EDIT: I had to fix something. Enjoy (again) :3

Phew, sorry for such a hiatus. Holidays and all that jazz :P

Here's a quick recap, of those of you that forgot what's happening:

LeShawna and Jovie are stuck in the rain, Izzy has abandoned her brothers to find her missing bear suit, so Geoff and Marilee have taken Herbie and Xavier under their wings, Grace and Trent are stuck in a net several dozen feet in the air, Candace, Courtney, Cody and Keith have been christened The Killer Cs and Chris has changed Keith's name to Ceith so their team name makes more sense, Gwen and Heather (plus DJ) aren't off to that great of a start, and Selena, Duncan, and Zoey… They haven't done much, I guess.

Sucks to be all of them xD Read, review and enjoy! :D

Marilee looked around, huffy about the fact that they were stuck with Herbie and Xavier. Not to mention the fact that they still wouldn't let go of her legs.

"You know, it doesn't look like there's going to be any bushes for a while," she said aloud, sounding a little too friendly. "Maybe you two little… sweethearts should go to the bathroom before we keep going."

"I don't hafta go!" Xavier exclaimed, burying his face in her thigh.

"And we wanna stay with you guys!" Herbie yelled. "You give good rides! Prolly 'cause you got such fat legs!"

Geoff could see a vein starting to throb on his sister's neck after he said that, so he nervously said, "Uh, she's right, little dudes. Just go pee or find more sticks to fight with or eat some bugs or whatever for a minute…"

Xavier and Herbie didn't look happy about it, but they got off of her and ran off.

Once they were out of sight, Marilee grabbed her brother's wrist and yanked on it. "C'mon, let's amscray before they come back!"

"Mar, I already told you we can't leave them!" Geoff whined, pulling her hand off of him.

Marilee glared at him, arms crossed. "Of all times in the world to be responsible for something, you choose now?"

"C'mon, sis, it won't be that bad!" he said, trying to convince her. "Little kids are fun!"

"No, they aren't!" she yelled. "They pick their noses and burp and poop and make fart noises with their armpits!"

Geoff shrugged. "I did half that stuff a while before we found them and you're still putting up with me."

Marilee pouted and turned away from him, arms tightly crossed over her chest.

"I guess I'm being a little immature," Marilee admitted. "But Geoff is being surprisingly mature today." She scratched her chin in thought for a second, then her eyes widened. "It's those twins. They've caused the Apocalypse!"

*T*S*R*

Trent panted, still trying to yell for help to get down from the net. He had been yelling for a while, so he was almost out of breath. "Help… Help…"

Grace was sitting right next to him, since the net was kind of small and didn't give them much room to move around. She piped up, "Trent?"

Sighing and giving up, he shut his eyes in exhaustion and asked, "Yes?"

"I'm sorry I got us stuck…" She brought her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. "I'm a dummy…"

Trent opened his eyes to look down at her and said, "No, you're not. This is sort of my fault, anyway. Guess we'll just have to wait here until somebody lets us down…"

"Yeah…" She looked around for a second, then added, "If it makes you feel better, I don't hafta go anymore…"

He sighed in slight relief. "It sort of does, actually…" He frowned and muttered, "But now I sort of have to."

Grace nodded, trying to give him a little smile, and slowly attempted to scoot as far away from him as possible.

*T*S*R*

"Cool, a Swiss army knife," Duncan said, pulling it out of the backpack. "Guess who's not getting this back?"

"Chris?" Zoey suggested.

Duncan snapped his free fingers. "Exactamundo."

"Just don't poke your eye out," Selena warned him, grabbing the backpack for herself. "You're already scary enough. The last thing you need is an eye patch.

As Duncan flipped the biggest blade out of the handle, Holly and Tamyra jumped out from behind a tree, both wielding a water balloon in each hand. Their loud battle cries faded when they saw the size of the blade the punk had.

Duncan raised his unibrow and smirked, waving the army knife slightly. "You really wanna do that, ladies?"

"Uh…" The interns exchanged nervous glances, then looked back at the three and grinned. "You guys have a pleasant hike!" Tamyra said, dropping her water balloons and dragging Holly away from him as quickly as possible.

"… Chris is lame at coming up with traps," Zoey commented.

"He sure is," Selena agreed, while Duncan only nodded and started walking again.

*T*S*R*

Marilee was still drinking her juice box, while Geoff was walking alongside her and Herbie and Xavier were sword fighting with their sticks while walking with them. With one final suck, she smashed her juice box with her hand and tossed it behind her back.

As soon as the box made contact with the forest ground, Jovie, who was still being drenched by Chris' rain cloud and had to be a few miles away, stopped dead in her tracks. She felt her Litter Senses tingling.

LeShawna stopped and turned around to look at her younger sister. "What's wrong, girl?"

Jovie, looking confused, crossed her arms and said, "I don't know why, but I just had the sudden urge to punch Marilee in the face…"

Back with Marilee and the boys, Herbie and Xavier had gotten bored of their sword fight, so they were trying to think of something different to do. Xavier decided to have some fun with Marilee.

Poking her hip with his stick, he asked, "Why do you look so grumpy?"

She smacked the stick away and grumbled, "Because my life is back to sucking, that's why… And your stick isn't helping very much…"

Not understanding why his stick didn't make her happier, Xavier poked her again. "Why not?"

"Because it's pointy," she muttered bitterly.

"Oh…" He poked her thigh. "What does antidisestablishmentarianism mean?"

Marilee looked down at Xavier, totally perplexed. "How the heck should I know?"

Poke. "Why do hot dogs come in packs of ten if hot dog buns only come in packs of eight?"

"Again, how should I know?"

Poke. "Why are your eyes so blue?"

"Because I paid a lot of money for these contacts!"

Poke. "Where do-"

Having all she could take, she snatched his stick and screamed, "If you don't stop with the moronic questions, I'm gonna shove this stick right up your-"

Geoff slapped a hand over her mouth. "Marilee! You can't say that in front of them!"

She pried his hand off her mouth and said, "What? I was going to say 'nose'…" She threw the stick back at Xavier and pouted. "Fine. Take their side. My own brother is against me…"

"Aww…" Geoff started digging around in the backpack again. "Does somebody want another juice box?"

Marilee pouted even more. "Geoffrey, I am not a baby… Give me a juice pouch, for God's sake."

He pulled out a juice pouch and gave it to her. As they kept walking, she gloomily drank it.

Marilee finished up her juice pouch, sighed happily and tossed the empty pouch on the floor of the outhouse. She looked up at the camera and arched an eyebrow. "What? A fourteen year old girl can't enjoy some juice?"

*T*S*R*

"… Duncan, Zoey's touching me."

"Zoey, stop touching her."

"I'm not touching her."

"Yes, you are!" Selena exclaimed, glaring down at her little sister.

"Nuh-uh!" Zoey shook her head. "I'm just holding it really close to your leg!" Zoey's pointer finger was about a centimeter away from Selena's leg, but it technically wasn't touching her skin.

"Well, then stop holding it really close to my leg!" she yelled. "It's obnoxious!"

"You're numoxious! …Whatever that means!"

"Stop fighting," Duncan irritably muttered, still not looking at the two. "You're both obnoxious, okay?"

"Selena's more numoxious!" Zoey said, finger still dangerously close to Selena's leg.

"You're waaaay more numoxious!" Selena whined. "Duncan, make her stooooop! She's-"

Having all that he could take, Duncan spun around and yelled, "If you two don't shut up, I will turn this hike right around!"

The girls stared at him, wide eyed, and nodded in agreement, not daring to argue. Zoey let her hand drop to her side, and Selena was finally able to calm down.

They kept walking for a while, until Duncan stopped, needing a bathroom break. He handed Selena the backpack with their supplies and said, "I'll be right back. Just stay here and try not to kill each other." He ran off to get some privacy, leaving Selena and Zoey alone.

*T*S*R*

Heather stopped telling her story to the group, needed to laugh. "A-And ketchup went everywhere!" She and DJ started laughing, while Gwen just rolled her eyes.

"I bet you dropped the bottle on purpose," she mused, crossing her arms over her chest. "You said that girl sitting at the table next to yours had a really nice top on, so the only thing your sick, twisted little mind could focus on was ruining it."

Heather frowned and looked down at her feet. "Actually, it only got on mine. It wasn't really funny then, but it is now…"

Gwen glared at her. "Don't pull the whole 'Gwen's being mean to me, so I'm going to act all sheepish' thing. We all know you're still the same Heather, so just go ahead and insult me. Call me a weird Goth girl. Make fun of my hair or my clothes or my taste in anything that's different than yours. Just do something already!"

"Gwen, please," DJ pleaded, placing a comforting hand on Heather's shoulder. "Heather's not mean anymore."

"And how do you know that for sure?" Gwen asked skeptically, stopping dead in her tracks to look at him.

DJ and Heather stopped, too. "Because she looked me dead in the eye and said she wasn't like she was before," he explained. "And when she did, her eyes didn't have that same glare they used to. They were much kinder…"

Gwen's frown tightened and she kept walking without another word.

"Heather wasn't nearly as horrible to DJ as she was to me," Gwen told the camera, and continued, "and DJ is a bit too forgiving. If Heather really has changed, it's most likely not for the better."

"That was really nice of DJ to stand up for me like that," Heather commented, smiling slightly. "He's been such a great friend since the season started."

*T*S*R*

Izzy was far away from the woods by now, crawling on her hands and knees toward Chris' production campgrounds. She was looking for clues as to where her bear suit went. She finally found some.

"Aha!" She jumped up, something clenched in each fist. She opened the first one, revealing a clump of fake brown fur. The other fist had a stray cheese puff in it. "I'm getting closer… I can feel it in my tibias…"

*T*S*R*

Mia, inside one of the production tents, slipped her arm into the last arm of the bear suit and groaned. "Chris, this is dumb."

"Wow… This really is dumb," Chris said off-screen.

"Thank you," Mia sighed, waddling over to him, since the bear suit made it hard to walk. She found him sitting at a desk.

He looked over his shoulder at her and said, "No, not whatever you were whining about. This." He looked back down at the desk. There was a piece of paper in front of him that he had written Ceith on. Courtney was right. This version of the name really does look stupid."

Mia rolled her eyes and said, "Well, I still think this is a lame idea."

Chris stood up and slung an arm around her shoulder, or at least attempted to, since the suit made her shoulders extra large. "C'mon, it'll be fun! You'll scare them crapless, they'll run away, and then you can come back and have a latté."

"Nobody's going to buy it," Mia pointed out. "The psycho redhead girl tried it last year, so they'll just think it's her. Besides, this suit is disgusting! And there's something crunchy in the feet!"

"Oh, those might be cheese puffs," Chris said with a shrug. "I tried to shake them out of it on my way here, but I didn't really try that hard."

"Where'd you find this nasty suit, anyway?"

"… That's not important. Get out there!"

Mia rolled her eyes and walked out, grumbling to herself.

*T*S*R*

After Duncan finished up, he stared walking back to where he had left his sisters. As he got closer, he heard Selena giggling.

"What's so funny, cupcake?" Duncan yelled with a small smirk. "You kill Zoey while I was gone or something?" He walked through a bush and gawked at what, or rather who, he saw. "Justin?"

Justin was standing in front of the two girls, looking as handsome as ever. Selena was giggling like a maniac and tugging on her hair from his immense beauty and Zoey just stared up at him, wide-eyed. Justin looked over at Duncan and waved. "Hey there. Funny running into you here, huh?"

"… You mean in the middle of a forest on this dumpy island? Dude, why are you here? You're not even competing this season."

Justin shrugged. "It's not my fault I'm an only child. It's too bad I am, though." He walked closer to Selena and scratched under her chin with his finger. "I would love to have sisters as cute as yours."

Selena gasped, started hyperventilating and giggled some more.

Duncan suddenly got more angry. "Hey, she's thirteen, man! Back off!"

"Why, I didn't mean it like that, Duncan," the model insisted, backing away from her slightly. "I'm just saying you have very charming siblings. How could you be angry about that?"

Duncan calmed down and walked closer toward them. "Well… I guess I can't, but-" He stopped mid-sentence, noticing what was slung on Justin's toned shoulder. "Why do you have our backpack? That has all our supplies in it!"

Justin looked at the backpack, like he had almost forgotten about it. "Oh, this?" He chuckled and said, "When I ran into these two, we started talking. I mentioned that I like backpacks full of supplies essential to survival, and Selena was kind enough to give me yours."

"What?" Duncan shoved Selena, but she barely budged. "Why'd you do that, moron?"

She was still focusing on Justin, like she was in a hypnotic trance. "Because… He has such beautiful…. Earlobes."

Duncan slapped his forehead. "You can't even see them! His girly hair covers them!"

Justin pushed his hair back a little so she could see his heavenly earlobes. "Happy?"

She started giggling again and bounced up and down a little, nodding like crazy.

"Look, give me the backpack," Duncan started, glaring at the teen model, "and no one gets hurt."

Justin laughed. "You wouldn't really try to pummel me."

"Oh, really?" Duncan took a powerful swing, which Justin dodged while letting out a girlish squeal. He ran off, yelling "Not the face!" as he raced away.

Duncan groaned in frustration and muttered, "This must have been one of Chris' traps…"

Selena stared longingly at him as he ran off, but once he was out of sight, she snapped out of it. "What? What happened?"

"You just gave all our stuff to that freak, that's what happened!" Duncan snapped, glaring at her.

Selena's eyes narrowed. "Hey, you try looking at a face that magnificent and not melt."

Duncan rolled his eyes and looked down at Zoey, who still had a blank expression. "And you weren't much help, either! And what are you gawking at?" She still said nothing. He looked more concerned now. "… Zoey? You okay?"

Zoey finally said something. "He's… So… Pretty." With that, she fainted.

Duncan groaned and slapped his forehead again.

"Still this is not my fault," Selena added. "My weakness for cute boys cannot be controlled." She sighed and added, "That's one of the many reasons why I like Zack…"

Duncan scoffed and laughed wildly. "Are you serious? The dude's probably the ugliest kid on this island!"

As he continued to laugh, something inside Selena snapped. "Nobody makes fun of my Zackie-kins!" She jumped on Duncan's back and grabbed him in a headlock. Duncan, slightly choked, grabbed her long blonde hair by the pink-dyed tips and yanked as hard as he could to get he to let go. She yelped in pain, but only made her headlock on him tighter.

Zoey sat up, rubbed her head where she hit it, and looked up to find her siblings fighting. She pulled a twig out of her short black hair and sighed. "We're not gonna win."

*T*S*R*

As the Killer Cs kept walking, Candace was blabbing away on a cell phone with one of her cheerleader friends back home. Courtney, Cody and Ceith were farther behind, being more silent.

Ceith looked around, like he was expecting Chris to pop out at any second. When he saw no sign of Chris, he asked, "Can I be Keith with a K again?"

"Why are you asking us?" Cody asked.

Courtney said, "As far as we're concerned, the spelling never changed."

Keith smiled. "Cool."

The three had walked closer to Candace, who was still chatting away on her cell. She gasped at what her friend said. "No way! Paige and Turner are together? No. Way!"

Cody giggled silently to himself. "Hehe. Page turner…"

Courtney glared at him, making him shrink back sheepishly and quietly apologize for his pun.

"You are not serious!" Candace yelled, smiling brightly. "Brenda got together with Chase? Aww, they would make such a cute couple!" She giggled as her friend continued to dish out the latest gossip to her. "Wait, no. You are not serious. Jay and Ella are together now? No way. No way! NO! WAY!"

"YES!" Courtney snapped, making the group stare at her in shock. "YES way! Jay and Elle are together, Emily's pregnant and Johnny's the father, Harper the snob's dad took away her credit card, and Luanne the aspiring actress is jealous that you got on TV before she did! Sheesh, are you not even paying attention? She's saying these things clear as day, but you keep denying all of them!"

Candace stared at Courtney for a moment, cell phone still in her hand and her friend still chatting away like nothing was happening. Candace held the phone back to her ear and said, ""Uh, Ally? … I'm gonna have to call you back." She shut her phone and put it back in her pocket. "Was I... bothering you, Courtney?"

Courtney calmed down a little and sighed. "Sort of. I guess I overreacted a little, though. Still, I thought that girl was your friend. Why'd you accuse her of lying?"

Candace gasped, like that was one of the most insulting things that could be said to her. "I wasn't! Ally's my BFF! I just said no way so much because the stuff she was saying was, like, so incredibly unbelievable."

Courtney crossed her arms. "Oh. Still, could you tone it down a bit? Your yelling might give away where we are to the others and they'll get ahead of us."

"Okay… Can I still talk on my cellie?"

"… No."

"Oh, come on, Courtney," Cody said, feeling bad for Candace. "She probably misses her friends. Just let her talk to 'em."

Courtney rolled her eyes. "Fine."

Like clockwork, Candace's phone rang. She pulled it out and answered. "Hello? … OMG, Phoebe! Hey, girl! … Oh, I miss you all, too! Hey, are Summer and Kiki talking again? Ally said they were fighting or something… Oh, I don't blame her. Summer can be a little annoying sometimes. She, like, never shuts up!"

Courtney heaved a big sigh and muttered, "I'm starting to know how Kiki feels…"

*T*S*R*

LeShawna dragged Jovie under a tree so they could get away from the rain cloud that was following them. They needed some shelter for a least a while.

"Girl, I just got over a cold," Jovie complained, ringing water out of her short black hair. "I'm gonna get another one, at this rate!"

"Maybe if we walk under this clump of trees coming up, it won't be that bad," LeShawna mused, looking at the long strip of big, shady trees ahead of them. "I guess while we're here, we might as well stop for lunch." She took the backpack off and unzipped it. "Let's see… Um… Ham sandwich, turkey sandwich, pork rinds…"

"Bleh," Jovie muttered, sticking her tongue out in disgust. "Didn't he pack any food in there that doesn't involve dead animals?"

"Um… No."

Jovie groaned, "Shawnie, I can't eat any of that stuff! I'm a vegetarian!"

"What, you think I don't already know that?" LeShawna asked in annoyance. She continued to look. "Wait, there's a chocolate bar in here. This Is Totally Chocolate… Huh, never heard of that brand. You gonna spaz out since it has milk in it?"

Jovie rolled her eyes. "I don't love animals that much, girl. Toss it over."

*T*S*R*

"Ninety nine bottles of pop on the wall… Ninety nine bottles of pop…" Trent wearily sang in order to keep himself amused and awake.

Grace, having all she could take of his singing, said, "Trent, I love a good sing-along just as much as the next kid… But it's not very fun when you don't take any bottles off the wall after each verse. Those ninety nine dumb old bottles have been on the dumb wall forever now."

Trent sighed and said, "But I like that number…"

Grace pouted and mumbled, "Fine, keep singing, then. We're never gonna get down, anyway. We're gonna be up here forever and ever and ever and-"

"Grace," Trent interrupted, "we're not going to be stuck up here forever."

Grace's face got a little less worried. "… I guess I was being silly…"

Trent grinned, glad that he had made her feel better. "Yeah. And besides, if nobody comes to get us, we won't be stuck up here for all of eternity. I mean, we'd probably die of starvation in a few days…"

"…" After a few seconds of silence, Grace broke out sobbing.

After thinking over what he said, Trent face palmed.

"I've got to learn to quit while I'm ahead," Trent sighed.

*T*S*R*

It was silent between Marilee, Geoff, Herbie and Xavier for a while. Marilee had finished her third juice pouch and had her eyes shut while she was still walking. She kept muttering to herself, which even Herbie and Xavier thought was weird.

"What's she doing?" Herbie asked Geoff.

"She's in her Happy Place," Geoff responded, taking a quick glance at his sister.

"Happy Place?" Xavier repeated, confused.

"Yeah, she goes to her Happy Place when she doesn't want to be where she actually is," Geoff explained to the camera. "She blocks everything out and just thinks about stuff she likes, I guess… Her therapist Charlie recommended she do it so she doesn't start hitting people with shoes… Even though she doesn't have any right now…

"Why's she there when she could be here?" Herbie asked. "We'd have enough peoples to play Four-way Toss the Slug."

"Uh…" The blonde teen didn't want to crush the kids' spirits by telling them that Marilee couldn't stand them, so he lamely said, "I dunno."

"Where's her Happy Place at?" Herbie asked.

Geoff shrugged. "She won't tell me. She's afraid I'll show up."

Marilee, still oblivious to their conversation, giggled with a big smile on her face. "These are cute shoes… And they're just my size…"

Geoff's brows furrowed in thought. Now he sort of was curious as to where her Happy Place was. And how she was walking with her eyes closed…

I dunno how she can walk with looking where she's going. I can barely walk with my eyes open," Geoff commented. "Maybe she has Spidey Senses…" He gasped, his eyes widening. "Oh, my gosh… My sister is Spider Man… AWESOME! I'M SPIDER MAN'S BIG BRO!" He laughed and exclaimed, "Wait 'til the guys back home here this!"

"Sounds like she's in a shoe store," he said, jerking a thumb at the girl.

"Mmm, this is good ice cream," Marilee whispered, licking her lips.

"Or maybe it's a mall… Or a shoe store with an ice cream place built in…"

Suddenly, she started giggling. "Hehehe… Stop it, Keith. That tickles… I said stop!" Geoff raised a confused eyebrow. What was Happy Place Keith doing to his sister? "Teehee! C'mon, stop! You're gonna give me a hickey!"

"Okay, you've had enough Happy Place," Geoff yelled, his older brother instincts kicking in. "Time to come back to the real world before I kick Happy Place Keith's butt!" He grabbed her arm, making her snap out of her trance.

"Huh?" Not even a second after she opened her eyes did Marilee run into a tree.

"… Oops," Geoff mumbled with a cringe. "I thought her Spidey Senses would have seen that coming…"

*T*S*R*

It was quiet between Heather, Gwen and DJ. No matter what Heather or DJ said, it always seemed to stem back to how nasty Heather had been last year.

Heather didn't blame Gwen for anything. If she had been in her place, she would be acting twice as mean as Gwen was acting toward her.

The silence was broken when they heard something rustling through the bushes.

"What was that?" Gwen asked, a little bit of shakiness in his voice.

"I… I don't know," Heather said, even more shakily than Gwen had said it. By this point, DJ was cowering behind her in fear.

Suddenly, a huge bear awkwardly waddled out of the bushes, its claws held over its head threateningly. "Um… Rawr! Grrrrr! Groooowwwl!"

Despite how totally unthreatening the "bear" sounded, it was still enough to make the trio run the other way screaming.

As soon as they were gone, he bear removed its head, revealing it was only Mia. "Ugh, I should have just gone to summer school…"

*T*S*R*

"… Stop staring at me like that," Selena mumbled, casting a glance at her brother. Her hair was messed up from their fight and she had a big, blood-caked scrape on her cheek, but she didn't seem to care about either of those things.

Duncan continued to glare at her. He had small, barely noticeable bruises on his neck where Selena had strangled him and some very noticeable scratch marks on "No. I'm going to keep staring at you because it bugs you, just like giving our food and stuff away BUGS ME."

"How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?" she asked, crossing her arms. "Sheesh, one mistake in thirteen years…"

"ONE mistake?" Duncan asked, sounding like he was ready to explode with laughter. "HA! What about the time you wore Pop's uniform when you repainted your bedroom?"

Selena stopped walking and cringed at the memory. "At least it was blue paint…"

"Or the time last month when you knocked Aunt Claudia into our pool?"

"… At least that dress she was wearing wasn't too expensive… Only two hundred bucks…"

"Or the time you stuffed three doughnuts into Uncle Scott's VCR?"

"I was three! That's a cheap shot!"

"Or the-"

"Okay, I get it!" she exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air. "I'm not perfect! But this doesn't mean much from the big fat criminal! I can't even list all the awful stuff you've done!"

"Why don't you stand up on that stump and say that to my face?"

Selena gasped. "You know I'm sensitive about how vertically challenged I am! And it's not like you're the tallest guy around!"

"At least I've ridden a roller coaster before!" Duncan spat back.

"Ooooh, good one!" Selena mockingly exclaimed. "Where'd you get that one, the crappy comeback store?"

"That was even lamer!"

"You're lame!"

"You are!"

"You!"

"You! Right, Zoey? … Right, Zoey? … Zoey?" Duncan looked down and all around, but there was no Zoey in sight. He looked back at Selena and shoved her. "Oh, way to go, stupid! You lost her!"

"Did not!" Selena whined. "And you're the stupid one! Your last report card had so many Fs… That you looked like an awful student!" she lamely replied.

"Let me guess, you got that one from the crappy comeback store?" Duncan asked as he crossed his arms and smirked.

"Lemme guess, you got that one from the crappy comeback store?" Selena shot back in a mocking, stupid tone.

"When are you gonna grow up?"

"When are you gonna stop being so ugly?"

"Why, you little-"

"Ooooh, a kitty!" an echoic voice exclaimed.

The siblings stopped fighting and turned to find out where that familiar voice came from. "That sounded like Zoey," Selena commented.

"Yeah," Duncan said with a nod. "But where'd it come from?"

They got their answer when they turned to find a cave, one that would make a little girl's voice very echoey… But there surely wouldn't be a kitty in it…

"… Zoey!" They ran toward the cave, leaving their petty and lame argument behind.

*T*S*R*

"This chocolate bar tastes weird," Jovie mused, mouth full.

"Then why'd you eat most of it?" LeShawna asked with a small smile as she finished her ham sandwich.

"Because it's either that or eat… meat." She shuddered and finished off her candy, crumpling the wrapper up and stuffing it in her jean shorts' pocket.

"At least the rain finally cleared up," LeShawna mentioned, walking out from under the trees they were using as an umbrella. Jovie nodded and followed her back out into the sunshine.

The next couple of minutes were pretty uneventful, until Jovie stopped dead in her tracks, clutching her stomach. "Whoa… Something ain't right here."

"You okay, hun?" LeShawna asked, putting a comforting hand on her back.

"Yeah, I… Whoa, hold that thought!" Without another word, she raced to the left, trying to find a secluded bush.

Chris grinned a cheeky grin and held up a chocolate bar that looked exactly like Jovie's. "One word." He ripped the sticker that read This Is Totally Chocolate, revealing the word Laxatives in bright red letters. "Laxatives!"

*T*S*R*

"Grace, please… Please stop crying," Trent pleaded, hugging his sister as tightly as he could without hurting her. "I was just kidding about the dying thing. We're going to be just fine."

Grace only buried her face in his chest more and slid further into his lap. Her sobbing was making the net sway a little more than Trent would have liked.

"C'mon, we'll get out of this," he told her. "Have I ever let you down before?"

Grace let out a few more dry sobs, then was silent for a few seconds. She wiped her nose on his shirt, which he tried not to look too grossed-out about, and mumbled, "No.."

"Maybe there's something in the backpack that can help us!" Trent proclaimed, realization hitting him.

"You mean the one you dropped when the net caught us?" Grace asked, pointing to the ground.

Trent repeated, "Yes, the one I dropped when…" He stopped talking and looked down to where she was pointing. The backpack was on the ground a few feet away from where they had been standing. "Oh… Right."

Grace sighed and snuggled closer to her brother. He wrapped an arm around her and they just enjoyed the quietness for a moment until Trent awkwardly asked, "Grace… Please tell me that warm liquid trickling through my shirt are your tears…"

"Uh… No."

"GRACE!" Trent yelled, pulling her off of him and lifting her in front of him. "That's just gross!"

Grace blushed, slightly embarrassed. "What? I-I told you I didn't hafta go anymore, so it's not that, either! Double swearsies!"

A huge drop of clear goop fell on Grace's head, running from her hair to her forehead. "Eeeeeew," she whined, wiping it off with her sleeve. "Some yucky gunk just fell on my head!"

Both looked up to see the source of the watery substance. A rather unfriendly looking raccoon was peering down at them, foam brimming around its mouth. It growled menacingly.

They gaped at it in fear and Trent pulled Grace closer to him and scooted them as far away as possible. "Uh… Good raccoon… Nice raccoon…"

The creature hissed, showing off its shiny, sharp teeth at them.

The siblings could only shake in fear. They were too freaked out to even scream.

Grace looked around, still looking shook up and whispered, "Don't tell Trent, but I sorta did pee on him after that… I didn't mean to and don't think he really woulda cared at the time… It's not like it was the worst thing that could have happened…"

*T*S*R*

"Uh…" Geoff looked around, unsure of what to say. "Sorry about… Making you run into a tree and stuff."

"Whatever," Marilee muttered, tracing a finger on the red spot where her face had smacked against the bark. "It's not the worst thing that's happened today…" She looked down to glare at the redheaded twins, but noticed something. "Um… Unless I've been hallucinating this whole time and that bonk on the noggin made me see normally again, I could have sworn there were two of you rugrats."

Herbie looked around. His brother was nowhere in sight. "Hey, where'd Xavier go?"

Before anyone had the chance to answer, a gray blur shot out in front of them, making them come to a halt. Once the blur stopped, they saw it was a huge wolf.

Everybody looked shell-shocked for a while, because this wolf looked HUGE, not to mention hungry…

Marilee, not moving, whispered to Geoff, "If we had just let those two get eaten by wolves in the first place, this fleabag wouldn't be looking for seconds!"

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