We made our way to the mess hall, I was behind Squid, Caveman and Zero behind me. Most of the others already at the table with their food. We waited in line, unable to get the rest of our food because Mr Sir was arguing with the cook and holding up the line .
"I don't like no hocus-pocus. $14 for onions. We don't need no stinking onions." Mr Sir started with the cook. Man the guy never stops, does he? I thought as I was suddenly pushed a bit from the others behind me. I tried not bumping into Squid in front of me, looking back at the others behind me. Caveman gave me an apologetic look as some kids behind him were getting antsy.
"You told me to get the onions. I get onions." The cook tried defending himself.
"I want to taste it." Mr Sir demanding pushing one of the helps out of the way.
"Go ahead and taste it. I don't care." The cook was obviously fed up with Mr Sir by now.
"I'll taste it then."
"Go head."
"I'm tasting it." I rolled my eyes at them as they seemed to bicker like a married couple. Mr Sir bent down to go and taste the food, the big cooking pot in front of us.
"Whoa. What happened to your face?" Squid said examining Mr Sir's face. He slowly looked up at Squid, mid taste and stared at the boy. He slowly dropped the ladle into the pot and grabbed Squid by the front of his jumper, pulling his forward over the pot. The force causing stuff on the table before him to clatter, some things falling over. I took a step forward, placing my tray down on the table in front of me.
"Something the matter with my face? Huh?" Squid quickly shook his head.
"No. No, Mr Sir."
"You got that right." He shoved Squid back harshly. I tried to grabbing him before he fell to the ground, but the force of the shove just caused me to fall back too. Squid and I slammed into the table behind us, causing things to fall onto my head, making me wince. Mr Sir came out from behind the counter and glared at us, looking around the room at everyone.
"Anybody see anything wrong with my face? Huh?! I think I'm kind of purdy, don't you!" I sat up, rubbing my head as Squid did the same. I started to stand up, trying to help Squid to the same as the room chorused a 'Yes sir.' I suddenly felt myself be yanked up and away from Squid, roughly might I add. Mr Sir held me close to him, getting in my face.
"This ain't no girl scouts! He can help himself up." He yelled at first. I narrowed my eyes at him before he threw me back down on the ground. I heard a tray behind me slam on a table and a seat fall to the ground shortly afterwards. I glared up at Mr Sir as he looked up behind me, glowering at the commotion behind me.
"You got something to say boy?" He mumbled darkly. I heard whispering behind me, but couldn't tell what was being said. I looked at Squid who looked past me in the direction Mr Sir was. He looked at me for a quick second before shaking his head slightly, looking back behind me. I could hear the seat being picked up before slamming down on the floor.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." He mumbled before turning back to us, pointing in front of us.
"Clean this up." He started to walk out of the mess hall, as mom stood in the middle of the room.
"I think we just learned a valuable lesson. We're all people, and Mr Sir is a very sensitive man, just like all of us." He tried. I turned back at mom, glaring at him as he looked around the room. I heard slamming and clashing in the room beside ours. Mr Sir having a fit. I rolled my eyes, sitting up and started picking up some of the things that had fallen to the floor.
"I got it, Red. Just go sit and eat." Squid smiled weakly at me. I smiled softly at him back and shook my head a bit.
"It's fine, Squid." He patted my shoulder real quick as we quickly picked up everything and fixed the table. We grabbed our trays, not bothering to get the rest of our food and made our way to the table. Squid gestured me to sit beside Zigzag and Magnet as he took a seat on the other side of the table. He quietly sat down, putting his head down as he ate silently. I looked at him sadly.
"I'm sorry, Squid, I would have thought he'd cover it up or something. I didn't think he'd really put it on display." I tried, glancing up a bit guiltily.
"It's okay, Red, I shouldn't have said anything." He said still not really looking up, poking at his food. I looked down sadly, ignoring the looks of the others.
"That looked pretty bad, what was it she did too him again?" X-Ray asked. I glanced over at Caveman, seeing Magnet looking between the two of us for a second out of the corner of my eye. Caveman just gave me a look, as if not knowing rather we could say or not. I looked to X-Ray this time, seeing the other's staring at me.
"She clawed him across the face with venom nail polish." The others leaned in closer in shock.
"Venom nail polish?"
"What kind of venom?"
"Is she even allowed to do that, man?"
"Rattlesnake venom." I said quietly as the others went quiet.
"Oh, and what was that commotion? Who was Mr Sir talking too before?" They all looked to each other, as I glanced at them.
"What commotion?" X-Ray asked. I frowned at him but decided to drop it. I looked down at my food for another minute as the table went silent. I pushed my tray forward and stood up.
"Hey. What's wrong, Red?"
"Where you going?"
"You should really eat, you haven't been eating much lately."
"Ay, Red, you can have your food, I won't try stealing any today. I promise." I shook my head, grabbing the roll off the plate.
"Nah, I'm good. You guys eat it." I started making way towards the tent, eating the roll along the way. Mr Sir in a sensitive person. I told mom though, I liked seeing adults like him get what they deserve.. Course they just take their pain out of us. I wonder why they wouldn't tell me what the commotion was before. Couldn't have been that bad if Mr Sir didn't actually do anything about it, right?
I made it to my cot, finishing the last bit of my roll and started undoing my boots, setting them off to the side once I was done. Man I'm tired. I sighed, not bothering to get undressed, just crashing on the cot beneath me. I laid down on my side, back facing the rest of the other cots.
I woke up just as the morning alarm rang out. Hearing the others groan out as they do every morning. I sighed to myself, opening my eyes looking at the others as they slowly got ready. Zigzag looked back at me, noticing I was awake too.
"Time to get up, Red." I sighed once more closing my eyes and slowly got up.
"Man you must have been really tired if you crashed in your clothes." Armpit half joked. I gave him a small smile and rubbing my eyes.
"At least I'm ready before you guys." I joked back. I sat on the edge of my cot and put on my boots and took out my hair tie once I was finished. I flipped my hair down, messing with my hair before pulling it back up into a high messy bun. I stood up stretching and grabbed my water bottle, trudging by the front of the tent to wait for the others.
"Alright, let's go guys." X-Ray mumbled tiredly as we all made our way to get our breakfast and shovels. I stood behind Squid with Zigzag behind me and followed the lead of the others. I grabbed a shovel and tortilla, eating it quickly since I was starving.
"That's what you get for not eating last night." Squid joked. I faked glared at him.
"Shut up, I was tired." I mumbled finishing it as we started making our way to the digging site. I bobbed my head side to side as I mentally sung a song to myself, bored already. Fake it, until you make it. Change it, until you shape it. Baby, you don't need me, I don-
"Don't get lost in thought there, Red." I stopped mid bob and looked back at Zigzag who was smiling at me.
"...What?" I asked, wondering if the others had been talking before hand.
"Guess she already lost." 'Pit joked.
"I'm sorry I'm bored, I need music. I never thought I'd miss music so damn much." I whined. A few of the others laughed and we finally made it to our area.
"You can say that again. I could go from some nice hip-hop right about now." X-Ray sighed.
"Man, country is where it's at." They joked back and forth about which music was better as I laughed quietly to the others, and started digging. It was silent for a while. Nobody said anything, no joking. Just the sound of shovels hitting dirt. Everyone working quietly to their own rhythm.
"You've got to go and dig those holes..." My head shot up at the sudden voice.
"Man I'm tired." Caveman mumbled tiredly to himself. I looked over at Zigzag shocked for a moment.
"..With broken hands and withered soles, emancipated for all you know, you've got to go and dig those holes." I stared wide eyed, as the others made little comments.
"Man, you slow dude." The other's looked over, as I looked back at them shocked still, not able to get over the fact that Zigzag was singing. and sounded AMAZING.
"Oh that's what we're doing, we're singing." Caveman said looking over.
"Y'all know nothing 'bout this." X-Ray joked.
"Watch me, watch me." Caveman challenged. I smiled as we all gave each knowing looks.
"Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (oh)
Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (oh)" We all stopped for a second and looked at Caveman as he nodded his head to himself as if putting something together.
"Two suits, two tokens in hand
I got no respect 'cause I'm the new man
Got shovel
Shoes full of sand
Check out the tag, the name's Caveman!" I laughed at this, as we continued to dig, trying to work to the newfound music.
"Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (oh)
Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh"
"Take a bad boy, make dig 5 five feet,
the dirt and these shovels will give us a beat,
okay you gotta find somethin' never found before,
if not, we'll just have to dig some more.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na"
"Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (oh)
Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh" I smiled thinking of something.
"Your hands may blister,
your muscles stay sore,
you wanna break?
Knock on the Warden's door( UH huh, uh huh)" I heard some the others 'whoo' out at my part.
"Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (oh)
Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh(oh)" Every so often Caveman or X-Ray would challenge or call out each other.
"A-R-M-P-I to the T
What is that you smellin' dawg that's me
I don't take showers and I don't brush my teeth
That's all I do is dig holes, eat, and sleep."
"There is no lake
There is no shade
There is no place to hide
So just sit and wait to fry"
"You've got to go and dig those holes."
"Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig uh oh oh(oh)
Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh(oh)"
"Take a a bad boy make him dig 5 five" X-Ray added
"Got my shovel, shoes full of sand." Caveman shouted.
"The dirt and these shovels will give us a beat." X-Ray added another.
"Check out the tag, the name's Caveman." Caveman topped.
"Wake up in the morning before the sun
Keep digging that hole til day in done." I added this time.
"You've got to go and dig those holes." I looked over at Zigzag, still not being able to get over his voice.
"Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh(oh)
Dig it uh oh oh
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh(oh)" We all seemed to finished singing and stopped shoveling for a minute looking around at each other. We suddenly smiled at each other, cheering at each other's performance.
"Yo Caveman where'd you learn to spit like that?"
"Yo X I didn't know you could actually sing!" I laughed at them before turning again to Zigzag who was smiling at me.
"How the hell do you even sing like that?! You don't even sound the same!" I smiled brightly at him, more than likely red faced but way to amped to care or notice.
"Ooo looks like Zigzag's got a fan girl."
"Watch out, crazy fan girl coming through!" I glared back at the others, not able to stop smiling at Zigzag.
"Seriously though, that was awesome!" I yelled out throwing my hands up. I couldn't help myself and ran over to him, throwing my arms over his shoulder pulling him in a hug. He seemed to go stiff for a minute, making me almost panic before he wrapped an arm around me.
"You said you wanted music." He joked.
"Yeah but I wasn't expecting that!" I beamed up at him. He smiled down at me before shrugging.
"She got a point though, you don't even sound the same man." Magnet pointed out.
"Got a perfect country voice." Squid joked. Zigzag shook his head to himself. I gave him another quick hug without thinking before bouncing back to my spot.
"Yo, anyone gonna mention how good Red can sing?" Magnet said suddenly. I hummed looking at him with a raised brow.
"You do got a purdy voice there, Red." Squid smirked at me, causing me to roll my eyes. Smiling though nonetheless.
"Thanks. I'm surprised Armpit could sing." I chuckled teasingly at him. He looked at me shocked.
"Girl what you talking about? I'm amazing." He flaunted. We all laughed at him jokingly and went back to digging, still joking and laughing.