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Chapter 12: Back on Track

Terry burst into the smelly tent. It was if she walking on air. Her heart felt as if it had sprouted wings and was fluttering around in her chest. She didn't know what squid was about to do a few moments ago, but she had a good feeling it was to tell her something nice. She flopped down on her stained mattress. It was still bare from the last spill. Not caring, she picked up a picture of her family: Mom, Dad, and Erick. Her mom was smiling nicely, wearing her blue blouse. Terry had her brown hair, that was for sure. Dad was grinning from ear to ear. He had on a grey and brown plaid shirt. His hair was salt and pepper-ish in this picture. Erick had his usually goofy smirk on his face. His bright blonde hair was spiked with just a little too much jel.

Flashback
(yes, all these flashbacks are annoying, but they are telling you of how she was before CGL)

'Terry, pass the margarine please.' Her mother said in a soft voice. Across from her, Erick was stuffing his 17-year-old face with spaghetti . Dad was twirling his on the fork politely.

"Bewwy, thee thed paff dah mogwen!" Said Erick, his cheeks bulging with pasta.

"Mom said don't talk with your mouth full!" Said Terry, handing her mom the margarine. She stuck her toungue out at him. He tried to do it back, but it just resulted in partially chewed noodles and meat falling onto his plate.

"Aww, gross! Daaad!" It was both funny and disgusting at the same time.

"Erick, please swallow your food before speaking." Said their father.

"Thowy, thnot muh fult." He laughed. Then he coughed from food going the wrong way.

"Serves you right!" Giggled Terry.

End Of Flashback

She smiled fondly and stuck the photo back in her bag. Erick was such a goofball. Come to think of it, he was turning 18 in a few weeks. She rolled over on her bed and looked up at the roof/canopy of the tent. There were a few bugs flying around trying to escape. They were spiraling everywhere hopelessly. 'All of them will die eventually,' Terry thought. She heard the tent flaps flip open. The rest of the boys came in, chattering. Squid came over to Terry's bed.

"Uhh…thanks for saving me back there!" He whispered quietly. She turned her head to face him.

"No problem." She smiled and turned over again. Mattresses creaked and groaned as people sat down. Terry suddenly realized something.

'Yikes! This is my fifth day without a shower!' She reached into her back and snatched her soap and towel. Squid still had her shampoo. She leaped up, and ran out, not noticing she dropped her bar of soap. She ran over to the showers, and to her utter delight, most of them had been fitted with locking doors. To her utter displeasure, they were all taken. Except one. She opened the door and looked at it. The lock was broken off. Rats!

She looked around. There were a few other boys sitting around waiting for their turn. They were watching her curiously. She didn't want to drape her towel over the sides of an open backed stall again. No sir-EE. So she stood and waited outside. The heard footsteps coming around this side. Alan walked around, and saw Terry.

"You dropped your soap on the way out of the tent," he said, while handing her the bar. She took it and looked up at him.

"Th-thanks…"

'Why did I stammer?'

She swallowed and said:

"Squid, can you do a favor for me?"

"Yeah, what?" He spat his toothpick onto the gravel.

"Can you hold the door while I have a shower?"

"Um…Sure." She walked over to the stall and closed the door. It swung open a bit, but then Squid grabbed it and held it shut.

"Thanks!" She undressed and turned the tap on.

Squid's P.O.V.

When she got in, he snatched the top of the door and swung it shut.

"Thanks!"

He sighed. The other guys were giving him curious expressions.

"D-Tent! All the luck!" Said a guy with curly red hair. He could hear the shower being turned on and the clunk of shower tokens as they went into the machine.

Squid decided not to look at them.

He waited for a long time.

"Are you done yet?" He asked, impatiently.

"Nope," came the cheerful reply.

"Hurry up! Or I'll open the door on you!" He said. (A/N: Bad move!)He was just kidding, but evidently, Terry didn't get the joke. Over the top of the door came a grey sneaker, whapping him in the cheek, hard.

"Yowch! Jeez I was just kidding!" He exclaimed. He rubbed his face and glared at the laughing boys watching him.

"You better be!" The water came off and there was a rustling around inside the stall.

Suddenly the door burst open, knocking the boy flat on his face, on the cement platform. Terry was dressed in usual grey tank top and shorts, but since she was sopping wet they really clung to her body. Squid lifted his head and his jaw hung open absentmindedly. Someone whistled at her, and she tensed up and hurried off in a huff. The guy who whistled glanced questioningly at Squid. (Who was still on the ground.)

"She doesn't like to flirt." He commented simply. He picked himself up and snatched his towel. Out of it fell Terry's shampoo. He got that, too. He ran into a random stall, and shoved the tokens into the machine.

Terry's P.O.V.

'I can't believe he would say something like that. I guess everyone in this camp IS a pervert after all!' She stormed into the tent, and threw her towel in her bag. She tried to sit down on her cot, but did it so hard that she bounced off and landed on the ground, instead.

"OOF!"

Her wet clothed were now nicely coated in sand, which made her even more cross. She jumped onto the stupid contraption and curled up in a tight ball. Zigzag was the only one stupid enough to ask what happened.

"Squid threatened to fucking open the DOOR if I didn't HURRY up!" She yelled. Things went silent.

Magnet shrugged his shoulders.

"You can't blame him."

All the neighboring tents suddenly went still. From D-Tent, came the very loud, sharp sound of hand against cheek. It practically echoed around the whole camp. Even in the showers, Squid and the other boys looked up when they heard it.

Terry stamped back to her bed, fists balled up and shoulders tense. Steam practically poured from her ears. Magnet clutched his face. On his left cheek was a glowing red handprint. His eyes were rather teary. The boys were used to Terry's little temper tantrums by now, but this time, she must have been really mad…

When Squid arrived in the tent no one spoke. They were all watching him and faced away from the girl. He raised an eyebrow at X-Ray. He leaned over and whispered in his ear:

"I think she's pretty pissed at you."

Squid went over to her cot and said:

"I'm sorry, Terry. I didn't mean it." Her head jerked upward to look at him. If looks could kill, Squid would be six feet under by now. He backed away and got into his own cot.

Mr. Pendanski swung the flaps open.

"Lights out…" He saw Magnet's face and Terry's glance. She looked nearly possessed with anger.

"What happened, boys?"

"Just something I said," Grumbled Squid.

"Alrighty!" He quickly exited the scene.

"Terry turned around and flopped onto her side, still curled in a ball. Her wet hair was dripping down her back.

'Damn I'm cold…'