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Zigzag whipped this sweat off his face, and took a sip from his water jug. He was a foot into his hole, behind from the rest of the D-tent boys (with the exception of Armpit, who was always behind), for one main reason: He was still thinking of that dream he had had last night. And if he had thought that was weird enough, Squid had the same dream, same time, same detail..same everything.
"Hey, Ziggy, lagging a little bit on your hole?" Armpit chuckled. X-ray looked up rolling his eyes,
"I wouldn't be talking." Armpit's face fell serious, and he continued digging. Zigzag laughed quietly.
"You know, I wouldn't be lagging behind if you Squiddy woulda kept quite last night." Armpit said, his voice solemn.
"Yeah, what was up with that?" X-ray asked. He stood erect, yet partially leaning on his shovel, staring at the two boys that wouldn't look him the eyes.
"Nothin'." Zigzag muttered, digging his shovel into the ground, and then throwing the sand out into the rising pile.
"Yeah, I'm sure on that." Magnet snickered, "And someday Mr. Sir will become a man…tell us the truth!"
"Nothin' was wrong!" Zigzag insisted. He glowered at the dirt below, then begging God, or whoever was up there, to tell them to stop asking that question.
"C'mon! Tell us!"
"Nothin!!!!" Squid yelled, "Nothin' was wrong, got that?!" Silence. Each boy took their turn staring at the angry boy. And the rest of the afternoon was spent quite.
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Dinner came later than all had hoped. With the silence weighing on them all, the time had gone by slowly. So slowly, in fact, that the minutes felt like hours, and the hours felt like days…so slow.
Squid stared at the beans in his plate. He could never give up his hope in having something else besides beans for supper. He never really like them, anyway. But, he needed to eat, right?
"You can talk now, ya know?" Squid spat out. He was fed up with the silence. X-ray nodded, yet all still remained quiet. Zigzag kept his eyes down cast, and Magnet made a small,
"MmmHmm." It was another 5 minutes before X-ray spoke up.
"What really happened?" Squid and Zigzag glanced quickly at each other before Squid answered,
"Just had a nightmare, s'all." Zigzag nodded in agreement.
"The same one?" Armpit asked quietly.
"..no." Squid answered.
"What was it about?" Magnet inquired. Zigzag rolled his eyes secretly,
"The lizards." Squid giggled quietly at that remark. X-ray raised an eyebrow.
"Nightmare that funny?" Squid's face turned quickly back to expressionless. X-ray nodded,
"You're lying."
"Am not!-" Squid protested, but was cut off by X-rays look.
"Don't lie to me man, you're bad at it." Squid glared at the leader of D-tent.
"That's what I thought." X-ray grinned, "Tell me, now."
"Why-" Zigzag began.
"Cuz I said so. If somethin' is happening in D-tent, and it's ruining either your sleep, or you life, I wanna know about it."
"It's not ruining anything!" Squid gawked. X-ray rolled his eyes.
"Shut up, man. Tell me."
"It's just a silly nightmare." Zigzag admitted. Squid looked downwards.
"Nightmares aren't silly." Magnet offered his support for his friends.
"It was nothin' really. Me and Squid just got hurt."
"And you both had the same exact dream?" Armpit raised his eyebrow in surprise.
"I donno if it was the same, but it was awful close…anyway, we just got hit by the watertruck."
X-ray burst out laughing, "That was random."
Zigzag glowered at X-ray, "I'm serious!...scared the hell out of both of us!" X-ray's face softened,
"Sorry. But the watertruck?" Squid nodded and Zigzag agreed.
"Yeah, and then we both woke up, talked for awhile, and that's when you guys woke up, I guess."
"Ain't that somethin'." Magnet commented.
"So…now that your curiousity is satisfied, can I go back to eating?" Zigzag questioned. The boys nodded and went back to their meals.
Why did Zig have to tell them that? Squid thought to himself fiersly. Zigzag looked up with surprise, concentraiting hard.
Cuz…Squid looked up immidatly, Zigzag's familiar voice intruding this thoughts.
Zig?
Squid? Squid starting shaking—actually both of them starting shaking.
You can hear me??
…Yeah. Zigzag dropped his fork to his plate. The boys noticed, and looked at the two boys who were staring at each other.
Squid, hold up 2 fingers. Shakily, two fingers protruded from his fist. Squid closed his eyes briefly.
"Oh, man…I think I'm hearing voices…maybe I just need to go to bed." Squid started to get up from his seat, when Zigzag's hand stopped him.
Zigzag? Man, this isn't you, is it? Zigzag nodded.
Say 'Hello'. Squid thought.
"Hello." The boys, still looking, were even more confused at this point
Say 'Squid'
"Squid."
'I hate beans.'
"I hate beans."
'I'm a dork.'
Zigzag laughed aloud and repeated, "I'm a dork."
No, no, no, no, no. This couldn't be happening!
"No, no, no, no-"
"No! You don't understand! You can hear me!" Squid shouted. The entire dinner room, hearing the comment, looked over to the D table.
"You can fuckin' hear me, and that's not normal!" Squid, frightened as all-get-out, fled the room, Zigzag hot on his trails.
"Man, stop." He shouted just as they got inside their tent.
"What the hell is wrong with me?" Squid groaned, dropping down onto his cot.
"Nothing's wrong Squid. Just listen." Zigzag paced slowly back and forth, "'Member the time I was just aimlessly singing the dig song?" Squid nodded.
"Well, I guess that could be the first time I've heard you. There have been times before…well just jumbled, but that's beside the point."
"So we can hear each other?" Squid questioned quietly. It was, this time, Zigzag's turn to nod.
"Yeah."
And, finally, Squid smiled, "Cool."
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Hmm, nothin much to say here. Just REVIEW! I love reviews. Well, except flames, but if you do send a flame, please make it constructive.
Unlike another story I had, someone just said, "you suck. Goodnight". I was like, what the hell?
Anyway, hope you liked this chapter!
~B.