Chapter One «Day Zero - Sikowitz's Idea»

DRING!

"And that conclude today's class about backward acting" finished a not really hairy man, dressed up weirdly with colorful big clothes and sipping milk from a coconut. "Before you go, Tori, André, Beck, Jade, Cat and Robbie, I need to see you."

The six students, muttering and sighing, stopped their way to the door and came closer to the little stage where the un-hairy man was standing.

"What?" hissed one of the girls. She had long and dark hair with green streaks, light blue eyes, a pale skin and a piercing in her eyebrow. Her arms were crossed and her lips showed a pout. Immediately after her word, the boy on her side, his fluffy dark hair sweeping his shoulder, put a comforting arm around her shoulder. She seemed to lay with affection in him.

"Jade, Jade, Jade…" sighed the teacher. "It would kill you to be nice, once?"

"Yeah," she responded while flipping her hair over her shoulder.

"Sikowitz?" asked the guy at the extreme right of the group. He had a brown skin and dark dreadlocks.

"Yes André?" said Sikowitz again.

"Why are we here? School's over and I really need to get home, I have a lot of homework to do and my mom wants me to clean my room and I have to make…"

"Slow down, André! I won't bother you a lot longer. I just wanted to ask my better students if they want to have a little… surprise."

"We're you're better students?!"screamed the smaller girl, her flashy red velvet ponytail jumping all around as she clapped her hands happily.

"Of course. So, as I was saying, the school is offering a full paid camping trip for six of my best students. I don't know why, but they do." finished Sikowitz. He took a sip from his coconut, his scary eyes still stuck on his students.

"So… you're like offering the trip to us?" It was a skinny guy, with a lot of curly hair, a huge pair of glasses and a puppet sat in his arms.

"Do I look like I'm offering the trip to you guys?"

"Kinda."

"So yes, Robbie, I am offering you the trip."

"Yeah!" shouted the redheaded. "I wanna come!" She grabbed Robbie's arm. "Are you coming with me?"

"Sure, Cat. I mean, it's gonna be fun, right? How much time it is?" he grinned a bit.

"Six days. The school is paying for the camping place and the tent, but the rest, it's you guys responsibility." responded Sikowitz.

"You mean… six days without school?" asked the thinnest girl, flipping her brown hair behind her shoulder and blinking her chocolate eyes.

"I mean six days without school. You coming, Tori?"

"Sure! This is gonna be great!"

"Arg" sighed Jade. Her boyfriend grabbed her imperceptibly harder. She rolled her eyes. "I'm coming because I won't have to go to school, not because Vega is going. Beck, you're coming."

The fluffy hair boy sighed, then shrugged. "I guess I'm going."

"Perfect. I'm gonna tell all this to the principal. The reservation of the site start Sunday, so you're going whenever you want. Here's the list of what you have to bring. I added some things from my own."

They took the sheets Sikowitz was giving them.

"Toilet paper extra soft?" asked Tori, confused. "Liquid soap? Coconuts?"

"You don't have to bring everything!" exclaimed Sikowitz. "Just what you'll know you'll need."

"I know I won't need coconuts" hissed Jade.

"Gank" whispered back Sikowitz, not loud enough for Jade to hear it. Beck, having really good ears, grinned and hold Jade a little bit closer.

"Ok, so I was thinking…" started Tori.

"Nobody cares what you think" launched Jade, grabbing her fork.

It was lunch time, and the gang was sitting at their usual table. Backpacks have been threw under it and the surface of the table was covered with food and beverages, passing from Jade's salad and coffee to Tori's burger and Pepsi and Beck's burrito and Wahoo Punch. Everybody was looking at the papers Tori put in the middle; the list of things Sikowitz gave them but covered with hatches and names.

"So, as I was saying" continued Tori, ignoring Jade's comment "I thought of the list. Some things can easily be brought by only one person, like the matches, or the cooking kit, or even the rope. So I took all those things and…"

She showed the paper covered with marks. "As you can see, I put everybody in charge of something. Cat, you're bringing the charcoal. I know you're parents have one, I've seen it in your garage."

Cat left her thumb, smiling happily. "Robbie, you're taking care of the two gas canister and the sticks for the marshmallow and others. André and me, we're gonna bring all the food we need for six days. I already did a menu for the days, but I know we're gonna add a lot of extras. The school's paying for the food, anyway."

Both Robbie and André nodded. "Beck, you're gonna bring all the stuff you guys are gonna need for fire and life in nature, like matches, hatchets to cut some logs, rope, knifes. You know, all this stuff."

He smiled, then nodded, looking in the corner of his eyes Jade's mood passing from moderately happy to angry faster than he could say whew. He put a comforting arm around her waist, put she was still stiff. Tori swallowed nervously under Jade's killer eyes. Everybody knew Jade hated Tori, and every contact she could have with Beck was making her dangerously jealous.

"And Jade" finished Tori, playing with her fingers. "You're bringing everything we need for cooking."

Weirdly, after that, Jade seemed to calm down a bit. She grabbed her boyfriend's hand and started playing with one of his ring. Cat, too innocent to see the tension, took Robbie's hand in hers and help him get up. "I need to finish my History report, and you're coming with me."

"I didn't finished my sandwich!"

"Robbie" practically begged Cat, smiling innocently.

"Coming" sigh Robbie in return, grabbing his puppet with him.

"Yay!"

The grocery cart was almost full. Some cookie boxes, threw on the top, threatened to fall. On the very bottom of the cart, a twenty-four water bottles pack laid sadly. Beside it, two huge boxes of beef flavor instant noodles had been pushed. Four cartons of milk were trying to hold all the stuff, acting like columns.

"André!" exclaimed Tori, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"W-What?" jumped his friend.

"I just got the grocery cart. We can go now."

Leaving the perfectly full grocery cart on the poster, André fallowed the brunette in the store. Even if he hated doing the grocery even more than he hated bag singing, he had made a promise to Tori to help, so that was what he was going to do.

"So…" he started, then swallowed. He actually didn't know how to make groceries. "What are we looking for?"

Tori passed her amused look up and down his body, then shrugged happily. "I don't know, we'll just do all the store and take what we need. Look…" she searched in her purse for a while, then grabbed her list and a notebook. "I made the menu." She showed him the notebook. "Each day, we need three meals and snacks. For each meal, I made a list of what we're gonna need. You take the first three days, I take the lasts, and we both take snacks. Okay?"

"Sounds good."

They started with the fruits and the vegetables, then made their way through the entire store, putting their favorite snacks in the cart, adding some powdered milk and two huge bags of marshmallows. Spaghetti, some vegetables, two or three Pop-Tarts packs, instant noodles, cereal bars in industrial quantities… everything that could be eaten by six teenagers in a camping trip was threw in the cart. Laughing happily, André and Tori, sketching some dance move here and there, were scaring all the other customers by their weird acting.

When they finished and bought all this food, they were really, really happy that the school was paying for it. Let's just that it cost… a lot of money.

"Hey" said Jade, sitting down on Beck's lap.

"Hey you" he leaned to kiss her gently.

The only light in the RV was coming from the little television in a corner. It was pretty late, and Jade, home alone, had decided to come and spend the night at Beck's RV, parked in his parents' driveway. It was Friday night, or, should I say, Saturday morning, so they didn't really care if they stayed up all night.

"I texted you" started the gothic, laying down beside Beck in his bed.

"I know" he was kind of absentminded, felling his incredibly hot girlfriend laying so close to him, on his sheets.

"Is it okay if I stay?" asked Jade, pushing the sheets away from Beck's stomach, reveling his soft skin and his perfectly shaped abs. She started drawing spirals with her finger on them, and she felt Beck shiver a bit.

"Well…" he moaned softly when her finger continued down more and more. "I guess…"

"Thank you" she whispered in his ear, removing her finger slowly from his stomach. He groaned.

"Babe, please" he begged her. She smirked. She loved to drive him totally crazy. It was always her who took the first steps, who controlled everything. And both of them loved it.

"What?" she respond happily, feeling in a good mood.

"Make me feel good." he ordered.

"Hum… no."

He straightened quickly, looking right into her azure eyes.

"No?"

"No."

She got up, stretched, then yawned.

"I gotta take a wazz."

Without a warning, Beck grabbed her waist and pulled her on the bed again. She opened wide eyes.

"W… What?" she whispered, while Beck was approaching his head until their foreheads were touching. She closed her eyes. Never before he took the control about anything in this part of their lives. But she kind of like it.

"I love you" he murmured, his warm breath mixing with hers.

She kissed him.

Okay, so that's my first chapter. I know it's a bit short, but don't worry, I'll try to make them longer after this one.

Usually, I don't write in English, but in French. My first language is French, but not from France, from Canada. So my story may have some little misspelled words or verbs in weird tenses. I'm sorry. I'll try my best to correct, so if you find anything, just tell me!

I will now shut up.

Hope you'll like it! Review, please! :)