They call her, ᥅ꫀᦔ || Zigzag

Making Friends Already

      I groaned after hearing the alarm sound off. The others trudged out of bed as I stayed there not wanting to get up.

"Come on! Wake up, buddy!" Squid offers, pushing on Magnet. He slowly got up and sluggishly got ready. Squid turned to me smiling.

"Wakey wakey, Red!" I glared at him pulling my blanket over my head.

"Told ya, you should have gone to bed when I told you." Zigzag taunted. I only groan again, curling into a ball under the thin blanket. It was rudely pulled off of me, revealing Zigzag and Squid leaning over me. I pout childishly before finally getting up from the bed.

"Fine, I'm up." I respond reluctantly, getting up as they go off to get their things. I grabbed mine, going back to my cot before getting dressed groggily, waiting off to the side for the last few to finish. 

"Come on, guys." X-Ray waves, leading the bunch of us out of the tent to get our morning things. I walked behind Magnet, Zigzag behind me this time. 

"Wakey wakey, grab a shovel, grab a tortilla and let's go!" Mr Sir instructs loudly. Pendanski standing off to the side while sipping from his mug contently.

"Man, can't we get some coffee too?!" I yelled out to him. Some of the other laughed or groaned at this.

"No can do. Staff only, Lillian." I rolled my head, walked up to grab a shovel before walking off to grab a tortilla too.

"Hey, Red! I got you something." I turn to Magnet, seeing him holding out something for me. I grabbed the things from his hands, realizing they were a pair of gloves.

"I can't take your gloves." I shake my head, trying to give them back.

"Nah, girl, I got another pair." He smiled friendly.

"Do you really??" He nodded reassuringly and gestures for me to follow him along with the others as we started making our way to dig for the day.

"Thanks, Magnet." I bump shoulders with him as we walk.

    We dug for a while, me closest to X-Ray and Zigzag. I sighed out before taking a water break. I scan around, seeing that the others were keeping a good pace besides Stanley. Zero had hopped out of his hole, walking back to camp already. 

"Damn that kid's quick." I mumbled.

"Yeah, no kiddin'." X-Ray shot out, taking a water break too now. 

"I'm tellin ya, he eats the damn dirt!" Squid yelled from his hole, shoving his shovel into the dirt in declaration. 

"Where's a person go to the bathroom around here?" Stanley sounded urgently.

"Man, pick a hole, any hole." Stanley nodded his thanks to Magnet and ran off.

"Kid's embarrassing, man." I smiled at them, feeling bad for them picking on the kid so much.

"Oh, lighten up on the kid, guys." I joked as a few laughed.

"Sorry, Red. But as his mentor, I cannot until he has proven himself worthy." Armpit laughed out. We laughed at his joke.

"When did I pass my test?" I questioned with a raised brow.

"Man, I don't know. I guess when you tackled Magnet." He shrugged not able to recall when exactly.

"That's not funny. Girl tackles like a football player, man." We laughed once more before returning back to digging.