The Real Baker's Dozen Chapter 10: Morning Swims and Invitations, a total drama series fanfic

Chapter 10

Morning Swims and Invitations

I awoke the following morning tucked into bed, not having the slightest clue how I got there. My night was pretty much a blur, as if I had been hit over the head with a frying pan and now I had a big chunk of my memory missing.

I sat up in bed, immediately hitting my head on the top bunk. Luckily that blow didn't wipe out any more of my memory; that I knew of, anyway.

"OW!" I yelped, before covering my mouth, remembering I was now sharing a room with my six sisters.

I wasn't used to sharing a room; I had no memories of ever having to share a room, though I do suppose I had shared one with Dani and Stevie when we were very young.

I looked around, but everyone was still asleep. I was guessing that my family stayed quite late at the event last night, everyone seemed out of it.

I walked over to the mirror that was hung across the room from my bed, and noticed my cheek was slightly red. The memories from the previous night came flooding back to me as I put a hand on my scarlet mark. Luckily the pain had gone.

I didn't even bother coving it up though; I wasn't in the mood to stand in front of the mirror for a while, trying to hide what had happened.

"What's wrong with your cheek?" My father asked as soon as I walked into the room. I moved my hand back up to the mark in surprise, obviously fake surprise. I knew that it was there, but I was good at getting my father to believe I was telling the truth.

"I walked into the doorframe just now." I lied, referring to my screaming out in pain from where I had actually hit my head. "I'm fine, nothing to worry about, just a little scrape." I smiled at him, noticing that Shayne shot me a funny look out of the corner of my eye.

I took a seat beside my brother and took a slice of his toast, not really hungry, just wanting to take it.

"Why didn't you cover it up?" He whispered in my ear, still looking around the room to check that no one was looking at us.

"I don't need to." I whispered back, swallowing my mouthful of bread. It was true though, I didn't need to. I could get my parents to believe that I walked into the doorframe and it was none of my siblings business about what happened.

Breakfast was a drag as I sat and munched on tiny mouthfuls of toast that I bit off. I watched as each sibling came filing in one-by-one, all still half-asleep with bags under their eyes and pajamas still on their bodies.

As soon as all of my sisters were in the room, I quickly ran back to the bedroom. I wanted to be alone in there whilst getting dressed, not wanting any of them seeing what my plans for the day actually were.

I got changed into my black and purple bikini so I could go for a swim in the lake. I hadn't been for one yet, like a few of my siblings had done yesterday, so I wanted to try it out now.

I ran out of the door so fast that I fell into something, or more like someone.

The two of us went tumbling down the steps. I landed face down, but not in the dirt, into a t-shirt. They were the ones lying on their back in the debris.

I looked up and my eyes connected with Duncan's.

"I didn't know you wanted me this bad, Princess." He winked at me. My eyes must have widened because he chuckled as I scrambled back to my feet.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, smoothing out my body with my hands as if was still clothed.

"Thought I'd come see you." Duncan shrugged his shoulders as he too got up from the floor. I could see his eyes weren't on mine, more like scanning me up and down.

I wanted to slap him, but maybe he did deserve to see me in a bikini after saving me the previous night. My memory was still not at its best, but I knew Duncan had stopped Trent from hurting me again. Things would have gotten a lot worse if he hadn't had been there for me.

"Well I'm going for a swim, feel free to join me." I smirked, walking past him.

I could still feel his gaze on me as I sat down on the lakes edge and splashed a few small ripples in the water with my feet. I tried to make it as sexy looking as I could, though sexy has never been my forte.

But, I knew he wouldn't be able to resist me. Soon enough, he came over and took a seat beside me on the lake side. He ripped of his shirt, revealing his all too sexy body, and jumped in, sending a cool wave over my head.

I stared at him, my mouth dangling open as I pushed my now dripping wet hair from my face, but Duncan didn't seem to care.

He swam over to the edge again, resting his hands open my waist and pulling me in with him. I hit the water hard, barely missing landing on top of him.

"Duncan!" I screamed as my face broke the surface of the clear-blue water. It was such a lovely lake. I hadn't really been expecting it to be so nice. I had always pictured it as murky, a waste-fill for God-Knows-What.

"Yes?" He answered sly fully, circling me closely in the water. I could feel his hot breath on me and it just made me want to melt.

I giggled stupidly and mentally slapped myself when I realized I had. I was such an idiot sometimes.

Duncan took me by surprise, wrapping his arms around me and pulling me close to him. I wrapped my arms around his neck and placed my forehead against his. We both leaned in to kiss, but unfortunately didn't get anywhere.

"Ooooh, Courtney's got a boyfriend." Came Kyle and Drake's shrieks of laughter.

The two of us broke apart and looked over to the cabin where a few of my siblings were watching us. I death glared the twins and swam over the edge, making my brothers run away in fear that I would kill them. And, to be honest, I probably would have.

The fact that my siblings were spying on us, really pissed me off. I thought that going to the lake would have meant just a little bit more privacy to do what I wanted in peace. I was wrong.

Duncan and I got out of the lake. It was nice and relaxing, but it was absolutely freezing too.

We sat on the deck of my cabin to dry off since I had forgotten to even bring my own towel out with me, and the last thing I wanted to do was ask a family member to get one for me.

It was quite peaceful now that my younger siblings had all run off to do something better with their lives. It was a really nice scene that looked out, over the lake. A romantic scene.

Duncan and I leaned in to kiss again, but my mother came walking through the door. Typical, no privacy what-so-ever!

"Oh!" She exclaimed, noticing the two of us sitting on the wooden floor.

I didn't want to say anything, but I wanted her to just leave. I wanted all of my family to just leave and let me have a few moments of peace with Duncan alone.

I cursed under my breath and smiled up at my mother, instead.

I think she got the idea because she smiled back, turned around and walked back inside.

I turned back to Duncan, who was holding back his laughter. The two of really weren't ever going to get a moment alone together. I started laughing, finding that it was quite funny in the end, and Duncan joined in.

We laughed for a while and I was quite disappointed that the only time we did get privacy was when we were laughing. No one bothered us, no one came running out of the cabin. It was just the two of us, sat on the steps, laughing.

"Now, the real reason I came here was to invite you and your family over to my place tonight." Duncan explained once our laughing had died down.

"Why?" I asked, not completely understanding the situation.

"Because my parents have noticed that me and my brother have been spending a lot of time over here and at your place back home, so they wanted to get to meet you and your family." He told me. "And because it's my uncle's cabin I have my cousins over there too, so your brothers and sisters shouldn't be too lonely either."

"Sounds like a good idea." I smiled, honestly thinking it was. Or maybe it was that part of my brain that really wanted to be able to spend even more time with Duncan.

"I'll have to ask my dad first." I looked towards the front door of the cabin. "Come on." I said, standing up and holding my hand out to Duncan. He gave me a funny look, obviously not understanding why I wanted him to come with me, but he took my hand all the same.

The two of us walked into the cabin, quickly unlatching our hands once we realized my father was sat in the armchair right in front of us.

"Dad, can you call a family meeting?" I asked my father. He looked up at the two of us over the top of his newspaper, not looking so happy that we were together.

"What for?" He enquired, not sure what I was going on about. My father always liked to question what I was doing and why I was doing it. Messing up my life could have been fatal for him, so he always wanted to keep me on the right path.

"We have a proposal." I told him. He gave us both a look that said, 'what-are-you-up-to?', but got to his feet anyway. Maybe-Just maybe-he did trust me, after all.

"FAMILY MEETING!" He yelled.

All at once, thousands of footsteps bounced off the hollow walls as everyone came running into the room. No one was going to keep my father waiting, they weren't all that stupid.

Duncan and I stood up front as everyone looked towards us, preparing for us to make a speech or something. Shayne and Will came over and stood by us, already knowing what we were going to say apparently.

"You're telling them now?" Will asked his brother, him and my own walking past us to get to the other side of the room.

"Yeah." Duncan replied.

"Telling us what?" Robin asked. The little girl had appeared at my feet without me even realizing. She kept on staring up at me and Duncan, not even blinking. Robin did worry me sometimes.

"Well," Duncan started, slowly looking up, away from Robin's distractions. "My parents were wondering if you would all like to come over tonight for a barbeque." Duncan told my family.

"Where's your cabin?" Stevie asked, obviously wanting to know what damage she could do to it before the night was up.

"The one across the lake from here." Will said, pointing out the window with him thumb and straight to that white one Jake had been excited about when we had arrived.

"The big fancy one?" My brother sounded even more excited when he thought he had the chance to actually get to see the house.

"That's the one." The room was filled with whispers, everyone now excited to actually get to see a cabin that wasn't a dump like ours.

"Quiet!" My father shouted before turning to Duncan and Will. "I'd feel better if I spoke to your parents."

It was understandable from his point of view, but I was really hoping that he said yes. I think we were all hoping that he would say yes as, if there was one thing me and all my siblings could agree on, it was the fact that we all wanted a chance to get a look at an at least half-decent cabin on the lake side.

"Sure, our dad's out on the lake now." Will explained, still pointing his thumb towards the window. "I can go call him if you want." My father nodded his head and Will scooted past us all once again and out the door.

I was really hoping that things were going to go well. I had never met any of Duncan's family, beside Will, before. I was actually feeling quite nervous when I realized the first time I was going to meet his father I was more or less soaking wet and I looked like a mess.

Will soon returned and he wasn't alone.

Mr. Lewis was a middle-aged man, not young, but not old. Definitely younger than dad, at least. He had black hair and teal eyes like Duncan, but looked a lot more like Will.

His skin was slightly tanned, but that was from being out in the sun for probably all of the summer so far. Mr. Lewis was wearing a blue pair of swim shorts and a black vest top, but it didn't look as if he had been in the water.

"Hey." He said, extending an arm for my father. "Ian Lewis."

"Dave Baker." My father replied, shaking his hand sturdily.

"Will says you wanted to talk about tonight." Ian mentioned, motioning towards his son with his head.

"Yeah, I would have just felt better getting the details from you rather than the boys here."

"I know how you feel." Ian agreed, which I think proved we were off to a great start. "I want all of you to come over tonight at around eight-ish for a barbeque. I thought it would be a good idea since the boys spend a lot of time with your kids and I have my nieces and nephews over there too."

My father paused for a moment, causing us all to hold our breath, "Sounds like a plan."

We all breathed out a sigh of relief, smiling our head off at the thought of actually doing something with ourselves and as a family.

"I'll see you later then." Mr. Lewis smiled, ruffling Robin's hair as she hugged onto his leg as a thank you, before leaving our cabin.

A/N: Meh...This was just pure laziness on my part, I swear...

haha!

As promise, a RBD update for ya'll! hehe!

I am kind of getting lazy with my writing right now...I keep getting distracted! I've been writing this since 11:30-ish AM! IT'S NOT ALMOST 8:30 PM! =O!

But a big Thank You to Maddi, who doesn't actually read this story...BUT! She beta-read a bit of it via Skype...haha! Something went wrong with it, so instead of us video chatting, she could just see everything I was doing on my computer...LOL!

Sooo...Yeah...