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After dinner, Ally, Jess, Squid, Zigzag, X-Ray, and I decided that we would not spend anytime together, and interrogate Magnet and Sam. When they heard that we wouldn't be hanging out that night, the got really mad, and refused to move for a few minutes.
"What is up with you two? Get your asses up!" I yelled at them.
"No." Sam and Magnet said simultaneously. Then Ally, Jess, and I grabbed Sam and dragged her out of the Mess Hall and into the tent. They guys did the same to Magnet and dragged him to the Wreck Room.
"Guys let go of me!" Sam squealed
"First tell us what's going on." Ally glared at her
"Nothing is I swear." She looked serious. Maybe she was a good actor, maybe she was serious. We couldn't tell. So we gave up for the night.
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"Why the hell don't you believe me when I say that nothing is going on?" Magnet shouted at the three guys as they dragged him to the furthest corner of the Wreck Room.
"Because you two walk in out of breath, and you two looked extremely suspicious." X-Ray pointed out the obvious.
"That doesn't mean anything." He answered back
"Yah it actually does. Now spill." Squid said
"There's nothing to spill." And just ask the girls did, the guys gave up for the night.
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The girls stayed in the tent for the rest of the night, and about twenty minutes later the guys walked in, hoping that they had given us enough time to talk. Little did they know that we gave up too.
"So what's happening in here?" Zigzag walked in all happy and such.
"Why are you so happy Zig? You get some booty?" I stuck out my tongue at him
"Actually no I did not. But thank you for asking."
"You're so stupid."
"I beg to differ."
"Nope."
"Joey!" he whined
"What?"
"Can I ask you something without you getting mad?"
"Like?"
"Like something we have been avoiding for a long time."
"Like?"
"Why you are here?" I didn't say anything for a few seconds. I more just looked at him and at the others and wondered if the other three girls had told them. I eventually gave in and told them. I told them the whole story from beginning to end.
"Wow. That's sad." Magnet said looking at me
"Yah your brother set you up. How mean is that?" Zigzag said next
"Yah I don't need you to feel sorry for me, if that is what you are doing."
"Of course not." Zigzag answered, "We wouldn't feel sorry for you if you didn't want us to."
"What did you guys get here?" I asked
"Same. Minus the whole brother setting us up and crap. We basically did it all on our own." Squid answered.
"And why would you do that?"
"Because we are stupid."
"What were you doing when you got caught?" Ally asked them curiously
"We were selling them." X-Ray answered
"Then some jerk made the cops follow him to us." Magnet finished his sentence.
"Then we were arrested." Squid said
"And it was sad." Zigzag said last, and I couldn't help but laugh because it didn't was just so random. "What's so funny?" he looked confused
"You are." I answered
"You sell drugs?" Sam looked at them in astonishment. "Where did you guys live?"
" New York ." Squid answered
"Us too! But it's such a far ways off I don't get why they would send us here." I answered
"Where about in New York ?" Ally asked
" New York City ." Zigzag answered
"Interesting. Well your story is sad too." I replied
"Not really. We were stupid. You'd think over a year here would shape us up? Didn't seem too." Squid shrugged
"No it didn't."
"You wanna here the worst thing we ever did other than sell drugs?" Magnet asked us
"Sure." Sam answered
"One of the guys we sold to sent some of his girl friends to pick up his shit, and the cops found the place. I ran like hell but the others didn't get so lucky."
"When was this?" I asked
"A little while back. Before we came here obviously."
"I remember the girls yelling at each other. One girl had high shoes on and she refused to take them off to run. I was thinking 'idiot'. Why would someone risk that."
"That sounds like what happened to us." Jess said
"What do you mean?" Magnet asked
"The whole shoe thing. That's what happened to me. I had high shoes on and I wouldn't take them off."
"Do you know the name of the guy that sent these girls?" I looked at him curiously.
"Yah. Some guy names John C. We didn't know many of their last names." My jaw dropped and so did the other three girls', "I have to say though, those girls were pretty hot from what I could see."
"What's wrong with you guys?" Squid looked at us concerned. The other three had caught on to the name of the guy too. The 'guy' was my brother. My stupid, loser, jerk, and ass of a brother.
"You sold them to us." I glared at Magnet.
"What are you talking about?"
"My brother, John, sent us to get his 'package' for him."
"You were the girls?"
"Maybe! Apparently!" I started to shout. "Where were you three?" I looked at the other three guys.
"I don't know. I think he was doing his own business that night." X-Ray answered
"You guys are so stupid! You landed us here too. I can't believe this. I think I'm gonna faint." I stood up and walked out of the tent, in to the darkness. Ally, Sam and Jess followed me out. They were pissed off too.
"Hey Joey don't worry about it. It's in the past. I know it's upsetting but maybe it's a good thing this happened." Ally tried to reassure me, which was different because usually I was the one reassuring everyone else.
"Yah I mean it will turn out for the better. We've only got like 7-8 months left." Jess said
"Yah. Then we are outta here! Picking up all the guys everywhere we go!" Sam joked. I couldn't help but laugh. "Think about it guys. Those nice boys." Sam looked up at the sky like she was dreaming about it. The guys that we knew back home were really nice to look at to say the least. None of the guys had followed us outside. They learned that when I was mad they shouldn't go near me unless they wanted their heads torn off.
"I can not believe this. My brother dealt with these four guys that we some how became friends with, only to find out that they helped in getting us here. Nothing good happens to me, ever."
"Joey, Ally, Sam, and Jess! What are you four doing out here? You should be in your tent getting ready to go to sleep." Devil startled us as she made her rounds to the tents before curfew.
"Uh sorry." I replied wiping my tears so she wouldn't be able to tell I was crying by some miraculous chance in the dark. "We were just taking a short walk before we went to bed to calm our systems." Ally made up a lie close enough to the truth that even I might have believed it.
We walked back into the tent. The four guys were lying on their cots looking up at the roof of the tent. Squid turned his head toward the flap as we walked in. I didn't even feel like getting into my pajamas, so I threw myself on my cot, closed my eyes, and thought I heard one of the guys say good night. I didn't reply.
I know that they didn't intentionally sell us the drugs. I knew that they were supposed to be selling them to my brother, which they technically were through us. And I am pretty sure that they wouldn't have given them to us if they had known us before Camp Green Lake . But that still didn't change the fact that they did what they did. Because they were being stupid and selling drugs, my brother sent me and my friends to go and pick them up, and we got busted for it. Plain and simple. I though to myself as I was "sleeping".
I couldn't sleep for the first time in a little while, and I was so awake that I noticed every little move each one of them made, whether it was a snore, rolling over in their cots, or a familiar whimpering beside me. I looked over at Squid, and realized that he was awake too, but that didn't exactly surprise me. I propped myself up on my shoulder, staring at him to see if he would notice that someone else was awake. The whimpering stopped. He turned over and faced me. We couldn't see each other's faces but we both knew each other was there.
"Why are you awake?" Squid whispered
"Why are you awake?" I asked back
"I asked first."
"Well I asked second."
"Which is why you have to answer me first."
"Forget about it. I'm a girl and I deserve to be answered first."
"This is how it's going to be?"
"How what's going to be?"
"Go to sleep or take it outside." X-Ray's voice startled us. I lay back down and turned the other way, with my back facing Squid. About ten minutes later, it was established again that I wouldn't be falling asleep so I got up and without my flashlight just walked outside. I couldn't see where I was going, so I just kept walking. Then I stopped, realizing that I was heading away from the camp and I turned back. I walked toward to Wreck Room, opened the door and turned on the light. It was eerie without anyone else in there. I lay down on the couch, closed my eyes, and fell asleep, miraculously.
Squid couldn't sleep either, and he got up, especially after he saw me walk out of the tent. He didn't know where I had gone, so he just walked around aimlessly around the camp. Then he noticed the Wreck Room's lights were on. He walked in because curiously caught the better of him, just like it does to most of us. He saw me lying on the couch, fast asleep. He sat down on one of the other couches across from me and just watched me sleep, then he looked at the TV and wondered if I would wake up if he turned it on. He decided not to, and he lay down, closed his eyes and fell asleep just as easily as I had.
"Joey, wake up." I felt a hand on my arm, shaking me to wake up. I slowly opened my eyes, thinking that the lights were still on but to my surprise they weren't. When I completely opened my eyes, I saw Justin standing over me.
"What time is it?" I asked, looking at my watch. I was 6 o' clock in the morning.
"I come around here every morning. What are you two doing in here?"
"Two? I came here alone last night."
"Yah two. You and Alan." He pointed over to the other couch, where Squid was still out like a light. "I woke you up because first you're not supposed to be in here, but I'll let it slide this one time, and second, I came around this morning for a spot check to make sure that none of you ran away or something stupid like that, and you two weren't in your tent."
"Aw, you came looking for us?"
"It better be the last time."
"That's so sweet of you." I joked. Justin was like my big brother, and he was the best.
"You two better get up and start getting ready to do your wonderful chores." He started to walk away, then I got a little worried. "Don't worry I won't tell my sister." He said reading my mind. Then he left.
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