A/N: Hey all, thanks for the reviews...for a lot of Zig Zag/Manny fans...this sort of gets their relationship moving, but it makes a bad turn.

Anyways, here's Chapter 6...

R&R!

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Chapter 6

"Zig Zag?" I asked as I walked through the flap of D-Tent.

No body was in there except for Caveman and Squid who were playing War on a crate.

"Hey Frame, what do we owe this pleasure?" Squid asked jokingly, batting his eyes at me.

"Have you seen Zig Zag?" I asked.

"Nope, isn't in here,"

"Alright," I sighed and left D-Tent.

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I ran around the camp searching everywhere possible for Zig Zag but he wasn't anywhere. I looked in every tent but no luck.

It was now 9:45 and we all had to be in our tents by ten o'clock, but I didn't care. I had to find him and explain everything.

The guilt inside of me was piling up like swallowing fifty pieces of gum in a row and having them all just sitting in your digestive system.

I began to run through the rows of holes and looking everywhere possible for him.

As I stared straight ahead I didn't notice a rock lying right in front of me.

My boot ran across it and next thing I knew I was falling into a hole, but I didn't feel any dirt, just a soft yet hard surface.

"Ow," I heard someone moan.

I noticed that the "floor" I was lying on could talk.

I sat upright and noticed I was sitting on Zig Zag.

He glared me in the eyes and then got up and jumped out of the hole, leaving me, someone who always had to have help getting out of her holes after digging them, stranded in the pit of a hole that looked deeper than 5 feet.

"Get me out!" I called out repeatedly.

"I am así alfigido Zig Zag!" I called out and then remembered he can't speak Spanish.

"I am so sorry!" I repeated.

Suddenly I saw a hand reaching out, I pulled on it and he tugged me up, but he didn't look happy.

He looked angry and heartbroken.

"I called this bet for fun not so you could just trash me like that!" he exclaimed, his voice booming with anger.

"Zig Zag, I am so sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you..."

"You said you weren't afraid of breaking all your nails right?"

I nodded.

"It's on then,"

"What is?"

"The fight, right here, right now, you better hope you're tough,"

I glanced over at the camp which was barely even visible, all the tent lights were off, meaning it was past 10.

"Zig Zag, this is really stupid, can we just forget it? I'll give you my shower tokens..." I said.

"I don't care about some stupid shower tokens," Zig Zag said.

"Zig-" I started but got interrupted when he pushed me in the upper chest area, right by my collarbone.

Jackass.

I staggered back a few steps but then caught my balance and pushed him back, resisting the urge to punch him in the face.

He grabbed my shoulders and I grabbed his and before we knew it, we were rolling around in the dirt, punching and hitting each other.

"You surrender?" he asked me, breathlessly, staring down at my face.

I could tell I had a black eye and bloody nose with a busted lip to top it all off, he could fight, but I had hit him hard too, he was going to have a black eye and he already had a bloody nose.

I turned him over so I was on top, "You wish," I said and slapped him across the face, I straddled his lap and hit him on the chest and down on his ribcage.

I was surprised when I saw him wincing in pain, I didn't hurt him that bad did I?"

"Zig Zag?" I asked in a near whisper.

"Damn," was his only reply.

"I'm really sorry," I said quietly.

I was even more surprised when I saw his hand reaching out for me, touching my cheek and running across it slowly.

What the hell is he doing?

His hand went from across my cheek to behind my neck, cradling it, he brought it down to his face, our lips inches apart.

I felt my eyes close as his lips brushed across mine tenderly at first but then deeper with more certainty. I ran my hand through his hair as my lips parted slightly letting his tongue slide into my mouth, dancing around my tongue softly.

He began to break the kiss, applying a slight sucking motion to my lower lip clenched between both of his and then he broke it completely.

My eyes stayed close for a few seconds and then opened and I was looking straight into his gray eyes.

"Um...thanks?" I responded quietly.

He stifled a laugh before giving me a kiss on the forehead and then closing his eyes, drifting off to sleep with his arms around me protectively.

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"Well...well...well, what do we have here?" I heard someone ask.

My eyes fluttered open and I was staring into Matchbox and Caveman's dancing eyes, even visible in the early morning darkness.

"Uh..." I said sitting up.

Zig Zag stirred before waking up and sitting up as well.

"Damn, I must have been sleepwalking," he said standing up, "that's the only way I'd ever come close to you or your ugly and much bruised face, you lying, manipulating, slut," and with that he followed Caveman away.

I felt tears swelling up in my eyes.

Was it just me or didn't we kiss last night?

Duh, we kissed.

Matchbox held out his hand and helped me up.

"What happened?" he asked, running a hand over my face.

"I got into a fight," I replied.

"With what, a lawnmower? Look at you, you're a mess, lets go talk to The Warden," he said pulling me away from everybody shooting glances at the strange girl who was sleeping in the middle of a desert-me.

We walked away from all the steps and up to a nice cabin.

Matchbox began to knock on the door, "Warden, Warden!"

The door swung open and a lady with red hair answered the door, wrapping a robe around her, of course, she had been sleeping.

"Matchbox, why am I not more surprised?" she asked sleepily and sarcastically and then turned to me, "You're Manuela aren't you?"

I nodded, "Manny,"

"She's Magnet's sister," Matchbox chimed in.

"What in God's name happened to you, honey?" she asked.

"I got into a fight last night," I said.

"Matchbox, thank you for bringing her here, now get back to your digging. Manny, why don't you come on in?" she asked, holding out the screen door and letting me in.

It felt so good to be in air conditioning.

"Who'd you get into a fight with?" she asked, walking to a refrigerator and pulling out an icepack from the freezer and placing it over my eye.

"Zig Zag," I replied quietly.

"Zig Zag? From D-Tent?" she asked, running a wet paper towel under my nose, wiping off the dried blood.

I nodded.

"Wouldn't put it past him...but why were you guys fighting?"

"We placed this bet for some stupid reason and my friend Keely and I decided to make this girl who made fun of him in the ninth grade fall for him by sending him these fake letters I was writing. Then he called her and I picked up the other phone and was about to call my mom but you only have one phone line and Zig Zag was trying to talk to Dania but she was making fun of him and I cut in and called her a bitch and I ended up spilling my guts and Zig Zag found out the letters were fake and he got mad at me and he ran out like a mile practically and I followed him and we got into a big fight and then ended up making out and then he made fun of me in front of Caveman and Matchbox and now I'm here," I sobbed.

"You guys were kissing?" The warden asked.

I nodded.

What about everything else?

"Well, Manny, why don't you go get some rest? The couch pulls out into a bed, so I'll go make that up for you and are you hungry or anything?" she asked.

"Yeah but, I'm okay,"

"Nonsense," The Warden said.

"I can just sleep on my cot...." I suggested.

"No, it's alright, just let me grab some sheets and a blanket and a few pillows."

Within a few minutes I had a bed set up.

I was lying on it, propped up with pillows.

She gave me a plate of toast and a glass of orange juice.

"I really don't need this type of treatment," I told her.

"It's alright," she said, handing me the remote control to her television.

I flipped on the television and then I heard her doors slam.

I turned to Nickelodeon which still had Nick Nite on and munched on my toast and I feel asleep watching Three's Company.

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I rolled around on the couch and then woke up, I glanced at the clock on her cable box which read 9:06.

I felt my eye which hurt horribly from the black eye. I got up and hobbled into the kitchen and sat my plate and empty glass on the counter and then read a note from The Warden that was sitting there:

Manny,

Feel free to take a shower and get cleaned up, there is a sandwich in the fridge and we have chips so make yourself at home and then come to G-Tent around 4:00. –The Warden.

I sat the note down and walked upstairs, noticing an orange jump suit folded across the bathroom counter. I stripped off my clothes and stood in the shower as actual water fell across my body-and stung my body.

I noticed bruises across me and a few scrapes which were probably from my fall in the hole.

Then I began to think of something.

G-Tent? Since when was there a G-Tent?

I got out after a twenty minute long shower and dried off, pulling on my clean jumpsuit.

I brushed out my hair and brushed my teeth and then walked back downstairs.

The clock now read 9:52.

It was going to be a long, yet relaxing day.