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Chapter Four
Sophie waited in her mum's cabin for the 'Mr Pendanski' guy who Mr Sir had mentioned she was going to do Lunch rounds with. She was doodling some pictures in her sketch book when she heard a light knocking on the cabin door, and a bright and cheery voice, "Hullllooo! Is Sophie there?"
"Uh… Yeah, Sophie is here?" Sophie sat up uncertainly, a bit taken aback by the over enthusiastic voice.
"Could you let me in then? The door is kind of locked," The voice said.
"Okay," Sophie got up from her comfortable position on the couch and walked over to the door, "Are you Mr Pendanski?"
"Yes, that is me!" The bouncy voice said.
Sophie opened the door and standing outside was a short, odd looking man. His socks were pulled right up to his knees, even though it was sweltering hot. He had the most goofiest smile plastered across his face that Sophie had ever seen.
"C'mon then, we better get cracking on giving these boys their lunches," he said, before turning around and making his way towards the water truck.
Okkkayy then! Sophie thought, rolling her eyes as she followed the man who reminded her strongly of a bouncy ball for some reason, I think my mum has a problem with hiring too many of these weirdos in this camp. She hopped in the truck and they drove off towards the digging sights.
At each stop Mr Pendanski and Sophie would set up a fold up table and lay out an assortment of foods across it. Everything here looks like it's came from a can, Sophie thought as she eyed the baloney and cheese sandwich uncertainly.
Sophie decided to face Snake in B tent this time. She knew she shouldn't be scared of him… she didn't want to be a wimpy kind of girl. And besides, she knew that if the worst came to the worst, she could just dig her nails into him again.
He glared at her as B tent lined up. Sophie just threw him a dirty look and thrust his sandwich at him. As he reached out to catch it Sophie noticed deep nail marks gouged into his arm.
She couldn't help but let out a little laugh.
Snake saw what she was laughing at and scowled even more.
"Fuck you, Bitch," he muttered under his breath but Sophie could still hear.
Sophie stuck her tongue out at him and he just sauntered off.
Sophie and Mr Pendanski had just set up the table for D tent when X ray came over to get his lunch.
"Hey Soph!" he said, as she gave him his sandwich. (She had to give the sandwiches and crackers out because Mr Pendanski said there had been too many incidents of people taking more than their fair share of food)
Sophie cringed slightly, she hated anyone calling her Soph. X ray looked as though he was waiting for her to say Hi back. Sophie just nodded curtly in acknowledgment. X ray was satisfied with this, "Sophie, Why don't you come to the Rec room sometime, you can hang around with us guys,"
"Uh… no…I don't want to," Sophie said, bluntly.
X ray looked a little put out but he just shrugged as though it didn't bother him, "That's cool… maybe another time, huh?"
"Mmm," Sophie said absentmindly, chewing on her thumb nail.
X ray gave her the slightest hint of a smile before making his way towards his hole.
She handed out a sandwich and a cracker to everyone in the line. When it came to the Hispanic boy, he took his sandwich off of Sophie but then turned to Mr Pendanski.
"Can I have another Sandwich?" he asked. Sophie noticed he had quite a strong Hispanic accent.
"No, you can only have one, like the rest of the boys," Mr Pendanski said, firmly.
The boy sighed deeply and then said, "Cómo venga yo nunca obtengo un bocadillo extra," (a/n: I am rubbish at Spanish, so I apologise if that is wrong but it is meant to say how come I never get an extra sandwich)
Sophie looked at the boy and found herself saying, "Cool, I have a best friend who goes to my school who can speak fluent Spanish," before she could stop herself.
The boy looked at Sophie who was looking back down at the sandwiches and chewing on her thumb as though she hadn't just spoken.
"¿Sabe usted español?" the boy said, looking at Sophie closely.
Sophie didn't understand what he just said, she got the espanol part. She gave him a look that simply said, Huh?
"Guess not," the boy said, returning back to English, he shrugged his shoulders, "Adiós, chica," He walked off towards his hole.
When Sophie was dropped off back at her cabin, she noticed a note placed on the coffee table.
Sophie flopped down on the couch and picked up the note. It said;
To Sophie,
I am having a nap, do not disturb me. Your next chore is to do the laundry. Go to the laundry room, Mr Sir showed you were it was yesterday, and put the clothes in the washing machine, fold them up and then put them in piles of each tent (Everyone has their names written on the label and which tent they are in) After you have finished go to the Mess hall, the boys will probably have finished their dinner by then. I want you to help wash the dishes. After that come straight back to the cabin.
DO NOT GO TO THE REC ROOM OR IN ANY OF THE TENTS!
Mum
Sophie sighed in deeply, screwing the note up and chucking it in the bin beside her mum's desk. It missed.
Why do I have to do all these chores! I am supposed to be here to visit my mum, yet she is treating me as though I am one of her workers! Sophie thought, running a hand through her tuggy hair.
Sophie really didn't want to do the chores, but she didn't want her mum to get mad at her either. She slowly got up and went over to the scrunched up piece of paper on the floor. She went to bend down and pick it up when she noticed a box on her mum's desk. It had Sophie's name written on it in big bold letters.
She recognised the hand writing but she couldn't think of whose it was. She looked at the box inquisitively for a few seconds before lifting it off the desk and onto the floor. It felt quite heavy. She noticed that the lid of the box had an envelope taped onto it. She pulled it off and opened it, pulling the letter out.
She began to read;
Hiya Sophie! it's me, Linzi!
How are you getting on at Camp Green Lake? Is it as bad as you thought it was going to be? We're all missing you like mad here. I can't wait until you come back.
Mum brought me a horse the other day, I've called her 'Pebbles,' like the baby off the Flintstones. You should see her, she is an Arab and is beautiful. I know you would love to come and ride her. You can, as soon as you come home.
Your Aunt told me to enclose your walkman and some CD's in the box- I have put some sweets in as well.
See you soon!
Linzi
Sophie couldn't help but grinning. Linzi was the Spanish- speaking friend Sophie had mentioned before. Linzi was part Hispanic because her Dad was from Spain but her mum was from Arizona. Sophie eagerly opened up the box and found all of her favourite CD's. Her Walkman (which was a bit bashed from the amount of times she's accidentally dropped it down the stairs) A/N: Trust me it is hard to carry a walkman and three CD'S down the stairs at once
At the bottom of the box she found a bag full of sweets, lollipops, sherbet (A/N: my fave! Yum!) Gummy bears, Haribo, Chocolate and loads more. Sophie stuffed everything back in the box and struggled slightly as she took it to her room, (She had just remembered that she had to do the laundry)
I might as well take my Walkman and a couple of CD's with me… oh yeah, and it wouldn't hurt to take some lollipops and perhaps a packet of M&M's, She thought taking the walkman back out of the box, which she had placed onto her bed.
She put the walkman's headphones to her ears and inserted the first CD.
As Eyeopeners, Hungry Eyes, blared into her ears, she picked up another CD and some sweets. (a/n: Hungry eyes is my fave song )
She made her way down the steps from the cabin. She paused slightly at the bottom of the steps. She looked at all the cabins and tents in front of her, trying to remember which was the laundry room. She wasn't even sure if Mr Sir had actually told her where it was.
She began to walk across the cracked and dusty ground. She didn't know where she was going ,she figured that perhaps she could go looking for the laundry room. She would find it- in the end. She just hoped that she wouldn't accidentally walk into the Rec room. Her mum had pacifically told her not to go in there. She carried on walking towards a cabin which she wasn't sure was the Laundry room or Mr Sir's cabin but she thought that she could just check to find out.
She was walking with her head down, listening to the next song on her CD, Shakira, underneath your clothes.
"Underneath your clothes, there's an endless story, there's the man I chose, there's my territory and all the things I desserve for being such a good girl, for being such a good girl…" she hummed it under her breath, but her breath was knocked out of her when she banged into someone and was knocked backwards.
"OW!" she muttered angrily, lying on her back on the hard ground. Her walkman headphones had fallen from her ears.
"Are you alright?" she heard a voice above her.
"NO!" Sophie practically yelled, "I'VE JUST HAD THE WIND KNOCKED OUT OF ME, DO YOU THINK I'D BE ALRIGHT!"
Sophie pushed herself up, her head felt quite dizzy.
She saw a boy in front of her, he was really tall and had crazy blonde hair and a wild look in his eye.
She recognised him as one of the boys from D tent.
"You're the girl that's been sent here by the Brain- washing Aliens from Jupiter, aren't you? That's why you had those head phone thingeys in your ears, your communicating to them through it!" The boy said, his eyes very wide, he looked a little anxious.
"Eh, no!" Sophie said, feeling confused, "Where did you get that idea from?"
"See, I know these things, they've been trying to Brain- wash us humans for centuries, your really an Alien aren't you? YOU'VE TAKEN A PRETTY HUMAN GIRL FORM!" The boy looked really worried now.
Sophie gave the boy a shocked look, "What the hell-" she started to say.
"Aha!" the boy said, pointing at her accusingly, "Those Alien's are more clever than I expected. They knew that a pretty human girl could entrance all the boys here so she could brain- wash them. I don't care how pretty you are! YOU CAN'T BRAINWASH ME!" He covered his ears and scrunched up his face slightly.
Sophie stood up, "I'm NOT an alien!" she said, giving him a look that meant, You are SO weird, just like Mr Sir and Mr Pendanski.
"That's just what an alien would say though, isn't it?" the boy said, his eyes growing wider.
"But that's what a human would say too," Sophie said matter of factly.
The boy looked bemused for a couple of seconds as though trying to figure this out.
Suddenly, the anxious look returned to his face. "AHHHH! SEE! YOUR BRAINWASHING ME ALREADY!" and with that he ran off in the opposite direction but Sophie grabbed him by the wrist.
"Stop! Just tell me where the Laundry room is then I won't brainwash you," she decided to go along with what the boy was saying, she really needed to know where the laundry room was.
"Uh… over t-there," the boy stammered, pointing towards the cabin opposite them.
"Oh, ok," Sophie let him go and he ran off, She picked up her walkman, placed it into her ears and began to walk towards the cabin.
She shook her head slightly in disbelief. That boy is one weird kid, Brain- washing Aliens from Jupiter? She thought.
Opening the door to the laundry room, she noticed all the clothes dumped in a massive pile in the middle of the room.
There is so much! Sophie sighed. She REALLY didn't want to do this.
She spent the next couple of hours getting clothes, stuffing them in the ancient- almost-broken- down washing machine, then folding them up and placing them in the correct tent pile. She was disgusted when she found out she had to do the boys UNDERWEAR too. She gingerly picked them up and flung them into the washing machine.
After quite a long while and she had managed to battle her way through half of all the grubby jumpsuits and smelly socks and she decided that she deserved a break. She sat herself down on the hard floor and popped a lollipop in her mouth, listening to "Alanis Morisette- Isn't it Ironic," on her walkman.
She looked down as she fiddled with the tight wrapping of another lollipop, she managed to rip off the wrapping and when she looked up she almost jumped up in shock. Snake was standing at the doorway of the Laundry room.
She stood up and looked at him anxiously suddenly realising it was only him and her, alone, in the laundry room- all of the other boys were having dinner in the mess hall, her mum was in the cabin having a nap. No one could help her.
Snake had an odd glint in his eye, he held up his jumpsuit, "Forgot to bring it in here after digging, thought I'd bring it now," his voice was cold and it sent shivers up Sophie's spine.
"Put it down there and go," Sophie muttered, she pointed down at the pile of unwashed clothes.
Snake flung his jumpsuit on the pile, "But I don't want to go… just yet..."
He walked closer to Sophie. Sophie backed away against the wall.
"Leave me alone!" Sophie hissed, throwing him a dirty look.
"C'mon, Soph, you know you like me," Snake said, sneering slightly. He was right in front of Sophie, he was too close to her and she didn't like it.
"NO I DON'T!" Sophie yelled, trying to push past him but he pushed her back.
"How about a kiss, Sophie?" he asked, leaning forward, he grabbed her face and tried to pull it towards his.
"NO!" Sophie bellowed, struggling to get away. She dug her nails into his wrist again.
"Ow!" he winced in pain but gritted his teeth and didn't let go.
He slammed her against the wall and Sophie felt the breath get knocked out of her for the second time today.
"Get off of me!" she growled, trying to fight back tears.
She tried to push his face away, she pulled on his hair, pushing his face back.
He just grabbed her wrists and pulled her into him.
She felt his hands go up t-shirt, his callus hands felt rough against her soft skin. She kicked at him to try and make him let go, she yelled in frustration.
Suddenly she felt him be roughly pulled off of her.
She stood there shaking and saw Mr Sir push Snake on the floor. He looked really angry, Sophie saw her mum standing beside him, a furious look on her face too.
"Mr Sir, take Snake to your cabin, I will see to him in a minute, Sophie, go back to my cabin, now!" her voice was trembling with a mixture of fury and worry.
Sophie shakily picked up her walkman and walked out the Laundry room. Her legs felt like jelly but as soon as she was outside she began running towards her mum's cabin.
Back in the cabin, Sophie lay in her bed, the covers pulled right over her head. She was crying quietly into her pillow. She hated it at CGL, she just wanted to go home, she wanted to get away from this horrible place, it was too hot here, the boys were horrible, she had just been attacked, she just didn't feel safe. And she desperately felt like she needed to be safe. She also thought about how lucky she was that her mum and Mr Sir turned up when they did.
But how did they know, She wondered.
She heard the door to her room open and her mum's voice, "Sophie, Snake has been punished very harshly,"
Sophie tried to stifle her sobs. "Sophie?" Her mum repeated.
"Yeah?" Sophie mumbled, sniffing.
"He has been locked in Mr Sir's cabin, it will be alright for you to come out now and do the dishes in the Mess hall," her mum said.
Sophie sat up so fast it made her head feel dizzy. The nerve of her mum! All her mum cared about was Sophie doing chores. Sophie had just been attacked by one of the boys in CGL, she didn't want to go back out there and face any more of them.
"Mum! No!" Sophie gasped, "I don't want to go back out there!"
"I know your worried, but it's Ok. You won't see Snake and you'll be with Mr Pendanski who is going to stay with you," her mum continued.
"Please, I just don't want to go out there, let me stay in here, please, let me stay here!" Sophie begged.
"No! You are to finish your chores, You will be outside this cabin where Mr Pendanski is waiting in the next few minutes, end of!" her mum was beginning to sound annoyed. She walked briskly out of the room before Sophie got a chance to argue.
Sophie felt fresh tears spilling down her cheeks. She walked over to the dressing table and caught sight of herself in the mirror. Her eyes were all red and puffy from crying and her hair had gone seriously frizzy. She rubbed her eyes and wiped away all her tears with some tissue.
She cautiously walked out of the cabin and saw Mr Pendanski waiting for her.
"Sophie, I know you are feeling worried, but that was only a freak incident, me, your mother and Mr Sir will make sure nothing like that happens again. Boys with raging hormones do crazy things and we are fully aware of that, We don't want you to spend your time at CGL worrying about the boys," Mr Pendanski said as though he had a whole speech planned as he was waiting for Sophie to leave the cabin.
Sophie didn't reply, she just stared at the ground, she found that her eyes were watering slightly again.
Mr Pendanski lead Sophie through the back door of the Mess hall. This was were the kitchen area was. A large African American boy was in there already, carrying dirty trays to the side of a large metal sink. "This is Theodore," Mr Pendanski said, "He has to do washing because he got into a fight last week and this is his punishment,"
"Mom, I've told you before, It's Armpit!" the boy moaned, carrying about ten trays at once.
"Yes, but I prefer to call you by the name your parents gave you, the name society will recognise you by," Mr Pendanski said.
"Whatever dawg," Armpit murmured, he spotted Sophie and smiled, "Hey, you're the warden's daughter, aren't you"
Sophie didn't answer, she didn't want to talk to him.
"Yes she is," Mr Pendanski spoke for her, "And you better be nice to her, Theodore,"
"IT'S ARMPIT," Armpit said loudly, "And yeah… of course I'm going to be nice to her, I'm not stupid!"
Sophie's eyes remained glued to the ground.
"She's a bit quiet, ain't she?" Sophie heard Armpit say.
"Yeah, well, you two should decide whose washing and whose drying," Mr Pendanski quickly changed the subject.
"I'll dry, she can wash," Armpit said briskly, getting a worn looking tea towel out of a draw. Sophie remained where she was.
"Go on then Sophie, you better get cracking," Mr Pendanski said, looking at her expectantly. He walked over to a spindly chair in the corner and sat down on it. Sophie walked over to the big sink. She put the plug in and began running the water.
There was only one temperature- cold.
As she washed the dishes, Armpit kept trying to make conversation with her, Sophie ignored him most of the time, or either replied with nods or shakes of her head.
"What's wrong, eh?" he asked, looking at her quite intently as he vigorously dried a tray.
Sophie didn't reply for a second then she mumbled, "You got to do the drying, I have to do the washing," She lied to him, she didn't want to tell him the real reason why she was so miserable.
"Is that it!" Armpit exclaimed, laughing slightly, "You should of said, I'd of let you do the drying,"
"Can I do drying then?" Sophie quietly asked, scrubbing at a tough bit of what looked like green slime, on the tray.
"No, It's too late now," Armpit said smiling.
Sophie rolled her eyes and passed him the now clean tray.
"And besides," Armpit said, beginning to dry the tray, "Your so much more better at it than me, I always leave most of them dirty"
"Ew!" Sophie mumbled so quietly Armpit scarcely heard her.
After they had finished washing up, they had to put all the trays away in one cupboard.
Sophie had a pile stacked high on one side of the cupboard. Armpit shut the door of the cupboard a little too enthusiastically and it flung back open causing all the trays to come crashing down on Sophie.
"Ahh! ARMPIT!" Sophie's muffled yelp came from underneath the many trays.
Mr Pendanski, who had been snoozing on the chair woke up with a start.
Armpit's sides where almost splitting with laughter, "Sorry, Lil' girl! where are you? I can't see you!"
"I'm here," Sophie mumbled, sticking a hand out from beneath the trays.
"Theodore!" Mr Pendanski gasped, "Get her out of there now!"
Sophie felt herself being pulled upwards. She tugged her hand away from Armpit's grasp once she was standing.
"Oh no!" she mumbled looking at all the trays, talking to herself rather than Armpit "We have to stack all of these trays again,"
When Sophie got back to her mum's cabin she couldn't find her mum anywhere. She figured that her mum may be in bed. It was pretty late because it had taken ages for her and Armpit to stack up all the trays again.
Sophie just went to her room and got changed into her PJ's, which were pink and had a kitten on the front.
Climbing into bed, she snuggled amongst the covers and fell instantly asleep.
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I am going on holiday tomorrow so I won't be able to update for two weeks, but I will update as soon as I can. Luv ya!
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