Author's Note: Thank you for your interest people!
Disclaimer: I'm only going to say this once: I do NOT own any character, book, movie or anything you can copy write you may recognise.
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Alex was still on edge after Hawk, Temperance and he met up with Wolf.
They had since visited the new obstacle, which was so much more intimidating than Wolf had told them, the other obstacles, the area where unmentionable amounts of exercise was sure to happen and the firing range.
It was dinner now; everyone had changed into warmer clothes for it and the spotlight challenge coming up soon. The meal consisted of beans, peas, carrots, potato and some kind of meat substitute.
Everyone sat at the same table, Alex next to Hawk and Spence and opposite Aaron. Temperance was on the other side of Hawk and they were in very quiet conversation.
Alex was very aware of Wolf and his team staring at him and wanted to get out as quick as possible. No such luck.
'Hawk, Alex and Temperance have clean-up duty tonight. Everyone else has twenty minutes until we meet outside for spotlight.'
Great...
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'Leave her stuff alone guys!' Spence ordered.
They were back in the cabin and Temperance and Alex were still at dinner. Aaron and Flynn had stolen Temperance's bag and were through the process of rummaging through it.
'What's that?' Flynn asked.
'That would be a dairy...it's in Spanish or French or Irish or something...' Aaron said. 'Does anyone here know another language?' he asked.
'I know a bit of Greek,' one boy said. 'Um...it says something here about a secret...oh...no, something about not knowing a secret...I can't read anything else.'
Good thing they couldn't read it – thought Spence.
'What are those?' asked Flynn, pointing to something.
'They look like pill bottles, probably for weight loss or something.' Aaron walked over to the window and emptied the contents out. 'She'll be fat and ugly now.' Everyone except Spence laughed.
'They might have been important,' he said, walking over to Aaron. Aaron grabbed the front of Spence's shirt and held him against the wall.
'Oi, outside now!' yelled Mr Mills from the door.
The pills were erased from Spence's mind.
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'Okay, Hawk's and Wolf's groups over here with Glen, Fox's and Eagle's groups with Max, Snake is in charge. I'm going to go plan tomorrow's activities, see you all tomorrow morning at around about dawn.'
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'Ahh...' came Glen's voice came through the bush. He was the second out of Alex's group to be caught – Mathew was already hopeless. That left Alex, Temperance, Spence, Wolf and Hawk left in the game on Alex's side, Aaron, Flynn, Eagle, Max and Fox in the other.
The buzzer came from somewhere in the opposite direction – that meant they had to meet up again.
'We're going to take leaders out of the end of this game, seeing as though none of them have been eliminated,' Snake started, groans coming from the leaders.
'Rough play now...' Aaron whispered to Flynn.
'That leaves Alex, Spence and Temperance on one side, Aaron, Flynn and Max on the other. We have twenty minutes left until lights-out so hurry up,' Snake continued. 'Go!'
'Good luck!' Hawk called.
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Alex motioned for Spence to follow him. There had been a noise from behind a tree and Alex was sure it came from a human. He and Spence dropped down next to Temperance who was peering around the corner.
'I don't believe it...they are sending him out as bait!' Temperance whispered.
'I'll go around the corner and sacrifice myself, that way, I can get him and then we'll know where they are,' Spence whispered. Alex nodded and joined Temperance on the other side of the tree.
Spence jumped out, flashlight on Max. Two flashlights then focused on Spence, sending him out with Max.
Flynn came out looking triumphant, Aaron looking suspicious. Quickly, Alex and Temperance turned their flashlights on Flynn and Aaron, winning the game. Spence hi-fived them and stuck his middle finger up at Aaron.
'You cheat!' Flynn yelled, pointing at Alex.
'There was no cheating involved pea brain,' huffed Temperance. Flynn looked confused as if trying to find a loophole.
'Hold your mouth!' shouted Aaron. Temperance took a step towards him, kneeing him where it was no doubt going to hurt. He keeled away in pain.
When Aaron recovered, he threw himself at Temperance. At the last second she dodged him and instead, he went flying into Alex.
'Get off, dude. I don't roll that way,' Alex said, shoving him away. Temperance stifled a laugh and turned away – bad idea.
Aaron pushed Temperance and she flew into a tree, whacking her head quite badly. Aaron turned her around and held her against the tree. 'Did you just laugh at me?' he asked menacingly.
'Ah, yeah, I did,' she answered, calmly. 'Mind backing off, mate? People might think you're violent.' Alex could see a trickle of blood coming from the nasty cut on her head.
Aaron let out an angry yell and slapped her across the face.
'Watch it!' yelled Alex and Spence at the same time. They each grabbed one of Aaron's shoulders and pulled him back.
'He's got a horrible temper, that one,' Temperance said, not seeming to care about her bloodied-up face.
'What's going on here?' came a voice from behind them.
Alex turned around and saw Wolf and Mr Mills walking out of the bushes. They both looked at Aaron lying, stunned, on the floor and then to Temperance's cut.
'What happened?' asked Mr Mills, staring directly at Alex.
'Well-' Alex began.
'We surprised each other. It was a misunderstanding, that's all,' Temperance cut across him. 'Alex and I won though.'
'I don't think it was just a misunderstanding, but we will pretend it was for now. Congratulations, Alex and Temperance, for winning. You will get some kind of reward. Off to bed now, all of you!'
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'Cub, come here...please.' Oh no, Wolf was speaking to him.
Alex stopped and turned around. He looked up at Wolf and his stomach turned.
'I know it wasn't a misunderstanding, I saw the cut on Tempy's head. Do you want to tell me what it really was?' Wolf looked like he meant business.
'I think you should ask her,' he said quietly, looking down.
'The guys and I are sorry for the way we treated you when you had to train with us. We don't know why they wanted you to do it, and I don't think I want to know. They threw me into teaching, so I think from now on, I'm not going to bug you. But that doesn't mean we're friends, alright? Come on, we need to get back.'
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Everyone was in bed and most people were asleep – correction, supposed to be asleep. Everyone in Alex's cabin was awake.
Aaron, Flynn and most of the other teenage boys were talking about girls; Alex and Spence were talking about soccer. While they were doing this, Temperance was rummaging through her bags.
'Where are they?' she asked herself, throwing yet another thing onto the floor. She was getting very frustrated.
'Where are what?' asked Aaron, smile on his face.
'My medication...' she mumbled whilst looking through the outer pockets of her bag. She stopped and turned around. 'Where did you put them?' she asked angrily.
'Oh, the weight-loss pills, we threw them out of the window,' Aaron answered patiently.
'Weight-loss? Do I look like I need to loose weight to you?' she asked seriously. Aaron looked her up and down and shrugged. 'Out the window?' she shrieked and ran over there.
She then ran to the door and around the walls.
'Ant infested...' she said when she got back, hands on her hips. 'I need those!' Her voice quivered and she looked distraught.
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Author's Note: Oh dear! I think I just made a character have a need! Ackh!
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Here is some vocab.:
"I don't roll that way, Alex said." – He isn't gay.
"Kneeing him where it was no doubt going to hurt" – Use your imaginations.
"Loophole" – A way around the rules.