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Chapter 6

EMILY'S POV

While the guys were talking about how much Butch resembled a Coronal Sanders version of Chuck Norris, Gabby and I sat with our boyfriends on their beds, talking to each other about how we had to share a room with her.

"I am really not comfortable with this," she muttered.

"She won't do anything, if I have anything to do with it."

Gabby sighed, "Em, don't fight her or anything. I really don't want to start any more trouble than we already did."

I shrugged it off, "Whatever, as long as she leaves us alone I'm fine."

"Ayy Fox you really saved me today," Magnet sang from his cot.

Squid toyed with his toothpick, "You almost got your ass whooped Magnet."

Everyone but Caveman began laughing. I couldn't help but notice the mood he had been in all day.

GABBY'S POV

I laid against Caveman's chest, knowing that he was stifling tears behind his pained expression. He hadn't said anything to me since Zero had run away. And now that Butch was here to replace Zero, reality sunk in. He wasn't coming back.

But I knew that Caveman didn't believe that. He knew that Zero was still alive.

"Gabby," he whispered, making me jump a little.

"Yes?"

"I'm going to find him, after tomorrow though."

"You can't go out there," I murmured back. "You'll die."

He shook his head, "I'm going to steal the water truck when it comes and ride it out for as far as I can go with enough gas to get back."

"I'm going with you," I said, surprising even myself.

"No you're not."

"I am or else I'm telling."

"You've got to be kidding me," he teared up a little.

"No, I can't let you do it alone."

"Fine."

"Fine." I felt a wave of apprehension and hypercriticism rush through me.

I had told Emily to stay out of trouble and I was about to flee from camp after stealing camp property into a seemingly endless desert.

"We should go back before Chuck Norris steals all of our stuff," Emily called over from Squid's cot.

"Alright," I replied, kissing Caveman a few times before getting up to the door.

I laid down in my cot, first one next to the door. Emily's was right across from mine on the right hand side when you first walked in. The new girl had positioned herself a few cot's back on my side of the tent.

"So," I tried to be friendly. "What's your real name?"

"Kris," she said, ruffling her fire red hair. I noticed now that she had her red jumpsuit on, tied around her waist and a baggy white t-shirt, she had a tattoo on her left arm of a leprechaun.

"You like my tattoo?" she asked.

"Uh…it's not really my thing. Emily is more into that kind of stuff," I mumbled.

Emily had been laying, facing the front of the tent, obviously annoyed that we were sharing G tent with someone else.

"You like tattoos?" Butch asked, directed at Emily.

Emily wasn't about to ignore her, I knew she saw it as a sign of weakness for some reason.

"Yeah."

"You have one?" the girl asked.

"No."

"What about a boyfriend?"

"Yeah."

"Who?" Butch sat up a little in her bed. I was leaning back in mine and glanced up from my book The Huntress.

"Squid."

I snickered a little to Emily's one word responses.

"The hot one with the toothpick?"

I can't laugh…

Don't laugh…

"Yup."

"He's hot."

"I know."

I felt myself snort out a little, quiet enough that nobody heard.

"I may have to make a move." Butch pushed a little more.

Don't. Laugh.

"Good luck with that. I hear he doesn't like transvestites."

That got me and I let out a loud laugh, catching myself quickly when Butch's eyes caught mine. They were threatening and held visions of hostile emotions.

"I just wanna let you know that I'm gonna run this place." Butch said, turning to go to bed.

"Good luck taking it from me," Emily said, closing her eyes.

I found it hard to sleep that night, thinking about how I probably wouldn't live that much longer. I had tomorrow, I would get to see my family tomorrow for family visitation day, then I could tell them how much I loved them. Then the next day Caveman and I were going to run to find Zero. You can survive three days without water. And we had two, maybe three people, we had to provide that for.

As hard as I tried, all I could do was stare at the tent's dusty wall the whole night.

EMILY'S POV

I woke up in the middle of the night, after a nightmare I had which was about going back home and finding out that my mom was gone from our house. I had looked all over for her, and finally went to our basement, not thinking she would be there. But she was and there was a man standing over her dead body.

Sitting up in my bed, I tried to not think of the horrifying dream. I climbed over to Gabby's cot, careful to not wake her and grabbed her watch.

1:21 AM.

I had until 4 am to sleep and then the waking alarm would go off, telling it was time to dig. There was no falling back asleep for me at that point so I changed into my work clothes, putting on a black spaghetti strap tank top and tying the arms around my waist. I tied my hair back and held my bangs with it with two bobby pins, off to the side a little.

1:22 AM.

I sighed and sat down on the wooden stairs outside of our tent. The moon was still out, would still be out for a while now, even when everyone wakes up to go dig. That's when I would get to see him again. His dusty face and thick eyebrows. His deep brown eyes and dark hair hidden beneath that silly towel he wore under his hat. His thickly accented voice which showed no sign of amusement, always a tinge of anger lingering inside of it. I heard that voice before with that tinge missing though. I couldn't help but realize that even though it had only been one day…I was really falling for a guy named Squid.

Unable to take the silence, I stood up off the stairs and walked over to the tent in front of ours.

D-TENT

Cautiously, I walked up the stairs and walked through the unzipped door, glancing around. Squid was laying under a thin white sheet, his bare chest poking out. I contemplated for a few minutes how I would come across this. I decided to just walk over and lay down on top of him, pushing him onto his back.

He almost screamed so I put my hand over his mouth and laughed silently. His eyes softened and I pulled my hand back, kissing him quickly.

"Why are you here?" he asked sleepily.

"I couldn't fall back asleep," I mumbled.

He ran his fingers though my hair and I laid my head on his chest.

"When the guys wake up their all gonna freak out," he laughed quietly.

"Whatever," his lips met mine again and I pulled back.

"How was Butch?" he asked.

"Why do you care?" I snapped slightly, remembering her comment from before.

"What's wrong with you?" he asked, stopping his hand suddenly.

"Nothing, she just annoys me." I sighed. "We got into another argument before."

"Bout what?"

"Nothing really. She just told me that she was going to run this place. I feel kind of stupid for taking it so personally."

"I don't think you really have to worry about her," he yawned.

I rolled off of him and laid next to his side, "Go back to sleep."

"You gonna go?"

"Do I have to?"

"No."

"Then no."

He mumbled something incoherent before he fell back asleep. I tried to not be my usual restless self and used all of my power to remain still, afraid that I would wake him up. Eventually, I fell back asleep.

There is that kind of sleep that someone can get into that they are not really asleep, but everything around them is dizzy feeling. It's that valley in between dreamland and reality. That's where I spent the two hours before wake up call. When the alarm went off the trumpets noise seemed louder than it would if I were asleep, or even awake for that matter.

"Magnet! Wake up man!" X-Ray slapped the bed next to me.

I flew up in the air, realizing where I was.

"What the hell?" X-Ray looked over, smiling manically. "How long you been in here Fox?"

"I donno," I garbled sleepily as Squid rolled over next to me, grumbling.

I left the tent so all the guys could get changed in peace and for the first time ever, I was the first one to the Library.

"You're here early Emily!" Mom chirped, holding out a tub filled with soggy tortillas which I had grown to accept as food.

I took one groggily, "Uh-huh."

"Trouble sleepin?"

"Uh-huh."

"Well, think positive! Today is parent visitation day!"

"What?" my eyes snapped open.

"Yup, you dig half your hole now, then for lunch time everyone comes back and their family or friends come for an hour, and then you dig the rest of it."

(A/N: I KNOW, I KNOW. But I really wanted to make this happen )

"Seriously?" I had no idea that this was even real because I had never heard of it before, my mom probably didn't either.

"Yup. We don't get barely any people though, nobody wants to see their disgrace that they call their children frankly."

I ignored his last comment and walked over to the spot where I saw Gabby sitting in the dirt. After I handed her one of the two shovels I grabbed, she smiled up at me.

"Where were you this morning?"

"I left two hours early, I couldn't sleep."

"Oh," she said, laying back in the dirt.

"Did you hear about the parents day thing?" I asked, sitting next to her.

"Yeah," she nodded, rubbing her eyes.

"Why is it that I didn't?"

"Mom told us about it in group yesterday," she sat up to take a tortilla that Caveman handed to her before sitting down next to us. A few moments later Squid came over, leaning his head on my shoulder and dozing off.

"You never listen in group," she tore off a bite.

I smiled groggily, "True."

Squid began snoring on my shoulder and Gabby burst out laughing, causing a few boys to turn around and give us confused looks.

I elbowed him a little in the ribs and he woke up, "At least after I dig half of a hole I can come back and sleep."

"Your parents aren't coming?" Gabby asked and I shot her a look.

He snorted, "If they showed up I would drop dead of shock."

I kissed his forehead which was pressed to my shoulder still.

"Oh…" Gabby mumbled, sensing the discomfort.

Everyone got up to go dig, and I couldn't help but notice the four of us all looked like we had only slept two hours total. We reached the new site, the sound of shovels into the dry cracked earth rustled through the thick air. When lunch time finally breached, everyone was glad to have the break for once, although most were talking about how they knew nobody was going to come see them like last time.

"Too bad the state requires we have this," Mom's nasally voice called from the water truck that drove next to us. "Just a waste of time. Not like anybody wants to actually see any of you."

How I wanted to spit on his face…

"Go to the mess hall and if you find someone you know there, stay. If not, go back to your tents or do other chores you are ordered to do."

Most people didn't even bother going into the mess hall, they just crawled back into their own tents. Squid pulled me into a tight hug once we were walking past D-Tent.

"See you later," he mumbled before going to leave for his tent.

"No," I grabbed his arm. "Wait."

He gave me a look which I tried to ignore but couldn't help but feel the fire burn in my heart.

"I want you to come in there with me, and if my mom is there…I want you to meet her."

"You want me," he began. "To meet your mom?"

"Why not?" I asked, trying to make it sound like no big deal.

"Hey ma, look at this. I met a juvenile delinquent boy at my detention camp named Squid," he rolled his eyes, going to walk back in the tent.

"No-Squi-STOP," I stammered before rushing off to grab him again.

"Jesus Christ woman!" he exclaimed.

"Please? For me."

He sighed and looked up at the sky, "Fine."