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"This is bullshit." Rachel bitched quietly.
"We didn't even get to the good stuff." Noah added, resting his head on the wall behind the plastic chair he was sitting in.
Peyton cut her eyes to the boy, before deliberately pointing at Brooke, who was passed out on the floor beside Ashley, her sand covered locks a tangled mess on the curvy girls lap.
Noah rolled his eyes before taking a cigarette from his pocket and placing it between his lips.
"What the hell are you doing?" Kate hissed from her place beside him-sadly. "Do you want us to get into even more shit than the already huge pile we're in."
"Do you see me lighting it." He replied with a smart-ass tone.
"You are such a dick." Haley ground out from her place on the floor, Nathan sitting on the chair behind her. Not like it mattered, she sulked to herself, he hadn't talked to her since that whole scene at the beach and then they'd gotten caught by those two bloody men and were all frog marched back to the camp. And now they were all waiting in the main office, there were only six chairs so the rest of the group were scattered about the floor, or in Lucas' case, leaning against the wall.
He ran a hand over the strip of hair that ran from the front to the back of his head. "Actually I have a dick, I'll happily show you." Puck smirked, watching Nathan's knuckles turn white as he gripped the arms of his seat. "And did you not see your boyfriend trying to kill me earlier? He's the dick."
Her eyes flashed angrily. "Maybe if you'd kept your goddamn mouth shut he wouldn't have had to."
Peyton let a small impressed smile curve her mouth from her spot beside the fiery brunette. Go Bambi.
"The kitten's got claws." Rachel's mouth lifted up at one side in her version of a smile, but it was more of a sneer.
"Fuck off." Haley muttered, turning her attention onto the dozing girl beside her. She had no idea why she was so pissed off. She probably should have been slightly scared of what she saw earlier, Nathan's hands tightening so hard on Puck's throat the boy found it hard the breathe, but she wasn't. She just found herself been pulled even more into the moving time bomb that was Nathan Scott.
"Is she okay?" Clayton asked, leaning forwards to rest his elbows on his knees from his seat in-between the two larger boys.
Ashley stroked a strand of Brooke's hair from her mascara stained cheek. "I don't know."
"She'll be fine." Haley assured, removing the red heels from the brunettes sand covered feet-how the hell did Brooke manage to get all this stuff in here? "She's just sleeping it off."
Clay nodded, a questioning look in his eyes as to how she knew, watching Ashley's fingers as they began combing through the lifeless girl hair.
"What the hell is taking so long." Julian sighed, running a hand down his tired face.
"She's probably deciding where to hide our bodies." Chase spoke, the people who were listening looking at him in shock.
"Dude." Kate said, her big blue eyes set on him. "That is the un-weirdest thing I've ever heard you say."
Chase's face went pale, as if he hadn't realised he was talking out loud and quickly looked down at his shoes.
"Weird." Kate muttered under her breath, kicking at a fluff ball that blew out from under her chair.
Everyone was quiet for the first time since they'd entered the room and it was then that they heard the muffled noises coming from behind the closed door- angry noises.
Suddenly the wooden door swung open, and a devilished Cass appeared on the other side. Her usually poker straight blonde bob was sticking out in every direction and her face was make-up less and she had large green wellies pulled up over her pyjama pants.
Her sharp blue eyes looked at each one of them individually. "Well?"
They blinked back at her.
"For a group of children who like to run their mouths you're awfully quiet."
"We're not children." Rachel spoke back, her arms folded across her chest in defiance.
"Delinquents, then." She snapped back. "We've had kids leaving their rooms at night after hours. But never have we had a group of them down at the beach getting drunk." She seethed. "Do you know how stupid that was? Drinking down at the beach, right next to the water? Anything could have happened."
Cass shook her head, pinching the bridge of her nose between her fingers. "How the hell did you even manage to get all of that from the storage room" She asked, not really expecting an answer. "Someone's got to be the mastermind behind all of this."
No-one looked at her but they were all thinking the same thing. The mastermind was currently out cold on the hardwood floor.
When the silence stretched on and onto damn uncomfortable Cass sighed tiredly. "I cannot deal with all of you right now. Matt and Carl will escort you back to your cabins and in the morning you will all meet me in the meeting room before breakfast and I'll give you your punishment.
Puck scoffed.
Cass walked towards him, and slowly took the cigarette that was hanging from his bottom lip and snapped it in two.
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, Noah."
Haley pinched Peyton's side as she could practically feel the mocking laughter bubbling in to the blonde's throat.
"I am very disappointed in all of you." Cass sighed but was simply met with defiant stares. "Now go to bed and get some rest. You'll need it."
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"Brooke, I'm warming up to you, really, but do you mind not squeezing my boob." Haley said, laughing at herself as the brunette she and Peyton were dragging along the dark path's hand accidentally grabbed the smaller girls chest. Or on purpose, it was Brooke.
"I wouldn't mind."
She flipped Puck the bird as he smirked at her over his shoulder.
"God, for such a small person she weighs a ton." Peyton grumbled, Brooke's shoes clutched in her right hand as her left was around the girls waist, Haley's right hand overlapping hers as she gripped the brunette's other hip.
"It's all the hair spray." Haley quipped, almost tripping over one of the girls now slightly muddy feet.
"Or all that ass." Rachel sneered.
"Watcha' gonna do with all that junk all that junk inside your trunk..." Kate sang, shaking her behind wildly in front of Peyton, Haley a barely-there Brooke and Rachel.
Rachel rolled her eyes as the blonde started to shake her way to her. "Whatcha' gonna do with alllll that ass, all that ass inside them jeans?"
Finally sick of the ass trying to move against her thigh Rachel made a growling noise in the back of her throat as she pushed passed Kate and made her way to the front of the group.
Kate's eyes followed her slim back. "I'm beginning to think she doesn't like me."
Haley laughed and Peyton gave a small smirk.
Noticing that only on person was walking behind everyone else Haley decided to bite the bullet and made Kate take Brooke's left side as she dropped behind them, coming into step with the tense faced boy.
"Only been a day and we're already arguing like an old married couple." Haley tried as she walked, two of her quick steps to keep up with one of his long strides. "Not that I would ever want to be married at this age. Seventeen and engaged; she must be pregnant."
He didn't even try to look like he was listening to her so she rolled her eyes. "Are you still mad about what happened at the beach?"
Nathan's dark eyes snapped to hers.
"Okay, fine." She held up her hands in defence. "Why did you get so angry anyway?" She continued, her hands moving in front of her, the sleeves of her jumper falling past her fingertips. "Puck just tries to get a rise out of people-it's probably why he's here."
Nathan sighed, and despite the hard set of his jaw he gripped her elbow softly, slowing them down even more. "That's why I'm here, too."
She raised an eyebrow. "I've not one seen you say something mean to anyone- well, except Noah-"
"No." He almost laughed at the confused frown she wore, lines appearing in her forehead. "I'm here because I have a temper."
Her lips formed a small 'o' of realisation and her mind flashed back to earlier that day when he answered the door to her and Ashley, he had looked as if he wanted to kill someone.
"You have an anger problem."
"A temper." He corrected, hand still on her elbow as they walked.
"But in all the time we've spent together-which I'll admit, isn't a lot." Haley smiled, earning herself a somewhat smile from him. "You've never gotten angry or snapped at me." She said, not understanding how someone who was so funny and down to earth to her had been the same someone who had almost chocked Puck at the beach.
As he turned his head down to look at her she suddenly realised just how much taller he was than her, but she liked it.
"I don't feel like that guy when I'm with you."
She twisted her lip and bit the inside of her cheek to stop the beaming smile she could feel threatening to curve her mouth as he repeated those same words she had mere hours before.
"Then I guess your stuck with me." She joked and he gave her one of those piercing looks and she prayed that he couldn't see her bright red face in the darkness.
"Right!" One of the two older men shouted. "Boys with me. Girls with Matt."
Everyone grumbled as they separated.
"Come on lover boy, you'll see her tomorrow." Someone called and both teens turned to find Clayton grinning at them.
Nathan told him to get lost with a hand gesture and Haley pushed at his broad chest-which was rock solid, she realised as her palm pressed against his hoodie. "Don't kill anyone." She smiled over her shoulder as she walked away.
"Don't snort anyone." He returned with as he followed the boys in the opposite direction she was going in.
After flipping him off Haley went to help Peyton, who was trying to stop a now slightly awake Brooke from running back after the boys, her elbow still tingling.
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A dull throbbing in the back of her head woke her up and she moaned into her pillow while prying her eyes open, her mascara from the previous night having stuck them together.
"Oh God." She mumbled as the sunlight went straight through her eye and into her brain, making the dull throb turn into a full on pounding. "Eugh."
"Isn't it a lovely morning."
"It really is."
"So bright."
She would kill them.
"It just makes me feel like... singing." A third voice joined in. "...I feel pretty. Oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gayyy..."
Recognising the song the first voice chimed in. "And I pity. Any girl who isn't me today, I feel charming. Oh so char-"
"I swear I will rip out all of your voice boxes." A raspy voice warned.
"Well you could." Someone said, her weight dipping Brooke's mattress slightly. "But that involves moving."
The brunette groaned, ignoring Peyton's ass that was half sitting on her pillow.
Haley and Kate clambered on the tiny bed as well.
"Do not sing." She warned them and the two girls' grins were angelic. "My head is pounding." She stretched her lips into a frown, pressing her palm against her forehead.
"The Come Down." Haley nodded in sympathy, patting the brunette's toned thigh.
"Come Down of what?" She blinked, fighting the urge to shut her eyes and hide under her blankets.
All three girls looked at each other. "How much do you remember of last night?" Peyton asked.
Brooke looked at the bunk above hers, scrunching her nose in concentration. "I remember everyone turning up at the beach and talking to Lucas."
"You mean, 'annoying' and 'Broody'." Haley teased.
Brooke groaned. "Your voice is annoying." She felt someone flick her ankle, which was sticking out of the covers. "Go away and let me sleep."
"Sorry no can do, we have to go over to the meeting room and find out our fate."
The half asleep girl's eyes widened and her eyebrows reached her hairline.
Peyton rolled her eyes at Haley's dramatics and explained. "Well after you turned into happy Brooke last night- actually, you'd conked out by the time Nathan turned all caveman and almost choked Puck to death while defending our little Haley's honour."
Said 'little Haley' made a face. "He did not almost kill him. He let go in plenty of time."
Then she added. "And he was not defending my honour'." She mocked.
"Anyway, he stormed off, and she ran after him and they ran right into two of the male counsellors." Peyton twisted a lock of her hair straight before letting it ping back into it's natural curl. "Then we all got marched into the office and then Cass came out and gave us a bolocking."
"You were unconscious on the floor for all of this." Kate added, grinning madly.
"And now we have to go to the meeting room so she can yell at us some more and give us our punishment." Peyton finished with a pageant smile.
Brooke blinked as her three roommates stared back at her.
"I guess I better get dressed then."
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"I cannot believe you spent thirty minutes washing your hair." Kate announced, again, as she power walked along with her roommates towards the meeting room.
"Oh my God." Haley sighed, they had been having the same argument back and forth since they'd left the cabin ten minutes ago.
"If I don't wash it a certain way it goes frizzy." Brooke said, self consciously smoothing down her towel dried hair.
Peyton reached the door first and pressed hard onto the bar to open it, Haley hot on her heels while Brooke and Kate continued to bicker behind them.
"Ladies." Cass said, already sat down while everyone else faced her. "You seem to have trouble been on time." She said, referring back to the first group meeting they had. "Take a seat." She ordered. "Miss Davis." Her blue eyes flickered over the brunette. "Nice to see you conscious."
Brooke returned the woman's sarcastic smile before walking over and taking a seat.
"Sore head?"
"Go fuck yourself." She snapped in a quiet voice, the harsh tone still clear, making Lucas Roe smirk to himself.
Haley sat behind Chase, sneaking a look at the boy beside her.
"So, threaten or beat anyone up in the few hours since we parted ways?"
Nathan gave her a dirty look, but the side of his mouth twitched.
Clay leaned forward from the other side of the tall boy. "Just be glad Puck sleeps in a different bunk from him."
Haley laughed quietly as Nathan glared at Clay, his dirty blonde hair sticking up at the front.
"Right." Cass called, getting everyone's attention. "We all know why we're here. Last night you disobeyed every rule that we have. And probably a few that we don't. So, tonight after dinner you lot are going to scrub every square inch of the cafeteria room."
"But it's humungous." Peyton pointed out.
"Exactly." Cass smirked back. "And the kitchen. Inside every oven and drawer. Every bit of cutlery-"
"Sorry." Brooke interrupted, ignoring Cass' blazing blue eyes. "But I wasn't even conscious half of the night, so really, I shouldn't be punished for-"
"You'll be punished, Brooke." The woman said firmly. "The reason you weren't conscious was because you were inebriated."
The brunette fought the urge to roll her eyes, instead crossing her leg over the other and folding her arms across her chest defiantly.
"So is that it?" Noah asked. "We just clean the canteen."
Cass turned to the boy with the Mohawk. "For now." She then stood up. "You better get to breakfast before there's nothing left. Don't leave the cafeteria after dinner tonight, I'll come and meet you with the supplies you'll need." And with that she was heading for the door. "Oh, and you all have a group counselling session today."
"Counselling?"
"Yes." Cass replied, noting the blank faces looking back at her. "I'm guessing none of you read the information leaflet. Every Sunday you will have a session with one of our counsellors. Now go eat and be back here for 9o'clock. Sharp." She cut her eyes at the four girls who had turned up late. And with that she was gone, the heavy door banging behind her.
Everyone was silent, until-
"What's a counselling?"
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Okay so i should not be updating, I'm having a little trouble writing chapter 11. But I have it all planned out, it's just the writing it out part that's hard. I have the next chapter written and I will update it next week if I get the next couple written but I will deffinitely have it uploaded before i go on holiday on the 5th. Thank you all so much for reviewing(: seriously, so glad people are liking this story.
Oh and just a quick note, my laptop broke ages ago, it make have something to do with me loosing the head a little and cracking the screen - anywho, I was using my mams but now hers is broken so i am currently using my grandads, but i wont be able to use it that often so it's hard to get anything written, but once i get back from holiday i am going to buy myself a new laptop. But as i said i will update this before i leave. And one more thing, anyone reading the YCAGWYW sequel, 'Almost Everything' I've decided to take it off because I don't think anyone really likes it so I'm gonna work on it and maybe post it again. I'm not sure.
