Broken But Not Shattered

Chapter Three: Meeting The Staff and Tent

"Look Sweetheart, don't you go thinkin' you run this place just 'cause yer daddy paid a pretty nice price to have ya here. You're goin' to be treated like the rest of them." The Warden said pointing to some of the boys who were fooling around. "You understand me?!"

"Yeah, whateva."

"' 'scuse me?"

Keavy cleared her throat and said, "Yes, ma'am."

"Good, now this is Dr. Pendanski he will show you where you'll stay for the rest of yer sentence. Dr. Pendanski, this is Keavy Torrelli, please show her where to go."

"Hello, Keavy. I just want to let you know that just because you were sent here for something bad, it doesn't make you a bad person. Now follow me, you'll be in B-Tent." Pendanski said opening the door for her and leading her to the tents. "B stands for 'Believe' and I believe in you, Keavy."

"Okay. Wait, what do you mean, 'believe' you don't even know what I've been through! How can you say you believe in me when you don't even know me?! I don't want your pity or your 'touchy-feely' junk, just show me where to go and leave me alone!" She screamed in his face.

"See now that's what we need to work with is your temper, this is no place to be throwin' your emotions everywhere." Pendanski said shaking his finger at her.

Keavy grabbed a hold of his finger at squeezed it real hard and said, "I don't need any work on anything, do you hear me?!"

"Yes," he squealed "Now let go of my finger, please."

"So I see you've been beat by a girl, Pendanski." A tall man with a southern twang said as he spat out his sunflower seeds. "Well let me tell you something, little missy, you keep that temper up and you'll be diggin' more than one hole a day. I'm Mr. Sir, from now on in you will address me as Mr. Sir, understand?

Keavy held her laughter in as she said, "Whatever you say, Mr. Sir."

"Good, now follow me and we'll get you into some nice clothes." He said spitting a seed at her feet.

Keavy hesitated for she hated the look of that man, the way he walked, talked and even spit. She could see things in people that no one else saw, and she didn't like the look of him. But she reluctantly followed behind him.

"These are your clothes, don't like 'em? Too bad. Here are your shoes." Mr. Sir said as he threw a pair of oversized boots at her. "Pendanski!"

"Yes, Mr. Sir."

"Take her to the tent."

"Come on Keavy, follow me."

Keavy said nothing but followed the much-too-happy person.

"Like I said before you will be in B-Tent, you will be woken up at four a.m., then you will follow the rest of B-Tent to the 'Library' and grab your shovel. I will be your counselor 'cause the Warden said so, if you have any questions you ask me."

"Okay, Pendanski I've gotta question for ya." Keavy said letting her Brooklyn accent get the best of her.

"Okay, shoot."

"What the heck are we supposed to be doin' here? I thought this was some type of 'Juvey Hall' what's with the shovels."

"Oh Keavy, dear Keavy. You're sentence will be carried out by digging one hole a day, five feet deep and five feet wide. You're diggin' holes to build character, our philosophy here is: You take a bad boy or ,girl in your case, and make them dig holes all day in the sun and it turns him into a good boy or girl in your case."

"Oh I see, and one more thing, don't you ever call me 'Dear Keavy' again or I will wipe that pathetic smirk off your all-too-happy face, ya hear me!?"

"I-uh well would you look at that here's B-Tent, let's get you acquainted. Boys of B-Tent, get your lazy butt's over here!"

"What's this little thing doin' here, Pendanski?" A tall boy asked

"This is your new tent-mate, Mike."

"Nice we've got a chick here boys! Come and look."

All the boys of B-Tent ran over to where Keavy stood dumbfounded. She really didn't like being the center of attention. "Okay there's nothing to see here!" She screamed at them.

"Ooooooo and she's got a nice accent too. Come here girl and give me some of that," A boy with a nose-ring and a scar on his lip said looking at places he shouldn't.

"Oh you want some of this now do you?" She said playing dumb

"Oh yeah."

Keavy ran at him and was doing any possible thing to cause him pain, and it was working too.

"That's enough!" Pendanski shouted breaking through the crowd of shouting boys who yelling 'Fight, fight, fight!'

Pendanski grabbed Keavy who now had the boy in some sort of headlock and was punching his already bloody nose and was working on getting that ring out of it.

"Ya see what you get for being inappropriate, Scar?" Pendanski said while trying to hold the small stocky body of the wild Keavy.

"Let go of me, Jerk!" she yelled as she kicked Pendanski in the.....well you know, yeah she kicked him there. Pendanski toppled over in shear agony as the rest of B-Tent burst out in un-controllable laughter. From behind there was a gunshot.

"That's enough!" the Warden yelled.

Immediately the boys were quiet. Keavy didn't get it, "Why do they stop when she comes and not when that fool of a doctor comes." She thought to herself.

"I've had enough! I knew this would happen if a girl was brought here, well for the price her daddy paid for her I guess it was worth it." The Warden debated with herself then turning her conversation to Pendanski she said, "Let her be, and leave her to chat with the boys." And with that the Warden left and Pendanski got up a limped away.

" So, what ya in for, girl." The boy Pendanski called Mike asked as he scooted over to her cot.

"None of your business, now leave me alone before I hurt you like I did with Dr. ' Talk-It-Out-And-It'll-Make-You-Better', okay?!"

"Alright, alright...look I meant nothin' by it, I was just askin'. Oh by the way, I'm Link."

"Okay thank you for that really random piece of useless information, now go make yourself useful and leave, now." Keavy demanded standing up off her cot.

"Okay, Okay!"

Just as Keavy was ready to call it a night she heard a voice from behind, "Hey chick, you comin'?"

"Coming where?"

"To the Wreck Room."

"What's the Wreck Room?"

"Hey just follow me okay?"

Keavy wasn't sure if she could trust this boy called Link, but he seemed kinda decent so she followed him. Link fell back in line and asked, "So really what you in for?"

"I really don't know, what about you what you in for?"

"Oh I hacked into the CIA files, got caught and well now I'm here."

"I see. So is this the Wreck Room?"

"Yep, Oh crud!"

"What?"

"D-Tent's here."

"So I take it we don't like D-Tent, right."

"Yep."

Keavy walked in the Wreck Room with B-Tent. When the boys of D-Tent saw her they immediately fell silent all with the exception of Armpit who whistled a catcall at her. When Keavy heard that her blood started to boil. She went up to Armpit and grabbed him by his shirt collar and said, "You do anything like that again and I'll hurt you just like I did to him!" pointing to Scar.

"Look, sorry chill out."

"Hey nice one you pulled on ol' Scar," A boy with frizzy hair said

"Uh Thanks."

"So why you in here anyways, I mean last time I checked there wasn't any girls allowed." He said trying to keep the conversation up.

"Yeah, well sometimes rules change right?"

"Yeah, right."

"So Chica, you not from around here are you?" A Hispanic boy asked

"No wonder they don't like D-Tent, all their boys are better looking." Keavy thought to herself. Interrupting her own thoughts she said, "No does it sound like I'm from Hick-Ville, USA?! And to answer your question I'm from Brooklyn."

"So that's where the big mouth is from," The Hispanic boy shot back at her

"Say that again," she added through gritted teeth

"I said that's where------" He was cut off by another boy from D-Tent

"Hey Magnet, leave her alone, she's new here give 'er some time, okay? Look I apologize for Magnet he's a just a little nervous that's all. Oh by the way, I'm Squid," he said sticking out his hand for a shake.

Keavy refused to take it but said, "I'm Keavy, Keavy Torrelli."

"Welcome to Camp Green Lake, Keavy Torrelli."

"Whatever," she said walking off into a corner. "Man," she thought to herself these guys are really good looking." But that never came out of the mouth of Keavy Torrelli, only sarcastic comments happen to fly out, if she was in a good mood.

A/N: Okay well tell me what you guys think, hope you like it! Well until next time.....