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Krystine and Lazlo talked a bit more before they were interruppted with a loud cough by the elephant across the table. "Oh yea, sorry Raj." Lazlo said. The elephant rolled his eyes. "This is Raj, and he's Clam." Lazlo said, pointing to the rhino next to the elephant. He was still eating the mush. "Sticky!" He said, the mush clung to the roof of his mouth. He scraped it off with his spork.
"So where are you from then?" Raj asked, not hungry anymore from watching Clam. Krystine thought if she should tell them.
"Somewhere... really far from here." She said. One of her yellow bunny ears twitched a bit. She scratched the ear and a really nice feeling came from it. She would scratch her ears later, when she was alone.
"How far?" The elephant asked, playing with the little propeller on his hat.
"Far enough." She said, wanting to drop the subject. As if someone had heard her pleas, Lazlo brought up a new subject.
"So have you ever been fishing or swimming before?" He asked, absolutely curious. She shook her head no and he gasped. "Guys! We need to get this girl to the docks now!" He said. He grabbed her wrist and all four of them ran out of the mess hall. Her sneaker heels were dragged against the dirt ground as Lazlo held her wrist with a vice grip, dragging her to the docks of Leakey Lake. Clam grabbed some fishing poles from the supply shack and handed them out.
"So this button is to release the line, and turn this little wheel here to reel the line in." Lazlo showed her. "Now watch us." He launched his line out a couple yards and Raj and Clam did the same. Krystine squinted a bit and her tongue popped out in concentration as she prepared to launch her line.
Then a loud horn was heard from a boat and she nearly fell off the dock if not for Raj grabbing her by the arm. That very same boat floated on top of the boys' lines, making them unable to see if fish were going to bite.
"Hi boys! Lovely day for fishing isn't it?" Jane yelled from the boat, where Patsy, Gretchen, and Nina sat on the big shiny boat were also fishing and eating fancy sandwiches. All the boys waved hello to Jane. Patsy turned her head to look at Lazlo and she nearly choked on her sandwich. There was a girl sitting next to him. A GIRL! She took notice that she was a rabbit and pulled out a carrot and put it on her line, thinking it would be a great joke. She flung her line into the water in front of the dock.
Krystine took notice of the carrot and scowled at the pink haired girl. She saw no humor in the girls joke. Quickly, she grabbed the carrot from the water and cut the line on a sharp edged rock. Then she tied the end to a large rock and yanked the line. The girl smiled and started to reel her line in, dragging the rock underwater and nearly breaking her fishing pole. "Geez! this girl... Really... needs to lose some weight!" She screamed as Gretchen and Nina tried to help her reel in whatever she caught.
The big rock was pulled onboard and all the girls screamed. They had to cut the line and throw the rock overboard. All three girls glared at the bunny sitting on the side of the dock, a smile on her face as she munched on the carrot happily. Jane finally took notice of the girl.
"Hello there missy!" She yelled from the boat. Krystine waved. "Do you want to join us? We have lots of room on the boat, and maybe you'd like to join the Squirrel scouts as well!" Krystine raised an eyebrow at this and looked at the boys. They didn't seem to really care, but she didn't want to leave them.
"No thank you ma'am! I'm perfectly happy here!" She yelled to the doe. Raj and Lazlo looked at her funny. "What?" She asked.
"Why'd you turn them down?" Lazlo asked. His attention away from his line. Krystine shrugged.
"I don't really like those girls over there. Besides, I like it here more." She said, then directed her attention to the still not cast fishing rod in her hands.
"That's a first." Raj said, still not believing any girl wouldn't want to be on the fancy boat with their sandwich makers and fully packed refrigerators. Then Miss Doe spoke from the boat again.
"Are you sure dear? Because it would be much nicer for you to be with other girls instead of being surrounded by guys!" She added in. The way she said it made Krystine feel uncomfortable.
"I'm sure! Nice meeting you though!" Krystine shouted back. Soon, the boat floated away and the lines were visable again. Krystine flung her line and it went a few yards away from theirs. It was silent for a while until Clam got a bite on his line. He started to tug and his line was going crazy. Lazlo and Raj dropped their poles and went to help Clam, pulling the giant thing that Clam snagged. Krystine looked out onto the water, she saw a big fin and scales start to peek out of the water.
"It's huge!" Lazlo cried out. Krystine touched her choker slightly, letting a soft light envelope her fingers. She touched Clam's pole and instantly, the rod glowed green for a bit. Clam nearly let go of the pole from surprise. The line shined a bit before shooting upwards. Above them was a big fish. and I mean BIG! It landed on the shore, big and still flopping around a bit. The line was still attached to its lip.
They dragged the big fish back to camp and wrapped it in a big bow. "We should give this to Scoutmaster Lumpus! Then he might actually agree to letting Krystine stay." Lazlo said as they dragged the fish to the scoutmaster's cabin. They left the fish on the doorstep and watched in the bushes as Lumpus took it inside, his lips smacking, thinking about what the thing will taste like instead of who gave it. Then, the nurse came out of the cabin with Slinkman.
"So you have absolutely no idea where she's from? Can't she just stay at Acorn Flats with all the other girls?" Slinkman asked the nurse, who thought about this for a bit.
"Can't, remember that they all have to fill out a backround survey? If she can't fill it out, then she can't join." The nurse said, tapping his pen on the clipboard. Krystine sighed in relief, she wouldn't have to go there.
"Where exactly would she stay? I doubt any of the boys would be comfortable with a girl living in their cabins, and I think there's a law against that now." Slinkman said, massaging his eyestalk a bit.
"She could just stay in the spare room in my office. I don't really mind as long as she keeps everything sanitary unlike most of the people here." The nurse offered.
"Very well then, until we can find out where this kids from, she'll be known as the assistant nurse for a while." He said, and then they departed. Krystine was holding onto a stick so hard it snapped in two. She's staying. Tears of joy formed in her eyes and started to drip down.
"Crying!" Clam said. She dropped onto the floor and let the tears drip, her face still in shock. Lazlo and Raj snapped their fingers in front of her face. The look of shock turned into a look of happiness. Then she leapt up and hugged all three boys. Saying 'thank you' over and over before running off back to the nurses office.
Lazlo, Raj, and Clam sat on the floor, trying to make sense of what just happened. "She's acting like we just gave her a home she never had." Raj said. Lazlo shook his head.
"That's ridiculous Raj, how could anyone not have a home?"
