Since I'm being pressured to update… and since it's been months (sorry!) here ya go
Sam didn't speak to Squid for a few days after Zero ran away, no matter how much he tried to spark a conversation she just wouldn't give. He missed their conversations, how he could just vent all his frustrations about the other guys and his mom to her, it just seemed to make his life so much easier. He found all the conversations with the rest of D-Tent to be so dull and boring, they didn't hold much meaning. So one day after digging Squid thought he should try at least once more to get her to talk to him again.
As usual Sam and Caveman were the last people left digging their holes, when Caveman finished he offered to help Sam finish digging her hole, but she declined his offer saying she just wanted to be left alone. Secretly, she was really upset about the recent events that had taken place. It was really crushing her inside to not speak to Squid, he was one of her favourite people but she just couldn't believe that he would just turn on a member of D-Tent, especially turning them into the Warden.
Squid waited a few minutes after Caveman walked away before walking upto Sam's hole. She glanced up at him, unsure of who was still around, she had thought she was all alone. Seeing that it was Squid she quickly went back to digging as if she hadn't seen him, or as if he wasn't there.
"Hey Sam." Squid said slowly just to see what she would do. But as usual lately she completely ignored him and continued digging. Angrily Squid continued, "You know what, if you don't wanna talk to me then that's just fine, you can just listen to what I have to say!" He paused looking for some sort of reaction from Sam before continuing. "I don't know why you're so mad at me. I wasn't expecting Zero to go all crazy and run off like he did!"
Sam just kept on digging, although she was listening to what Squid was saying, she just wanted him to go away.
"I don't want us to become enemies just because I ran off my mouth like usual. Yes sometimes I don't think before I speak, but really you don't have to hate me because of it." Squid continued honestly. "I miss our conversations you know, you're the only person I can really open up to here. I wish you would just talk to me!"
Sam stopped digging and turned to face Squid, who smiled seeing that she was finally acknowledging him, but his smile quickly faded when he saw the look on her face.
"You miss our conversations? That's it? Do you not even understand why I'm so mad at you? Yes I realize it takes you about 3 weeks to think something through yet you have too much of a big mouth to hold back your sudden urges to speak. Zero was a part of D-Tent, actually not was he still is, and I just can't believe that you would turn your back on him!" She began to yell. "You turned him into the warden, what's the matter with you? If you would have told Pendanski, the reaction wouldn't have been so bad… but the Warden?"
Squid opened his mouth to speak but found he currently lost his voice. He'd never seen Sam so mad! He felt really bad for what he had done and wished he could take it back for Zero's sake and, more importantly, for his own sake.
Sam just continued her rant, venting every amount of anger she had bottled up inside of her over the past few days. "Zero could die out there with no food and no water! And just last night you were making jokes about how he's being pecked apart by buzzards. Tell me, is there something seriously wrong with you that you would actually find that concept remotely funny?" Breathing heavily she just stopped and stared up at Squid for a few seconds before going back to digging, faster and more feverishly that before.
After a few minutes of silence Squid replied so quietly that his voice was almost a whisper, "I'm sorry all right."
Sam turned around to face him, and found that he had tears forming in his eyes. "There's nothing worse than seeing a guy cry" she thought to herself, "But I'm not sorry for what I said, he deserved to be yelled at."
"I-I don't w-want Zero t-to get hurt," Squid continued in his strange whisper looking at his shoes, "making those kinds of jokes is just how I deal. Every night before I go to sleep all I can think about is how Zero just took off, and how I helped cause it." He paused and looked Sam right in the eyes, "It wasn't just my fault either, all the guys have been riding Zero since the day he got here, it's become our norm. And now all I want to do is take back all the bad things I ever said to Zero, I want to apologize for making his stay here even worse than it already is for everyone else. I know he's a good guy but, I don't know, I guess I just gave into group pressure and treated him just like everyone else does.
"But now that I've acted so stupid I've lost two people who could actually make a difference in my life." At these words Sam could feel the tears forming in her eyes as well. "I know that you'll probably never be able to forgive me, I probably will never be able to forgive myself either, but I just wanted you to know that you were probably the best friend I've ever had, and I'm really gonna miss you."
Squid turned to walk away, wiping the forming tears out of his eyes. Sam watched him go thinking over every word he said. "I never really thought about how he must feel over all of this." She thought to herself. "But he should feel bad about it! If he didn't feel the need to give his in put then things could be different now!" She replied to herself. "Exactly things could have been different, but you don't know that for sure! Anything could have set of that catastrophic spiral, not just those ten little words that fell out of Squid's mouth."
"Damn that bastard" She quietly mumbled to herself before running after Squid. "Squid you ass come here!"
Squid stopped walking and quickly turned around when Sam jumped on him knocking him to the ground and pressed her lips against his. He couldn't believe how soft they were even after being in the hot sun for weeks. He held her close to him until she pulled away and sat up on him.
"I never really thought about how you felt about Zero running away, I guess I just assumed that since you seemed to hate him so much you were happy that he's gone." She smiled and then began looking at the ground, "And it really wasn't your fault, at least now entirely, it was bound to happen eventually. I think that what made me the maddest was that you told the Warden of all people. I can't stand that woman!"
"I don't really know why I did it, I was kinda pissed about Zero jumping ZigZag, who is, after all, my closest friend, besides you that is." He paused for a moment then continued angrily, "I still can't believe I said that though, if I was anyone else I would have kicked my ass!"
"Hell I would have kicked your ass if I actually thought I could do some harm."
"Yea right, as if you would ever resort to that sort of violence, you're too much of a girl to do that!" Squid laughed.
"Excuse me? You're the one who started crying a little while ago. Now who's the girl?" She smacked his chest while getting to her feet.
Sitting up Squid replied "Well considering a few assets that you have which I, I'm sad to say, do not possess proves that you are much more of a girl than I am!" Now standing up as well he looked her up and down and continued, "And I must say that I wish someone would shrink your jumpsuit in the wash so we could see those assets!"
"Perv!" Sam laughed turning to head back to her hole.
"Do you want some help digging? We have a bit of catching up to do!"
Sam turned. "Squid, it's been 3 days, in Camp Greenlake, we couldn't have missed much!"
"You'd be surprised."
Laughing she continued walking back to her hole and yelled over her shoulder, "I'll meet up with you after supper."
There ya go, I'm sorry if this chapter kinda sucks I wrote it kinda quickly but I got a sudden burst of inspiration, otherwise known as a review, I thought everyone had stopped reading my story so I stopped writing. Anywho, I hope no one's upset that Sam seemed to forgive Squid so easily, but think about it, could you hold a grudge against Squid? Neither could I lol
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