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Chapter 2
Sophie felt like telling her mum that there was no way on heaven and earth that she was going to waste her future being in charge of a pointless Juvenile Delinquent Centre and that she thought the whole reason she had quite an expensive education was so that she could have a successful career in future, she had been planning on becoming a Lawyer ever since she had watched, 'Legally Blonde,' but she guessed that dream had been totally shattered now. Although Sophie felt like saying all this, the words just didn't seem to come out of her mouth. This may have been because she was just so shocked, or it may have been because she was a bit frightened of what her mum's reaction to all that would be.
Before she had even got the chance to work up the courage to perhaps say it, she was ushered out of the cabin by her mum and found herself standing outside with the grumpy, wannabe- cowboy. "But I don't want to…" Sophie mumbled under her breath, her eyes fixed on the cracked ground.
"What was that?" she heard Mr Sir say sharply.
She looked up to see him staring down at her, his brow furrowed in a deep frown.
"Nothing," Sophie mumbled.
Mr Sir gestured for Sophie to follow him and began walking briskly so that Sophie had to jog to keep up with him.
"Where are we going?" she asked.
"To the Rec room," Mr Sir grunted, "I am making sure no more fights brake out, we seem to be having a lot recently"
Sophie stopped dead in her tracks, "Fights?" she gulped, imagining boys beating the crap out of each other and even possibly starting on her. The idea really made her not want to go in the Rec room.
"Yeah, are you deaf or something.." Mr Sir started to say but he quickly stopped and his face turned beetroot, "Um.. Sorry.. Sophie, is it? Yeah it's Sophie. What I was meant to say there is fights, the boys are a snaky little bunch, of course your not deaf"
He laughed nervously. Sophie looked at him quite baffled at his sudden apology, then she realised, her mum had said 'treat her like you treat me,' and perhaps he had realised that he wasn't treating Sophie the way he treats his boss.
Sophie looked at Mr Sir warily, these Juvenile Delinquents sounded worse and worse every minute.
"This is the Rec room," Mr Sir said, pushing open a rickety door which creaked melodramatically, "Stay close to me"
Sophie peaked around Mr Sir cautiously.
First thing she noticed was that the lights were very dim in this room, and she could hear the blare of the radio and the noise of pool balls being hit. She could see a lot of boys in orange jumpsuits, most were just slumped on torn, grotty couches and chairs, but she could see a fair amount of activity as well. About five boys were crowded around a battered weight bench and she could see that a large pool table stood out above everything else, and quite a few of the boys were very absorbed in a game of pool. Everything looked grubby or broken in the Rec room. Sophie wasn't really surprised.
She didn't want to go in, she kept thinking how much she'd prefer to be back in her mum's cabin right now, at least it was clean!
Everything in the Rec room seemed to have a layer of dirt and dust on it. Sophie guessed that this may have come from when the boys dig holes and they bring all the dirt back in the Rec room.
Mr Sir walked in, eyeing the boys suspiciously, the boys didn't seem to pay much attention to him. Sophie tried to walk behind him, as quiet as she could, so she didn't draw attention to herself.
That didn't really work.
"LOOK, THERE'S THE GIRL WE TOLD YOU ABOUT"
"And you didn't believe us"
"She's pretty hot"
"Woah! What is a chick doing here"
Soon all the calls and comments became all one big noise to Sophie. She stood next to Mr Sir and tried to avoid eye contact with any of the boys, instead she looked straight ahead, at the grubby wall opposite.
"SHUT UP THE LOT OF YER!" Sophie heard Mr Sir bellow.
The boys quietened down slightly.
"This is the Warden's daughter, she will be staying here for three months, and if any of you boys lay so much as one finger on her, the Warden says you will have to dig two holes a day from then on," Mr Sir shouted over the slight noise.
The boys looked sort of disappointed. Sophie warily looked at them, she felt many eyes bore into her.
After Mr Sir had finished his little speech some boys turned and carried on with whatever they were doing before, most were still looking at Sophie with longing expressions on their faces. Sophie stuck by Mr Sir, she didn't really like him but she didn't dare leave his side in case one of the boys came over.
Mr Sir was standing by the pool table, watching over quite a rowdy game of pool.
Sophie stood by him, looking down at her feet so that she wouldn't have to see the boys staring at her.
"You alright?" she heard a voice above her, she knew it was one of the boys who were watching the pool game.
She slowly looked up. A blonde haired boy was standing beside her, he was staring at her with big emerald- coloured eyes.
"I'm as fine as I'd ever be stuck in the middle of no-where and totally frying up in this heat," Sophie said, sarcastically. Sophie actually surprised herself that she had actually spoken.
The boy laughed roughly, "Yeah, I guess it was a kind of stupid question to ask"
"It was," Sophie said, abruptly. She kept saying sarcastic, obnoxious things without even meaning too.
The boy raised an eyebrow at her, "Your quite a feisty one, ain't yer?"
"I wouldn't describe it as feisty," Sophie said grumpily, "Just wanting to be left alone are the words I'd chose"
Mr Sir gave the boy a harsh look, "Clear off, Cats eye"
Cats eye? Sophie wondered if she had heard correctly.
"I was just being friendly Mr Sir," the boy said, defensively.
"You being friendly?" Mr Sir snorted, "Never heard of such an absurd thing, now bugger off before I call the Warden telling her your harassing her daughter," The boy gave Mr Sir a dirty look before slouching off towards some dodgy looking boys standing in the corner.
Sophie felt a wave of relief wash over her, finally he had gone!
"Did I hear you call that boy, Cats eye," Sophie asked Mr Sir curiously.
"Yeah, it's his nickname, his real name is um… Arron, I think," Mr Sir said.
Mr Sir's walkie-talkie then began making noises and he went off in the corner to talk into it.
Sophie suddenly found herself all alone, standing in the middle of the Rec room.
It wasn't long before someone came over to her. This boys had short, spiky brown hair and hazel eyes, he had his eye- brow pierced and Sophie could see a tattoo of a snake slithering up his arm. "I'm glad your by yourself," he said grinning.
"I'm not glad," Sophie squeaked, mostly talking to herself.
"Don't worry babe, your in safe hands," the boy said still with the grin on his face.
"Well if it's your hands I don't feel particularly safe!" Sophie said, backing away from him.
"Hey now! You can't be saying that. You don't even know me," he said, the grin vanishing.
"And I don't want to know you!" Sophie said, still moving away from him.
"Good, I like girls who play hard to get," he said.
"I'm not playing hard to get, you'll never 'get' me so just, get away from me!" she said, getting really annoyed with him being so persistent.
"Is Snake bothering you?" Sophie heard a voice behind her.
She turned around and saw an African American boy behind her who was wearing thick-rimmed glasses. "No I'm not bothering you, am I, babe? We're just having a nice chat that's all, X ray," Snake said.
"Well to me it looks like she doesn't want to have a 'nice chat' with you," X ray said, folding his arms and giving Snake a piercing glare.
"C'mon, let's go somewhere more private," Snake said, grabbing Sophie's arm.
"GET OFF OF ME!" Sophie shouted, digging her nails into Snake's arm so that he gasped in pain and immediately let go.
The boy with the glasses who Sophie assumed was called X ray shoved Snake backwards so that he stumbled over the chair behind him.
Snake quickly got up and fixed X ray with an icy glare but he didn't say a word, instead he just turned round and slunk off in the other direction.
"Are you ok?" X ray asked, looking at Sophie who was breathing heavily.
Before Sophie could answer, Mr Sir came dashing over.
"Well, well, well, I shouldn't be at all surprised," Mr Sir said, a slightly amused expression on his face.
Sophie looked up at the odd man, confused.
Mr Sir carried on looking at X ray, "You always have to have everything don't you, X ray? Your always first in the water line. You always go around with all your little cronies obeying your every order. You always think what you say goes and now the minute I leave Sophie by herself you are straight over to her. C'mon Sophie," he began walking towards the other side of the Rec room and Sophie followed him.
Right, that has just confirmed it, Mr Sir is a complete Psycho!
Now, please, tell me what you think so far!