Chapter 12:
2 months later
The weeks flew by and Kandy and Squid were getting along better than ever. Squid would always wait for her to finish digging and then they would walk back to camp, shower, hang out in the wreck room, eat dinner, hang out in the wreck room before lights out and then go to sleep. Although this seems like a boring routine Kandy had never felt so happy or satisfied in her life. Squid was happy as long as he got to spend some time with Kandy. The two of them would sneak off to go talk, but they would always end up kissing.
Their relationship was getting more and more serious, but they never mentioned to anyone that they were a couple, even though everyone knew that they were. They would walk around holding hands and hugging, but not too much P.D.A because of the warden and other councilors would go down hard on them. It had been two months since Kandy and Squid first got together and they had periodically having meetings with Mom to discuss their future, but the one this night was not going to be the same boring meeting filled with painfully boring topics.
"Even though D-tent is the only tent without offenders against women I think that it is a good idea that we discuss how to treat a lady. Kandy would you like to help me out with this one? I mean you do come from an abusive family and u always insure that these young boys treat you like a lady." Mom stopped and looked at Kandy expecting a yes.
"No." Kandy looked right into his eyes offended at his openness about her father.
"Oh come one! I know that everyone would love to hear about your past. Don't you want to help these boys realize that treating a woman badly is not a good thing and it does not make them cool?" Mom added with a smile still thinking that Kandy would be thrilled to help these boys out.
"No."
"Come on mom if she doesn't want to talk about it don't make her. We know how to treat woman clearly if we are the only tent without offender against them. Don't you think your time would be better spent talking to the other tents about this?" X-ray chimed in as he always did when someone besides himself was trying to pressure someone in his tent into doing something they didn't want to do.
Mom looked piercingly at X-ray. "No Rex I do not think that my time would be better spent talking to them."
Kandy had been watching them arguing and decided that it was time she said what she had wanted to say for a while. "I don't want to talk about my past and I am not going to. Just because I am a girl and I have been abused by a man I'm not going to use my story to inspire these guys. I am going to bed good night."
With that Kandy got up and walked back to the tent. They boys got back about forty five minutes later. Squid walked over to Kandy's cot and sat down.
"Are you ok?"
"Squid I'm fine you know I hate those things and I was just tired of Mom trying to use me to inspire you guys to live good lives. Really I'm ok but I'm tired I think I'm gonna go to bed. "
"Ok good night" Squid gently kissed Kandy on the cheek and then got into his own bed.
