Covered Emotions
Chapter 2
The three hours flew by and ended with the sound of a bell. Strings woke up and found most of the girls waking up themselves.
"What was that bell for?" Skye asked, through yawning. She had fallen asleep on the ground. Just then Miss B's head popped through the curtain.
"That bell means it's dinner." she told them. "Be prepared girls, the food is naturally disgusting." All the girls groaned and groggily got up out of bed. Skye waited for everyone to leave the tent, then immediately made a mad dash for her bag. She rummaged through it until she found her white gold bracelet, placed it on her right wrist then hurried to dinner.
At dinner she realized she was sitting with some guys. They were all in heavy conversation when she came up and took a seat beside Strings. "Hello." she said, politely.
"Hey." replied a black guy with thick glasses. "I'm X-ray, that's Armpit, Squid, Zig-Zag and Magnet." They all nodded to her and she smiled.
"So" Spark started "Skye, your sister Harlot told us that you both are models." Skye just nodded. "How do models get into a camp for trouble makers? What'd you do? Model the wrong clothes and disgust your audience?" she asked sneakily.
"No but thanks for asking." Skye replied. "Actually we killed two people." At this everyone at the table stared at Skye and dropped their utensils. "What?" she asked calmly. "I'm guessing you all want to know the story." No one moved. "Since you're so proud of the story India, why don't you tell them?"
With a shake of her head, Harlot postured her back so she wasn't slouched. "Well me and my sister were part of this modelling show with this really hideous model named Emerald who was jealous of us. At our last show she was given no positive comments, she was constantly being compared to us. So she told us she'd get us back." Taking a quick sip of her water and spitting it out on Strings' face, Harlot regained herself and continued telling the story. "She hired a hitman to kill us. He came to the show and started to frisk Skye. I saw it and ran back to the make-up room and got out a gun I saw in Emerald's pack. I ran back and shot him in the head. Emerald heard the shots and ran inside only to find we were alive which made her mad. So she came after us with a huge knife. Skye pushed her back and tried to grab the knife but she got cut on her arm. Emerald slashed her dress and decided to come after me but Skye tripped her and she fell on her knife. Then the police came and arrested us on the spot."
"Murderers!" Zig-Zag shouted. He turned away but it was no use. He was sitting beside Harlot. She glared at him.
"If Dad wasn't so lazy, I wouldn't have to be here with these commoners." she mumbled. "I'm leaving." She held up her tray and stuck her nose up in the air as she walked away.
"What a conceited little" Spark started but looked up to see Skye looking at her. "Don't tell me your like her, are you?"
"No way. I'm the total opposite of her but she's still my sister and I have to love her."
"Whatever." Spark said groaning. Skye sighed and continued eating.
The meal ended with those last words from Spark and everyone went off in their seperate ways. Skye invited Sapphire, Strings and Jazz to watch a movie on her dvd player she snuck in. The others were no where to be seen. Harlot had gotten her clothes out to take a shower and had spent a good five minutes in there when the water went off. She kicked the shower with all her might and cursed at it. "I didn't tell you to stop!" she screamed. A girl with dark brown hair and green eyes stood outside the shower.
"Excuse me but can you hurry up? I need to use the shower." she whispered quietly.
"Pipe up pipsqueak." Harlot snapped. She wrapped her towel around her and came out, blocking the way of the shower door. "I suppose you should use the shower since you look so dirty." The girl's eyes began to tear up as she stood there, shaking.
"I'm not dirty." she quietly retorted.
"Sure you're not. You're poor are you not?" She nodded with tears falling down her red cheeks. "Not only are you dirty, but also worthless. You poor people need to go and get jobs." The girl burst out in tears and fell to the ground.
"How could you be so cruel?" she asked.
"Hey, what are you doing to my sister?" a booming voice shouted. Harlot looked up and saw a guy running towards the fallen girl. "Starlet, what'd she do?" He scooped up Starlet in his arms and rocked her as Harlot stood by checking him out. He had strong arms and a nice 6-pack. With the same shade of hair as his sisters, and eyes just as green as her's, he glared up at Harlot as Starlet whispered in his ear. "Ok sis,you go to your tent. I'll take care of everything." She followed his directions and ran into C-Tent. Harlot winked at the scowling stranger. "Do you see me smiling?" he shouted. "This isn't a time to be picking up someone!"
"It's hard whatever your name is."
"It's Turbo." he shouted. Harlot walked up to him and tried her best to look as sexy as she could. "And what's so damn hard? Trying to pick on people who don't have what you have? Seemed like that was easy enough for you." he scoffed.
"I didn't mean she was a worthless nobody. If I knew you were related, I would have never said that." she said, standing just inches away from him. His left hand flew up and instantly met her right cheek, sending her flying to the ground. She screamed. Some guys and girls ran outside, Skye leading them. She ran beside her sister and looked up at the stranger.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Turbo. That mutt has been disrespecting my sister. Who are you?" he asked, finger stuck in Harlot's direction.
"Would it be safe to say she was my sister?"she giggled nervously as several faces scowled. There was a hushed number off boo's as Turbo bent down to be face-to-face with Skye. She gulped.
"I want her" he spat "That girl, to stay away from me and my sister. Keep her away, you understand?" Skye nodded her head so fast it felt as if it would fall off. "Good." He sighed when everyone had left and left Skye with one solid thought. "I hope you're not like your sister or that'll pose serious problems here for you." He stood and walked into his sister's tent to comfort her. Skye also stood up and shook her head.
"It's not my fault." Harlot whispered. "I couldn't help tell her off. Her apperance bothered me."
"You can never seem to control your mouth." Skye said. "Try next time." She walked into the tent with Harlot following her.
In the tent, Miss B sat on Catastrophe's cot, propping her up. Sapphire was also up, along with Spark and Jazz. Skye asked Miss B what was wrong with the 17-year old.
"Her period. She just got it." she answered. At the word 'period', Catastrophe shuddered and shook hard, groaning. Miss B tried her best to shush her but it was no use. The pain was too great. "Do you want me to get the Warden?" Miss B asked. Catastrophe did not reply. Sapphire got up and went over to Miss B.
"I can take of her until you come back. " she offered. Miss B moved Catastrophe into Sapphire's lap and edged out of the tent, quietly. Harlot would have interjected but she'd done enough for that night. But Spark filled in for her.
"The girl needs to suck it up." she shot out. "Every girls gets their period. I got mine yesterday, do you see me wallowing in pain?"
"Spark, every girl's periods hurts them differently." Jazz retorted. "Yours might not hurt as badly as her's does."
"Every girl's period always hurts them badly but they have to tough it up." Spark spat back. The Warden and Miss B walked in with orange suits.
"Miss B I presume told you all about digging holes?" The girls all nodded with the exception of Strings who slept peacefully. The Warden smirked. "Good." She threw each girls two orange jumpsuits. "This is the only thing you will wear here. One is for digging and the other relaxing in. In two weeks, you switch them. You dig your first hole at 4 am. Am I making myself clear?"
Sapphire cleared her throat. "Warden, I can't wear this." The Warden turned to face her.
"Why not?"
"I do not believe in wearing such a hideous form of orange or jumpsuits. It's over 100 degrees and we have to dig in this?" Sapphire scoffed. "That's riduclous."
The Warden jeered. "What's more riduclous is you digging in whatever you please. You will dig in these. And starting from now, you'll be sleeping in them." The girls began to protest but The Warden shut them up by growling at them. "Now, I was called over here for Catastrophe." Catastrophe groaned and The Warden looked at her.
"Well, what's wrong with ya?"
Catastrophe tried her best to sit up without Sapphire's help. "I just got my period and it's killing me. I don't think I can dig tommorrow."
"You think you can't dig?" The Warden pressed her face into Catastrophe's. "You think? Can you rephrase that sentence for me?"
"I meant I'll try my best to dig tomorrow." Catastrophe did not want to let down without a fight but she was in too much pain to argue. She would just not go to dig tomorrow.
The Warden left the tent, leaving the girls to get ready for bed. Skye lay in her bed, wondering about this camp.So much had happened already. So many people hated her, her sister had gotten in trouble again, she discovered that the Warden was a jerk and she made new friends. Forcing herself to get some sleep, she shut her eyes, dreaming about the day when she would leave the camp and return to her warm, inviting mansion.