A/N: Finaly, here's the next chapter, sorry it took so long. There's only one more after this and I'm HOPING to get it out later on tonight. Also, I'm horing this one is a little more interesting and I really hope you like it. Please lemme know what you think! :)
Disclaimer:I do not own YuGiOh GX or any of the characters (except my OC's)
Syrus giggled as he felt the gentle tickling on his face.
"Rini, stop, I'm trying to sleep." He said quietly so as not to wake the others, not bothering to open his eyes.
The tickling stopped for a moment and Syrus smiled before turning his attention back to his attempt at sleep. He'd nearly drifted off when he felt the tickling on his face again. With a small sigh, he spoke again.
"Seriously, Rei, I really wanna sleep. . ."
A small groan came from beside him before Rini's voice could be heard.
"What are you saying, Syrus?" She asked groggily. "I'm all the way over here."
Syrus reached out to Rini and felt around, finally touching her arm and realizing that she was at least two or three feet away from him. His brows furrowed in confusion, Syrus's big silvery eyes blinked open and starred down at his nose.
As he starred, eight beady black eyes starred back and all ten eyes combined starred at each other for what seemed like an eternity, Syrus's panic slowly rising with each passing moment until finally he snapped.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Syrus bolted up from his sleeping bag and began swatting his face furiously. This caused three lamp-lights to flicker on, one for each tent, as all occupants of the three came running to see what the trouble was.
Jesse was holding a pillow over his head, ready to pound someone, Jim had his fists in front of him ready for a fight, Jaden, on the other side of Syrus's tent held a stick of half frozen salami like a sword and Chazz was simply starring at them all like a zombie, merely mildly interested. The girls were all peering out from behind their boyfriends to see what was happening.
"What's the trouble, mate?!" Jim said urgently, his fists raising further in the air.
"There was a spider!" Syrus cried. "On my FACE!!!"
Jims fists, the pillow and the salami all got lowered as everyone blinked at Syrus. A few moments later, Chazz's face contorted in anger.
"You did NOT just wake us all up in the middle of the night for a spider?!" He growled threateningly.
"You didn't see the size of it!!" Syrus argued defiantly. "It was huge! Like a tarantula!!"
Chazz made to lunge at Syrus, making the small blunette jump back and raise his fists shakily but Jesse and Jim held him back.
"Well, let's have a looksie." Jim said wearily. Him, Jesse and Jaden knelt down and began rooting around, lifting and moving things as they looked for the hairy, eight-legged fiend.
After a few moments of searching, Jesse raised up the bottom end of Syrus's sleeping bag and a fuzzy black blob shot out of the tent, fleeing for it's life at it's first opportune moment.
Everyone watched the spider with blank faces as it scurried off into the night, turning back to Syrus with dull faces when it was gone.
"That's the tarantula?" Jesse said teasingly, half-playful, half-irritated. The tiny thing couldn't have been bigger then a quarter.
Syrus snorted indignantly and crossed his arms.
"It looked a lot bigger when it was starring me down!"
The others, save Chazz, all snorted with laughter as they laughed at Syrus's expense.
"Yea, yea, laugh it up." Chazz said in annoyance. "If I loose any more sleep over this, shrimp, you're dead come morning."
That said, Chazz turned and stalked back off to his tent; Micha, after a grin over her shoulder to her friends, following after him.
"You'd have a heartattack in the land down under, mate!" Jim said with a grin, holding his hands out to make a wide circle in front of him. "Spiders down there are that-"
"OK!" Syrus interrupted, not wanting at all to hear about the dinner-plate sized spiders down in Australia. "Thank you all for coming, hope you enjoyed the show, good night!"
Jesse and Jim chuckled as they took their girlfriends hands and went back to their own tent as well.
Syrus plopped down onto his sleeping bag with a heavy sigh.
"Sorry I woke you guys. . ." He said moodily.
Jaden grinned wide and laughed, reaching over to slap the small blunette on the back.
"That's OK buddy! It was hilarious!"
Syrus sweatdropped.
"Right. . . thanks, Jay."
"No problem, Sy! Night!"
Everyone else mumbled a quick good night before turning in for the second time. The lamp went out and Syrus laid back down and closed his eyes with a frown. After reaching up and swiping at his face a few times, his skin crawling all over now, Rini rolled over from her side of their air mattress and wrapped her arms around him comfortingly.
"It's OK Sy." She whispered softly, leaning in to give him a quick peck on the lips. "It's gone now."
Syrus sighed again and wrapped his arms around his girlfriend, both of them snuggling into each other as Rini closed her eyes. Syrus closed his eyes too. He'd stopped swiping at his face, but his skin didn't stop crawling as he attempted, once again, to get some sleep.
Nearly a dozen loud groans could be heard at six-thirty am when the farm's rooster crowed loudly, waking them all from a sleep, it seemed, they'd just acquired.
"Where is it?" Chazz mumbled, fumbling tiredly for the zipper of the tent. "Where is it? I'll kill it!"
Micha placed a hand on his chest and pushed him back down on his back with little effort before yawning and stretching widely.
"Come on bebe." She said through another yawn. You know you're not gonna get back to sleep anyway; we might as well get up."
The brunette looked back down at her boyfriend, who was laying in the same spot and position she pushed him into, and sweatdropped as she noted that he was already knocked out stone cold again.
With a heavy, irrritated sigh, Micha leaned over and gave the raven-haired teen a big push, causing him to roll off the side of the two foot air mattress and fall onto the tent floor with a loud thud. Peering over side of the mattress, she gaped at him in disbelieve seeing that he was still snoring soundly.
A sudden idea came to Micha and she leaned down until her lips were right next to Chazz's ear.
"Chazz. . ." She whispered softly. "Jaden is borrowing your tuck, OK?"
Chazz bolted up, wide awake and glared as his head swivelled around on his shoulder like a world globe that had just been spun around fiercely.
"Not on your life Slifer slacker!!" He yelled savagely, looking desperately around for the brunette. "You're not ruining my truck again!!"
Micha giggled behind her hands as she watched her boyfriends antics.
"Well, at least he's up."
-;-
"Jess. . . Jess wake up. . Jesse!"
Deisha starred down at the blunette crossly as she attempted to shake him awake again. He'd momentarily awoken for the rooster's crow before almost instantly falling asleep again.
On the other side of the tent, Jodi was rubbing her tired eyes and Jim was stretching and yawning widely. When the Aussie looked over at the blunette, he starred at him for a moment, then reached for something over by the shopping bags.
"Hey Sheila, catch."
Deisha looked up in time to see Jim looking at her and toss her a strange, lumpy object. She starred down at it for a moment in confusion, then looked up at Jim. Jim merely grinned at her. Deisha grinned back as she understood and reached down to fix the small object so it was no longer lumpy but huge and squishy.
"Jess." Deisha said loudly, giving him another good shake. "Jess there's some one who want's to see you."
Jesse groaned loudly and slowly opened his eyes. As soon as they were open all they way and he'd blinked away the blurriness of sleep, Jesse let out a loud howl and jumped up and away from the huge crocodile looking him in the eye, scampering backwards like a frightened crab. When he realized he was now sitting in Jim's lap he yelped loudly again and jumped to the empty other side of the tent and pulled his knees to his chest like a frightened child, his eyes darting back and forth between the huge croc and his friends, whom were all laughing hysterically.
"Needed some kinda reminder of me scaly mate, since I couln't bring 'er with me." Jim said through his laughter.
Jesse, only now realizing that the croc was an inflatable toy, sighed heavily and relaxed, his knees lowering again as he starred wearily at his friends.
"Very funny." He said sarcastically, though there was something pulling at the corners of his lips.
"But you know what's funnier?"
His companions all stopped laughing and blinked at him.
"What?" They asked in unison. Jesse grabbed something from beside him and hurled it.
The pillow hit Deisha square in the face, her being the one who'd woken him up so rudely. He then burst into laughter, clutching his stomach as he laughed hysterically now at Deisha's unamused face.
"That's it." Deisha said suddenly, grabbing the pillow and jumping up.
Jesse dove forward and the pillow she aimed at him ended up hitting Jodi in the face, causing the other girl to let out a loud 'oomph'.
"Oh it is on!" The tanned girl shouted loudly, a huge grin on her face.
Thus started the pillow war of the century as the four people continued to clobber each other at quarter to seven in the morning.
-;-
"Jay, that is really not a good idea. . . it's been in the heat since yesterday afternoon. ."
Jaden brushed away Syrus's concerns with a wave of his hand as he chowed down on one of the sandwiches from their cooler. Andi frowned at him.
"Syrus is right bebe. . " She said softly. "If it's spoiled you'll get really sick."
"You boff worry chew munch." Jaden replied over a mouth full of sandwich. The other three sweatdropped.
"Well, don't come cryin' to us, when you're heaving your guts up!" Rini said sourly as she crossed her arms, a very graphic description from the usually calm and collected duelist.
Syrus and Andi each made a face but Jaden kept chowing down without a second thought to his friends' warnings.
A few minutes later, when Jaden was just finishing off his second sandwich, four heads turned towards the tent door as it unzipped and a blue head poked itself inside.
"Hey, we're gonna head down to a brook Elija told us about yesterday for a quick wash." Jesse said, looking much more awake now then he did earlier. "Ya comin?"
Jaden stuffed the rest of his sandwitch into his mouth and nodded.
"Yea, commin'!" He said thickly over a mouth-full of food.
Jesse raised an eyebrow and gave the brunette an amused look before popping his head back out of the tent again.
The four inside the tent all grabbed their needed things and unzipped the tent the rest of the way before joining their friends outside.
"Cannonball!"
The girls shrieked and laughed as Jaden jumped off of the high cliff into the water. When he surfaced again, he was grinning widely.
"I didn't know there was a pond!" He said happily, laying back to float on top of the water. "I wonder why Elija didn't tell us about this."
Everyone smiled and giggled as they played and splashed in the water.
"I duno." Syrus replied happily. "Maybe he forgot."
Chazz slid into the water from his spot on a rock and dipped underwater, swimming over to Micha and popping up beside her. She screamed when he grabbed her waist and laughed when she turned around to look at him.
"You jerk!" She said playfully pushing his shoulders down and dunking him underwater. "You scared me!"
Chazz smirked as he surfaced and leaned into her face.
"Awe, I'm sorry. How about I kiss it all better?"
Micha giggled and pulled back from him.
"Hang on a second Romeo." She replied with a laugh, reaching out to him. "You've got pond week on your face."
The brunette took hold of the black blob on the pale cheek but her smile dropped and face paled when it came off Chazz's pale skin with a faint 'pop'.
Micha jumped back from her boyfriend and screamed.
"OMG! It's a LEECH!!"
Chazz's face paled too and he grabbed his girlfriends hand before bolting out of the water.
Everyone else blinked after the two for a moment, looked around at each other, then up and bolted out of the water as well, some screaming and flailing violently.
"EWW!! There's one on me too!!" Rini screamed, plucking the slimy black creature off her thigh. This was seconded by a few of her friends as boyfriends and girlfriends each helped each other pluck the disgusting creatures off of each other.
By the time everyone had plucked the leeches off of themselves and each other, they were all covered in tiny, round bites and bleeding.
"Now I know why Elija didn't tell us about the stupid pond!" Jodi grumbled angrily, rubbing an angry red mark on her arm. "That was so gross!"
Jim put his arm around his girlfriend and leaned down to press a delicate kiss to the top of her head as they walked with the rest of the group back to their tents.
"No worries, love, they're gone now." He said reassuringly. Deisha pouted as she looked over at him.
"That's easy for you to say!" She said indignantly. "You didn't get bitten once!"
Jim shot her a sheepish smile and shrugged, causing Deisha to snort humorlessly and walk ahead of him.
-;-
At around lunch time, when everyone had grabbed a quick lunch from whatever edible food was left in the coolers, they decided to head down to a lake Elija had been telling them about -- but only, of course, after the farmer had assured them it was leech-free and apologised profusely for not telling them about the pond, not thinking they'd wander far enough to find it.
"Well, this must be the canoe Elija was talking about." Jodi said with a sigh, looking over the canoe on the lake's bank.
"And there's the paddle boat!" Syrus cried a little excitedly.
"There's another canoe too!" Deisha said happily, pointing to a second canoe quite a ways off from the other two boats.
"We call the Paddle boat!" Jaden said playfully. The girls nodded.
"OK." Andi agreed. "You three take the paddle boat and we'll take the canoes."
And so, the group lifted the boats and waded into the water with them before climbing in. Jesse and Jim were back working on the car so Chazz, Jaden and Syrus were in the paddle boat while Micha, Rini and Jodi took one canoe and Andi, Rini and Deisha took the other.
"This is so much fun!" Micha called excitedly. "I've never been canoing before!"
Andi rolled her eyes at her best friend's girlfriend but a smile occupied her face nonetheless.
"Hey! I bet we can beat you guys to the other side of the lake!" Rini challenged playfully. Everyone else grinned.
"You're so on!" Jaden called back excitedly.
"Prepare to loose!" Deisha said with a smirk, readying her paddle. Andi grinned too.
"Watch as we leave you in our wake!"
Everyone laughed and got ready as Rini lifted her tiny hand in the air.
"One!" She shouted, folding down one finger.
"Two!... Three!... GO!"
Paddles and feet became colored blurs as the duelists all moved furiously to be in the lead, all laughing and cheering for their teammates as they flew over the lake.
Indeed, Andi and Deisha dominated most of the race as they flew past the others easily. However, somewhere around the middle of the lake, their efforts slowed and they found it harder and harder to paddle. The girls frowned and looked at each other in bewilderment.
"What's going on?" Deisha asked in confusion.
"I duno..." Andi frowned, paddling harder.
Soon enough, the other boats caught up and passed them and Jodi looked over her shoulder to call back playfully once they were a good ways ahead.
"What happened to leaving us in your wake girls?!" She teased playfully.
Deisha and Andi frowned again and paddled harder but they were barely moving now. It was at that point that Deisha caught sight of the source of their problem.
"You have got to be kidding!!" She exclaimed loudly. Andi looked up at her and blinked.
"What...?" She inquired, wondering what was wrong with her friend.
"We've got a leak!" Deisha cried, turning to look back at the girl behind her with a frown.
They blinked at each other for a moment then looked down at the floor of their boat and back up again.
"Bail!" They cried in unison.
The other two groups, neither of which had spotted the other boat's predicament, both reached the opposite side of the lake at the same time; and by the time they turned around, Deisha and Andi were both in the water, neither one of them looking to impressed.
"What happened?" Jaden called back at the two.
Deisha opened her mouth to call back but Andi's loud, angry scream beside her cut her off.
"I am so sick of this!!" Andi screamed at the top of her lungs, making the others jump as they blinked at her with scared faces. "I'm so sick of this stupid trip, this stupid place and of all our stupid plans going wrong!!"
The black-haired girl turned away from everyone and began swimming furiously back to shore. The others blinked at her.
"Where are you goin' Dee?" Jaden called after her again.
"Back to the tent!" Andi called back furiously, not bothering to look back or stop swimming. "Wake me up when the damn car is fixed and we're ready to leave!!"
Deisha sighed and began following her friend.
"Uh... where are you going Deisha?" Rini called in confusion, feeling a little guilty now for not having seen her friends and helped them.
"I'm going back too." Deisha called back, though not nearly as furiously or loud as Andi had. "I'm kinda getting sick of all this crap too. I think I'll go see if Jess and Jim need any help with the car..."
-;-
Andi trudged up to her tent in nothing short of a mild rage.
"Damn spikes!" She growled, thinking back to the first moment everything had gone wrong. "Damn gas! Damn hotel! Damn cars! Damn thiefs! Damn spiders and roosters! Damn leeches.... DAMN CANOES!!"
She yelled out again in frustration as she reached down and grabbed the zipper of her tent. Her rage flared to almost unbearable as the zipper came off in her hand. The big blue eyes closed and the girl took a few, very deep, very laboured breaths before climbing into the tent and shoving the cooler against the flap to keep it up. She quickly got changed into her pajamas, even though it was the middle of the day, then climbed out of the tent, hung her wet clothes on the low branches of a nearby tree and stalked back to the tent again. This time she shoved her bag against the entrance (in case someone came back, so they wouldn't hurt themselves against the much harder cooler, not knowing it was there), and plopped down into her sleeping bag, drawing it up over her head and blocking out the light as she attempted to work off her furry and rage with a nap.
-;-
Andi's eyes blinked open as she was awaken from her sleep by a quiet rustling and the feel of someone else's presence. Looking up at the entrance, Andi recognized her boyfriend's back as he fumbled with the broken zipper of the tent.
"It's broken." Andi said absently as she sat up to stare at Jaden. "Where is everybody else?"
Jaden continued to fumble with the zipper, obviously attempting to fix it, but he still answered Andi without looking at her.
"They're still down at the lake." He replied in a low mumble. Andi frowned.
"Are you upset with me?" She asked in concern. Jaden stopped fumbling and looked back at her over his shoulder.
"What? No, of course not, why would I be?"
This still came out in a low mumble and Andi's frown deepened.
"I don't know... but you sound... different. What's wrong bebe?"
Jaden turned fully around to look at Andi, making the girl gasp upon seeing his face.
"I'm not upset with you..." He said softly. "I just... really don't feel very good."
Andi bit the side of her cheek and reached out to touch the brunettes face, seeing and feeling that it was a little flushed and that he was pale and sweating slightly.
"Jay..." She whispered breathlessly. "You... look terrible..."
"Gee... thanks, Dee." Jaden said, forcing a small smile in an attempt to be playful. "I can feel the love..."
Andi's frown remained and she reached out to place her hands on the sides of his face and gently pull him forward.
"Lie down for a bit bebe." She said softly, encouraging him to do so with her hands.
The brunette sighed lightly and leaned forward as she instructed, placing his head in her lap and wrapping his arms around her waist. Andi's frown deepened as she laid back, propped up by the pillows behind her and gently stroked Jaden's hair as he drifted off to sleep.
-;-
Five duelists all laughed as they headed up from the lake, all joking and talking amongst themselves as they walked.
"We so beat you!" Micha said with a laugh. The boys laughed too.
"Only cause we let you." Chazz countered teasingly.
"Oh whatever!" Jodi exclaimed in mock indignance. "If it wasn't for-"
"Shhhhh!!" Rini shushed, causing the others to stop and listen like her as they came within a few meters of their tents.
"What is it?" Syrus asked curiously. Rini frowned.
"Sounds like someones in pain..." She replied in concern, instinctively heading for her tent.
When the small group reached the tent Rini, Syrus, Andi and Jaden shared, they pushed the flap aside and gasped, seeing the brunette with his head in the now nearly empty cooler, groaning while his girlfriend rubbed his back with a frown.
"UH!" Chazz suddenly exclaimed, turning away from the tent with disgust after seeing the contents of the cooler below Jaden. "I did NOT need to see THAT!"
Micha took a step back too, her hand going to her mouth as she appeared to look a little green around the gills too. Rini and Syrus frowned.
"What's wrong with him, Andi?" Syrus asked worriedly. Andi shook her head, eyes not leaving the brunette below her finger tips.
"I don't know..." She replied softly, her previous anger now long gone. "He's sick... obviously... but I'm not quite sure why -- though I think I have an idea... Do you think one of you could run and fetch Merilyn? I think she mentioned something about being a nurse the other day, didn't she?"
Rini nodded and a determined look crossed Syrus' face.
"I'll do it!" He volunteered as if it were a matter of life and death from which he may not return.
Without another word, Syrus turned and bolted away to find the woman in question while the others, even Chazz, looked back at the ex-Slifer worriedly.
Before long, Syrus returned panting with Merilyn hot on his heels, wearing a deep frown.
"Let's have a look here." The elder woman said, walking towards the tent as the teens parted the way for her.
She knelt down and lifted Jaden's miserable looking face to examine it, made note of the contents of the cooler, both that which had been there all along and that which... hadn't. After some time of examining the brunette, Merilyn sat back on her knees with a sigh.
"You poor thing." She said sympathetically. "As far as I can tell, and I'm quite sure I'm right, you've got food poisoning."
Jaden's tent mates all frowned deeper at this.
"We told you so!" They all said in unison. The brunette groaned but said nothing.
"So.. what do we do?" Andi asked in concern, still gently rubbing her boyfriends back.
"Well, for one thing, he needs to drink lots of water." Merilyn answered. "You also need to get him to eat... though I'm sure he won't want to; the blander the better, like toast or crackers or something. Also, don't give him coffee, fruit or anything spicy, that'll make things harder on him... Other then that, besides lots of rest, there's nothing else you can do besides wait it out -- not unless you wanna take him to the hospital where they'll drug him up..."
"No hospital!" Jaden mumbled unhappily.
Andi sighed and tilted her head to one side as she starred down at Jaden, the poor boy looking absolutely miserable.
Merilyn gave Jaden a sympathetic smile before standing up.
"You'll be alright, son." She said kindly. "You've got good friends to help you out."
With that said, Merilyn turned and left the small group alone.
After a long silence, Jodi sighed.
"I think I'm gonna go see if I can help Deisha and the boys.... feel better, Jay."
The tanned girl turned and left and the remainder of the people sighed.
"Well, there's not really much we can do..." Micha said sadly. "I think Andi should stay here with Jay and the rest of us should go into town and pick up some more groceries..."
Everyone nodded and Andi gave the brunette a gentle smile.
"Thank you... and could you please pick up a few jugs of water?"
Micha smiled back and nodded.
"Sure thing... come on guys."
Rini crouched down to give Jaden's hand a gentle squeeze while Syrus gently patted his back. Micha gave his back an affectionate rub and Chazz sighed before opening his mouth for his own well-wishes.
"Feel better slacker." He said bluntly, but the others knew this was something special coming from the stubborn and proud duelist.
With nothing else to say, the four people turned and left, leaving Andi to tend to her miserable boyfriend. She looked down at the cooler, made a face, then sighed and reached for one of the shopping bags containing her stuff. Upending it onto her sleeping bag, she placed it beside Jaden before closing the lid to the cooler and gently sliding it away from him.
"I'm... gonna go wash this out and try to clean it for the groceries arrive...." She said, trying not to gag. "You can use the bag if you need to.. ya know."
Jaden sat up, his hands on his legs and looked at Andi with a grateful expression.
"Thank you, Dee." He said a little hoarsely. Andi gave him a warm smile.
"What I wouldn't do for you." She replied playfully. "You're lucky I love you, bebe."
She then leaned in and pressed a tender, lingering kiss to his cheek, causing the brunette to close his eyes, savoring it.
"I love you too." He whispered, smiling at her again when she pulled away. Andi returned the smile before pushing the tent flap open and climbing out, dragging the offending cooler behind her.
-;-
It was very late when the four duelists got back from grocery shopping and it was too dark for the Jesse, Jim and their girlfriends to keep working on the car, so they all decided to turn in for the night.
After putting the groceries and newly acquired ice back in the cooler -- now cleaned and sterilized thanks to the help of Merilyn -- the teens all got settled away in their tents and decided to go to bed.
After getting sick a few more times and chugging back a whole gallon and a half of water over a period of time, Jaden seemed to feel a little better and decided he'd better settle down to sleep too.
Everyone cuddled up to their companions and settled down for a long and well-deserved snooze.
-;-
Jodi's nose wiggled like a rabbit's nose in her sleep as something fell on it. After a few more, her eyes finally blinked awake and she frowned up at the ceiling of the tent. After starring up into the near-darkness for some time, a big drop of water finally fell into her eye and she had to blink furiously to clear her vision again. With a frown, she turned to Jim and gently shook him awake.
"Jim... Jim... Jim, wake up."
Jim groaned softly before finally yawning and opening his eyes, looking over at his girlfriend through sleepy eyes.
"What is it Jo?" He asked through a yawn. Jodi frowned.
"We have a leak." She replied unhappily. Jim blinked at her.
"Really?" He asked, sounding a little surprised. Jodi nodded.
"Huh.. supposed to be brand new." He replied absently.
Jim sat up and grabbed an empty container near-by, one that had once contained a bunch of strawberries. He placed it in under the leak, then laid back down and wrapped his arms around Jodi, pulling her closer to him.
"Just haveta snuggle up a little closer to me, love." He said cheekily, scooting backwards slightly, causing Jodi to grin and snuggle up to him.
This movement seemed to stir the other two awake as Jim accidentally nudged Jesse, causing the blunette to look at him and blink tiredly.
"What's going on?" He asked through a yawn. Jim gave him an appologetic smile.
"Sorry, mate." He said gently. "Tryin' to get away from the leak."
Jesse blinked, slightly more awake now.
"There's a leek?" He asked curiously. Jodi sighed.
"Yea, there is."
Jesse looked thoughtful.
"Huh. Thought this tent was supposed to be brand new."
"That's what I said." Jim replied. Beside the blunette, Deisha groaned.
"Yea, cool, poor us, we've got a leak. That sucks. To bad we can't do anything about it. I say we ignore it and sleep."
The others in thew tent chuckled and pulled their partners close again before closing their eyes in an attempt to sleep again.
After quite a while, just when everyone had began to doze off again, something hit Deisha's cheek and her eyes snapped open to glare up at the ceiling.
"You have got to be kidding me!" She said irritably for the second time that day.
"What's wrong?" Jesse mumbled, still half-asleep.
"There's another one! Right above my head..."
Jesse sighed, reached past Deisha to grab another empty container, stuck it under the leak, then pulled his girlfriend closer to him like Jim had done with Jodi. Sighing in annoyance, Deisha cuddled up close to Jesse and buried her face in his chest, once more attempting to fall asleep again.
This time, the four didn't have time to doze before another drop fell on Jesse's face, then one onto Jim's. The four duelists sat up, now very cross and began sticking half-empty containers and plastic bags under the leaks in attempt to catch all the water. Soon enough, half the roof was leaking and Jodi sighed heavily.
"You know what?" She replied in frustration. "I don't think we have leaks, I just don't think this damn thing is waterproof..."
The others sighed in agreement and Jesse and Jim grabbed their jackets, managed to pin them to a small spot on the ceiling by tying the strings on them to the poles.
Now being very wet, the four duelists curled up uncomfortably under the small shelter and shivered against the cold now creeping into their very bones as they attempted, for the last time to get to sleep, despite their soaking wet clothes and tent and the freezing cold now surrounding them.