Hey, sorry for not updating in a while. Thanks to all my reviewers! (Sorry for not thanking you individually, I'm unorganized.) So here's the next chapter…
Chapter 3
Dinner With Delinquents
"Where are they?" Magnet asked his friends sitting at the table around him.
"Who knows, can we eat now?" Squid asked in a whiny voice. He was starving, and also a little upset that the girl he met earlier was that one guy's niece.
"Awe, is little Squidly mad?" ZigZag mocked in a voice you would only use towards a child.
Squid stood up quickly and motioned as if he was about to punch him. He would have to, if Wormy didn't show up.
"Whoa, angry are we?" She asked, the girls giggled.
Squid stared at them blankly, then smirked. "If you knew what we were you would understand my anger." He was trying to scare them. The other boys hoped he wouldn't open his big mouth and say they were once juvenile delinquents. A lot of people didn't talk to them after they found that out. "We all met at a detention camp. You know where you go after you commit a crime." D-Tent smacked their foreheads.
Poptart shrugged and said, "cool" while the girls sat down. The boys looked surprised.
"What?" Asked Giggles.
"You don't believe us do you?" Twitch asked them. That was the only explanation he could think of.
"Hah, yeah we do. But we don't care," FireCracker said bluntly.
"Yeah, what's your past is your past. You know?" Wormy added.
The boys nodded to them.
"Can we eat now?" FireCracker and Squid said at the same time. They looked at each other and smiled and walked away chatting animatedly to the buffet table.
The others sighed and followed.
They were hitting it off quite well. They found it ironic they all used nicknames. The boys told the girls about Camp Greenlake and the girls told them about Art Class. And their comic books Art 101.
Then the crewmember, whose name they found was John, came by.
"Family dinner, eh?"
"What are you? From Canada?" Poptart asked. One of her best friends lived in Canada, he always says "eh".
The girls laughed, knowing what she was talking about.
"We're getting a divorce," FireCracker said, she remembered Squid telling her that John's niece hit on him earlier, he wanted to flirt back but he was reminded that he was married. John knew he was eighteen, but didn't know she was fifteen. They told him they adopted kids around their age. He's not believing it they could tell. But they thought it was funny to keep it going.
"Isn't that depressing," He said. Then he turned to Squid. "I still expect you to stay away from my niece."
Squid laughed. "Yeah, okay." FireCracker looked at him out of the corner of her eye. She knew he wouldn't and for some reason wish he didn't…
"So Ziggy," Wormy started. "Have you decided whether or not what other weird names you want to label your children with Poptart?" She laughed, so did the rest of the table. Poptart turned so red she was almost crying. The tears came from laughter of course but it's still embarrassing. ZigZag, on the other hand, grinned and said, "I was thinking maybe… Alan?"
"Hey! My name isn't weird!" Squid yelled jokingly. But ZigZag agreeing with Wormy just made Poptart turn redder.
"I hate you all…" Poptart said and hid her face in her hands.
There's that chapter, hopefully I can update soon. And hey I'm dedicating this chapter to Ashley (Poptart) since her Birthday is in a few days. Please review!