Okay, this is my first fanfiction ever, so please go easy on me. This is also my first time uploading a story on here, so I might mess something up. XP Sorry if any of the characters seem OOC. I tried as hard as I could to keep them in character.

So, this is pretty much DuncanXCourtney stuff. It takes place after Sadie gets voted off, but it says that in the story, so I don't know why I'm repeating myself. P It features two OCs (not coupled with a cannon character, though) and Duncan showing his softer side. If you don't like either, you might as well turn away right now. So, read and review, please! No flaming!

BTW, Words that look like this are Courtney's thoughts as the everts were taking place and stuff in italics is somebody on the other end of a phone.

Okay, I'm done now. Enjoy the story! D

Chapter 1

Sometimes, you know exactly what a person is like just by looking at them

Sometimes, you know exactly what a person is like just by looking at them. The same thing applies to some of the people here on Total Drama Island.

By looking at Eva, you'd think she's some female-Hulk psycho.

She is.

By looking at Lindsay, you'd think she's a ditzy blonde.

She is.

By looking at Harold, you'd think he's the biggest geek in Canada.

He definitely is.

But sometimes, you can't judge a book by its cover. The same thing also applies to some of the people here on Total Drama Island.

By looking at Gwen, you'd think she'd be the most unpleasant girl to speak to on the face of the Earth. She's actually not that bad of a person. I've talked to her a few times and she's actually kind of nice.

By looking at DJ, you'd think he'd be some macho jerk who always make people feel his muscles to prove how big they are. He's probably one of the sweetest guys I've ever met. He's so cute with his little pet bunny.

Then, there's Duncan.

By looking at that ogre, you'd think he was the most disgusting, filthy, rude, overly-cocky, insensitive jerk ever born.

Well, he is.

But apparently, there's this other side to him, a side that he doesn't want to show people because he thinks they'll think less of him. A sweeter side, a side to show that there actually is a soul somewhere underneath all of those piercings.

It all started after Sadie was voted off. I had to pull some strings with the rest of the team to make sure she got voted off instead of DJ. He may have blown the last challenge for us by taking off his blindfold for a second, but at least he didn't repeatedly bombard me with crabapples!

Sorry, I'm getting off subject. That just really ticked me off.

Anyway, after Sadie ran off bawling, I guess Duncan got bored, so he got up and left. He does that after almost every night. He doesn't even say goodbye or where he's going, he just flat-out leaves! Talk about rude! Nobody else seemed to notice that night, but I did. And no, it's not because I like him. I don't! I just happened to see him out of the corner of my eye. I'd always wondered where he went, so I decided that night would be a good one to investigate.

The rest of the guys all said their goodbyes and headed toward their cabin. Bridgette walked up to me, yawned, and said, "I'm going to bed. You coming?"

Still looking at the path that Duncan had taken, I told her, "No… I think I'll take a walk first. You know… to clear my head."

She shrugged and started to walk toward our cabin. "Okay. See you later."

"Bye." After she was out of sight, I quietly walked along the path that Duncan had taken. I HAD to follow him. Who knows what he could have snuck off to do? I was not going to have our team get in trouble just because he felt like having a little chaotic fun! If it wasn't for me being here to control him, he'd be back in Juvy by now and we'd be short yet another player!

Turns out that Duncan had walked toward the mess hall. Why would he go there? Did he want MORE of Chef's slop? Even Duncan isn't that crazy!After thinking that, I saw him walk behind the hall. What on Earth is he going to do? I snuck over to the side that Duncan had gone to, but not fully. I just snuck enough so that I could spy on him behind a trash can.

Weird, the garbage smelled better that Chef's cooking.

But there was no time to think about that. I got down on my hands and knees and made myself as small as possible. That way, when I caught Duncan doing something that he wasn't supposed to be doing, I could pop out and stop him. I had never spied on anyone before. I actually felt this little adrenaline rush.

I titled my head so you could barely see my eyes over the side of the can. It didn't really matter, anyway. Duncan was leaning on the wall and facing forward, so he wasn't even looking at me. He pulled something out of his pocket. I was pretty sure it was a cell phone, considering that he pressed some buttons on it and put it to his ear.

He mumbled to himself, "I hope she picks up…"

After a few seconds of silence, I could hear a faint "Hello?" from his phone. Duncan got a small smile and said, "Hey, Zoey. It's me."

"Duncie? Hi!" Yeesh, she has the squeakiest voice. And who's Zoey?

"How's my sweetie pie doin'?" Sweetie pie? Does he have annoying nicknames for every girl he's ever met?

"I'm great! How's the island?"

"It sucks, as always."

They kept talking for, like, an hour. I sort of drifted off during some parts of the conversation, but what stuck out was the last thing he said.

She must have told him she loved him, because he said, "Love you, too, babe. Be sure to tell Selena the same thing. 'Night."

Hanging up, he put the cell phone back into his pocket. He had his usual uninterested look back on his face again as he walked toward his cabin. He walked past me and I froze, trying not to make a sound. He luckily didn't notice me.

I sat there for a while, comprehending what all of this meant. Did Duncan already have a girlfriend? And he was flirting with me? That… that pig!

Getting up and walking back to my cabin, I silently thought to myself, How could somebody do that while they already have a girlfriend? And who the heck is Selena? Oh, my gosh… Does he have two girlfriends?! And the first one's okay with that? What a skank!

I swore to myself that I was gonna give him a piece of my mind the next day. I didn't care if he was mad that I was spying on him, I wasn't going to let Duncan get away with having some dirty love rectangle.