They call her, ᥅ꫀᦔ || Zigzag

She Can't Be That Bad, Right?

        We stood in line for the water truck, waiting to get our bottles filled. X-Ray was first in line, eager to get back to his hole.

"Good morning, Theodore." Mom greeted.

"Man, it's Armpit. Yo, I don't know no fool named Theodore, alright?" He sucks his teeth at the name, quick to retort against the smaller male adult.

"Well, I don't know no fool named Armpit." Mom bobbles his head.

"Whatever." Armpit snaps back, grabbing his water.

"There's your water, whoever you are." Mom keeps going.

"Hey, mom! I think I found something. Come here for a second. I think I found something." Mom hands back Squid his bottle before filling it and heads over to X.

"Man, couldn't you wait till after we got our water? I'm dying!" I yelled at him.

"Now now, just hold on, Lillian." I sulked at mom as he ignored the rest of us and checked out the object X-Ray was holding up.

"Looks like a.. gold- golden bullet or something, doesn't it? It's nice, right? So I get the day off now right?" X-Ray perstsisted over mom's shoulder.

"You just might. We're gonna call the Warden. Hey, Lou? You better get down here. I think we got something." Mom says, picking up a walkie talkie.

"We got something nice." X-Ray adds.

"We got something nice." Mom parroted over the line. Mom put the walkie back and head back to the rest of us and started refilling the bottles. I finally got mine and drank some heading back to my hole. No body really shoveled, just stood around in wait. Drinking water and waiting for the Warden to make her way to us. Wonder what's so scary about this chick.

"Yo is the Warden really some scary chick?" I inquire to the others. Some nodded.

"Man, she's worst than, Mr Sir." Armpit comments.

"Better not let her hear that, man." I looked back out to the open land towards camp soon seeing a old Chrysler drive towards us. We all looked between each other as the Warden stepped out of the car. A tall slender, slightly older lady made her way towards mom. She wasn't that old, but she had some aging to her face. She looked nice though, no matter how old she was. 

"Found it right over there." Mom stated, handing the object over to her. She took off her sunglasses to examine it further. Mr Sir, who had ridden with her, walked closer towards the two. She looked at mom who nodded eagerly, before strutting over towards X-Ray.

"This is where you found it?" She questions. He smiled and nods.

"Yes, ma'am." She smiled at him.

"Dr Pendanski, drive X-Ray back to the camp. Give him double shower tokens and a snack. But first, fill everyone's canteen."  She tells him.

"I already filled them." Mom beams proudly. She turned to him, her smile not faltering but the look in her eyes does. Her demeanor shifting.

"Excuse me?" She probes.

"I had already filled them when you drove up in the car." He explains, feeling the pressure but tries not to falter under her gaze.
"Excuse me, did I ask when you last filled them?" She asked, putting her glasses back on and took a few steps closer towards him. Ooo, moms in trouble. He continued to look at her, smiling as if choosing his next words wisely.
" No. You didn't but.." He tries, faltering on his words under her harsh demeanor.

"Excuse me. Now these fine boys have been working hard. Don't you think it just might be possible they have taken a drink since you filled their canteen?" He slowly nodded his head.