"So how long are you gonna stay?" Snake asked Lilly who sat in between the boys with a regal smile on her face. Fin seemed rather besotted with her, in a child-like, crush sort of way. Lilly seemed to find it cute. Ivy found it annoying. She was sorely tempted to slap some sense into the boy, but she managed to refrain. Jack seemed rather interested in her, but he treated her more like a science experiment than anything more. Eight seemed to find her unbearably annoying, and steered clear as much as possible, while Snake and Fro found it absolutely hilarious that she was too stupid to pick up on half of the things they said and spent as much time as they could tormenting her.

Ivy herself couldn't believe that anyone could be quite as unintelligent as Lillian Walker. It was alarming and quite entertaining at the same time. But not only was the girl unbearably stupid, she was also self obsessed and shallow. The thing that Ivy disliked least about Lilly, although it sometimes seemed to inexplicably frustrate her, was her extreme infatuation with a certain D tent member, who Ivy herself had at one point been rather fond of. Of course, now that they were friends, it didn't bother Ivy in the slightest, and in fact she found it relatively amusing watching her zealous flirting. Not that Ace did anything to discourage her and Ivy didn't blame him. After all, Lilly, despite her many mental shortcomings, was quite pretty, and she could hardly blame Ace for being flattered. Sometimes however, Ivy would feel slightly annoyed that he was paying more attention to Lilly. She found it highly puzzling, because she was quite certain that she didn't like Ace as any more than a friend, and she simply put it down to her inner-attention seeker. Surely it was nothing to do with the fact that she had far from forgotten the extremely memorable events of her first week at Camp Green Lake, and how good Ace was at... But she didn't think about that anymore. You didn't think about kissing your friends. That was just creepy. She really should think about Ace less. She would be better to be focusing on the conversation.

"Not long" Lilly replied, looking at Ace out of the side of her eyes to gauge his reaction, "Maybe a week or two".

"Oh no" said Fro with an almost sickening smile, "You never stay long enough Lil".

"Yes, I know. But I get so bored here by myself all morning, I would hardly stay longer. With you boys" Ivy didn't miss the way she looked at her when she said the word 'boys', "out on the lake all day digging to Japan or god knows where, it gets boring around here".

"I think you mean digging to China" Fin corrected, smiling at her.

"No dear, I mean Japan. China's much too far away to dig to" Lilly corrected with a sympathetic smile. Ivy suppressed a groan and covered her face with her hands.

"I'm pretty sure they're about the same distance away Lillz" Snake said with a small grin.

"No silly" She giggled, "Japan's in Asia, and China's next to Australia". Ivy couldn't stop herself.

"Oh dear God" she groaned under her breath, standing up and smiling affectedly at everyone, "I'm going for a walk". She looked at Ace and he stood up.

"I think I'll come" he said with a small smile at the look on Ivy's face.

"Oh, honey do you have to go?" Lilly asked, batting her eyelashes at him. Ivy snorted and Lilly glared at her.

"Don't worry Lil, I'll be back before you know it" he winked and then much to Ivy's surprise, and not at all against her wishes, slipped his hand around her waist and guided her out of the Wreck room gently.

"Oh my god" Ivy groaned as soon as they were outside, "Do not take me back in there, or I'm going to kill her".

"I ain't so sure that's such a good idea Rock" Ace smirked, dropping his hand and walking off in the direction of the holes. His was where they always walked. It was altogether, rather aimless, but it was quiet out there, and there were no distractions.

"She's so stupid. I don't know how you can stand her" Ivy said seriously, rolling her eyes at the memory of the stunning geographical talents that her new found friend seemed to posses.

"So geography's not her best subject" he shrugged, "you could try bein' nice about it".

"Oh, geography's not her best subject huh? And what about yesterday, when she said something about Shakespeare being an artist"?

"Well he is in a way... if you think about it" he tried and Ivy raised an eyebrow at him.

"You've got to be kidding me"

"Why are you so angry at her?"

"Why are you always defending her?"

"Why are you jealous?" he had said it without even meaning to, and as soon as the words came out, he wished he could take them back. Her saw the sharp flash of anger in her eyes and waited for the rage to come. But it didn't. Ivy simply laughed weakly.

"I am not jealous of Lillian Walker" she said with a small smile. For once, Ace seemed to be stuck for words. He wanted to change the subject.

"No... No, I don't think you are" he came up with finally, and the strange thing was, he really meant it. Silence arose after that remark and Ace found that he was exceedingly annoyed at himself. He seemed to have an immense talent for screwing things up. He knew that this silence was far from an awkward one, but that wasn't the problem he was having right then. The problem was that every day, he seemed to be straying more and more into friend territory with Ivy, and he wasn't certain if that was where he wanted to go. He had thought before that maybe what he wanted was more than that, but now he didn't know. And he hated not knowing. Which made him annoyed at Ivy for making him confused. But he didn't want to be annoyed at her. He was happy with how they were. And she seemed happy too. So maybe this friend thing was a good idea, the best they'd had so far.

It was just that every day, he found himself remembering that day early in the morning, when Ivy had come over to his bed and... But he didn't want to remember that. He wanted to be friends with her. Good, solid friends, without any benefits whatsoever. It was just his over active memory, and his sex deprived brain making a bad combination. But all that could be sorted out now that Lilly was here. He could forget entirely about anything non-friendly to do with Ivy, and have a little fun while he was at it. Perhaps Lilly Walker was the best thing to happen to this camp since... since Ivy Stallone.

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Thank you guys for the reviews. I think I'v finally worked out why I don't get as many as most people do on each chapter. it's cos I update really fast. Like I do like three chapters a day so people haven't even read the chapter and there's another one up... That or I'm just writing a really boring story lol.

Childhood-disruption- haha good guess, you would be extremely right if you thought that she liked Ace.

Beautiful Seclusion- thanks lol, I didn't even realise it was that funny. And since it's not important, I'll explain now, Lilly doesn't knw owho everyone is because she only comes once or twice a year and the last time she came Ivy, Fin and Jack weren't there.

Kaity B- Are you really from Australia? Thats so cool, Im way jealous, I always wanted to live there, I love your accents. and thanks, but again, I didn't even know that it was that funny... maybe I'm just insane.

InsanexKoneko- Um, you're pretty good at those one word reviews LOL, but thanks anyway. And yep, mega competition

I might not update for a f ew days so more people have time to review and tell me about the running away thing.

cheers everyone

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Bee