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Chapter 2
The bell sounded at three thirty the next morning. The guys were up in a flash, but it took the girls a bit longer to rouse.
"What is with this place?" Katie grumbled, climbing out of bed, her blonde hair sticking out every which way.
"Nice hair," Jadyn smirked.
Katie glared. "Whatever," She pulled her hair into a bun at the back of her head. Many of the girls did the same and pulled on their jumpsuits.
The girls trudged outside a moment later, following the boys of B-Tent. They reached a table where most of the camp residents were standing around. B-Tent and the girls crowded around the table as well, and grabbed what was on the table: a tortilla drenched in honey.
"Ew!" Namie exclaimed, dropping the tortilla and examining her honey covered hand. "Nasty! No way am I eatin' that shit!"
Katie and Tami dropped their tortillas too, but the rest of the girls ate theirs forcefully.
Then, they got in line for their shovels. They each took one and Erik led them to their digging spot.
As they were walking, it was obvious that Katie and Erik were flirting.
"So, how old are you?" Erik asked her, blushing like crazy.
"Seventeen," Katie answered, batting her eyelashes. "You?"
"Oh, uh, me?" Erik stammered. Katie nodded, smiling. "Twenty-three."
Katie nodded. She whispered, seductively, "My brother's that age."
The other girls, who were listening, rolled their eyes to Katie's lame comment. Erik, however, just blushed a deeper red. They walked in silence the rest of the way, Erik and Katie shooting each other glances.
Erik led them to a patch with no holes. "This is where ya'll will be diggin' today," He told them, and they set off to work.
They dug for a long while, until the sun had risen completely.
"AH!" came a shriek from Katie's hole.
"What?" Dagger came over.
"I... I think I broke my nail..." She whimpered.
Dagger rolled his eyes and walked back to his own hole, while Kaz growled, "What a loser,"
"Excuse me?" Katie asked, and came out of her hole. "Did you just call me a loser?"
Kaz looked out the top of her hole and said simply, "Yup,"
Katie sighed and shook her head, hopping back in her hole and digging again.
That was the most exciting thing that happened all day until Mr. Sir came driving to their dig site in the water truck. He had their lunches with them too.
When he noticed Kaz, he narrowed his eyes. "What'd you do there, Kaz?" He asked.
Kaz grabbed a lunch amd asked. "What?"
"Your jumpstuit," He said. "It's black."
Kaz shrugged. "Oh, I know."
"How'd it get black?" He questioned.
"I spray painted it,"
"Why?"
Kaz looked at him. "Because I don't like orange. I like black." She replied.
"You can't do that," He said to her, narrowing his eyes more.
Kaz pretended to look confused. "Oh, sorry," She said innocently. "I honestly don't remember you saying that we couldn't dye our jumpsuits a different color. Whoops." She smiled.
He glared. "You're gonna have to get it back to orange, lil' missy,"
"Sorry," She repeated. "I can't."
"Why?" He spat.
"Because," She shrugged. "It's now black. I don't have any orange dye. And I doubt you guys would wanna spend extra money buying orange spray paint or get my new jumpsuits."
He stared at her for a moment, before mumbling, "Fine. Keep it that was. But if anyone," He raised his voice so all B-Tent could hear. "Tries to dye their jumpsuit another color, they will be punished!"
They all nodded, not really caring, and sat down for lunch.
As they were eating, the guys from the other tents came over to them to see the girls.
"Hey, look what the cat dragged in," One of the guys from C-Tent smirked.
"Shove it, Marble," Dagger snapped.
"Oooh," The guys cooed. "Does Dagger have a little cwush on one of the girls?"
"No," Dagger replied without blushing.
"Hey, I heard one of these girls are Jewish," One guy taunted. Jadyn tensed up, and a couple of the other girls glanced over at her, frighteningly.
The guy looked at their gaze and spotted Jadyn. "Oh, it's you is it?" He snarled. "Well, I heard about your religion. There aren't many of you left, are there? Guess you couldn't stop Hitler, eh?"
"Squid, stop," One of the guys muttered.
"No, Caveman, I won't stop," He grinned. "I'm allowed to speak openly!"
"Well, then I should be able to be physical openly," Jadyn growled and stood up. Squid looked surprised, and then advanced on her. Jadyn looked like she could kill.
A couple of the people from B-Tent, girls and guys alike, stoop up too, ready to fight if something happened to Jadyn, while three guys did the same for Squid.
"Whatcha gonna do?" Squid asked her.
Jadyn sighed and turned away. "Nothing... I can't fight..." She murmured.
Squid relaxed and started laughing, but Jadyn surprised him with a punch to the nose. He stumbled backwards, and fell into one of the holes.
Jadyn jumped in after him and started hitting him repeatedly. Finally, since the hole wasn't very deep, Dagger and Swirl managed to pull her off of him, with her struggling. Squid emerged later with the help of his friends, a black eye and nosebleed being his injuries.
"Why you little-," Squid growled, and made a run for Jadyn. Jadyn, still being held back by Dagger and Swirl and couldn't use her arms, kicked him where it hurts as he came closer.
"OW!" Squid yelled, bending down. His friends came over to help him.
Jadyn was breathing heavily, glad she had hurt him as much as she did. She broke free of Dagger's and Swirl's hold and went back to her hole to continue eating.
The whole camp had gathered around the watch the fight, and when it ended, the crowd thinned until it was just B and D-Tent.
"You're gonna pay for that, bitch," Squid told Jadyn threateningly under his breath as he went back to his hole, recovered. Jadyn just glared at him.
The rest of B-Tent dug in silence, and one by one, they finished digging and left for the camp.
Jadyn was one of the last finished, but because she was exhausted from hitting Squid. She slowly walked back to camp. There was on one at the showers when she got there, so she grabbed a towel and undressed, covering herself with it, She showered, making sure the towel was covering most parts of her. When she was done, she changed into her other jumpsuit and walked back to her tent.
She laid down on her cot and thought about what Squid had said. She hated him for saying that. She hoped he died a most painful death.
Are you sure that was the right thing to do? A nasty voice inside her head said.
Huh?
Maybe you shouldn't've hurt him. You should've told.
Ha! Like they'd 'punish' him here.
I'm just saying...
Jadyn shook her head.
In the Rec Room, Kaz had sat down on the couch and had hummed her favorite song, Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park, when a fat kid came and sat next to her.
"Hey, I'm Armpit," He grinned at her.
She gave him a funny look and then she answered shortly, "I'm Kaz,"
"Kaz," He repeated.
She raised an eyebrow. "That is what I said,"
"What kinda name is that?" He asked, ignoring her last comment.
"Um... it's short for Cassius. It means 'vain' in Latin." She said.
"It's a beautiful name," Armpit said quietly, leaning closer to her.
The more he leaned in, the farther back Kaz retreated. "Uh, whaddya think you're doing?" She asked rudely.
He leaned closer still. "What does it look like?"
She pushed him away. "Get away from me!"
He leaned back a little. "Why? What's wrong?"
"Don't try and kiss me!" She shrieked.
"Geez, sorry, it's just... you look so... hot... and..." He trailed off, looking her up and down.
"Ew! Ew, ew!" She said, getting up. "You stay away from me!" She yelled. "If you come near me, I will kill you!"
He put up his hands in defeat. "Well, sorry," He said, getting up and going over to the pool table where the rest of his tents were.
She sighed, and sat back down, and closer her eyes, continuing to hum.
When she opened her eyes, Armpit was staring at her, hungrily. She glared and gave him the finger, then got up and went back to her tent.
When she got there, she saw Jadyn sitting on her cot with her eyes closed.
Kaz's cot was right next to hers, so she sat down on hers and said, "Hey,"
Jadyn opened her eyes and looked over at Kaz. She smiled weakly, and muttered, "Hi,"
"Hey, look, sorry about what happened out there. I know how that can feel, and I think it was cool that you hit him, because he was an asshole." Kaz said to her, grinning slightly.
Jadyn laughed a little. "Thanks,"
Kaz shook her head. "No problem. God, the guys here are such losers!"
Jadyn grinned. "Yeah. Did someone do something to you?"
Kaz nodded. "This fat, smelly dude in D-Tent, I think... or maybe A-Tent... Anyway, his nickname was Dogpit, or something, and he was hitting on me and the creep tried to kiss me." She shuddered. "He smelled worse up close."
Jadyn laughed.
The dinner bell sounded, and the two girls got up and made their way toward the Mess Hall.
When they got there and they were in line for food, Jadyn was receiving some frightening glances, except from D-Tent, where she was getting glares from Squid.
Kaz caught Armpit looking at her some more. So she gave him the finger again and mouthed 'Fuck you'. He kept staring so she just rolled her eyes.
They got their food and sat down with the rest of B-Tent and they all ate in silence.
Jadyn felt like her heart had dropped into her stomach when she saw the D-Tent counselor approach Squid. He said something, and Squid pointed back at Jadyn. The counselor glanced at Jadyn and then said something to Squid. Squid looked murderous. The counselor said something stern to him and walked away. Squid turned around and glared at Jadyn.
Jadyn just rolled her eyes and went back to eating.
