I sat in the deckchair, curled up in a ball. I watched as my father paced back and fore in front of me. My mother was sitting in another deck-chair a bit to my right. She looked like she was going to cry again. We sat in silence but the noisy children splashing about in the lake and the police radio was very distracting.

Every so often I would look up at my father, his eyes never met mine. My dad had told Dani, Charlie and Shayne to take the younger ones for ice-cream. I didn't want to go, but even if I did my parents weren't going to let me. They wanted to 'talk' about what happened. So much for talking, the only noise my father was making was the from his squeaky shoes.

I turned to face the lake, I could see Duncan's green mohawk on the other side, he was staring at me. I would have smiled, but I had nothing to smile about, plus he wouldn't have seen anyway. I looked back at my father and he had stopped pacing. He was staring at me, his hand cupped round his chin and his eyes burning holes in my head.

"Why didn't you tell us, Courtney?" He sighed. I shrugged my shoulders, I didn't know what to tell them.

"What was there to say?" I asked, directing my eyes to my mother. She was staring down at the floor, deep in thought. I knew they were both having a hard time coping with this. So much for the vacation keeping us all together, our family was falling apart this summer more than ever before.

"You told some trouble-maker, but not us." My father snapped, but his voice was soft.

"I never told Duncan, Duncan stopped Trent from hitting me on our first night here The reason I had a red mark on my cheek was because Trent had hit me first, he was about to hit me again when Duncan grabbed his hand. You shouldn't be calling Duncan a trouble-make when he's the one stopped Trent from inflicting more pain on me!" I yelled at him and stormed off.

"Courtney!" He called after me, but I didn't listen to him. I carried on walking. I made my way over to Duncan's and took a seat next to him by the lake. I knew Duncan's family were watching me from the cabin windows, ever since the incident that morning everyone kept staring at me.

I tried to cuddle up to Duncan but he wouldn't hug me. I gave him a puzzled look, but he kept his gaze fixed on the water.

"What's wrong?" I asked, budging closer to him. I leaned in for a kiss but Duncan turned his head away. "Duncan, talk to me." I pleaded.

"I don't want to get too close to you right now." He whispered.

"What do you mean too close?" I questioned his statement.

"I mean I don't want to pressure you into anything after the whole thing with that douche bag."

"Your not pressuring me into anything." I told him, cupping his chin in my hand and pulling his face towards mine. I placed a hand on either side of his face and kissed him with as much passion as I could give. When we broke apart he smirked and I blushed. We stared into each others eyes for what seemed to be an eternity.

"Do you want to go for a swim?" Duncan asked me.

"In what? I've only got the clothes I'm wearing." I said, pointing to my sooty pink pajamas. The fire department hadn't allowed us to go into the cabin until they had finished an analysis on it's safety.

"We can go for a swim in our underwear." He whispered to me seductively. Before I could protest Duncan was already topless and I couldn't help but notice his amazing six-pack.

"Like what yo see, Princess?" He wiggled is eyebrows at me and I gave him a gentle push. He removed his pants and dived into the water. "You coming in or not?" I hesitated, not knowing what to do. My head was saying you shouldn't, but my heart was saying you should. I had always done what my head told me, but recently I had began to listen to m heart and found it could be funner. I ripped off my top then my bottoms and slid into the icy water.

Duncan began to circle me like he had done the other day and all I could do was smile. I wrapped my arms around his neck and smiled at him. There was something about Duncan that made me forget all my worries. When I was around him I didn't have a care in the world. He made me feel safe, wanted, loved. Everything that had happened that day was gone when I entered the water with Duncan.

"Kiss me." I whispered against Duncan's lips. He didn't move, he just kept staring at me. I kissed him first and then pulled back. I rested my forehead on his and repeated my words. "Kiss me." Duncan didn't seem to acknowledge what I said. I broke away from him and folded my arms across my chest under the water. "Duncan, what's wrong with you?" I asked.

"Nothing, Princess. I told you I don't want to pressure you after today."

"But getting me in my underwear and swimming around in the lake isn't pressuring me?" I scolded. He looked like he was about scream.

After a moment or two of death staring each other Duncan threw his head back and moaned. He pounced on me and kissed my fiercely. It took me a few seconds to realize what was happening, but I soon started kissing back. His tongue slipped into my mouth and we had a battle for dominance. We pulled away and stared into each others eyes once again. We were both panting heavily, but we didn't care. Duncan pulled me into a tight hug and I rested my head on his shoulder. The cold water lapped at my face, but I didn't move from my position.

"Do you two need some towels?" I moved away from Duncan after about 15 minutes to turn to see Bridgette with a pile of towels.

"Thanks, Bridge." Duncan called, as we swam over to the edge and jumped out. I quickly wrapped a towel around myself because my underwear had become see-through and I wasn't prepared to go that far with Duncan, yet.

I pulled my pajamas back on over my now damp panties and bra. Duncan was sitting in his jeans by the edge of the lake again. I sat back down beside him and this time he pulled me close. I inhaled his salty fresh smell and looked over the lake to where my burnt down cabin was. My siblings had returned by now and were all sitting around waiting for the next step to be made. They were also waiting for me to return. I stood up and stretched my aching muscles. Duncan did the same. He then took my hand in his and I smiled up at him.

He walked me back to my family and gave me another kiss before walking back to his cabin. I watched him until he disappeared as the path curved into the forest. I turned to my family, who were all staring at me, and took a seat on the floor beside Robin. She climbed into my lap and fell asleep on my chest.

"Why's your hair wet?" One of my sister's asked, but I was to busy looking down at Robin to know which one.

"I've been for a swim." I answered. I kissed the top of my youngest sister's head before looking up at my parents.

"What's the plan?" My parents turned to each other as all my other siblings also looked to them.

"Kids, we're going home." My mother spoke slowly.

"Why?" Jake asked.

"Our cabin gets burnt down and you find out Trent's a douche so we have to go home!" Shayne yelled.

"It's all been too much." My mother told us.

"I don't want to go home." I said. "None of us do." I looked around at my siblings and they all nodded their heads.

"Can't we get another cabin?" Niki asked.

"Please." Jessy added. My father looked around at all of our pleading faces and sighed.

"I'll see what I can do."

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