CHAPTER 2: A Narrow Escape

Duncan POV

I picked Courtney up into the air and started to spin her around. She smelled like strawberries. (Not that I noticed our anything) She couldn't stop laughing even as she was yelling at me to put here down.

Then out of nowhere she stops laughing and screams "PUT ME DOWN!" So I lifted her off my shoulder and as gently as possible I put down.

"This isn't a game Duncan." she says to me.

"Yes it is." I quickly say back.

"You know what I mean!" She yelled. "So quit messing with me!".

I can't help but smirk at Princess. Then I hear a suspicious rustle in the bushes and foot steps behind me. I figured it was Courtney stepping behind me.

Chef emerged from the bushes holding his water gun.

"Oh crap!" I say to myself.

I turned around to run when I noticed that the footsteps were not Courtney stepping behind me, They were her running away. I could see her about halfway through the clearing.

"You're finished!" says Chef. "And so is your little girlfriend once I'm done with you!"

Chef laughed and shot his gun at me. I jumped out of the way and it barely missed me. I took off running after Courtney with Chef right on my tail.

I saw Courtney get through the clearing and to the tree line, but her shirt snagged on a tree branch and she was stuck trying to pull herself free. I ran right passed her.

"See yah Princess!" I yell back.

"Wait! Duncan! Help me!" she yells back to me. "I'm sorry I left you back there! Just help me!"

I stopped. Why did she have to say that? I turned around and ran back. Chef was almost to her. I grabbed her hands and started to pull. Chef stopped right behind her and pointed the gun at us. I heard a rip and the back of her shirt flew off and the branch snapped back and hit Chef in the face. The water gun shot strait up into the air. Courtney and I fell to the ground and she quickly grabbed her chest to hold her shirt on. I felt like whistling at her, but we still had to get up and run. So I grabbed her hand and dragged her to her feet.

"C'mon, we have to go!"

"wait! I think he's unconscious." Courtney points out.

I looked over to him and just like Princess said, he was asleep. So we ran off. We were running for a minute or so when I realized I was holding her hand. I let go as we rounded a corner.

I looked back at Courtney to see her staring at the back of my head, but before I could say anything I was rolling down a steep hill, or was it I cliff? I don't really know. Then WAM!

I didn't know where I was, but the back of my head hurt, and there was a severe pain in my left wrist. I felt like sleeping. So I did.

Courtney POV

We were running away from Chef. One hand I was using to hold my shirt on and the other hand was…holding Duncan's? Yes, it was! I was holding Duncan's hand while we ran.

We go around a corner and he abruptly lets go and runs.

I don't like him, I hate him! Why am I running with him anyway? Duncan turned around to look at me. I looked away hoping he didn't see me looking at him, but I knew he did.

Out of nowhere Duncan disappears. I stop and realize we are at the edge of a really steep hill. Almost a cliff, but not quit. I see Duncan rolling down the hill. I feel a strange sensation, like I'm sinking. I look down to see the ground beneath my feet crack and give way. Now I'm rolling down the hill!

I hit the bottom with a big thud. I just lay there for a minute thinking. My leg hurt. I looked down at it to see a large gash. I used my tattered shirt as a bandage. I then realized I was in my bra.

Where is Duncan? Why do I care? He could be hurt! I look around just to see him 15 feat away laying on his back not moving.

"Oh shit!" I say to myself as I limped over to him.

"Duncan! Wake up!"

He's still breathing. "Duncan, come on! WAKE UP!" I shook him rapidly. His eyes cracked open.

"Princess?"

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