Duncan jumps down and has me come down with him, I avoid stepping on Harold's skid marked underpants. DJ and Geoff have been considerate to keep their stuff away and clean since I've practically moved into their side of the cabin. And also since Courtney has kicked me out of that side of the cabin.
Duncan gets down and begins to do his morning push up and I've taken to sitting on his back as he does it. He doesn't seem to have any problems with me on his back.
Duncan continues his push ups, I look down from his back to see a piece of Harold's dirty undies in front of Duncan's face. Duncan breaths in a couple times, then gasps finally noticing Harold's underwear in front of him
Duncan jumps back, throwing, me to the floor "Ugh," I groan and sit up. DJ and Geoff laugh at Duncan's reaction.
"Not cool, Harold man," Duncan says loudly to Harold. "Not cool."
"Those aren't mine," Harold denies, and Duncan stands up. Duncan helps me up.
"Oh, right," Duncan says and wraps his arm around me. "You're always leaving your gitch lying around, you gotta stop Kaiya sleeps in here now."
"No, I'm not. Gosh," Harold says sitting up. "And maybe if Kaiya, wasn't so mean to everybody, Courtney wouldn't have kicked her out of the girls side of the cabin."
"Really Harold, is that what you really think about me," I say going over to Duncan's dresser, and pull out some of my clothes. "I'll see you guys later," say and make my way to the bathroom to get dressed.
After I got dressed Chris called us all to the beach to tell us about the challenge for this week " Todays challenge with test your mind, your team work and your skills in the kitchen," Chris says.
"Yes!" I cheer and smile brightly up at Duncan. "This challenge is totally to my advantage."
Chris looks at me oddly and continues "You will be cooking a three-course meal, and serving it to me for tasting." Chris says "The winners get a reward, the losers will send someone home." Chris tells us.
"Each team will appoint a head chef to create the theme of the meal and to oversee the cooking." Chris says. "To cook you need ingredients, every morning a truck brings us food todays task starts there," Chris tells us and a truck comes up out of the lake with a dolphin driving it. What the hell.
Duncan, Geoff, DJ and I look inside the truck. "We could do a killer Italian theme." Geoff tells us.
"Hello head chef." Duncan says.
I look toward Geoff "I know some really great Italian drinks to go with the meals," I tell him.
"Awesome that means you're in charge of drinks," Geoff tells me.
I nod and climb in, grabbing a crate I start collecting everything for the three drinks I'm going to do: Raspberry syrup, vanilla syrup, 3 bottles of sparkling water, a jug of milt, lemons, basil simple syrup, sugar, cornstarch, cocoa powder. I start putting them into the crate I got adding a couple other things for garnish.
"I'll see you in the kitchen," I says and kiss Duncan softly, and head toward the kitchen. I put my crate down on one of the counters next to a burner, claiming that area as my work space.
The guys come in carrying all the stuff we need for the Italian theme "okay. We got, like three courses and seven people." Geoff says. "And Kaiya is already taking care of drinks, so everybody partner up."
DJ and Bridget got the pasta sauce and pasta, Sadie and Harold got the antipasto, which leaves Duncan and Courtney doing dessert. Duncan and Courtney glare and each other when they have to partner up.
Duncan looks to me pleading with his eyes, "Sorry Duncan I can't do any thing Geoff is head chef not me," I tell him and kiss him on the cheek.
Going back over to my station I start on the Italian Lemonade pulling out the ingredients I need. I'm doubling everything, so I can share with the rest of the team during lunch and after the challenge.
Four cup of lemon juice which equals to squeezing the life out of thirty of them. I start immediately and cut each lemon in half squeezing the juice into a pitcher with a strainer to keep the pulp and seed from getting into the lemon juice.
After about half an hour I finish with the lemons adding the sparkling water and Basil simple syrup. I mix everything together and put half of the lemonade into another pitcher for the team. I put both pitchers into the fridge.
Harold bumps into DJ who had a pot of water in his hand. DJ accidently on purpose spills the water on Harold's pants. What are the guys up to now.
"Hey! Smooth move, dork-ahontas," Harold says glaring at DJ.
"Oh, bummer," Geoff says "better go change dude."
Harold walks out of the kitchen and back to the cabin. I turn to DJ and Geoff. "What are you guys up to this time?" I ask them.
"Just a little something to get him back for saying what he did this morning," Duncan says behind me, I turn towards him and he pulls me into a short kiss.
"You know it fine right, Harold was jus speaking his mind," I tell him and pull away going back to making the drinks.
The three guys that are here all say I know and go back to what they were doing. I start setting things out for the Italian raspberry cream soda, and I realize I forgot the raspberries that I wanted to add. "I'll be right back," I say and run out to the truck and grab a three containers of raspberries.
Two for the drink and one for me to snack on. I walk back into the kitchen and see Harold in a red men's thong. My eyes widen and I gag just a little bit, I quickly turn and head back to where I was working.
Starting on the cream soda which only takes me a couple minutes I add he raspberry syrup, the vanilla syrup and the club soda into a pitcher large enough for everyone. Adding two of the three small containers of raspberries to it I mix it all up and top it off with some milk.
I walk over to Duncan and watch him roll out some pastry dough, while Courtney mixes some custard it seems to me like they're making connolies. "Hey Duncan, Courtney, do you want some chocolate to drizzle over them when they're finished," I ask.
Courtney looks apprehensive but nods. "Okay I'll do that while I work on the Cioccolata Calda," I tell her.
"What," She asks.
"It's Italian for hot chocolate, I'm going to be doing an Italian hot chocolate," I tell her.
"I think it's hot that you can speak Italian," Duncan tells me.
"Ebbene si ringraziare il mio sexy ribelle di un fidanzato," I purr at him in Italian and kiss him, before getting to work on the chocolate drizzle and hot chocolate.
I work on this, I get into my own little world and miss everything around me except for when Geoff gets out the lemonade I made for everyone and Duncan sets down a sandwich and a glass of lemonade next to me.
I murmur a thank you, and he kisses my head. I eat as I work making sure nothing burns of curdles. The cooking part of the challenge in just about finished when finish the chocolate drizzle and the hot chocolate.
I take the chocolate drizzle of the burner, and walk it over to Duncan and Courtney. "It looks good you two and here is the chocolate drizzle I promised the two of you," I say and set it down next to the connolies.
"Thanks babe," Duncan says and kisses me softly on the lips. I smile and give him a kiss back. Geoff and I go out and begin to set thing up for Chris, I get two glasses and the two soft drinks for the first two courses.
"Don't drink these now," I tell Chris and pour the two drinks over ice in each of their glasses. "The lemonade is for the appetizer and the raspberry cream soda is for the main course, I will have the last beverage come in with the dessert." I tell him.
Harold and Sadie come out with the antipasto, and set it in front of Chris. They both come and stand next to me with the rest of the team. We watxh Chris devour the antipasto. "Your antipasto passed the test-o," He says and takes a sip of the lemonade. "Very good, best lemonade I've ever had."
Chris asks for the pasta and we slid the pasta in front of him. He digs into it and every few bites he takes a sip of the raspberry cream soda. He finishes it and looks at all of us. "On a scale of 1 to 10, 15!," he tells us. "How will the Gophers respond."
And Owen come out with a platter of rib bones with no meat on them. "Yeah this looks likes it's, uh, been eaten," Chris says.
"Not all of it," Owen says. "I think there's a tiny chunk left on that bone over there."
Chris picks the chunk of and pops it into his mouth "you know what I've had worse," Chris says. "Two points, ooh, close, Owen but the Bass still lead 15-11." he says "Time for dessert."
Courtney and Duncan bring out the connolies and I set down the Italian hot chocolate down with it. Chris be eats and ends up guzzling down the hot chocolate. "Eh six, but the hot chocolate was fantastic," He says. "The Bass have 21, so the Gophers need all 10 points just to tie it up."
Lindsey and Gwen bring out some Flambe "And I have to say this dessert looks like a winner," Chris says and pokes at it with his fork and it turns to dust, the one chunk he got on his fork he eats, and ends up choking on it.
Owen does helps Chris out and he coughs up the chunk of flambe. "what is that," Chris says and pick the piece of food up that he choked on.
"It's Heather's recipe," Lindsey says and she gasps "oh, my gosh she's still in the fridge," She says and runs out to let her out.
I look up at Duncan "what all happened today, I zoned out while I was cooking?" I ask.
"A lot," he says and kisses my temple. "I'll tell you later, back in the cabin."
Heather comes out blue as can be with some bulky looking eyebrows. "You guys are s-s-s-o dead," She says shivering. "is it over."
"it is, and the Bass win 21 to 12," Chris says and we all cheer. Duncan picks me up and we go back to the kitchen to have some of the left over food. We eat our fill and head back to the cabin.
Duncan tells me what all went on today, and I get an idea. I tell the boys except Harold. So the next morning everyone is out in the lake or in a canoe.
Harold wake up with his bunk on the dock, he gets up butt naked. "Good Morning Harold," all of the girls say. And Harold looks down and covers himself with a pillow.
Duncan, DJ, and Geoff come by in a canoe with a bag of Harold's clothes. After some begging on Harold's part he finally admits his faults and the boys throw him his clothes and he runs back to the cabin.
Swim towards the boys and lean up as Duncan bends over and I give him a kiss. "We won't be having anymore problems with him." I say.
A/N: I know I skipped around a bit this chapter, but I wanted to focus on Kaiya today. I'm sure you understand.