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Reach for the Stars

Chapter 13

Present

Irish Fairy's eyelids fluttered open. She looked around frantically trying to figure out whre she was. Realizing she was still out on the lake, she sat up and shaded her eyes with her hand. Zig-zag and Zero popped up from the hole that she had been laying next to.

"Feel any better?" Zigzag asked sitting on the edge of the hole next to her.

Fairy nodded, "yeah, I think, but what happened and why are you and Zero digging my hole? And why is Squid digging Zero's hole?" she asked a look of confusion crossed her face.

"You passed out." Squid said as he crawled out of the hole he was currently digging before dropping into the hole with Zero and Zigzag, and started digging again. "So we pitched in to help."

Fairy sighed. "I could have done it myself you know."

Zero snorted and everyone looked at him. "It is almost supper time now." He mumbled blushing embarassed by his own sort of outburst looking back down as he kept digging.

Fairy looked at him. "what does that have to do with who is digging what hole?"

Zigzag laughed. "ready to be confused? Zero's hole was the furthest along, so squid took over digging the rest of mine then Zero's, while I worked on mine and finished Squid's. Zero dug yours. Now we are helping him finish."

Fairy raised an eyebrow. "Why didn't Zero dig Zero's hole, Squid dig Squid's hole, and Zigzag dig Zigzag's hole? And then as you finished up you could then work on my hole. Better yet why didn't you wake me up and let me dig my own hole?"

Squid snorted. "Becasue Zigzag came up with the plan."

Zigzag threw a shovel of dirt at him. "I resent that." Squid just laughed and ignored him returning to his shoveling.

Zero shook his head at the two of them and kept shoveling as Fairy used his shoulder to stand up. She leaned down and picked her own shovel up out of the dirt. Zigzag stood up next to her. "What do you think you are doing?"

"Helping finishing my hole, like Zero said, it is almost dinner time and you can't skip dinner on my account. She dropped into the hole and started digging still weak.

Zigzag sat back down on the edge of the hole and began to study his shovel closely. "do you really think they hide cameras in the shovels?" A pile of dirt hit him in the back of the head.

Back at the camp Magnet was laying on his cot talking to Armpit. "Man why does X hate fairy so much?"

Armpit shrugged. "I don't know dawg, I would almost say, that if it was anybody else, that something about her bring back bad memories of something. But not X-Ray, he is tuff, he doesn't feel."

Magnet sighed and shrugged. "I don't know."

X-Ray hid behind one of the tents, paper and paint spread out in front of him. In his hand he held a picture. In it a beautiful girl that was a few years younger then him was holding his hand and smiling up at him. Her shirt read "World's Best Sister."

X-Ray reached a shaking finger up and traced the girl's face. "Why Dani, why couldn't you tell me what was wrong. Why did you have to do that to me?" Sighing he set the picture down and began to paint.

When he was finished, a pair of hauntingly sad violet eyes stared back at him. "Fairy." he muttered folding up the paper and gathering up his stuff to head back to the tent.

Other Flashback

Star tucked Stehpanie and Sandy into bed and kissed their cheeks. "Jack and I have to go to work now. I want the two of you to take care of each other, we should be back before you wake up."

The girls smiled and nodded their heads, their trusting blue eyes staring up at the teenaged girls believing that they would fix everything. They didn't believe anything thing could happen to them because Jack and Star always made it better.

Star leaned her head on her friends should as they stood on the dark streets. She was tired of life in general, and she knew that if she didn't have Jack and the girls she wouldn't be here still. She couldn't live like this without the motivation they provided.

She lifted her head as she was two potentioal customers approaching. Jack squeezed Star's hand for reasurance before licking her lips and smiling her most seductive smile at the men.

"We want both of you, together." The dirty smelly man said standing in front of them. His creepy smile accented with his visable yellow teeth as he waved the money in front of them.

Both girls nodded and wrapped their arms around each others waists. It wasn't an unusual request. There are after all, some mighty perverted people in this world. They followed the men to a cheep rund down hotel being shoved onto the run down bed as soon as they entered the room.

"Strip each other." The man who had thus far been silent commanded an evil grin upon his face.

The girls complied, their fingers shaking. They only thing that kept them going was the money in the hands of the fat old perverted men adorning evil grins as they watched knowing that they could make the girls do whatever they wanted.

And the girls would do it. The would do anything for a price.

I have to appologize to Trinity and Sweet A.K...it took me close to four months to update this chapter. I found myself for a period of time very unmotivated and such. I tried writting my Squid song fic to help me get past my major case of writters block..but I only recived two reviews. And reviews are what makes the authors motivated and wanting to write more. Although I have to admit i would always faithfuly recieve awesome reviews from both Trinity (whom has a new name, Oberon told me it but i forgot it..so i am using her old name) and Sweet A.K. I happened to let them down. So again I have to appologize. I do not know when I will be able to get the next chapter up. But I have an ending planned and I don't like to leave stories unfinished. So this is my promise I will finish this story. When I don't when, i am starting up school again in a week. But it will be done.