A/N: OMG! okkk i just revisited this story and i miss writing it soo much! so im starting up again. this is a short, introductory chapter to what is coming next. you better be excited! its pretty much a big deal 3
oh and please leave suggestions for what should happen next! i really enjoy and work into the story peoples constructive criticism. but please, dont flame me. im just trying to write! R & R sillies!
In a daze of confusion and anxiety, D-tent waited for the new Warden to make his rounds to them. Magnet sat with his arm around Chanele while she stared at the ground, tears silently falling down her face. Squid, ZigZag, Armpit, X-Ray, and Caveman had their heads down. Only Zero looked up, but he only focused into blank space.
Sooner or later, no one could really tell, Mr. Pendanski and "Mayor" Morrison entered the tent. Pendanski looked around warily before sitting Thomas Morrison down and leaving.
His ice blue eyes scanned the room, taking in every face, spending more time on Squid and ZigZag's faces, as they were still bruised and blood-stained. ZigZag still filled the air with the smell of the ripping scars on his back, which now made him numb and unmovable. But Mayor's eyes stopped, and flickered, when he saw Princess.
"Well, hello there. It seems we have a pretty young lady in our midst. Tell me, do you not think it's a little promiscuous and ironic to your case of you to stay in a tent with 7 teenage, hormone-raging delinquents, Miss Lentford?" His voice got breathy and piercing when he pronounced her last name. Of course he remembered her.
Squid clenched his fists and grinded his teeth at the blunt and ruthless insult the new Warden was spitting at the girl he had attacked. It just wasn't right.
"Nah," ZigZag's shaky, uneven, but still deep Southern voice rumbled through the tent. "She's too much of a princess to get with any of us." He smirked a little. Chanele gave him an appalled/grateful look, but then looked quickly away. She was still ashamed of what had happened that afternoon.
"Well then." The Mayor still spoke in a loud, demanding tone when surrounded by a small group of people. "Let's go around for names. Start with you, son."
"X-Ray." X-Ray said this in a whisper.
"Armpit."
"Squid."
"Caveman."
" " Zero said nothing.
"Magnet, and Princess." Magnet gave Chanele's shoulder another short squeeze.
"And what about you, son?"
ZigZag didn't answer. He had stood up and was now changing shirts, His bandages now seeping with crimson.
"A lil help, Squid."
Squid went over to where Zig was standing and slowly but steadily removed the bandages. The new Warden grimaced at the shiny, oozing gashes sliced through ZigZag's back. Squid picked up a new big roll of gauze and wrapped it tightly around ZigZag's body until the scars and bruises were invisible.
"That's ZigZag," Caveman muttered.
"Well now that were all introduced, I would like to start with a couple of rules. I believe that this camp is causing more trouble than it is helping the boys, so not only will you dig individual holes, I will pair you with someone else in your group to dig a 10 by 10 foot hole before your individual holes can be completed. This creates teamwork, and every week you will switch partners. Also, since D-tent is under strict jurisdiction, visits to the Wreck Room will not be allowed. You may stay in this tent and have counseling EVERY night until we feel you are ready to return to having it once a week. Let me go ahead and read off your partners for this week. For the weeks after, you may choose your partner, but you can never have the same partner twice in a row." Mayor Morrison slicked back his coiffed hair slightly before pulling out a shiny new BlackBerry, and he opened his Lists to D-tent initiative partners.
"Alright. Stanley and Jose will be working together."
Caveman and Magnet high fived, although Magnet was dissapointed to be paired with one of the slowest diggers.
"Rex and Zero will dig together."
X-Ray gave Zero a toothy grin, which he shyly returned. Caveman grunted a little. He knew the only reason X-Ray was excited to be working with him was because he was the quickest.
"Theodore and Alan will be a pair."
Chanele's stomach dropped. That only left...
"And that leaves Ricky and Chanele. Good luck to you all, and I'll see you next week. Oh, yes, I forgot to mention. I will be coming in for regular weekly checkups, and there will be a doctor here for Ricky in a matter of days. Good night."
He gave them all a cold stare, then strutted out of the tent.
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