[I've been contemplating whether to watch the Holes commentary. Has anyone watched it and is it good? I am so sorry about the delay. The computer caught a virus and has been in the shop for a week. Grr.]
Summer Yelnats looked at her surroundings. She was on an old school bus with the girls that she had grown up with. Alison, Alica, Tiffany, Haylie, Jennifer, Emily, Vanessa, Alexis and Dani. The hot air was heavy around her and not one of the rusty windows was open.
"Nice going, Yelnats!" Haylie shot at her.
"Me? What did I do?"
Emily spoke up. "Leave Summer alone! She didn't do anything!"
"It was her house!" Jennifer retorted.
In the mass confusion of the fight that followed, Summer saw something out the window. Figures of two people waved to her and then they disappeared.
After some time, everyone fell asleep. Summer pulled out her phone, which the person who kidnapped them did not take, and she wrote out a small message to her mother. But before she could hit send, a dirty hand lightly took it.
"I'll take that." She looked up to see her kidnapper smirking as he turned her phone off, let it fall to the floor and squashed it with his foot.
She snarled. "Who are you?"
"You will know soon enough." He walked back to the front of the bus and turned around. "Everyone off the bus." With a few grumbles, the girls shouldered their purses and got off the bus.
Their kidnapper came out and stood in front of them.
[Spoken in Ranbo voice] "Little people, do not think that you can undermine my authority, because you cannot. You are puny and I have big muscles. So do not think of escaping, little people, because I have eyes in the back of my head. You can look if you want to."
JUST KIDDING!Summer and the others were herded towards ratty tents with old creaky cots. She set her purse down on the cot closest to the front tent flap.
"I wonder who lived here," She said.
"Do you think that there are any snakes?" Emily asked as she jumped on her cot and looked at the ground in fright.
"Oh please, you big baby!" Jennifer snorted. She took the cot next to Alexis who was next to Summer.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Alison asked, as she sat down on the cot across from Summer. A figure walked into the tent. It carried 10 shovels which it promptly dumped onto the floor. The girls looked up as the figure lifted its cowboy hat.
"Aunt Louise?" Summer gasped. The woman scowled at her.
"That ain't my name, girl and don't you ever say that name again in my camp, do ya here? The name's Lynn."
"But, you look just like her."
"Don't rub it in, kid. She's my sister. I'm older by five years. Now, that's all I'm sayin' and I don't want to hear another word about it. Grab a shovel, and follow me." When only Summer took one, Lynn growled at the others. "That wasn't a choice question! Take a shovel!" After the floor was clear, she led everyone to a building with boots and orange outfits. She tossed everyone a set of each and told the girls to put them on. When everyone was outfitted, she drove them out to the lake bed on the water truck.
Summer stopped counting all of the holes after a while because there were too many. After about 5 minutes, they reached a spot where there were no holes and Lynn told them to get out. She dug her heel into the ground at 10 different places in the ground. She directed them where to stand and how deep they should dig the holes. When she was finished, she smiled.
"Get diggin'." She walked off and drove the truck away.
"Dig?" Tiffany squeaked. "We're supposed to dig? But…but…I'll break a nail!"
"Who cares about your nails! I look so fat in orange!" Alica said as she tugged at her clothes. She started to cry.
Summer bit her tongue and kept her complaints to herself. Yelnats never complained. She put her shovel into the ground and threw out a chunk of dirt.
"Get digging girls. We've got a long way to go."