"alright boys" Pendanski said smiling his dorky smile as he opened the flap to D-tent "you boys are going somewhere this week."
"Where are we going, mom?" Barfbag asked, setting his canteen down on the floor by his bed. He was better and back at camp, making the tent very crowded with Zigzag, Barfbag, X-Ray, Armpit, Magnet, Twitch, Squid, and Caveman.
"Alaska" The short counselor told the boys.
"Alaska?!" Most of them said wide-eyed.
Pendanski nodded "I bet you boys are wondering why we are sending you to Alaska and I'm not exactaly sure myself. Bus will be by in three hours so be ready with your stuff." He said and left the tent.
"well, that was unexpected" Caveman said breaking the long silence D-tent shared.
The rest nodded, they weren't really sure if they had just imagined that or not.
"I just want one reason why Mom would send us on a cruise to Alaska!" Armpit said still very confused.
"I have no clue" Magnet stated standing up "but I'm not questioning it". with that he began packing.
The other boys shrugged and decided to pack as well.
"what do you do on a cruise?" Squid asked and began changing out of his jump suit and into his regular clothes.
"It's fun, there's a lot of things you can do. But why are you changing?" X-Ray answered sitting on his cot. There wasn't much he had to pack.
"changing my clothes. I don't think people would react all that well when they see 8 teenage boys in jumpsuits boarding a cruise ship with them." Squid answered as he finished pulling on his shirt.
"that is true..." Twitch agreed and soon they were all changed out of their jump suits and shoving them into their bags.
"I wonder what they're gonna do with us once they get us on the boat." Zigzag said more to himself than the others, but they thought he was talking to them.
"what do you mean?" Barfbag asked.
"well, people who love making torturing us in every way shape or form are giving us a trip on a cruise ship. Dose that not sound suspicious?" Zigzag asked sitting on his cot.
"Can you just give us a day without that paranoid stuff? It's a free trip out of here! What more is there to ask?!" Twitch exclaimed throwing his hands in the air for emphasis.
Zigzag sighed and shrugged.
Soon enough, D-tents counselor poked his scrawny little head through the tent flap and ordered the boys out by the bus. They all grabbed their bags and filed out of the tent one by one. The yellow school bus had been parked by the road and awaiting their arrival.
"Why are we going on a cruise?" X-Ray asked as he stared up at the dirty bus. But once he looked over to where the man was, he wasn't anywhere to be seen.
All the boys were now looking around for where their counselor could have gone. What they didn't know was he made a break for the first building in sight so he didn't have to answer any more of their questions. But he then realized he forgot to give them the room schedule.
He sighed and walked back out to the small crowd of boys.
"I forgot to tell you one thing" Pendanski called to them as he walked back. He reached in his pocket and pulled out a small sheet of paper and held it out to the boys.
"these are the sleeping arrangements. Rex and Lewis will share a room, Ricky and José you will share, Theodore and Alan will share and Brian and Stanley will share. You'll get the room numbers when you sign in. Your passports are in this envelope." He said handing an orange envelope to X-Ray "enjoy your trip" he said and ran away back to the building he was in.
All of D-tent shrugged and stepped onto the dusty, yellow school bus.