Caelan was dreaming about giant marshmallows eating his flock of lambs when he was rudely awakened by what sounded like an air horn being blown through a trumpet. Everyone in the boy's cabin spoke out in resentment as they got up to see where the noise came from. Caelan looked out the window and was not surprised to see Chris holding the noise makers.

"Good morning campers." Chris said joyfully, "Get dressed and come out for your next challenge."

"How the hell could he be so peppy this early in the morning?" Caelan asked as everyone slowly got dressed. After a couple of minutes, the campers walked out of the cabins and waited for the other straggling campers. Caelan found an open spot next to Eva and stood there. Then he suddenly heard familiar music. He turned and saw Eva's MP3 was blasting music.

"Roaring Tigers?" Caelan asked.

Eva turned to him and nodded, "Yep. You like them too?"

"They make good workout music."

Eva nodded in agreement as Chris greeted the baggy-eyed campers.

"Alright everyone, you better get your blood pumping because you'll have to do a 20 kilometer run around the lake. This will probably the chance for some of you to display your best and only good quality."

He glanced at Eva while he was saying this, and she didn't take it too well,

"Oh, you think you're funny, huh?" Eva growled. She was about to lunge at Chris, but Caelan, Geoff, and Dustin were able to hold her down while Courtney calmed her down.

"You better watch you're back, little man." Eva told Chris, who merely chuckled.

Confessionals: Caelan

"Seriously, Eva needs to learn to control that temper. I mean, I'm all for standing up for yourself when you're insulted, but there has to be a line you shouldn't cross. Something tells me this will bite her in the butt if she's not careful."

All of the campers were lined up for their run.

Caelan was standing next to Eva when he said, "Alright then, let round 2 of our race begin."

Eva grinned, "Bring it on."

Chris gave the signal to run and the campers were off. After a couple of seconds, Eva and Caelan were in the lead as they tried to outstretch the other. After a while, the two runners had left everyone else in the dust.

"Looks like you'll actually give me a challenge." Eva remarked as they reach their halfway mark.

"This is…nothing." Caelan said, slightly out of breath.

"You still have got a long ways to go before you could beat me." Eva said. And with that, she tore past Caelan and left him in the dust.

"Oh thank God." Caelan said as he collapsed to the floor, exhausted. Even though he was unable to beat Eva, he could at least say he beat everyone else. With that nice thought, Caelan dragged his tired body to the finish line.

After half an hour, everyone was at the mess hall where they were all served a huge buffet that was like heaven after all of the slop Chief forced down their throats. After the meal, all of the campers longed for sleep. Of course, Chris then revealed what their challenge would be; staying awake for as long as you can.

Confessionals: Caelan

"Chris, you officially have my respect. Also, screw you!"

And so, the contest started as everyone was gathered around the campfire pit. Things started out easy enough, but it got steadily harder after the twelve hour mark.

"Come on y'all, we gotta stay awake." Caelan said as he did jumping jacks in place.

"Yeah! Caelan's right." Owen said excitingly. "Come on, let's start doing-"

Owen passed out before he could finish the statement. Caelan yawned tiredly and took a seat next to Trent. It was then that Caelan heard a bit of Trent's conversation with Gwen.

"This is the most boring thing I've ever done in my life." Gwen said.

"It could be way worse." Trent said.

"Oh yeah? How?"

"I could be stuck here without you to talk to." Trent said genuinely.

Caelan laughed softly after hearing that, "Damn. That was so smooth."

Leshawna, who was sitting close by, also heard it and said, "Yep. That boy is smoother than a waxed baby's bottom."

Caelan nodded in agreement, "He could teach Cody a thing or two."

"Who's Cody?" Leshawna asked.

"My little brother."

"Oh, you mean the brother you stole the spotlight from." Leshawna said with a sly smile.

"I didn't mean to." Caelan said desperately, but Leshawna laughed,

"I'm just messing with you. I know you're not that type of guy. So, tell me about your brother. What's he like?"

"You really wanna know?" Caelan asked.

"Well, it's better than doing nothing. Plus, talking might keep us awake."

"Alright then. Well, my brother Cody always tries to be smooth, but he's not really good at it. But, he is a genius with the sciences."

So many hours later…

"So then while I distracted the principal, Cody snuck into his office with his voice modulator, and started to say to profess his love to all of the female teachers in the principal's voice."

Leshawna laughed at Caelan's story, "Man, no matter how much you say your brother hates you, you two sound real close."

"We kind of are." Caelan said, "I mean, both of our parents work a lot, so it's usually just me and him."

Leshawna yawned, "And I'm guessing because your parents work so much, that's why you're such a good cook."

"Yep. It was either learning to cook, or eat take-out all the time. Alright, your turn. Tell me another story about you and your cousin Leshaniqua."

"Okay, so…this one…time…"

Caelan turned and saw Leshawna slowly falling asleep.

"Stay awake, Leshawna." Caelan said urgently. He got up and managed to stand Leshawna up. He tried to shake her awake, but that proved to be a bad idea. He was so exhausted that he wasn't able to keep her. So he ended up falling to the floor with Leshawna's sleeping body on top of him.

"Someone please help." Caelan cried. Lucky for him, Trent and Gwen were close by and with all of them working together, they rolled Leshawna over.

"Thanks guys." Caelan said gracefully, "Unfortunately, it looks like we lost another player."

"Well that sucks." Gwen said, "There's not that many of us left."

Caelan sighed, "Mind if I hang with you guys for a while?"

"Sure." Trent said as he patted the ground next to him.

"Thanks." Caelan said. He sat down and then looked up at the starry night sky, "Wow, you don't see that in the city."

"Yeah." Gwen said with a smile, "The night sky is pretty great."

As Gwen, Trent, and Caelan stared at the night sky, Caelan remembered something.

"Hey, Gwen," He said, "Didn't you say you'd teach me about astrology?"

Gwen yawned, "I said I might."

"Well, teaching and learning might help us stay awake. Plus, Trent wants to learn too. Right, Trent?"

"Sure." Trent said, "I'd love to learn from you, Gwen."

Gwen smiled, "Alright, you two win." She looked up at the sky and then pointed, "First lesson; see that big, bright star? That's the Pole Star. That is what connects the Big Dipper to the Little Dipper."

As Gwen continued to talk, she and Trent heard light snoring. They turned and saw that Caelan had finally succumbed to sleep.

Caelan woke up with a start. He momentarily forgot why he was at the campfire pit when he remembered the challenge. He looked around and the saw the last two campers awake were Gwen and Dustin.

"Alright Gwen!" Caelan said slightly groggily.

Gwen merely registered Caelan's existence and waved at him. Caelan then turned and saw that
Duncan was going to the bathroom with a cameraman following him. Chris was looking like he was close to sleep himself. Caelan then turned to Gwen, who was beginning to sleep.

"Don't give up yet, Gwen!" Caelan whispered urgently. He didn't want to alert Chris. When Gwen appeared to be sleeping, Caelan became desperate and slapped Gwen across the face. This got mixed results. On one hand, it got Gwen to wake up. On the other, Gwen reacted instinctively and threw a punch, which got a clean hit on Caelan's family jewels.

Gwen yawned, "What happened?" she then looked down and wondered why Caelan was on the floor, rolling in pain. Before she could make sense of the situation, Chris came up to Gwen, "Congratulations, Gwen. Duncan passed out in the stalls, so it looks like the Screaming Gofers won the awake-a-thon!"

"Yay!" Caelan wheezed happily. As he was cheering, he realized that he was lying close to a sleeping Heather. And next to Heather, he saw Eva's MP3 player. Caelan grabbed the music device and made a point to return it later.

Heather was victoriously walking toward the girl's cabin. Even from a distance, she was still able to hear Eva's rampage. Heather did her best to hide her scheming smile as she got closer. However, her smile turned into a confused frown when she stopped hearing the rampage.

When Heather finally reached the cabin, she was shocked to see that Eva was holding her MP3 and smiling gratefully at Caelan. The boy smiled and waved goodbye as he left. Caelan then spotted Heather and walked toward her.

"Hey Heather, what's up?" Caelan asked.

"Oh, I, uh, heard the commotion and thought I'd check it out." Heather said still baffled.

"Well, the commotion's resolved. Eva just had a fit over losing her MP3, but I found it and returned it to her."

Heather looked past Caelan and saw that the Killer Bass team was still looking at Eva angrily. Her original plan of getting the Bass to vote out Eva was still working.

"You're a pretty nice guy." Heather complemented, "Well, see ya later."

As she waved Caelan goodbye, Heather began to ponder how to use Caelan's niceness to her advantage. After all, she could never have too many pawns.