Hello all! I'm sorry this chapter took so long, but I'm super busy writing/directing a movie and going to rehearsals for a seperate show! I've been writing in my spare time. This chapter is LOOONG, so I hope you enjoy. Some pretty good stuff is com'n up!

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Something New

"Woa! Yeah Zero!"

"Run Zero, run!" All of the boys were laughing as Suze poked her head out of her nearly-finished hole; they were all cheering, holding their shovels in the air. She squinted into the distance to see a small orange figure run toward the desert with his shovel. Holy shit, where is he going?

"Hey Magnet!" Suze called, Magnet turned around with a big grin on his face. Suze jumped out of her hole and ran up to him, "What happened? Where's Zero going?"

"You mean you missed that entire thing?"

"I guess I did, I was way over there." She pointed to her hole, which was a long way away from everyone else's, she felt embarrassed after her row with Zigzag and wanted to be left alone today.

"Oh man! The warden found out about Caveman giving Zero reading lessons, and Mom was making fun of him, so Zero took his shovel and WHAM, out cold!" Magnet elaborated excitedly, imitating Zero swinging a shovel. "Then Zero ran off that way," He pointed toward the desert, where Suze couldn't see Zero's orange figure running anymore.

"Oh my gosh! Where is he going to go?" Magnet only shrugged,

"I got no clue; we've got the only water for a hundred miles." He walked away, but Suze stared out into the distance for a little while longer. She couldn't believe it, is Zero crazy! She soon returned to her hole to finish the last foot, take her measurements, spit, and then leave. She saw Caveman walking back to camp a few feet ahead of her, she jogged to catch up with him.

"Caveman,"

"Yeah?" He didn't look worried, if anything he seemed amused.

"Do you think Zero will be okay?"

Caveman didn't answer right away, he paused a moment to think, then slowly shrugged his shoulders, "I'm not so sure, we've got the only water for a hundred miles. He had his canteen with him though-" he trailed off in thought as they tossed their shovels into the pile, and walked toward D-Tent.

Dinner didn't settle with Suze, the day's events were on the boys' minds, so everyone was silent. Suze stole a quick glance at Zigzag, who was across from her, but he was looking down at his food. She looked down just in time for him to bring his head up to look at her, look at Zero's empty chair, and then continue eating.

You had a friend, but you had to screw everything over again. Good job. She stole another glance at him, this time their eyes met. They both looked down again at their food trays, a little embarrassed they caught each other 'in the act'. Oh crap, what the hell am I supposed to do now? Ignore him? I can't, we live together. Shit, double shit. Maybe I should just let things mend over time, and then we'll both eventually get over it. No, that never works. Perhaps…should I apologize? She took one last glance at him; he wasn't looking at her this time. I'm not sure.

"Looks like we'll be getting a new guy." Squid said as he watched a yellow bus approach the camp.

"Line up if you don't want to die of thirst!" Yelled Mr. Sir, campers lifted themselves out of their holes to refill their canteens at the truck. Suze noticed one kid in particular was having difficulties getting out; she walked over to him and offered her hand. He gave a small grin and took her hand, as they both made an effort to lift him out.

"Thanks." He said. Suze realized that she had never seen him before, he was considerably shorter than her, and he seemed to have an eye twitch. "I'm Twitch, I just got here yesterday."

"Yesterday? Which tent are you in?"

"I'm in D-Tent. Oh! You must be the girl, you were asleep by the time I came, the guys already gave me a nick-name. Cool huh?"

"Yeah, cool." Woa, I guess they think Zero won't be coming back…Suze stuck out her hand, and he shook it. "I'm Catcher by the way. Most people just call me Catch."

They both made their way to the water truck and joined the line. X-Ray turned to Twitch,

"Hey Twitch, what did you do to land yourself here?"

"I hotwired a car, joyrid'n! They couldn't keep me away from a Corvette if they put me in a straight jacket." X-Ray laughed,

"Sweet."

"So you know a lot about cars?" Caveman asked curiously from behind Suze,

"I sure do! I don't have my license though, that was also a problem." After everyone had filled their canteens, and Mr. Sir was handing out lunch bags, Suze saw Caveman pulled Twitch aside by the drivers' side of the truck.

She turned away from Mr. Sir to go back to her hole

"Umph!" She ran into someone, it was Zigzag. His blue eyes looked at her, not out of anger, but Suze couldn't decipher their meaning. "Sorry." He said, continuing to walk in the opposite direction. You shouldn't be.

"HEY! MY TRUCK!" Mr. Sir yelled and ran after his run-away vehicle. Twitch stood there in the dust, watching Caveman drive away.

"Go Caveman!" Holy shit, he's going for Zero. That's when the worst possible thing in the world happened, the truck took a painful nose dive into one of the holes, water splashing everywhere. Suze spotted caveman as he forced his way out of the drivers seat and ran toward the desert.

"RUN CAVEMAN! GO!" She yelled. She was worried about him of course, if he were to let himself get caught, he would have to go through a major ass-whipping from Mr. Sir, but the desert, Suze was sure, would be less merciful.

- - -

Dinner was once again a silent affair, now two of their friends were missing. Even Twitch, who only knew Caveman for a day, kept his head bowed as he ate. Zigzag was the first to leave the table, and cleared his food tray. Now Suze, apologize now. She waited five seconds to leave the table, clear her tray, and find Zigzag while everyone else was occupied.

She waited as she watched him walk away from the cafeteria, what the hell could I say? But catch him before it's too late.

"H-hey!" She finally yelled to him, "Zigzag!" He turned around to face her. He didn't look particularly happy to answer to her call, but what confused Suze was that he turned around anyway. She ran up to him, his eyes followed her. He wasn't smiling, it wasn't that Suze expected a friendly greeting, but the situation as awkward enough.

"I, well…" whatshouldIsay! whatshouldIsay? "I thought about what you, um, said to me." Good start Suze…keep going. "And you were completely right about everything. I was being…selfish, and self-pitying, shutting everyone else out is what I'm accustomed to and I now know I shouldn't do it anymore." Zigzag still wasn't responding, no wait, his expression softened a little, his eyes stood out more. "You told me exactly what I needed to hear for a long time," Suze didn't like his blank stare, at least he was listening. "You were trying to be a friend, and I'm sorry I took my anger out on you." That's it; you have nothing else to say. But Zigzag stood still, just staring at her, no readable expression. He dropped his head down for a moment; he smiled a little to himself as he came back up. He nodded to her, relief spread over Suze.

"I shouldn't have yelled; I let my temper take over. I shouldn't do that anymore either." Suze shook her head,

"Don't be sorry." Strangely enough, they smiled at each other, a small spark ignited between them.

They ended walking around camp for a couple of hours, past the showers, through the network of tents, then around the holes; talking and laughing. The truth was that Zigzag never hated Suze, seeing a girl after being at an all boys camp for too long had its side-effects. They stopped for a moment to view the holes in the dark, a large landscape of giant holes, almost like a sponge. The blue light from the moon lit the desert, while creating shadows in the holes making them look like bottomless pits; if you were to fall, you would never me seen again.

"It's almost frightening to look at them." Suze commented,

"If just how they look scares you, you shouldn't know what's inside of the holes."

Suze laughed, "What, more dirt?"

"No, yellow spotted lizards. They bite you, and you fall down dead before you know what happened." He said, almost seriously.

"You're kidding." Suze said skeptically.

"No! Really, we'll take a quick peek at them." He grabbed her forearm as he led her to the furthest of the holes; he turned her to face five feet below her and pointed downward. "You see those? They're moving pretty slowly, don't get any closer." He pulled Suze as she leaned forward to see more clearly. "They like to make homes in the holes, so during the day they have shade." They both jumped back in panic as a loud hisssssssss came out from the dark shadows of the hole.

"Let's get away from here, it's getting late." Suze suggested. They made their way back to camp, they couldn't see anyone wandering around because everyone else was in their tents.

Zigzag suddenly pulled her backwards, away from the light.

"Ow! What was that…?" But he covered her mouth with his hand to stifle her sound; then she suddenly saw why she had to keep quiet. Mr. Pen-dance-key was wandering around the tents, making sure the campers were asleep.

"Here, let's go this way." He led her around the other side of the tents than where Pendansky was wandering, they kept glancing at him to make sure he didn't see them. There were many close-calls when Pendansky had waved his flashlight so the light fell exactly where Suze and Zigzag were the moment before. They had to suppress their laughter until they reached the opposite wall of the cafeteria, where they leaned on the side of the building to catch their breath.

"That was certainly an adventure." Suze laughed, smiling at him.

"Sure was." Zigzag panted, smiling back. They turned toward each other. Zigzag's eyes seemed almost white against the blue moonlight; they were so light blue that Suze lost her breath for a moment. He was staring at her too, she suddenly noticed. Their hands touched, and neither moved away, they didn't have the energy to after playing hide-and-seek with "Mom." Zigzag's hand overlapped Suze's, holding it in a light grip. What? Suze was a little surprised at it, but she had no intention of objecting. He suddenly came closer, closer…

BANG!

They jumped as a gunshot rang in the air.

"I'll get you! YOU SCALED SON-OF-A-BITCH!" Mr. Sir's voice yelled into the night. Zigzag and Suze couldn't help but break into silent laughter, leaning on the wall even more for support. They suddenly heard footsteps approaching, louder and louder. Zigzag grabbed her hand and led her around another building and back to the tent, before they opened the flap to go inside Suze turned to look at him. She gave him a smile, and squeezed his hand before she entered the tent, he followed close behind.

It took a while for Suze to finally fall asleep. He's actually really sweet, we had fun just talking. Suze had never been able to feel so comfortable around someone, apart from Tonya, but this felt different. After they got everything cleared up between the two of them, they found themselves talking about everything to each other. About home, friends, family, she even confided in him about her unjust trial.

"That's incredibly painful." He had commented lightly, referring to the lying witnesses and Chad's incredibly rich father. "It sounds even more painful than my trial, and I was actually guilty."

"Thanks a lot." She laughed sarcastically. She laughed, which surprised even her, she never thought she would be laughing at her terrible situation, as her story held no humor at all. They eventually started talking about his cause for being at "camp",

"I was driving, drunk, and loaded with even more toxins than I can imagine. Worst possible thing I could have done in my life. Luckily I eventually snapped out of my withdrawal symptoms before you came along." Suze took in the last of what he said, and had smiled.

"Why before I came along?" For a moment he couldn't answer, she had trapped him in a corner, she laughed.

"Well, I'll tell you," He said, obviously trying to find more time to think, "we wouldn't be talking as we are now."

"Then I'm glad you did snap out of them." Suze said. Suddenly realizing what she said, she looked down, and she blushed a little, smiling a little more.

Do I like him? Suze asked herself as she lay in her cot. She reminded herself that they had almost kissed, and she would not have objected at all. I guess I do… she finally fell asleep, her stomach doing small flips.