Disclaimer: I do not own Holes or any of the characters besides Sam

This first chapter really sux but trust me it will get better! i Promise!

Chapter 1

"Hey, hurry up Sam! You're gonna be late for supper!' yelled ZigZag walking up to the last remaining digger.

"Just give me a sec, I'm almost done." replied Sam. After a few minutes Sam finished digging and walked back to camp with ZigZag where they met up with Magnet and X-Ray.

"Boy, you must be the slowest digger in this camp!" said X-Ray

"At least I'm the –est of something." Replied Sam sarcastically.

"You've been here for a full week and you still haven't managed to finish digging before Mannee, and he's the whimpiest kid in this camp, before you that is!" Laughed Magnet.

"Bite me alright!"

Flashback

Everything was going great for Sam, top grades at school, president of the school's SRC, and up for valedvictorian. But after the death of Sam's mother, life became a complete mess.

After the funeral, Sam met a man. He was fat, had crazy sideburns that almost reached his mouth and always looked mean. He seemed to constantly be eating sunflower seeds, apparently he just quit smoking. This man as it turned out, was Sam's father.

"Disgusting"was Sam's first thought after meeting the man for the first time. "How could this guy be my dad, for starters we don't even look alike, thank goodness!"

Sam was now alone in the world, except for the new father, so technically Sam was now an orphan. And since Sam had no where else to go, was sent to Camp Greenlake with Mr. Sir, as the horrible wretch of a father's name is, who as it turned out, was one of the councellors there. Not wanting anyone to know that Mr. Sir had a child, for the protection of his child and so Mr. Sir was not forced to give any special treatment, Sam was sent to Camp Greenlake on a bus, two days after Mr. Sir left.

Sam was slender, and shorter than most boys, with chocolate brown eyes and brown hair, which was usually hidden under a bluebaseball hat, which was worn low covering the eyes.

Driving up to Camp Greenlake on the busted up school bus, all Sam saw while looking out the window was millions of holes.

"Damn, I hate diggin'" Sam thought exasperatedly. "Why the hell do I have to be sent to this retarded camp, it's not like I'm related to that dumbass, he didn't even know that I existed! As if he even cares what happens to me, I'd rather be in an orphanage, at least then I don't have to do manual labour as a punishment for a non-existant crime!"

But still Sam was heading towards hell on a school bus (teehee!). When pulling up to the camp, Sam saw buildings that looked like ruins. There were a bunch of tents around, each with a letter drawn on it ranging from A-F. There were boys everywhere all wearing orange jumpsuits. "There goes my individuality!"

Stepping off of the bus Sam was greeted by Mr. Sir, both glared at eachother with utter dislike for about a minute, and Sam was then led into Mr. Sir's office and run through the basic rules of the camp. Then Sam was led into another rundown building full of supplies and given two pairs of orange jumpsuits, by a tough-looking guy, who gave Sam a real hard look of disgust.

"One's fer work, the other's fer relaxation. After three days your work clothes will be washed and your relaxation clothes will become your work clothes. Now change into your jumpsuit and I'll introduce you to yer councellor."

Sam looked at the guy behind the counter and back at Mr. Sir "Great" Sam thought.

"Hey you, what are you looking at?" Mr. Sir said to the guy behind the counter, while they were both distracted Sam quickly changed into the jumpsuit. Sam's always been shy in front of others when it came to showing off the body.

After changing, Sam was greeted by a nerdy, runt with a load of sunscreen on his nose, he was wearing shorts with his socks pulled upto the knees "I'm Dr. Pendanski, I'll be your councellor." Sam tried hard not to laugh.

"Gonna start this touchy feely crap and I'm outta here" Mr. Sir said and gave one final look at Sam and walked away.

"Finally, stupid bastard" Sam thought while following Pendanski to D-Tent.

Upon entering the tent Sam was greeted by 7 boys sitting on their cots. The tent was ragged, and held a slight smell, there were 8 dingy looking beds that lined the sides of the tent each paired with a small table for some belongings.

"Sam, these will be your tentmates. This here is Rex, Theodore, Alan, Ricky, Jose, Stanley and Zero."

"That kid's name's Zero, man that sucks." Sam thought.

"Mom, how many times do we gotta tell ya my names X-Ray?" Said a black guy wearing a black wifebeater with his orange jumpsuit tied at the waist, as was the style of most of the other boys in the tent. He wore really dingy, thickglasses; it was hard to believe he could see out of them with all the sand caked onto them.

"They all have nicknames, but I prefer to use the names their parents gave them. The names society will recognize them by." And with that said, Dr. Pendanski left the tent.

Sam walked to the back of the tent and sat down on the bed, disgusting as it was there was no point in complaining. Sam just sat there for a few minutes, looking at the guys, who seemed to be talking about the new arrival since they kept glancing back at Sam. Eventually one of the guys came to the back, the kid who liked to call himself X-Ray.

"Hey kid, Mom's got it all wrong, I'm X-Ray, this here's Armpit, Squid, Zigzag, Magnet, Caveman and Zero." Pointing to each of the boys who in turn gave a nod at the sound of their names.

"I'm Sam." Sam said quietly.

"So what are you in for?" asked a boy with a Texan accent, who wore a yellow t-shirt, and had his orange jumpsuit tied up the same as X-Ray.This boy was Squid.

"Nothin', I'm innocent." Replied Sam.

The guys all laughed. "Yea we're all innocent." Said X-Ray.

Sam smiled weakly and turned away from the rest of the guys and started unpacking. Soon the supper bell was sounded and Sam followed the rest of D-Tent into the Mess Hall.

Sam quickly ate the goop they were feeding the guys and went back to the tent and laid there for hours until falling into a deep sleep. The first day at Camp Greenlake was mediocre, it would take a while for Sam to get used to the dingyness of the camp and that horrible food they're being fed, but Sam was tough and would eventually get through it.

(The first two chapters will mainly be flashback of the first few days and then develop into an actual story, just sit tight, and this first chapter really sux the big one but just keep reading and it gets much better I promise!)