Nota bene: in this story the boys are a bit older than in the book and movie. In my story they are between 16 and 19, so imagine them looking and acting older.

Chapter 1

Squid's POV

We've been digging these damn holes for too long. It's the hottest part of the day; hopefully Pendanski will be bringing lunch here soon. I climbed out of my hole when I saw the water truck headed our way. We lined up and as customary I made sure Magnet stayed in his place. Don't get me wrong, I liked the kid and everything, but the boy needs to learn his place in line. Once we was all filled up we lounged around and ate.

"Hey man, you know what I would love right now?" said Magnet.

"Some shade?" Zigzag asked.

"Good food?" said Armpit.

"Nah man, a girl."

"Haha yeah man, I ain't seen a girl in like a year." I felt bad for X-ray, him being here so long and all. I hadn't been here that long but man would I love to see a girl. You know, just to talk to one and hold one and...wait, nah I can't be thinking that stuff. I would never tell the rest of the guys that. Camp Green Lake had upped their age limit to 21 which meant most of us would be staying here longer. So I'm still here, at 19. And most of these boys here are around my age. You know, that age when you actually miss girls.

"The Warden's a girl." Stupid Caveman.

"Hey man, she don't count." The 'yeahs' from the other guys backed up my point. We commenced into a conversation about how great it would be to well have, for lack of a better word (and I don't mean that kinda way, though it would be more than nice), a girl.

"Besides, I'm talking about a pretty girl." Magnet said.

"Man, you couldn't even get a pretty girl to look your way. Have you seen this guy's face?" Zig said. We all burst out laughing. Yeah, it can't just be any girl. I want a pretty girl.

"Hey look!" Sure enough, there was a bus out in the distance, kicking up more of this damn dust. We all wondered who it could be. There was always some sorta curiosity about new kids. Eventually we all got back to digging and slaving away under the hot sun. It all seemed to last longer and become more depressing as I thought about what I thought would be the perfect girl and realizing it would never happen. Stupid Magnet.

The New Kid's POV

The bus was hot and the handcuffs latched to my wrists were irritating. I tried to pay them no mind as I stared into the sandy abyss that was to constitute my new home for the next long while. I've been trying not to think about it for too long. The landscape suddenly became a dusty moon crater; holes dotted the horizon and my curiosity piqued. Eventually the bus stopped near some sand-blown old buildings, the officer uncuffed me and led me off the bus whence I immediately heard the words "Fresh meat!" being shouted. Then, the cat calls and whistling started by the few boys who were sitting around. This was going to be rough. I knew that this was an all boys camp, but I still hadn't fully prepared myself emotionally or mentally. The officer shooed me into a small room with a intimidating looking man spitting out sunflower seeds.

"Eleanor Anne Stark. Fancy name. My name is Mr. Sir. Whenever you speak to me you will call me by my name. Is that clear?" He had to be kidding right? I was too scared to do anything but stare straight ahead, however.

"Yes, Mr. Sir." He stood up and eyed me suspiciously.

"This isn't girl scout camp, missy. Just cause you're a girl don't mean you get special treatment." He then proceeded to hand a cold drink to the officer and taunted me with it by asking if I was thirsty. I refused to oblige him and he just eyed me again.

"Now, you know you're the only girl here and the only girl whose ever been here. So watch yourself. Now, the only special treatment you get is that you can shower in the warden's house cause the showers aren't decent for a girl."

Mr. Sir lead me outside, where I stood uncomfortably in the sun. I felt all the eyes of the boys on me and wanted to shrink into nothing. Damn my lack of self-confidence.

"Look around you, Stark. What do you see? Any guard towers? How 'bout an electric fence? Hm?"

I peeked around. "No Mr. Sir."

"You wanna run away, missy? Go 'head, start running. I won't stop ya." He then yelled at some boy leaning in a door frame. The kid quickly scuttled inside. This whole situation was making me nervous, especially once I eyed his gun.

"Oh don't worry. This here's for yellow spotted lizards. I wouldn't waste a bullet on you." Wow, touching. I'm not even worth a bullet. "Decided not to run?"

"No Mr. Sir."

"That's good thinking Stark. You wanna know why?" I'm guessing it was because this is the only source of water and refuge in a vast expanse of desert, but I wasn't about to tell him that. "We got the only water for 100 miles. Our own little oasis. You wanna run away, them buzzards will pick ya clean by the end of the third day."

Well, seems I was right about one thing. He then led me into another rickety building where a tall boy stood behind a counter. He immediately dropped what he was doing, very obviously eyed me up and down and smirked at me. Mr. Sir threw boots and clothes at me. He then motioned to another room off to the side. "Put these on, in there." I quickly did as he instructed. The jumpsuit was not only hideous, but baggy too so I kept my tank top on underneath it and only buttoned it up part way. I stepped out.

"You get two sets of clothes, one for work and one for relaxation. After three days your work clothes will be washed and your relaxation clothes become your work clothes." Gross! "You are to dig one hole each day, if you can even do that, missy." He smirked at me. "5 foot deep, 5 foot in diameter. Your shovel is your measuring stick. Longer you dig, longer you're out in the sun. Understand?"

"Yes, Mr. Sir." I hugged my bag and clothes to my chest.

"Keep alert for lizards and rattlesnakes." Great, just what I needed. However, I didn't want him to think I was some wimpy girl so I simply said, "Yes, Mr. Sir" and left it at that. All of a sudden the dorkiest looking man I have seen in a long time appeared out of nowhere.

"Eleanor Anne Stark, I want you to know that just because you have done some bad things that does not make you a bad kid. I respect you." This is bullshit. "Welcome to Camp Green Lake." He shook my hand to vigorously for my liking. "I'm your counselor, Dr. Pendanski." Oh I highly doubted that he was a real doctor.

"You can call me Anne," I offered. He smiled too broadly and I tried to return it but my smile was probably very obviously forced.

Pendanski led me outside. "Very well Anne. You'll be in D-Tent. D stands for diligence. And don't worry, this is a nice group of boys. They won't try anything." I breathed a small sigh of relief but still felt apprehensive because this guy seemed like an idiot, and I didn't trust him. "Over there is the warden's cabin, where you will be showering." He walked rather fast for a short little man and I had to rush to keep up with him.

"Wait, I shower in Mr. Sir's house?!" The sudden realization dawned on me.

"Oh, he's not the warden. The warden is Lou and she's a girl." I relaxed as much as I could, but more and more boys had filled the camp ground and I felt like I was being nearly eye raped. All of a sudden three boys who appeared to be around my age sauntered around the corner. One was heavy and black, one was white and wearing some sort of a rag around his head, and the other was black and wore glasses. All of them were filthy; covered head to toe in dirt. When they got close to me they stopped, stood agape and stared for what seemed like forever. I felt very self-conscious again and stared at the ground.

Squid's POV

Oh my god. Magnet's psychic. A girl. There's a girl. A real girl and she's standing in front of me and damn is she beautiful. I felt bad cause I could tell she was nervous cause she kept her head down and I couldn't see her face cause all her hair was in the way. It was long and pretty and brown and I kinda wanted to touch it.

"Boys, this is Anne. She'll be staying with you. Now, since she's the first girl here at camp, you boys be nice. Look out for her." She didn't look up yet.

"Anne," her head snapped up and she looked at us shyly. And she had the prettiest blue-green eyes I had ever seen. "This is Rex, Alan and Theodore." I grimaced at him using my name.

"Yo, my name ain't Rex, it's X-ray. That's Squid and this is Armpit." She nodded and let out a small hi. She was really really beautiful and obviously timid.

"Him, he's Mom." She grinned slightly at my comment and Mom looked offended.

"I prefer to use their real names, the names society will recognize them by."

"Yeah, whatever Mom."

"Why don't you show her where she'll be sleeping. Alan, you can be her mentor. Show her around and get her acquainted with camp here." I smiled. This was really the best day ever. The guy upstairs was finally giving me a break. X-ray and Armpit didn't looked ever so slightly jealous. Mom led us all into the tent.

"Anne, you sleep here." He pointed to the extra cot we had and she crinkled her nose a bit. Mom started going on about keeping our spaces clean and how we should be respectful and I noticed she wasn't listening to a word he was saying. What really made me nearly laugh was how deadpan her face would get every time he would address her and how annoyed she looked by him. Maybe she would be alright. Finally Mom left and we all kinda just stared at her for a bit. I mean, we were just talking about how we missed girls and here was one, living with us! We didn't really know what to do.

"Woah!" Magnet and Zigzag let out a huge gasp and literally walked around her in a circle when they walked in. That really made her tense up.

"Hi, I'm Anne." She let out a small smile.

"I'm Magnet, this is Zigzag." They continued to stare at her when Caveman and Zero walked in. They had the same reaction.

"Alright, so Mom said I can be her mentor." I said smugly and they all groaned. Yes, God was finally answering a prayer. "So, I'm gonna shower, then I'll show you 'round." Zigzag and most of the rest of the guys followed suit, except Armpit of course. I figured I had better shower so I didn't smell so bad around her. Apparently everyone else thought the same.

When we got back she was sitting on her very neatly made cot. Her bag was at the end and Armpit had struck up a conversation with her.

"Alright, come on girly. I'll show you around." I was trying real hard not to be mean, but not go super soft so as to get teased by the other guys also.

"Hey man, how come you get to do it?" Armpit said.

"Cause Mom said so. Besides, she don't wanna be around someone who don't shower." We all laughed at this, even she laughed and when she did we all looked at her. Well that made her immediately go quiet and looked down. I went and stood next to her cot.

"C'mon." She stood up and I realized how much shorter she was than me. She was maybe 5'1 or 5'2. Super little. Anyways, the whole tent followed us out and jumped in whenever I pointed something out to her. I could point out the wreck room and literally every single guy would find some bit of information to add, just for the sake of talking to her. It was starting to get on my nerves.

"And that's the water spigot over there. Say, did Mr. Sir give you a canteen?"

"Uh, if you want to call the disgusting and used plastic bottle he gave me a canteen, then yes." We all laughed at that. She was alright. The dinner bell rang and we all filed up for that nasty shit they pass off as food.

When we walked in the whole room went nearly silent with whispers as all the guys eyed Anne up and down. Needless to say it made her visibly uncomfortable, but I knew no one would try anything since she was walking between Zig and I. Once we sat down they all went back to talking and eating, the only difference was that they kept looking at her. I don't blame them; she was real easy on the eyes.

"Alright girly, you sit here." I scooted over so she would have room next to me.

"So why the hell did they send you to a boys camp. What did you do?" Of course, Zig would be the first to ask.

"I'd really rather not talk about it, but they sent me here because the judge said that I didn't need to go to prison. And that there wasn't room in some girl's camp, and so here I am." She spoke really softly and timidly, there was no way she was a criminal. You could just tell.

"How long you here for?" Caveman was next.

"Um, see, they're not really sure. It's sorta a temporary thing, to see if they rule my verdict guilty or not. Because my sentence might be overturned. But for now, at least 8 months."

"So wait, you're telling me that they could find you innocent, but you get stuck in this hell hole regardless?" X-ray eyed her suspiciously.

"Yeah something like that." It was clear that she didn't want to talk about it and for some reason I felt the need to steer the conversation to something more pleasant.

"So, Anne, how old are you?" She brightened a bit. Victory.

"I'm 18. Also, what is this?" She poked at her food and crinkled her nose a bit.

"Nobody knows." I answered. So resolved to pick at her bread.

"Hey X, how come you haven't tried to steal her bread yet?" Stupid Caveman. God that kid, X would probably try to steal it now.

"Cause she's a girl. Mom said we got to be nice." Anne went slightly pink and looked down again.

"Anyways, may I know why you are all here?" So polite, she was.

"Aww, you so polite!" We all laughed again and went around and shared about each of us, what we did and how old we were. She relaxed a bit again and after dinner all of D-Tent escorted her back to the tent, where we all settled in for the night and tried our best to give her some space. That was probably the most difficult thing we had to do. We all noticed each other glancing at her when she fell asleep, and once again I thanked the big man upstairs for putting her cot next to mine.