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Chapter 8

Everyone in D tent just sat on their cots and chatted for a bit. No one could be bothered to move, they were all too exhausted from digging all day. Magnet cracked the few odd jokes, he'd always finish them with his funny laugh which was the only reason why the rest of D tent laughed, his jokes were quite corny actually.

Piglet was constantly complaining about her hair. She said it had got even frizzier with humidity and she didn't have her straighteners to sort it out. Magnet said something about her having an afro and Piglet shot him a dirty look.

"Well at least she ain't bold!" Baby said, pulling off his bandana.

Magnet grabbed it back and pretended to be hurt, "I am not bold!" he said as he thwacked her with his pillow. Baby laughed and fell backwards off Squids cot.

She hit the floor with a muffled thump. Baby was almost in tears from laughing, so was everyone else. Even Zero giggled slightly.

Squid leaned over to help her up. Baby shot him a warning look. He seemed to get the picture because he sat back up. Baby could see something under Squid's cot. No one was looking at her, including Squid, so she reached out and grabbed the thing. It was a torn and faded cuddly toy octopus. Baby opened her mouth in surprise. She held it close to her and gave it a quick cuddle.

This must be thecuddley toywhere Squid got his nickname from, she thought. Squid just so happened to look down at her. His eyes widened in surprise when he saw what she was clutching.

She smiled up at him. He looked at her unsure what to do. "It's really cute," Baby whispered. She put it back under the cot, hidden from view.

"It's important to me," Squid whispered back.

"Your important to me," Baby said, she then covered her mouth with her hands as Squid blushed.

Baby and Piglet went into their section of the tent so they could get some sleep.

They needed it seeing as they would have to get up so early in the morning. Baby got changed into her PJ's as she did troubled thoughts were tumbling around her mind as though they were in a washing machine. She really wished she hadn't said that to Squid. What if he got the wrong picture. Yeah, she did like him but she had promised Piglet that nothing would happen…

Baby was awoke in the night by the sound of someone crying, she slowly opened her eyes, all was quiet… Had she just dreamed it?

She was about to close her eyes when she heard some muffled sobs. She looked across at Piglet, they weren't coming from her.

They must be coming from one of the boys.

She hoped nothing bad had happened. She didn't know why but she felt so protective over them. She knew she couldn't do anything to help them and she knew it should be them protecting her, it was just, she felt that she should always be there for them, to give them support.

They seemed like very troubled people underneath it all.

She slowly got out of her cot, she didn't want the person crying to know that she heard. They'd probably be annoyed that she could hear them. All of the boys always tried to act like they are really tough and nothing bothers them at all. But obviously stuff does. She peaked around the tent which separated the girls from the boys. She couldn't see much in the dim light but she could make out Squid's cot and Squid shaking slightly as he sobbed into his pillow.

Baby watched him for a moment, she didn't dare move unless he saw her.

She felt really sorry for him. It hurt her to see him like that and she couldn't just stand there and do nothing for much longer.
She slowly walked over and sat on his cot.

He must of felt her sit down because the sobs suddenly stopped.

She placed her hand on his back and asked, "Are you aright?" although it was quite obvious he weren't.

"Yeah…I'm just..uh…I had a…. yeah I'm fine," Squid's muffled voice wavered slightly.

"Well it's obvious your not fine," Baby said, straining her eyes so she could see in the dark. Squid said nothing.

"Tell me what's wrong," Baby whispered softly.

He slowly got up and turned to face her.

With his tear- stricken face and watery brown eyes he looked so helpless. Like a little lost boy. Baby felt like flinging her arms around him and giving him a big teddy bear hug but she had to stop herself from doing so.

"I had a nightmare, Ok?" he said, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand, "A nightmare I've had every night since I came to this camp,"

"What happened?" Baby asked.

"I don't want to talk about it," Squid mumbled, trying to avert eye contact.

"You'll feel better if you do," Baby said quietly.

Squid sighed and looked at Baby closely. It looked as though he was figuring out whether to tell her or not. "It's about my ma," he said, looking down at the floor, "She's hitting me and I amjust letting her,I know I will never hit her back," Baby didn't know what to say, she just looked at Squid sadly.

"That's not just a nightmare though," Squid said, his eyes welling with tears, "It used to happen every fucking day of my life before I came here,"

"Oh Squid…" Baby mumbled, "That's…that's… horrible,"

"You don't know what I've been through, I have had a shit life and it's all my mum's fucking fault. She's ruined it for me and I wish I was never born. What's the point? I've just been a burden for my mum, a burden for everyone, someone everyone has had to put up with, mum always use to tell me that. She said I ruined her life!" Squid said, furiously, it seemed as though he had been wanting to say this for years.

"Squid that's not true. I know I haven't known you for long… but you have made my life a whole lot better. You are so special to me," Baby said, abandoning her promise to Piglet.

Squid looked at Baby hardly daring to believe it, "Really?" he said, "Or are you just saying that because you feel sorry for me?"

"No, course not Squid, I truly care about you," Baby said gingerly wiping away Squids tears with her hand.

"No one's cared about me before," Squid said sadly, "I thought my dad did, but even he was sick of me coz he left when I was three. Went to get ice cream, never came back. Mum always blamed me and I guess it was my fault, I never do anything right,"

"Don't blame yourself for what you have been through. You don't deserve it, you are a wonderful person, I wouldn't be wasting my time with you if you weren't important to me," Baby said.

"You know what Baby? I'm finding that hard to believe because all my life I have been taught that I am a piece of crap. That I'm good for nothing. I have never loved anyone or been loved because I don't want love to destroy me, like it did my mom and dad," Squid said, bitterly.

"Well ,let me love you," Baby said, "I won't let it destroy you," Squid looked up her, his eyes wide in surprise.

"Do you love me?" he asked….

Ooooh cliffhanger lol