Chapter 4

EMILY'S POV

The next few days were all the same, wake up, eat, dig, eat, dig some more, eat, then go to bed. The only interesting thing that happened during these days was watching Lump almost kill Caveman one day in the wreck room and the rest of D-tent saved him before he got hung by his toenails then thrown into a hole.

The only thing that really changed was that Squid ignored me completely.

It was about two weeks into our stay at Camp Hell and I already was finished with it.

GABBY'S POV

"Rise and shine campers!" Mom exclaimed as we all shuffled out of our tents and over to the library to get our shovels.

I yawned and stood next to Emily, not saying anything because she had been cranky for the past couple of days.

"Hey," someone said from behind me.

Caveman handed me a shovel and I gratefully took it, "Thanks."

"No problem," he said and we began walking with everyone else towards the digging site.

"So…uh," Caveman stuttered, watching all the boys walk past us. "I know that it's a bit weird…being that we're at a juvenile detention camp…but…"

"What?" I asked, sticking my shovel in the ground when I reached my new digging spot.

"If you wanted to…I guess I can't say…well…if you wanted to go out with me. Which I know you can't because well…look at where we are…but. Yeah."

"Are you asking me to be your girlfriend?"

"Yes. Yes I am."

"Well…sure."

"Sure?"

"Yes!" I laughed and stopped abruptly when he kissed me for a long moment, making my mind feel like it was filled with air and complete indescribable explosions and fireworks. He then pulled back when Mom began dancing around about digging holes and how we're digging for character. I couldn't help but notice Zig-Zag glaring at Caveman from the corner of my eye.

SQUID'S POV

"Ay," I called when Mom came around with the truck to give us all lunch. I pulled back on Magnets collar and pulled him behind me in line, cutting in front of Fox. I knew she wouldn't say anything about it so I pushed him again so she was behind me.

I hadn't talked to her for a long while now, and it was killin me. The only reason I had been ignoring her was because I was afraid if I got too attached, I would just end up hurting her somehow, like I did to my mom. When my mom told me she was disappointed in how I turned out it tore me up. She said I was part of the reason for her drinkin. I couldn't disappoint Fox like that. But I couldn't be away from someone who showed that they cared for me like she did. She was the first person who treated me like this for all my sixteen years other than my mom before she started goin downhill.

I stared over at her as I bit into my apple, sitting on the edge of my hole. She was sitting on the edge of hers, laying back and staring up at the sky with her eyes closed.

Just then Zig-Zag threw something in Caveman's face, causing him to push his chest back. They began shoving each other and eventually Zero attacked Zig-Zag, choking him.

There was a gunshot and Mom started yelling about something, I wasn't really listening as I helped Zig-Zag stand up and brushed him off. Everyone went back to digging their holes, knowing that the Warden would be there soon.

"Ay Zig," I called. "You doin alright?"

"Yeah," he said from the hole next to mine. He leaned up on the edge of his hole, putting his head in his arms, "I'm fine now. What about you?"

"Me?" I asked, sticking my shovel in the ground.

"Yeah you," he replied.

"I'm…fine."

"No you're not."

"Why you thinkin that?" I asked.

"Because you aint actin like yourself Squid. What's wrong?"

When I didn't answer he sighed and said, "You can't be afraid of livin your life. You aint a bad person. I know you're not."

He went back into his hole and started digging again. After the Warden got there everyone was called out of their hole and to the water truck, The Warden asked what happened and she got a run down from a few of the guys and then Zig-Zag chimed in with a comment about Caveman not digging his own holes.

"What did you say?" she asked, taking a step forward.

"It's true ma'am," I backed up Zig. "Zero's been diggin half of the Caveman's hole."

She went on to yell at Caveman and he tried explaining how he was giving Zero reading lessons and Mom started teasing Zero by calling him stupid.

"What does D-I-G spell?" he sneered.

Zero thought for a moment before whacking him across the face with his shovel then bolting for the mountains.

"Go Zero! GO!" Caveman screamed as Mr. Sir chased him with a gun.

"Don't shoot! We don't need no investigations around here," Warden said before leaving. "And I want my seven holes dug. Fox, why don't you finish Zero's for him?"

"Yes Ma'am," she agreed, having no other choice.

Eventually everyone was finished with their hole. I loitered in my hole for a while, not wanting to leave her out there alone.

"Why are you still here?" she asked, startling me a little.

I sat on the edge of her hole and slid down, shoveling out some dirt. "Don't know. In case them buzzards come out I'd want to see if they ate your eyeballs first."

"Thanks," she mumbled.

She put her shovel in the ground and sat down inside the hole a few feet away from me. I walked over to her and crouched down, "What's wrong?"

"It's just hot," she said, throwing her empty water bottle away angrily.

"Here," I gave her mine from around my shoulder and she took it slowly. After I helped her drink some I sat down next to her and she coughed a little.

"I'm sorry," I said suddenly.

"It's fine."

"I don't want to end up dissapointin' you too," I said to my feet.

She stared at me, "How would you disappoint me?"

I shrugged. She coughed a few more times and leaned over, putting her head on my shoulder.

"You can never disappoint me. I like you too much," I put my hand on hers that was resting on her knee.

"Fox?"

"Yeah?"

"I am really sorry."

She looked up at me and pulled my face closer to hers, kissing me softly. It was like nothing I had ever felt before. No emotions like that had ever rushed through my mind and body.

"Let's go back to camp," she said and I stood up and held out my hand to help her stand up.

EMILY'S POV

All of the guys(plus Gabby and I) were all hanging out in D-tent, lolling around and talking, telling stories of friends, family, and things like that. Gabby and Caveman were laying out on his cot, even Gabby had on a tank top at this point because it was so painfully hot. I sighed and laid back down next to Squid, he had his shirt off and was laying back on his stomach, rubbing his hair from sweat. I squirmed over so I was laying on his back a little.

"So Caveman and Kitten, you two are really official now?" Magnet twittered from his cot.

"Yeah," Gabby giggled.

"What about Fox and Squid? When are you both comin outta the closet?"

"What are you People magazine or somethin? Why do you keep asking about everyone's personal life." X-ray chimed in.

"I was just wonderin!" his Mexican accent whined.

"We are," Squid said, surprising even me.

"Since when?" X asked, just as surprised.

"Who cares?" Squid asked and I nuzzled his back.

"FRESH MEAT!" there was a scream from outside.

Everyone jumped up and ran outside, eager to see who the new kid was. When we jumped down the steps and into the dusty road where tons of guys were crowding around the nasty bus which dropped Gabby and I off not too long ago. It seemed like the whole camp was outside, and we couldn't see anything at all but the top of the yellow bus.

"What the hell?" someone asked from inside the crowd.

I bolted through the crowd, because all the guys were bigger than me I could easily slip through them. Gabby mumbled some complaints to herself for a moment before rushing after me and into the crowd. Once we were through the mosh, there was the officer who was in the bus with us, holding someone in his right arm.

The person was extremely tall, taller than Gabby. They had short hair that was a fiery red tone which was longer on the front sides and a short buzz cut everywhere else. It wasn't just a normal natural red, it was literally fire truck red. The person turned around and Gabby and I gasped.

It was a girl.

She was wearing a black wife-beater tank top and gray camo pants. When she turned around she spit at the ground and grimaced, showing a strong looking square face and that she had a tattoo on her neck which looked like it was supposed to be an outline of which bones were there. The girl glanced over at Gabby and I and I realized both of our jaws were dropped.

She grimaced once before being taken into Mr. Sir's office.

"Oh…" Gabby said.

"My…" I gasped.

"God." We both finished.

We turned around to see all of D-tent behind us with their jaw's dropped too.

"She was kinda hot," Magnet said, breaking the silence.

Armpit burst out laughing and I looked over at Squid who had a look of pure disgust on his face.

"You ok?" I stifled a laugh.

"Good god." He mumbled before changing the side of his mouth he was chewing on. The alarm went off to tell everyone that dinner was ready and everyone shuffled for the mess hall.