Oh my goodness, another update already? :O
Yes indeed! I finished up with the last chapter, and since I had barely any hesitation on what to write or any mini cases of writer's block, I decided to start writing this the same night! I'm just posting them a bit apart to try and keep more regular updates coming..:P

Disclaimer: No, I don't own anything sadly…but in my dreams I do! ;)

Summary: After noticing her strange reactions to green jelly, Trent decides to investigate further into Courtney's fears, which isn't quite as easy as it looks…

Pairing: Courtney/Trent. Romance. Fluff. I enjoy this pairing very much, and enjoy reading it too, so if you have a Trent/Courtney fic going or know of a good one, please let me know, and I'll be sure to read and review it! However, I've never written this pairing before…so it may suck! Sorry!

Courtney sighed as she sat by the campfire, her head in the clouds. All she could think about was him. Courtney wondered what he was doing right now since his team had won the challenge. But wherever he was, Courtney wished that she was there with him.

Courtney smiled as she thought about him some more. I mean, they would be perfect together! They were both nice, smart people who came from good families. Not to mention they also shared a passion for music-Courtney played the violin, and Trent played the guitar. It was nice to see a guy who played a real instrument for once, since most teenaged guys these days played the electric guitar or the drums. But Trent…he was different, which was one of the many things that made him special.

But then there was Gwen. Courtney knew that if she wasn't around that she would have a much better shot at getting to know Trent, because Courtney had a feeling that Trent liked Gwen…a lot. She remembered the talent show last week when he wrote and played that song about Gwen…Courtney only wished that someone cared enough about her to write a song about her.

Courtney did have Duncan crushing on her…she could tell by the way he acted around her and treated her. Duncan was an alright person and all…he just…wasn't what she was looking for right now. She preferred to have a man in her life that had more talent and potential in life then someone like Duncan did. Courtney also had a feeling that Duncan's life wasn't going to turn out as well as her own…or Trent's.

Another smile came to Courtney's face at just the thought of Trent…the only thing was, she'd never really talked to him before. Courtney figured that Trent barely knew that she existed, and since they were on opposing teams, they never really had the chance to interact with each other yet. All Courtney could do was hope that they both made it to the merge, so they would have a chance to get to know each other on a deep, passionate level like they were destined to.

The one and only time that Courtney had a chance to prove herself to Trent was again at the talent show. Unfortunately, Bridgette had accidentally smashed her precious violin, and had ruined her chance. Now all Courtney had left to do was wait for things to hopefully happen…it was unlikely, but a girl could always hope and keep her spirits up!

Just then, Bridgette then came walking back to the campfire pit, a crying Sadie following closely behind her. Courtney looked at Bridgette for more information on what had happened with Sadie as the two girls sat down.

Bridgette shrugged.

"It was a long goodbye," the surfer explained.

"Is she doing okay though?" Courtney asked. Not that she cared much for Sadie, but they had to keep their team strong.

Sadie was still crying heavily, so Bridgette didn't know what to respond. Luckily, she didn't have to. She saw some members of the other team approaching. Courtney immediately stood up.

"What do you guys want?" she asked maliciously. "Come by to rub it in?"

Courtney immediately wanted to swallow those words right back up since she noticed that Trent was there…right in the middle of the pack. She thought he be angry with her for snapping at them, but instead he smiled.

"We got some extra desserts at the tuck shop," Trent told them. Gwen, who stood right beside him, was nodding the whole time. Then, he turned his attention to Courtney, and looked her in the eyes as he spoke. "We thought you might want some," he said, almost as if he was directing the quote to Courtney, and Courtney only.

Courtney's heart felt like it was going to pop out of its socket when she saw Trent looking at her that way. He seemed to like the way her response came out before, so maybe she would just continue with responding like that. But there was one problem…Gwen. Courtney didn't know the girl from a hole in the head, but she knew that Trent liked her, and that Gwen liked him back, so until she and Trent were done crushing on each other, Courtney knew that she couldn't be nice to Gwen.

"So what?" Courtney responded, after giving it some thought. She then turned to look at Gwen, directing the rest of her response to the goth girl. "You're just being…nice?" Courtney added, glaring at Gwen as she spoke.

Gwen obviously got the message that Courtney was out to get her, so she replied quickly, without any hesitation. If Courtney was out to get her, then Gwen was certainly not going to go down without any sort of fight.

"Okay…Owen stank up our cabin, and we need some time to air out!" Gwen answered, giving Courtney a little glare of her own as she did so.

Courtney was about to respond rudely to Gwen's comment, which she assumed was fake, until she heard Owen fart. She kept her mouth shut instead, not wanting to start an actual fight with the other team, since it was only Gwen that she really wanted to get into a fight with at this point in the competition.

Trent, who was standing right next to Owen when he farted, immediately backed away, the disgusted look on his face showing that it really stank.

"Ew!" he exclaimed. "Dude!"

Courtney was too busy admiring Trent to notice Beth approaching with the green jelly. When she finally turned to see Beth approaching, she turned away and screamed.

"Noooooo!"

Courtney then realized that everyone was now staring at her strangely, and Beth looked slightly offended by her scream…but Courtney couldn't help it. Green jelly had always terrified her…but no one here needed to know that!

"I mean, no thanks!" she corrected. "I'm good!" she smiled sweetly at Beth as she spoke, trying to cover up from offending her before.

Courtney hoped that maybe Trent would say something, but she looked over and saw that he was now whispering something to Gwen. She sighed. If only he would notice her more, and notice Gwen less.

But then, the worst case scenario happened. Duncan responded to her scream and comments about green jelly.

"What, are you on a diet or something?" he asked.

Courtney then felt like punching a wall…even though it would hurt, she needed something hard to take her anger out on…something more then just words, since in this case, they were nowhere strong enough to describe what she was feeling on the inside right now.

"No!" Courtney answered rudely. "I just don't like green jelly!" she spat, earning another few weird looks from some of the campers. Thankfully, Beth had walked away with the green jelly, to hopefully offer it to someone else.

Courtney sighed, relieved that the attention was off of her for once. She was happy that she had finally interacted with Trent a bit, but it had looked a bit like she and Duncan had a…'thing'…which was totally not the case! On the other hand, she was extremely upset that Duncan had cut into her 'moment' with Trent. He couldn't have made a smart remark like that any other time, could he?

Courtney felt tears come to her eyes as she sat by the campfire. Why couldn't things go her way like they were supposed to?

Half an hour later, Courtney sat around the campfire with the rest of the campers left in the competition. The other team sharing their leftover tuck had turned into just one big worst fear share fest. Suddenly, everyone was starting to reveal their worst fears. It was really weird. But Courtney knew that no one would have the honour of knowing her fear.

The big share fest was going around in a circular form, and next up was Cody. He thought about his answer before responding, and then revealed his fear.

"Having to diffuse a time bomb…under pressure!" he replied, looking scared at just the thought of it.

'What a chicken!' Courtney thought to herself. But she knew that she could compete with that. She smiled as she answered.

"I'm not really afraid of anything," she told everyone, not seeming to care that she had interrupted the circular formation they were previously in.

"Funny!" Duncan interrupted, his voice halfway in a growl as he spoke.

Courtney wanted to hit something again, hard! Trent was supposed to comment on this, and be proud of it…not Duncan, who was mocking it. But Courtney was sick of Duncan's annoying little tactics for tonight, so she was about to give him a taste of his own medicine.

"Oh really?" she asked. "What exactly is your fear, Mr. know it all?" Courtney made sure to emphasize the last part of her sentence.

When Courtney put Duncan on the spotlight to see what his fear was, everyone turned to look at him, curious to find out what the juvenile delinquent could possibly be afraid of. He was the big, tough guy around here, so no one had a clue what he was scared of, or why he was scared of it. Everyone leaned forward on their logs as he finally responded.

"C…celine Dion music store standees." Duncan stammered, his words quickly flowing together.

Cody immediately started laughing. Duncan's fear was way more pathetic then his own, so he decided to tease Duncan about it.

"Exsqueeze me?" he laughed. "I didn't quite get that!"

"Dude, did you say Celine Dion music store standees?" Trent asked.

Courtney smiled as she heard Trent answer. She zoned out, thinking about Trent as Lindsay asked a question, but was immediately back to paying attention when she heard Trent's voice again. He described to Lindsay what a music store standee was since somehow she didn't know…then it was Courtney's turn to talk. She turned to Duncan as she spoke, but was more focussed on getting Trent's attention.

"So if we had a cardboard standee right now…" Courtney smiled as her voice trailed off. She looked over at Duncan, and he looked furious.

'Perfect,' she though to herself.

"Shut it!" Duncan yelled in response. He then turned and pointed at a few members of the Screaming Gophers, including Trent. "What about you guys?" he asked.

Trent was the first to answer.

"Okay, I hate mimes…like a lot!" he answered without hesitation.

Courtney rolled her eyes as he spoke. She just did it in means of trying to get Trent's attention…and by chance, it actually worked!

"Alright Courtney, you're afraid of something!" he told her, obviously remembering that before, she denied being afraid of anything. "Spit it out!" he added.

Courtney smiled at the sound of his voice again. She gave it some thought. If there was one person here who she would tell her fear to, it would be Trent…no questions asked! But Courtney was playing hard to get, so telling Trent her fear right now was not an option.

"Nope, nothing!" the mocha haired overachiever insisted.

She then looked over and saw Duncan whispering to Geoff and DJ.

"That's not what she said last night!" she could hear Duncan laughing along with Geoff and DJ.

Courtney felt more anger well up inside of her. This was not what she needed now! But for her sake, she didn't want to look like a bitch to Trent!

"Duncan, did you ever consider that I was humouring you and your stupid story?" Courtney asked.

The fact was, everyone would get scared of someone telling you a scary story in the middle of the woods when it's pitch black out! It's a natural thing to be scared of, isn't it? That would definitely not be her fear, if she was actually going to tell these people what it was!

"Sure sure Princess, whatever floats your boat!" Duncan retorted.

"Shut it!" Courtney yelled.

She sighed. She absolutely hated that little nickname that ugh…that…thing had given her! When would he finally learn that she was not interested in him, and never would be? He was just another typical, ignorant teenage boy that Courtney didn't need in her life, and Courtney was sick of him being in it!

About an hour later, a lot of the campers had gone to bed. Courtney had gone in the cabin about half an hour ago to try and get some sleep, but with Bridgette's constant rolling around and Sadie's loud snoring; sleep was not an option right now, so she decided to go back outside to see who was left awake. Hopefully Duncan had gone to bed by now, she thought as she quietly closed her cabin door.

When Courtney stepped outside, she saw that the only people left at the campfire were Gwen and Trent. It figured that they'd both still be awake since they both had made it pretty far in the Awake-A-Thon…but Courtney wished that it was just Trent there, because Gwen being there would just make things awkward.

She then listened intently as she heard voices down by the campfire.

"You're sure you don't mind putting out the fire?" Gwen yawned.

Courtney hid behind a tree. She didn't want Gwen, or Trent especially to know that she was eavesdropping on their conversation.

"I'm sure, Gwen!" Trent replied. "You can go to sleep; don't worry about me! I'll be in the cabin in a few minutes!" he yelled as she stated walking away.

Gwen laughed.

"Alright, goodnight!" she called to him as she entered the cabin.

Courtney looked over at Trent and saw him waving goodnight to Gwen as she walked into the cabin, a bright smile spread all the way across his face. As he went back to stoking the fire, she made sure she waited a few more moments before she went to join him, to not make it too obvious. Finally, started to walk towards him.

Trent immediately got scared when he heard footsteps approaching. He knew that they were in the middle of the woods here…but he didn't think they were in danger…or were they? Shaking a little, he decided to turn around to see what was coming his way. To his relief, and surprise, he found himself looking straight into Courtney's chocolate brown eyes. He smiled as his eyes met hers.

"Hey!" he greeted warmly. "I thought you went to bed?" he asked.

Courtney shrugged, trying not to smile.

"I couldn't sleep," she explained. "Sadie snores really loud, and Bridgette turns around every 30 seconds…and I bet you know how much noise those bunk beds make!" she laughed.

Trent smiled in agreement as he put the last log on the fire. He knew really well since he had Owen on his team…and when the big guy moved…he usually made a lot of noise on those bunk beds…and farted as he rolled around. But Trent didn't want to gross Courtney out by telling her that.

"So you're the last person awake?" Courtney asked, covering up the fact that she knew that Gwen had just gone to bed.

"Not anymore I'm not!" Trent laughed, implying the fact that Courtney was now there with him. "Gwen just headed off to bed since she was almost falling asleep, and I told her I'd get to bed as soon as I got the fire out," he explained.

"So you're going to bed soon, you think?" Courtney asked.

Trent shrugged. He was pretty tired since they didn't get a lot of sleep on the campout challenge the night before, but he actually kind of wanted to stay out here with Courtney…who knew the next time when they would be able to interact would be? He liked her company, and they seemed to get along good so far. Plus, Trent really wanted to figure out what it was Courtney was afraid of.

"I dunno," he replied. "I don't mind staying up with you if you can't sleep!" Trent told Courtney, smiling at her.

Courtney's heart beamed as she sat down on one of the logs…it looked like Trent wanted to spend some time with her after all!

"I don't know…I might try staying out here for another 15 minutes maybe," Courtney answered, hoping that those precious moments would be spent with Trent.

Trent smiled. Maybe they could have more then 15 minutes.

The musician sighed. He really liked Gwen, but he really liked Courtney as well. He saw a great friendship in Gwen, but he wasn't sure that a relationship would work out between them. Courtney was a different story though…he wasn't sure if she was into Duncan though, that was the only problem.

"So Courtney, what are you scared of?" Trent asked, sitting down next to her. He was determined to find out before he slept…her fear couldn't be that embarrassing, could it?

Courtney smiled. She decided maybe that she would change her original plan not to tell anyone her fear, but it was still up in the air.

"Didn't I tell you already?" she giggled. "I'm not scared of anything!"

"Come on, it must be something! I promise I won't laugh if you tell me what it is!" Trent pleaded.

Courtney still shook her head.

"It can't be any worse then being scared of mimes!" Trent laughed.

Courtney smiled.

"Oh, but it is," she replied, giving away the fact that she had indeed a fear of something, which cheered Trent up immediately.

"Ha!" he nudged her playfully. "I got you! What are you scared of?"

"Alright, fine!" she giggled. Courtney wanted to tell Trent her fear at this point, so she ended up giving herself away. "It's really embarrassing though…do you promise not to laugh?" Courtney begged.

Trent smiled. He had finally succeeded! His expression then became more serious.

"Alright, I promise Courtney," he smiled. "Now what is it?" he asked.

Courtney's face fell. Man this was really embarrassing.

"I'm terrified of green jelly," she finally admitted.

Trent smiled. He had finally gotten her to admit her fear! It took a bit more time then it would to discover someone else's fear, but it still worked.

After that, Trent did something he never thought he would do. He leaned in, and kissed her gently on the lips. Surprisingly she kissed back. The kiss only lasted about 3 seconds, but it was still one of the best ones each of them had ever experienced before in their lives.

They slowly pulled away from each other, bright smiles on both their faces.

"I'm sorry…" Trent trailed off, not sure what Courtney's response would be. He hoped she wouldn't be mad!

Courtney leaned in and gave him a short peck on the lips.

"I'm sorry that didn't happen sooner," Courtney smiled at him as he wrapped his arms around her.

They stayed cuddled together until the fire blew out, and then together, walked up to the cabins, hands locked together. They went their separate way after that, but planned on spending more nights together like that by the campfire while on the island.

That was my longest chapter yet, I'm sorry if it was too long…:P

Anyways, the Trent/Courtney relations are only going to last for this chapter, so there will be more Duncan/Courtney and Gwen/Trent chapters, and none of these feeling will exist for them. Just clarifying in case you guys were unsure!

Please review guys? It makes my day to read your comments on my writing…

~Lauren