Thank you so much o wonderful reviewers! Keep on reviewing!
Shoutouts
A Cute But Psycho Bunny: I just love your reviews. I never spell psycho right and it bothers me. I also love that Matchbox 20 song! (I typed mathbox at first. lol) Max Kasch is cool! I know what you mean with the Eartha Kitt thing, cuz I have watched the commentary. Those silly willy walnut heads. Stanley is very idiotical. Hahaha that's a cool word. The other day I invented the word Phsyologically. I said it accidentally instead of physically. I guess it means physically logic. My spell check really didn't like that shoutout.
whataboutneville: Yes, Unwell does suit Zigzag. He's my favorite D-Tent dude. Stanley is too trusting and too loser-esque. I invented another word!
ElementGirl1234: Thank you very much! Here's another one! Sorry, Squid doesn't sing his funny one yet, but I have a good funny one for him planned.
Hannah (mentalmuse): Wow, you have such great observational skills! Yummy, I like cookies :-)
Nosilla: You have a very interesting dog. My brother is scared of dogs.
Chapter 3-M o m m y
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"It's hot," Stanley said. "Too hot. How could it be this hot! It has to be physically impossible."
"'Fraid not," Zero said. "It's like this every day. You're going to have to get used to it."
Stanley moaned. "Zero, don't all your body parts hurt? Aren't your hands all rough and callused? Aren't your feet aching? Doesn't your back hurt from that lumpy cot? Aren't your arms and legs sore from digging? Doesn't your stomach hurt from that disgusting food?" Stanley complained.
Zero laughed. "Yeah, it does. But come on, we gotta dig.
The two boys walked to their holes. Zero kept a close eye out for any mints. But nobody seemed to have any. Mr. Sir seemed to keep his mouth close, afraid that if he talked he would end up singing again. Everyone was getting a little more suspicious. Something had to be making people sing, but nobody knew what. Only one person thought it was the mints, and that person's name started with Z and ended with ero.
"Finally," Stanley said, climbing out of his hole. "One more down, I lost count of how many more to go. He walked back and put his shovel in the shed. Zero was waiting for him.
"Hey Zero, let me drop my hat off in the tent. Then we can go chill in the wreck room," Stanley said.
Stanley arrived at the tent the same time as the rest of D-Tent. "What are you guys doing here?" he asked.
"Is Magnet in there?" X-Ray asked. He peered inside. Sure enough, Magnet was sitting on a cot, his back facing the tent flap. His shoulders were hunched over, and he appeared to be deep in thought, looking at something.
"Magnet?" X-Ray asked. "What 'cha doin'''?"
"Awful," Magnet replied softly. "How...what...I don't see..."
Are you okay Magnet?" Zigzag asked.
"How could she do that?" he said, his voice rising slightly.
"Who?" asked Squid.
"How?" Magnet asked, to no one in particular. "Why would she do that? Was there something overcoming her to that?"
"Magnet, what happened?" Armpit asked. This looked like one of the first times they saw a serious side of Magnet.
He turned around, chewing on a mint. Zero's eyes grew wide. Sure enough, Magnet sang:
I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night
She didn't see me creep,
Down the stairs to have a peep.
She thought that I was tucked up
In my bedroom fast asleep.
"What?" Squid asked with disbelief.
Then I saw Mommy tickle Santa Claus
Underneath his beard so snowy white.
Oh, what a laugh it would have been,
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night.
"Don't tell me you actually believe in Santa Claus!" Armpit exclaimed.
I did, I really did see Mommy kissing Santa Claus.
And, I'm gonna tell my daddy.
"Magnet? Dude, are you okay?" X-Ray asked
Then, I saw Mommy tickle Santa Claus,
Underneath his beard so snowy white.
Oh, what a laugh it would have been,
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night.
Magnet looked puzzled, but kept on singing.
Oh, what a laugh it would have been,
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night
Magnet was smiling now. He stood up off the cot, and kept singing.
I did, I did,
I really did see Mommy kissin' Santa Claus.
You gotta believe me. You just gotta believe me!
Come on, Fellas! Believe me! You just gotta believe me!
Fellas, you gotta believe me...
"I can't believe she did that!" Magnet said when he was done. "I mean, she was happily married. Why would she have to cheat on my dad-with Santa Claus!" he added.
"That's it?" X-Ray asked. "That's what you were looking at? That's what you couldn't believe she did? Not some crazy thing like beating you or something?"
"No. She was kissing Santa. When I was seven, I snuck out to see Santa. I brought my camera too. See, look," Magnet shoved a picture under their noses.
A pretty, Hispanic woman was kissing a man. He was dressed in a Santa suit, but he was Hispanic too. His belly looked unnaturally large compared to his thin face. Any one could see it was Magnet's father in a Santa Suit, but maybe Magnet was just a slow little 7-year old.
"Magnet..."X-Ray began, but the dinner bell stopped him from saying anything else. Magnet stuffed the picture back in his crate.
"See what I mean?" he asked. "Why would she do that?"
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Squid woke up in a cold sweat, panting. He looked at his watch 2:06, it said, glowing at him with green digits. Go back to sleep, he ordered himself. But he just couldn't. 2:00 A.M. just brought back such bad memories.
--Flashback—
"Alan, go clean your room and then re-paint the house. You always leave a mess of dirty crap everywhere," his drunken mom ordered after coming home from the bar at 2:00.
"Ma, I cleaned everything yesterday after school. Your bottles of vodka and beer cans are everywhere," 11-year old Squid said.
"Then go take a walk. You'll be in the most useful place anywhere but here," she said, chugging a can of beer and spilling all over her shirt.
Squid was a tough kid, but he never understood why his Mom was always drunk and he hadn't seen his dad since he was three. His mom blamed him, and Squid blamed himself too.
"Fine, I'm going. Maybe if you're lucky I won't come back! Maybe if the whole town is lucky, I'll die!" he yelled, pulling on a sweatshirt. Everyone thought Squid was just a stupid, stealing, delinquent. He tried his hardest at school but could never study at home. All his mom did was drink, so he stole food or a couple of sodas, just so he could survive. Squid was a naturally good-natured kid; he was just in the wrong place. But nobody even gave him a chance. He was hated everywhere in town.
---End Flashback---
A tear almost came to Squid's eye thinking of that night. The police had brought him home and told him not to run away again. He was sent to Camp Green Lake 3 years later on a winter night, stealing money. He hadn't been trying to steal enough for a TiVo, like the other guys. He was stealing to pay the electricity bill so he could fall asleep without his teeth chattering and shivering all night.
He popped a mint in his mouth, thinking of that night.
I walk a lonely road
The only road that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's only me and I walk alone
Zero was a very light sleeper, and as soon as the song escaped Squid's mouth, he woke up. Squid didn't seem to notice and just kept singing.
I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
Magnet, also a light sleeper, also woke up. He looked interested. Squid never talked about his old life before Camp Green Lake.
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Zigzag and X-Ray also woke up at Squid singing. Squid looked surprised at the very words coming out of his mouth.
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone
Now Stanley and Armpit had both woken up, and both were heavy sleepers.
Read between the lines
What's fcked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
Mr. Sir and Mr. Pendanski also heard singing. "Alan, stop! It's 2 A.M.! Sing in the morning!" Mr. Pendanski ordered. Squid looked them directly in the eye and sang:
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I walk alone
I walk a...
Frizzle and other C-Tent boys were standing near the tent door. C-Tent was laughing and Frizzle was smiling slyly. Everyone was watching Squid-except Zero. He was watching Frizzle with intense determination. It works, Frizzle mouthed. Zero's eyes grew wide.
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...
Squid slowly crept back into bed. "Move along folks!" Mr. Sir yelled. "Nothing to see here! Get to bed!"
The rest of C-Tent reluctantly walked to bed. Mr. Sir and Mr. Pendanski walked back to their cabin.
"Squid...was life really like that?" Stanley asked nervously after a long, awkward silence.
"Yeah, it was," Squid replied. "No one knew who I was, but they all hated me. I hadn't seen my dad in 11 years. My mom was always drunk and beat me. That song was exactly like my life. But I didn't even know I knew that song."
"Yeah, I didn't either before, even though mine described me well too," Zigzag added.
"Did you both eat a mint before you sang?" Zero suddenly asked. D-Tent jumped back surprised and looked at him.
"Yeah, come to think of it, I did," Zigzag said. "Easy gave me one."
"I did too," Squid said.
"Same," added Magnet.
Zero nodded. "So did Mr. Sir, Mr. Pendanski, the Warden and I. It's gotta be the mints."
The other boys laughed. "No way Zero," X-Ray said. "Come on, that's impossible."
Zero felt déjà vu from what Stanley said. "You never know," he said. "You never know."
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Well? How was it? Leave awesomeness reviews for me please! My spell check went crazy with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." Apparently, most songs are filled with fragments. No wonder so many stars never went to college ;-)
For some reason, I was very tempted to type "Squidward" instead of Squid many times. Instead of typing Alan, I wanted to write Squidward Tentacles. Don't ask me why because I have no idea.
Oh yes, and I'm going to try to make everyone in D-Tent sing one funny and one serious song.
And I would like to tell all of you to go out and see the Series of Unfortunate Events movie, even if you don't like/haven't read the books. Liam Aiken is super duper HOT!!! Hahaha, my gym teacher heard me going "Oh my God, he's so hot! Looking at the pictures my friend brought in. You had to be there.
Disclaimer: I don't own Holes, the Song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" (I don't know who owns it) or the song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day. I love that song soooo much! Green Day is awesome!
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