Total Drama Life
Ch. 6: See You Next Year HHN
During the show, it was a little awkward. I couldn't help but take multiple glances at Duncan the whole time. Everyone was minding their own business, enjoying themselves; even Duncan was. He acted as if we never had the conversation we had earlier.
It pissed me off. I wanted so bad to confront and yell at him. But I knew that wouldn't help the situation, more the less give a good impression to everyone once again. I decided to just leave it alone, and act, too, as if nothing had happened.
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It was almost 12am, even though it was 2 hours until the park closed, we decided to leave a tad early. As a tight group, we walked; still as noisy as we were before. I supposed I was just acting like a kill-joy, so I kept quiet most of the time. I held myself dearly, trying to warm myself up.
"Did you like it?" … "Courtney?"
I looked up, I wasn't paying attention, "Oh sorry I- I spaced out."
Andrea repeated herself, "Did you like it? The park."
"Yeah. It was more fun than I expected."
Bob entered the conversation, "Didn't seem like you were having much fun." He said this with slight concern in his voice.
"I was…" I tried to sound authentic, "I… I was just busy in the mind that's all." I gave him fake curvatures of the sides of my mouth.
"Overwhelmed by the move I'm guessing?"
"Yeah… that's it." I tried to evade the conversation, hoping Duncan wouldn't say anything, "So. What now?"
Jack had come up with a ridiculous idea that I wanted to protest about: "How about we all have a sleep-over at my house?"
ANDREA PROTEST! PROTEST CHILD! PLEASE!
"OH MY GOSH. That's an AWESOME idea!" she had failed me.
I tried to hide the dissatisfied expression I had put on, and subliminally protested, "Won't Tía get mad?"
"Hah, no, she won't be awake for a while." (Nooooo) "And, I'll just tell her we met up with one of our friends from school here, and decided to sleep-over. It's like we're telling half the truth."
"Or half the lie." I pointed out.
Aaron walked closer to me, "Oh don't be so pessimistic Courtney."
I pouted, "Who's being pessimistic…" He laughed flirtatiously.
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We all got into Bob's enormous jeep. It was pretty cool though, since there was a lot of space. (The space definitely applied to Andrea and Jack fooling around.) Everyone seemed to be having a swell time. I sat in the back, looking outside the car's window. I stared at the lights of the passing cars and lost my train of thought.
Duncan sat beside me.
"What do you want?" I said this, still facing the window.
"Oh sorry is it illegal to come sit next to you?"
I turned my head to face him, "Sorry…"
"For?" He looked surprised.
"For… acting like a bitch to you. I shouldn't have reacted like that."
Duncan gave me a gentle smile. He seemed to have understood how far back of events my apology was ment for, but, he didn't say anything in return, just stared at me. I was surprised that he didn't make a wisecrack like he usually did. Perhaps this was a breakthrough for Duncan's barbarous ways of having a conversation. I couldn't help but smile back. We ogling at each other for a good four seconds, but the abrupt stop of the jeep made us shake back into reality and look towards the front.
"We're here." Bob turned off the car.
Allison opened the jeep's door quickly, and ran out towards the house's door; I could hear a silent "Wooooo!" from her.
Everyone quickly went out of the jeep laughing and talking amongst themselves. I stood up, bending down so that I wouldn't hit my head on the ceiling of the jeep. Duncan grabbed my wrist and made me stop.
I looked back at him, "What?..."
He let go, "Nothing. Nevermind."
I didn't bother to ask him "No, what, seriously?" like I had wanted to, because I decided to let it go to not bother me. I got out of the car, and Duncan was trailing behind me just as he did during Halloween Horror Nights.
Jack's house was pretty big; probably a little bigger than my aunt's. I followed the group around until I was led into a large room with bean bag seats and funky looking couches; the room was painted bright red. A plasma screen TV was set on the wall opposite from the windows. I guessed this was an extra, hyped up, living room. We all scattered across the room while Jack was looking through a shelf.
"What are you looking for, Jack?" Andrea came up behind him hugging him around his waist.
He looked back at her and continued to shuffle through the shelf of what I came to believe was DVDs, "A movie."
Allison was lying on a low rise couch near the TV, "How 'bout we watch a scary movie?"
"Sounds like a good idea," Aaron pointed out, he faced Jack's direction, "get Saw 4 or somethin'."
A horrified expression slapped across my face, "WAIT WHAT?! That movie is way too intense for me!"
"I specifically remember you saying you weren't afraid of anything." Duncan touched my shoulder, shoving a cup of green Jell-O into my face, "Want some?"
I shrieked, my body was halfway off the couch I was sitting on.
Jack looked back at us, "Did you just raid my fridge?"
"Yep." Duncan sat back onto the couch I was on, and shoved more-than-a-spoon-could-handle-full of Jell-O into his mouth.
Jack came towards us, "Hey, can you two stand up for a sec; I need to open this up." He opened up the couch, making it a huge ass bed. He walked over to the other couch, opening it as well.
We all ended up laying down somewhere; I laid on the couch-bed, Duncan was on the same one as me, but I made sure he was on the other side, far away, Allison was on the floor with her head on Aaron's stomach, Bob was on the floor, too, but on the opposite side of Aaron and Allison, and Andrea and Jack were on the other couch-bed.
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I could barely handle the movie. All I was doing was covering my eyes with my hands, huddling in the corner of the couch. Duncan took glances at me many times, smirking and silently mocking my coward ness.
I mouthed to him, "Shut up!"
He mouthed back, "No!"
I glared at him. I decided to just face the other direction, so that I wouldn't be able to see the movie. I felt so tired.
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I woke up with my eyes wide open. I had my phone in my hand, so I opened it up to check the time. It was 4am. I hadn't noticed the room was so dark- the movie definitely ended.
I felt something heavy on the side of my ribs. I looked down, wide-eyes at what I had just noticed: someone's arm was wrapped around me.
Duncan's.
I was seconds away from kicking him, punching him, anything to get him off me. But I restrained myself.
Come on Courtney, why would you want to wake him up? You might wake up everyone else…
What I really thought though, was that it was kind of nice, having his arm around me. Honestly, I didn't want myself to believe that though. But, the Courtney that took chances, snuggled closer, and he gripped tighter.
A/N
I apologize for the delay D:! It's just I've been out with friends a lot these past few days, also, Halloween is tomorrow, so I'll be out all day too, and possibly some on Saturday. Then when I come home I'll write the next chapter.
p.s. Sorry it's so shorttttt. But it seemed like a good idea to stop this chapter at that. :)
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