Chapter 4
"That's a bit sick calling her a suck up," Magnet said, looking at Kelly. Rebecca grinned up at him as he was quite taller than her. Rebecca didn't like being small all too much, Zigzag was so tall it hurt her neck to look up at him. Kelly was extremely annoyed that Magnet was sticking up for Rebecca. She shrieked furiously and turned and marched into the girls section of the tent, her piggy tails swinging.
"Is she always that shrill?" Armpit asked.
"Pretty much," Rebecca said, hoping that Kelly wouldn't hear.
"Is she always that obnoxious?" Magnet asked.
"Pretty much," Rebecca said shrugging.
"The way she shrieks it's just like a piglet," Zigzag said, wildly looking Rebecca up an down as he spoke.
"She was wearing piggy tails too," X ray said, "Hey, I think I've thought of a name for her"
"What is it then?" Rebecca asked, interested.
"Piglet," X ray said.
Rebecca giggled slightly, she hoped she had a better nickname than that.
"Thought of a nickname for me then yet?" she asked.
"Nope, I'm finding it a bit difficult for you," X ray said, looking at her thoughtfully.
"Please let it be a nice name, not something like Piglet!" Rebecca said.
"Well I thought of a couple but I don't like them too much. I think your pretty cute but Cutie isn't too good, I thought you are sweet but sweetie makes you sound like a lollipop or something," he said.
He looked at her top, "Babe," he said reading the front of it.
"I know," he said, smiling, "Your nickname can be Baby"
"That's suits her," Zigzag said, "She is so small," Rebecca beamed, Baby was much better than Piglet.
Two more boys came into the tent. One was wearing a red hat and the other was really small and had curly hair.
The one with the hat gasped when he saw Rebecca, "What on earth is a GIRL doing here?" he said. The little one looked at Rebecca with wide, surprised eyes, he quickly looked away when he saw Rebecca looking.
"Not just one girl Caveman, two!" X ray said, "PIGLET!" he called over the tent which separated the girls bit to the boys, "Get out here now, some more guys want to meet you"
Piglet stormed out, "What's with calling me Piglet?" she asked angrily.
"That's your nickname, that means your accepted in our group," X ray said.
Piglet didn't know what to make of this.
"What's Becca's nickname?" she asked instead.
"Baby," Magnet said.
"How come she gets a nice one and I get named after a pig?" Piglet asked, quite annoyed.
"Because she didn't act like such an obnoxious pig when she first met us," Zigzag said, his wide eyes staring at the girls intently.
Piglet glared at Zigzag, Zigzag stared back. Baby couldn't help but wonder what must be going on in Zigzags mind, he seemed like quite an unusual but interesting guy. She wished she knew what he was thinking. She reckoned his mind would be full of little cartoons and stuff.
She didn't like the staring match between Zigzag and Piglet, she wanted to stop it so she interrupted them by saying, "Well I guess the one in the red hat is Caveman coz you called him that earlier on X, but what's the little dude's name"
"His name is Zero," X ray said, "Don't talk to him, he's worthless, he never talks to anyone," Zero looked at the tent floor and walked over to his cot and laid down on it. Caveman looked at him sadly.
"Don't be so mean X, that's a shame," Baby said, Zero looked at her slightly.
"Hey," X ray said shrugging his shoulders, "No one cares about him," Baby thought it was best not to argue as X ray seemed to be the leader of the boys.
"Well we gotta go and get a shower girlies," Squid said, "You can wait here if ya want, we'll give you a tour later," Baby didn't like them being called "girlies," all too much.
Baby and Piglet nodded as the boys left one by one out of the tent.
The girls went back to their section.
They flopped down on their cots.
"So then Baby," Piglet said, grinning, "Lets dish out the gossip about the guys whilst they are showering…Who do you like the best"
"I ain't sure," Baby said, "I think all of them have stuff that I like about them"
"Well, I like Squid," Piglet said, "He is soooo fit! He's almost as attractive as Sean," Baby rolled her eyes. Sean was a boy at their school that Piglet fancied for years, she'd always follow him around with a puppy dog look in her eyes, not realising that he just wasn't interested…
Zigzag's P.O.V
There are two girls in camp, they are nicknamed Baby and Piglet. I was a bit paranoid to begin with, I guess, I didn't like the way Baby was looking at me, It was like she was trying to READ my mind. I was sort of worried, what happens if she tried to take control of mind! But then I realised she probably wouldn't, she was giving off all these warm, friendly vibes so I came to the conclusion that she wasn't a brain- eating alien from Mars.
I am not too sure about Piglet though, she may be an alien. I said something about her being an obnoxious pig and she kept glaring at me, it was like she was challenging me to a staring contest, I never lose staring contests so I stared back. She was pretty tough though, she didn't even blink! Baby like totally interrupted it though. I don't know why… was it jealousy?
Hee hee, no way! Don't be silly Ziggy! Ooops there I go talking to myself again. Anyway, why would she be jealous, no girls like me. It's probably coz of my hair! But if they can't stand my hair being weird no way would they be able to stand me being weird.
Yeh, I do know I'm weird…. I'm not crazy though. Isn't it sick how all of a sudden people say your crazy JUST because you start saying what you think. I am entitled to say what I think… aren't I?
Baby looked over at her orange jumpsuit which was crumpled on her bed. "We'd better get changed, Piglet," she said, getting up off her cot, "Whilst the boys ain't here"
Piglet nodded and grabbed her jumpsuit, she looked at it disgustedly, "This looks as though it was made for boys only, it's gonna be well big on me"
"It's gonna be HUGE on me coz I'm so small," Baby said, shoving it on.
Right enough it was massive on her, she had to roll the sleeves right up and it looked extremely baggy.
Piglet and Baby burst out laughing at the sight of it.
Baby had an idea, "I know, we'll ask Mom or Mr Sir when we see them whether we can customise these jumpsuits to fit us better"
"That's a great idea, we can make them more girly." Piglet said, she shoved her hand in one of the big pockets, "At least I can fit all my make up and stuff in these pockets"
"I could make a mini skirt out of this jumpsuit," Baby said, looking at her jumpsuit closely.
"Good idea," Piglet said, "But wouldn't you get seriously sunburned"
"Piglet, you know how well prepared I am, I knew I was coming to Texas and I knew it was hot here so I bought sunblock!" Baby said, taking the sunblock out of her crate an waving it in front of Piglets nose.
Piglet just rolled her eyes, she picked up her water canteen, "I'm thirsty," she said, "Come with me to find some water," Baby grabbed her water canteen and the two girls walked out the tent.
Squid, Magnet, Armpit and Zigzag were on the steps, chucking stones and seeing whose reached the farthest.
Squid had his top off again and Baby couldn't help but stare. He noticed her looking and grinned.
Baby quickly looked away, "Err… do you know where to fill these?" she asked pointing at her canteen.
"Yeah," Armpit said, "There is a water spigot on the wall of the shower stall"
"Cheers," Baby said as she and Piglet hopped down the steps and towards the shower stalls.
As the two girls were filling there canteens Squid walked over, "Do you want your tour now?" he asked1
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"Yeah sure," Baby said shrugging.
She took a swig out of her canteen and followed Squid as he began to walk to wards a cabin.
"This is the wreck room," he said as he pushed on the door which squeaked open.
Everyone stared as the two girls entered the room.
There was loads of boys slumped on chairs and sofas. There was a broken TV, a pool table, a football table, a radio, weights and a bowling thing. "Do you mind not staring," Piglet huffily said to all the boys who looked wearily up at them.
"Just ignore them," Squid said, sighing slightly.
"Can we stay in here for a bit?" Baby asked, she wanted to have a little look around the wreck room.
"Sure," Squid said shrugging, "I'm going to have a game of pool with Armpit anyway"
He walked towards the pool table. Baby noticed Zigzag was watching the broken TV which she thought was pretty odd. She walked towards him, Piglet followed her.
She looked closely at the blurry screen, "What ya watching?" she asked.
"Isn't it obvious," Piglet said sarcastically.
Baby looked at Piglet sharply for being so mean.
"The Simpsons," Zigzag muttered quietly.
"Can I join you?" Baby asked.
"Sure," Zigzag murmured "You two are nuts," Piglet said rolling her eyes, "I'm going to watch Squid and Armpit play pool," Baby sat beside Zigzag.
"What episode is it then?" Baby asked, looking at Zigzag slightly.
"The one were the Simpson's go England," Zigzag said.
"Oooh I like this one," Baby said.
"Me too," Zigzag said.
Baby got bored after a while and wondered over to Piglet.
"You done watching TV with Zigzag then?" Piglet said sarcastically.
"Ziggy is always watching that TV," Squid said, "He suffers from um… acute paranoia, I read his file"
"Aww poor love," Baby said, "I find him interesting," Squid scowled and went back to his game.
"You should watch Squid play pool, he is awesome at it!" Piglet said, looking at Squid all starry eyed…
Zigzags P.O.V
Baby wanted to watch TV with me. I was quite taken aback to begin with. I mean, normally everyone makes fun of me for watching it. They think I can't hear what they say about me but I do hear. "Look at that crazy dude watching TV, do you think he realises it's broke?" It hurts what they say.
Yeh, I do realise it's broke but I have a VERY good imagination, it sort of relaxes me. Helps me forget all the taunts I used to and still get. I like being in my own little world. It's the only place were I have friends who care about me (of course they are not real friends, just made up characters in my head, but I guess that's the best I'll ever have)
Piglet was saying some stuff, I don't know what because I was concentrating being in my own little Simpson world, but I could tell from the tone of her voice that it wasn't very nice… and it was about me.
Baby was nice though, she sat near me for a bit. It was good to have some company, some REAL company…