Rawr.
Sorry for such a late update. School + PMS + helping my cousin hook up his new Xbox 360 = BLEH. :P
No challenge yet. Just wanted to let the charries interact a little before I plied all that crap on them. The interns aren't in this chapter. Sorry. D:
And there are Confession Can confessions in this chapter, a first for me. :D
"Stuff in between these lines means that somebody's in the Confession Can," Kelsey explained.
This chapter's long. It was very fun to write, though. XD
I should probably mention everybody's age, just to avoid confusion. Grace is 3; Zoey is 4; Herbie and Xavier are 7; Zack and Selena are 13; Keith and Marilee are 14; Jovie and Candace are 15; Rikki is 18; Jamal is 19; Raven and Jackson are 20; and Duke is 19. Heather's brother will be 10, but he's not in this chapter, so nobody cares.
Not much else to say. You all know what belongs to whom. I don't wanna repeat myself.
Read, review, and enjoy!
After making it to the campfire pit, Owen and Candace dropped their stuff by Chris' podium and looked at their surroundings.
"WHOO!" Owen pumped a fist in the air, careful to avoid hitting the roof of the outhouse that the Confession Can was in. "It's so awesome to be back! I had a lot of fun at camp last year, and especially at the campfire pit. Fluffy, marshmallowey fun, that it!"
"Candace, look!" Owen grabbed his sister by her wrist and dragged her over to one of the stumps that the campers sat on during the campfire ceremonies. "This is the stump I always sat on!" The stump he pointed to was concaved, for obvious reasons. "Oh!" Dragging her back over to the spot they were at before, Owen pointed to a patch of grass, telling her, "And that's the very spot that I was standing on when Chris gave me my last marshmallow."
Candace grinned and exclaimed, "Wow, cool! Wouldn't it be awesome if we won?"
Laughing, Owen replied, "Totally!" Suddenly, he turned around, as if he had super hearing and knew that Bridgette and Keith were coming right behind them. "Bridgette! Bridgette's brother!" Owen ran toward the two, scooping them up in a bear hug.
Bridgette tried to hug back, but it was practically impossible, thanks to Owen's tight grip. "It's great to see you, too, Owen."
Keith didn't really attempt to hug back, but was still friendly and said (after Owen let them go), "Hey, dude. What's up?" Before he could give him an opportunity to answer, Keith noticed the strawberry blonde cutie standing behind Owen, looking at a butterfly floating above her head. "Who's she?" he asked with a grin.
Looking back, Owen said, "Oh, that's my sister." He tapped her on the shoulder and she turned around, facing the three. "Candace, this is Bridgette and her brother… um-"
Before Owen could ask him his name, Keith finished for him. "Keith. Keith Carlisle." He tried to brush some of the stray locks of hair out of his face, but it just bounced back into place.
Candace gave them a little wave and grinned. "Nice to meet you guys!"
"So," Keith gently pushed Owen and Bridgette out of the way and walked closer to Candace. The pushees looked at each other, shrugged, and walked away from the two so that they could catch up. "How old are you?"
Still smiling, she said, "Fifteen. You?"
"Fourteen. Only a year younger." He once again tried to push his hair out of his face. Once again, he failed. "So, you doin' anything this weekend, baby?"
Giggling, she told the desperate skater boy, "You're so cute!"
"Yes, yes, YES!" Keith screamed inside the Confession Can. "I've been waiting all of puberty for a girl to say that to me! YES!"
But, of course, that was all before she added: "You're like the little brother I always wanted!"
His face drooped, and he walked away from Candace, who was still smiling, without saying another word.
He noticed that another girl had shown up, along with Cody, who had joined Owen and his sister. She was standing all by herself, scowling. She looked tough, incapable to love and older than him. Keith liked that in a lady.
Strolling up to her, he flirtatiously said, "Hey, baby. How's it going?"
Rikki ignored him and continued to scowl.
"Um… hello?" He waved a hand in front of her face, checking to make sure she was still alive. She didn't even blink.
He stood and stared at her for a moment, and quickly walked away. Even he wasn't that desperate.
*T*S*R*
DJ had finally made it to the campfire pit. He ditched Jamal, telling him that there was a great bunch of rocks for him to use as make-shift dumbbells somewhere in the woods. He patted Bunny, who was still freaked out from being abused by Jamal, as he saw a bunch of his old friends by the campfire pit. "Hey, guys!" He ran toward the group, dropping his stuff with the others'.
"Hey, DJ!"
"Hi!"
"What's happening?"
Setting Bunny down by his feet so he could have a reunion with his old animal friends, DJ replied, "Not much. Just trying to get away from my creep of a brother."
"Oh yeah, the mega-jock. I remember you telling us about him last year."
DJ looked around, as if he was looking for a certain someone. "Yeah… Hey, where's your sister, Cody?"
Cody's smile disappeared and he pointed in her direction. "Oh, uh… s-she's over there…" DJ continued to search, but couldn't find her. Getting up and turning DJ's head manually by grabbing and twisting it, he said, "Right over there."
Rikki was still in the same spot that she was in before, still grimacing.
DJ twitched and let out a little shriek. "That's your older sister? Man, I thought that was the world's most depressing totem pole!" Realizing how mean that sounded, he quickly added, "No offense."
Cody laughed and said, "None taken. It wasn't anything I didn't know before…"
"What's up, y'all?"
Recognizing that voice, Bridgette got up and ran toward the person behind the voice. "LeShawna!" She gave her a hug and told her, "It's so great to see you!"
Hugging back, LeShawna said, "You too, girl! What's up with you?"
"Not much. Where are your sisters?"
"Well, I don't give a crap where Raven is, but I think Jovie's talking to Owen's sister…"
*T*S*R*
"Hey, what's happening, girlfriend?" Jovie walked up to Candace, offering a fist to knuckle-touch.
Candace, who didn't understand what she was supposed to do with it, grabbed it shook it like you would with a handshake. "Hi, I'm Candace! What's your name?"
She pretended not to think that Candace's 'handshake' was weird and said, "Jovie."
"OMG, that's such a pretty name!"
"For real? Thanks!"
"Yeah, it sounds like Juvy!"
"…"
*T*S*R*
After Gwen had arrived, her, Bridgette and LeShawna had gone somewhere to catch up after being apart for a year.
Zack and Keith had decided to hang out together, being the only two guys close to their age.
"So… see any girls you like so far?" Keith asked out of nowhere. Zack looked up from his video game and at Keith, who was fixing a wheel on his skateboard.
"To be honest," Zack sat in the Confession Can, rubbing the back of his head with one hand. "I don't really care that much about girls right now. Most of them are all so… I don't even know how to describe them! I would just like to meet one girl who can play Goo Mummies 7 without whining how mindless or gross it is!"
"Uh… I dunno. Most of them are too old for me. And Candace is kinda creepy…"
"Yeah, I guess the good one's aren't gonna get her until later…"
*T*S*R*
Letting Herbie and Xavier sit near the woods so that they could shove earth worms up their noses, Izzy continued to run on all fours toward the campfire pit, where Owen was clearly in sight. He was talking to Duncan, who had apparently forgiven him for the sticky bun incident. Faster and faster she ran, gaining speed so that her arrival would be extra special. Faster, faster, faster…
BAM!
She ran right into Owen's back, making him topple over and into a nearby bush. Getting back up on her hind legs, she bounced into the bush with him. When he stopped spazzing out from the shock of the impact, he looked to see the red head.
He grinned, pulling her into a big hug. "Izzy!"
She hugged back. "Owen!"
"Izzy!"
"Owen!"
"Izzy!"
"Izzy!"
"Owen!"
"Izzy!"
"Owen!"
"Crab cakes!"
They said nothing after that. All that could be heard were the sounds of major make out action.
*T*S*R*
Selena dropped her guitar case and suitcase in the pile with everybody else's stuff and looked around, hoping to find somebody to talk to. Her brother went to talk to some of his old friends and Zoey ran off somewhere, so she was lonely. She saw some smiley girl and an African-Canadian girl talking.
Well, Smiley was talking. The other girl was just trying to keep herself from slapping the chipper chatterbox.
She spotted two guys about her age sitting on a log. One of them was messing around with a wheel on his skateboard. The other one was playing a handheld video game with one hand and pushing a strand of dark brown hair out of his face with another.
"Well," Selena propped her boots on one side of the Confession Can and her back on the other and continued, "Most of my friends back home are guys, anyway… So I figured what the heck!"
Selena walked up to the two and sat down on an empty space on the log next to Zack. The two boys noticed that they had company, so they looked up.
"Hey, guys. I'm Selena."
"Hey, I'm Zack."
"Keith."
Looking down at Zack's game, she gasped and swiped it out of his hand. "You have Goo Mummies 7? Awesome!" She started pushing buttons, the game making a variety of beeps in response.
Zack looked confused. "You like Goo Mummies 7?"
Not looking up from the game, she replied, "Totally. Duncan and I play it all time."
Zack grinned, watching her play. Keith eyed the two, noticing how Zack was looking at her. He grinned, patted Zack on the back, and leaned in to whisper, "I'll leave you two gaming lovebirds alone…" He dropped his board on the ground and skated away, leaving the gamers to talk about cheat codes and keybinding.
*T*S*R*
Marilee was a bit ahead of her brothers, who were still lugging her stuff around for her. She teasingly yelled, "C'mon, you Nancy boys! Pick up the pace!"
Geoff gasped, but not from his sister's comment. There, just a few feet away, was Bridgette. She was talking to Gwen and LeShawna, but when she saw her favorite party boy, she stopped. She stood up, grinned like crazy and half-screamed, "Geoff!" She ran toward him, leaving LeShawna and Gwen surfer girl-less.
Geoff dropped Marilee's bags and yelled back, "Bridgette!" He ran toward her and they met half way, smacking themselves right into their first kiss since they left the island.
Back where Geoff had dropped the luggage, Duke dropped his share of the luggage, along with his two beer-filled coolers. Marilee, still a little annoyed that Geoff didn't continue carrying her stuff, angrily asked her eldest brother, "What do you think you're doing?"
He shrugged and replied, "Geoff got to stop."
Crossing her arms over her chest, she said, "That's because Geoff has a girlfriend, dork. Of course I let him stop to see her."
"You're calling me a dork? I don't see you locking lips with anyone!"
Blowing a small raspberry, she added, "That's only because I choose to be single. You're single because you're an unattractive, immature alcoholic!"
"… I am not unattractive!" With that, he stormed off, leaving Marilee and her numerous bags alone.
Glaring at him leaving, Marilee angrily grabbed a few of her bags and started dragging them to the pile.
Marilee confessed, "Okay, I know I may seem a little harsh, but I'm actually a really nice person! It's just my moron brothers that make me all cow-like, especially Duke. C'mon, spending an hour, let alone fourteen years with that guy would make Gandhi punch someone in the face!"
After she had dragged all of her bags to the pile and made sure that Geoff's and Duke's were still in the spots that they were dropped in, Marilee walked toward Geoff and Bridgette, who had stopped making out so that they could talk to Keith. When they saw Marilee coming, the group turned around.
"Hey, sis!"
"Hey, Geoff." Looking at the surfer girl, Marilee added, "And I'm guessing that you're Bridgette. Nice to meet you."
Bridgette smiled and said, "Yeah, you too. Geoff's told me so much about you… Please don't hurt me."
Marilee glared at Geoff, who gave a sheepish grin in return.
Bridgette giggled and quickly added, "I'm just kidding!" Gesturing toward her brother, she said, "This is my brother Keith. Keith, this is Geoff's sister, Marilee."
Keith took one look at her and knew that she was his next flirtation victim. "Hey there."
"Hi."
Geoff and Bridgette moved away from the two slightly, giving them the opportunity to talk privately.
"Bridge and I thought it'd be cool if my sister and her brother became friends." Geoff adjusted his cowboy hat and grinned into the camera in the Confession Can. "They're the same age and they have a lot in common. For example… Um…. Uh…" He scratched his head, trying to think of something. "I got it! They both have blonde hair!" Grinning triumphantly, he continued, "I'm sure they'll be great friends!"
Marilee glanced around, trying to think of something to say. "So… um…" But before she could think of anything, she noticed that he was looking at something of hers.
Two somethings.
She gasped and slapped him hard across the face. "Holy crap, you pervert!"
Bridgette and Geoff, who had been watching on the sidelines, didn't like where this was going. As Marilee was about to throttle Keith, Geoff ran up to her and held her back. Bridgette got in between the two and her little brother gladly hid behind her.
Marilee tried with all her might to break free of her brother's grip, but he still kept one arm around her waist and his free hand holding back her curled-up fist. "Let me go! I'm gonna kill that little son of a bi-"
"Bridge," Geoff interrupted his sister's curse and nervously smiled. "I think they like each other!"
*T*S*R*
Courtney and her brother had finally made it to the campfire pit. Jackson had decided to go somewhere private to finish his book, but Courtney wanted to stay and meet up with some of her old friends. She just hoped she wouldn't run into-
"Hey, Princess."
Crap.
Duncan walked up to her, smirking like he always did when she was around. "You miss me?"
Sighing heavily, she replied, "No, Duncan, I didn't. We broke up after we left the island, and I want it to stay that way."
"C'mon," Duncan crept slowly toward her. "You know you dig me."
Courtney crept farther away from him every time he got closer and said, "I'll admit, I was going through some insane 'bad boy' phase during last season, but not this year. I'm so over you."
"Whatever. You want me."
"No, I don't! You may be dangerous and unpredictable and… exciting and… hot…" Forgetting where she was going with that sentence, she grabbed Duncan by the front of his shirt and pulled him into a long kiss.
Duncan sat in the Confession Can and grinned, completely unsurprised by Courtney's kiss. "I knew she'd be back."
*T*S*R*
Zoey had wandered away from the campfire pit to find something fun to do. There were mostly teenagers there. She wanted to find someone closer to her age to play with. She had noticed that the family before hers had two little boys in it. Sure, they were a bit older than her, but they looked like fun.
She had noticed that they had stopped somewhere near the woods. She had been wandering around there for a while, but saw no sign of the red headed twins. Just as she was about to give up, she heard yelling. Walking closer toward the yelling, she saw that Herbie and Xavier were flinging mud at each other. They continued to yell and laugh until Herbie noticed that Zoey was looking at them. He stopped and waved wildly. "Hi, girl I don't know! I'm Herbie, and this is Xavier." He pointed to his brother, who waved, as well.
She giggled and waved back. "I'm Zoey! Whatcha doin'?"
Xavier said, "Havin' a mudball fight! Wanna play?"
She looked a little skeptical at first, but eventually grinned, ran toward the duo and squealed, "Sure!" She grabbed a fistful of mud and threw it at the closest twin, who happened, to be Xavier. Everything else was pretty much a brown blur after that…
*T*S*R*
Duke walked toward a totem pole, muttering about how he wasn't unattractive, despite what his sister thought.
"That girl seriously gets on my nerves." He grumbled, still thinking about what Marilee said. "I could get a girlfriend if I wanted to! Why does she think I'm here? I'll bet there are a ton of hot chicks here!"
When he reached the totem pole, he saw that an attractive African-Canadian girl was leaning against it, adjusting the tube top that was barely covering anything. She noticed that she had company and turned to look at Duke.
"Hey, I'm Duke."
"Name's Raven."
They stood silent for a few seconds, and then simultaneously pounced toward each other, exchanging a strong kiss.
*T*S*R*
Trent dropped his stuff on the pile with everybody else's belongings and Grace did the same with hers. He looked around, trying to find his favorite Goth. He saw a lot of familiar faces, and some new ones. He even recognized one of the new guys as Gwen's brother, but didn't see Gwen.
He felt a tap on his shoulder and turned around, to find her pale, but happy face. "Gwen!" The couple hugged, and soon shared a well-anticipated kiss.
Grace looked up at the lovebirds, obviously not happy.
"Gwen." Grace said her name as if it was a curse. "I can't stand her. She's the only thing that Trent can think about! I don't know why, either. She's just an ugly, stupid doody-face!"
Grace looked around, trying to find something. She wandered a little bit away from Trent and Gwen, continuing her search. She finally found something.
A really big rock.
She picked it up with both hands, walking back toward the teens. She lifted her makeshift projectile high above her head, ready to toss it at the Goth's head, until she heard a little girl say, "Hi!"
She stopped and turned around, finding Zoey was grinning at her. She grinned back and said, "Hi! My name's Grace."
"I'm Zoey. Whatcha doin'?"
She sat her rock down, pointed to Gwen and told her, "I was gonna throw this big rock at that ugly, stupid doody-face."
"…Cool! I just finished having a mudball fight with those two." She pointed to Herbie and Xavier, who were a few feet away, sword fighting with some sticks. They were both covered in dried up mud.
"You did?" Zoey didn't have a spot of dirt on her. "Then why aren't you dirty?"
"Oh, my big brother taught me how to clean up any suspicious messes, like mud and blood, without water and soap. He also taught me how to make broken stuff look like an accident."
"Hmm…" Grace mischievously grinned as she leaned against the Confession Can wall. "She's could be a useful ally to me…"
All of the campers were enjoying themselves; just talking, making new friends, and reuniting with old. That is until they saw another familiar girl finally walk into the campfire pit.
Heather.
Dun dun dun! Will Heather be as mean and horrible as she was last season? Will Jovie ever tell Candace to just shut up? Will Keith get any girl to like him? Will there finally be a challenge? How the heck do you clean mud or blood off without water or soap? Find out in the next chapter of Total Sibling Rivalry!