Duncan is driving back home from Courtney's house. He wasn't sure his parents believed that when he disappeared for a few days he was visiting Courtney, but he was. He didn't even think they believed he was dating her. He didn't believe he was.
When he stops at the gas station he looks up at the stars and wonders for a second if Courtney is looking up at them. He chuckles remember the last time he thought that sentiment out loud on Total Drama Action. When he gets back in the car he thinks even further back. He'd always thought Courtney was hot, but he was never really attracted to her until after the Dodgeball challenge on the Island.
He was a bit off put off, and a bit turned on when Courtney confronted him, and threatened to have him voted off. It was the first time he saw that she was a real competitor.
"What are you doing out here sulking cyclops?" Duncan teased as he walked outside. Courtney had been sitting with her back to the cabins for quite some time. "We won the challenge didn't we?"
"Could you stop calling me that?" Courtney snapped, glaring down at a paper she held in her hands.
"Sorry darling" Duncan retorted. Courtney crushed the paper in her hands.
"You know my name is Courtney" she stated without looking at him. But that wasn't what Duncan wanted from her.
"My apologies Princess" he said trying to peer over her shoulder. She turned quickly, meeting him face to face and giving him a shove.
"Ugh!" she groaned shoving him "What are you even doing out here? Shouldn't you be lighting a building on fire, or torturing Harold or something!" This was the second time Duncan saw the fire in her eyes, and the first time he was absolutely positive that he liked it.
"Well that was my question" Duncan argued "What are you doing out here?"
"Trying to relax!" she snapped. Duncan shot her an incredulous look and then began to laugh. She looked offended for a moment, but tried to shrug it off. "What?" she demanded.
"From what I'm seeing you are doing an awful job at that. But that's not too shocking since you do an awful job at everything" he teased.
"What are you even doing here!" she exclaimed "Are you trying to get me on edge?"
"Maybe" he replied. She groaned. "So what are you doing?"
"If you really must know I'm trying to find cancer" she answered.
"What?"
"The constellation" Courtney explained before Duncan could ask anything else. She glanced down at her paper and then back up at the sky.
"Oh" Duncan began "Stars."
"Yeah. Stars" she snapped.
"So you're a star gazer?" he pressed.
"If by star gazer you mean someone who finds stars and the patterns the create in the sky fascinating then yes, I am a star gazer."
"That's so cliche" Duncan commented. Courtney's eyes widened when she turned to him.
"It is not" she argued. Duncan shook his head.
"All I see are a bunch of randomly placed balls of fiery gas" he added. "I feel like Owen should appreciate them, you know, since he appreciates gas so much."
"Ha ha" Courtney said mockingly. "Well it's so much more than that. The stars can tell you where you are, what time of year it is and as a CIT-"
"Blah blah" Duncan interrupted, and she glared at him, but this time she attempted to ignore him, glaring back down at her paper. Then she looked up in the sky and frowned. "So what is it exactly you are looking for?"
"This" she said pointing down at some dots on her sheet of paper. Duncan took her gesture as an invitation to move in closer to her. This time she didn't shove him. He really didn't get a good look at the paper, because he was distracted. Even here in this shit camp she smelled- nice. When she turned up to look at the sky her soft hair brushed against his face and he tried not to blush. Blush, Duncan lectured himself, I don't blush.
"So where is it supposed to be up there?" Duncan asked.
"Right there" said Courtney pointing at a spot in the sky "I mean it should be there, and being in the middle of no where we should be able to see it." Her eyebrows furrowed in thought.
"I don't see it" Duncan finally said.
"I know" Courtney snapped. "Neither do I." She looked so frustrated, it made her so, so attractive.
"Maybe Owen's throwing you off- he's made one too many balls of gas here" Duncan said expecting Courtney to shove him again, but she didn't. Instead she let out a some what stifled laugh, her face contorting as she tried not to smile, but she just couldn't help it. And even though she wasn't angry Duncan couldn't help but think about how beautiful she was, how attractive she was becoming to him. He thought he should stop, but he didn't want to.
"You thought that was funny?" he teased.
"No" Courtney mumbled "I know you wanted to pass it off as humor, but believe me, I wasn't amused."
"Sure you weren't Princess" he said with a smile as he leaned back and looked up at the stars.
Duncan smiles as he remembers the first time he really made her laugh. He's almost home and he looks out his window at the stars and wonders if Courtney is under the stars, trying to find constellations, thinking about balls of gas.
