"W-What do you mean this isn't Camp Crystal Lake?" She looked at the buildings and then back at me and then back at the buildings again.
"Since when did the camp have a fifteen foot barbed wire fence?"
She looked closer at the buildings and noticed the fence, "Th-then...where are we?"
"The hell if I know, you're the one who was supposed to be keeping an eye on your phone."
"Hold on, let me check to see where we're at," she took her phone out of her pocket and looked at the navigator. "Um...Vinyl, according to this...we're five and a half miles northeast of camp."
"How the hell did we manage that?"
"I'm not sure, I was just following you."
"Well, do you happen do have a compass on hand or something?"
"Let me check on my phone," she tapped a few buttons on the screen and then turned away from me. "From what I'm seeing northeast is that way," she pointed in the direction we needed to go.
"Good, let's hurry up and..."
"THERE THEY ARE!!" called a stern voice behind me.
I quickly turned my head to find three armed security guards running in our direction. I tried to warn Tavi, but it was too late. By the time I turned back to face her, another two armed guards had her against a tree and were searching her. Before I could do anything, the guards behind me grabbed me and pinned me against a tree, making me drop my crutches.
"You two thought you could pull a fast one on us, didn't you?" asked the guard who had me pinned against the tree.
"What do you mean? We're just trying to get back to camp," I said, struggling against his grip, only to have him press tighter against me.
"Sure, and I bet you were planning to steal the computers there too."
"We weren't planning on stealing anything. We got lost on a nature hike and ended up finding our way here," Tavi tried to explain to no avail.
"Save it for someone who cares."
The guards slapped handcuffs on Tavi and I and began to lead us into what I now guessed was the Crystal County Detention Center. Hopefully they will allow us our one phone call so Tavi can clear this whole thing up for us. We made it around to the front of the building, greeted to the sight of military jeeps, police and swat vans, and hundreds upon hundreds of inmates. I looked over at Tavi who was visibly shaken by the sight. I was used to it though, growing up I'd be going in and out of prisons to visit my real mom.
"Are you alright Tavi?"
She looked over with a looked that said, Do I look alright?
"Don't worry, if they let us make a phone call, be sure to call your mom and dad back at camp and have them come here to clear it up."
The look on her face was now saying, Oh gee, why didn't I think of that?
I just rolled my eyes as the guards led us into the gates of the prison. We were then greeted by whistles and sexually based comments. I ignored them, but Tavi would respond harshly to them, only making them keep going.
"Tavi, shut your mouth. They'll quit as long as you don't give them any attention."
"And like I'm supposed to believe that?"
"I know how these things work, just trust me on this."
"So now I'm supposed to believe a kid who's been to jail before?"
"I've never been in jail, I've only visited when my mom was doing time."
She looked at me with shock and horror. Maybe I might have revealed a little too much too soon. But I figured now was as good a time as any to tell her about my mom.
"Tavi, there are some things that I need to tell you. But I think that we need to wait until this whole thing gets cleared up first."
"Is there something that you're hiding from me, because I don't want to know if this could get me into trouble."
"It won't...at least...I hope it doesn't. It's...it's really complicated right now," I looked away from her for a second with a small tear running down my face.
She looked at me with concern, obviously noticing how much it hurt me just to think about it. Leaving the issue be, we were lead into a building marked, Inmate Security Checkpoint. The guards uncuffed us and sat us down on a rusty metal bench.
"Alright, I think you two know what happens now?"
Me and Tavi looked at each other and then back at the guard, not really knowing what he was talking about.
"Don't play dumb with me, you know what needs to be done here."
"Not really, mind giving a hint?" I asked, acting oblivious, even though I know where this was going.
"Full cavity search."
Tavi looked over at me with a look of confusion as if to ask, Do I really want to know?
I looked over at her and leaned into her ear, "A full cavity search is where they search every part of your body."
She jolted up from me and was staring at me in total shock. She leaned back and began whispering in my ear, "You mean they even search our...v-v-v..."
"Yep, they even search our vaginas."
She jumped up from the bench, "OH FUCK NO!! I'M SO NOT ALLOWING THAT TO HAPPEN!!"
The guard grabbed her arms and sat her back down on the bench, "Sit down and be quiet! Or would you like to be first?"
She shrank down in her seat in fear and kept quiet. I wanted to say something to comfort her, but I was just as scared as she was. Who wouldn't be? We're in the middle of one of the most hostile prisons in Crystal County, and we're both about to get every single inch of our bodies searched for contraband. I wasn't looking forward to any of this any more than Tavi was.
After a short few moments, a doctor came in and sat down a small box of what I believed were what she planned to search us with. She looked over at us and back at the guard, "Still scaring the shit out of the young ones I see."
"Shut up Redheart, just get these two searched so they can get back to their cell."
Me and Tavi both jumped up at the name. We looked over at the doctor and recognized her immediately. She really was Nurse Redheart from back at camp. Maybe we could get this whole mess sorted out sooner than we thought. She walked over to us and greeted both of us with a smile. I smiled back, hoping she would recognize at least one of us and tell the guard we weren't meant to be here.
"So, who wants to be first?"
I looked over at Tavi who was obviously not wanting to be any part of this. Rolling my eyes, I got up from my seat, "I guess I may as well be first."
"Right this way," Redheart said, giving me a slight wink.
She lead me into a small room and locked the door behind us.
"So, I guess I just get undressed and let you get to searching?"
"There's no need for that, Vinyl."
"So you do recognize us."
"Of course. It's my job to know each and every camper at Camp Crystal Lake."
"So, do you think you can clear this whole thing up with the guards?"
"I can't do it alone though. You'll have to have Octavia call her parents so that they can come down here."
"How long do you think that could take?"
"About three more hours, that's when visiting hours start. But, you can have your phone calls anytime before that."
"So, we can finally get everything straightened out?"
"As long as you make sure Octavia knows to call her parents when you get your one phone call. Also, try to hope that there isn't any trouble out of anyone."
"Why?"
"The whole building gets put into lock-down for the whole day, and no one can get a phone call for the next three days."
"You've got to be kidding me. You mean to tell me that if something goes wrong today, we could be stuck here for another three?"
"That's how it works. Just hope for the best, that's all I can say. Now, let's get you out of here so I can talk to Octavia."
I left the room and sat back down on the bench, giving Tavi a look that said, It's all going to be alright...I hope. She just got even more horrified by it, so I looked away as she went into the room with Redheart.
"Alright, let's just get this over with," Tavi said as she began to pull her shirt up.
Redheart waved her hand in the air to stop her, "That won't be necessary, Octavia. I know you're not supposed to be here."
Tavi tucked her shirt back into her pants, "So, you can clear this whole thing up right?"
"Not by myself."
"What do you mean? Can't you just talk to the guards and tell them who we are?"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple."
"Then what do we have to do?"
"You need to make sure that you call your parents as soon as possible, in order to make sure that they come here and clear it all up."
"Why can't you do that?"
"I have a lot of things that I need to do over here, with all these inmates fighting a lot, I'm being ran ragged over here."
"So you mean to say that if I screw up, me and Vinyl aren't getting out of here?"
"At least not for today, you'll be able to try again tomorrow. That is unless this place gets put into..."
All of a sudden an alarm began to sound, and a robotic voice over the P.A system began shouting, "Lock-down! Lock-down!"
Redheart put her hands over her face, "Fuck!"
The guard came into the room and grabbed Tavi and another guard grabbed me, "Alright, time to get back to the cell."
They lead us out of the security checkpoint and began to lead us towards cell block E.
"What happened?" Tavi asked me, a look of fear spread across her face.
"I'm not entirely sure, but from what I heard on the guard's radio, someone got stabbed in the gut in the cafeteria."
"So what now?"
"We wait three days before we call back to camp."
"You've got to be kidding me. Nurse Redheart said that we can try again tomorrow."
"But did she tell you that we'll have to wait three days if the building gets put into lock-down?"
"I think she was about to say it before the alarm went off."
"Well, we just need to survive for three days. Then we can call your folks and ask them to come and get us."
We finally made it to cell block E and the guards lead us into a huge mass of cells, each one more horrifying than the last. One had some crazy chick banging her head against the wall, luckily for her it was padded. Another one held someone who looked like they'd been doing too much meth, she was sitting there talking to herself about going down some drain in the showers to escape. I looked over at Tavi who was shaking even more from the sight on the inside. Though it didn't phase me as much, it was starting to scare me as well. Eventually we reached the end of the cell block and the guards unlocked the cell and pushed us in.
"Have fun ladies, we'll be back in a couple of hours with your slop," one of the guards laughed as they all began walking away.
I sat down on the bed and buried my face in my hands. Tavi sat next to me and put her arm around me comfortingly, even though it wasn't really needed. I began to look around the cell and noticed a lot of scribbles on the wall. Some of them reading, One way out., others said, Accept the gospel! and other crazy things like that. I guessed that it was from one of the more insane inmates who used to have this cell, most likely the one who was talking to herself.
"So what now?" Tavi asked, snapping me back into reality.
"What?"
"I said, what now?"
"I guess I tell you that thing that I wanted to tell you."
She shuffled herself to the front side of the bed and crossed her legs on it, "I'm all ears."
I let out a long sigh and looked to the ground, "It all started ten years ago."