1. I couldn't think of anything to write.
2. My computer decided to go and get a virus and it has spent most of it's time getting fixed in a computer shop.
But, Yay! Now, it is finally fixed and I have decided to try and continue with this fanfic. I'm really out of practise though, so I guess it's going to be pretty hard to actually think of what to write but I'll give it my best shot. I just have to say thank you to Mesaqt, Sweetpie15, Nosilla, Shinebright-Starlight, Katie1122 and k4g0m3-ch4n for your reviews for Chapter 5. I'm really grateful, it's good to know that people actually take the time to read my fanfic.
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Chapter Six:
Sophie was really surprised to find that none of the boys noticed her as she walked through the Wreck room with Magnet.
Perhaps they just didn't expect me to actually go to the Wreck room unaccompanied, Sophie thought. She was glad that they hadn't realised she was in the Wreck room yet. She didn't feel quite safe enough without one of mum's employees with her. This made her realise that this was the first time she had been in the Wreck room by herself and she suddenly felt very alone and perhaps a tiny bit frightened. She was determined not to show it though. Instead she just concentrated on the dusty wooden floorboards. She thought that if she didn't look at the boys then maybe they wouldn't spot her.
Magnet led her over to the far corner of the Wreck room where a couple of armchairs had been placed so they formed a circle with a small wooden table in the middle. D tent were lounging on the armchairs, all looking worn- out and fed up.
"Guess who I found lurking behind the door," Magnet said, loudly, making all of D tent look up.
"I was NOT lurking," Sophie said, indignantly.
"Yeah, whatever you say, Chica," Magnet shrugged as he slumped down on the nearby chair.
X ray was looking at Sophie with a really surprised expression on his face.
Sophie scowled at him, "What!"
X ray snapped out of it and said, "Oh…it's just I didn't think you would actually come to the Wreck room. You said you didn't want to,"
"Yeah, well, I changed my mind," Sophie snapped. She kind of cringed afterwards as she remembered that she was supposed to be nice to the D tent boys. She couldn't help it. She just felt awkward around the boys at CGL. So awkward that she found herself being really moody and obnoxious. She wasn't like that normally. It's just she had found herself in a really odd situation which made it impossible for her to be her normal, hyper self.
The boys just stared at her as though they, too, weren't entirely sure what to do. Sophie found herself feeling really shy all of a sudden. She just pretended to be very interested in a peculiar looking stain on the nearby couch. She stared at it until her eyes began to glaze over. The awkward silence seemed to go on for ever. It was very uncomfortable, for all of them. Sophie eventually tore her eyes away from the couch and forced herself to look at the boys. She decided to break the silence, seeing as no one else was going to.
"So…" her voice sounded oddly cracked. She paused and cleared her throat. "So," she attempted to speak again, "What do you do for fun round here?"
Armpit was the first to answer, "Well… you can play pool, but the table's always being used and you usually have to fight for it,"
"No, I don't want to play pool," Sophie said quickly. The last thing she wanted was a fight to break out. Plus, she was absolutely terrible at pool and she didn't want to embarrass herself any further in front of the boys.
"Well, I don't know what to suggest, there's not much to do here," Armpit sighed.
"You can watch TV," Zigzag said, nodding towards the television set which was situated close by. Sophie was quite surprised that Zigzag had actually spoken to her without referring to her as a brain- washing alien.
"Yeah, I actually would like to watch a bit of TV," Sophie said, attempting to smile at Zigzag but it came out as more of a grimace.
Zigzag backed off, giving her his crazy, wide- eyed stare. Sophie couldn't help but roll her eyes at him. She began to walk towards the television set. She heard Squid snigger behind her back. She wasn't sure why he was laughing at her but she scowled at him anyway. She soon found out. The TV wasn't even working. It had all the black and white fuzzy lines all over it.
"Oh ha, ha, so funny Zig," She said sarcastically.
"What?" said Zigzag, looking genuinely confused.
"The TV's broke," Sophie said, raising her eyebrows at him.
"It better not be!" Zigzag gasped, jumping up from the armchair he was slouched on, and running over to the television.
He looked at the TV and his desperate expression changed to a frown, "What are you on about, Alien- girl? It's working perfectly fine. See, Friends is on,"
He stared at the TV intensely. His round, blue eyes actually moved as though he was following images around on the screen. Sophie looked at him, her face etched with a mixture of confusion and slight concern for him. She wasn't sure whether he was joking or not. You could clearly see that the television was broken, yet Zigzag seemed so convinced that it was in fact working.
"Come of it, Zigzag," Sophie said, laughing nervously.
But he was too indulged in whatever he was watching to listen to Sophie. Sophie looked over at the rest of D tent who were watching Zigzag and Sophie with amused expressions. Sophie gave them an exasperated look. Squid and Magnet just burst out laughing. The rest laughed too, but not as enthusiastically as Squid and Magnet. Sophie didn't find it very funny. She felt that she was being laughed at and she didn't like it one bit. Besides, if there really was something wrong with Zigzag they shouldn't be as cruel as to laugh about it.
She found herself marching over to them. "What are you laughing about!" she demanded, "It's not funny! Why is Zigzag pretending that television is working when it obviously isn't?"
"Oh, he always does that," X ray said, waving his hand as though it didn't matter.
"Yeah, he thinks he's actually watching TV programmes, it's weird but you'll get used to it," Armpit said, shrugging.
"You…should of…seen your face!" Squid said, trying to stifle his laughter so he could actually speak.
Sophie ignored his immature behaviour and turned to X ray, "Is there something wrong with Zigzag? He just seems really…weird,"
"I don't know," X ray said, shrugging, "He's always been like that, like Armpit said, you get used to it,"
"Yeah, I read Zigzag's file, he suffers from acute paranoia. That's why he thinks you're an alien and is probably why he watches a broken television set," Squid said, no longer laughing and actually sounding rather intellectual.
"Acute paranoia…big word…I didn't think YOU would know that," Sophie said, snootily, completely abandoning the plan to be nice to them. She didn't want to be nice to Squid. She really didn't like him one bit.
Squid shot her a dark look, "What do you mean by that?" he said angrily, standing up.
"If your such a genius, guess," Sophie said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Squid actually did look quite menacing, standing before her. Sophie noticed how tall he was. He was staring down at her, his whole face like thunder. But Sophie didn't back down, she stared straight back up at him, her face equally as dark.
X ray cut in before Squid could reply, "Hey…Squid sit down. Sophie's only messing with ya. She doesn't mean it,"
"Yeah, I do mean it," Sophie said, huffily, still glaring at Squid.
Squid sighed and sat down. "Your just lucky that you're a girl," he said.
Sophie threw him a dirty look but didn't say anything back. She knew that she had wasted a lot of time when she should be finding out who had the pen knife.
She looked at the small wooden table and noticed a pack of cards splayed on it. She stared at the cards for a moment or two, chewing on her lip slightly as she formulated a plan.
"We could have a game of cards," she said, pointing at them, "How about 'Chase the ace?"
"What's that?" the shy one called Caveman, asked.
"It's when you sit in a circle and put money in the middle of the table. Everyone gets a card but nobody else is allowed to see it. The person who's on the left of the person who deals the cards goes first. They can either swap it with the person to left of them or keep it. You keep doing that all the way round the circle until it is the dealers turn who can either keep his card or take one from the deck. The person with the lowest card is out. You keep playing until only one person is left. They win all the money. It sounds confusing, but it's easy when you play it," Sophie explained as she shuffled the cards. (a/n: Sorry if it is confusing to readers too but it's pretty hard to explain)
"We have no money," X ray said bluntly.
"Yeah, I figured, let's just gamble other stuff then," Sophie said, reaching into her pocket and pulling out some candy, "See, I have candy, I'm going to gamble that,"
She placed it in the middle of the table. The boys eyes lit up, they hadn't see candy in months. Sophie half- expected them to start drooling at the mouth. At the sight of candy, all the boys chipped in, gambling really odd and useless stuff like, shower tokens, rubber bands and forks. Only Zero, Squid and Zigzag didn't play. Zero (who didn't seem to want to get involved in anything) just sat back and watched the game glumly. As did Squid, who was still in a mood with Sophie and didn't want to take part in anything she suggested they do. (a/n: How childish! Lol) Zigzag was still watching the broken TV set.
Sophie stared at the stuff in the middle of the table, dismally. She had hoped that someone would of gambled the penknife, then she would know who has it.
"Are we going to play or what, Chica?" Magnet's voice broke into her thoughts.
"Yeah, of course," Sophie said as she began to deal the cards.
She was annoyed that her plan was unsuccessful so she played 'Chase the ace,' only half- heartedly. X ray ended up winning. He took the candy and other junk greedily and hid them in his over-sized, jumpsuit pockets as though half- expecting someone to come over and steal them off of him.
Sophie sighed as she absentmindedly pulled the thread off the fraying armchair she was sitting on. She was really lost for what she could do to help her mum find the penknife guy. To be honest, she really couldn't be bothered either. She felt that it had nothing to do with her if someone has a penknife, so she didn't see why she should get involved.
She glanced around the Wreck room and spotted a tough-looking gang of boys heading straight towards D tent's corner. All the guys at CGL were tough- looking, with the exception of Zero and Caveman who both looked innocently sweet, but the guys who were heading towards them did look very, very tough.
For example, the boy who was leading the rest of the gang looked as though he was six foot tall. He had a face which looked like a bulldog, with small, piggy eyes that were so cold and dark. His eyebrows were very bushy and seemed to be in a permanent frown, and his mouth was just a straight line. He was wearing a tank top which showed off his muscles. His muscles were so large it was unnatural, and a huge, black skull tattoo stretched across his arm, just below his shoulder. He was marching, determinedly towards them, his big, heavy boots thumping against the dusty floor.
Sophie felt slightly worried. She found herself getting up from the armchair and before she could stop herself, she was standing behind Armpit and X ray. She wasn't sure why she chose to stand behind them. She probably thought they'd protect her somehow.
"What's wrong, Chica?" Magnet asked, looking at Sophie with a concerned expression.
Sophie was about to answer but got interrupted by the tough- looking guy, whose deep voice drowned out hers, "Well, well, well, Obviously D tent would hog the girl,"
"I'm the not 'the girl.' I have a name, y'know," Sophie's little voice piped up from behind X ray and Armpit.
"I don't care if you have a name or not," the boy said, "All I know is, I think you should spend some time with us instead,"
"I don't want to spend time with you," Sophie said, scowling deeply but still not daring to step away from X ray and Armpit.
The boy ignored this comment and just advanced closer to them. He tried to push X ray out of the way but X ray stood firm and glared up at the boy, "Are you deaf or something, Skull? She doesn't want to spend time with you, leave her alone,"
Skull scowled down at X ray. His face contorted with fury that someone had actually stood up to him. The other tough- looking boys standing behind him cracked their knuckles menacingly. D tent began to get up and stand in front of Sophie, even Zigzag stopped watching the broken TV and came over.
"What did you just say?" Skull hissed.
"You have got a hearing problem, dawg, he said leave her alone," Armpit growled.
Sophie could feel the tension. It was truly awful. For once, she couldn't find her voice. She couldn't defend herself against this Skull guy. She suddenly felt very weak and useless. She really didn't want to feel like that, but she couldn't help it.
Suddenly, without any warning whatsoever, Skull's fist came flying in the direction of Armpit and connected with his face. That was the only thing Sophie could possibly make out. The rest, was just a blur of fists and kicks.
Sophie backed up against the wall, completely confused, rather terrified and not knowing what to do. She gasped when she felt a rough hand grab hers and pull her away from the commotion. She was all ready to start kicking and punching if needed when she realised that it was Zero who was pulling her away. He led Sophie outside, not looking at her or even speaking a word to her. Once, outside, he finally turned and stared at her with his deep, brown eyes.
"Thanks…I didn't what to do in there," Sophie said, her voice sounding oddly choked, "I'm not used to it, Y'know,"
Zero didn't answer, he just continued to stare at her until it was quite unnerving. Sophie chewed her thumb, anxiously. She felt really guilty and actually quite worried for the D tent boys, in case any of them were hurt. She didn't really like them that much, but she didn't want them to get hurt.
She looked at Zero and said, "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to cause a fight..."
She turned away from him and began to run towards her mum's cabin without looking back.
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