Hey, haven't seen you in a long time!

Yeah, how long has it been? We used to be tight.

Haha, well I got you a present!

No, no, don't worry, it was no sweat off my back!

No, really! Trust me, you're doing me a favor by taking it off my hands.

No. For real. Take this piece of shit. Get it out of my sight.

Chapter Six:

Poor Geoff

(What? You no like?)

In two days, the full moon was going to come out.

All of the boys stared at the scene before them on the beach as they sat around the bass cabin. Duncan and most of the girls were building a giant sand castle which Duncan was yelling would be, "An ode to my dear love!"

Geoff shook his head. "Damn, dude had better not fall in love with me. I mean, he's my main guy, but… I don't want to bang him."

"I'm pretty sure he'd be the one banging you." Cody perched his chin in his hand.

Geoff let out a shocked gasp. "What makes you think I'd do bottom?"

Trent rolled his eyes. "Do you really think Duncan would do bottom?"

"He does with Chris!"

"Chris is older."

"What does that matter?"

"Chris is tops because he's the host and his elder by about ten years…"

"Yeah, but I'm a month older than Duncan."

"Harold, you'd still be on the bottom."

"We all would be."

"But what if I want to be on top?"

"Geoff, listen… Duncan is… was the most manly and intimidating out of us all."

"He was kind of dominating… it would probably be the same in the bedroom…"

"So? Why can't I have top?"

"You can't have tops when the person on bottom has a pocket knife!"

"What does that mean?"

"That Duncan wins!"

"What exactly is the prize in all of this?"

"Duncan obviously gets to fuck all of us in the ass!"

"Yippee!"

Everyone turned to Owen with a disgusted look. Owen blushed brightly. "I'm lonely…"

Trent sighed. "Whatever. He'd better not fall in love with any of us…" Everyone nodded in agreement.

Back down at the beach, all of the girls were crowded around Duncan cheerfully, excluding Heather, who was back at the cabin plotti- I mean, painting her nails…

Courtney sat to the side, still pretending to read her book but sneaking glances at Duncan every now and then. He looked happy, so she just sat in the sand, relishing in the warm sun. Bridgette helped Duncan with the left side of the sand castle, trying to start up conversation. "So Duncan, the full moon comes in two days."

Duncan let out a loud sigh, but had a large smile on his face. "Yeah… I know." He left it at that, but apparently other people weren't done with it just yet.

"Doug," Lindsay started, and Courtney raised a brow at her- she was pretty sure she had heard Lindsay getting strict orders from Heather not to associate with Duncan (or Doug… whoever) earlier… "Which one of us would you want to fall in love with? Like, if Chris was totally unavailable, who would you pick?" Obviously, something was up with Lindsay's question, Courtney knew that for sure, the blonde was never that smart at thinking up such a good question…

And it also made Duncan's face go hot. Something was up. Courtney was pretty sure Heather had something to do with this, but she decided to see where things would go. "Yeah…" LaShawnna mused, flickering her gaze around the group of girls. "Which one of us would you most like, Duncan?" It was obvious that a lot of the girls were finding the situation humorous, but Courtney turned away, already angry at their stupidity.

Duncan blushed a bright crimson, putting his head down from the rest of the girls. "I'm sure being with any of you would be a pleasure…" New Duncan was kind of a kiss ass... Courtney thought, rolling her eyes at Duncan's innocence. "But… if I couldn't be with Chris… I know that I'd pick-"

"Me?" Everyone turned, looking to see Heather standing by the dock, dressed in her tiniest bikini available.

While everyone waited for some big dramatic outburst, Duncan just simply smiled. "No, not you, silly! Courtney, of course!"

All of the girls turned their heads towards Courtney, who was now sporting a tomato colored face and had pushed her nose even further into her book. She had the tiniest hope in the back of her mind that Duncan would say her name, but she hadn't really thought he would say it… old Duncan might've liked her, but she was pretty sure new Duncan would like a girl like Katie or Bridgette or… possibly DJ, since he liked it like that.

But not her.

The look on Heather's face was one of pure rage as she walked up to Duncan. She really needed him to start showing some cooperation, how else was she ever going to get him to trust her so she could get him alone when the full moon came? "What's so wrong with me?" She spoke, trying to hold back her anger.

Duncan shrugged. "You're kind of a bitch sometimes- no offense."

Heather's eye twitched. "No offense?" Lindsay grabbed her arm, escorting her away with a frightened look before Heather could do something to mess up her own plan.

Duncan waved with a broad smile on his face, "It was so nice to see you Heather!" He turned away from the two girls who were walking away and put his arms around himself in a swooning gesture, letting out a love struck sigh. "But of course it would be Courtney! She's my best friend, not to mention that I liked her way before I started loving Chris." Duncan said calmly.

A few of the girls let out giggles. "You liked her way before you liked Chris?"

"So, Courtney, how do you feel about Duncan?"

"Do you wish you were Chris?"

"Don't you want him to fall in love with you the next full moon?"

"Huh, Courtney, what do you think?"

Courtney let out a ragged breath as all the girls surrounded her, as she saw Duncan stand in front of her amongst all the chatter, a grin filling his features, but it was too kind, it was too sweet, it wasn't Duncan, it was his face, his lips, his ringing laugh but it just wasn't Duncan-

"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHADDUP!" Courtney yelled, pushing her hands to her ears as she felt tears sting at her eyes. "Don't you guys get it? It doesn't matter if I liked Duncan or if he liked me or if we're good friends, because that's it! It doesn't matter who the fuck Duncan liked, because here's a news flash for all of you- he's gone! This new Duncan is great and all, he's so nice and good and pure and honest and he's such a great person but HE'S NOT DUNCAN, HE'S NOT DUNCAN AND I CAN'T KEEP DENYING THE FACT THAT HE'S NEVER COMING BACK!" She couldn't believe she had said that, and the shocked looks that stained everyone's faces were enough to make her push through them all and run towards the forest-

But not before seeing Duncan's face. It scared her… it pained her…

She was sure for a second there, she had seen Duncan wearing that old smirk…

A/N: *sighs* Oh, Duncan…

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