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I don't own Holes. Let's leave it at that.
Juliana stared down at her canteen, wishing she hadn't wasted the rest of her water. She sighed and wiggled in her seat, then sighed again.
"That's it! I'm moving!" Trixie yelped, making Magnet sit next to Juliana instead.
Adrienne stared down at her fingernails, digging out the dirt in them with a fork, "Do you want the rest of my water, Jules? I'm not…"
Juliana snatched Adrienne's canteen and chugged the rest of the water down. Adrienne didn't look up and Alice didn't react, but the rest of the group stared at her in astonishment.
"That was awesome," Armpit breathed.
Juliana burped, "Hey, that was nothing. If you would have seen when Alice and Adrienne both chugged Rockstars because I dared them to, you would know the meaning of awesome."
"Wait, you three knew each other before?" Squid turned to Adrienne, who had looked up.
"Um… well… about that…" Adrienne started, looking for answers on anyone's face that wasn't hers.
"It was on the bus ride here, a'ight? Home girl Tap snuck it in," Alice said, now having a bandana tied around her head.
"Huh," Squid frowned, and then put his arm around Adrienne's waist.
X-Ray narrowed his eyes behind his glasses, "Why are you talking like that, Captain?"
"It's the way I talk," Alice broke out of character.
"You aren't like that."
"Yes, I am."
"No, you're not."
Alice glared at him for a moment and snarled, "You don't know me."
Then she got up, ready to leave, and tried to do the Z snap. Unfortunately, Alice was never a good snapper, and it all turned out wrong. She stomped away anyway, with Adrienne and Juliana close behind, and hid her shame until she got back to the tent.
"God! I couldn't even do a Z snap! That was pathetic!" Alice threw herself onto her cot.
"Yeah, but it was funny. The flailing trying to snap in a z… hilarious," Juliana said as she sat down on Alice's cot.
"I need to take a shower, seriously! Did you see what that Squid guy did? Totally touched my waist! No one does that! No one! Totally popped my personal space bubble," Adrienne frowned histrionically, trying to get Alice to laugh.
Alice looked up with a smile, "Yeah, well, that X-Ray guy nearly blew my cover!"
"That Magnet guy is cute," Juliana smiled.
Adrienne and Alice laughed out loud at her lovesick face with Alice nearly rolling off her cot.
"Why are you laughing? You don't laugh! You are oppressed!" a familiar voice said.
All the girls turned to their visitor with a groan, "Hello, Gina."
Gina walked in, closing the flap of the tent, "Yes, hello. Look, all of you are doing a horrible job at breaking out D-tent and generally defaming the name of Camp Green Lake so I have thought up a plan."
"Great," Adrienne said under her breath, making Alice and Juliana fight back laughter.
"You all know that scene in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise is hanging down on a wire to get some thing that I don't remember and he looks really hot? Well, I figured since you are all trying to be spies, you could do that too, except, you know, without the hotness factor. So, tonight when everyone is asleep, Alice, you will hook yourself to the ceiling of the kitchen and put something in the food to make everyone sick. That has to close this place down!"
"We could do that without the uh… Tom Cruise thing, I think," Adrienne said.
"Yeah, and he's crazy anyway, so why would we want to do anything he did?" Juliana frowned.
"He is crazy with love for Katie Holmes! He wasn't crazy then!" Gina threw up her arms.
"Sure."
"Just do it. I expect everyone sick tomorrow, you got me? Good."
With that, Gina swept out of the room.
"Dawg, I ain't doin' shit!" Alice screamed and went back to her cot, making Adrienne and Juliana laugh.
"Oy, this sucks ass," Adrienne said on the top of the kitchen roof as Alice put on her wires.
"Yep," Juliana answered, fingering a vial that Gina had thrust into her hands when she and Adrienne had gone back to the wreck room.
Alice looked up, looking very much the spy in her black jumpsuit and wires hanging off of her, "I don't feel good about this."
"Why?" Adrienne laid back.
"These wires are faulty! They are going to break, and I am going to die. I didn't even get to visit Harvard!"
"You don't want to go to Harvard."
"But I do want to visit."
"Okay."
"Just do it, Alice. I want to go. I'm tired from that digging," Juliana insisted.
"I'm going!" Alice said forcefully, nabbing the vial from Juliana, and jumped into the kitchen from its skylight.
The girls didn't know why there was a skylight in such a deadbeat place. When they told their other interns, Greg suggested it was for quick escapes. Trixie said it was for something obscene. Giorgio hadn't been listening because he was sending text messages. Tap had been given sleeping pills by Gina because she was annoying.
As soon as Alice was in the kitchen, she was reminded of her fear of heights. She went down slowly to a pot of simmering something that both looked and smelled disgusting. She opened the vial, ready to pour it in when she heard a noise from outside of the kitchen.
"Guys, is that you?" she called up.
She heard a hissed, "Shut up," and realized it wasn't them.
She froze, hoping she would not be caught. She heard footsteps trail away from the kitchen and she sighed in relief. Unfortunately, the sigh was it for the wire holding her up. She catapulted into the pot and made a horribly loud noise in the process. Adrienne and Juliana peered down.
"Alice! You aren't supposed to get in it!" Adrienne hissed.
"The wire gave out!" Alice called up.
"Is it hot?" Juliana asked worriedly.
"Was the food we ate today hot?"
"No."
"Then no, it's not. It's just slimy and gross and…. OH MY GOD! SOMETHING IS CRAWLING ALL OVER ME!"
"Shut up, Alice!" Adrienne reinstated the hiss.
"Who's in there?" a male voice called into the kitchen.
"Pull me up!" Alice called up.
"The wire gave out," Adrienne said.
"It's still connect but the up-down thing broke," Juliana informed.
"Dude, really, pull me up."
"What up-down thing?"
"The up-down thing!"
"Pull. Me. Up!"
"I don't know what that means!"
"It like… helped her go down and up? Like a controller thing."
"PULL ME UP NOW!"
Adrienne and Juliana looked down, thrown out of their argument. Then they remembered and started pulling Alice up. She had just gotten onto the roof when they heard footsteps inside and laughter from the sight of the food spilled all over. Obviously, it wasn't Mr. Sir who had found them, or any other adult of authority.
Adrienne poured water on Alice's head so that she could get clean, and she put on one of the orange jumpsuits so no one would see her "spy clothes." Then they got off the roof and ran to their tent.
Greg sat up, "How did it go?"
"Gina is not going to be happy," Alice frowned.
"Ooh, that sucks."
"Shut the fuck up! I'm trying to god damn sleep!" Trixie said into her pillow.
The four all looked at each other, sighed, and went to their cots to sleep.
Well, this chapter kind of sucked, but I was stuck and I had to post, so here it is. Review if you feel like it, if not, don't. I don't much care. I don't need any reviewers to tell me I'm awesome; I already know. I kid, I kid. Anyway, yay for that! Also, thanks to agentkibbles for the kind words. I like kind words. And cookies. Someone can give me cookies if they want to.
