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I looked around the room with tears in my eyes. I examined the faces and saw pain, anger, remorse, sadness, confusion, and nervousness. I stood from the chairs and fled the room to my tent...
Recap of Chapter 10:
I got back to my tent and collapsed on my bed. I had told my biggest secret to the entire tent. Now they know I'm a complete phony...a slut. I shut my eyes tightly and cried trying to wash away the last 24 hours. I get up and start throwing things around until I can't stand. After what seemed like an eternity I bolt out of the tent and race toward everything I know...holes.
CAVEMAN
The room filled with a deathly silence as the biggest scandal of all time unfolded right before our eyes. I had no idea she was carrying around all this baggage, and here we are not making it any easier. Everyone's faces are different but one thing is for sure Ice needs help.
"Well, that was some get-together, huh?" Mom said attempting to lighten up the mood.
We all threw looks of hate at him.
X RAY
I don't know how to feel right now, I want to be angry but it only hurts. I want to kill but I can't. My main goal right now is to save my baby sister. When I think about it everything fits, the nightmares, her fear of men, her defensiveness she had all the signs and I couldn't see them.
"Shit!" I snapped up from my chair and walked hastily toward the door.
"Where you going?" Armpit yelled and the guys followed.
"We should have stopped mom sooner!" I yelled picking up the speed and raced to her tent.
"What the fuck," Magnet mumbled.
Her tent looked like a tornado had ripped through it, everything was chaotic. Ice was nowhere to be found, and then I told Ziggy to run back and get the Warden. Within minutes, she arrived at our tent with Mr. Sir and Mom hot on her heels.
"What in the hell?" she exclaimed looking around the tent.
"We gotta find her," I yelled.
"I know this," she said removing her sunglasses. "Now will someone please explain to me what just happened?"
"Well, it's obvious that the tent was vandalized by-" Mom interjected.
"Not the tent you moron...Ice!"
There was silence, "Well don't all speak at once." Within seconds, the entire story spilled out of my mouth like water from a well.
"Oh my...Mr. Sir gather the other tents in front of the Mess Hall, and Pendanski go get flash lights, whistles and water." She barked orders to the two me as if they were mere animals.
Then she looked to us and raised her eyebrows and immediately getting message we hurried out the tent to the already crowded Mess Hall.
"As some of you may have overheard one of our very own has disappeared, and it our job to find her. A-C Tents will search around this perimeter," Mom said while making hand jesters. "D-F will search around the holes." Then the Warden stepped up after him and said, "If we find her before dawn then there will be no digging for the next two days." The whole crowd cheered because it was rare when we did get time off but I could care less as long as we find her. "Its 8:00 now you have eight hours GO!" With that, the hunt was on, not for an animal, but my sister.
6 hours 45 minutes Later
ZERO
These past few hours have been hell, we searched every hole, every rock and it is almost dawn. Personally, I'm surprised that the tents have not given up yet, except for A tent. Spike...I heard he stayed to help; maybe he ain't that bad.
I came to the next set of holes and heard movement in one of the holes and I smiled knowing it was Ice. Only to my surprise was a family of yellow spotted lizards.
I huffed and continued to walk with my head glued to the sky. Seconds later, I saw a mountain shaped like a 'thumbs up'. I stared at it for a few more seconds then I turn right, only to trip over something. I look back to see...
ARMPIT
When all hope of finding Ice was gone, we hear a whistle in the distance. X-Ray was the first one there and I'm the last with the help of Caveman on a count of my weight. When I did get there, the Warden crutched down and helped Ice up. With seconds, Ice was on her feet, giggled and skipped back to camp.
'Is she really that crazy?' I thought as everyone returned to their tents except X.
"What's up, man?"
"I don't know Pit, is this how she suppose to feel? Why is she acting like ain't nothing happen?"
"I don't know but only time will tell she can't stay like that forever. Sooner or later she'll break." I said not even believing myself.
He nodded back semi hopeful, and walked back to the tent as I lag behind with my mind wondering...
SQUID
These last few days have been surreal. Ice is going around acting like little Miss Mary Sunshine, while the rest of us sit and look stupid. At breakfast, she came in with a big smile on her face, and chattering. Mom said after she went to sleep just play along, but I don't know how long I keep this fake ass grin up.
"Hey, Ziggy what's on TV?" Ice said sitting next to him by the TV.
"Nothing...are you okay?" He questions.
"Yeah, why does everyone keep on asking me that?"
"We're worried."
"Ziggy the last thing you need to be worrying about is me."
"Hey Squid," she said giving me a hug.
"You never hug me."
"I know that's why its time I start doing things differently."
I notice something about her eyes; every time she would smile, they would fill up with tears. I hate seeing her like this and if I ever run across this Lawrence asshole, its open season he's dead...
ZIGZAG
X-Ray called a meeting in D tent tonight; the leaders B, C, E, and F were there too. The tent was too small for everyone. We all love Ice and want her back, not this front she putting up.
"Aight ya'll, I called this meeting on behalf of Ice and how much we need her out this hole she's in."
"She been actin' all lotty dotty since the other day," the leader of C tent spoke.
"I know, don't they have a medical term for this shit she doing," the leader of B tent asked.
"Depression!" I injected.
"No! Stupid that's when you sad all the time," the leader of F tent corrected me.
"Denial," Magnet said from his bed.
"What's that?" I asked.
"It's when...um you go through a horrific situation and you try to go about your life like ain't nothing happen. You act real happy for a while until you can't do it anymore, then you break..." He explained while trailing off saying the last part more to himself than us.
"What makes you think she has that?" Caveman says.
"My mother had it for a while?"
"Why?" I said nosing back in his business.
"This ain't Hawaii 5-0 so cut the twenty questions, now back to Ice?" X-Ray said taking the heat off Magnet.
"What do we do to fix the problem, and get baby girl back," the leader of E tent demanded.
"There ain't nothing we can do but wait," Armpit stated.
"Fuck waiting, I'm sick and tired of waiting. I want her back right the fuck now!" X-Ray yelled which startled me.
"How do we get rid of it? Magnet?" Squid said looking at Magnet who shrugged his shoulders.
"I have an idea," Zero said from the corner on his cot. Everyone grew silent and looked at him.
"Well."
"I saw this show once where this lady was going through the same thing and her friends kinda ignored and put her down until she cracked. We cater to her too much right now, so let's give her some space."
"What! That's...extreme." Caveman exclaims.
"It just might be extreme enough to work." X says hopefully.
Over the next ten minutes, we all work out this plan to make Ice crack. The rest of the tents go back and inform the others of our plan that goes in motion tomorrow...
X-RAY
This is it, everyone nervous as hell to see how this shit gonna turn out. The worst thing she could do right now is hate us. We woke up bright and early and walk to the 'Library' to get breakfast and shovels. Ice comes jetting across the open terrain to us.
"Why didn't you guys wake me?" She asked smiling. We rolled our eyes and walk past her to get to the digging site.
"What'd I do?"
"Look we're not your slaves' chica; it's not our jobs to wake your lazy ass up." Magnet said coldly, as I smiled inwardly.
Then without warning we swaggered past her and out to our site leaving her dumb founded.
"Wait up!" She screamed from running to catch up.
The rest of the day continued like that, not including her in conversations, excluding her from lunch. After digging, we left her to dig alone which I had reservations about but I knew it had to be done...
MAGNET
I feel horrible about what she's going though but Ice has got to show more emotion than...happiness when she knows damn well that ain't what she's feeling.
I took a shower and went back to the tent, where finally I'm alone.
"Magnet," a weak voice comes from the entrance.
"Ice, I'm dressing, get out." I harsher than I meant to.
"Please don't kick me out; I don't wanna be alone," she said with her head down.
"If you stay...I leave."
"No!" She grabbed at my arm digging her nails into my skin causing me to bleed.
"Bitch," I yelled unintentionally pushing her to the ground.
'Fuck!' I thought and was about to help her up until she curl into a ball and cried.
I approached her warily then put my arms around her loosely, when she grasped onto me.
"Please don't leave, I promise I'll be better! I swear... I don't want to be alone anymore. Say you don't hate me, I will do whatever you want, just be my friend again." I looked strangely at this girl, a fragment of whom I once knew.
"Chica, don't cry nobody hates you," I kissed the top of her head and held her tight as she continued to cry.
"You guys were being so mean," she said shaking violently.
"We're jerks; we only wanted you to act...how you felt." I said as Caveman stumbles in. I mouth the words "GO" and he nods consciously and is off.
She calms down after a minute and settles herself on X's bed with his pillow wedged between her knees and chest.
CAVEMAN
We come into the tent to see Ice hunched up on X's cot and Magnet sitting on the edge of his bed nursing his bleeding arm. Ice looked like she must have been crying or something because her face was red and swollen.
"What's up?" X says to Magnet.
For the next few minutes, Magnet explains what happened before we walked in. We are both saddened and excited about her mood; thank God, it worked.
"We don't hate you?" X reinforced.
"Everyone...and I mean everyone was being horrible to me, what was that about?" She asked wiping her nose like a child.
"We had a meeting with...the...other tents. We had to do something because we were going to lose you," he said carefully, anxious of her reactions.
"Wow! All this stress for me," she said surprisingly.
"Of course, Chica we love you." Magnet said smiling.
"We just want you to know that it's okay to cry," said Armpit.
"Why...did you do all this?" She asked unsure.
"You were actin' like everything was fine when it damn well wasn't...I mean shit Ice you was scaring the shit out of us! We didn't want you to have no nervous breakdown cuz you holding all this in. D tent is your family and if you can't talk to your family then who can you talk to." Squid said looking her dead in the face.
MAGNET
She gazed around at everyone's faces, like magic this beautiful Ice Queen began to melt right before us. Tears that had started to well up in her eyes fell down her cheeks, like rivers. Soon she was letting out years of pain and shame. One by one, we gave her a big hug and let her know we cherished her deeply.
After about five minutes, Ice finally wiped her swollen eyes, got up and readjusted herself. Then another enchanting thing happened with her. Not out of being fake, or hiding something she...smiled.
DING!
"There's the bell for dinner," Armpit said keyed up.
"Pit all you think about is food," Squid laughed at his friend's habit.
"Whatever Dude," Pit said snatching Squids hat and running for the Mess Hall. Squid laughed as he ZigZag took off after him.
"Looks like things are back to normal," Caveman said to Zero as they headed out the door.
Then there were three X-Ray, Ice, and me.
"Magnet can you give us a sec." X-Ray ordered me more than asked.
"Oh...right," I rubbed the back of my neck and walked out the flap to the side of the tent. I positioned myself where I could not be seen nor heard.
"Leslie, baby girl I am so...so...so sorry," X said as my eyes went wide because he used her real name.
"Rex I never blamed you for any of this...if anything it's my fault." Ice murmured.
"No it isn't, it's that jackass Lawrence's fault, and put this on mommy's grave he will die for what he did," X-Ray's voice became dark and unlike him.
"Thanks for the sweet gesture but all I need from you is you. Revenge is blind and the last thing we need is you being let out only to be thrown back in a prison." Ice spoke wisely.
"But-
"No buts, promise me you won't do anything stupid, dangerous, or against the law to even the score," she said walking toward the flap.
"Okay," he muttered disappointedly.
"You know what you could do?"
"Anything."
"Love and accept not only my heart but my scars and imperfections for what they are," Ice half whispered and questioned.
"You know I'll hold you down." X-ray hugged her coming out the tent.
"See, this is why I love you! Now lets hit the Mess Hall," Ice grabbed his arm and headed off in the opposite direction.
I breathed in a deep sigh of relief because they didn't catch me. All of a sudden, I wasn't hungry anymore. I just sat there and thought about what kind of person could cause this much damage in Ice's life. After what seemed like a millennium, I heard footsteps.
ICE
With that, Rex and I left the tent to the Mess Hall where hopefully everything could be normal again. Magnet was nowhere in sight during dinner, to me it was really boring without him. Therefore, after dinner the rest of the tent went to the Rec. Room while I on the other hand went to find Magnet. I started to head for his tent first then I remembered something and headed to mind. That's when I caught a glimpse of him sitting on the ground against the tent.
"What are you doing?" I asked sitting down beside him.
"I was just...thinking," he said as if he were talking to thin air.
"No, I mean why were you skipping dinner to sit in the dark?" He shrugged his shoulders in response.
"The guys told me it was your idea."
"Huh," he whispered finally looking at me.
"About me being in denial and you having the cure," I smiled at his confused face.
"That was Zero, he had you little antidote I only diagnosed the problem," he chuckled.
"Well, you're still my hero," I joked. "Thank you."
"No biggie," He hugged me.
"So how did you know what exactly to do," I asked curiously.
"Let's just say I had a friend una vez sobre pasado." He said, as his voice gets darker.
"Who?"
"My mama," he smiled sadly.
"Can you tell me about it," he nodded.
"It was about four years ago when it happened; my brother Oscar was working the grave shift one night at the local 7/11. I guess these guys came in and were trying to pinch the place, they wanted everything out of the cash register and Oscar said no. They started to vandalize the store when my brother turned on the silent alarm. One of them saw him press the alarm and he...he...shot Oscar (between tears). Those...bastards shot my big ermano and made off with the money, my brother's gold chain and all Oscar got for defending that estupido store was...a bullet in the head." His voice cracked on the last part as he wiped away his tears.
"My mama was heartbroken when she found out she cried and cried for days. My papa was never around, so Oscar was the only father figure I ever had. There were nine of us total, but only six lived at home. There were plenty of mouths to feed but I knew mama couldn't do it on her own. The oldest of us Julia came home to help out with stuff. I was just a little nino and I didn't know what to do...I was only twelve. My brother's murder was an open and shut case, 5-0 didn't give a fuck. My mother went crazy..."
Magnet was quiet for a long time before saying anything.
"She would hold conversations with herself and call out Oscar's name as if he was there. She would fix him a plate at dinner and at breakfast talk to the thin air and not us. We begged her to let us get her help but she refused and insisted she was fine. This shit went on for about three years and only got worse. Then she started to completely ignore us and gave herself all to Oscar. I hated him for that...when he died he took my mother with him. Julia was starting to get impatient with mama and one day I woke up and she was gone. I guess she went loco too, but I can't blame her. I knew we couldn't last that long so I stole and the more I did it the easier it became."
"Magnet?" I asked but he put a finger to my lips and continued.
"All I wanted to do was see her smile. She hadn't done that or anything else in a while. She stayed in bed 24/7 and we were her nurses, us kids had to grow up way before our time. We had to feed her, bathed her, changed her, and medicate her. Soon the neighbors got suspicious when our electricity was shut off and eviction notices were practically covering our door. Within no time at all CPS (Child Protection Service) was snooping around. That put us on high alert and we were ditching them left and right. It was working for a while but you know me, my hands are like magnets and I just wanted her to feel better." He stopped.
"What happened?"
"My mama loved dogs almost as much as she loved Oscar. One day I was walking home from school and I saw this cute little mixed breed puppy, then I thought how happy she would be to see the dog, when I brought him home. My mind started to work, I had it all planed out, and everything...I was going to name him Oscar. Besides, you should never let a puppy as sad looking as that locked up in a cage, that's inhuman. Well as I made my way through the store, I made no eye contact until I met the eyes of a puppy. It was the most hermoso thing I have ever seen. I quickly lifted her into my pocket and began to stroll out the store and my pocket started barking. The store clerk stopped me and told me to empty my pockets. I did, took out the dog made a break for the door. Well I got about two blocks and heard the sirens. I was scared and the cops didn't make it any better, I was sentenced to eighteen months. In the end, all I did was make her cry...again." He chocked out wiping more tears away.
"What happened to your brother's and sister's?"
"CPS came back and split them up after I left. I know two of my sisters live with my tia Maria in the Dominican Republic. Julia adopted the youngest two, and my abuela took my oldest brothers. My mama went to a...ah...insane asylum." He muttered as I embraced him in a hug.
"You've been through so much." I said still holding him.
"This whole camp is just one huge therapy session waiting to happen!" He jokes.
I laugh and look into his eyes...his beautiful chocolate brown eyes, then his lips. 'Wait I can't think of him like that!' I thought and turned away from him.
"So if you don't mind me changing the subject, what about your family?"
"Magnet...you did a defiant 360 on our little heart-to-heart," I said smiling.
"So?"
"I'll make it short, my mom and I left my dad and X when I was six. She met Lawrence got married; he beat us and then killed her. He got full custody of me then locked my up and made me his personal slave. One night he got piss drunk and raped me. I did drugs had an overdose, then he shipped me off to a hospital for troubled teens. After a year, he came and got me; let's just say the old shit started up again. One night I slipped him sleeping pills and ran away to join my cousin Monica in New York. She was the girlfriend of this major drug lord...or something. I had to earn my keep somehow so I sold X, coke, weed and hydro in the local raves. Long story short, I made the mistake of selling to a cop and was caught, Monica didn't stick up for me and now I'm here."
"That's fucked up." He said looking in my eyes.
"Yeah, I wanted to slice that bitch six ways til Sunday but I didn't, I can't hate her. It's the same reason why some part of me can't hate Lawrence."
"Why hell not!"
"Because...my heart is too big," I answered trough tears.
"That's the best part about you."
"The worst too, I mean I had plenty of opportunities to kill him but I copped out somehow he made me feel guilty about what happened, that I was dirty he was clean, he was right and I was wrong and..." I stopped to think about what I was saying. "...that I seduced him into making him have sex with me and then he would call me names." Once I had finished the statement, his muscles tightened and his face turned unsentimental.
"It wasn't your fault that...that low life shit head is reason. You didn't do anything wrong the most important part is you got away. You found the strength to leave, can't nobody take that away from you. No one walking the face of this Earth is perfect, everybody got baggage just like you, but the only difference is your better for it. Look at all the people who love you, everyone in this God forsaken camp. Don't you ever let me hear you calling yourself out like that again!"
"Thank you," I whispered throwing myself in his arms. I look up in his beautiful eyes and something happened that I never would have predicted.
MAGNET
She is so amazing...her eyes, nose, hair, and lips. I couldn't resist she was so fine. I haven't been with a girl in months. I gently pressed my mouth to her open one. Her mouth tasted like strawberries and her lips so soft like clouds. She seemed frozen as I kissed her. Then gaining control of my sanity I jumped back from her.
"Ice I am so sorry. I took advantage of you...shit I fucked up. Ice I'm-"
Out of nowhere, her mouth crushes mine silencing me then she pulled back and says, "You talk too much."
We kiss again but this time to a rhythm, her tongue matches mine, as we get comfortable. I pull her close into me and tighten my arms around her tiny waist. She moans lightly as I intensify the kiss. I want more of her so I began to quicken my pace with the kiss and she matches my every move her tongue locks with mine, my mouth smashes against hers, our teeth occasionally hit, but it's okay. After what seems like an eternity, we broke apart.
"Wow," I spoke as if they were the only words I knew.
"I know," she mumbled against my mouth kissing me. "What if someone catches us?" I asked fearfully, as she laid sweet kisses against my neck.
"What's the worst that could happen?" She asked massaging my lips with her tongue.
"X-Ray, and that fool is not to be taken lightly," I said pushing her away lightly at a safe distance.
"Don't sweat it; we'll just have to be... cuidadoso," she spoke seductively.
"Ah...chica you speak Spanish?" I asked grabbing her by the waist and pulling her into me.
"Si, seis years." she said against my neck.
"Know any other languages?"
"German...Italian...French...and of course...English," she replied between kisses.
"Damn...well aren't you the little linguist," she chuckled.
I was just about to kiss her again when I heard the rest of the tent coming so I pushed her behind my tent and stepped out of the darkness.
"Magnet what are you doing out here in the dark?" ZigZag asked.
"Taking a piss," I snapped.
"Why did you miss dinner?"
"Ziggy, what fuck is this, twenty questions?"
"No, but-
"Then stop," I argued getting strange looks from everyone.
"Are you coming to bed," X-Ray cut in while he signaled the guys inside the tent.
"In a minute," I said confidently but my eyes must have said differently cause he pressed on. X had a special talent of reading right through you truth or lie he would find out and I was scared.
"You wanna talk about it?'
"No, wanna think about it but when I put my thoughts into words you'll be the first one I call." I responded smirking.
"Don't be a wise ass," he smiled.
"Okay, dad," I joked back.
"Serious though, I'm here if you need it. Shit, they don't call me the leader of ya'll sorry asses for nothing."
"Yes sir...Leader Sorry Ass...sir!" I pretended to salute him.
"You got jokes! Night Magnet," he said turning into the tent.
"Night," I call back but he was already in the tent.
I suddenly felt a pair of arms pull me away from the tent.
"Listen they can't catch us cause I'm not big enough to take on all of them," I said fearfully.
"Grow a spine we won't do anything I just wanna talk," Ice smiles as we sat on the steps of her tent.
"Okay." I smiled back kissing her cheek.
"Are you a virgin?" She asked candidly.
"That was blunt!" She looks at me and says, "If you don't mind me asking."
"No I'm not a...virgin I lost mind a year after Oscar was killed. There was this girl in my neighborhood and everybody wanted her...girl had an applebottom (applebottom-adj. a butt.). She was easy so I made a bet saying I could get her, and I won the bet. I didn't know she would be so...attached. Girl started writing me letters and shit, so I started to dodge her ass the best I could. She found out about the bet and put a pistol to her head-
"She killed herself!"
"No, the gun wasn't loaded. So instead, she told her punk ass brothers about what happened. They wanted to start shit with me. Little did they know I was in a gang, we called ourselves The Family. We were small but deadly maybe give or take 85 to 90 members. So once they started shit Family got involved and that wasn't good for them. It got personal when I heard that them fools was swankin' (swank-v. to brag; boast) about killing Oscar. At first I ain't believe that shit but then one night I saw one of them wearing his chain and I knew it was fate." I grew silent and looked at her expression.
"You killed them...didn't you," she said undemonstratively.
"Yes, but when you kill that shit stays with you and if I could take it back I would," I say glancing in different directions. "That experience alone has limited my sexual partners, and when I did have sex I made sure the girls knew there were no strings attached."
"You did use protection right? Cause it's dangerous to have that many partners-
"Yes, I used a rubber every single time. Shit, I wasn't stupid I didn't want no babies or diseases!" He answered almost offended that I had asked the question.
ICE
He has been through so much, first he loses his brother, next his mom falls apart, and then he kills her brother's murders.
"So is that where you got that tattoo from?" I asked pointing to the Joker on his well-toned bicep.
"Yep"
"So how many different people have you slept with?"
"Gosh...um...I dunno...fifteen...twenty max," he whispered looking a little shameful. "It wasn't by choice or anything."
"Now I'm confused."
"I was lieutenant to leader of the Family and he like hand picked his successors and I was the one that would be next in line to take over the Family when the time came. In order to do so I had to be the one to 'initiate' the new members. Many girls thought they were tough...so we had to see how tough..." he trailed off.
"You had to gang rape them didn't you?"
"Yeah, but it wasn't rape because -
"You had their permission," I smirked finishing his sentence for him.
"How did you know?"
"I'm not completely naive to the code of conduct of the underworld."
"Can I ask you something...personal?"
I looked at him funny and asked, "Well what the hell we been talking about for the last hour? 'Cause if that ain't personal then I don't know what is."
"How many times did...Lawrence, you know...um...make have sex with him?" He looked me in the eyes.
"Only when it rained...that wasn't often, maybe once or twice a month."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, you didn't do anything," I smiled kissing him on the cheek.
"What are we?" He says pulling me close into him.
"Huh?"
"Are we just friends or something...more?" He traces my lips with his fingers.
"How about...more," I proposed kissing his fingers.
"I like that, but it's our little secret...okay," Holding out his pinky finger.
"I promise," entwining my pinky with his.
"Get some sleep," hugging me and kissing my temple.
"Good night," finally letting go and parting ways.
MAGNET
It has been a week since Ice and I have hooked up, and I don't regret a minute of it. I can only say it has been a grace of Dios that we haven't been found out...yet. We have to sneak around and ditch the others just so we can see each other. X is a little suspicious but Ice and I do an okay job by covering our tracks. When we do meet it's always after lights out, and we make sure no ones awake. Mostly we just talk about stuff to pass the time, nothing too serious.
ICE
It has been a week since that night, when we confessed the world to each other. Tonight after curfew, I'm meeting him out by the holes where we can have some privacy.
"Lights out!" The warden's voice signaled all the lights that were on in the camp to shut off simultaneously.
I smiled, laid there and waited for the signal that would seal our fate for the night.
"Wake up sleeping belleza your principe is here to carry you away." Magnet's sexy deep voice whispered in my ear.
"Si, Papi," I smiled up at him and kissed quickly. "I'm all yours, tonight."
Magnet smiled grabbed my hand and led me out of the tent to the holes. He kept going to the holes that had been dug years back that were the furthest away from the camp.
"Wow, this is pretty far from camp," I stated nervously.
"Don't worry we'll be back in our cots long before dawn," he murmured then let soft kisses massage my ear.
"Wait...um...don't you want to talk or something," extremely worried knowing where this was leading.
"You trust me right?" I nodded my head.
"Well when you say stop then I'll stop. So can we please continue chica?"
"I guess," I answered and wrapped my arms around his shoulders.
He stared at me for a minute as if he were contemplating something, then his lips pressed against mine waiting to be accepted. I finally gave in and allowed his tongue to explore my mouth. He began to kiss me more fiercely while his hands roamed my body. I began to get uncomfortable and tried to move but his weight was overpowering me.
"Magnet stop it," but he wouldn't listen and began to remove my jumpsuit.
"Please...no!" Now my eyes clouded with tears.
"Shut up, you know you want this!" He said entering me...
MAGNET
DING!
There goes the morning bell to start our day and I'm the first one awake.
'Wednesday,' I thought maliciously.
Ever since, I was a little nino I always hated Wednesday, it was in the middle of the week and bad shit always seemed to find a way to fuck up that day. Oscar was killed on a Wednesday, I was arrested and hauled off to jail on a Wednesday, and my worst CGL days were on a Wednesday. Now I know it isn't going to be a good day because my nerves, which are on edge, kept me up since two o'clock this morning. On top of that, I get this intense constipation feeling brewing in my stomach, which by the way is hitting me at full force.
"Come on Magnet...get up buddy," Squid yelled in his thick New York accent.
"How about I don't and say I did?"
"Magnet you looking a little pale do you want me to get Mom," X asked in a concerned voice.
"I'm up," I manage to say.
"Good lets rock and roll," ZigZag shrieked and ran outside the ten leaving all of us partially deaf.
After recovering from our semi traumatic experience, we begin to get dress. Then out of nowhere, a loud scream filled the air that made all of us jump.
"Ziggy, man stop screaming! It's way too early for that shit!" X-Ray boomed in the direction of the tent opening.
"It wasn't me...it came from...," ZigZag trailed off as we saw him make his way to Ice's tent.
'Not again...please God don't let this be another one of those Wednesday!' My thoughts begged to God as we all made our way to her tent...
ZIGZAG
I was outside holding my breath trying to see how long it would take before I blacked out when I heard a scream. It scared me shitless at first, but then I figured out where it came from. Before I could, have a second thought, my legs carried me to her tent where I found Ice failing her arms wildly, her body jerking uncontrollably, and her ashen tear streaked face etched in pain.
'The exorcist,' I thought but then quickly came to my senses to conclude it was a nightmare.
"No Magnet...stop don't...please no...your hurting me," Ice pleaded as her eye lids fluttered and then squeezed themselves shut.
"Ice baby wake up," I shook her.
Then she suddenly stopped moving and she squinted up at me, "Ziggy?" I nodded my head then she fell into my chest and started to cry.
"Zigzag, what happened?" X-Ray asked from behind me.
I turned around and looked at the rest of the tent but then my gaze fell on Magnet and turned into a hateful glare. Ice griped my arm tightly and I looked into her eyes. She must have known what I was thinking because she was shaking her head no...
X-RAY
We all arrive at her tent to see Zigzag hunched over her, attempting to console her. When I asked him what was wrong he set a hateful gaze at Magnet. It startled me because Ziggy was never mad no matter what went down especially when it came to Magnet they were like best friends. Then he looked at baby girl who was shaking her head no.
"Ziggy," I pressed on impatiently.
"Ask her," He responded in a cold voice. Ziggy removed Ice from him and made his way to the exit.
"Excuse me," he said forcefully and rammed shoulders with Magnet.
"What did I do?" Magnet asked obviously confused.
"Outside," is all Ziggy got out and Magnet briskly followed.
At this point, I am beyond curious to know what's going on so I glance at the other's who shrug.
"What in the hell was that, Ice?" I asked my now calm sister.
"I had a nightmare and it sort of involved Magnet," she whispered.
"Did he hurt you...for real I mean," I asked as my blood boiled with anger.
"It felt real," She mumbled.
"Did he hurt you," She shrunk down back into her cot.
"He's dead!" She shot up and tried to make a grab for my arm.
"No!"
"Guys stay here with her while I go out there and handle them," I ordered hoping Magnet really didn't do anything to her...
MAGNET
What did I tell you; huh, I knew it was going to be one of those days. Well at least I'm not Caveman who has these types of days everyday.
"What did you do to her?" ZigZag ordered shoving me.
"I didn't do shit! Ziggy what the hell are you talking about?"
"She was having a nightmare, screaming your fucking name begging you not to hurt her," Ziggy said menacingly.
"I didn't do anything, it probably someone else she was talking about," I responded with a lame excuse.
"That was the worst excuse I've ever heard, let me find out your even remotely involved with this and you'll find out why they diagnosed me insane," ZigZag threatened poking Magnet in chest.
"Ziggy, let him go," came the voice of an outraged X-Ray.
"But he-
"Go back in the tent with Ice...I got him," X-Ray said calmly.
ZigZag reluctantly nodded his head and retreated to the tent. I breathed in a sigh of relief when Ziggy left my presence but only to hold my breath again when I saw the look on X's face.
'Maybe he isn't mad at me,' I thought hopefully to myself.
"X, man gracias por favor-
"Don't thank me bitch, I wanna know what you did to her."
"Same thing with Ziggy I haven't spent more than two minutes alone with the girl-
"Lying is a dangerous business when it comes to the well being of my love ones, maybe you should choose your words more wisely."
"I'm not lying!"
"No more than two minutes? That night when we found you in the dark, I never mentioned it because I thought it would never escalate but I knew she was with you. She told Caveman right after dinner that she was coming to look for you, and you know just as well as everyone else that I can't be lied to! On top of that when I pretended to go back inside I waited by the door to see what was up. On her first day of camp I trusted you with my own flesh and blood and this is how you repay me!"
"X-
"Don't...speak just listen, until I find out the truth you had better not come within fifty feet of my sister of I slice your throat." I nodded my head knowing it wasn't an idol threat.
"Oh and don't worry this will stay between Ziggy and I, don't want the tent getting the wrong idea if nothing did happen like you say. I swear on my mother's grave if something did happen you better hope the whole camp doesn't find out because you know how protective they are of baby girl. One man can't take on a fleet. Have a nice day...Magnet," X-Ray, said walking allowing his words to sink in.
"It's officially Wednesday," I whispered to myself while trotting to the 'Library'..
ICE
I feel so bad about what happened, Magnet didn't do anything wrong and he was being ostracized by the tent, minus Zero who doesn't talk to him anyway. ZigZag burst into the tent ranting about what happened before I could stop him. D-tent was about to condemn Magnet to death when Rex came in and talked them down. When we were at the 'Library' Magnet wouldn't even make eye contact with me, which by the way I deserve. I tried to tell them he had nothing to do with my dream but their convinced I'm lying. At the digging sight, Rex made Magnet dig away from the group as punishment for something he didn't do. As my thoughts, continued tears were forming in my eyes.
"Hey babe you okay," Squid asked squatting down in my hole and rubbed my arm.
"Yeah," said as my eyes unconsciously traveled over to Magnet.
Squid must have followed my eyes because his grip tightened a bit.
"He's not going to hurt you anymore not like Lawrence did," Squid soothed as he hugged my and then kissed me briefly on the lips.
I jumped back and he looked instantly sorry, but I was more worried about who saw it. The last thing I need was someone else being accused of doing something they didn't do. I looked around and found no one looking except for the one person I didn't want...Magnet. He looked ready to kill then his expression turned into extreme hurt.
"Don't worry, I know you only care for me as a sister," I said kissing him on the cheek and he smiled.
'Shit!' I thought as I turned to Magnet to see him even more hurt then the first time.
An hour later, fueled by anger Magnet was first to finish with his hole. He jumped out his hole with a dangerous allure that embodied him. Everyone must have felt it because they all looked up at him in awe. Everyone's face showed either a twinge of fear, interest, or guilt. I gulped and began to dig faster and faster which allowed me to be done by the time the lunch truck got there.
"I'm going back to camp," I told Rex who just nodded his head.
I start back to camp in a casual stride so it wouldn't look suspious then when I was out of bird eye view I hauled ass. I searched everywhere the showers, the Mess Hall, the tents, Mr. Sir's office, the nurse's, even the urinals. When all hope was lost, I heard a distinctive laugh that sounded like heaven.
'Magnet,' I thought happily as I once again hauled ass for the eighth time that day.
The Rec. Room wasn't as crowded as I thought, a couple of the tents were there enjoying the music going, and the pool table. Magnet was slouched on the couch laughing at a boy who apparently forgot to pay his 'dues' and was now being held down on the weight lifting machine by various members of A tent. I shook my head a walked over to where Magnet was and sat down next to him. He looked unnerved as I plopped down in the seat next to him.
"Nice weather we're having, huh?" He shrugged at the lame conversation starter. "You got done really fast...today!" He inspected his nails. "You should have seen the looks on their faces when you left," I spoke then I hit him on the arm, which gained his attention, but not in the way, I wanted.
"What the fuck do you want?" Magnet spat at me with a venomous look.
"I want you to stop treating me like shit, I'm better than that!"
"Right...you were so much better that you had to whore yourself to Squid right in front of everyone. The funny thing no one said anything but I know for a fact that they all saw!"
I raised my right hand and slung it toward his head hopping it would make serious contact. My hopes were soon deflated as he caught it inches away from his face.
"Now allow me to make this very clear, I never once put hands on a female but so help me God, you disrespect me one more time man or woman...it's on," he said releasing me from his grip.
"Well be a man and stand up to me," I challenged smacking the back of his head.
"Okay keep playing with your life!"
"Keep acting like a child...grow up!" He rolled his eyes and continued to watch A tent torment the poor boy.
"You are no different than them picking fights with things smaller than you."
"Don't get hot and bothered because you couldn't defend yourself," he confirmed but probably mentally smacking himself as soon as he said it.
"Your the one to talk scared shitless when ZigZag cornered you, probably would have defecated on yourself if he didn't walk away. Only a bitch Magnet..."
"When your right your right let me show how a real man walks away...not a bitch," Magnet spat walking to the pool table.
I frowned and sighed deeply as I tried to figure out a way for Magnet to give me his full attention. My eyes scanned the room as she tried to find the ultimate distraction for him. As luck would have it, they landed on A-tent who was still viscously abusing the scrawny boy on the weight lifting machine. An evil smirk appeared as she glanced at Magnet, whom at the moment had his back turned. Then she rolled up her sleeves and made her trek over to the belligerent crowd of boys...
Preview of Chapter 11
"Magnet I warned you to stay away from my sister," a furious X-Ray roared at me as I shielded a cowering Ice.
"If we want to be together that ain't got shit to do with you," I roared and turned away from X-Ray.
"Oh the hell it does," X-Ray roared grabbing his sister's arm and pulling her away from me.
"You don't run my life! I hate you, Rex you know nothing about me, Magnet knows and cares about me. He lets me live my life; he doesn't treat me like a piece of glass ready to break. You need to stop acting like you know me, you weren't there when mom died, you weren't there when Lawrence beat us, you weren't there when he raped me, you weren't there when I over dosed on drugs, and you certainly was not there when those assholes from A-tent jumped me. Don't go all big brother on me when someone I like shows interest. Now...let go of me!" Ice screamed at her brother and flung her arm out of his grasp.
X-Ray's eyes darkened and his facial turned hateful. Ice must have realized what she said because she made a grab for him but his hand curled into a fist and sent her flying back into me...
Wow! Isn't this a site for sore eyes...an update! I'm so elated to finally get this done and out the way. I'm already working on chapter 11. Live long and prosper!
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