A/N: Now in due time you'll find out the reason for the title. I wanna say thanks to my reviewers! Having positive comments is always inspiring!

Disclaimer: I do not own Holes. I do not own Jake Smith (I wish I did). Yesterday I dug a hole in my backyard, so I do know own one hole! 1 down, a million holes to go!

Chapter four:

Cielo had walked to the wreck room and looked around. Zigzag and Magnet were sitting in armchairs by the TV. Squid was sprawled out on the couch, resting his head on the armrest. Caveman was writing a letter and Armpit and X-ray were playing pool. Boys from other tents were sprawled randomly around the room. Everyone turned their attention towards her as she entered into the room. "What!?!" She yelled as everyone continued to stare at her. "Haven't you ever seen a girl before?"

Everyone refocused on what they had been doing and Cielo made her way over to Squid. She looked around trying to find a place to sit. There weren't any chairs left and Squid didn't look like moving anytime soon so Cielo just sat on his stomach. "Hey you," Cielo said as she sat down and got comfortable.

Squid looked and her and said, "I'm not to fond of bein' a chair, girl."

"Too bad," she said smiling from ear to ear.

"It also scares me when I have to carry unconscious girls back to their beds," he said focusing completely on her now. "You had us worried. Are you okay?"

Cielo's smile faded a bit and she said, "About that, I'm really sorry, I guess the heat just got to me or something. Thanks for finishing my hole for me. It was really sweet of you." She finished the last part in a hurry, blushing.

Squid nodded and said, "No problem . . . Umm and, uhh, how much do you weigh?"

Cielo gave him a funny look and said, "Why?"

"Well, because when I picked ya up today, you were really light and I dunno, I guess I was just surprised."

Cielo leaned over to his ear and whispered, "I way one hundred and three pounds and I'm five foot four. I know I'm too light but please don't tell anyone." She pulled back and waited for him to respond.

"I won't tell no one, but you should put on some weight, that's a little too thin. Its not healthy." He said, avoiding looking her in the eye. It sent shivers down his spine to feel her breath on his ear.

"Thanks Squid." She smiled at him thankfully and gave him a tight hug. They both blushed as she pulled away but Squid nodded to her as she got up to leave with Zigzag.

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Zero had left by the time Zigzag and Cielo got back to the tent. Cielo listened carefully to him as he told her about his little sister back home. He had just finished telling her about his sister's eleventh birthday when Cielo began talking out of the blue.

"He Zig, your hair is so goofy! Its like it springs back into place all the time." She grabbed a ringlet of his hair and pulled it down, straightening it. As soon as she let go, it sprung back into a curl again, throwing Cielo into a fit of giggles.

Zigzag blushed, attempting to mat down his hair and said, "Yeah well, at least I'm not a girl!"

Cielo burst into laughter again. "What does being a girl have to do with it?" She said in between giggles.

She finally stopped giggling as he said, "Girls are weak."

Cielo glared at him and then smiled mischievously and said, "You wanna bet?"

Zigzag was just about to ask her what she's meant when she lunged across the bed at him, laughing all the while. Zigzag caught on and jumped up, dodging in between the cots as she chased him around the tent. "You'll never catch me!" he yelled behind him as Cielo jumped over another cot trying to catch him.

"That's what you think!" She said, the two laughing as she chased him around the tent.

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Back in the wreck room, Magnet had been sitting on the porch and came inside saying, "Guys, something is goin' on it the tent, I can hear voices from the porch."

Every boy in D tent got up ran back to the tent, as they approached the heard Zigzag yell, "Have mercy on me!! Please stop! No! Ahh!!!" Then they heard tons of laughter erupt.

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The boys ran into the tent and cracked up laughing at the sight before them. Pillows and sheets were all over the place and Zigzag was lying on the floor. Cielo was straddling him and tickling him like mad, making them both laugh. Zigzag looked like he had been laughing so hard, he was in pain. It was hilarious because Zigzag could have won, had he tried because Cielo looked small next to him. Cielo finally stopped tickling him and collapsed next to him, using his shoulder to prop up her head. They slowly stopped laughing.

Caveman stopped laughing first and leaned over them smiling and asked, "What happened? What caused the tickle war?"

Cielo smiled and declared, "He said girls were weak so I thought I'd teach him a lesson by tickling the living day lights out of him!" She turned her head towards Zigzag, still using him as a pillow and slugged him playfully; "I wouldn't recommend calling me weak again."

Everyone smiled and Squid came over and said, "Well since you two had so much fun turning the tent into a war zone, I guess you should probably clean it up." He smiled and offered Cielo his hand. She took it and he pulled her up. She smiled at him and nodded before helping Zigzag up.

The two cleaned up the tent in a hurry as the other boys played cards. Just as the two finished making Zero's bed, the dinner bell rang and they headed off to the mess hall.

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D tent had eaten in a hurry, shoveling down the food, as to not have to endure its disgusting taste for too long. They went back to the wreck room after dinner to hang out. Cielo had elected to take this opportunity to shower. She put her tokens into the slot and the cold water came rushing down, rinsing off her dirty, sweat-covered figure.

Squid came out of the wreck room looking for her. He walked towards the library, which was very close to the showers. He turned and saw her standing under the faucet, smiling at the cool liquid rushing over her body. Squid was awed by her. She was wearing a red bikini that tied at the hips and behind her neck. The moonlight glinted off her skin as the water rushed over her. She turned so that her back was facing him. She still hadn't noticed him. He finally broke out of his trance and walked over to the half stall shower. "Hey," he said, approaching her.

She turned around quickly and blushed, "Hey Squid . . ."

Squid walked up to her stall and frowned slightly. "I know it's not really any of my business, but what are all the scars from?" While Cielo had been turned around, he had noticed five long thick scars on each shoulder blade and hipbone. There were also several smaller ones that he now noticed on her ribs.

Cielo's water turned off and she wrapped a towel around her waist. She walked over to the tent with him and they sat on the steps. Cielo took a deep breath and sighed before starting to talk. "Well, when I was seven, both of my parents were killed. I lived with my grandma for four years until she died too. The only family that I had left was my uncle. He willingly took me in. The first year with him was okay but when I turned twelve, things got bad. He would come home drunk in the middle of the night and get really mad at nothing. He was fond of knives and showed me just how much he loved them." She ran her fingers over the scars on her lower rib cage. "It wasn't really bad at first. Just little cuts on my ribs, but after I turned fourteen, he started making deeper cuts on my shoulder blades and hips. The reason why I'm here at camp is that one night he came home really drunk and pulled out his knife. He wanted to kill me. I ran out the front door and onto the street. Our neighbor had a sports car and we didn't own a car. I hotwired it. My uncle came over and broke the window and lunged at me. I hit the gas just in time and he fell out of the car. When the neighbors called the police, he told them that I had tried to run away and had broken the window and stolen the car. They never once questioned him, even when I told them what happened. I was supposed go to a facility for girls but the judge said that a friend of his had a good camp for me to go to, and that's how I got landed here."

Squid ran his index finger along the longest scar on her shoulder blade. Cielo shivered at his touch and went weak in the knees. She turned to him with tears in her eyes and said, "At night I dream about my parents dying and that pig cutting me. I just get so scared." She burst into tears and he wrapped his arms around her in a protective hug, letting her cry on his shoulder.

"Shhh . . . its okay Cielo, he can't hurt you now. Shhh, its okay. Its okay." He cooed softly and reassuringly into her ear. She finally stopped crying and pulled away wiping her eyes.

She turned to him and smiled after a few moments in silence. "Thank you Squid. Thank you for being so nice." Squid blushed as she leaned over and hugged him tightly for the second time that day. She pulled back and laughed, getting up to go change. He waited on the porch for her to finish before he came inside and they each collapsed onto their cots, exhausted. The rest of D tent came back and fallowed suit.

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Beginning of dream

Cielo sat in her room trying to fall asleep. She was only seven at the time. She had just dozed off when she awoke to loud screaming. She could hear her mother and father screaming at an intruder. Cielo sat up, terrified. She got out of bed and lay down underneath it, trying to escape the screaming. She heard her mother scream and then fall silent. She then heard three loud thuds. Cielo was crying, tears streaming down her face. She clutched a teddy bear to her chest. Her father was still yelling but she couldn't make out what he was saying. She heard him scream one last time and then the entire house fell silent.

After ten minutes of silence in the whole house, Cielo crawled out from beneath the bed. She ran to the phone next to her bed and dialed 911. A woman on the other end started asking questions. The frightened seven-year old said only one thing, "They hurt my mommy and daddy." Cielo, still crying, hung up the phone. She walked out of her room. She timidly turned the corner of the hallway and screamed at the top of her lungs, dropping her teddy bear at what she saw. There before her lay her mother and father, blood dripping everywhere. Blood splattered the walls and covered the furniture. The young Cielo began breathing faster and faster. She was so frightened. Her mother lay lifeless, a slit across her throat. The child turned to her father. She could tell that he was still barely breathing. She rushed over to him. "Gianna." He gasped, barely taking in breath.

"What daddy?" the sobbing child cried.

Her father pushed something into her hand and closed his fist tight around her small hand. "Mantengavi sempre questo con mio piccolo." He said with his last breath. (Keep this with you always my little one.)

Suddenly the scene changed. It was Cielo's fourteenth birthday and she was sitting in her room reading a book that her friend Emily had gotten for her. She heard the door slam and was instantly filled with fear. That sound meant that her uncle was home and he was angry. She heard stomping up the stairs and sat on her bed, terrified. The door of her room swung open and he stood in the doorway, a long kitchen knife in his hand. He lunged foreword and Cielo screamed in fright. He screamed in her ear, "YOU ARE SO STUPID! IF YOUR STUPID PARENTS HADN"T DIED, I WOULDN"T HAVE GOTTEN LANDED WITH YOU! ITS ALL YOUR FAULT THAT THEY'RE DEAD!!!" Cielo was crying as he punched and slapped her with every word he said. He hit her across the face a bit more before flipping her onto her stomach and lifting up her shirt to reveal her bare shoulder blades. He brought the tip of the knife to her skin and cut two long lines into her flesh. She felt the blood pump onto her back and all over his hands. He crawled off her and laughed, satisfied. She cried and when he was gone, she got up and wrapped clean linen around her torso, slowing the bleeding. That night she had slept on blood covered sheets crying in pain.

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Squid had been watching her breathe faster and faster and just when he was about to wake her up, her eyes flew open and he was taken aback by the look in them. Her eyes were full of fear and pain. She sat up, crying silently and sobbed into her hands. Squid went over to her cot and wrapped his arms around her and cooed encouragement into her ear. When she finally stopped crying enough to talk, she whispered to him, "I'll never be able to get any rest when I have those horrible dreams and they come every night. I don't know what to do anymore, Squid."

Squid hugged her tightly to his chest and whispered back, "You can sleep with me tonight. I'll chase your dreams away, alright?" Cielo nodded and hugged him. He got up and pushed their cots together and lay down on his back. Cielo snuggled up to him and used his shoulder as a pillow. She did have a pillow, but it made her feel safe to be close to Squid. Just as she was almost asleep, she felt Squid slip his hand into hers, fingers interlaced, and she smiled to herself. He was so kind to worry about her and stay up trying to help her. She fell asleep now, not thinking of the pains of her past, but of the kindness of the one lying next to her . . .

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