Cam slept rather unpeacfully that night. Her dreams were haunted with visions of her brother as he called out to her to take him away with her to Camp Greenlake and a sharp image of Twitch as she slapped him. Both boys looked so helpless, so needy. She heard her own voice call out in the night for her mother, but her mother didn't come, hadn't come in so long, to her bedside. Then Cam was being shaken awake.

"Tats, come on girl… Cam!… Chameleon!… Wake up!"

Cam turned on her side and mubbled something about getting the fuck away before she unleashed some major whoop-ass. But whoever it was didn't stop and Cam kicked out at them in her half-sleep. Her foot connected and a yelp was heard. But Cam still didn't wake fully up. The person recovered quickly and grabbed Cam's feet and dragged her off of the bed. Cam landed with a bang on the floor and was awake in a flash. She jumped up, spun around, and knocked the person to the ground.

Cam found that her fist were crushing into Madi's face at a rapid pace.

"Don't EVER do that again! I ought to knock some sense into you, you blast-bottom-bird-brained-french-fried-bastarded--noddle! Now, have you learned a leason from this or do Mr. Pain and Ms. Punishment, my two fist, need to make things clearer?"

Cam didn't wait for an answer. She gave Madi one last punch in the face and jumped off of her. Madi stood up slowly and touched her nose gingerly.

"It'll be fine. It ain't bleeding and don't look broken. Some ice'll make it better in a flash. You alright? I… didn't mean to hurt you none… I'm just… not a mourning person… I… uh… should get some ice…" Cam turned on her heal and stepped toward the tent flap when Madi grabbed her hand.

"I'll be fine… no biggie… really… its okay… you didn't mean anything by it, I know… just you let me worry about it, you go on and get ready for working…"

Cam nodded her head and smiled. She unbuttoned her night gown and grabbed her blouse and pants. She got dressed quickly but found that her shirt had a tie in the back that she couldn't reach. She looked over at Madi, who had been sitting on her cot as Cam got dressed, and asked, "Could you tie this for me?" Madi stood up, walked over, and grabbed the ribbons.

"How tight?"

"As tight as you can pull." Madi pulled hard on the ribbons and gently tied them in a bow.

"All done." Cam turned around to face the other girl.

"How's it look?"

"Lovely…"

"Too bad the orange jump-suit will hide the effect… huh?"

"Yeah… at least I got to see the beautiful effect…"

"But the boys didn't."

"…true…"

Cam put on the jump-suit and stepped out side of the tent with Madi closely following. They noticed that the boys were waiting on them at the libray, so they walked over.

"Hey, its Tats and Flash!" Armpit called. Madi looked around and then asked, "Am I Flash?" X-ray nodded, shrugged, and said, "Yup… cause you move real fast…" Madi laughed and said, "Why waste time? Life is too short not to have fun…" Cam looked down at her feet, then over at Twitch, who hadn't said a word. Twitch gave her a large smile and stepped up to her.

"Y-you and I g-gonna w-work t-together t-today…"

Cam gave him a questioning look and asked, "Won't we work together everday?" Twitch nodded slowly and answered, "Y-yeah… b-but t-today w-we get to sc-scavenge… a-ask X-ray bout it, I c-can't ex-explain c-cause I st-stutter too m-much…" Cam sighed and turned to X-ray.

"What does Twitch mean 'we scavenge'?"

"You two go out into the surrounding land and look for odd things to furnish the house with, while we build."

"Why?"

"Cause we are made to put 'neat' junk from around the lake in each house we complete. Today should be our last day of building this house, so you and Twitch get the scavenge cause its his turn and you will always scavenge with him. Got it?"

"Yeah, sure… what ever…"