Chapter 5: Showers, sweat, and onion juice
Everyone sat back inside the D-tent talking and lounging around. "Damn I'm bored." Sighed Squid, suddenly getting hit in the face with Zigzags pillow. "No swearing in front of a girl!" Zigzag was persistent.
Ash laughed standing up. "Well I'm all hot and sticky even if I didn't dig today. I'm gonna go take a shower." she grabbed a long black T-shirt from her bag and walked off towards the shower. Squid smirked, but just as he was about to get up Caveman pre-occupied him with a game of cards, knowing that he would probably get slaughtered if Ash caught him watching her at the showers.
Ash shivered slightly as the icy water hit her face. The chill of it came as a shock, a sharp contrast to the sweltering heat outside. She grimaced at the low pressure.
The long black T-shirt clung to her like a second skin, but she was glad she had brought it with her. She could see shadows of the other boys wandering around her shower stall. She uncomfortably noted that they were much closer than was necessary some even dared to lean against the waist high wall, the only thing separating a soaking Ash from these boys.
Quite unexpectedly, the water shut off. Ash groaned and reached for her towel, cursing the camp under her breath.
She came face to face with Zigzag as she stepped out of the stall. "Hiya Zigzag," she said pleasantly, ignoring the catcalls from the other boys. Zigzag just stared at her, making her glare at him, breaking his eye contact when he looked away as if scared.
The lurking boys jokingly groaned as she wrapped the towel around her waist, concealing her bare legs. She threw the dry orange suit over her shoulder and walked back to D-tent beside Zigzag.
Flopping back on her bunk already changed back into the orange suit she sighed reaching under her cot to check for her bag. She sat up quickly, when she noticed it was missing. "Um…where did my bag go?" Squid and X-ray looked up. "Dunno." Said X-ray; Squid laughed throwing her bag back at her.
She shook her head and sighed, stuffing the bag back under the cot. The boys continued talking for a while, then Pendanski showed up, an annoying grin slaped on his face. "Good evening boys." He said, his ridiculously huge floppy sun hat was gone but the lotion on his nose was still there.
"Don't forget about Salsa, I'm sure she don't like to be called a boy." X-ray said; Ash raised an eyebrow. "Looks like you have a nickname now." Pendanski said to her. "Right then…Salsa..." she laughed. "Hey you can really Salsa dance!" laughed Magnet. "And I should know!"