Chapter 5

*~!~The Warden and The Cops~!~*

The next day, after Squid was done digging his hole, he walked over to Rattler's hole and offered his help.

"No, that's okay. I'm fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive," she replied, bleakly.

"Fine." He turned around and started to walk back to the tent.

"Squid?"

"What?" he asked hastily, turning around

"Will you stay, anyways?"

"I don't know," he said, hesitantly. She pouted, and he gave in. "Fine. I will."

"Okay. Thanks."

There was silence for a while, then Rattler said, "So... about last night..."

"See? That's why I didn't want to stay out here! I knew you were going to talk about that!" he yelled, jumping up.

"I'm sorry! I just wondered why you didn't like it!"

"What d'ya mean? I liked it just fine! It was YOU who kept telling everyone, 'No! I still don't like him! He's an old hick!'"

"IT'S TRUE, THEN! YOU DID LIKE IT!"

"YEAH, BUT YOU DIDN'T!"

"I never said I didn't," her voice, going soft.

"Yeah, you did."

"I didn't tell you that, though. Just like you didn't tell me til just now."

"Well...." he was shifting, feeling more and more uneasy by the minute. Everyone else was finished with their hole, so they were the only two out there.

"I just.... I'm really.... I don't know. I didn't expect to meet someone.... at a juvie camp."

"What's so wrong with me?" he asked offended. "Just because someone's at a juvie camp, they're automatically undatable?"

"NO! I DIDN'T SAY THAT! YOU'RE TAKING THIS ALL OUT OF PER PORTION! THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! IN FACT, IF YOU HAVE BEEN PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO ME, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT I LIKE BAD BOYS!" she screamed at the top of her longs, frustrated with him.

"God, Rattler! Why are you so pissed? I asked one question!"

"I'm pissed because of you! I'm so damn tired of you!"

"Same here!" he spat, and walked to the tent.

"He's such a bastard," she mumbled under her breath as he walked off. She was finished with her hole within 5 minutes of Squid leaving.

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"Squid, man! Why are you two STILL going at it?" Armpit asked.

"Because she's an annoying little whore," he simply replied.

"Squid! Don't say that! That's not nice!" Rattler said playfully, walking in on the conversation. "I know I'm beautiful, and thank you SO much, Squiddy-kins, for making me the center of your world, talking about me like you are!" she said cheerfully, walking to her cot.

"Whatever," he said, rolling his eyes.

"Squidly! Why is she SO mean to you?" Jade asked, gripping his arm tightly.

"She's not the one trying to cut off my circulation!!" he yelled, throwing her off of his arm, onto the floor.

"Yall are so full of it!" Natasha said, rolling her eyes.

"Just last night, yall were making out, now yall are trying to bite each other's heads off, again!" Twitch said, agreeing.

"We were caught up in the heat of the moment," Rattler replied, her voice dark with hatred. "That's all."

"Squid, man! She's beautiful!" Armpit yelled. "Why are you so mean to her?"

"I already told you why," he snapped.

"I'm going to the Mess Hall!" Rattler said. "Tank, would you care to go with me?" she asked playfully, holding her arm out. Tank jumped up and hooked their arms together. "Let's go, baby!" They walked out, all the guys staring at them in bewilderment.

"Are they....." Caveman asked slowly, not able to finish his sentence, because he didn't know HOW to finish his sentence.

Natasha and Narcissa laughed. "Naw! They play like that all the time! Believe me, they like guys, and only guys!" Narcissa said.

"Oh," X-ray said, a little disappointed.

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After supper, everyone was sitting on the floor in a circle about to go to bed. As everyone was walking to their cots, Mom ran in as fast as he could

"Mom, what's up?" Magnet asked.

"The- it's- Mr. Si- I can't- It's just- I mean- no-"

"Woah! Mom! Chill out and tell us what's wrong, dawg!" X-ray said.

"The Warden! She's.... she's...."

"Take deep breath's Mom!" Armpit said.

"She's been bitten by a LIZARD!" Mom fainted shortly after he said that. Everyone looked at one another. Grins quickly spread across their faces. They all started jumping up and down, yelling in joy.

"Oh my god! It's like a dream come true!" X-ray said.

"Squid! Squid!" Rattler yelled, making her way to him. "Do you think we'll be let out?" she asked, her voice full of happiness and hope.

"Baby, I hope so!" he happily replied back. She stared dumbfounded at him. "What?" he asked.

"You called me baby!" she said happily putting her arms around him. He pulled her close to his body, wanting to savor every second. All of the sudden, 12 or 13 cops swarmed in, ruining their happiness.

"You won't take me alive!" Zig-Zag yelled, running like a maniac.

"Get off of me!" Squid yelled, as he struggled to get free.

"Not again!" one of them yelled as he spotted Rattler.

"Hey, Mr. Randy!" Rattler yelled cheerfully. "Come back for more?" She bent down, reached into the boots she was wearing, and pulled out a switchblade.

"Oh, you're not gonna use that thing, are you?" he asked, cautiously walking up to her, eyeing the sharp, shiny metal on it.

"I wouldn't be so sure, if I were you."

"I thought you would have learned your lesson last time, Liz," he said, in a strong, amused voice. He carefully pulled his gun out and pointed it at the knife.

"Oh, shit," she said, her eyes growing big as she saw the gun.

"I'm ready this time, little missy."

"I wouldn't be so sure," she said, running as fast as she could at him. She knew he wouldn't dare shoot that gun. She was dead wrong. But the bullet didn't hit her. It hit Squid. She whipped around and stared at him. He was holding his shoulder, kneeling on the floor yelling in pain. Black Ice screamed and rushed over to him.

Rattler turned on officer Randy Davis. "Mr. Davis! You're gonna pay!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. She pounced at him, took the blade, put it to his arm, and pulled it back, slashing it. He yelled, watching the blood rush down his arm.

Another cop grabbed her by the shoulders, but she managed to get away, slashing the woman's face. She turned back to Mr. Randy, put the blade to a spot right below his chest, and pulled until it reached his belly button. He was covered in more blood. He turned over, Rattler falling to the floor, and he got on all fours. Three cops jumped onto her, pulling her up from the ground.

X-ray attacked one, punching him as hard as he could, but the cop turned to him, and knocked him to his feet. He grabbed one of his arms, twisting it behind his back, then grabbed the other, repeating the step. X-ray was pushed forcefully to the ground, face first, being handcuffed.

Zig-Zag choked the second one, as hard as he could. The third one saw what was happening and helped the woman, her face turning blue.

Rattler was free to go after the injured officer. She jumped on his back, and ripped his shirt with her knife. There was a huge scar on his back the she had made before with her trusty switchblade. She stabbed the tip of the blade as hard as she could into the starting point of the scar, and forcefully reopened it.

Rattler unexpectedly hit the ground with full force, her switchblade fell out of her grasp. She looked up and the woman that was earlier getting choked by Zig-Zag was staring her in the face. Rattler looked dumbfounded and confused at the woman, when she was turned over onto her stomach.

"Bitch!" she screamed, as she tasted a metallic liquid filling her mouth. 'Blood,' she thought, bitterly.

"Liz! I will tell you one last time," the woman said, bringing her out of her thoughts. "Are you willing to give up this fight?!" Rattler didn't realize what the woman was talking about until she noticed that her arms were flailing and her feet were kicking. She went still all at once. Everything went black. She was cold, lonely, and numb. She didn't know what was happening.

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When Rattler became conscious again, she was sitting in a long brown seat with Natasha. She felt like she was moving, but couldn't tell because her head was pounding with pain. "That bitch hit me in the head!" she blurted out. She covered her mouth. She looked around and every seat was full with people, their hands handcuffed to the seat. She looked at hers and noticed she was too.

"Who hit you in the head?" Natasha asked.

"My mom," Rattler said, shaking her head, trying to get it from spinning and pounding so much. She looked beside her and she was also sitting by a window. She looked out and saw nothing but holes. "Are we on the bus?" she asked.

"Your mo-? Yeah. We are," Natasha replied. Rattler looked up again and realized that everyone had either blood, bruises, or cuts all over them. She looked back outside. It was barely turning dark.

"How long have I been out of it, Tasha?" she asked.

"We've only been riding about 3 minutes," Natasha said, glancing at her watch. She looked at Rattler and grinned. "You put up one hell of a fight for your man."

"I guess," Rattler said shrugging. She suddenly remembered something. "HOW IS HE?"

"Who?" Tank asked in the seat in front of her.

"SQUID! IS HE... I MEAN... IS HE OKAY?? DO YALL KNOW? DID YALL SEE?"

"Rattler, calm down," Tiffany said, uneasily, sitting beside Tank. "We... we don't know. We're all hoping for the best."

"WHERE IS HE?!" she screeched and stood up, forgetting about her aching head.

"Sit down, back there!" yelled a voice from the front. It was Mr. Sir. She reluctantly sat down, scowling at him.

"He's in the hospital. He went into ICU," Tank whispered. She glared at the seat across from them. "Black Ice has been fake crying ever since he was shot. If she really care she would have DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT!" she said loud enough, so Black Ice could hear. Rattler turned her gaze to her and also glared.

"Why does she think she owns Squid?" she asked.

"I don't know. He already has a woman."

"I don't disagree," Rattler said, blushing. "I would have never done that for anyone. Except my girls. Or Sean."

"He would have really appreciated what you did for Squid back there," Tank said in a calm, soothing voice.

"Who's Sean?" Armpit asked from the seat behind her.

"My brother."

"Rattler, since we're on the subject of your family," Natasha said, "what was that you were saying about your mom hitting you?"

"You know that woman that Ziggy was choking?" she asked. Everyone nodded and she heard Zig-Zag say, "What about her?" Rattler turned around, and saw that he was sitting next to Armpit.

"That was my mom. She put these damn handcuffs on me!" she said, furiously.

"That was your mom?" X-ray asked from the seat across from Armpit and Zig-Zag. "You two are different. You're in a juvenile camp, and she's a cop."

"That's totally ironic," Regan said in the seat across from Rattler and Natasha.

"Yeah."

"How'd you get like you are with her being a cop?" Tank asked. "Last time I saw her, she wasn't in the field."

"She wasn't when I got thrown in here, either. It's just as shocking to me as it is to yall."

"I wonder why she became one,"Twitch said in the seat in front of Tank and Tiffany.

"I don't know, but I'm gonna ask her."

"How're you gonna do that?" Black Ice asked, listening in on the conversation, mascara smeared down her face.

"Walk up to her and ask her," Rattler said, nodding towards the front of the bus. Everyone turned and saw the woman was sitting beside Mr. Sir.

A/N: Was that good?? I hope so! Please r/r!!! Thanx! LOVE YA!