Chapter 4 Gabriel and The Letters
To everyone's surprise, Jordan got through digging her hole first.
"You done already?" Zig-Zag asked.
"Yup," she said, nodding her head.
"That was fast. Did you dig like you were supposed to?" X-ray asked.
"Yup," she replied again.
"Don't forget to spit in your hole, chicka," Magnet said.
"Spit in it?!"
"Yeah, just spit in it."
"Okay." She coughed up a big loogie and spit it into the hole. Then she walked to camp before anyone could say anything else to her. X-ray measured her hole to make sure she didn't cheat. Sure enough, it was 5 feet deep and 5 feet in diameter.
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Jordan was in the Rec Room, and within 20 minutes, the guys were piling in there.
"You a knew guy?" one kid asked.
"Yeah. Why."
"Just wondering. I didn't think I ever saw you before." Jordan looked up at the boy, but quickly looked away. 'He's cute,' she thought to herself. She turned beet red. She kept imagining his dirty blonde hair and what made her blush the most was that he had his shirt off. He looked real muscular and she couldn't stop thinking of it.
"So, what's your name?" he asked, sitting beside her.
"Jordan."
"That doesn't fit your mexican accent too well."
"I know. Everyone tells me that. What's your name?"
"Gabriel."
"Oh, cool."
"Jordan! There you are!" X-ray called to her. 'Oh, great,' she thought. 'Just when I was making a friend.'
"Jordan! There's a meeting in D-tent! C'mon, Magnet asked me to come get you."
"You're in D-tent?" Gabriel asked as Jordan was getting up. "Cool. I'm in C-tent."
"Yeah, cool." She left still thinking about Gabriel.
"Jordan! Why were you hitting on that guy? You know Squid and Magnet like you!"
"Okay, number 1, I wasn't hitting on that guy, we were just talking. Being friendly. Number 2, just because they like me, don't mean I gotta like 'em back!"
"You do, don't you, though?"
"Yeah," she replied quietly.
"That's what I thought." When they got to D-tent, the only person that was in there was Magnet. "You two set me up! There ain't no meeting!"
"Duh!" X-ray said, being a smart ass. "Bye! Yall have fun, now, you hear?" With that he walked out, leaving Magnet and Jordan alone.
"Come over here, please, I want to talk to you," Magnet said, patting the spot on the cot beside him.
"Okay." She walked over there and sat down. "Que pasa?"
"Nothing."
"Well, you didn't get me to come in here for nothing, did you?"
"No. Do you like me or Squid?"
"Do I hafta like either one of you?"
"No, I don't guess, but I figured-"
"You figured what?"
"Well, you didn't stop me from kissing you. And you didn't stop Squid from kissing you, either."
"Oh, I figured yall haven't seen a girl in so long, yall just wanted a kiss. Nothing serious, so I tried not to like it."
"Oh."
"That don't mean I didn't, though."
"How'd you get done digging your hole so fast?" he asked, changing the subject.
She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know."
"Usually, new people don't get done til well after everyone else is."
"I'm used to hard work and things like that."
"Oh."
"I'm tough, plus I'm in gymnastics class, so every day we do push-ups, crunches, run, different things like that."
"Oh, let me see your hands." She looked at him, confused, but let him see the palms of her hands. When he looked at them, they were barely even blistered. "How are your hands so tough?"
"Well, do you know what uneven bars are?" He nodded after a while and she said, "Well, we're supposed to put chalk on our hands when we get on there. I never do, so my hands got real bad blistered at first, but after a while, they toughened up."
"Oh." Jordan could tell he didn't have a clue at what she was talking about. She just laughed. "I'll explain some other time."
"Okay." He gave her a grateful look and she laughed again. 'He looks so cute when he does that.'
"What's so funny?" he asked, confused.
"Nothing. You just look so cute when you give that look you just gave me!"
"You mean like this?" he asked, and repeated the look. She grinned and said, "That's the one!"
Magnet laughed. "It's my specialty."
"You know what my specialty is?" she asked. He shook his head and she gave him the puppy dog look.
"That's pitiful," he said laughing.
"I know, isn't it? I almost always get my way when I have that look with me!" she said laughing. She stared him in the eyes and thought, 'Oh no, not this again.' She tore her eyes away from his and stared at the ground.
"Was that kiss real? Last night, I mean," she asked him.
He looked at her surprised. "Yeah. I mean, to me it was." She hugged him, tight. "Thanks." She walked out of the tent, X-ray coming in.
"What happened?" he asked Magnet.
"I think she likes me, but I'm not for sure."
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Jordan walked into the Rec Room, but she no sooner got through the entrance, and someone grabbed her roughly by the arm. She whipped around and saw it was Mr. Sir.
"Yes, Mr. Sir?"
"The Warden wishes to see you."
"Umm.." she gulped, "Okay." She followed Mr. Sir to the Warden's cabin. The Warden opened the door and said, "Mr. Sir, you may go."
"But-"
"Goodbye!"
"Bye." He placed his cowboy hat on his head and left.
"Well, c'mon in! Don't let the cold air out!" Jordan walked into her cabin, and for the first time all day, took her hat off.
"Have a seat," the Warden said, nodding towards the couch.
"Yes'm." She walked over to the couch and sat down.
"Jordan, I watched at how you worked today, and I liked it."
"Okay."
"I'm going to be sending for some more girls, so you can go ahead and take your cap off, let everyone know your little secret, or wait until tomorrow."
"Yes'm."
"Oh and Jordan."
"Ma'am?"
"Who do you like?"
"Excuse me?"
"Who do you like. You're here in a camp full of boys. You hafta like at least one boy."
"Are you sure you want to listen?"
"I have nothing better to do all day."
"Okay, I like Squid, Magnet, and a boy from C-tent named Gabriel."
"Okay. I'll keep an eye out. You know, just to see if they like to 'watch' you."
"Um.... er... okay, thanks, I guess," she replied nervously.
"That's all. You may go."
"Thanks."
Jordan left thankfully and still thinking about the dreams she had last night. TWITCH was even in one of them, but she didn't like him, right? 'Oh well. If I do, my life can be even more damn confusing than it already is.'
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The Rec Room was full with people as usual. Jordan walked in (still wearing her cap) and sat down on the couch, next to Gabriel. "Hey," she said.
"Sup?"
"Can I talk to you outside?"
"Sure, I guess." The walked outside and Jordan said, "I'd think we'll get more peace in a tent. C'mon, we can go to mine."
"Alright." They walked inside D-tent, and just as Jordan had hoped, it was empty.
"Gabriel, I'm not who you think I am."
"Umm...." he said, looking uneasy. She took her cap off and let her brown hair fall to her shoulders. Gabriel stared at her in shock.
"I'm a girl, not a guy."
"Oh. Is your real name Jordan?"
"Yeah, it is."
"Okay."
"C'mon, we can go outside now. I just didn't want everyone to freak out all at once."
"Are you the only one?"
"The only one that's here. More are coming tomorrow."
"Awww.... Snap!" She laughed at him. "You sure fooled me." He glanced at her and said uneasily, "You don't expect anything to, uh, happen, do you?"
"Huh? Oh, no! I don't, I actually only expect us to be friends."
"Oh, okay. Just checking. I mean, I don't want their to be any tension or hatred between us."
"No, none at all."
"Okay. So...... you got a boyfriend?"
"Nope. You got a girlfriend."
"Uh-uh."
"Oh." They walked outside, Jordan not wearing her hat anymore, and they were holding hands without realizing it. Guys were staring at Jordan as though she was an angel, or even an alien that had grown an extra head. Jordan finally looked down and realized that they're hands were laced together and she pulled away. They still walked to the Rec Room together, just not hand-in-hand.
Jordan walked into the room and walked right over to where the D-tent gang was standing/sitting, Gabriel close behind. Every guy in their was staring at her, and she was getting annoyed by it.
"Hey guys, this is Gabriel, he's from C-tent."
"Jordan! Why do you have your hat off?!" Squid asked.
"Some more girls are coming tomorrow. The Warden said I could take my hat off."
"Oh."
"Aren't you guys gonna say hi?" she asked getting annoyed.
"You two..... going together?" Magnet asked.
"No. Augh! I can't believe I thought you guys would actually be NICE and say a simple HI to someone!" She looked at Gabriel and smiled. "I don't know these people," she said sweetly.
"Whatever," he laughed, then walked away. Jordan walked over to where Twitch was sitting and sat on his lap.
"What are you do-" he started, but she interrupted him. "I'm sitting."
"Well, I know that but-"
"I was tired from standing all day," she said, grinning. She glanced up at Squid and Magnet, who looked equally uncomfortable.
"Jordan Roberts?" Jordan turned around to see Mr. Pendanski smiling goofily at her.
"Yes?"
"I have a letter for you."
"Umm... thanks."
"Boys, I have a letter for each of you." The boys, looking confused, took the letters. They were from Zero.
"How'd we get the letters already?" Stanley asked.
"He wrote the day he left and put the letters in the mailbox. They ended up here this morning," Mom replied.
"Oh, okay." The truth was, he didn't care how they got there so quick, he was just happy to hear from him. They were all reading their letters, when Jordan started to jump up and down, yelping and yelling, "yes! Yes! Yes!" She ran to D-tent as fast as she could, everyone staring at her. The guys in every tent but D was still in awe that a girl was at their camp.
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Jordan jumped onto her cot, grabbed a piece of paper and pencil, and got to work on a letter. Squid came running in after her, Magnet, Zig-Zag, and Armpit close behind.
"Yo, what's up, chicka?" Magnet asked.
"It's a letter from my mom! She sent it like 2 days before I came here! She's having another boy! YAY! They're naming it JOEY! AFTER MY BEST FRIEND! I'M SO HAPPY!" She ran over to the guys and hugged each of them. Squid looked happy, Magnet looked overjoyed, and Armpit looked confused. "And look! There's a letter from JOEY! He wrote me!" She squealed with happiness and hugged the guys again. Right then, the rest of D-tent came running in there, Gabriel and some other boys she didn't know close behind.
"Why were you so happy, Jordan?" Gabriel asked.
"My mom and Joey, my best friend, wrote me! My mom is going to have a boy in 4 months! YAY!" she ran up to the rest of the guys, even the ones she didn't know, and hugged them. She stopped jumping all the sudden and said, "Who are you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. Jordan this is Max, Jeremy, and Brad."
"Hey!"she said perky.
"Sup?"
"Hi'ya."
"Hey." Max, Jeremy, and Brad just stared at her. She stared back and said, "Oooh, I like staring contests!" They all laughed.
"So, are you the only girl here?" Jeremy asked.
"Yeah. Tomorrow more are coming, though."
"Thank god!" Max said.
"Yeah! You're hot and all, but Gabe claims you. I can't hit on his chick!" Brad said exitedly.
"Claims her?!" Squid asked, furious.
"His CHICK?!" Magnet asked, glaring.
"I'm not yours!" Jordan said, glaring at them both.
"You're not mine, either, though," Gabriel said in a hushed voice.
"That don't give them the right to get mad, just because you said something about me!" Jordan snapped at him.
"He called you his chick!" Magnet argued.
"And he CLAIMED YOU!" Squid yelled.
"YOU TWO DID THE VERY SAME THING!" she shot back.
"NU-UH!" they yelled at the same time.
"SORRY, BUT YOUR FRIENDS ALREADY RATTED YOU OUT!" Noone noticed Gabriel had left. Jordan whipped around and said, "C'mon, Gabriel! I wanna talk..... to....... you. Where'd he go?"
Max, Jeremy, and Brad just shrugged. Jordan ran outside after him, but he was nowhere to be seen. A tear had unexpectedly rolled down her cheek. 'He's mad at me. I know it!'
A/N: hope you liked it! :D please r/r!
To everyone's surprise, Jordan got through digging her hole first.
"You done already?" Zig-Zag asked.
"Yup," she said, nodding her head.
"That was fast. Did you dig like you were supposed to?" X-ray asked.
"Yup," she replied again.
"Don't forget to spit in your hole, chicka," Magnet said.
"Spit in it?!"
"Yeah, just spit in it."
"Okay." She coughed up a big loogie and spit it into the hole. Then she walked to camp before anyone could say anything else to her. X-ray measured her hole to make sure she didn't cheat. Sure enough, it was 5 feet deep and 5 feet in diameter.
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Jordan was in the Rec Room, and within 20 minutes, the guys were piling in there.
"You a knew guy?" one kid asked.
"Yeah. Why."
"Just wondering. I didn't think I ever saw you before." Jordan looked up at the boy, but quickly looked away. 'He's cute,' she thought to herself. She turned beet red. She kept imagining his dirty blonde hair and what made her blush the most was that he had his shirt off. He looked real muscular and she couldn't stop thinking of it.
"So, what's your name?" he asked, sitting beside her.
"Jordan."
"That doesn't fit your mexican accent too well."
"I know. Everyone tells me that. What's your name?"
"Gabriel."
"Oh, cool."
"Jordan! There you are!" X-ray called to her. 'Oh, great,' she thought. 'Just when I was making a friend.'
"Jordan! There's a meeting in D-tent! C'mon, Magnet asked me to come get you."
"You're in D-tent?" Gabriel asked as Jordan was getting up. "Cool. I'm in C-tent."
"Yeah, cool." She left still thinking about Gabriel.
"Jordan! Why were you hitting on that guy? You know Squid and Magnet like you!"
"Okay, number 1, I wasn't hitting on that guy, we were just talking. Being friendly. Number 2, just because they like me, don't mean I gotta like 'em back!"
"You do, don't you, though?"
"Yeah," she replied quietly.
"That's what I thought." When they got to D-tent, the only person that was in there was Magnet. "You two set me up! There ain't no meeting!"
"Duh!" X-ray said, being a smart ass. "Bye! Yall have fun, now, you hear?" With that he walked out, leaving Magnet and Jordan alone.
"Come over here, please, I want to talk to you," Magnet said, patting the spot on the cot beside him.
"Okay." She walked over there and sat down. "Que pasa?"
"Nothing."
"Well, you didn't get me to come in here for nothing, did you?"
"No. Do you like me or Squid?"
"Do I hafta like either one of you?"
"No, I don't guess, but I figured-"
"You figured what?"
"Well, you didn't stop me from kissing you. And you didn't stop Squid from kissing you, either."
"Oh, I figured yall haven't seen a girl in so long, yall just wanted a kiss. Nothing serious, so I tried not to like it."
"Oh."
"That don't mean I didn't, though."
"How'd you get done digging your hole so fast?" he asked, changing the subject.
She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know."
"Usually, new people don't get done til well after everyone else is."
"I'm used to hard work and things like that."
"Oh."
"I'm tough, plus I'm in gymnastics class, so every day we do push-ups, crunches, run, different things like that."
"Oh, let me see your hands." She looked at him, confused, but let him see the palms of her hands. When he looked at them, they were barely even blistered. "How are your hands so tough?"
"Well, do you know what uneven bars are?" He nodded after a while and she said, "Well, we're supposed to put chalk on our hands when we get on there. I never do, so my hands got real bad blistered at first, but after a while, they toughened up."
"Oh." Jordan could tell he didn't have a clue at what she was talking about. She just laughed. "I'll explain some other time."
"Okay." He gave her a grateful look and she laughed again. 'He looks so cute when he does that.'
"What's so funny?" he asked, confused.
"Nothing. You just look so cute when you give that look you just gave me!"
"You mean like this?" he asked, and repeated the look. She grinned and said, "That's the one!"
Magnet laughed. "It's my specialty."
"You know what my specialty is?" she asked. He shook his head and she gave him the puppy dog look.
"That's pitiful," he said laughing.
"I know, isn't it? I almost always get my way when I have that look with me!" she said laughing. She stared him in the eyes and thought, 'Oh no, not this again.' She tore her eyes away from his and stared at the ground.
"Was that kiss real? Last night, I mean," she asked him.
He looked at her surprised. "Yeah. I mean, to me it was." She hugged him, tight. "Thanks." She walked out of the tent, X-ray coming in.
"What happened?" he asked Magnet.
"I think she likes me, but I'm not for sure."
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Jordan walked into the Rec Room, but she no sooner got through the entrance, and someone grabbed her roughly by the arm. She whipped around and saw it was Mr. Sir.
"Yes, Mr. Sir?"
"The Warden wishes to see you."
"Umm.." she gulped, "Okay." She followed Mr. Sir to the Warden's cabin. The Warden opened the door and said, "Mr. Sir, you may go."
"But-"
"Goodbye!"
"Bye." He placed his cowboy hat on his head and left.
"Well, c'mon in! Don't let the cold air out!" Jordan walked into her cabin, and for the first time all day, took her hat off.
"Have a seat," the Warden said, nodding towards the couch.
"Yes'm." She walked over to the couch and sat down.
"Jordan, I watched at how you worked today, and I liked it."
"Okay."
"I'm going to be sending for some more girls, so you can go ahead and take your cap off, let everyone know your little secret, or wait until tomorrow."
"Yes'm."
"Oh and Jordan."
"Ma'am?"
"Who do you like?"
"Excuse me?"
"Who do you like. You're here in a camp full of boys. You hafta like at least one boy."
"Are you sure you want to listen?"
"I have nothing better to do all day."
"Okay, I like Squid, Magnet, and a boy from C-tent named Gabriel."
"Okay. I'll keep an eye out. You know, just to see if they like to 'watch' you."
"Um.... er... okay, thanks, I guess," she replied nervously.
"That's all. You may go."
"Thanks."
Jordan left thankfully and still thinking about the dreams she had last night. TWITCH was even in one of them, but she didn't like him, right? 'Oh well. If I do, my life can be even more damn confusing than it already is.'
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The Rec Room was full with people as usual. Jordan walked in (still wearing her cap) and sat down on the couch, next to Gabriel. "Hey," she said.
"Sup?"
"Can I talk to you outside?"
"Sure, I guess." The walked outside and Jordan said, "I'd think we'll get more peace in a tent. C'mon, we can go to mine."
"Alright." They walked inside D-tent, and just as Jordan had hoped, it was empty.
"Gabriel, I'm not who you think I am."
"Umm...." he said, looking uneasy. She took her cap off and let her brown hair fall to her shoulders. Gabriel stared at her in shock.
"I'm a girl, not a guy."
"Oh. Is your real name Jordan?"
"Yeah, it is."
"Okay."
"C'mon, we can go outside now. I just didn't want everyone to freak out all at once."
"Are you the only one?"
"The only one that's here. More are coming tomorrow."
"Awww.... Snap!" She laughed at him. "You sure fooled me." He glanced at her and said uneasily, "You don't expect anything to, uh, happen, do you?"
"Huh? Oh, no! I don't, I actually only expect us to be friends."
"Oh, okay. Just checking. I mean, I don't want their to be any tension or hatred between us."
"No, none at all."
"Okay. So...... you got a boyfriend?"
"Nope. You got a girlfriend."
"Uh-uh."
"Oh." They walked outside, Jordan not wearing her hat anymore, and they were holding hands without realizing it. Guys were staring at Jordan as though she was an angel, or even an alien that had grown an extra head. Jordan finally looked down and realized that they're hands were laced together and she pulled away. They still walked to the Rec Room together, just not hand-in-hand.
Jordan walked into the room and walked right over to where the D-tent gang was standing/sitting, Gabriel close behind. Every guy in their was staring at her, and she was getting annoyed by it.
"Hey guys, this is Gabriel, he's from C-tent."
"Jordan! Why do you have your hat off?!" Squid asked.
"Some more girls are coming tomorrow. The Warden said I could take my hat off."
"Oh."
"Aren't you guys gonna say hi?" she asked getting annoyed.
"You two..... going together?" Magnet asked.
"No. Augh! I can't believe I thought you guys would actually be NICE and say a simple HI to someone!" She looked at Gabriel and smiled. "I don't know these people," she said sweetly.
"Whatever," he laughed, then walked away. Jordan walked over to where Twitch was sitting and sat on his lap.
"What are you do-" he started, but she interrupted him. "I'm sitting."
"Well, I know that but-"
"I was tired from standing all day," she said, grinning. She glanced up at Squid and Magnet, who looked equally uncomfortable.
"Jordan Roberts?" Jordan turned around to see Mr. Pendanski smiling goofily at her.
"Yes?"
"I have a letter for you."
"Umm... thanks."
"Boys, I have a letter for each of you." The boys, looking confused, took the letters. They were from Zero.
"How'd we get the letters already?" Stanley asked.
"He wrote the day he left and put the letters in the mailbox. They ended up here this morning," Mom replied.
"Oh, okay." The truth was, he didn't care how they got there so quick, he was just happy to hear from him. They were all reading their letters, when Jordan started to jump up and down, yelping and yelling, "yes! Yes! Yes!" She ran to D-tent as fast as she could, everyone staring at her. The guys in every tent but D was still in awe that a girl was at their camp.
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Jordan jumped onto her cot, grabbed a piece of paper and pencil, and got to work on a letter. Squid came running in after her, Magnet, Zig-Zag, and Armpit close behind.
"Yo, what's up, chicka?" Magnet asked.
"It's a letter from my mom! She sent it like 2 days before I came here! She's having another boy! YAY! They're naming it JOEY! AFTER MY BEST FRIEND! I'M SO HAPPY!" She ran over to the guys and hugged each of them. Squid looked happy, Magnet looked overjoyed, and Armpit looked confused. "And look! There's a letter from JOEY! He wrote me!" She squealed with happiness and hugged the guys again. Right then, the rest of D-tent came running in there, Gabriel and some other boys she didn't know close behind.
"Why were you so happy, Jordan?" Gabriel asked.
"My mom and Joey, my best friend, wrote me! My mom is going to have a boy in 4 months! YAY!" she ran up to the rest of the guys, even the ones she didn't know, and hugged them. She stopped jumping all the sudden and said, "Who are you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. Jordan this is Max, Jeremy, and Brad."
"Hey!"she said perky.
"Sup?"
"Hi'ya."
"Hey." Max, Jeremy, and Brad just stared at her. She stared back and said, "Oooh, I like staring contests!" They all laughed.
"So, are you the only girl here?" Jeremy asked.
"Yeah. Tomorrow more are coming, though."
"Thank god!" Max said.
"Yeah! You're hot and all, but Gabe claims you. I can't hit on his chick!" Brad said exitedly.
"Claims her?!" Squid asked, furious.
"His CHICK?!" Magnet asked, glaring.
"I'm not yours!" Jordan said, glaring at them both.
"You're not mine, either, though," Gabriel said in a hushed voice.
"That don't give them the right to get mad, just because you said something about me!" Jordan snapped at him.
"He called you his chick!" Magnet argued.
"And he CLAIMED YOU!" Squid yelled.
"YOU TWO DID THE VERY SAME THING!" she shot back.
"NU-UH!" they yelled at the same time.
"SORRY, BUT YOUR FRIENDS ALREADY RATTED YOU OUT!" Noone noticed Gabriel had left. Jordan whipped around and said, "C'mon, Gabriel! I wanna talk..... to....... you. Where'd he go?"
Max, Jeremy, and Brad just shrugged. Jordan ran outside after him, but he was nowhere to be seen. A tear had unexpectedly rolled down her cheek. 'He's mad at me. I know it!'
A/N: hope you liked it! :D please r/r!