DeathSighter: I'm glad you like my story. Ziggy'll be fun having sunstroke but I'll leave him for later... its Zero's turn!
Nilah Brandybuck: I'll try to make the chapters longer, I'm glad you think I'm improving.
Nosilla: 47 degrees celcius. I live in Scotland, I'm used to COLD! Lol! It's crazy Zero now.
"It's not unusual to be loved by anyone..."
It was roasting hot and getting hotter, it was now almost 70 degrees. Squid was skipping off to get his shovel singing happily.
"Er... you're starting to scare me man," groaned Zigzag. They had all been up half the night, kept awake by Squid and Tom Jones and now they were tired. Caveman rubbed his eyes. Even at Camp Greenlake, even in jail you shouldn't have to be tortured like this.
Eight hours later, midday, the hottest part of the day. Caveman blinked the sweat out of his eyes. Squid had been singing solidly the whole time and hadn't even taken a sip of water. Then it got worse...
"Wow it's hot it's like being on the sun I wonder if it gets any hotter will we vaporize or melt like you'd do on the sun I don't think it's been this hot since I've been here I'm sweating like a pig do pigs even sweat I don't think they do I think its just the mud I wonder why pigs like mud so much I suppose its because its so cool I could do with some mud right now I'm boiling how long have I been here now I think its five months and twelve days that means I've got twelve months and eighteen days to go that's just over a year but if it gets any hotter I might not last that long I might die I wonder if you die will the warden bury you here or send you back to the city to be buried its strange to think that less than six months ago I was running about I laney park and now I'm here digging holes what do you think Stanley?"
It was Zero. Everyone stared. Apart from Stanley, no one had heard him string more than two sentences together. Even Squid stopped singing to stare at him. There was a long silence. It was like the world had stopped. This thought must have occurred to Zero because...
"It's like the world has stopped I wonder if the world ever does stop I suppose we wouldn't notice because we would stop too that would be weird would that mean we'd get older quicker or not I don't know maybe that's why people died younger before now because the world kept stopping maybe only America stops because people die younger in America than Italy and other places except maybe Britain maybe Britain stops too maybe its speaking English that kills you maybe..."
Silence – again. Then...
"My my my Delilah..."
"And then there's the fact that..."
"Aaarrrggghhh!" Zigzag screamed. The others joined in.
"What's going on here?" Mr. Sir pulled up in the water truck, "this ain't a girl scout camp"
"Very good point Mr. Sir, very well made, this ain't a girl Scout camp, thought it'd be cool if it was a boy scout camp because I'd like to be in the boy scouts I like their blue uniforms my mum was in the girl scouts she got a prize for selling the most cookies isn't that cool were you in the boy scouts Mr. Sir?"
"And they call it puppy love..."
Squid had obviously run out of Tom Jones songs and was now starting on Donny Osmand.
Mr. Sir shook his head and drove off in the water truck.
"I think the heat's going to their heads," said X Ray, "They'll have got sun... sun... what's it called?"
"Sunstroke?" supplied Stanley
"That's the one Caveman, sunstroke."
"I feel pretty, oh so pretty..." Zero had apparently taken a leaf out of Squid's book. He had almost finished his hole and it wasn't even lunchtime yet. He and Squid went into a perfectly harmonised version of You Are My Sunshine.
"You are my sunshine..."
"My only sunshine..."
Zigzag looked terrified.
"They're scaring me, it's like they've been taken over by aliens or something."
"Hey, don't you start Zig," X Ray groaned.
"I'm not, I'm just a bit... freaked out."
"hey man, I love you," Squid came dancing up and hugged each of them in turn.
"I want a hug!" demanded Zero and jumped at Armpit, almost knocking him down, quite an achievement for a little guy, even a crazed one.
Stanely groaned, just as Squid and Zero burst into a strange remedition of Happy days.
Ok, that's another chapter, please review and be honest, but not TOO mean.
Woona