Chapter 3 : Staying Awake

Kevin's POV


I woke up to the sound of a loud air horn. I widened my eyes and then rubbed them. I looked at my watch. It was 7:00 am in the morning.


I stretched and then scratched my arm.


**


After getting changed into our casual wear, we all grouped up for Chris to explain his plans for today. I was standing next to Heather. Me and her we're starting to get pretty close after being here for a week now.


"Morning. Hope you slept well." Chris started.


"Hi, Chris. You look really buff in those shorts." Heather pointed.


"I know." He winked." Okay. I hope you're all ready because your next challenge begins in exactly one minute."


"Suck up." Heather then playfully punches me on the shoulder.


"Oh, excuse me. I don't know if that's enough time to eat breakfast." Owen fiddled his fingers.


"Oh you'll get breakfast Owen right after you complete your 20 kilometers run around the lake," Chris said.


"Oh, so you're funny now. You know what I think would be funny?" Eva started walking up to punch Chris but her team stopped her.


Courtney whispered something in Eva's ear then backed away.


"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Eva glared.


"A little. You have 30 seconds." Chris told Eva.


**


We are all lined up ready to run. Chris soon says go and you all head off.


It's been a few minutes since you've started. You and Heather walk, not wanting to run at all. "This is completely pointless!" she says.


"Totally. This is summer camp, not gym class." Heather looks ahead and sees Leshawna.


"Pick it up, people!" Chris says driving by on a moped. "If you're not back by dinner time, you don't eat!"


I crouch down and Heather mounts onto my back. "Mush! Mush!" I start running at a pretty good speed. I soon run past by Leshawna.


"Hey, Leshawna! Bet you wished you had your own ride!" As I run past her, Leshawna scowls at the both of us. Surprisingly, I and Heather actually make it quicker than most of the teens.


Owen, holding an unconscious Noah, bursts in through the door.


"Clear a table STAT!" He shouted.


Leshawana followed in shortly after falling to her knees.


"Oh. We made it." She heavily sighed.


We watched Owen attempt to do CPR on Noah.


"What took you so long? We just lost the challenge." Courtney stated.


"I think I'm having heart palpitations." Harold held his chest.


"Hey, wait a minute. If they lost that means we won the challenge." Gwen said with a smile.


All of us started to cheer for our victory.


"Woah there. Hold your horse's guys, that wasn't the challenge." Chris corrected.


I knew there had to be more.


"What did you just say?" Gwen raised an eyebrow.


"Who's hungry?" Chris asked traveling a huge meal prepared on the table.


/Gwen: "After a whole week of brown sludge. I almost cried when I saw that buffet."\


\Kevin: " I honestly couldn't believe that food was real. I still don't I just have a feeling he up to something."\


After eating my stomach felt like it could pop at any second.


"Okay campers. Time for part two of your challenge." Chris yelled through his megaphone.


"I thought eating was the second part," Owen commented.


"What more do you want from us?" Gwen asked.


"Ugh. The weird goth girl is right. Haven't we been through enough?" Heather snarled rubbing her stomach.


"Um. Let me think about that. No. It's time for the awake-athon." Chris announced.


"The what-athon?" Owen questioned.


"Don't worry. This is an easy one. The team with the last camper standing wins invincibility."


"So what you're saying is the 20K run, and the Turkey eating frenzy was part of your evil plan to make it harder for us to stay awake." Gwen narrowed her eyes.


"That's right Gwen." Chris grinned.


"Man he's good." She crossed her arms.


"MOVE MOVE MOVE!" Chris yelled through his megaphone.


"So. How long do you think it'll be before everyone's out cold?" I asked Heather.


"About an hour. Give our take?"


The two of us watched Owen tiredly walk by drooling.


"Maybe less." She commented.


**
Chris explains that it's been twelve hours and so far no one has fallen asleep. Owen says that he could stay awake for twelve hours in his sleep before immediately falling to the ground.


"This is absolute torture" Heather yawns.


"It could be worse," I say yawning as well.


"Oh really?" Heather asks. "How?"


"I could be stuck here without a beautiful female to talk with, " I tell her winking, making her blush. She looks away with a tiny smile on her face.


A while later Heather looks over to see Lindsay and Beth hanging out. She smiles deviously at the two.


\ Heather: "So my strategy is to get two other campers to form an alliance with me Kevin and take to the final four. Then we'll dump them and face off in the final two. The only question is who can I find that is either desperate or dumb enough to do whatever I say?"/


\Kevin:  "I should probably stop flirting with Heather before I start to creep her out."/


"Perfect. Lindsay, Beth, can we talk to you for a sec?" Both of them walk over to me and Heather.


"Okay, we have a plan to get me, Kevin, and two other campers into the final four and I chose you guys," Heather said.


'Well, at least she doesn't seem to find me creepy. With my flirting.'


Lindsay and Beth are ecstatic. "You should know that this is a very big deal. I have already placed some trust in Kevin, but now I am placing it in you and trust is a two-way street. So you'll do everything I say then?" Lindsay and Beth agree without a second thought.


"Speaking of alliances, do you know who I think is really cute?" Lindsay bites her lip while gawking at Tyler.


"Oh no. No, no, no. You can't date him" Heather protests.


"Why not?" Lindsay asks.


"Because he's on the other team!"Heather said as  Lindsay still doesn't seem to understand. "You can't inter-team date. It's like, against the alliance rules!" Lindsay looks confused as she has been a lot since we all arrived.


"There are rules?" she asks.


"Remember what I just said about trust, Lindsay?" Heather asks. "Of course, you can always leave the alliance. If you do, though, I can't protect you from being voted off."


Lindsay pleads, wanting to stay in the alliance, which pleases Heather. "Good! Then it's settled!"


We all go sit back down while Lindsay looks back at Tyler who waves at her. She waves back with a smile.


Eva says that she's going to the bathroom. Without notching, her MP3 player falls out of her pocket and Heather soon picks it up with a devious smile on her face.


**


11 Hours and 59 Minutes Later...


The sun has set and it is now night time. I continually slap myself in the face trying to stay awake, but it slowly starts to have no effect.


I hang my head low as Chris congratulates us all for making it to the 24 mark. Kicking it up a notch, Chef shows up in a lamb outfit holding a harp. Chris finds some fairy tale books.


I groan, realizing I won't last much longer. As Chris reads his book about a boring kingdom with a boring village filled with boring people who did boring things, Chef starts playing his harp. Later, he shows up in a ballerina costume throwing fairy dust at people. He throws it at me and I begin to yawn.


I look over to see Courtney treading in place.


"We should talk about our strategy," Heather tells me.


"Sure. Where's Lindsay and Beth?" I ask. I look over to see them both asleep.


"Whatever. We can strategize without them."


You both have your own conversation on how to slowly take out each camper.


"We should keep a lookout for any relationships" Heather suggested.


" That way we can tear them apart and even better, turn against each other. A female who's plays dirty very attractive." I said making her blush again. We both try to keep our talk quiet so that no one else can hear us.


"When should we dump Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber?" I ask, making Heather snicker.


"Which one would be which?" Heather laughs.


"I think it's pretty obvious who's Tweedle Dumber!" I point at a sleeping Lindsay. We both laugh to yourselves, but immediately stop when you see Owen walking into the woods...but he wasn't wearing his clothes. "Kevin...do you have something to wash my eyes out from seeing that?"


**


A while later I'm looking at the stars while laying on the ground with Heather.


"Who do you think is gonna be kicked out this time?" I ask her.


"If I had to guess..." she looks over to see Eva still awake. "Maybe Noah or something." A few minutes pass the two of us not saying a word to each other.


"What would you do with the money?" I ask her. Heather chuckles.


"I would start my own business of beauty products so that one day all the ugly people out there could almost look as great as me!" I chuckle to myself, seeing that seems like something Heather would use the money for.


"Do you think I'm ugly?" I ask her. "Heather turns towards me and stares and for a while.


"No I wouldn't say your ugly more like a guy with a feminine face," she says with a smirk.


"Is that an insult or a compliment?" I asked.


"You have to figure that yourself, " she said quickly looking away.


A few days pass and I crave the sweet sweet embrace of sleep. A few more days pass and I haven't fallen asleep yet.


"I'd kill for a coffee right now" Gwen yawns.


"What is the matter with you people?" Chris asks before sipping a coffee.


"Come on! Fall asleep already!" Gwen falls to Chris's feet.


"You gotta hook me up, man! I'll even eat the grinds!Anything!"


Chris tells the remaining five to stay and for everyone else to go and take a shower. Chris tells the rest of us that he didn't want it to come to this, but since we're still awake, he has to do it. He pulls out the book of the history of Canada.


"A pop-up book, chapter one, the beaver. The national symbol and a dam fine hat." Everyone groans as Chris continues.


A few minutes pass and I see Heather slowly closing her eyes. "Come on, Heather, stay with me!" Heather looks up at me and tries with all her might to stay awake, but she falls to the ground and ends up pulling me down with her. We both hit the ground we both become embraced with the sweet release of sleep.


**


Heather's POV


I woke up to someone tapping my shoulder. I opened my eyes to see I had my head resting on Kevin's chest. I blushed and looked away from him embarrassed I was so close to him.


"If I didn't know any better. I would think you enjoy laying your head on my chest, " He said smirking.


"Shut up! No, I don't!" I said with a scowl.


"Whatever you say anyway the challenge is over. Gwen won for our team."


"Good well I'm taking a shower!" I said walking away not wanting to deal with him talking about me enjoying laying my head on his chest. I could him chuckling at my quick retreat.


**


Kevin's POV


After a nice long shower. I was heading back to my cabin and saw Heather and Lindsay sitting on the cabin porch. I saw them both talking with each other and heard the girl name Eva screaming.


"Bye-bye psycho!" Heather laughs.


"What was her name again? Emily?" Lindsay asks confused.


"No, Lindsay. Her name was Eva" Heather tell her.


"Nice play making them lose there strongest member, " I said making her give me a small smile.


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