Chapter 8

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"Magnet!?" I exclaimed.

Lorraine nodded and applied lip gloss to her lips and smacked them together.

"You can't play Magnet..." I warned her.

"Why do you care? Is he your boyfriend?" Lorraine asked, closing the tube of her lip gloss and staring at me.

"No he's my-"

"Bye," she said with a flick of her hand and then left the tent.

"She is not going to go make out with Magnet, that is not acceptable," I said and ran out of the tent, following her.

I crashed right into someone. I looked up and saw the wide eyes of Satan, okay, Zig Zag.

"What the hell are you doing in such a hurry?" he asked, holding onto my shoulders, trying to steady me.

"She played you and now she is going to play my brother," I told him.
He looked at me questioningly, "What?"

"Lorraine, she is going to make out with Magnet, she can not do that," I said and tried to break out of his grip.

"I'll go handle this," Zig Zag said.

"No, I can do it," I said, wrangling out of his grip.

As soon as I walked in, she was sitting on my brother's lap, her hands running through his short hair.

"Get off of him!" I yelled.

"Go away, I know your jealous because he's your crush and all but just forget him, he likes me," Lorraine said, barely turning around to look at me.

"My crush?! You think he's my crush!?" I exclaimed, "Chica you are going down!" I exclaimed and literally pulled her onto the ground, she was now lying on the dirt and I was on top of her.

"What is wrong with you, you psycho?" Lorraine exclaimed.

I swung my fist, getting ready to punch her in the mouth, when I felt arms around me, pulling me up.

"Manny what the hell are you doing?" Magnet asked, when I noticed he was defending Lorraine.

Lorraine!

"She is playing you." I warned him.

"Playing him? Puh-leeze, I don't play people," Lorraine scoffed.

Zig Zag walked up in front of me and through the flap, me following.

"Bullshit," he ended up saying in unison alongside me and Squid.

"Magnet, you aren't going to believe them over me are you?" she pleaded.

"If you think I'm going to believe you over my hermana, you've got another thing coming chica,"

That made Lorraine's mouth drop open, apparently, she knew Spanish.

"She's y-your sister?" She gaped.

"Duh," I said.

"Oh my God..."

"So leave you tramp!" Zig Zag exclaimed.

Lorraine's mouth dropped open, "Fine screw you guys, ACE!" She called out, to one of the E-Tent boys.

I shook my head with a laugh and placed my hand on my head.

"Well that was fun," Zig Zag said with a laugh.

"I was freaking out, I thought she was going to play you," I told Magnet.

"Yeah sure, like I'm that mudo to fall for something that estúpido," Magnet said with a laugh.

"Well, I guess I'm going to head back to my tent," I replied, glancing at my watch which read 9:30.

"I'll walk you," Zig Zag offered.

"Alright, Buenos Noches everyone, amor tu Jose,"

"Amor tu también,"

I waved at them and then followed Zig Zag out of the tent.

"Why are you being nice to me all of a sudden?" I asked. I stopped walking and turned to face him.

"What do you mean?" Zig Zag asked, stopping as well, not looking me in the eye.

"Well you pretty much hated me,"

"I never hated you so to speak, you were just annoying,"

Oh, now I feel loved. Watch me while I find a container big enough to hold all of my joy.

"Gee thanks," I said with a laugh, staring at the ground.

"What can I say?" Zig Zag asked, turning to face me.

I shrugged my shoulders.

"It was rhetorical...I'm really sorry about the way I acted last week," Zig Zag said, placing two fingers under my chin and lifted it so I was looking in his eyes, "I really like you, Manuela," he whispered into my ear, his voice sent chills down my spine.

I looked him in the eyes and before I knew it, our lips were locked together.

We stayed that way for about 5 minutes until some voices scared us apart.

"Go Zig Zag, Go Manny!" We heard Zero, Caveman, Squid, Maddie, and Keely all chanting.

We broke apart.

"Manny, God damn, why do you keep making all those moves on me?" He exclaimed, removing his hands from my waist.

I took mine off of his neck and stared at him with wide eyes, "What?!"

"I don't like it, so stop," he said and then followed Zero, Caveman, and Squid away.

"Dude, that why she agreed to let you walk her home?" Squid asked sarcastically.

"Man, shut up," Zig Zag said, slugging him in the shoulder.

"She's gorgeous, she's nice, and she's funny, so why would you get mad at her?" Zero asked.

Tears filled my eyes and I turned to my friends.

"You didn't make moves on him did you?" Maddie asked, already knowing without asking the question.

I shook my head as the tears streamed down my face, Keely and Maddie placed their arms around my shoulder and walked me back to our tent.

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"Want me to kill him?" Tilley asked.

"Ooh, I'll help!" Camille said.

"She made the moves on him you dickheads," Lorraine said bitterly, playing with a strand of her hair.

"Hey Lorraine, I've got a big surprise for you!" Keely squealed.

"What?" Lorraine asked, tilting her empty head up to look at Keely.

Keely walked over to her and grabbed her arm and pushed her out of the tent, "Nighty night," she cooed and closed the tent flaps and zipped it up so she wouldn't be able to get in.

Tilley stared at the closed flap for a minute before bursting into laughter along with the rest of us.

"Let me in you bitches!" Lorraine called from the other side.

"Now, Lorraine, there is no need for that type of language here at Camp Green Lake," Maddie said, sounding like Mr. Pendanski, "You're punishment is...you're clothes stay in here, and you dig in your pajamas!"

Our mouths dropped open as Maddie took Lorraine's orange jumpsuit and put it in the porter potty in the back of our tent and closed the door, "Hope none of you guys need to use the bathroom," she whispered.

I remembered what Lorraine was wearing, a lime green spaghetti strap tank top and a pair of white underwear.

The boys are going to have a field day.

"Let me in!" she hollered.

Suddenly, the sounds of whistles and claps echoed through the air.

We all laughed and slapped hands. It was total hell for her.

About 2 hours later I went to check on her, because typical me, I felt bad.

She wasn't there.

I walked down the row of tents, stopping at D-Tent, I opened up the tent flap slightly and stepped inside, I could hear Armpit snoring and I could see Squid's silhouette sleeping with his hand dragging on the ground under him, he was nearly off the bed.

Then I heard sounds, like 2 people moving.

Probably just the guys.

I looked over, the sound was coming from Zig Zag's cot.

I stepped lightly over there and nearly fainted.

I wanted to die right there when I saw what was going on.

Zig Zag and Lorraine were in a cot together, making out.

You're dead Lorraine, so, so dead! Whoa...where the hell did that come from?

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I slammed my shovel into the dirt as hard as I could.

"What's your damage?" Lorraine asked, sitting on her patch of dirt, she had actually managed to get some of her hole dug, without any help.

"Nothing you should be worried about,"

You slut, you.

She took a sip out of her canteen and then stood up and continued to dig.

I stared at her with disgust, she was gorgeous, she had muscles...and she stole my man. The man who makes me miserable. Zig Zag.

That bitch.

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I brushed past Zig Zag around noon when I finished digging my hole.

I nudged him in the shoulder just as he had done to me a week before.

"What is your problem?" Zig Zag asked.

I spun around, "What do you mean?"

"That right there and Lorraine said you were acting kind of distant today,"

"Like she would know anything about me," I scoffed.

"Do you hate her or something?" Zig Zag asked.

"Hate is such a cruel word, no I don't hate her, I dislike her very greatly,"

"Same difference..."

"That phrase doesn't even make sense, but a lot of things don't like the fact that you-"

Made out with Lorraine last night, gross.

"That I what?"

"Nothing,"

"That was pretty cold what you did to Lorraine last night,"

"Yeah but you warmed her up, so what's the problem?"

"What are you talking about?" Zig Zag asked.

"Nothing,"

"No, it's something. What the hell are you talking about?"

"I...I..." I could feel tears swelling up in my dark eyes.

"What? C'mon, you can tell me anything..."

"No I can't!" I said and ran into my tent, thankful that no one else was in there.

I zipped the flap shut, but he unzipped it.

He stepped in and zipped it behind him.

I took a seat on my cot, and rested my head in my hands, he sat next to me.

"What are you talking about, Manny?"

"I saw you, last night," I said, choking back tears.

"What? Last night? What are you talking about? I was asleep," Zig Zag denied.

"No, you weren't you were playing tonsil hockey with Lorraine,"

"What? Please tell me Squid didn't tell you that crap. He is not in that much denial...is he?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Last night, Squid saw Lorraine outside and he brought her in and they wound up well...you know, and since I wasn't in my cot, but playing cards with X-Ray, they were in my cot," Zig Zag said.

"That is the biggest load of bull I have ever heard! You expect me to believe that? You like her, what guy in this camp doesn't?"

Suddenly I felt Zig Zag's lips against mine-again in a feverish and rough kiss.

This time, I wasn't going to tolerate this, I knew what he would do next.

I pushed him in the chest and off of me.

"Quit doing that!" I exclaimed.

"Frame, please, look, I really like you and-"

"Don't even say it, I can't stand you, you are such a-"

Zig Zag was at it again, his lips on mine, this time he was practically toppling me over.

I pushed him off of me and finished my sentence, with more words than I had intended, "tirón! Yo lata caseta tú! Realmente, rasguño aquello, yo odio tú, tú pequeño pervertido quien necesidades hasta beso yo hasta conseguir placer sólo hasta rotura mi corazón. Yo odio tú, yo odio tú! Hacen mi la favor y nunca asociar con mi. Alguna vez!" I screamed at him, jumping up the cot, I had yelled at him with so much of a Spanish accent you wouldn't have ever even guessed I knew English.

Zig Zag stared at me with wide eyes.

I heard footsteps pounding into our tent and I saw Magnet standing at my side, panting.

"Why the hell did you yell that at him?" he asked, his English coated with his Spanish accent.

"He kissed me, three times, and each time broke my heart right after,"

Magnet's mouth dropped open and he stomped over to Zig Zag, who backed up.

"Tú dejó mi hermana alfigido?"

"Um...Si?" Zig Zag questioned, "Are you going to kill me?"

"No, but you are going to wish you were dead when I'm done with you!" Magnet said and tackled Zig Zag.

"Jose, apagado de lo! Ahora!" I yelled, pulling him off of Zig Zag.

Magnet turned and stared at me, "Manny he-"

"I know what he did. And just because you're my big brother doesn't mean you need to protect me, okay? I can handle it on my own,"

"Manny, I don't know-"

"Well I do. I don't need your help anymore. I'm not that same six year old girl who needed you to fight off the monsters with a baseball bat,"

"Manny..."

"Jose," I mimicked.

Jose stared at me, tears forming in his eyes, before turning out of the tent.

I sunk onto my cot.

Zig Zag scrambled up from the floor and then walked out of the tent, continuing to shoot me glances as if I was going to jump out with a knife and attack him.

Not likely.

I lied down on my cot and stared at the ceiling of the tent.

As of now, Camp Green Lake sucked.

A/N: The thing that Manny yelled to Zig Zag in Spanish was: -jerk! I can't stand you. Actually, scratch that, I hate you, you little pervert who needs to kiss me to get pleasure, only to break my heart. I hate you, I hate you! Do me a favor and never associate with me. Ever!

And I'm just going to stick this in right now, I've been spelling the word "love" wrong, it isn't amante, its amor. Sorry for the misunderstanding amante stands for lover so it'd be "I lover you all" which makes like zero since. It's amor.