OK I know it's been like forever, but i'm finally back to working on Her Story. Review to let me know how it goes.

Chapter 3

A Hard Days Work.

OK, So dinner the first night sucks so far. I'm sitting at a table next to Magnet, and a kid named X-ray. The other kids are Squid, Zig-Zag, Armpit, and some creeper called Barfbag. Good thing my bunck isn't anywhere close to his.

Everyone at camp apart from the counclers seems to be staring at me. Now I should be glad that I've got everyones full attention, but it's pretty much just creeping me out. "So," X-Ray said draging out the o akwardly, "What did you do to get sent here freckles?" "I uh, I'm a thief," was all I could really say. I stared down at my plate of what was soposed to be chicken parm. but looked like crap.

"Another one eh," Armpit said, "There's gotta be what at least three kids in each tent getting put in here for stealing." "Yeah, but they steal things like knives, and money, you know important stuff," Squid said, "I mean look at Magne-" Magnet choaked off Squid from saying anymore. "I'll tell her man," he said looking at me, "I am the worst, I stole a puppy, I mean the thing fit in my pocket, if he would have just kept quiet I would have gotten away with it." Magnet was laughing in a mixed way like, ha I could have gotten away with it, and man I could have gotten away with it. "I know how you feel," I said, "I mean the officer walked right by me, I would have gotten away with it too if I hadn't put the gun under my-".

But it's too late, the words already came out of my mouth. "A gun, you didn't steal a gun," X said like it was the dumbest thing he had ever heard. "I wish I didn't," was all I could say.

I thought everyone would hate me the second after I said that, but I was wrong. Everyone seemed to gain respect for me. It was lie they thought I could take care of my self, they thought I could be able to last long. The next thing I knew Magnet had put his arm around me and said, "Baby if you could steal a gun then, well, you can make it aqui, trust me." Man I love it when he says spanish words, it's just so cute. After dinner, I walked back to the tent with the boys and we had a little group talk with Dr. P, a.k.a. MOM.

"So boys," mom started out, "What do we think of our first girl?" X-Ray was the first to answer, "She's a tough one Mom, she'll last." Then Armpit went, "Yeah, she's gunna do just fine here." But it's what Magnet said that made my heart stop beating. "Mom, this senortia es muy bonita, and capable of saying what's on her mind. If she could last the first night here, well, ella estara bien."

"English man," Squid said, "This is America, english, do you speak it?" "No me creen inglés es en mi vocabulario," when Magnet spoke spanish, I thanked the lord I had chossen it as my language in school ,fore if I didn't I don't think I would have know'n a singal word he said. "Well Magnet," I began, I thank you for your kind words, but I would much enjoy going to bed if you don't mind,: and with that I pulled off my jumpsuit and got into bed.

I think most of the boys were hopeing I hadn't had my tank top and shorts on, but hey, I'm not going to let a bunch of 16 or17 year old boys stare me down, expecialy when I don't even know them. On the other hand, I know that I have a pretty good looking body. I am sixteen, and have all the curves in all the right places. I was 5'6", had straight black hair down just abouve my lower back, and was 125lbs. I also had pretty tan skin, and could be easily looked at as a mexican, instead of and Italian, which I happened to be 100%.

As I crawled into bed, my first thought was, I'm glad magnet is next to me, because I was right next to the opening of the tent, and I don't really think sleeping next to any of the other guys would be to pleasent. My head hit the pillow, and I knew that I would have a terrible first night of sleep. The boys stayed up until about eleven thirty, then when they were all finally asleep, Armpit's snoreing was like a fricken elephent was in the tent with us. Man it kept me up until about two. I fanally gave up on falling asleep when I heard a voice whisper in the night.

"You know, if your sneaky enough, you can sneak into the warden's cabin and get a pair of ear plugs," I wasn't exactly sure who I heard talking, so I sat up to get a better look. It was Barf Bag. "Does everyone have a pair?" It was the only logical thing I could think of to say. "Yeah, about two weeks before you came here a kid named the spirit left," He said it was a hint of laughter in his voice, "Man that kid was weird, he always seemed to be a creeper, and he never did anything good for our tent, apart from the one time he was brought into the warden's house to clean it. He found a jar filled with earplugs, and took a pair for each of us."

"Why does the warden need ear plugs," I was pretty interested in knowing, I mean she get's to sleep in a real house, what could possibly bother her?

"She doesn't like to hear the buzz of insexcts at night," he said, "But if you can find a way into that house, your golden, he said she keeps it in a cabanite in her bedroom, so I would say ask your family to send you some in the mail, or risk a punishment." And with that he was back to laying down on hhis bed and sawing his own wood.

I guess I must have fallen alseep at some point 'cause the next thing I knew X-Ray was ripping the blankets of me and Magnet was yelling something in spanish at Zig-Zag, only to result in them telling him to speak English.

"So chica, how did you sleep" he asked me. "I will find out in a few minutes won't I," I said. It was true though, you never know how well you sleep until you either wake up, or keep lagging on with the day. It was only then that I noticed the sun wasn't even up yet. "Magnet," I said standing up out of bed, "Yes chica bonita," there he goes with making my head spin.

"Why are we up?"

He laughed, then looked at me like I had three heads when he realized I was serious, "Didn't anyone explain to you what happens?" I guess the look on my face made him continue,"We wake up before the sun rises, you know cooler working conditions." I still didn't really get what he ment, and he must have seen that, "Oh just get your suit on already and I will explain more later."

I threw on one of my jump suits and walked out of the tent. I waited for about three minutes and Magnet came out too. "Ok," he started with, "We get up early to get our shovels, head out to the digging areas, and then start digging. The shovle is our tool, its five feet long, the holes have to be five feet in diamiter, as well as depth. So getting up early means we wont have to dig in the super hot sun for as long." I mean it made sense, but what does digging a hole have to do with anything. I was too tierd to ask any more questions, so I just followed everyone over to a table that must have been "pancakes." They were tortillas covered in maple syrup. I guess that was an ok breakfast, better then the dinner's here anway.

Once everyone ate and got a shovle we all headed out to the digging areas. Ours was the closest, so that was good, I think., but that also meant that it's just going to keep getting farther and farther. When we got to the site everyone made sure they had enough room, and went to work. It took me about 15 minutes to get in a god digging groove, but it was hard work. I took a gulp from my canteen every five minutes. And by the time lunch had arrived I was maybe half way done. We each got a ham and cheese wrap, ass well as two grahm crakers. Dr. Pendanski filled our canteens, and everyone went over to X-Rays hole to eat.

"So Anya," he said making sure to hold out the ya extra long, "How much have you getten done?" "Well not much, but that's probably because I am not used to it yet." "Well show us, " Squid said.

Everyone walked over to my hole with me and stopped making noise completly, in fact i think they were ever hold their breaths. "You call this not much," Armpit said, "Do you have any idea how long it took most of us to get that far on our first day?" "What am I going to slow?" "Too slow, God, if that is too slow then no puedo incluso pensar en cómo rápido que le llevará a hacerlo cuando estás acostumbrado a él." "For the love of god Magnet," Zig- Zag said, "What the hell are you saying?"

"It's fine guys he is pretty much just saying that if this is slow then he can't think of how fast I will get it dont when I am used to it," I said, "And from that I am gathering I am doing well." "Anya," Barf Bag said, "I've been here for six weeks, and look how far I am." I walked over three holes and saw that I was by far a lot further then the other boys, most of them had maybe a qurter of there holes done. I mean, I am an unfit girl, and I was getting my hole done faster then boys who have been here for like ever. After lunch I took so much time to finish my hole that the only two boys left we Squid and Magnet.

"Oh Dios ayúdenme por favor," I heard Magnet say, "Deje que la tortura parada, no puedo tomar este más." Magnet sounded like he was being tortured to death. I mean saying I can't take this anymore, God make it stop, it's just digging a hole.

"Magnet," I said, "Just because you speak spanish fluently doesn't mean some of us can't pick up on what your saying." "Well," he said, "I really could care less if people know what I say, Hell most of the kids here probably wish the same thing." "Well, we are just digging holes, not our graves," I said.

"Oh Anya, Anya," He said, "You will want to dig your grave after being here for a few days, trust me." And with that he measured his hole got up and left. I then noticed that I was close enough to being done, I mean it isn't like someone is going to make sure that every hole is perfect, so three inches shouldn't matter.

I would have finished my hole a long time ago, but I mean the boys were right, I had gotten much further on my hole in just half the day then them. I wanted them to finish before I did so that i didn't feel like an even more of an outcaste here, but tomorrow I don't care if The President was here for seven months, I will finish when i finish, not to the boys satisfactory.