[Sorry about the delay. I was packing my room up and watching The Mighty Ducks trilogy.]
In Hector and Theresa's room, Zero was busy designing a shoe for his store. He picked up his doodle pad and walked over to the bed.
"Look at this, Theresa. Have you ever seen another shoe like it?"
She studied the drawing. "Yes. It's 11.99 at Payless." She handed the pad back and rolled over.
"Theresa, why do you keep on blowing me off. You don't care about my shoe business." She didn't answer. "Fine. I see how it is." He grabbed his coat and opened the door. "I'm going for a walk, like you care." He slammed the door, stomped down the stairs and slammed the front door behind him.
The sound of the door echoed through the house and I almost dropped the bowl of batter that I was holding. I turned to Stanley. "What's the matter with him?" He shrugged.
Needless to say, every couple in the house was having their own problems…except for us. Later that evening, we sat everyone down and told them what had happened at the jail.
"So, what are we supposed to do? Sit around until this "Lynn" works our kids to death? We never should have gone with your idea, Yelnats!" Lydia shot at me. The room was soon filled with everyone shouting and getting mad at each other.
I grabbed the whistle from Armpit's neck and blew it. "Everyone shut up!" The room quieted. "Now, I know that we have our own problems, but our kids need us now. I'll admit that my choices so far haven't been very good, but now I know what to do. We're going to find our kids."
"Oh, that's swell. We don't even know where to start!"
I turned to Lydia. "Yes we do. We start at Camp Green Lake."
"I don't trust you, Yelnats. I'm not starting at Camp Green Lake."
"Then where do you suggest we start?"
X-Ray got up and stopped his wife. "Lydia, cool it. Now, I've always trusted Deyna to make the right decisions, and I don't know why I should stop now. All in favor of going with Deyna's plan, raise your hands." Everyone raised their hands except for Lydia. "Lydia, what do you vote?"
She crossed her arms. "Fine. We'll go with her plan."
Needless to say, driving to Camp Green Lake was no picnic. Of course, with Armpit there, some would beg to differ. Anyway, after some convincing, we borrowed the van from our church and drove it for 10 hours.
.
"We have to dig what?" Brian stood in disbelief next to the spot that Lynn had made for him.
The girls had already started digging, but stopped to respond. "Dig, Brian. If you don't, you'll be out here all day," was their answer. So, everyone started digging. Summer finished first and walked back to the complex.
She walked by Lynn's cabin and barely heard a conversation.
"I don't care if a stupid kid dug up some treasure, I know that there's more of it and I'm not stopping until I find it!"
The front door of the building slammed so Summer kept on walking in the other direction. When she reached the tents, she picked up the black book that her brother had left in his cubbyhole and started reading it.
.
"33 bodies of Orcs on the wall, 33 bodies of- Yeow!"
"Shut up, Armpit!" The whole van chorused.
Stanley turned up the radio. The song "Will you buy" from "Oliver!" was playing on it. Stanley took my hand from my seat next to him. "I haven't heard you sing in forever, Deyna. Sing for us."
I flushed. "No, Stanley, I'd be too embarrassed."
"Aww! Come on, Deyna! Don't be a spoil sport!" Twitch shot out.
"Come on, sing Deyna, or I'll start the 200 bodies of Orcs song!"
I sighed. They had won.
"Who will buy this wonderful morning?
Such a sky you never did see.
Who will tie it up with a ribbon,
And put it in a box for me?
So I could see it at my leisure
Whenever things go wrong,
And I would keep it as a treasure
To last my whole life long.
Who will buy this wonderful feeling?
I'm so high, I swear I could fly.
Me, oh, my, I don't want to lose it,
So what am I to do, to keep this sky so blue?
There must be someone who will buy."
[Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's short and stupid. You can chase me with pitchforks again or something.]