Disclaimer: So sorry again about the delay...and here goes nothing.
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Soon the lunch bell sounded and Magnet showed me to the Mess Hall for dinner and by then everyone had started eating already. We went to get our chow and sit with D tent. I sat in silence as they talked amongst themselves, and looked at my food in disgust...beans and bread.
"A Leslie is it?" X-Ray said taking a bite out of his bread.
I nodded.
"How did you get here?" Rex said. 'He sure has really gotten rather slow over the years'.
"By the bus and you," I said nonchalantly as the rest of the table chuckled.
"No I mean-."
"I know what you mean. I was busted for selling drugs at a rave and I really didn't need to have a lawyer they had all the proof they considered necessary."
"So she can talk," said the weird looking one they called Zigzag.
"Always could. I just don't like to."
"Why chica?" Magnet said with a mouth full of beans.
"My business...not yours." I said with a hiss in my voice. 'You can't trust anyone in this world'.
"Alright jeez...all we're trying to do is get to know you but fine if you want to act like that then okay." Squid said in his thick country accent.
"Look guys if she doesn't feel like talking then she doesn't have to. Understood?" Rex said standing up for me.
"But X-"
"No buts!" Rex yelled at the bunch of hooligans and they were all quiet.
"Man X why are you picking favorites," Zigzag said with anger blustering through him.
"For one you are suppose to treat girls with respect, not mock them for not answering your dismal questions. Two you have never seen me force anything on any one of you people, so why can you show her the same common curtsy. Lastly any one of you freaks messes with my sister again then you live to regret it," with that Rex stomped out of the outside so fast that I felt sorry for anyone who was at the table.
Then everyone shifted their glances toward me except for Zigzag who had a mouth full of food, and I panicked and headed out the door like Rex. I went to look for him and found him in D tent holding and visibly old picture in his hand.
"Come on in and make yourself comfortable," he said motioning for me to sit next to him.
There was a silence between us for about ten seconds then I looked at him then the picture to do a double take and sure enough, it was Rex.
"How did you know it was me?" I said to him as if I saw him yesterday.
He lay back against the headboard as if he were trying to remember...
X-RAY
I took a deep breath, and adjusted my glass and began to speak of the past.
FLASHBACK
A young boy clings on to his mother's with tears in his eyes screaming for her not to go.
"Momma please don't leave us? I promise to be a good boy...I-I-I'll do what ever you say...just don't leave." the child kept screaming guarantees at her until she scooped him unto her arms.
"Rex baby momma is only leaving for a little while only until your dad and I sort things out." The woman said releasing the boy from her grip.
"Then why do you have to take Leslie with you? Why can't she stay if you are coming back?"
"Do you want momma to be lonely? I'm taking her so I won't be alone?"
"Then I'll be alone? Why can't I come too?"
"No you won't be alone you'll have your dad, and if come who will keep him company."
The gazed up into his mothers eyes somehow knowing he would never see her again. Rex gave her a giant hug and kiss, whispering 'I love you'. Then he ran to the back of the house to find his sister on the swing set alone in tears.
He walked up to her, hugged her, and cried.
"Rex I don't want to live anywhere else but here," the six year old said.
"I don't want you to go neither, but we'll see each other again I promise."
"Promise?"
"Promise, and so you'll never forget me have this," little Rex broke the gold heart shaped locket in half then handed her the one with his picture in it and he followed suit.
"So no matter how old we are we'll always know each other by these, okay?" his sister looked up at him in puppy dog eyes and smiled.
"Okay...I promise."
"Don't forget to write or call," she said getting up walk to the front of the house hand in hand.
"You neither," he said giving her one last hug.
"Ciya Rex."
"Good bye Leslie."
"No! Not 'good-bye' its 'I'll see you later'. Goodbyes are forever and we'll see each other again...I promise."
With that, the little girl hugged her brother, stood on her tippy toes, and kissed him a due. Leslie got the car and drove away in the distance...
END FLASHBACK
LESLIE
"Wow...I totally forgot about the locket," she said touching it.
"Hey don't worry about anything...no one is going to mess with you while I still breathing. I'm your big brother and gonna protect you, and so will the rest of D tent." I smiled and hugged him.
"One condition you treat me like the rest of the guys while we are around them. I got an image to keep up, you know." Rex smiled in a boyish manner.
"Whatever." I said getting excited.
"Look go back to your tent it's getting late and you need energy for tomorrow," he said guiding back to my tent and made sure I was safe.
"I lay there but I can't go to sleep...so I stay up and listen to the boys come back to their tents and retire.
I lay there waiting for sleep to take me under and smile grilling my teeth as if I won a million dollars. For the first time in eight years, I was actually happy...
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That's it sorry I took so long with the chapter...school can be a real pain. Anywayz tell me what you thought and hit me back with REVIEWS!
-Spiggi
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Soon the lunch bell sounded and Magnet showed me to the Mess Hall for dinner and by then everyone had started eating already. We went to get our chow and sit with D tent. I sat in silence as they talked amongst themselves, and looked at my food in disgust...beans and bread.
"A Leslie is it?" X-Ray said taking a bite out of his bread.
I nodded.
"How did you get here?" Rex said. 'He sure has really gotten rather slow over the years'.
"By the bus and you," I said nonchalantly as the rest of the table chuckled.
"No I mean-."
"I know what you mean. I was busted for selling drugs at a rave and I really didn't need to have a lawyer they had all the proof they considered necessary."
"So she can talk," said the weird looking one they called Zigzag.
"Always could. I just don't like to."
"Why chica?" Magnet said with a mouth full of beans.
"My business...not yours." I said with a hiss in my voice. 'You can't trust anyone in this world'.
"Alright jeez...all we're trying to do is get to know you but fine if you want to act like that then okay." Squid said in his thick country accent.
"Look guys if she doesn't feel like talking then she doesn't have to. Understood?" Rex said standing up for me.
"But X-"
"No buts!" Rex yelled at the bunch of hooligans and they were all quiet.
"Man X why are you picking favorites," Zigzag said with anger blustering through him.
"For one you are suppose to treat girls with respect, not mock them for not answering your dismal questions. Two you have never seen me force anything on any one of you people, so why can you show her the same common curtsy. Lastly any one of you freaks messes with my sister again then you live to regret it," with that Rex stomped out of the outside so fast that I felt sorry for anyone who was at the table.
Then everyone shifted their glances toward me except for Zigzag who had a mouth full of food, and I panicked and headed out the door like Rex. I went to look for him and found him in D tent holding and visibly old picture in his hand.
"Come on in and make yourself comfortable," he said motioning for me to sit next to him.
There was a silence between us for about ten seconds then I looked at him then the picture to do a double take and sure enough, it was Rex.
"How did you know it was me?" I said to him as if I saw him yesterday.
He lay back against the headboard as if he were trying to remember...
X-RAY
I took a deep breath, and adjusted my glass and began to speak of the past.
FLASHBACK
A young boy clings on to his mother's with tears in his eyes screaming for her not to go.
"Momma please don't leave us? I promise to be a good boy...I-I-I'll do what ever you say...just don't leave." the child kept screaming guarantees at her until she scooped him unto her arms.
"Rex baby momma is only leaving for a little while only until your dad and I sort things out." The woman said releasing the boy from her grip.
"Then why do you have to take Leslie with you? Why can't she stay if you are coming back?"
"Do you want momma to be lonely? I'm taking her so I won't be alone?"
"Then I'll be alone? Why can't I come too?"
"No you won't be alone you'll have your dad, and if come who will keep him company."
The gazed up into his mothers eyes somehow knowing he would never see her again. Rex gave her a giant hug and kiss, whispering 'I love you'. Then he ran to the back of the house to find his sister on the swing set alone in tears.
He walked up to her, hugged her, and cried.
"Rex I don't want to live anywhere else but here," the six year old said.
"I don't want you to go neither, but we'll see each other again I promise."
"Promise?"
"Promise, and so you'll never forget me have this," little Rex broke the gold heart shaped locket in half then handed her the one with his picture in it and he followed suit.
"So no matter how old we are we'll always know each other by these, okay?" his sister looked up at him in puppy dog eyes and smiled.
"Okay...I promise."
"Don't forget to write or call," she said getting up walk to the front of the house hand in hand.
"You neither," he said giving her one last hug.
"Ciya Rex."
"Good bye Leslie."
"No! Not 'good-bye' its 'I'll see you later'. Goodbyes are forever and we'll see each other again...I promise."
With that, the little girl hugged her brother, stood on her tippy toes, and kissed him a due. Leslie got the car and drove away in the distance...
END FLASHBACK
LESLIE
"Wow...I totally forgot about the locket," she said touching it.
"Hey don't worry about anything...no one is going to mess with you while I still breathing. I'm your big brother and gonna protect you, and so will the rest of D tent." I smiled and hugged him.
"One condition you treat me like the rest of the guys while we are around them. I got an image to keep up, you know." Rex smiled in a boyish manner.
"Whatever." I said getting excited.
"Look go back to your tent it's getting late and you need energy for tomorrow," he said guiding back to my tent and made sure I was safe.
"I lay there but I can't go to sleep...so I stay up and listen to the boys come back to their tents and retire.
I lay there waiting for sleep to take me under and smile grilling my teeth as if I won a million dollars. For the first time in eight years, I was actually happy...
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That's it sorry I took so long with the chapter...school can be a real pain. Anywayz tell me what you thought and hit me back with REVIEWS!
-Spiggi