So I'm on my way to the resort that I'm going to be residing in for the next few weeks. My parents sent me here to be a part of the show, because they were tired of me staying home when I'm not with the track team. My parents told me it would be my 'gift' for my birthday.
I look up from my book and see my destination approaching. I squint my eyes looking closer; this does not look like a resort. I stand up as the boat starts to slow down as we get closer to the island. I look down at my shorts and snug white T-shirt, that doesn't hide the size of my rather shapely breasts.
The boat stops in front of this crappy island with a campground. I grab my duffle bags and throw them on to the dock. "And here's lucky camper number three Harlow our girl all the way from California," Chris the host of the show says.
"Nice place Chris," I say sarcastically as I walk past him.
"I know right," He says back happily. I walk over to the other two contestants that are here. I study both of them: a short brown haired girl with braces and a tall masculen guy.
"Hi I'm Beth," the girl with braces said and I gave her a small wave in return.
The tall guy holds his hand out and introduces himself as DJ. I give a small smile and shake his hand telling him my name. 'we're going to get along just fine.'
The boat comes back which means another person is here. A petite girl with dyed hair steps off the boat. "whats up Gwen," Chris says to the new girl.
"You mean we're staying here?" Gwen asks.
"No you're staying here, my crib is down that away with A/C," Chris says sticking his thumb behind him.
"Son of a bitch," I say to myself.
"I did not sign up for this," Gwen says, while I pull out my book and start reading again, still listening to everything around me.
Chris go on that we signed up for this, while I just read my book. "Hey you, the one with the book, pay attention," Chris says, looking at me making me groan as I put my book away.
Next comes a blonde guy with a hat and a pink shirt, "Chris Mclean it's an honor to meet you man," the blonde says fist bumping with Chris.
"The Geoff-ster welcome to the island man," Chris says and I roll my eye at him.
"They say man one more time, I'm going to puke," Gwen says to DJ, Beth, and I. I look at her nodding in agreement. Geoff walks over joining our group, I wave at him, trying to be nice. He also towers over my 5'5 form just like DJ.
A blonde girl steps off the boat and Chris introduces her as Lindsey. "Hi you look so familiar," Lindsey says. Complete airhead, just as I thought.
"I'm Chris Mclean," He tells her and she still looks confused. "The host of the show."
"Oh that's where I know you from," Lindsey says, finally getting who Chris is.
I look over to Gwen and whisper "Airhead."
Gwen laughs and I smirk still looking and the blonde. The next person comes out and with a bitchy look on her face steps on to the dock. "Heather," Chris says and Little Miss Bitchy walks past him.
Beth runs up to Heather and waves enthusiastically "Hi! it looks like we're you new friends, For the next 8 weeks," Beth says spit flying everywhere and Heather cowers away from the drops.
Everyone looks up when we all hear heavy rock music playing as the boat approaches. A hot guy with a neon green mohawk and piercing steps off the boat looking very familiar. "Duncan dude," Chris says,
"I don't like surprises," Duncan says, and I realize who it is. He was my best friend when he lived down in Cali. He went to Juvie and moved to canada. After he moved I realized I liked him a lot more than a friend. Seeing him again shows me I never stopped liking him.
"Yeah you're parole officer warned me about that man, he also told me to give him a holler anytime and have you returned to juvie." Chris says.
Duncan sniffs "okay then," he says not caring. Duncan walks over looking at me.
"Duncan, is it really you, I haven't seen you in ages, I'm the girl that lived next door before you were sent to juvie," I tell him and his eyes widen.
"Well if it isn't my favorite shorty," He says, smirking at me. I watch as his eyes roam over my body, "well you sure filled out," he tells me, his eyes still roaming.
I smile and put my hand on my hips and say "Are you just going to stand there and stare or are you going to give me a hug."
He nods walking over and hugging me. "I missed you," he whispered in my ear, his hot breath making me shiver.
"I missed you too," I say, giving him a final squeeze then releasing him. He puts his bag with the others, before coming back and putting his arm around my shoulder.
We both watch as the rest of the contestants arrive. Tyler arrives water skiing and wipes out landing in all of our bags. One suitcase flies off landing in the water with a splash soaking Heather.
"Uhg my shoes," Heather screams out while I'm laughing at the scene.
"Wicked wipe out man!" Chris yells over to Tyler. I laugh harder still looking at Heather pissed off dripping face.
Next comes Harold, I'm going to try and avoid him. Harold says something about the scenery helping his skills, whatever that means. I don't really care about what Chris has to say I'm just going to learn everyone's names and leave it at that unless they end up on the same team as me.
Trent, our ninth contestant talks to Chris about some figure skating show. "I saw that one of them dropped their partner on her head, so they got immunity that week," Beth says.
"Lucky I want to be dropped one my head," Harold says.
"Me too," Lindsey says, agreeing with Harold. I chuckle and shake my head.
"I hope I'm the one to do it," I whisper to Duncan, making him chuckle, as he agrees with me.
Next comes Bridget with her surfboard, and Duncan makes a sarcastic comment about it. I elbow him and he looks down at me and I shake my head.
Bridget hit Chris on the head with her boards and I start laughing when he yells out, "Ow! darn it that hurt."
Bridget walks over saying hi and Geoff attempts to flirt with her. She turns swinging her board around making us duck so we don't get hit. Beth says hi and Bridget turns to face her, making us duck again.
"Okay we've all met surfer girl, can we get on with the show please," Heather says impatiently as she wrings out her hair.
"Someone missed their double cappuccino macchiato this morning," Duncan says, making me laugh.
"Get bent," Heather says with her hands on her hips.
"Why don't you," I shoot back and she just glares at me. And I smirk right back, Duncan pats my back making me smile at him.
"Our next camper is Noah," Chris says clutching his head.
"Did you get my memo on my life threatening allergies," Noah says walking past Chris. Noah gives off this feeling that he's better than everyone else and I immediately don't like him.
"I'm sure someone did," Chris says offhandedly.
"Good is this where we're staying," Noah says.
"No it's your mother house and we're throwing a party," Duncan says letting me go and cracks his knuckles looking at the boy.
"Cute, nice piercing original do them yourself," Noah says in his already annoying monotone voice.
"Yeah you want one," Duncan says, grabbing Noah's lip, as he holds up a needle. I pat Duncan on the back he hasn't changed all that much except physically wise.
"No thanks, can I have my lip back please," Noah says and Duncan lets go of his lip "Thanks."
Duncan wraps his arm around me again and I rest my head on his shoulder. Our next competitor is a busty black girl with a cool attitude. I think we may get along. "What's up Ya'll LaShawna in the house," the girl says from the boat.
She walks by Chris giving him a high five, "She seems okay," I whisper to Duncan, and he just nods.
"Feel free to quit now and save yourselves the trouble, cause I'm here to win," LaShawna says walking up to the group. "What's up my brotha? Give me some sugar baby," She says getting a high five from DJ.
Harold looks over her shoulder, what is this boy going to do. Harold says something completely stupid "I've never seen a girl like you in real life before."
"Excuse me," LaShawna say looking over at the red headed nerd. I lean on Duncan's shoulder watching how this is going to play out.
"You're real big and loud," Harold say with his arms in the air. Idiot that is the worst thing to say to a girl.
"Harold I think you should run," I say knowing what's coming next, as I laugh at his idiocy.
"What did you say to me? Oh no you didn't, you have not seen anything yet, I'll show you big, baby," LaShawna says walking over to Harold, she stops in front of him and he does this weird ninja pose like he can take her.
Harold makes a chopping motion with his hand as Bridget and Dj hold LaShawna back. "oh yeah you want some of this, well come on then," she says while Harold keeps doing these weird moves.
"Alright campers settle down," Chris says.
"Ah come on, why'd you have to do that," I whined at Chris, "Seeing Harold get beaten, would've been the highlight of my day."
Duncan shakes his head and smiles down at me. Two girls step off the boat, wearing the same outfits. "Ladies Sadie, Katie, welcome to your new home for eight weeks," Chris says to the duo.
"Oh my gosh, Sadie look it's a summer camp," The tall thin one says. I'm assuming that's Katie.
"Okay I always wanted to go to summer camp," Sadie says and they both squeal and run past Chris. I sigh and bang my head on Duncan shoulder, I decide to ignore all except listening to names.
"Ezikiel," Chris says he talks to the boy and I hear the words home schooled, Great, note the sarcasm. The next contestant's name is Cody. Chris talks to him and I don't really care.
Cody walks up to me "Hey babe," he says attempting to flirt with me.
I lift my hand, "Sorry not interested," I say Duncan growls pulling me closer. I shiver when I take in his smell.
Duncan looks down at me "you cold?" he asks me, pulling me even closer.
Eva and Owen were the next few contestants. Eva is pretty buff with an angry attitude, and Owen is pretty cool, he has a happy personality. "And here comes Courtney," Chris says, helping the girl down, I roll my eyes at her appearance, she looks like the prissy uptight bossy type of girl.
"Thank you," Courtney says as she steps onto the dock. she waves to our big group, "Hi you must be the other contestants, it's really nice to meet you all," she says.
"I'm sure it is," I say with a fake smile.
Duncan gives me a squeeze "down girl."
"What," I say looking up at him. He chuckles, and my smile widens, I rest my head back onto his shoulder. "I don't like her already."
The boat comes up and all the girls sigh, what are they looking at. I look up and see an attractive guy, I roll my eyes, probably an ass hole. "What do they see in him?" I ask Duncan. As soon as I say that the other girls look at me shocked.
"I don't know," he says shrugging. The attractive guy steps off the boat and we learn that his name is Justin. His name even screams out asshole. Apparently Chris just picked him for his looks, okay then.
Owen starts fawning over Justin's pants, dude is Owen gay or something. I shake my head. The last contestant Izzy ends up tripping over the railing of the boat and hits her chin on the dock.
Izzy starts speaking really fast to the point where I couldn't follow and then it stops. "First things first we need a group photo for the promo's, everyone on the end of the dock," Chris says, and we all go to the end of the dock.
We all get into a group and I stand behind Duncan trying to hide from the camera, but Duncan pulls me in front of him wrapping his arms around my waist.
Chris stands on the end of the boat and goes to take the picture. "1..2..3.. oops forgot the lense cap," Chris says as he fixes it. "okay hold that pose 1..2..3.. oh.. no... wait cards full, hang on."
"Come on man my face is starting to freeze," LaShawna says.
"Okay everyone say 'Wawanakwa'," Chris tells us. We all say it and the dock promptly breaks. Chris takes the picture of us all in the water, and the worst thing about this situation is that I'm wearing a white T-shirt.
I see a hand in front of my face, looking up I see it's Duncan's hand. I grab his hand and he pulls me up onto the dock. I look down at my shirt which is now see-through, my lacy red bra showing. Duncan looks down noticing this too and smirks.
"Quit looking at me that way," I tell him, crossing my arms over my chest. Duncan raises his eyebrow at me smirking. I smack his arm and walk off after grabbing my bags.
"Okay guys dry off and meet me at the camp fire pit in ten," Chris says. I just walk to the Camp fire pit and pull out a towel from my bag wrapping it around myself.
10 minutes later everyone arrives at the campfire pit. Chris starts speaking, "This is camp wawanakwa, your home for the eight weeks. The campers sitting around you will be your cabin mates, your competition, and maybe even you friends, you dig."
As Chris speaks Duncan is standing behind me rubbing my arms, warming me up. "The camper that manages to stay on Total Drama Island the longest without getting voted off will win 100,000 dollars," Chris continues.
"Excuse me," Duncan says interrupting, "What will the sleeping arrangements be, because I'd like to request a bunk under her?" Duncan asks, patting my shoulder.
I chuckle looking up at him. I shrug and say "whatever."
"They're not coed are they," Heather asks.
"No, girls get one side of the cabin, and dudes get the other," Chris says answering Heather's question.
"Excuse me Kyle, can I have a cabin with a lake view, since I'm the prettiest?" Lindsey asks.
"Okay you are, but that's not really how it works, and it's Chris," Chris tells her.
"Airhead," I mutter, shaking my head.
"I have to live with Sadie, or I'll die," Katie tells Chris.
"And I'll break out in hives, it's true" Sadie continues.
Oh really that'd be nice to see. "This can't be happening." Gwen says miserably.
"Oh, come on guys it'll be fun," Owen says, hugging Tyler and Gwen. "it's like a big sleepover."
"At least you don't have to sleep next to him," Tyler says. I look back and find Duncan giving nuggies to a deer.
"Here's the deal, we're going to split you up into two teams, if I call your name, go stand over there," Chris says pointing to his left. "Gwen, Trent, Heather, Cody, Lindsey, Beth, Katie, Owen, LaShawna, Justin, and Noah," Chris lists off, and they go stand to the left.
"From this moment on, you are officially known as... The Screaming Gopher," Chris says.
"Yeah, I'm a Gopher!" Owen yells out. "woo."
"Wait! what about sadie?" Katie asks.
"The rest of you over here, Geoff, Bridgette, DJ, Tyler, Sadie, Izzy, Courtney, Ezekiel, Duncan, Eva, Harold, and Harlow. Move, move, move, move," Chris says.
I get walking over to the rest of my new team, and go stand next to Duncan, and he puts his arm around me, pulling me to his body. "But Katie's a gopher I have to be a gopher," Sadie whines to Chris.
"Just kill me now," I mutter, banging my head on Duncan's shoulder, he laughs and pats my arm, his thumb rubbing circles on it.
"Sadie is it, come on," Courtney says putting her arm around Sadie.
"This is so unfair, I miss you Katie," Sadie yells over to Katie.
"I miss you too," Katie yelled back.
"Just shoot me now," I plead to Duncan.
"Not gonna happen I like you too much," Duncan says squeezing my waist.
"You guys will be officially known as... The Killer Bass," Chris says.
I wave my hands and sarcastically say "YAY!"
"It's awesome, it's like... amazing" Harold says.
"It's just a flag, it's nothing special," I tell the nerd.
"Alright campers, you and your team, will be on camera in all public areas, during this competition. You will also be able to share your innermost thoughts, with video diaries anytime you want. Let the audience at home know what you're really thinking, or just get something off your chest," Chris tells us.
{Harlow- so I don't know what to say my parents forced me to come as a gift for my birthday. But I guess it's a little better because Duncan here and I haven't seen him in a couple years. I thought I was over him but seeing him again brought those feelings back, so anyway I'll be back at some point.}
"Alright any questions? Cool. Lets find your cabin. Gopher you're in the east cabin, Bass you're in the west," Chris tells us. I get my bags and grab a top bunk throwing them at the end of the bed.
I walk outside when I hear Lindsey ask "Where are the outlets, I have to plug in my straightening iron?"
"There are some in the communal bathrooms just across the way," Chris answers.
"Communal bathrooms, but I'm not catholic," Lindsey says with a confused look on her face.
"Not communion, communal,"Chris says slowly. I slap my forehead at her idiocy.
"It means we shower together idiot," Gwen tells Lindsey.
"oh, no come on," Lindsey whines. Can this get any worse?
I walk around taking in the campsite, looking for places where I can avoid anything and everything, well maybe not Duncan. I headed back after I found a couple places. I find Duncan carving a skull into the railing.
"Hey Duncan," I say sitting on the railing in front of him.
"What's up?" He asks.
"Nothing just found some hiding spots," I tell him
"Why?" He asks me.
"Well I kinda learned that being by myself is usually the way to go after my parents got divorced a couple months after you left," I tell him.
"Wai-" Duncan goes to say but Is interrupted by an ear splitting scream coming from the gopher's cabin. Everyone runs toward the girls side of the gopher cabin.
"What is it," Lindsey says standing on one foot. "Kill it! Kill it!" she says looking at the floor.
I look down and see it's just a cockroach, I just shrug and watch how this is going to play out as everybody freaks out. DJ gasps and jumps onto a random bed, breaking it.
"That was my bed," Gwen says and I'm just holding back the laughter. Everybody starts screaming except me, while Harold and LaShawna try to kill it. While I just stand there laughing on the inside trying not to let it out.
Duncan comes in with a random ax and chops the cockroach in half. "Well, that's one way to kill a cockroach," Gwen says.
"Awesome," Harold says. I look over to Duncan with the ax wondering where the hell he got it from.
"If you ever see one of those again, just let me know okay? 'Cause, you know i could do that, too." Tyler tells Lindsey and they start making googly eyes at each other.
Duncan scoffs and says, "they always go for the jocks."
"Not all of them," I say loud enough for him to hear.
"Listen up! I serve it three times a day, and you will eat three times a day. Grab your tray, get your food, and sit your butts down now!" Chef Hatchet says
"Excuse me, will we be getting all the major food groups?" Beth asks as she takes her tray.
"Yeah, 'cause I get hypoglycemic real bad, if I don't get enough sugar," Harold says.
"You'll get a whole lot of shut the heck up," Chef tells Harold, and my respect for Chef just went up.
"Have a cow," Owen says, and I look at the campers' trays who already got food. Oh great it looks like my mother's cooking, which means it's really bad. And suddenly I'm not hungry anymore.
"What was that, come closer fat boy I didn't hear you?" Chef asks Owen.
"Um, I didn't really say anything important," Owen replies.
"I'm sure you didn't," Chef says. "You scrawny kid, gimme your plate, " Chef says, adding another helping to Noah's plate. And the scoop of whatever it was clings back the ladle, making Chef roughly put it on Noah's plate.
"Excuse me, my nutritionist says I shouldn't eat, any white sugar, white flower, or, like, dairy," Ditzy I mean Lindsey says.
" I don't think that's gonna be a problem," Gwen says and by the looks of what we're getting I think she's right.
"Cool!" Lindsey says, and I stick my tongue out knowing she's going to eat it.
"Okay I hate to be Predictable and complain on the first day, but I think mine just moved," Gwen says and Chef Hatchet takes out a mallet and hits Gwens' food splattering it on the two of them "Right, Okay then."
Everyone finally got their food and sat down, I took one look at mine and threw it out, not hungry anymore and sat next to Duncan.
"Welcome to the Main Lodge," Chris says waking in.
"Yo, my man," Geoff says, "can we order a pizza?" as soon as he asks that a cleaver comes flying past his head. "woah, it's cool, G! brown slop is cool. Right guys" Geoff says ,and everybody nods in agreement, not wanting to get hit by any flying knives..
"Your first challenge begins in one hour," Chris tells us then walks out of the lodge.
"What do you think they'll make us do," Katie asks DJ.
"It's our first Challenge how hard it can be," DJ says, and how wrong he was.