Disclaimer: I don't own Bratz. MGA Entertainment does.

Note: Sorry to disappoint but all I can say is this story is now officially discontinued. Other than that, I give thanks to those who have enjoyed this story.


Cameron's Big Secret

By: Pajama Jam

"Remember class, your volcano projects are due in two days. By now you should be adding the finishing touches and finalizing the report." The teacher said. He then returned to his desk. The Bratz were all at a table, looking proud at their group project.

"Our volcano is gonna be the bomb. I mean, look at it. It even has sound effects." Sasha exclaimed and pressed a button on the volcano. Hip hop music began playing while bubbling lava erupted from the volcano. "Well, it's more like hot beats than real sounds, but it's still pretty cool."

"Yeah, sure it's cool. But we still haven't started on the report. I think we should work on it now." Yasmin said.

"Yasmin's right. We have only two days left. I guess we all got so caught up in the project part, we forgot to do the writing." Cloe said and turned to see Cameron's group painting their volcano with red paint. He caught her staring at him, and she turned her head back and smiled. Jade looked at Cloe and giggled.

"Alright you two, we'll work on the report. Just let me fix up the grass, they keep detaching from the board." Jade said and began talking to Cameron, to playfully tease Cloe. "Hey Cameron, do you mind getting us the glue, our hands are sort of dirty at the moment.'

Cameron smiled. "Sure girls." He walked away from his team and headed towards the cupboards. Dylan rolled his eyes.

"You know, I don't remember volcanoes being purple and pink." He said teasingly. The girls just ignored him.

Cameron took out a tube of glue and started making his way back to the Bratz. What he didn't know was that he was about to slip into some orange paint.

Cloe turns, waiting for him to come, and sees him tripping over the paint. "Whoa!" Cameron shouts and grabs onto something to catch his fall. He falls safely onto it, smashing and damaging it.

"Cameron, are you alright?" Cloe got up from her chair; Sasha pulled her back into her seat.

"Angel, we don't want to wake up the teacher. He'd tell us to put away our mp3s." Sasha says and fumbles with her player. Cloe looks sadly at Cameron. He gets up embarrassed and lifts up the thing he has broken.

"Oh no." Cameron says, feeling guilty. He dusted off his shirt, smearing orange paint all over his jeans. This is great, just great; he thought when he discovers he had just ruined someone's volcano. He turns and his eyes met with Dana, her eyes were huger than usual. She stared down at the broken cardboard and shook her head.

"Dana, this is your project? I'm so sorry." Cameron said and scratched his neck.

"No, Cameron. This isn't mine." Dana said and bit her lip looking worried.

"Oh, then whose group does this belong to?"

Dana points to three skinny boys who are playing a card game at a table in the distance. Obviously, they did not notice what just happened. Neither has the teacher. "Oh." Cameron said looking down. For some reason, he felt a wave of relief, he didn't know why. "Why do you look so scared, Dane?"

"Because..." Dana started. "He's in their group." She points to a tall big guy with shaggy black hair and a leather grey jacket; he just came into class and went up to his group members. That guy wasn't just any tall guy; he was sort of like a bully. Bully was the guy's name, too. That's how much of a bully he was. Cameron gulped, keeping his eyes on Bully. Bully smashed one of his members' head into the table and started laughing.

"Oh no, he's coming." Dana said and started to back away. Cameron turned and saw that Dana was already at a far table with the Bratz. He turned back and found himself staring back into Bully's sharp glassy eyes.

"Hey, did you do this?" He demanded, grabbing onto Cameron's shirt collar.

"What?"

"Did you smash our project? It's all smashed up!"

"I…uh..."

"DID YOU?" Bully shook Cameron, making him jerk.

C'mon teacher, wake up! Cameron pleaded mentally. But no, the teacher just kept snoring away.

"Yes. I did. And I'm sorry. It was an accident…" Cameron kept his eyes on the floor, acting like a totally different person.

"You are not going to get away with this! You're gonna pay so bad!"

Then the bell rings. Bully lets go of Cameron's shirt and lets him fall to the floor. Bully leans down to Cameron and whispers coarsely into his ear. "Meet me by the water fountains, first thing at recess. You better be there, or I will do horrible things. Horrible, horrid things that would make you never think twice about messin' with me ever again." After that, he left Cameron on the floor to feel pity for himself.

"Cameron, are you alright?" Cloe asked helping him up. She stared at her, now painted hands in disgust. The Bratz girls looked at him very concerned.

"I'm fine." Cameron lied, avoiding eye contact. He went over to his desk to pick up his book bag. He really didn't want to talk to anyone right now, especially Cloe. Dylan came up to Cameron and slapped his hand onto his back, playfully.

"Hey man, be careful next time. That guy is bad business." Dylan said and examined his buddy's ensemble, shaking his head.

"Give him a break, Dyl. It wasn't his fault!" Sasha scolded and briefly looked at Jade.

"Yes…it was all just an accident. Tell him that you'll make it up to him. You really should tell the teacher." Said Yasmin and began applying lip gloss.

"I'm sorry Cam, I shouldn't have…" Jade looked down at her silver platforms.

Cameron sighed and shook his head. "Look we gotta go to class already. We're all going to be late."

"Are you sure you're going to be alright?" Cloe asked.

Cameron felt happy for her kindness, but somehow he just couldn't smile at her right now. All of the stress and embarrassment really got to him. "Don't worry, I'll be fine. Whatever that guy has in store for me, I'm sure I can handle it." He left out the room with Dylan and Eitan. He didn't look so sure at all, Cloe thought and left with the girls.


In the library, the Bratz were supposed to be doing research on historical person, but instead, they chatted.

"Guys, I feel so bad. It's all my fault. I should've got that glue myself." Jade said, staring into her compact.

"It's not your fault, Jade." Yasmin said. "He could've gotten up to get glue for himself and trip over that paint and break Bully's project."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. But there must be a way to prevent Cameron from getting into a fight with Bully." Jade looked at her buds, waiting for a reply.

"I don't know about that." Sasha said.

Cloe flipped through a text book. "I really don't want to see Cam get hurt. There must be something we could do. I mean, I want him with both eyes, so he can see how great I look in my new sparkly denim jacket when we go on our first date."

"So, when are you two going out?" Jade asked.

Cloe smiled and laughed nervously. "I haven't exactly asked him yet."

"Shhh, be quiet." The librarian scolded. Sasha and Yasmin giggled.

"Oh, I see." Jade whispered. "I'm sure you'll get the chance real soon."


During recess, Cameron took a deep breath and leaned against a wall next to the water fountains.

"There you are, just in time." Bully came next to him and leaned against the wall, too. He smiled teasingly at Cameron and cracked his knuckles.

"Look, I'm really sorry about your project. I didn't mean to smash it up like that." Cameron explained.

"Yeah, I know." Bully said sarcastically.

"You believe me?"

"No! I just know you didn't do it on purpose, but you still did it and it's still broken." Bully glared at Cameron sourly.

"Can't we settle this a smar- um…an easier way. I could make you guys another one. I promise to make it better than ours, too."

Bully stared at Cameron seriously and then nodded. "You're lucky I'm feeling generous today. Okay, I'm willing to take this offer, if and only if you promise to make it a lot better than yours. It has to be done by tomorrow…"

"Yes, I promise." Cameron said eagerly. He was glad to feel a little relieved.

"And…"

"And…what?"

"And…you have to do a little something extra, you know, if you don't want a knuckle sandwich or anything."

"What is it?"

Bully smiled to himself, displaying a row of capped teeth. "Hmm…I dunno." He said. He just enjoyed seeing people suffer. "How's about asking a girl on a date?"

"Ask a girl on a date?" Cameron was a little surprised. What kind of favor was that? Of course, for him, that was not a problem. "That's it?"

"Yeah, pretty much, sluggo."

Cameron began to feel himself relaxing. Bully spat onto the ground and looked back to Cameron. "Not just any girl though, I want you to ask…her!" He pointed to a girl with short dark brown hair, who was sitting on a bench with another girl.

"Her? Who is she?"

"I think her name's Mecca or something. You have to make sure she goes out with you tonight."

"Why do you want me to ask her?"

"Because, I just do! You got a problem with that? Besides, I heard she's got a huge girly crush on you."

"I don't think I can…I already-"

"Hey!" Bully was getting angry. "I'm being nice with you, and it wasn't a suggestion, it was an order!" Cameron looked away from him and back at the girl. Well she doesn't look that bad, wait what am I saying? I can't do this!

"And unless you want your face to meet my fist, you better get your ass over there and ask her out!" Bully shoved Cameron out closer to them, which was still pretty far.

"Guess I have no choice." Cameron said to himself and made his way to the girls.

Mecca looked up and noticed he was going to them. "Oh my gosh, he's going to talk to us." She said. The other girl shook her head.

Cameron forced a smile at Mecca. Okay, how am I going to ask this without sounding phony? She couldn't help but smile back.

"Okay, are you two going say something or drool over each other like that?" The girl, possibly Mecca's friend, asked.

"Hi Becka."

"Hi…" Mecca said getting starry-eyed. "It's actually Mecca, but either way is fine. So, what did you want to ask me?" Somehow, she looked as if she knew exactly what he wanted to say.

Cameron shut his eyes for a while and then turned to Bully who was off in the distance. He just glared at him, pounding his fist into his palm. "I was wondering if you'd…"

"If I….what?"

"Would you like to go out with me on a date?"

"What? What did you say?"

Cameron sighed, why did she have to make it so difficult. "I said…do you want to go out sometime?"

Mecca smiled. "What do you mean by 'going out'?" She said this quite loudly, which made people stop and stare.

Cameron could feel his face burning. "I mean as a date."

Mecca's eyes sparkled. "Ohh…You want to go on a date, with me?"

"Yes." Cameron said sighing again. "Will, you?"

"Wow. A date? I don't know what to say." Mecca just couldn't wipe off the grin from her face.

"Say yes!" Mecca's friend urged.

"Yes!" Mecca exclaimed.

"What?" Cameron asked, attempting to give that annoying girl a taste of her own medicine.

"I'd love to go out with you tonight, Cameron." Mecca said. Cameron's eyes widened.

"How did you know I was going to say tonight?"

"I could see it in your eyes. You have very nice eyes, Cameron. Their so…blue."

"Yeah." Cameron said looking down. He didn't feel so good, he felt so guilty. "So I'll meet you outside at Pork Burgers at seven." He went off back to Bully.

"Okay, I'll see you there." Mecca called to him and sighed. "This is going to be the greatest night of my life."

"Good Cam, you did it. Guess you're not such a wimp after all." Bully said, looking very pleased.

"Why are you so happy, what do you even gain out of this? You make me go out with someone, what kind of punishment is that?"

"Man, you ask too many things." Bully said shaking his head. "I just did it to make you suffer. I know you don't really like her, but now you'll have no choice."

"Okay, that's just weird." Cameron said and headed to his class.

"Hey, did you just call me weird?"

"Uh, no. I said…I gotta grow a beard."

"Oh, but you don't have a beard." Bully was confused.

"I know, that's my point."

"So, where do you think you're going?"

"Science class, I gotta finish your volcano, remember?" Cameron said wisely.

"Right. Well, it better be done by tomorrow, or else!"


It had been a long day at school and everyone was itching to get home. The Bratz finally caught up with Cameron. He wasn't in the mood to be showered in questions, actually he never really is.

"So how was it, Cameron?" Cloe asked feeling excited.

"How was what?" Cameron asked, obviously distracted.

"You mean he didn't do anything to you?" Yasmin asked.

"No. Don't worry about it. He said we aren't going to fight."

"So he forgave you, you're off the hook?" Sasha asked.

"Well…I have to fix his volcano, though."

"That's all you have to do?" Jade asked, suspiciously. "He just let you go?"

"Yeah." Cameron lied. "I was surprised, myself." He felt uncomfortable with the Bratz giving him so much attention, especially when he was hiding something.

Cloe smiled and gazed deeply into his eyes. "So Cameron, I was thinking maybe-" Cameron's eyes widened, he began to sweat.

"I'm sorry Cloe, I gotta go. Have to finish Bully's project."

"And ours. You still need to help us with the report." Dylan said, cutting into the conversation.

"Oh, I'm sorry D. I can't, I promised to add a lot of extras to Bully's volcano. It's going to take me all night."

"I thought you said you were almost finished with it. You were working on it like crazy during lunch." Dylan said making Cameron get nervous. The Bratz put their hands on their hips.

"It still needs a lot more adjusting." Cameron said and headed to the classroom to pick it up.

"Cameron seems a bit different than usual." Jade said. "Something is up."

"Yeah. I'm worried about him." Cloe said sighing.

"Come on girls, why don't we go out and get some sugary fruit smoothies. It will do us all good." Yasmin said, putting her arm around Cloe's shoulder.