Chapter Twelve

The next three weeks, were the longest and shortest of my life, if that makes sense. But it was not long before I saw that hunk-a-junk bus driving down the non-existent road.

"Lewis is in there!" I squealed to the guys while we were taking a break from digging.

"Finally, he hasn't been here for almost three months," Armpit said quietly.

"Well, he was in the hospital, it wasn't his fault," I said defending my brother.

"Actually it is. He's the one who stuck his barefoot towards a rattlesnake, nobody forced him," X-Ray said.

"Well, you guys didn't stop him, so…yeah," I finished lamely. I was mad that the guys were bagging on Lewis, but they were right, it was his own fault.

I dug as fast as I could, but I was still the last one done, but I cheated, I stopped when only five inches were left. They don't seriously check every hole. I ran back to the campsite. As soon as I got back there; I put the shovel in the pile, showered, and got dressed. After I did all of that in a time frame of 7 minutes, I stopped and just stood there.

'Something isn't right,' I thought to myself. There wasn't anybody around. Sure enough, after standing there for only 10 seconds I was tackled to the ground by my brother.

"Lewis! You are finally here, I swear these guys are driving me insane," I said as he pulled me up into a hug.

"I'm glad that I'm back, well not really. I would rather not be here. But, I'm glad that I'm here to make sure that no guy hits on you. By the way, where is Squid?" Lewis asked me.

"Lew, don't hurt him. We're just friends, nothing more. I swear. And you shouldn't get into a fight on your first day," I scolded.

"You're right, I'll kill him tomorrow," my idiotic brother smirked.

"That's not funny, now come on. I'm sure the guys want to see you," I said pulling him to the tent.

"Emma, they've already seen me. If you hadn't noticed they did get back before you," Lewis said before I could give him an embarrassing introduction.

"Hey BarfBag, hey Twist," was the general greeting we got from our tent mates.

"That's a disgusting nickname," I said point-blank. I got a glare from my brother. "What? It is, don't expect me to call you that."

"Well, don't expect me to call you Twist," he said.

"Like I care," I scoffed.

Before we could continue this calm before the argument, Mom came in.

"Welcome back Lewis!"

"Mom, my name is Barfbag."

"I'm sure that you will find that nothing has changed, and that you are still expected to dig a 5'x5' hole everyday. And if you try to pull a stunt like you did last time, we won't be as gentle," Mom continued like he always did when we corrected him on our names.

"Okay, Mom. Bye now," Lewis said giving a major hint to Mom, which of course he didn't get for a minute or two.

"Hey, there's a problem. Barfbag, you don't have a bunk," X-Ray said as though he really couldn't care less.

"I'll just sleep on the floor," Lewis said despite my protests.

"Is everyone back home okay?" I asked a couple of minutes later.

"Yeah, but Sarah wasn't lying. She is talking to her fish. I suggested a couple of times that she needed to go to a therapist."

"What did she do when you told her that?"

"She said that the therapist would think that she's insane. Which she is, I don't care if she's your best friend, she's nuts."

"Well, there is a lot of stuff I could say about your friends. For one most of them look terrible in orange."

"Hey," Magnet said obviously figuring out I wasn't talking about Lewis's friends back home.

"Well, she's right. Orange is just a horrible color for your complexion," Lewis said mocking me.

"If you're just going to make fun of me, I'm going to bed. Good night, everyone but Lewis."

"Love you too, Sis."

"Hmph."

The rest of them went to sleep an hour later, after being extremely loud and rude.

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