(Author's Note: BOTTOM TWO! With the bottom two comes no more votes visible to the readers! What? Yeah. I'll be keeping track of the couples' votes on a different Microsoft document, but I won't make it visible to the readers/reviewers. You know, just to add suspense. Lol. Anyway, keep voting for your favorite couple! The next couple chapters will be the elimination of Gwen and Trent or Duncan and Courtney. So choose well! This story is almost coming to a close, people... Almost.)
"Bridgette and Geoff report to the Dock of Shame! You're through!" Chris yells over the loudspeakers. He was clearly angry over the whole revenge scheme. Gwen and Courtney hug Bridgette goodbye, but stay in their cabin once she leaves. They had orders from Chef that they had to stay in the cabin.
Even though Bridgette probably couldn't see them, Gwen and Courtney still waved goodbye to their friend as she and her boyfriend rode the Boat of Losers away from the island. Soon after, Chris and Chef appeared on the girls' front porch with Trent and Duncan. Gwen reaches for the doorknob so the girls could stand on the porch like the guys, but all of a sudden, Chef pulls out a huge water gun from behind him.
He lightly taps the trigger and a huge wave of water crashes through the holes in the screen door and drenches the girls. Gwen and Courtney shriek as the water splashes over them. The stand, dripping, in their cabin with mouths wide open.
"Chef! You're so gonna get--" Courtney shouts, diving for the doorknob. But Chef taps the trigger again, re-drenching her with water. "AUGH!" she screams.
"Uh, uh, uh," Chris says, wagging his finger. "Any more of that and Chef will blast you with the Water-Gun Megatron 3000!" Chris motions to the gun and Chef aims for a tree. This time, instead of just tapping the trigger, Chef held it down. Water blasted from the huge nozzle towards the tree. The water pummeled the tree, making the tree almost bend completely over. Chef lets go of the trigger and chuckles evilly. All the leaves were completely gone.
"What's this have to do with keeping us in the cabin?" Gwen asks, shivering in her wet clothes. Gwen's mascara was starting to run. Duncan smirks at Courtney. Her white shirt was plastered to her skin. She crosses her arms over her chest and blushes.
"Your next challenge is to just stay put in the cabin. Meanwhile, Duncan and Trent will be trying to rescue you. Chef will be chasing after them with the water gun. If you're sprayed with water, you're out," Chris explains. He hands Trent and Duncan each a coiled up rope. "If you even get into the cabin, you have to tie up your girlfriend: her ankles and wrists. Then you have to carry her to your cabin. Whoever gets there first, if you ever even get there, wins. They don't completely win TDC, but they do win… uh, something. Trent and Duncan, you guys get twenty seconds to start running. GO!"
Trent and Duncan sprint off the porch and disappear. Chef aims his water gun at the girls, who slam the door shut just in time. "I need to redo my makeup," Gwen says, heading off to the bathroom. She takes a clean pair of clothes with her.
Gwen shuts the bathroom door and Courtney quickly changes into new, dry clothes. She tosses her wet clothes into a plastic bag. Courtney walks over to the window at the back of the cabin. Water splashes the glass in front of her, and she watches it drip down. Courtney bursts out laughing.
"Gwen, come look at this!" she exclaims, clutching her aching stomach. Gwen runs out of the bathroom with a mascara wand in her hand and eye makeup only on her right eye.
"What?" Gwen asks, walking up to the window next to Courtney. She starts laughing, and soon they were both rolling on the floor, laughing. Gwen sits up to look out the window again.
Trent and Duncan were sprinting around the clearing in between their cabin and the woods. Chef was chasing them, with the water gun aimed. He kept shooting water at the running teens, but Trent and Duncan always dodged. Every now and then, Trent and Duncan would split up to confuse Chef. Once the boys met up again, they would high-five and shout at Chef.
Gwen opens the window and shouts, "Go, Trent!"
Courtney immediately sits up and screams, "GO, DUNCAN!"
The guys look at their girlfriends, who were leaning out the window, and give them a salute. The girls laugh again as Trent and Duncan bend their bodies in a form that looked painful to avoid the next wave of water crashing through the air. Chef then turns towards the girls.
Courtney yelps and slams shut the window as the water sprays against the window. She smiles. But then Chef slips on the slick grass and Trent and Duncan run away.
Courtney and Gwen dive away from the window towards the front door. They had just opened the door when the boys run into the cabin. "Close the door!" Duncan orders, "So Chef doesn't know we're in here!"
Courtney shuts the front door and she sits down next to Gwen on Gwen's bed. Duncan joins Trent in tying up their girlfriends' ankles together. Once Courtney is all tied up, Duncan flings her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Trent carries Gwen bridal-style.
The boys carefully step out onto the front porch. They're halfway down the steps when they hear Chef's feet pounding the ground from around the corner.
"Shit," Duncan mutters. Trent sprints away with Gwen while Duncan hops over the railing, into the bushes, and under the porch. He carefully sets Courtney down on the packed dirt. There was barely any room under the porch, and Duncan was practically on top of Courtney. He smirks at her and she just glares at him. They try to breathe as quietly as possible as Chef walks around on the porch right above them.
"Gotcha!" Chef shouts, barely a second before he aims the water gun at the floor of the porch. Courtney screams again as Chef pulls the trigger and water bursts between the cracks of the wooden floor, drenching Duncan and Courtney. "Now I just gotta get Trent and Gwen before they reach the guys' cabin." Chef runs away.
"UGH! I'm all muddy!" Courtney exclaims, "I'll have to change again!" Courtney looks in disdain at the mud surrounding her and her soaking outfit.
"Yeah," Duncan says, shrugging. He leans down and kisses Courtney. She tries to wiggle away, but she was tied up.
When Duncan finally breaks away, Courtney protests, "This is hardly romantic, Duncan. In fact--"
Courtney breaks off her sentence with a blood-curdling scream. Duncan winces. "God, what is it, Princess?" he asks.
Her eyes widen and she shrieks, "SPIDER!" Duncan follows her gaze to her thigh, where a small spider was perched. He chuckles.
"Sweetheart, it's just a spi--"
"GET IT OFF ME!" she yells. Courtney was trembling. Duncan shakes his head in disbelief and reaches for the arachnid. He picks it up between his thumb and pointer finger. Duncan grins.
"Duncan, what are you think--" Courtney says quietly. But then she screams again as Duncan slowly holds the spider out to her. "GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!"
Duncan cocks his head at her. "Kiss the spider, or kiss me," he demands with a smirk. Courtney shakes her head quickly, eyes still focused on the spider. Duncan shrugs and slowly brings the spider closer to Courtney's face. She screams again.
"KISS ME, DUNCAN! FOR GOD'S SAKE, KISS ME! JUST KILL THAT SPIDER ALREADY!" Courtney shouts. Duncan smirks and places the spider on the ground. It starts to crawl away, but Duncan crushes it with a rock.
"If you insist, Princess," Duncan whispers, kissing her right under her ear and behind her jawbone. Shivers shoot up Courtney's spine and she stiffens. Duncan smiles and continues kissing Courtney: on her jaw, along her collarbone, and occasionally on the lips. She bites her bottom lip and closes her eyes. One of Duncan's hands were holding her waist, the other one was gently stroking her cheek. He slowly leans down and gently kisses her lips. She lifts her head and kisses him back intensely. He pulls away and chuckles.
"What's the rush, darling?" Duncan whispers in her ear. He leans back in and kisses her again.
Trent was running towards his cabin when Chef rounded a corner. Trent skids to a halt and starts running in the opposite direction. Gwen was laughing.
Trent runs onto the beach and keeps running. But Chef still catches up and grabs Trent's shoulder, spinning him around. Gwen nuzzles her head into Trent's neck, and he hugs her close to him. Chef blasts them with water, and Trent flies back onto the sand. Gwen falls on top of him. She giggles. Her wet hair hangs down, framing his face and tickling his cheeks. Trent smiles.
"You guys won, by the way," Chef growls.
"Wait… what?" Gwen asks, looking up at Chef. He nods.
"I got Duncan and Courtney before I got you," he explains, walking away. Gwen turns to Trent with a huge smile on her face. He was looking at her weird.
"What's wrong?" Gwen asks, her smile fading and her lips pursing. Trent chuckles and pulls her in for a kiss. One hand was on the back of her head and the other was on the small of her back. Gwen's hands were still tied up, so she kept them resting on his chest.
They were reaching their third straight minute of kissing when a cold wave crashed over Gwen. She was tossed from Trent into the sand next to him. They blink in surprise from being ripped apart. But then Gwen laughs.
"The tide's coming in," she says. Trent looks at his feet, where waves were advancing up the beach. He grins and picks her up, even though both of them were completely covered in sand.
