○ I'm pretty ninja this time around, eh?

○ That was a lie.

○ But you already knew that.

○ It's pretty sad how I can't update my actual stories, but I have no problem updated something that was originally a one-shot, huh?

○ Don't answer that.

• Still, despite my attempts,

• I do not own the Total Drama... series.

† Enjoy.


That's How You Know 2

Duncan rolled his eyes and leaned against the wall of "Missing You," Hallmark cards behind him as he listened to his girlfriend read from another "Get Well Soon," card.

"Duncan!" Courtney snapped, shutting the card as hard as she could. "Are you even listening to me?!"

Duncan shook his head. "Not really."

Courtney rolled her eyes and placed the card back in it's slot. "Duncan, I know you absolutely hate card shopping, but your mother is sick and she deserves a card from her favourite son."

Duncan scoffed. "I'm not her favourite—that would be Dakota."

Courtney pulled another card from the wall. "If you weren't her favourite, I highly doubt she would have spent those thousands on getting you out of Juvie."

Duncan shrugged. "Let's get that one," he said as she stood up straight and pulled the card from her hands.

"Hey!" Courtney said as she snatched the card back. "We haven't even read it, yet."

Duncan gave her an odd look. "I never read the inside of the card."

Courtney gave him a look. "You're kidding."

Duncan smirked and gave her wink. "That's what you think."

"You can't be serious! It could be sexual innuendo ridden," Courtney argued. "You don't want to give your mother something like that, do you?"

Duncan took the card from her again. "My mom is aware I don't read the inside of cards. I gave her one with a naked dude last year for her birthday."

Courtney let out an aggravated sigh. "You have got to be her favourite if she let that slide."

"Dakota gave her a car," Duncan said. "I think she was too dazed by that to notice."

Courtney rolled her eyes. "i think you're just trying to get sympathy."

Duncan grabbed an envelope from the wall. "Damn straight, babe," he said, clicking his tongue at her.

"Disgusting," Courtney said, crossing her arms and scrunching up her nose.

"Pfft. You know you love it," Duncan said. He pulled at her hand, "Let's get outta here."

Courtney shook her head. "I'm not leaving until one of us reads that card."

Duncan sighed. "Here," he said, holding the card out for her. "Whatever will get you to shut up and leave."

Courtney glared at him before taking the card and opening it. She scanned the inside of the card before looking up and nodding at Duncan. "I suppose it's all right."

"Told ya," Duncan said, taking the card from her.

"But," Courtney countered, "you should still read a card before you give it to someone."

"Give it a rest, Princess."

(^.^)

"I hate being...being—" Courtney let out a sneeze. "Dammit!" she growled, ripping a tissue from the box on her bedside table.

"Maybe if you talked less you wouldn't sneeze so much," Duncan suggested, flipping through an old issue of Seventeen as he leaned back in her vanity chair.

Courtney sent him a glare. "No one is asking you to stay here," she deadpanned.

Duncan flipped the page and shrugged. "No one asked me to leave, either."

Courtney screamed in agitation as she fell back onto her pillow.

"Why don't you tell me how you really feel?" Duncan asked, scrunching up his nose at a "How Hot Are You?" quiz.

Courtney shot back up into her sitting position. "I'm going to—ugh!" she grabbed onto her head. "So shouldn't have done that..."

Duncan chuckled and threw the magazine unto her vanity. "Would you just lay down?" he asked, standing up and stretching his arms above his head.

"I would if you weren't so agitating!" Courtney accused, pointing a finger at him.

"Chillax, Princess," Duncan said, walking over and sitting on the edge of her bed. He looked over at the envelop on her bedside table. "You haven't even read my card, yet," he said in mock disappointment.

"You haven't either," Courtney deadpanned, giving him a look.

"Good point," Duncan said with a shrug. "Still," he reached over and grabbed the card, "you should read it." He held it out for her and shook it a couple of times.

Courtney took the card. "Why should I?"

"I have feeling there's nothing naked in it."

"Ooh. Fancy," Courtney said with a smile.

"I like to think so," Duncan said, popping an invisible collar.

Courtney rolled her eyes and hit his shoulder with the card. "I need to sleep," she said.

"My cue to leave, eh?"

"Yes," Courtney said as she fell back unto her pillow.

"All right," Duncan said before kissing her forehead. He stood up and looked down at her. "Stop bitching and moaning and actually get some sleep, though."

"I don't bitch or moan," Courtney protested.

Duncan raised his eyebrow at her. "You sure about that?"

"i complain every once in a while, but I do not bitch and or moan."

"Well, you did moan last night," Duncan said with a wink.

Courtney smacked his arm and gave him a glare.

Duncan chuckled as he rubbed his arm. "You know you love me."

Courtney smiled and said, "I love you, yes. But I don't like you."

"How much sense does that make?"

"Enough for me," Courtney said, rolling on her side and pulling her covers over her shoulder.

Duncan put his hands in his pockets and headed towards her door.

"I love you," Courtney said as she let out a yawn.

"You too, Princess."

Courtney watched as he walked down the hall. He may wear colours just to bring out my eyes, but it'd still be nice to hear, "I love you," once in a while...

The brunette let out another yawn as she pulled his card out of its envelope. The cover looks clean... She opened the card and scanned the inside, a smile dancing across her lips as she saw the printed words had been crossed out. Princess, I've got no fucking clue what the hell this card says, I can't read cursive. So, yeah... Get well and stuff.

Courtney shook her head as she closed the card and set it on her night stand. "I guess that's just how you know sometimes..." she said as she laid her head back on her pillow.


○ I got the idea for this when I was looking at cards in K-Mart && I couldn't read shit because of the so-called, "Cursive."

○ &&, for the first time in a long while, my first thought related to TDI. I could totally see Duncan bitching about how he couldn't read cards.

○ I actually completely forgot I wrote the first That's How You Know; xD.

○ The reviews susprised me && made my day amazing.

○ && I've actually already written a third one-shot like this.

○ So, I totally lied when I said this would be just a one-shot deal; xD.

† Seeing as you have read, would you please be kind enough to review as well?

† &&, if you wanna be really awesome, you can even tell me if I should put the third one up.

■ CarmillaD: I'm trying to make myself update them, but I just don't have the drive, anymore, really. But I will finish them...eventually. ;D

○MMC○