Note- Hi everyone and thanks for reading and reviewing and following and favouriting, it means a lot!
You should probably know that this fanfic is partly inspired by the movie Hating Alison Ashley and there is a bit in this chapter that is basically taken directly from it.
Special thanks to Little Miss CIT for the support and advice and to The Queen of Cold for putting up with my insecurities and telling me every chapter is good, even if I don't think it is. Y'all should read their stories 'cause they're great! Anyway on to the chapter.
Chapter Three – You Wouldn't Dare
After getting off the bus, Blaineley and the students are forced to get on a boat in order to reach CampWawanakwa.
"God, I can't wait till this is over!" Blaineley says to herself as she herds the students onto the boat. She wonders if there will be any alcohol on the island because she sure could use a drink right now. A long bus ride with twenty-four teenagers is not her idea of a good time.
The boat stops at a dock that looks a little dangerous and really could use some fixing up. A man with black hair and extremely attractive stubble is standing there waiting for them. Blaineley steps off the boat first and walks over to him.
"Hi, you must be Chris McLean. I'm Blaineley Stacey Andrews O'Halloran. But you can call me Blaineley," Blaineley beams.
"Pleasure," Chris says. "You can call me Chris I guess. Are these the kids?" Chris gestures to the group of teenagers dragging their luggage off the boat and onto the dock.
"Yes," Blaineley answers. Chris walks over to the group with a huge smile on his face.
"Welcome to CampWawanakwa! I'm Chris McLean!" he says loudly. The teenagers all stare at him blankly. "First things first, let's get you into cabins. There's three people in each cabin and your teacher has prearranged the who's bunking together. So can I have the list please Blaineley?" Blaineley hands Chris the list of names that she and the principal have previously worked out. They have tried to split up people who are friends in order for the students to get to know other people.
"Alright, cabin one is; Heather, Gwen and Leshawna. Cabin two; Courtney, Bridgette and Sierra. Cabin three; Lindsay, Beth and Katie. Cabin four; Eva, Sadie and Izzy. Now for the guys, cabin five will house Justin, Alejandro and Owen, cabin six is Harold, Duncan and DJ, cabin seven; Cody, Trent and Noah and last is cabin eight with Geoff, Ezekiel and Tyler. Everyone got that?" Most of them groan with who they have to share a cabin with. Sadie and Katie are actually crying because they aren't in a cabin together.
"Put your stuff in your cabins and meet me by the campfire in ten minutes," Chris instructs. To Blaineley he says "follow me, I'll show you where the adults get to sleep."
Katie and Sadie continue to cry until Izzy offers to swap cabins with Katie. Everyone else is annoyed and wonder what's to stop them from swapping also, but surprisingly none of them do.
There are two rows of cabins, one to four being the girls' cabins and the four across from them are the boys' cabins. The two rows face each other like a mini street, at one end is the communal bathroom and a flagpole, at the other, situated about fifty metres away from the cabins, is the dining hall.
"Do you think Courtney really has a thing for Duncan?" Gwen asks Heather as they drag their suitcases to cabin one.
"Of course not!" Heather scoffs. "She actually has standards. But if she thinks I think she has a thing for Duncan, then I can get her to date Justin."
"Wow that's really messed up," Gwen says. Heather smirks evilly and shrugs, obviously quite proud of her tactics. "Why do you care so much about Courtney dating Justin anyway?" Gwen wonders.
"That girl needs to loosen up and the best way to do it is to get her a boyfriend. Like I said, Justin is the only acceptable choice," Heather reasons.
"So he doesn't actually like her?" Gwen asks.
"I wouldn't have a clue," Heather says. Gwen rolls her eyes.
"Would you two skinny idiots get outta my way? I'm sick of standing around listening to your pointless gossip!" Leshawna says, barging past them and into the cabin. There is one set of bunk beds and one single bed in the room. "You two can have the bunks," Leshawna tells them, dumping her suitcase on the single bed and leaving the room.
Once they've dropped their things off at their cabins, the teenagers find their way to the campfire that Chris had mentioned. Chris and Blaineley are already there waiting for them.
"Alright, I hope you guys are excited for this camp! This week is all about you guys getting to know each other better and hopefully getting along better, as well as learning respect for your teacher and for each other. The first rule of camp is no technology. Blaineley, could you collect all their cell phones please?" Chris says. The campers all groan.
"I don't have a cell phone," Ezekiel says when Blaineley reaches him. Blaineley shakes her head in pity and moves on.
"I don't have one either," Duncan claims.
"I know you do, now hand it over," Blaineley demands. Duncan rolls his eyes and puts his phone in her hand.
"Ms O'Halloran, I need to keep my phone for professional and schooling purposes," Courtney tells Blaineley. Blaineley glances at Chris.
"Alright, but don't let anyone know, or I'll have a riot on my hands!" Blaineley whispers. She collects everyone else's phones and puts them in a bag and gives them to Chris.
"Other rules include, no eating in cabins, no leaving the cabins after lights out, no boys in girls cabins and vice versa. I may also make up more rules as I think of them, and you can be punished for breaking the rules in any way I see fit. Got it?" Chris stares down the group and they all nod. "Good. Now, let me introduce my colleague, Chef Hatchet." Chris holds out his arm and Chef Hatchet approaches and there is more than one terrified face among the group of teenagers.
"All of you will be receiving group and/or individual counselling sessions with Chef throughout the week," Chris informs them.
"Is a chef really qualified to be a counsellor?" Noah asks. Chef grabs Noah by the arms and lifts him up.
"Are you qualified to shut the heck up?" he yells. Noah nods and Chef places him back down. "You will all attend your counselling sessions or there will be serious consequences!"
"Yeah, and Chef's consequences are usually way worse than mine. So you better show up!" Chris chuckles. "I think that's all I had to tell you… now for the fun stuff! The first thing we're going to do it split up the girls and the boys. Girls, you are going to have your first counselling session with Chef and boys you can have free time to explore the camp. After half an hour you'll swap and then at twelve thirty you can have lunch." Chris outlines.
"Alright ladies, follow me this way!" Chef commands and the girls all stand up, rather unwillingly, and follow him. He leads them into what is usually the dining hall, but the tables have been pushed to the side and a circle of chairs has been made. In the centre of the circle is a pile of paper and coloured pens.
"Sit down!" Chef commands. The girls all take a seat in the circle. "Now, y'all are here 'cause you are badly behaved and hate each other. I'm here to shake that crap out of you and make you obedient. Except I'm no supposed to hit you so we have to talk about our feelings," Chef begins. "So who here has a problem with someone in this circle?" he asks. Almost all of the girls put their hands up, except for Izzy and Courtney. Chef sighs dramatically.
"You are such a liar, Courtney," Heather hisses under her breath.
"What? I like everyone here," Courtney asserts.
"No you don't, you hate everyone," Heather reminds her. Courtney rolls her eyes and reluctantly puts her hand up.
"Everyone take a piece of paper and a pen. Write the names of the people you have a problem with and then hand them to me. Don't write your own name, this is strictly anonymous!" Chef commands. All the girls take a piece of paper and a pen and do as they are told. Once Chef has all the pieces of paper he begins to make a tally of all the girls that people have problems with. He writes the list on a portable whiteboard that stands just outside the circle. The finished list reads like this:
Heather: 7
Courtney: 6
Gwen: 4
Bridgette: 0
Lindsay: 5
Sadie: 4
Katie: 4
Sierra: 5
Izzy: 4
Leshawna: 3
Eva: 3
Beth: 2
"This is ridiculous! Six people don't like me? Everyone likes me!" Courtney complains.
"Oh stop your whining, rich girl. You're a stuck up bitch and everyone knows it!" Leshawna snaps.
"Ooh! How dare you!" Courtney rages.
"Why don't you go back to the mall, home girl?" Heather says, rolling her eyes.
"I wouldn't be dissing me, home girl, do you even know what that means? You've got seven people against you, I've only got three," Leshawna reminds her.
"Speaking of which, when I find out who wrote my name down I will personally make their lives a living hell!" Heather spits.
"Well since you already do that, and almost everyone wrote your name down, nothing much will have changed!" Leshawna retorts.
"I don't get it, is five good or bad?" Lindsay asks.
"It means five people don't like you," Gwen says. Lindsay looks dismayed.
"There's people who don't like me? Why?" the blonde looks ready to cry.
"That's enough girls!" Chef shouts. This list isn't to get you fighting with each other. It's to show you that maybe you need an attitude change! Now your first task for this week is to show a random act of kindness to someone else at camp. It can be giving them a gift or opening a door for them or whatever you want. To make sure everyone gets one you're all going to draw a name from this box that I prepared earlier," Chef pulls a small wooden box from who knows where.
"Are the boys included in this?" Sierra asks.
"Yes," Chef answers.
"It's not very random if we're forced to do it and we're allocated a person to be kind to," Courtney points out.
"Shut up and take a name!" Chef yells, thrusting the box in front of her face. Courtney scowls and puts her hand in the box, pulling out Sierra's name.
The boys go through the exact same session as the girls, although as it turns out they have a lot less problems with each other than the girls do. Once both sessions are over, the boys put the chairs and tables back where they belong while Chef calls the girls for lunch.
"Alright, everyone line up and get some food! Now, since this camp is all about getting to know each other better and becoming friends with different people, I'm going to get all the people sleeping in odd numbered cabins to sit at the table closest to door and the people sleeping in even numbered cabins to sit on the table closest to the servery!" Chris announces once everyone is in the dining hall.
They all line up and Chef plops a spoonful of questionable mush on everyone's plate. Courtney is dismayed when she realises all her friends are on the other table. She sets her plate down on the table next to Bridgette, which also unfortunately means she's sitting across from Duncan. She eyes him warily as she sits down. He gives a smirk and raises his eyebrows at her. Courtney ignores him and turns to Bridgette.
"So, Bridgette, we're sharing a cabin. Isn't that… nice?" she says.
"Uh, yeah. I guess so?" Bridgette shrugs. Courtney and Bridgette aren't really friends, despite the fact that one of Courtney's friends is dating one of Bridgette's friends. But Lindsay and Tyler don't really hang out with their respective groups of friends much anymore anyway, mostly just spending all of their time alone together. But Courtney hadn't written Bridgette's name down during their counselling session, so she figures having Bridgette as a friend is better than being alone. Plus it seems no one dislikes Bridgette, as she was the only one not to have anyone write her name down.
"Could you pass me the coleslaw?" Courtney asks. Bridgette nods and passes it along.
"So, Bridgette, did you girls do the same activities as us?" Geoff asks.
"I don't know Geoff, what did you guys do?" Bridgette responds.
"Oh, uh, we wrote down the names of people we don't like and then we got told we have to perform a random act of kindness," Geoff clarifies.
"That's exactly what we did!" Sierra butts in excitedly. "Who did you get for your random act of kindness? If anyone has Cody can I swap with them?"
"I thought we weren't supposed to tell anyone who we got?" DJ says.
"No swapping!" Chef yells.
"Wow, he has great hearing!" Sierra giggles and goes back to eating her mush and various salads.
"So, Courtney, how many people hate you? I'm guessing everyone, right?" Duncan smirks. Courtney glares at him.
"Actually, nobody wrote my name down," Courtney lies smugly.
"If by nobody you mean half the girls here," Eva snorts.
"Eva!" Courtney hisses.
"What? I know you wrote me down and I'm not ashamed to say I wrote you," Eva shrugs.
"Wow, six out of twelve girls hate you? Why am I not surprised?" Duncan laughs.
"Oh yeah? Well I bet it's not as many as the amount of guys that hate you!" Courtney retorts.
"Actually, nobody wrote my name down. Isn't that funny?" Duncan grins.
"Probably because they're all too afraid you'll murder them in their beds. You have been to juvie after all," Courtney sneers.
"Thanks for reminding me, princess. At least my head isn't so far up my own ass that I don't even realise what people think about me," Duncan rolls his eyes.
"I don't care what people think about me!" Courtney yells, standing up. "What people think about me is so far down my list of priorities that I can't even see it!"
"You're such a liar! If you didn't care, you wouldn't be trying so hard to convince me that people like you!" Duncan points out. By this stage everyone in the room is staring at them, intensely enjoying the lunch time drama.
"You are such a jerk! If you don't shut up right now, I'm going to… to…" Courtney tries to think of something she can do to get him back.
"What are you going to do, darling?" Duncan says patronisingly. Courtney picks up the bowl of coleslaw and holds it above his head, smirking. "You wouldn't dare." Duncan says, but his eyes dare her. With one swift hand motion, Courtney dumps the entire bowl of coleslaw on Duncan's head, smiling wickedly the entire time. The entire room goes "ooh!" at Courtney's defiant display. Duncan waits for everyone to be silent before looking up at her through the coleslaw on his face with a lecherous grin.
"You so want me," he says simply. Everyone bursts into laughter as Courtney gives a cry of frustration and storms out of the room and back to her cabin.
Another note sorry, about the rating of this story, I will be changing it to M but I will do that when the time comes ;)