "It's not about breaking up."
"Oh," said Dude. "Phew!"
"You see, it's a guilt complex," Squid said slowly. "About something I think might be interested in."
"What exactly is that?" Dude asked.
"Um. . .you know your lizard that you named Amy Lee?"
"You mean the one I got in third grade that died a very mysterious death?" Dude asked. Squid nodded. "Yeah, of course I remember my little Bearded Dragon. How could I forget Amy? But what about her?"
"Well. . .you know how you said she died mysteriously? I. . .I know what happened to her."
Dude's eye widened, and she put her hands on Squid's shoulders. "POTATOES!"
"Uh. . .no."
Dude gasped. "PAMELA ANDERSON?!"
"NO!" Squid shouted. "You're missing the point, Dude! When you went to summer camp, your mom asked me to look after Amy Lee because she and your dad were going on an anniversary trip to London or something!! AND I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE LIGHT ON THE CAGE AND AMY DIED!!!!!!! I PRACTICALLY KILLED HER!!"
Panting, Squid let this slowly sink in. Well, when it came to Dude, it didn't take long for things to "sink in."
"You MONSTER!!!" Dude shouted, firing a fist towards her now ex- boyfriend. "LIKE SAWYERZELDA JUST SAID, YOU ARE NOW MY OFFICAL EX- BOYFRIEND!!! ASTA MAÑANA, BUDDY!!!" Sobbing hysterically over her deceased lizard, Dude ran out of the Wreck Room.
"Well, glad that's over with," Squid said, as St. No-No came out from the shadows. "She fell for it."
"I kinda feel bad for Dude," St. No-No sighed, rubbing her arm. "Y'know, you lying like that to her just so that we could--"
"Hey, we weren't doin' nothin' selfish," said Squid. "Dude was just a little obsessed, you know? I think this is better for her. Besides, now we're all happy. Right?"
"Not Dude," remarked St. No-No. She decided to change the subject. "So you seen the new kid yet?"
"Nope," sighed Squid. "No one has. I don't know where he went off to. But I think I heard Mr. Pendanski tellin' Zig Zag and Hammer that we won't be seein' him 'til tomorrow mornin'."
"Strange."
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"So. . ." said Starfish, raising her pool cue into the air and getting ready to hit the white ball. "One a you guys think you can beat me?"
"Yeah," said X-Ray, stepping forward. "I think I--"
"ME!!!! MISTRESS OF ALL EVIL!!!!" Starfish interrupted, cackling loudly. "X-Ray, bring it on!!"
"Ten bucks says that Starfish wins," Armpit muttered to Magnet.
"Man, you ain't got ten bucks," Magnet said. "But even if you did, I wouldn't bet against you. Starfish is a shoe-in for first place."
"Y'know, you guys don't have a lot of faith in me," X-Ray said.
"What're friends for?" Armpit asked.
Ukulele Peanut, meanwhile, sat at another table with Zig Zag and Hammer.
"Am I ruining any romantic atmosphere by sitting here?" Peanut asked sarcastically, as she took a seat.
"Uh, no," said Hammer, quickly dropping Zig Zag's hand. "Heh heh."
"Good." Looking around to make sure no counselors were watching, Ukulele Peanut took a pack of cards out of her pocket. "You guys wanna play a little poker? Betting with. . .shower tokens?"
"You got it," Zig Zag said, and Hammer nodded. "Yo Magnet, you wanna come over here and play some poker? We're bettin' shower tokens."
"Sure," agreed Magnet, coming over and sitting down. "I haven't played poker since I was in Canasta. I mean, Canada."
"I GET it!" Ukulele Peanut laughed. "Canasta--Canada!! HA HA HA!!!!"
"Dude, I just made a mistake," said Magnet. "It wasn't supposed to be fun--"
"Did someone call me?" Dude asked, coming out of no where.
"No," sighed Magnet.
"Oh. Well if any of you are interested, I'll be in the tent crying my eyes out and mourning for my dead lizard."
"Have fun," said Zig Zag as she walked away. "How sad."
"It is tragic, isn't it?" Hammer asked, as Ukulele Peanut dealed out the cards. "Having a pet dying and all. I wouldn't know personally, though: I've never had a pet."
"You haven't?" asked Ukulele Peanut. "I had a rabbit once. And I've had frogs and stuff like that. Man, life isn't complete without having a pet at least once." She nodded at Starfish (who happened to be doing quite well in the pool game). "Starfish and Dude are lucky, though. They've both got dogs."
"I have a dog," said Zig Zag, glancing wearily at his cards. "Big ole Great Pyranees. Used to always get into fights with my tabby cat, though." He sighed. "I don't know if they still fight. They could both be dead now, for all I know. My parents never write to me."
"Well then they're butts," deduced Magnet. "And as for me and pets, you all know how I got here."
"I don't," Hammer said. "Fill me in."
"They wanted a thousand bucks for one puppy," Magnet sobbed. "And I wanted him so badly!!"
"A thousand bucks?!" Hammer cried indignantly. "That's retarded!"
"So I went to the store and stole him," Magnet said. "Well, I tried to, anyway. I would've made it out. . . if my pocket hadn't started barking."
Zig Zag and Ukulele Peanut laughed at Magnet's poor misery.
"OHHHHHHHHH, I BEAT YOU!!!" Starfish yelled, from the other side of the room. "AGAIN! AGAIN!!! YOU SUCK AT POOL, MAN!!"
"Hey!" shouted X-Ray, throwing his cue stick to Armpit (who was next in line to play). "You did NOT just disrupt my ganstah!"
Starfish blinked.
"Never mind."
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"Dude!" Eloisha said, jumping as her fellow juvenile delinquint came into the tent. "What're you doing here?"
"I was hoping to go somewhere private," Dude said, eyeing Eloisha and Zero. "But obviously, I came to the wrong spot. Please excuse me."
"It's okay," Eloisha said, implying that Dude could stay. "I just finished my picture of Zero. It's kind of bad." She tossed it to Dude, who caught it, and laughed.
"It looks really good," Dude said, showing it to Zero. He nodded.
"It's terrible," Eloisha sighed dramatically.
"You're fishing for compliments," Dude and Zero said in unison. The three of them laughed, then Dude held out her pinky. Zero stared at her. "Come on, you don't know this?" Dude asked him. "Every time you say something at the same time as someone else (and it's spontaneous), you link pinkies then say a wish." She looked at him as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Um........right." Awkwardly, Zero made a wish as he linked pinkies with Dude. "What'd you wish for?"
"If she says, it won't come true," Eloisha pointed out.
"No, that's only with wishes on stars," Dude said.
Out of nowhere, Jiminy Cricket bounced into the tent and started singing "When You Wish Upon A Star." Then he vanished.
All crickets except Jiminy chirped.
"Anyway, since this was a pink wish, I can tell you what I wished for," Dude said. "Y'know how Bennifer came to Camp Green Lake?"
"Yeah. . ." said Zero.
"I wished that Amy Lee would come next. What did you wish for?"
"Well. . ."
Suddenly, Eloisha gasped. "LOOK!!!!! IT'S BRUCE WILLIS, MERYL STREEP, AND GOLDIE HAWN!!! AND AMY LEE!!!!!!"
"WHERE?!" Dude shouted, running out of the tent.
"That wasn't very nice," Zero commented.
"But it was true," Eloisha said. "I can see the TV in the Wreck room from here, and it looks like X-Ray's watching a movie with Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, and Goldie Hawn. But the Amy Lee part I made up." She cocked her head to one side. "So what DID you wish for?"
Zero answered, saying, "That I'll be able to learn how to read from a great teacher."
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awwwww, ain't that sweet? (not) eloisha, ur just skipping 2 all the parts that have u in them, dont u? i know u 2 well. and dude--yes!! they were watching death becomes her!! =) and st. no-no......i made squid available 4 u!!!
ok, so now i have a question: if zero were 2 start liking someone, who should it be?
Eloisha, Dude, Ukulele Peanut, or Starfish?
plz review!!!! i am *very* interested in what u have 2 say!!!
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"Hey look over there," said Armpit, putting a hand over his eyes and looking to his left. "It's the bus!"
"Ooh, yay, the bus," Starfish said in a bored monotone. "Let's all dance around and sing for joy." She gazed towards the right as she heard a motor running. "Here's the water truck--something to be happyl about." Lazily, Starfish got out of her hole.
"Joy," remarked X-Ray, as they approached the truck of their lunches. "More of this disgusting preserved foodstuff."
"Now, now, Rex," scolded Mr. Pendandski lightly, waggling his finger at him. "You should be more grateful to get this kind of food."
"THANK YOU, GOD!!" Eloisha suddenly shouted, dropping to her knees and raising her hands to the sky. "AND WE ASK YOU TO BLESS THIS DELICIOUS CANNED FOOD WE ARE ABOUT TO RECIEVE!!"
There was a long silence as Eloisha dusted herself off and stood up.
"You're scaring me," Mr. Pendanski finally said. "You're not getting a lunch."
"WHAT?! GOD, PUT A CURSE ON HIM!!!"
"Hey, I was just joking!" Mr. Pendanski said hastily, throwing a sandwhich at Eloisha. "Yeesh." Walking away, Eloisha began muttering something in Korean. "This is America, we speak English here," he called after her.
"Don't I know it," sighed Magnet, taking his lunch and heading back to his hole. "Aye Carumba!"
"Magnet, what did I just say?" the counselor asked.
Magnet ignored him.
"I wish Caveman was still here," Zig Zag sighed wistfully, slowly taking a bite out of his sandwhich.
"...WHAT?!" Hammer yelled, nearly falling backwards into her hole from shock.
"Y'know, so I could have someone to beat up."
"That makes a lot of sense," Dude said understandingly.
"Yeah," said Armpit, joining the small circle that the diggers had formed. "Dude used to go around at school, robbing every sixth grader of their lunch money, or demanding that they hand it over."
"You made that up!" Dude insisted (even though it was something she would really do--jk, elise).
"Well at my old school, all the boys knew to leave me alone," Zig Zag said, rolling up the short sleeves on his school. Making an exaggerated (and unneccessary) California governor-like grunt, he flexed his arm muscle.
"Wow, this digging's really been a work out for you, hasn't it?" Starfish asked, leaning forward and feeling the muscle. "Hoo-ee!"
"What are you, a pig?" X-Ray asked.
"That was uncalled for."
"SO," said Magnet, breaking a long silence. "I wonder if this new kid's gonna be anything like Stanley."
"I hope not," said Ukulele Peanut, at the same time as Zig Zag said "I hope so."
"You're so sadistic," sighed Hammer, leaning back on the palms of her hands. "Which is of course very favorable in my view."
"I'm not the scary one," Eloisha said. She pointed at Hammer. "YOU are."
"Aren't you the one who tried to kill Ben Savage?!" Ukulele Peanut asked. "You're practically a savage!" She began to laugh hysterically. "Ha ha!! GET it?! Savage, savage? HA HA!!!!!!"
"Man, you're weird," said Squid.
"HEY, PEOPLE!!!" shouted Mr. Pendanski. "THIS IS NOT SOCIAL GATHERING TIME!!! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO EAT YOUR FOOD, THEN KEEP ON DIGGIN' YOUR HOLES!!!!!!!!"
"You know," said Squid, getting to his feet and picking up his shovel. "I made up a little rap song about us digging."
"Yes, I'm sure we'd all like to hear it," Dude said sarcastically, resuming her digging. "But maybe some other time, so you can serenade me privately." Even though she would prefer Amy Lee over him any day.
"Who's Amy Lee?" X-Ray The Ignorant asked the narrator.
"Dude, you don't know who Amy Lee is?" Ukulele Peanut asked, wondering if she did herself (sry caroline, i dont know if u do or not. u probly do and i sound really stupid right now. but w/e).
"Of COURSE I know who Amy Lee is!!!" Dude shouted.
"Grrr," growled Peanut. "I meant X-Ray!!"
"Enlighten me," X-Ray said.
Suddenly, the D-Tent girls broke into a loud chorus of Bring Me To Life (completely scaring the boys beyond words).
"Y'all have problems," Armpit said, trying vainly to talk over the loud commotion they were making. "But of course, there's nothing bad about a free concert."
"There is when the Warden finds out about it," Magnet said, looking over the ground at the Chevrolet approaching them. "This can't be good." Well, I think THAT could qualify as the biggest understatement of the year.
Or not.
"WOO-HOO!" screamed the Warden, jumping out of her car and starting to lower her tough image by dancing around to the wild music. "Bring Me To Life! I LOVE EVANESCENCE!!!!!!!!!!"
"Okay," said X-Ray. "Either the Warden's on helium, or she's had a little too much to drink."
"Perhaps both," suggested Zig Zag. "Zero, you done with your hole already?"
"Stating the obvious, as usual," sighed Armpit. "Hey, where'd Eloisha go?"
"I dunno," said Magnet, twisting around. "But it looks like her hole's done already. Which is really strange."
"Hi, Zero," Eloisha said warmly, once she'd made her way back to the tent. She was not surprised when he greeted here with a blank stare. Whistling a strange hokey tune, Eloisha lay down on the floor with a notebook, and her pen zigzagged across the paper as she wrote.
His curiosity aroused, Zero lazily got off his bed and walked over to where Eloisha was laying. Staring at the paper, he tried to read what she was writing. His eyes widened. "How do you do that?" he asked.
"Do what?" she inquired, looking up at him.
"Write so good! That all looks like. . .like. . ." He stuttered, trying to describe what the English looked like to him. Zero sighed. "It all looks like Chinese to me."
Eloisha looked back down at her paper. "That's. . .because it IS Chinese."
Zero looked at it again. "Oh. Sorry."
Sitting up, Eloisha flipped her hair like Lucy Liu again. "Sorry for what?"
Shrugging, Zero sat down and said, "I can't read."
Eloisha stared sympathetically at him. "You can't? You can't read?" This was such heartbreaking news. *smirk*
"I didn't really ever. . .y'know, have much of an education. I grew up in an orphanage, and they didn't really. . .well, they taught some of us, but I just couldn't get it." Zero sighed melodramatically again. "I guess because of my age, they automatically just thought I could read."
"Well why didn't you say something?" Eloisha asked.
Zero shrugged again. "I dunno. I was afraid of what the other guys'd say. Y'know, I felt stupid."
"So you're saying you. . .don't feel stupid now?" Eloisha asked, blinking.
Zero stared at the distant space in front of him. "Can you teach me?"
"You. . .you mean how to read?"
"Yeah. I was gonna ask that Caveman dude to do it, but there were two reasons why I didn't." He held up a finger. "One, he acted like a complete idiot." (Eloisha laughed). "And two, he spontaneously combusted."
"Yes, that is a problem, isn't it?" It was now Eloisha's turn to sigh. "Maybe I could teach you to read a little. . .I mean, I AM the smartest kid here and all. . .but I'm just too tired today. Y'know, tryin' to impersonate Amy Lee and all gets kinda tiring."
Zero gave her Bambi eyes.
"You know, I draw people like that," Eloisha said, with a lopsided grin. She paused, then said, "I'll start teaching you today, on one condition: you let me draw you with my super-duper PENCIL AND SHEET OF PAPER!!!!!!! EEEEEEEE!!!"
Staring at her with confusion, Zero slowly nodded. "Okay. . ."
"Coolio."
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Meanwhile, the D-Tent girls's Evanescence concert had ended. The Warden drove away, and the rest of them had managed to finish their holes.
"Dude," said Squid. "We need to talk."
"Oh NO!!" shouted Dude, clasping her hands to her cheeks. "THOSE ARE THE WORST FOUR WORDS A GUY CAN SAY TO HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE HOLE HISTORY OF- -"
"Dude, Dude, get a grip on yourself," Squid said. "It's not about breaking up."
"Oh," said Dude. "Phew!"
"You see, it's a guilt complex," Squid said slowly. "About something I think might be interested in."
"What exactly is that?" Dude asked.
"Um. . .you know your lizard that you named Amy Lee?"
"You mean the one I got in third grade that died a very mysterious death?" Dude asked. Squid nodded. "Yeah, of course I remember my little Bearded Dragon. How could I forget Amy? But what about her?"
"Well. . .you know how you said she died mysteriously? I. . .I know what happened to her."
Dude's eye widened, and she put her hands on Squid's shoulders. "POTATOES!"
"Uh. . .no."
Dude gasped. "PAMELA ANDERSON?!"
"NO!" Squid shouted. "You're missing the point, Dude! When you went to summer camp, your mom asked me to look after Amy Lee because she and your dad were going on an anniversary trip to London or something!! AND I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE LIGHT ON THE CAGE AND AMY DIED!!!!!!! I PRACTICALLY KILLED HER!!"
Panting, Squid let this slowly sink in. Well, when it came to Dude, it didn't take long for things to "sink in."
"You MONSTER!!!" Dude shouted, firing a fist towards her now ex- boyfriend. "LIKE SAWYERZELDA JUST SAID, YOU ARE NOW MY OFFICAL EX- BOYFRIEND!!! ASTA MAÑANA, BUDDY!!!" Sobbing hysterically over her deceased lizard, Dude ran out of the Wreck Room.
"Well, glad that's over with," Squid said, as St. No-No came out from the shadows. "She fell for it."
"I kinda feel bad for Dude," St. No-No sighed, rubbing her arm. "Y'know, you lying like that to her just so that we could--"
"Hey, we weren't doin' nothin' selfish," said Squid. "Dude was just a little obsessed, you know? I think this is better for her. Besides, now we're all happy. Right?"
"Not Dude," remarked St. No-No. She decided to change the subject. "So you seen the new kid yet?"
"Nope," sighed Squid. "No one has. I don't know where he went off to. But I think I heard Mr. Pendanski tellin' Zig Zag and Hammer that we won't be seein' him 'til tomorrow mornin'."
"Strange."
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"So. . ." said Starfish, raising her pool cue into the air and getting ready to hit the white ball. "One a you guys think you can beat me?"
"Yeah," said X-Ray, stepping forward. "I think I--"
"ME!!!! MISTRESS OF ALL EVIL!!!!" Starfish interrupted, cackling loudly. "X-Ray, bring it on!!"
"Ten bucks says that Starfish wins," Armpit muttered to Magnet.
"Man, you ain't got ten bucks," Magnet said. "But even if you did, I wouldn't bet against you. Starfish is a shoe-in for first place."
"Y'know, you guys don't have a lot of faith in me," X-Ray said.
"What're friends for?" Armpit asked.
Ukulele Peanut, meanwhile, sat at another table with Zig Zag and Hammer.
"Am I ruining any romantic atmosphere by sitting here?" Peanut asked sarcastically, as she took a seat.
"Uh, no," said Hammer, quickly dropping Zig Zag's hand. "Heh heh."
"Good." Looking around to make sure no counselors were watching, Ukulele Peanut took a pack of cards out of her pocket. "You guys wanna play a little poker? Betting with. . .shower tokens?"
"You got it," Zig Zag said, and Hammer nodded. "Yo Magnet, you wanna come over here and play some poker? We're bettin' shower tokens."
"Sure," agreed Magnet, coming over and sitting down. "I haven't played poker since I was in Canasta. I mean, Canada."
"I GET it!" Ukulele Peanut laughed. "Canasta--Canada!! HA HA HA!!!!"
"Dude, I just made a mistake," said Magnet. "It wasn't supposed to be fun--"
"Did someone call me?" Dude asked, coming out of no where.
"No," sighed Magnet.
"Oh. Well if any of you are interested, I'll be in the tent crying my eyes out and mourning for my dead lizard."
"Have fun," said Zig Zag as she walked away. "How sad."
"It is tragic, isn't it?" Hammer asked, as Ukulele Peanut dealed out the cards. "Having a pet dying and all. I wouldn't know personally, though: I've never had a pet."
"You haven't?" asked Ukulele Peanut. "I had a rabbit once. And I've had frogs and stuff like that. Man, life isn't complete without having a pet at least once." She nodded at Starfish (who happened to be doing quite well in the pool game). "Starfish and Dude are lucky, though. They've both got dogs."
"I have a dog," said Zig Zag, glancing wearily at his cards. "Big ole Great Pyranees. Used to always get into fights with my tabby cat, though." He sighed. "I don't know if they still fight. They could both be dead now, for all I know. My parents never write to me."
"Well then they're butts," deduced Magnet. "And as for me and pets, you all know how I got here."
"I don't," Hammer said. "Fill me in."
"They wanted a thousand bucks for one puppy," Magnet sobbed. "And I wanted him so badly!!"
"A thousand bucks?!" Hammer cried indignantly. "That's retarded!"
"So I went to the store and stole him," Magnet said. "Well, I tried to, anyway. I would've made it out. . . if my pocket hadn't started barking."
Zig Zag and Ukulele Peanut laughed at Magnet's poor misery.
"OHHHHHHHHH, I BEAT YOU!!!" Starfish yelled, from the other side of the room. "AGAIN! AGAIN!!! YOU SUCK AT POOL, MAN!!"
"Hey!" shouted X-Ray, throwing his cue stick to Armpit (who was next in line to play). "You did NOT just disrupt my ganstah!"
Starfish blinked.
"Never mind."
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"Dude!" Eloisha said, jumping as her fellow juvenile delinquint came into the tent. "What're you doing here?"
"I was hoping to go somewhere private," Dude said, eyeing Eloisha and Zero. "But obviously, I came to the wrong spot. Please excuse me."
"It's okay," Eloisha said, implying that Dude could stay. "I just finished my picture of Zero. It's kind of bad." She tossed it to Dude, who caught it, and laughed.
"It looks really good," Dude said, showing it to Zero. He nodded.
"It's terrible," Eloisha sighed dramatically.
"You're fishing for compliments," Dude and Zero said in unison. The three of them laughed, then Dude held out her pinky. Zero stared at her. "Come on, you don't know this?" Dude asked him. "Every time you say something at the same time as someone else (and it's spontaneous), you link pinkies then say a wish." She looked at him as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Um........right." Awkwardly, Zero made a wish as he linked pinkies with Dude. "What'd you wish for?"
"If she says, it won't come true," Eloisha pointed out.
"No, that's only with wishes on stars," Dude said.
Out of nowhere, Jiminy Cricket bounced into the tent and started singing "When You Wish Upon A Star." Then he vanished.
All crickets except Jiminy chirped.
"Anyway, since this was a pink wish, I can tell you what I wished for," Dude said. "Y'know how Bennifer came to Camp Green Lake?"
"Yeah. . ." said Zero.
"I wished that Amy Lee would come next. What did you wish for?"
"Well. . ."
Suddenly, Eloisha gasped. "LOOK!!!!! IT'S BRUCE WILLIS, MERYL STREEP, AND GOLDIE HAWN!!! AND AMY LEE!!!!!!"
"WHERE?!" Dude shouted, running out of the tent.
"That wasn't very nice," Zero commented.
"But it was true," Eloisha said. "I can see the TV in the Wreck room from here, and it looks like X-Ray's watching a movie with Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, and Goldie Hawn. But the Amy Lee part I made up." She cocked her head to one side. "So what DID you wish for?"
Zero answered, saying, "That I'll be able to learn how to read from a great teacher."
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awwwww, ain't that sweet? (not) eloisha, ur just skipping 2 all the parts that have u in them, dont u? i know u 2 well. and dude--yes!! they were watching death becomes her!! =) and st. no-no......i made squid available 4 u!!!
ok, so now i have a question: if zero were 2 start liking someone, who should it be?
Eloisha, Dude, Ukulele Peanut, or Starfish?
plz review!!!! i am *very* interested in what u have 2 say!!!