Thorne's P.O.V.
I worked my way through the crowd. I slid by Robyn who pressed a large rock into my hand. Silently I thanked her. When I reached the middle of the crowd X-Ray came through on the other side. He positioned himself between a few of the other boys and Zigzag. I stood between Ziggy and the leader of A-Tent; a tall 300 pound, 6'8" boy called Vicious. I pressed the rock into Zigzag's hand. He balled up his fist around it. I put my hands on his shoulders and tried to give him a reassuring smile. "Calm down," I told him. Then I patted him on the cheek and turned around to face Vicious.
"Hey Vicky, whats up?" I asked him. (His real name is Victor.) He gave me a look that could turn someone to stone. I tried hard not to tremble. This guy was a lot bigger than me.180 pounds and 9 inches bigger than me. Plus, he had backup.
"Don't call me Vicky," he said roughly. I gave him a cool smile.
"Sure, what's going on VICIOUS?" I asked him. He smirked.
"If you'll move out of the way," he said spitting out his words like they were an awful taste, "I would beat your FRIEND," he said friend like it was a venom, "into the ground." I gave him a wry look.
"Why?" I asked him. He looked like he wanted nothing better to strangle me at that moment.
"Because the little...punk, ran into me," he said. I laughed.
"That's it?" I asked him. He gave me an evil look. "For God's sake," I said.
"Let me finish," he said coldly. "I told him to 'watch it' and he told me to watch a mirror and see if it breaks." I hid a smile. I heard someone laughing behind me. "Then, I called him Mr. Bobblehead and he said that I was full of compliments today." I tilted my head to the side.
"Well, I understand why HE got mad." Vicious looked like he was about to strangle me again. I inched back a little.
"Then I said that he was a psychopath and that he was in love with a prissy, pretty, wimpy, stupid, rich girl who called herself 'Thorne' and he freaked out and grabbed me by the throat," he said. I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hurt him. How DARE he call me wimpy and prissy? He didn't know what it was like to be in my family with such high expectations. I hit him as hard as I could in the nose. He staggered and held his hand up to defend himself. Blood dripped everywhere. Slowly, sickeningly. He put his hand over it. "Priss likes a psycho," he said, ignoring his injury in order to get the ball really rolling. Then he lunged at me. Squid caught him by one arm and Zigzag grabbed him by the other. The kids not in A or D tent backed away, they weren't about to get caught up in this fight. Vicious pulled away and hit Squid in the eye, knocking him down. One of the boys from A-Tent grabbed Zigzag by the throat. Zigzag dropped the rock he had in his hand and Robyn scampered under a few people's legs to get it. She threw it at Vicious who was moving in on Squid again and put him out of comission for a few seconds.I lunged at the boy who was choking Zigzag and knocked him over. He let go of Zig and tried to get back up but X-Ray and Armpit joined in the fray, keeping him down. I grabbed Zigzag's wrist and coaxed him over to the steps of the Mess Hall.
I saw Mr. Sir coming out of his office. I let go of Zigzag's wrist and shouted "MR. SIR!!" Immediatley everyone stopped fighting and dropped to the ground as if I'd yelled "Duck and cover!!" instead. He turned around to face us.
"WHAT?" He shouted.
"Just glad to see you is all!" I replied in a high, cheerful voice. He walked over toward the group of boys and Robyn and I and spat some sunflower seeds out.
"What happened to you Girl Scouts?" He asked us.
"We were playing a game...Twister" I told him. He spat sunflower seeds out beside my feet.
"Well, don't play it again," he ordered and stomped off. The A tent boys headed towards A Tent and the rest headed towards the Wreck Room, we headed toward our tents.
"Twister?" X-Ray asked. Everyone laughed nervously.
