Here's my next chapter, a lot faster than the last one but that's because I had so much free time today. Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: If i owned the boys, things would happen, but i don't so i'll just imagine it!
The next day things were still kind of awkward between Sam and Squid. They hardly spoke to each other all morning and when they did it wasn't for any meaningful conversations Squid telling Sam the water truck was coming and Sam asking Squid to borrow his gloves.
"Sorry if I've ruined your friendship with Squid, I was just kidding around like everyone else." Said Caveman while everyone lined up for the water truck.
"You didn't ruin our friendship so don't worry about it" Sam replied looking Caveman in the eyes "it's just kinda awkward between us now, I'm sure things will get back to normal soon enough!"
"Where's your whip Caveman?" asked one of the guys walking by.
"Hey, it's just an agreement!" replied Caveman defensively.
"Guys lay off!" Sam shouted making all the boys go into quiet murmurings together.
"I think you should just let them say what they want. And maybe we shouldn't talk to eachother anymore, before they exclude you too." Said Caveman walking away from Sam.
"Great, now I have no one to talk to! I can't talk to Caveman unless I wanna get excluded from everyone else and I can't talk to Squid without getting all embarrassed. Plus the rest of the guys just aren't that interesting!" thought Sam to herself while waiting in line.
Upon reaching the front of the line Sam smiled at Mr. Sir and gave him a cheerful "Hey dad!" but instead of smiling back he just looked at her with his seemingly vicious glare. "What?" Sam asked saddened.
"I heard you were mouthin' off about the warden!" said Mr. Sir grabbing Sam's bottle and starting to fill it.
"Well, I was just mad about what she did to you, it wasn't fair!"
"Yeah well I can deal with it alright, don't go getting yourself involved! It was nice of the warden to let you stay here and unless you wanna go to a foster home you better mind your p's and q's." (I never understood this phrase can someone plz explain?) He finished filling up her water bottle and shoved it back at her. "Now get back to diggin'"
Sam took the water bottle and glared at her father mumbling "I'd rather be in a foster home than digging in the hot sun all day!" Mr. Sir could barely hear her mumbling and angrily asked "What'd you say?"
"Nuthin'!"
"It better have been nuthin' or I'll make it somethin'!"
"Oh wow I'm so scared." She replied sarcastically under her breath.
The rest of the morning was about uneventful as ever, no one really talked much and just kept digging until the lunch truck came, to Sam's delight it wasn't her father bringing her food, instead it was Dr. Pendanski. "Never thought I'd be happy to see that little shit!" she thought walking to the lunch truck.
While standing at the back of the line she saw Squid grab a handful of crackers right in front of Pendanski, who was completely oblivious, and hand some to ZigZag who walked over to Caveman and kicked his foot. From where she was standing she couldn't hear what they were saying to each other but she knew they were arguing about Zero helping Caveman dig his holes. All of a sudden ZigZag shoved his cookie in Caveman's mouth, who pushed him away only to be pushed back harder. Soon the two boys broke out into a huge fight, with Squid trying to evade it, but were surprisingly being egged on by Dr. Pendanski!
"Go on Stanley, hit him back!" Sam heard Pendanski say while she walked over to the fight. She just stared at Pendanski in disbelief and then looked back at the two boys struggling on the ground. She stared at Squid and made a gesture to the fight signalling that she wanted him to stop it, but he just shrugged him shoulders, she knew that he couldn'tdo anything about it but she at least wanted him to try!
ZigZag was really giving it to Caveman and no one seemed to care enough to stop him before he killed Caveman, no one that is except for Zero who jumped onto ZigZag's back and started to strangle him. That's when Pendanski stepped in shouting at Zero to stop and aided by the rest of D-tent trying to pull Zero off of ZigZag, but nothing could persuade Zero to let go, except for the shot of Pendanski's shot gun. Sam just sat down and stared at the mess of boys who all froze at the sound of the gun. "Now when I say end something,I meanend it!" Pendanski yelled.
Pendanski called Mr. Sir and the warden out to the dig site after everyone was separated into two lines each facing one another. The first line consited of Xray, Magnet, Armpit, Sam, Squid, andZigZag; the second line consisted of only Zero and Caveman.
Upon arrival, the warden began questioning the boys on what happened, how the fight started and escaladed.
"You see Ziggy was beating up the Caveman right? Then Zero started choking Ziggy! I had to pull Zero off of him." Explained Armpit.
"Yea, Zig just got a little hot you know working in the hot sun all day blood starts to boil." Added X-Ray.
"Is that what happened?" the Warden asked walking up to Zig Zag.
"Yes ma'am. Working in the hot sun all day, while Caveman just sits around and does nothing."
"Excuse me? Caveman digs his hole just like everyone else!"
"Sometimes."
"Excuse me?" Asked the Warden angrily."Ma'am, Zero's been diggin' a part of Caveman's hole everyday." Put in Squid. Sam punched him in the arm disbelievingly. "How could he just tell her that! " Sam thought. This caused the Warden to turn on Sam.
"Excuse me, lil' miss Sir, but I am not gonna put up with any of your crap such as this. Don't think I don't know what you said!"
Mr. Sir could see Sam was about to say something to make matters worse for her, so he quickly changed the subject back to the fight and turned to Stanley, "You ain't diggin' holes no more?"
"I-I'm teaching him how to read." Stanley stuttered looking from Mr. Sir to the Warden.
"What?" asked Mr. Sir confused.
"He's a smart kid!"
"Smart? Oh yea," Piped in Dr. Pendanski in disbelieve. "Hey Zero what does C-A-T spell? Huh, what's it spell?" he paused as Zero just glared at him. "Oh yea, he's a real genius. He's so stupid, he doesn't even know he's stupid!"
"Okay from now on I don't want anyone digging anyone else's hole! And no more reading lessons!" The warden yelled.
"Well if the holes getting dug who cares who's digging it right?"
"You know why you're digging holes? Cause it's good for ya, it teaches you a lesson!" said Mr. Sir right up in Stanley's face
The Warden also turned on him "If Zero digs your hole for you then you're not learning your lesson, are you?"
"Well why can't I dig my hole and teach him how to read?" Caveman asked questioninly, he enjoyed teaching Zero, and just giving up when he was doing so well just didn't sit right with him.
"Cause I said so." She replied strictly.
"We know you mean well Stanley. But the mental stress just causes his brain too much of a challenge. That's what made his blood boil, not the hot sun!" Came Pendanski's voice, somewhat happily since everyone turned on Zero.
"I'm not digging anymore holes." Zero said plainly.
"Good."Respondedthe Warden
"I mean, you might as well teach this shovel to read." Said Pendanski, grabbing ZigZag's shoveland throwingit to Zero he continued, "Go ahead Zero, take it, it's all you'll ever be good for. D-I-G, what's that spell?"
Zero gripped the shovel like a bat and swung it as hard as he could at Pendanski's head. Crouching down to his body all he said was"Dig!" before running away. Mr. Sir began chasing afterhim with his pistol out, as Stanley yelled, "Go Zero GO!"
"Don't shoot!" Shouted the Warden.
"What? You think I was gonna shoot him?" Asked Mr. Sir angrily
"The last thing we need is an investigation!" Hissed the Warden.
"Don't you think I know that? Misinterpretation! Let him go then!"
The Warden dumped all of Zero's water from his canteen onto Pendanski to wake him up. While doing so she said, "I want round the clock guards on all water sources!" and turned to Caveman "I still expect seven holes!" then walked back to her car.
Caveman just stood there in disbelief watching Zero's retreating figure. Sam walked over to Caveman to comfort him, but all he could say was, "I don't think he's coming back. He could die out there and it would be all my fault!"
"Never underestimate the survival skills of an homeless kid! He'll come back when he needs to like you said he's a smart kid! But for now we'll just have to wait."
"I hope your right." He said sadly while walking back to his hole.
"I hope so too." Sam whispered to herself as Zero went clear out of sight.
Woo this is a long one! Enjoy! Don't forget to Review.. you know you wanna!