The next morning was unpleasant, however that might be an understatement. I think it was either from the piercing loud horn that screeched in my ear, or the impact of the fall as I tumbled out of my top bunk that had fully woken me up. 'Someone has a death wish.' I thought lifting my self up ignoring the pain in my side from where I landed on someone's shoes. I stormed outside of the cabin to locate the culprit.

It was Chris..

"Oh your dead pretty boy." I screamed running after him. When he saw me charging for him he made a mad dash for it but I was faster and tackled him to the ground. "Its 7 in the morning!" Lashawna yelled from the cabin window, "do I look like a farmer to you?" I looked down at Chris with a crazed expression plastered onto my face. "I hate being woken up.." I hissed at him picking up the blow horn in his hand and ripped off the top be for walking up to the trashcan and dumping it.

Smiling I trudged back towards my cabin but was stopped by whistling from across the lawn. I turned around to find the guys from my team all looking at me.

It took me a few moments to realize I was standing outside in my pajamas, which consisted of a purple tank top with black and white shorts style underwear. I felt my face turn bright red as I myself made a mad dash for the cabin door.

Oops. I thought, my face turning deep red.

I got dressed in a short black skirt and a white and purple tank top with a lazy penguin that was smoking a joint on it.

I walked out of the cabin towards the group. "Hey Esme, no offence but I liked your first outfit better." Duncan said. Behind him the boys started to snicker and laugh, I even saw Chris out of the corner of my eye cover his mouth in a laugh.

I growled under my breath but put on a sweet smile as I walked up to Duncan. I placed my hand on his head and then grabbed a hand full of green hair and yanked it all down ward.

He yelped in pain. "OUCHHHHH!" he screamed, "let GO! LET GO!"

"Ok, let's get this straight, you don't talk about this morning, think about this morning, or even remember this morning, got it? This goes for all of you." I said pointing at the rest of the bass boys. "If I hear anything about this morning again then you end up like Duncan here, maybe even worse" I said threw my teeth holding Duncan's head of hair high. "Depends on my mood, and right now I'm in the shittiest of moods so Back. Off."

They all nodded their heads and backed up a few feet. I walked away from them and sat on the porch steps of the girls cabin.

Chris suddenly walked up towards the now assembled two teams, "Morning! Hope you slept well!" Chris said rather loudly. "Hi Chris! You look really buff in those shorts." Heather commented.

I was too tired and frustrated to make some witty remark.

"Oh I know, okay I hope you're all ready because your next challenge begins in exactly one minute!" Chris explained, "Excuse me, I don't know if that's enough time to eat breakfast." Owen said.

"Ohh you'll get breakfast Owen, right after you complete yout twenty kilometer run around the lake!" He announced.

"The hotty in the shorts say what?" I said from behind everyone. A few people turned their head to eye me; a green haired boy was among them. I just looked around as if I was looking to stair at the person who had said that as well.

But there attention was grabbed when Eva got irritated, "oh so your funny now? You know what I think would be funny?" she raised her fist but Duncan and Geoff held her back. "You're enjoying this aren't you?" she said trying to get free.

Chris snickered. "A little, you have thirty seconds," he said pointing to his watch.

We all got in a line while Chris counted down. "Go!" he yelled into another megaphone.

*Confessional*

"Geeze Chris, how many of those things do you have?"

*Static*

Everyone began to run down the dirt path, some walked, however, I stood on at the starting line watching Chris. He looked over at me, "better start running," he said with a wink. I watched him ride away in his golf cart like thing.

"hey Es, are you coming or what?" Gwen called back to me. I waved for her to go on ahead, "No ill catch up with yawl later!" she shrugged and kept walking.

Once everyone was out of sight I walked back to the camp. Slumping onto my bed I pulled out my black hoodie with the cat ears and shrugged it on. Picking up Bram Stokers Dracula I began to read it where I had left off the previous night.

About 20 minuets had passed and I figured people would start to show up so I shoved my hands into my pockets and walked towards the main lodge. However, when I got there I found that no one had arrived yet. Slow pokes.

I walked over to the table and hopped on top of it, pulling my hood over my head I laid my head down and felt my eyelids grow heavy.

I woke up to someone tugging on my hair. "What the…." I muttered sitting up rubbing my eyes. I opened them and saw that I was looking straight into a pair of blue eyes.

Looking around the room I saw that only a few people where sitting around, not everyone had made it back yet.

"Hey, what's up?" Duncan asked with a half smile.

"Well I was sleeping. Emphasis on the was…" I said rolling my eyes. I grinned, "sorry about that, I just got really bored and your hair happened to be the only thing that kept me busy."

Mhhmmmm… suuuuuure.

"Well I guess its good that you woke me up." I yawned. He eyed me curiously, "how exactly did you get here so fast? I never saw you pass me." Duncan asked.

"That's for me to know and for you to never find out." I said with a wink turning towards him so that I was sitting in front of him with my legs hanging off the table by his sides.

"Oh so its going to be like that, is it?"

"Yup," I smiled wide, "that's how it's going to be." He smiled cocking his head to the side and folding his arms. "You know Es, you're not half bad."

*Confessional*

"Oh my god, wow…" I said wide-eyed into the camera. "That's probably the most meaningful thing that kid has ever said to anyone... I feel so special!" I squealed flailing my hands in every which direction.

*Static*

"Well!" I said snapping my fingers, "for your information I'm not just okay, I'm simply amazing!"

Duncan smirked, "oh uh-huh, suuure you are." He said sarcastically. I returned his sarcastic comment with a playful punch in the arm. "Owwww…" he said just as sarcastic.

I just glared at him for a moment before I laid my head back down on the table. I dropped my hand next to him and grabbed his hand; he began to protest a little before I shoved it under my head using it as a pillow.

He quit complaining.

I could see him smiling ever so slightly out of the corner of my eye.

I smiled too.

"Oh and… I'm sorry I pulled your hair this morning" I said turning to face him. He looked surprised at my sudden apology. "Does your head still hurt?" I almost sounded sympathetic. "Why? Are you feeling sorry?" he asked with a sly grin.

I growled, "of course not!" I said turning away from him. "It doesn't hurt… okay so it did when you pulled it, but not anymore." I turned back to face him. "Really?" he nodded

"Oh, and by the way… nice panties, you should run out of you cabin half naked more often." He said smiling wickedly.

Rolling my eyes, I turned away from him. "In your dreams."

"I sure hope so," he laughed.

I fell asleep with a smile on my face.

This time I woke up to Owen screaming. Apparently Duncan fell asleep because his head was laying on my stomach, eyes closed. I could feel the blood rush to my cheeks, but luckily Owens screaming woke him up too. He sat up and looked at my red face, "good morning sunshine," he said in a casual voice, I rolled my eyes and sat up.

Chris suddenly waked into the lodge Harold trailed slowly behind him. Poor bugger.

On the other side of the lodge the gophers started to cheer and talk about how the had won the challenge when Chris stopped them.

"Whoa there! Hold you horses' guy. That wasn't the challenge." Everyone looked at him confused, "what did he just say?" Gwen asked. "HA in your FACE!" I hollered. Everyone just ignored me. Chris walked over to a big red curtain and shouted "who's hungry?" he pulled a rope and the curtain dropped revealing a giant buffet of food.

I almost died…. There was so much food. I saw a big bowl of sweets and squealed. "OH MY GAWD!" I ran over and grabbed the bowl and ran out of the door.

*Confessional*

"OH MY GAWD! OH MY GAWD!" I screamed. "SUGER!"

*Static*

Practically flying into the cabin door I jumped up and down and began to eat some of the individually packaged candies. It was like Halloween in the middle of summer.

I popped a snickers into my mouth and just melted into bliss. "Mmmm… teeth rotting candy, my favorite." I smiled. I grabbed a handful of assorted candies and shoved them into my jacket pockets before dumping the rest of the bowls contents into my suitcase that was stored under the bed. I wasn't scared of the spiders.

Skipping back in my knee-high boots I handed Chris the empty bowl when I got to the main lodge. "Where did you go?" he asked curiously. "Ummmm…." I said looking around the room. "The bathroom?" he just rolled his eyes and took the bowl from my hands. I noticed that everyone was on the floor, there stomachs bulging. Something smells fishy. I thought lifting up my shirt and poking my super pale stomach. It was nice and flat. I smiled and walked over to the table stepping on a few people on my way over to scavenge for anything that hadn't been devoured. "Geeze guys, you really cleaned this place out." I said examining the table full of empty plate, bowls, and bare turkey bones.

Chris jumped onto the table with a megaphone, "okay campers! Time for part two of your challenge!" he said into the deafening mic. Of course…

"We're having an awake-athon!" he said smiling widely.

"A fuckin what-athon?" I hissed, suddenly I wasn't so chipper. "You mean the 20k run and the turkey.." I interjected, "don't forget the candy!"

"And the candy eating frenzy was all part of your evil scheme to make it harder to stay awake?" Gwen asked

"Yup! Chris replied with a grin. "Man he's good."

"Move Move Move!" he screamed.

12 hours into the challenge.

I felt wide-awake and not the least bit tired, I thought that was amazing because I'm ALWAYS tired, and I'm always sleeping too. So it was a big moment for me.

It was boring just sitting around though so I plugged in my iPod and started listening to lady gaga. I was feeling the moment (and a bit of a sugar rush) so I got up and started to dance. I was in my own little world and I wasn't coming back for a while.

*Gwen's POV*

I watched as Esme randomly stood up and started to dance, I could only guess as to what she could be listening to. But it didn't really matter at all because all I knew was that it was insanely funny watching her and I couldn't help but laugh along with some of the other campers. She of course didn't seem to notice. I also couldn't help but notice the way Chris was watching her. He had originally showed up to annoy us, but now he was quiet. Wow, that's creepy.

I was distracted from him when Esme attempted a black flip. She failed, of course.

I was about to run over and help her up but stopped when I saw her start to dance while lying on her back. She was even lip singing the words.

"Where does she get all the energy?" I asked no one. "I don't know but it's freaky." Heather said.

"I think its funny." Duncan said to her. "Well that's just cuz you like her," she scoffed.

"I do not! She just funny that's all" I looked over at Chris but saw that he was gone. I shrugged my shoulders and went back to the conversation. "You do to."

"Do not! This criminal likes no one, so get that threw your thick skull." He said threatingly.

"Alright. Yeah sure, whatever."

I looked back to see Esme playing with an anthill. I agree with Duncan. She is funny, in her own weird way. I thought.

*Esme's POV*

After I was done playing with the anthill I fell on I stood up and screamed.

Everyone looked at me startled. "What's wrong?" Bridget asked. "Nothing, i'm just bored." I said with a smile.

"Oh my god, you are so annoying!" heather hissed.

"Well at least i'm not the one with a 10 foot pole up my butt!" I said to her. She cried out in frustration and told Beth and Lindsey to follow her, who were both standing on their heads.

I giggled and skipped over to Bridget and started playing with her hair.

20 hours in

Almost everyone was asleep already and I had lost count of how many hours we had been awake. I looked around at who had fallen asleep and saw that Bridgett, the twins, Geoff and Tyler had already conked out.

The long hours were starting to get to me. My eyelids felt heavy so I shoved my hand into my pocket and pulled out box of nerds. After Scarfing those down I saw that Chris was sitting in a chair all lonely and such. This is my chance.

*Confessional*

"So I know what Chrissie had said about Chris being a totally douche… and she's right." I looked down at my hands then back up into the camera lens. "But I may or may not have a tiny crush on him. Sorry Chrissie!"

*Static*

I walked up to the beach hair boy. (Or man, I should say.) "Hey there!" I waved at him. He perked up at the greeting and smiled, "what's up Esme? You feeling tired at all yet?" he said with a wicked smile. I winked at him slyly, "not in the least bit," he laughed, "well damn,"

*Duncan's POV*

I'm not sure how long it had been but I'm pretty sure it had been a day now because it was nighttime again. I looked up suddenly when I heard esme giggling. She was talking to Chris. What is she up too? I thought thinking she had some devious plan. I thought for a moment about what it might be but couldn't come up with anything. She laughed again. And so did Chris, it sounded as if she was flirting with him. I couldn't tell. But I knew that kind of giggle. It was no every day kind of laugh. That's the kind of laugh every guy loves to hear. And for some reason that made me really angry.

I stood up and walked away towards the back of the opening where we were all hanging out. Most of the losers at this camp had already fallen asleep. "Whatever." I hissed under my breath kicking a rock. Its not like I liked her anyway.

24 hours in

I was beginning to feel really hungry. Shoving my hand into the pocket of my jacket and pulled out a milky way and tore into it. I saw that Duncan was sitting by himself and skipped over to him offering a piece of pocket-warmed candy. He eyed me curiously. "What did you do to it?" he said.

I was confused. "What, you don't trust me?" I asked eating my own candy. "Not in the least bit." He laughed, and yet… he ate it anyways.

He started to say something but I was too distracted to notice, because at that moment Chef walked out from behind Chris wearing a lamb suit.

"OMGG CHEF! You look ADORABLE!" I squealed waving at the big brooding chef. "I do don't I.," he said with a smiled. "But I also feel like an idiot." He added sending a glare in Chris's direction. Chris began to laugh but chef growled making him stop.

"Congratulations campers! You've made it to the 24-hour mark! Time to take things up a notch." He said with a wink, "fairytales!" he sat down and began reading a very boring book.

I squealed in pure delight when Chef jumped out in a ballerina suit dancing to the nutcracker. I couldn't help but stand up and dance with him! Hell, I wasn't forced to do 6 years of ballet for nothing!

I definitely have to say that out of my top magical moments that this was one of the biggest. And i'm pretty sure Chef was feeling the magic too.

Yes! We bonded. Right on. I thought giggling. Soon I began dancing to my own rhythm by turning up the tempo and singing 'if I had you' by Adam Lambert in my head. I was just dancing to the music that played in my head. Leaping elegantly and twirling like my instructor had taught me.

I started to sing when I noticed that everyone was staring at me. I laughed uncomfortably and sat down next to Duncan. "Sorry about that." I laughed. "That was pretty wicked." He said to me, "where did you learn that?"

I groaned, "don't ask."

He just laughed.

51 hours in.

7 of us were still awake, but a few looked on the brink of cracking. I was curiously staring at Courtney as she sheepishly jogged in place. I covered my mouth to hide a laugh.

As it turned out, Justin had been asleep the whole time. Eye painted his eyelids. Smart. Except for the fact that he got disqualified.

I yawned, I was so freaking tired, I felt my eyelids get heavy and let them droop for a moment. I leaned against the nearest thing. It felt warm and it was moving slightly. I opened my eyes to see that I had leaned against Duncan. "Whaa? Sorry!" I said standing up, slightly blushing. "What?" he asked confused by my reaction. "Its cool, I don't care." He said all casual like.

I sneered jokingly. "Yeah I'm sure you don't." I plugged in my iPod and walked away.

95 hours in.

I fell over laughing so hard I could barely breathe. Duncan had made Harold pee himself. I think I was so tired that I went insane, because I began to roll on the floor screaming: "DUDE PEED HIMSELF!" and laughing hysterically.

However soon I gained control and high five Duncan, "right on man." I said gasping for air and still laughing a bit.

"Dude I would kill for a coffee right now." Gwen said walking over to me resting her head on my shoulder. "Dude I totally feel your pain… I need my starbucks." I wined resting my head on her shoulder as well.

Instantly, as if god had given me a miracle to name and call my own… the sweet

Sweet sent of coffee beans filled my nose. I looked up. Apparently Gwen could smell it too because her head was perked up.

"What's wrong with you people? Fall asleep already!"

It was Chris. He had saved us. "Oh my god…" I said to him, "Is that… is that coffee?" I asked.

"Umm yeah.."

"You've gotta hook me up man. Ill even eat the grinds." Gwen begged reaching for the cup in his hands.

He held it up high so that she couldn't reach, "no no no! Not so fast!" he laughed.

"All right, you 6 follow me. The rest of you.. Go take a shower. Seriously, you stick." He said. "Nu-uh not so fast." I cooed from a few feet in front of him. "I want it.." I hissed readying myself into the crouching position. I saw the fear flash in his eyes and I made a beeline for the coffee cup. I ended up slamming right into him knocking him to the ground. I sat up on his chest and hooped and hollered in victory as I snatched the magical drink out of his startled hands.

I took a few sips and handed the rest to Gwen, who downed it in 3 seconds.

I already started to feel hyper again, "omg this stuff should be illegal, i'm like super hyper already!" I squealed jumping up and down.

"Oh great.." Chris huffed beckoning us to follow him.

I sat behind Eva and Duncan as Chris began to read about the history of Canada. I tuned him out by listening to cheatercheaterbestfriendeater by Christopher drew. He's my favorite.

After a few minuets Eva had fallen asleep so I stole her seat. Unfortunately I began to listen to Chris and either the coffee was wearing off or the history of Canada was really just that boring because I soon drifted off to sleep.

*Duncan's POV*

I couldn't take it anymore. This was so fucking boring. It was even more boring than the time we had to watch a documentary on the state of Michigan back in Juvie.

I was about to crack when something leaning against my shoulder stopped me. It was Esme; she had fallen asleep.

Geeze about time. I thought moving back a little so that her head fell into my lap. I smirked at how heavy a sleeper she was. He hair was so soft I just had to play with it; I was twisting it around my fingers when Trent fell over asleep. I rolled my eyes at Gwen who got al upset about it, how stupid. Unfortunately, just then Chris called a bathroom break and by now Esme had her arms wrapped around my waist. I was in no position to get up, not that I wanted too. However… I did have to pee.

"I've held it this long honey." I said to Gwen with a laugh. "Yeah, but can you hold it for another ten chapters?" she said. I thought it over; there is no way I could.

"Fine… here Chris you take her." I said picking esme up and dropping her in his arms bridal style. "What am I supposed to do with her?" he asked, "I don't know put her on the ground or something." I called to him from over my shoulder as I walked to the can.

*Esme's POV*

I woke up in my bed. How did I get here? I thought checking my watch. It had been 3 hours since the last time I checked. Shrugging it off I got up and headed to the showers. On the way there I ran into Gwen. "Hey Gwen, did you get out?"

"No I won." She said with her hands on her hips and her head held high. "You mean its over?" I asked confused.

"Yeah, and get this… I won because Duncan fell asleep on the toilet." We both burst out in laughter as we walked into the bathroom.

Once I was done with my shower I walked back to the cabin to find it all dismantled. "What the hell guys? Who did this?" I asked picking up my things making sure nothing was damaged. Great now I have to organize everything all over again. I'm totally OCD when it comes to those kinds of things.

"It was Eva and she's still in there throwing a fit that she can't find her mp3 player." Courtney told me. "God damn it!" I screamed running into the cabin.

"What the hell is you damage Eva! Just because you cant find something doesn't mean you can go and wreck other peoples things!" I screamed at her. She ran at me and lifted me up be the collar. "I. Need. My. Music." She said threw her teeth.

"Bitch you don't scare me. Now you better put me down or you will be sorry." I said to her.

"What are you going to do? Annoy me to death?"

Oh NO she didn't.

That comment sent me over the edge. I grabbed her hand and bit into it as hard as possible. She dropped my collar and backed up a few feet in fear I might bite again.

"OUUUUCCCHHHH! Oh you're SO going to pay for that!" she said running at me with her fist raised. I easily dogged it, I watched as she flew out the door and fall down the steps. Oops.

At that moment, heather walked up. Apparently she had 'found' Eva's mp3 lying by the pit. I gave Eva a death glare as she walked back into the cabin.

Exhausted I hopped onto my buck and fell asleep. I didn't wake up until all the girls started to come in. "hey guys! So who are we going to eliminate tonight?" I asked still really sleepy. "Ohh…. Well we already eliminated Eva. You looked really tired and we told Chris that no one was going to vote for you so we let you sleep. Sorry!"

"Pishaw, I would have voted her off anyway. Well thanks! And too you all in the morning!"

"Goodnight!"

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