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-This is a DxC and GxT type of story.

Getting Back True Love Chapter 4

Alright campers, wakey wakey. Unfortunately, Justin has to leave us. Yes, he got a three million dollar offer as an eye model. He said his goodbyes this morning.

"I was so glad that Justin was finally out of the competition, but then Kris said," Heather tells the confessional.

That means Heather will have to leave.

"NO!" Everyone turns to see Alejandro. "I mean, I'm available, so I can be her partner." Alejandro said with a blush on his face.

Well, I don't see a problem with this. Are the Squirrels okay with it?

"Yes!" They all said in unison. With a bit too much joy on their voices. Alejandro gives them a mad look. Then he moves close to Heather.

Well, for today's challenge we will be taking care of these young campers. Each team will have ten kids, two per buddies. Your job is to make the young campers have an awesome camping experience for three days. You have to have camp activities, hiking and outdoors sleeping. You will be sleeping in the woods for one night. That will be their first night in camp. The final night, they will share your bunks. Here are your little campers.

Gwen and Trent got a little African-American girl that likes ballet, and a little boy who likes to collect bugs. Heather and Alejandro got a girl who is as naïve as Lindsey, and a chubby boy who loves to eat. Leshawna and Herold got an Indian girl who is too nice, and a shy boy. Bridgette and Geoff got a pair of twins, who are both smart mouths. And Duncan and Courtney got a young girl who loves to read, and a boy who likes to pick on people.

"Okay, so what are your names?" said Gwen to the little kids. "My name is Desiree. I'm twelve and I am going to be a professional ballet dancer." She said with a cocky grin. Gwen's eyes twitch at how uncommon their personalities were. "And you?" Trent told the little boy. "I'm Michael. I'm half Arabian. I love to collect bugs because I want to be an Entomologist. Do you want to see my bug jar?" Michael placed the jar on Trent's face. "Um, they look pretty." The little boy looks at Trent with an angry face, "Bugs aren't pretty! They are cool!" Gwen rolled her eyes at the little boy. "I want to eat something. Kris said you guys would make us something to eat." "Well, Gwen, we should head to the kitchen then." "Right."

Duncan was laughing non-stop. "Hahahahaha. Look at her struggle to make him stop. OUCH! Why did you hit me!" Courtney pulls Duncan's Mohawk. "Because it isn't funny!" The little kids look at Courtney and Duncan with huge smiles in their faces. "Hahaha. She's hitting a boy!" The little boy said. Duncan goes up to the little boy and pretends to almost punch him. The little boy flinches. "I thought you were all tough?" The little girl walks up to Courtney. "Why is he bugging me?" she begins to tear up a little. "Oh, sweetheart, he's just confused on his feelings for you. He wants to see if he should be your friend." The little girl looks at the little boy who is blushing. "Why are girls so confusing?" says the little boy. "I don't know. But the more they confuse us, the more we want to be around them." Duncan says while watching Courtney lead the little girl to the kitchen. "Come little man, we have a long journey ahead of us. What's your name by the way?" "My name is Trevor, what's yours?" "I'm Duncan. The hottie who will be your other counselor, her name is Courtney." "Is she your girlfriend?" "Yeah, she is." "She's pretty, and she's nice. I'm met her before. In Junior Camp. She met Anne before too. We all went to Junior Camp together. She was one of the counselors." "Really?" "Yeah, that's why Anne is so confident around her. I wish she was that confident around me. Maybe it's cause I've been picking on her since we were ten. I'm twelve now, but I still don't know how I feel about her." "My little man, you and I will be the best buds ever."

Gwen is giving Desiree and Michael their meal before they hike to their camping ground. "So, why do you wear all black? Are you mourning?" says Michael to Gwen. "Yeah, I'm mourning that life sucks." "Wow, are you emo or something?" says Desiree. "No, she's Goth." Tells Trent to the kids. "Oh, okay. Well, when will we leave? I want to see the different the bugs along the road." "Ew, that is disgusting. Why would you want to collect those weird bugs?" "They aren't disgusting, they are interesting!" Gwen and Trent look at the kids. They are arguing and that is making the kids seem more annoying than Trent and Gwen wanted. "Guys, please stop fighting. We need to see what we will be taking to the camp ground." "It's her! She's so… Ugh!" "Look, let's just get ready and leave." Gwen looked at both kids. "Why couldn't we get Camp Counselor Courtney?" says Desiree. "Yeah, she usually knows how to calm us down. We would call her CCC for short." Said Michael. Gwen looked at the kids. "How do you know Courtney?" "From Junior Camp. She was our year groups camp counselor." Trent looked at Gwen. "Should I ask Courtney for her help?" "Yes, please."

"Courtney!" Trent yelled at her. She turned around and made a questioning face. "The kids said you were their camp counselor before. Can you give us a tip on how to calm them down?" Courtney looked at Trent with a smile. Duncan saw that she still had love in her, for him. "Well, if you sing to Desiree, she'll be calmed. And just allow Michael to grab several bugs along the way. That should calm them." she couldn't help but keep on smiling. Trent then said, "How do I stop them from arguing with each other?" "Tell Desiree to tell you about her school, and tell Gwen to ask Michael about his school. It always gives them something in common to talk about." Trent smiled at Courtney and said, "You are a huge help. Thank you." She smiled back and said, "Have fun with the kids and Gwen. I'm sure you'll be feeling like this is a future experience to what might happen." "Yeah, Court. I hope it really is something like that." Trent walked back to Gwen and said, "She said to keep them busy by talking about how school is going." "Oh, my gosh! School is such a drag!" says Desiree with an annoyed look. "The principle is making us wear uniforms! Why would you do that to us? He is so mean!" Then Michael continued, "Yeah, and then that English teacher, Mrs. Gibbert, is always nagging about not having the shirt as the specific color of white. She said my shirt was Ivory. I didn't even know what she was talking about." Trent looked at Gwen with a huge grin. "That worked better than I thought."

Courtney turned to where the kids and Duncan were getting ready for the hike and the camping. "Duncan, don't pack to many chocolates. They will be wasted for tomorrow's group activity." He looked at her and said, "Why don't you go ask Trent to help you?" She walked up to him and hugged his torso, "Could it be that, Duncan Nicolosi, is jealous?" He turned around and hugged her shoulders, "Maybe a little." The kids looked at each other with blushes and smiles. "Alright, let's go have an awesome adventure." Courtney grabbed Anne's hand and guided her out the door and to the woods. Trevor looked at Duncan. Duncan then said, "Go on, ask away." "How did you make her go up to you and hug you after you were being mean to her?" "That my man was letting her know that I didn't appreciate my girl being talked to by any guitar playing, Adam Levine looking guy." "Do you think Anne would react like that too?" "Who does she even like that is here?" "She likes one of the twins. His name is Lyle. He plays baseball. I WOULD KICK HIS ASS IF I HAD THE CHANCE!" Courtney turned around to look at Trevor, "NO BAD WORDS!" Trevor blushed as Anne made a disappointed face. "Little Duncan, we need to work on your skills to speak to the ladies." Trevor nodded with excitement.

It was already dark. Around seven-thirty. Trent took out his guitar and began to play 'Kumbaya'. The kids sang along to it, but Gwen was growing annoyed. Trent finished the song, and then began to sing his and Gwen's song. 'Lips of an Angel' by Hinder. "Wow, that's a cute song." said Desiree. "That's mine and Gwen's song. I sing it to her so that she knows how much I love her." Trent told an excited Desiree. "I don't believe in that mushy-gushy stuff." Everyone looked at Michael. "Why not?" said Gwen. "Because it only makes you all confused and it makes you make things that are not good for you. For example, right now, to make her happy, cause she didn't want to sing to 'Kumbaya', you sang that song. It's not right to always make women feel special." Gwen looked at him, "Did you like someone who you treated like that but they didn't treat you the same way?" Michael went red, then gave a look to Desiree. Desiree blushed and said, "I told you that you need to change your gross habits of picking up bugs on the floor, then we'll see." Trent smiled at Desiree. "Maybe there are some things that Michael should change. He could still collect bugs, just not while you hang out with Desiree. And maybe Desiree can be nicer to Michael and try to be more caring about him, like he is about her." Gwen looked at Trent. They had a similar conversation the night before about how Trent would stop his nine obsessions, and Gwen would be more caring. She smiled when the kids gave an approving nod.

Trent then said, "Why not play twenty-one questions?" "Is that your first one?" said Gwen, and the kids laughed. "Why did you leave Trent for Duncan?" said Desiree. Gwen blushed, "I was confused and I wanted to know how it felt to date a guy like Duncan." Michael then looked at her and said, "But for two seasons, Duncan really liked Courtney. He even tried getting revenge from Herold for voting her off. Plus, sure Trent was obsessed, but he was there for you during the fear competition, and he defended you from Heather. He put his love for you ahead of his ability to win the first season." Gwen was feeling bad that two kids were telling her, her mistakes from her past. She heard Trent say, "Sometimes we do things that are way too confusing even for us. Soon you will learn how confusing being in love can be. It will also be very hard for you, but to be honest, it is also very helpful when you end up finding what is truly special for you. Like me finding out that I really like Gwen. I love her. That's the most important thing in my life right now." Michael looks at Desiree, "I really hope that doesn't happen to me." "Me too!"

It was around ten-fifty and Gwen said, "We should go to bed now. The sooner we go to bed, the sooner we can leave to get back to base camp." Everyone nodded in approval. Inside the tent Desiree slept on the south end of the tent with Michael across from her. Trent and Gwen slept on the North side. She was cuddling next to him, and she was giggling. "Thanks for your sweet words." She kisses his cheek. "Goodnight, Trent." He kisses her back, "Goodnight, Gwen." "Goodnight." Say the kids in unison.

Meanwhile…

"Okay kids, we pitched the tent, we had smores, we sang camp songs, well Duncan tried to." The kids laughed at how Duncan sang. "Ha ha, very funny Princess." "What do you guys want to do now?" Courtney asked the kids. Trevor was sticking the stick in the fire, and Anne was reading a book about outdoor camp activities. Duncan hatched an idea. "What about a scary story?" "NO DUNCAN! We don't want to send them home with nightmares." "Babe, it's just a story. If you get scared I'll hug you." He grabbed Courtney by her waist and brought her close to him. She put her head on his shoulder and bit him. "OUCH! Why did you do that!" "If it's too scary for the kids I'll bite you even harder. Also, I'll be in the middle of the kids. In case one gets scared." "NO!" They all turned to Trevor. "I can handle scary stories. But if Anne gets scared, I don't mind hugging her." Anne blushed. Trevor scooted closer to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She put her hand on top of his. "Okay." She said. Courtney then allowed Duncan to proceed. "So, there was this one time when me, my brothers and my friends all went down to a campsite near our home. We were walking down the forest when we suddenly heard some weird noise coming from the side of a bush. We thought it was a rabbit, but when we hit it with a rock, the dark shadow disappeared." Duncan noticed that the kids were now holding hands for support. Courtney was hugging his arm really tight. "So, we kept walking to where we were near our campsite. When we got there we started hearing again that there was someone in the other side of the bush making non-stop noise. It kept getting louder and louder. Suddenly we start seeing that on the ground there are footsteps on the ground, but not body was making them. The shadow got close to our fire, and the fire burst up and exploded, BOOM!" The kids and Courtney screamed. Courtney was on Duncan's lap and Trevor and Anne were hugging each other in fear. "DUNCAN! I told you not to make it scary!" she bit his shoulder again. "OUCH! Babe! I was just telling the story. I didn't expect you to scream. Anyways, we got-" "No Duncan! Stop telling the story. You scared us already." said Anne. "Well, this is actually a true story. We ran to the person in charge of setting campsites. We told him what happen, and he said 'Boy, you're not the first ones to suffer from that experience. Ever since they found the body of the dead teenager, we've had plenty of those things being said to us in that campsite.' A boy actually died because he put too much fire starter on his campfire. That is why, from that day on, I never visit that campsite, and I never take fire started camping." The kids were still scared. "We should go to sleep now." said Courtney. They all went into the tent. Duncan was on one side with Trevor on his left and Courtney on his right. Once she noticed that the kids were asleep, she said, "Was it really true Duncan?" Duncan got closer to Courtney and let her cuddle to his chest. "Unfortunately, yes." He rubbed her back until she fell asleep and he followed her not much after.

What will happen next? Will the kids still be paranoid in the morning over Duncan's scary story? Will Trent and Gwen keep the kids from arguing with each other? Find out next time on TOTAL! DRAMA! (SHHHH!) Return to the Island.(Whisper)