(A/n: Here's chapter 4! Kinda longer that the other ones, but hope everyone enjoys it! I only got one review for chapter 3 though…

Nosilla- Thanks for the review! I live in CT, and Summerland comes on at 7 pm on Sundays on the WB (channel 20 here). And yea, I made Heather so that she's based on one of my friends! Hope you like this chapter!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Holes or any of the characters.

The ride to CGL seemed pretty short, mostly because I slept the whole way. I can't help it, long car rides make me drowsy.

"Yo Kid!" The guard at the front of the bus barked. I woke up. "Bout ten more minutes 'till we're there."

"Okay, thanks," I said, then sat up straight. I hastily tried to straighten my clothes up, and make myself look at least half way decent. I sat there, staring out the window looking, but not really seeing, until I started to look at these holes in the desert floor. Then I started seeing.

After about five more minutes of watching holes, I started to see some kinds in these dirty orange jumpsuits. Boys, to be exact. A few of them looked up from their digging to look at me, but I guess they didn't realize it was a girl in the bus, because they more or less ignored me.

We pulled up right in the center of a whole bunch of tents and a cabin.

"Get off," the guard growled. I dragged my two suitcases off the bus and headed towards the cabin. I knocked.

"Come in," a voice from the inside growled.

'Gawd, are all these people her half dog or something?' I thought to myself as I went into the cabin only to be greeted by a not so happy looking man.

"You must be the girl," he said, squinting at me. "My name's Mr. Sir, you will call me Mr. Sir at all times, got it? Now, just because you're a girl, don't be thinking that you're going to be let off easy. You're here for a reason, and we are going to turn you from bad to good, only instead of digging holes, you will be doing kitchen work." Mr. Sir said. I nodded.

"C'mon."

Mr. Sir lead me outside, where we met up with another guy, only not as mean looking. Mr. Sir left after we met up with this guy, and I was very happy.

"Hi there! You must be Claire Wilson! My name's Dr. Pendanski, but you could call me mom!" Pendanski said. This guy talked faster than me, and I could talk pretty darn quickly. Pendanski twittered on about nothing in particular, he showed me around the campsite (pretty plain), showed me the kitchen area (dirty), then showed me the tents (dirtier). By the time he was done, my arm felt like it was going to fall off from dragging around the suitcases, and I was sweating, it was so hot out.

"You are going to be in D-Tent!" Pendanski explained, as he lead me to the tent. When he opened the flap, I realized that this was going to be my "room" for the next 6 weeks. The tent was a mess. For one, only one of the beds were fixed, and I suppose that one was mine. Another thing was that there was stuff strewn everywhere. A deck of cards were spread out on the floor, a few bandannas were thrown everywhere. It was a mess.

"Why am I in D-Tent?" I asked quietly.

"Well, for one, this was the tent with the open spot, as you can see," he said, jerking his head towards the empty bed. "And also, the boys in this tent are all here for little crimes, you know, stealing, breaking and entering, that kind of stuff, no harassing girls or anything." With that, my eyes grew wide. "Oh don't worry, these boys will be like your…older brothers. They'll watch out for you."

"…Okay."

After that, Pendanski let me get settled in. There were eight cots in all, mine was on the left, second to last. There were two crates at the foot of each bed, most of them were empty though, except for some cards and rocks. I wasn't sure if I should put anything in my crates, since Pendanski said that the boys were here for stealing and stuff, but I figured that they wouldn't want any of my stuff. 'What are they going to do, steal my shampoo?' I thought to myself as I filled the two crates with my shampoo, hair ties, and my books. After that I pushed the two suitcases under my cot, then went outside. Pendanski told me to go to the kitchen after I got settled in, just to watch and learn, and I was to start working tomorrow.

I noticed a few boys heading back with shovels, so I quickened my pace and practically ran to the kitchen. I didn't want to be introduced to any boys without Pendanski or even Mr. Sir being around.

To my surprise, I wasn't the only one doing kitchen work. 'Well duh,' I thought to myself, 'who was I supposed to learn from?' Only to my dismay, the other kitchen workers were boys. They all gaped at me when I came in, and yea, I was scared. I started to back up until I ran into someone.

"Oh there you are Claire!" Pendanski said happily. I never thought I'd say this, but I was happy he was there. "Claire, these boys here will be your kitchen helpers. They also do kitchen work instead of digging holes, because they all have breathing problems, like asthma." Then, in a quieter voice only I could hear, "Don't worry, none of these boys are here for harassing girls either." I heaved a sigh of relief. Pendanski introduced me to the boys, there were only three of them. "This is Tim, Nate, and Cam." He said, pointing to each boy as he said their name. They all nodded back at me, and I felt myself blush. Okay, so they were all cute, but in different ways. Tim had light brown hair and brown eyes, Nate had dark brown hair, and these smoky, gray eyes, and Cam's hair color was similar to mine, only without the highlights, and he had green eyes. "And boys, this is Claire Wilson, she's in D-Tent," with this, the boys smiles seemed to dim a bit. I wonder why? 'You guys are going to help Claire out, just until she gets the hang of it. I'm sure you guys could do that?" Pendanski said, and once again, they all nodded. With that, Pendanski left the kitchen, and I was left standing there, staring at the ground.

"My name's really J.D., and this is Smoke and Farmer," he said, pointing to the other boys. I nodded. After that, they didn't really talk to me, they didn't really talk at all, they just worked. They were cooking dinner, and as J.D. (Tim) and Smoke (Nate) cooked, Farmer (Cam) fixed up the rows of tables and metal chairs by wiping them down with a wet cloth. The food they were making looked gross, it was brown and sludgy. They did have bread though, and they put out cartons of orange juice on this metal thing, kind of like the one from my school's lunchroom. A half hour later, they declared themselves finished, and headed out. I followed. They all split up in different directions, so I decided to head back to my tent.

'Uh oh,' I thought to myself. 'Which tent is D-Tent?' I figured to do the logical thing, and as I looked at the tent all the way on the left, I went A, B, C, D. I went into the one I thought was D. As I got closer, I could hear boys talking inside the tent.

"I wonder where the kid is, and I wonder why he has…hair ties?"

"Maybe it's a girl?"

"Yea right, and maybe I'm the queen of England."

"Maybe you are."

"Shut up."

I tried to knock on the flap of the door, but it didn't work too well. I didn't want to go in when the boys were changing or anything, so I just kind of scraped the tent until someone came up to it and pulled the flap back. It was a little kid, shorter that me, and he had the cutest little face and hair! His hair was all curly and so cute!

"Uh…hi. Is this D-Tent?" I asked quietly. I glanced behind the little kids head and saw six other boys gaping at me, kind of like the boys in the kitchen. I saw my empty cot on the left. "Guess so." I said quietly, and headed in. I stared at the floor as I headed to my cot, and took out a hair tie from my crate, then decided to go back out. I didn't make eye contact once.

When I was outside, I didn't know where to go, so I just sat down right there, outside the tent. Bad idea, I could hear the boys talking again. I pulled my hair up into a messy bun, and listened to the conversation going on inside.

"Was that really a girl?"

"Duh, why'd she leave though?"

"You all probably scared her!"

"Wasn't me, 'twas probably you, Squid."

"Nuh-uh. No girl is afraid of me."

"Pendanski is."

Laughter.

"Man, we gotta do something though, where could she have gone?"

"I'll go find her."

"Fine, just don't scare her."

"Oh shut up dude."

After that I heard footsteps, and that's when I realized that I was sitting directly in front of the tent flap. I was going to get up and move, but it was too late, the boy opened the tent flap and fell over me.

"Owww." I moaned. I could hear more laughter from inside the tent. I kicked the flap closed.

"Shit!" The voice said as he stumbled up. I was still on the ground, too tired to move, when the boy turned around. He was definitely cuter than Shane back home. He had brown, tousled, now sandy, hair, and these really deep brown eyes. I could feel my face heat up when he smiled down at me.

"Sorry 'bout that," he said. "My name's Squid," then he stuck his hand out to help me up. I didn't really want to take it, I didn't want to get in with these boys, so I just ignored it and pushed myself up. He withdrew his hand questioningly.

"It's okay." I said quietly, then started walking towards the kitchen. I had to get away from him before I got a crush on him. Pendanski said these boys were going to be like my older brothers. I couldn't have a crush on him.

"Hey, where are you going?" he called after me, and when I didn't answer he jogged up to me.

"I have to go to the kitchen and….help serve dinner," I said quietly, staring to the left of his head.

"Kitchen? Dinner's not served for a while," he said, staring at me, only I couldn't bring myself to make eye contact.

"Oh."

"So you want to head back to the tent?" he asked, reaching out to touch my arm. I nodded and started walking, and he lead me by just lightly holding my arm. I glanced over at him, only to see that he was staring at me.

"Let her go, asshole!" a voice said behind us. I turned around and saw J.D., Smoke, and Farmer. I pulled away from Squid's grasp, as Smoke and Farmer headed towards me and lightly took me by each arm and pulled me towards J.D.

"What the hell, leave her alone!" Squid yelled. I went to go back to Squid, but Smoke and Farmer's grasp on me tightened until it hurt.

"Let me go, you're hurting me!" I yelled. With that, Squid ran over and punched Smoke and Farmer in the face, then went and punched J.D. too. They started swearing, but they let me go, and I ran off, past Squid, back to the tent.

I threw open the flap and was about to run to my cot when I realized I was in the wrong tent.

"Holy shyt!" a boy who was changing yelled.

"Ohmygod, sorry!" I cried, then closed the flap and turned around. I was lost, scared, and sweaty, and I didn't know what to do. I walked to the center of the circle of tents and the cabin, and just stood there, staring out at the desert.

I heard footsteps behind me and turned around, only to see Squid there. "Look, I'm really sorry I just punched them. I didn't know what to do…you said they were hurting you."

I totally regret this now, but I felt tears stinging the back of my eyes. 'Great, now I'm going to start crying.' I thought to myself. I felt bad for doing this, but I muttered to Squid, "Leave me alone." Then I counted the tents once again, and ran into D-Tent.

The boys immediately stopped talking when I opened the flap, but I didn't even look at them, I just ran to my empty cot and sat there, curled up in a ball with my head on my knees, and I cried silently. I could feel the stares of the other boys on me, but I didn't care. I heard the tent flap open and I figured it was Squid. I heard the cot next to me creak. 'Great,' I thought to myself, 'his cot's right next to mine.' I sat like that for a while, even though my tears were dried up. The boys started talking again, only quieter, and when my neck started to cramp up, I sat up straight, only with my knees still drawn up to my chest. I got a good look at all the boys, and I know they were all glancing at me, only they didn't stop talking or anything. I did notice, however, that Squid wasn't talking at all, and instead he was staring at me. Glaring at me, actually. I guess he was mad that I put him off after he kind of saved me. I decided to apologize.

I swung myself around so that I was sitting on the edge of the bed, and facing him. Squid was now looking around the room, trying to show that he wasn't looking at me.

"Hey," I said quietly, and Squid looked at me and raised his eyebrows. "Sorry about that…before."

Squid sighed. "'S'okay." He said, then smiled. "So…what's your name?"

"Claire." He nodded. By now, the others were silent, listening to our conversation, but I didn't mind. I turned around and nodded at everyone. "Hi."

They all nodded and replied with a "hey" then introduced themselves. It was X-Ray, Caveman, Armpit, Magnet, ZigZag, and Zero.

"I'm Claire," I said, and they all, once again, nodded.

"Yo! X-Ray, get out here, we have an offer for you!" X-Ray got up and went out of the tent. Before he closed the flap, I was able to see about five boys standing around. Everybody was quiet as we tried to listen to their conversation.

"We hear you have a new camp mate," a voice said. "A girl, actually. We'll trade you twenty shower tokens for her." I felt my jaw drop. Every head in the tent turned to me, and Squid jumped up. He was heading towards the flap, and I knew he was going to knock someone out. I jumped up and grabbed him by the arm, but he was strong, and he shook me off. Hard. I fell back onto my butt.

"Squid!" I yelled, and he turned around. He saw me on the ground and his eyes widened. By now X-Ray told off the boys and was back in the tent, but when he saw me on the floor and Squid standing over me, he too, stopped short.

I jumped up and pushed past Squid and X-Ray and ran out the tent, and to the kitchen. I heard someone running after me, and I knew it was Squid. I was almost to the kitchen, but he caught up to me and grabbed me by the arm.

"Let go of me!" I said and shook him off. He let go, but he still followed me. I tried my best to ignore him, only when I entered the kitchen and saw J.D., Smoke, and Farmer standing around, I knew I made the mistake of running off.

(A/N: Hope everyone likes this chapter, and please review! Oh, and to whoever was reading my other story, C'est La Vie, I decided to continue it, even though I said I wouldn't so yea!)