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Chapter 5: Orange Suits and Tent Blues

"Sit down boy." A large, muscualr man with side burns told him, spitting some sun flower seeds into a glass can. Ricky stared at him suspicially. He wasn't about to go and talk to some scary wierd guy who was spitting out seeds.

"I said, 'sit down'." The man said again, as Ricky looked at him again with his gaping blue eyes. He finally obeyed, and took the seat in front of him.

"So, you're Ricky Dauer." He said, reading Ricky's file, mumbling a few words, then he looked up, "You got sent here for being crazy?"

Ricky just stared at the ground. The man grumbled.

"I'm Mr. Sir. You will call me by my name when you talk to me. Got that?" Mr. Sir asked, looking Ricky in the eyes. Ricky figited. He didn't like this Mr. Sir guy.

"Come over here now." Mr. Sir commanded, leading Ricky into another room. "You get two suits, this orange one here. One's you're work clothes, and one's for relaxation. After 3 days, they'll be watched, and your relaxation clothes will become your work clothes, got it?"

Ricky nodded.

"Undress." Mr. Sir told him. handing him one of his orange suits.

Ricky just stared at him.

'No way am I undressing in front of anybody.' Ricky thought.

"Did you hear me boy?" Mr. Sir asked, getting more and more agitated with the boy.

Ricky's large eyes darted nervously around the room. Other than that he made no movement, or attempt to carry out Mr. Sir's commandment.

Mr. Sir grabbed ahold of his shirt, and pulled him up to his face. Ricky's eyes were enormous, he started to spaz out. Mr. Sir just smiled at him, a wierd, twisted grin, which made Ricky even more terrified.

"You really are crazy, aren't you?"

With that, he grabbed Ricky's backpack from him, and threw it to another boy to inspect.

"Now," Mr. Sir growled at him, "Undress."

Ricky followed his orders this time, but still his eyes went back and forth around ther room, not trusting anything they saw.

"Ricky Dauer, I presume?" A tall man with a beard and big smile on his face asked, walking up to him.

Ricky nodded.

"You'll be in D-Tent, I'm your counsler, Mr. Pendanski. Just remember, "Pen- Dance-Key". Now, I want you to know that whatever you did to get sent to this camp, you'll be completly changed by the end of your time here." Mr. Pen-Dance-Key said, smiling.

Ricky highly doubted it. Crazy just didn't go away.

"Well, here we are." Mr. Pendanski said, opening up the flap of the green tent. He saw the 4 boys that had stared at him wierd earlier.

'Great.'

"Ricky, this is Rex, Alan, Theodore, and `Jose. Boys, this is Ricky, your new tent-mate."Mr. Pendanski introduced them all.

"Yo, the name's not Rex, it's X-Ray." Said one of the African-American boys, he was short, and had glasses. He still looked like the kind of person who would beat the heck out of anyone who messed with him though. "This is Squid, "He said, pointing at the other white boy, with brown hair covered in a hat. "This is Armpit." He gestured towards a large African, "And this is Magnet." The hispanic boy wiggled his fingers in Ricky's face.

"They're like little magnets." He smiled, and laughed at the face Ricky made.

"They all have nicknames." Mr. Pendanski told him, "But I call them by their real names. They call me 'Mom'. It's their little way of showing that they miss society and their parents."

Squid just snorted.

"So, I'll let you boys get to know each other a little better, there's an hour and a half until dinner." Mr. Pendanski informed him, as he walked out of the tent.

"So." The boy named X-Ray said, sitting beside him, "What'd they get you for?"

Ricky didn't answer, but his eyes began to move frantically about the room, like they always did when he was nervous.

"Yo, dude, are you like, crazy or something man?" Magnet asked him, watching his eyes dart around the room.

"I bet he killed somebody." Squid butted in.

"Did you kill someone, man?" Magnet asked.

"N...No." Ricky said, and wondered if they all had. Did they put him in a camp full of murderers? How long would he last here until they killed him?

"Yo, dude, what's up wit' you?" Armpit asked, noticing the boy's strange behavior.

"You didn't kill somebody, did you?" Ricky asked him, his voice filled with dread and suspision. the boys all looked at him.

"Maybe we did, maybe we didn't." X-Ray smirked, enjoying the new boy's wierd behavior.

Ricky, however, had slowley started to back up from the boys, unsure of whether they were just playing with him, or if they were being serious. He bet that they were serious. He didn't want to be anywhere near them.

Magnet noticed him backing away, and said, "Man, why you' actin' so strange? You psyco or something?"

"Probably." Armpit sniggered.

"Lay off, man." They heard Squid say from behind them. Ricky looked back.

"Why should we, Squid? He's the one acting like a nut case." X-ray said.

"Yeah, well, maybe he can't help it." Squid suggested, not knowing why, but feeling the need to stick up for the new kid.

Ricky stared at him, unsure of whether he was actually trying to be nice to him, or if he was just trying to make him seem innocent, so that when he killed him the crime would be pinned on someone else.

"C'mon, dude." Squid said, walking up to Ricky, "I'll show you the Rec. Room."

Ricky got up uncertainley, took one final look at the other 3 boys, and followed Squid out of the tent.