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Me no own Holes. Me no know grammar. Me Caveman. Heh! Caveman! Heh! Fine, don't laugh.

Dear Greg,

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Wait, let me write that again. HA! Oh my god, that was great! "Am I feminine?" Hell yes you are! Oh, Mom is going to hate me when she gets back from Grandma's. But I don't care. At least I will get the say on this. I'll send brownies though, just because Mom would kill me if not. Oh, and by the way, HAHAHAHAHAHAA!

Your loving sister,

Mary Dear Adrienne,

That is a lot of blisters. I got a little lost reading a blister on a popped blister on a popped blister or whatever it is you said. I wish you weren't there with those blisters, however many you have. You could get an infection! Be sure to wash them out. Dad is happy you aren't being molested. He is ready to drive right down there and get you, really. He is not a happy camper. Ada is crying too much from missing you to get near your stuff, believe me. You did not get an envelope from Yale, sorry. Wait a little bit; I'm sure it will come. I sent you your suzuki book though. I thought you and your friends would miss it. Take care of yourself.

Miss you,

Mom.

Alice:

We are happy to hear you are well.

Sincerely,

Your family.

p.s. hugs and kisses, and we miss you lots.

Trix,

It is a camp for juvenile delinquents. It's not meant to be a loved place. At least they haven't changed you much though. If you had said, "Dear Father, I love this place, miss you, blah blah," I would have been concerned. But you didn't. Sorry it sucks, but life sucks too.

Love,

Dad.

p.s. the dog doesn't listen to a word I say unless I curse. You have corrupted him, Daughter! Corrupted him!

Dear Tap,

Your mom burst into tears reading your letter, so apparently she knows what it means. I don't. Why do you want to dance like a chicken? And why is gravy talked about? Are they feeding you gravy? I don't know. I'm confused. You need to come home soon. Your mom thinks that the neighbors are poisoning the dogs. You really need to come home.

Killing you softly?

Dad.

Dear, sweet Giorgio,

Ha! Sweet! I thought it would be funny if I wrote, "Dear, sweet Giorgio." And I think it was. I'm laughing pretty hard right now. I miss you too! It's not the same going to Starbucks and harassing people without you! Yesterday, I got a Chai Frappaccino, god how is that spelled? Anyway, I ordered one, but they gave me an iced Chai. So, I threw it down, and I demanded my money back. They gave me that and a free frappaccino. And the funny thing is, now that I think about it, I think I really did order an iced Chai. I wish you had been there! I hate that Camp Green Lake. I'm thinking about doing something bad, so I can get in there with you. Make a place for me. You could always kill Greg. wink, wink Poor Greg. I heard that he is not adapting well to being a gay man. Poor, poor Greg. He so is not gay. I would like to see him hit on a guy though. When you come back, we have to take him to Starbucks. He would have so much fun! I watched Bonnie and Clyde yesterday, and I decided that you are Bonnie and I am Clyde. I like the hat Clyde wears. I don't know which one so don't ask. Anyways, need to go. My history teacher is giving me the stink eye.

Loves,

Glenn.

p.s. I just loved the sad face. You are such an artist!

Dear Jules,

We are doing relatively well too. It's empty in the house without you, though. Our only child at a delinquents' camp… it brings a tear to the eye. Wow, Gina. Poor you. That woman is insane. We send our love back to Adrienne and Alice! We hope they are all right as well. We'd hate to hear our Alice is not doing well. We love our Alice! Her parents have been crazy without her. Mom saw her mom at the store the other day and the woman was crying over a chicken in the meat section because Alice likes chicken. It was strange. Adrienne's dad keeps trying to get Dad to join him in a rescue mission. Dad is not keen on the idea though. You better be back by Christmas! We will rescue you if you aren't! And you better win that blister contest! Adrienne beats you at everything, so beat her at those blisters! They have pool there? I bet you are excited! It's just like home!

Love, love, love, love,

Mom and Dad.

To this Gina person,

You have the wrong address. I don't know who you are and would appreciate if you did not continue to write letters here. Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Ronald Roy.

It had been three weeks since Gina's explosion, and the situation was none the better. X-Ray was seriously suspecting something, Zig-Zag kept informing people that C-Tent were spies, and Juliana continued to get no affection from Magnet. Juliana had also started to try to get Adrienne away from Squid. Gina may have told Adrienne to make out with boys from D-tent, but she did not mean one single boy, and she most definitely did not mean like it. Juliana considered reaching out to Cecil, but every time she wrote down his name, she broke into peals of laughter and couldn't function for hours. She tried to issue Greg's help, but he was too busy trying to flirt with Caveman. Greg was more successful at that than even Juliana flirting with Magnet. Which didn't make her feel good.

Then there was the problem of Alice. As already mentioned, X-Ray was seriously suspecting something. Now, Alice was to avert this suspicion. However, to use the words of Juliana's parents, she was not keen on the idea for it meant talking to him and prospectively being nice. Now, Alice called herself a nice person, but being nice to X-Ray was another matter.

"It's not that I hate him," she said to Adrienne as they were walking back from D-tent after a Project Avert-suspicions-of-that-douche-X-ray, as Alice so fondly called it. "It's just that I dislike him very, very much."

"Right," Adrienne responded as she drank some water out of her canteen.

Then there was another problem plaguing the intern spies besides Juliana's mission to destroy Squid, Alice's mission to destroy X-Ray's suspicions, and Gina's mission to destroy everything in her path except Mr. Sir: Suzuki. Adrienne had received her Suzuki book from her mother with a response to her letter. To many people, this may not be that bad compared to how bat-shit crazy Gina is/was/always will be. But those people have never done Suzuki. And that was the predicament that C-tent was in at that very moment; to be more exact, they were in a standing sit the lowest they could go and had been like that for two whole minutes.

"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you," Juliana whimpered as her knees started to buckle.

"Adrienne, this is a little excessive," Greg said shrewdly.

"The more you talk, the longer we will stand here," Adrienne responded.

So the group got quiet, all closing their eyes. Tap, however, did not have her eyes closed. She was too busy watching the perimeter. There had to be someone who wanted to kill her. Do it now. Do. It. Now. She straightened up a little as she saw the D-Tent boys, except Caveman (who had been avoiding the group entirely since Greg had started hitting on him) and Zero, walking towards them.

"What are you kids doing?' X-Ray asked as he walked up.

No one answered, though Alice wanted to. They all waited for Adrienne to do something.

"Up ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one," Adrienne counted down as her fellow interns practically shot up. "Everyone at neutral, wait for one. And, by the way, you are supposed to use the whole ten, guys."

"You are supposed to only keep us down for ten seconds!" Juliana snapped.

Adrienne didn't answer, but turned to X-Ray, "We are doing Suzuki. It's this physical form of theatre that teaches discipline. That was the slow ten. You go down as far as you can, keeping your knees together, for ten seconds, then hold for ten. After that, you come up slowly in ten seconds."

"Ten seconds being the key word!"

"Holding is sometimes more by the whim of the instructor, which is me."

"Why are you doing this now?" X-Ray asked.

"Adrienne wants to be a drama teacher," Tap said matter-of-factly.

The interns became silent as Squid cocked an eyebrow and asked, "Drama teacher, ay?"

"It's spy training, I tell you!" Zig-Zag interrupted Adrienne's stare at Squid, trying to figure out what to say.

"This isn't spy training! The only thing done in…" Tap started.

Adrienne yelped over her, "One!"

The D-tent boys jumped back as every the right leg of every intern shot out to the right, making a crisp thump sound.

"Two!"

The right leg slid back in a fluid motion.

"Three!"

Juliana grimaced, but went down into the sitting stand again.

"Speak!"

The group recited:

"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar.

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men."

"Dude man," Armpit breathed, "that is creepy."

"I know," X-Ray answered.

"Up," Adrienne barked, and the group stood up straight.

"Don't ever do that again!" Armpit said.

"Yeah, Ade, don't ever do that again!" Alice smiled.

Trixie started to shake, her mind screaming to curse as her fellow interns and the D-tent boys joked about Adrienne leading a cult. Her eye twitched slightly as she tried her hardest to keep it in. No one noticed her red face. No one noticed that she looked like a volcano about to erupt. They instead started talking about how Adrienne would have her 'disciples' killed.

"I say the kool-aid trick," Adrienne smiled, slinging her arms around Squid.

"But you hate kool-aid!" Greg laughed.

"Well, I won't be drinking it, will I? I don't want to die!"

"MOTHER FUCK! I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS BULLSHIT ANYMORE! IT'S ALL BULLSHIT! ALL OF IT! I WANT TO GO HOME! I WANT TO GO TO MY HISTORY CLASSES! I WANT TO GO DOWN TO FUCKING WALMART AND PUT CONDOMS IN RANDOM PEOPLE'S CARTS! I CAN'T DO THIS SHIT ANYMORE!" Trixie cried.

The group of interns looked at each other, wondering what to do. As Trixie opened her mouth to speak again, Greg put his hand over her mouth and dragged her into the tent. Adrienne pulled down her shirt, nearly revealing her bra and making Squid forget about the outburst quickly. Armpit and Magnet were too busy laughing to think anything of it, and Zig-Zag was still muttering about spies. X-Ray did notice, though.

"What was that?" he asked pointedly. "I'm starting to think that…."

Alice could only think of one thing: the Simpson's episode where Nelson kisses Lisa to shut her up. So, she pulled X-Ray in thinking, "This should shut him up," and kissed him. Juliana's mouth flew open, and Adrienne clapped.

"Go Captain! Go!" she cheered.

Now, during this, one might wonder Alice's intentions or they might wonder where are the snarky comments from Giorgio? He had to have had something to say, or at least have had his cell phone ring during the silence. The thing was, Giorgio wasn't there. After digging his hole and getting his letter from Glenn, he had decided that he was over Camp Green Lake. No Starbucks, no electricity, no Glenn… it was all too much. So, he went back to the plan. Break out D-tent. But who would be the catalyst, he had thought while Juliana and Adrienne had argued over Suzuki. That was when he noticed Zero fully for the first time.

Sure, X-Ray seemed to be the leader, and if he wanted to escape, most of the others would too. But Zero wouldn't, and Giorgio doubted Caveman would without Zero. But, if Zero was the first, then Caveman might escape just to help his friend, and it wouldn't be that hard to get X-Ray to go too. Zero had to be the catalyst. There was no way around it.

So, that brought to the point of convincing Zero to escape. Giorgio felt that he was a relatively good arguer, a good politician in his own right. He had won to be president of his class every year since he was a freshman. But how could he get the kid who didn't talk to want to escape? There had to be a way. So, he waited and waited to get Zero by himself. Caveman was with Zero in D-tent for quite some time, even staying there when the other D-tent boys were gone. But eventually, Caveman left and made an opening for President Giorgio.

He walked into D-tent with a smile, "Oh, Zero, just the man I wanted to see!"

Zero raised his eyebrows slightly but didn't respond.

"How is it going? I noticed that there was a little 'secret meeting' going on with Caveman and X-Ray today. Kind of looked like Caveman found something, which is quite interesting." Nothing. "God, digging those holes was hard today, huh? Are you as tired as me?" Tired. Play the tired card.

Zero shrugged.

Okay, no tired card. Try to go with it, Giorgio. "I know what you mean," no I don't. "I mean, digging those holes has been so burned into the psyche, it isn't even tiring anymore. So much for making character, huh?"

No response.

Go in for the kill. "Don't you ever just, I don't know, want to hit Mr. Sir with a shovel and run off? I mean, sometimes while I'm digging I just think, 'Man, I would rather die in the desert than have to dig another hole.' You know? Cause there is nothing after this when they let me out. I have nothing to go back to!"

Zero's eyes flickered slightly, giving Giorgio the fuel to keep going. He knew the bad home card would get him something.

"I mean, here I kind of feel like I belong, but every time I dig a hole, I think how bad I have it. I don't have parents to go back to. Well, I guess I do, but they wouldn't care a bit if I didn't come home. Soon enough I will have to go back and this won't even matter. All the people I met here I will never see again. I'll probably do what I did again! Those holes don't do anything for my character because I won't change! My parents haven't! Hell, they will probably act like I never went here! I mean, don't you ever think that? That it might be better to risk the desert than go back home?"

Zero's eyes continued to flicker, and then they became blank.

Damn lost him. "Well, I guess I better go. Sorry I got all moody on you. See you later, Zero," he started to walk out, but turned. "Oh, and say hi to Caveman for me."

He left the tent smiling slightly. If Zero had listened to that whole made up spiel, than maybe he will think that he won't have Caveman anymore after he is let out. Maybe it got to him. Giorgio hoped so. He needed a Grande White Chocolate Mocha bad.

He walked up to his tent, seeing Adrienne jumping up and down for some reason. He raised an eyebrow and continued walking, then noticing Alice kissing X-Ray. He stopped dead in his track, wondering what was going on. Then he heard footsteps. Angry footsteps. And then he smelled perfume. Strong, old lady perfume. That meant only one thing…

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?"

Gina.

"Ooh, that's not so good," Giorgio thought to himself, turning around to see Gina push past him.

"Hey there!" Adrienne smiled and waved.

"You! And you! What are you doing?" Gina looked absolutely livid as she walked toward the group.

"Uh… well…" Alice started.

Gina didn't wait for her answer, instead she kept walking and opened the flap of C-tent to unveil Greg still covering Trixie's mouth.

"What did you DO?" Gina screamed.

Trixie tried to answer, but Greg still wouldn't remove his hand. So, she bit him. Hard.

"I'm bleeding!" Greg yelped.

"Both of you, with me, NOW!" Gina dragged both of them away with Trixie looking quite proud of herself.

"Well, that was fun. How about a rousing game of pool, everyone?" Adrienne smiled, dragging Squid with her to the wreck room and everyone except Giorgio and Juliana following.

"What just happened?" Juliana asked after the group was gone.

"Hell if I know," Giorgio shrugged and went into the tent, leaving Juliana to her own thoughts.

Another chapter! Yay! All of you who don't know what Suzuki is, be happy. It hurts like hell man. Anyway, sorry it took me so long. The comp is acting wonky. That's my own personal word that was invented by someone else: wonky. Also, I noticed that I made Adrienne's sister's name Gina and Gina is already a character so Adrienne's sister is now Ada, if anyone cares. Crazy boss Gina is not Adrienne's sister, just a crazy lady. Yeah… review! Please! Thanks to all of my reviewers! BrokenAngel1753 (why thanky!), emddozen12 (thanks for answering my question! Yes, don't sit in chair. Lay on the couch. Much softer), Nosilla (indeed they are, indeed they are), BlueEyes (Trixie is great. Everyone loves the Trixster. Heh, I made a pun! Kind of! Fine, don't laugh), and agentkibbles (thanks! Top three is great! The nicknames are confusing as hell, man. Seriously, crazy stuff. Yay for awesomeness! Anyone who uses that word is okay in my book!) Okay, so I need to stop with the exclamation points, really. I sound like some fangirl. Done! No more author notes! Except, oh yeah, I don't own "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot, but it is awesome!