Ta-da! chapter 6 (i realize they are uber short)! Please enjoy!

Eddy sat on the edge of her hole the next day. Her long legs kicked the bottom of the hole which was only about two and a half feet deep. In the distance there was a cloud of dust coming up the make-shift road. The dust came all the way up to where the boys were digging and settled to reveal a pickup truck with a water basin attached to the bed. Mom hopped out of the truck and walked around to the back where the spicket to the water basin was. The boys all got up and began to form a line in front of Mom. They were very orderly for a group of delinquent boys. Eddy filed in behind 47. Mom filled everyone's canteens with the water from the truck, doing his best not to look scared and more like an authority figure.

"You're not even half way done, Edith" Mom said as he filled her canteen, the rest of the boys returned to their holes with a full canteen and lunch: an old bologna sandwich and a bag of stale animal crackers. "You will be out here all day if you don't pick up the pace."

"Eddy." she mumbled. Despite being here for nearly two days, Eddy had yet to get a nickname. At first she didn't mind; she didn't want to be part of the group of boys who followed Bandits every move. But now she though having a nickname would be cool; to abandon Edith to make way for a new character. And maybe joining the boys wouldn't be so bad. Some of them are cool. Like 47 and Black Light for instance; 47 was a complete dumbass and Black Light was Bandits right hand man, but they weren't that bad.

"well, Eddy." mom said twisting the cap back on her canteen but not giving it back to her because he knew she would walk away as soon as he did. "You are here to dig holes, to build character. And if you don't do that, you will never be able to leave your criminal ways behind." He pushed the canteen in eddy's arms.

"whatever." She said as she rolled her eyes and picked up lunch.

Eddy returned to her unfinished hole and sat on the edge of it. 47 was in the hole next to her, leaning on the wall of his nearly finished hole. It was already up to his head. 47 was the shortest of the group standing at a mere four feet and seven inches. Black Light was next to his hole completing the little triangle of holes.

"Hey, 47, how do you get a nickname?" Eddy finally asked tossing her half eaten sandwich in Bandits finished hole.

"First of all, you have to be liked." He looked up from his bologna sandwich which he tore the crust off. "Then Bandit usually chooses a name that suits you best."

"Usually?"

"Yes." Black Light chimed in "sometimes it's an anonymous vote by the whole group." Eddy never realized how much of an accent Black Light had. It was African Eddy supposed./ she never heard anything like it. Eddy's captivation by Black Light's accent was broken with the sound of 47's own annoying voice.

"My name was chosen by the group."

"Oh, yah? So why 47?"

" Why? Cause its forty-seven inches long, baby." He said, a slimy smiled creeping across his face. The smirk was interrupted by a hand full of dirt being tossed in 47's face.

"That is not how he got his name." Black Light said preparing to toss another handful of dirt at 47. "His name is 47 as in AK-47. He tried to rob a 7-eleven with one of those."

"And I would have gotten away with it to!" 47 declared as if he was one of those bad guys on Scooby-doo.

"If it weren't for those meddling kids!" Eddy blurted out.

'What? No! If the damn bullets weren't so expensive."

"You robbed a store with an empty gun?" Eddy's tone was flat "damn you are even more of an idiot that I thought."

"Hey!" 47 pouted and Black Light laughed. Soon, eddy was laughing too. "Yah…well…why did you get sent here?" he asked hoping it would be something stupid. The laughter died down and eddy coughed to clear her throat.

"I, uh, um… stole a few hubcaps." 47 forced a laugh, but he knew that wasn't funny. Black Light didn't laugh either. Nothing was as funny or as stupid as what 47 did.

"That's pretty cool." Eddy smiled at the compliment.

"Yah, I was fixing up this one car I had, but I sold a lot of the pieces I stole too." She shrugged "no big deal."

"Not your first offence then?" Eddy shook her head

"The first time I got caught. Like I said, I was fixing up a car. It needed a little more than new hubcaps." Eddy started to dig again and the conversation died. 47 sulked as he finished up his hole. Black Light finished his a short time after.

"You better hurry up," He said as he spit into his hole, "you'll be out here all night, Ratchet." He smiled as he walked away towards the tent.

"Ratchet." Eddy repeated and smiled. "I like that."