The Jungle (A Dougie Poynter story)

Chapter 14- Pat the Rat

We all sat around talking in camp. Dougie and I were sitting on a bed, my head in his lap, and his hand in my hair while Pat was talking to Chrissy and Jess.

"I will tell you now, I promise my wife I wouldn't let anything here rife me up or piss me off but they rife me up. They piss me off." Pat said.

"Who?" Marked questioned from one of the hammocks.

"You know who pisses me off? The person who keeps getting chosen and can't even do it. You certainly don't get someone else," he nodded over to me, "to do it, because if you do this." He said waving his arms about like how Sinitta did at the trial. "Just to get in the papers and honestly, I think it's pathetic." Everyone went silent. What was you meant to say to that? "Believe me, I love Sinitta to bits but she is milking it."

"Don't you think she tried her best?" I asked.

"Yeah but if you hadn't of stepped in, we would only have three meals. She should just get in and do it especially as it's for other people too."

I looked up at Dougie and he gave me a look. We both got up and went to the bush telegraph. "Pat's got a dark side." Doug started.

"Yeah, it's kind of funny but harsh at the same time." I said and we both went back down to the bed we was on before. Pat was now complaining about Lorraine.

"I'd understand it if she was a four year old but she's a sixty years old woman who carries a teddy bear. It's not cute. She is a lovely woman, one of the nicest people I've ever met but..." Pat said, just before he could say anything else, Lorraine came up to the hole in the Sin Bins door.

"The next time there's water boiling can I have some please?" Lorraine asked.

"You can have it right now and you know why? Your one of the nicest people I've ever met. I was just telling everyone that." Pat said while getting the water.

"Why thank you." Lorraine said as she took the water.

"Lorraine I need you to toughen up for me. I need you to say 'Pat I don't like you'." Pat continued.

"I couldn't do that."

Dougie and Mark soon went up to the couch and I went over to my hammock. I could hear them talking and before I knew it, Doug had came back down to join me. He laid down with me, his arms wrapped around my body.

"Better?"

"Much."

"So who's playing beat the bugs today?" Pat asked.

"I'm good at answering questions, at home I went to a quiz night every Friday." Chrissy said.

"I'm not good with anything like that." Mark said.

"Why does that not surprise me?" I asked and everyone laughed.

"Oi!" I snuggled into Dougie more and closed my eyes for a bit. When I opened them I heard Dougie, Mark and Pat on the couch practising more questions.

"What year was the Battle of Hastings?" Pat asked them.

"It had six's in it." Mark said.

"Wasn't it the 16th century?" Dougie asked.

"1066!" I yelled up.

"At least someone here knows." Pat said. The orange team were let out of the sin bin and we all made our way up to the clearing for 'Beat the bugs'. Ian Smith was already waiting for us.

He explained to us the game for today. Items were going to go past the two celebrities and they had to remember as many things as they could to score points. We chose Mark and Jess for this and the other team chose Steph and Lorraine.

I must have not been paying attention yesterday because when they told us to sit down they said one of us had to stand up as there were only four seats and five of us.

"I'll stand up." Chrissy said.

"No, Heather stand up." Doug said. I gave him a look, "Just do it." He said. I stood up and Chrissy took my seat and Dougie pulled me down onto his lap and wrapped his arms around my waist. I sat so my legs to his side and I wrapped my arms around his neck and played with the hair at the nape of his neck. He smiled at me and kissed my cheek. I smiled and returned the favour.

"Aw!" Jess cooed, snapping us back to reality. It was like we were in our own little bubble. While this was happening I hadn't even noticed Steph and Lorraine going first. When I did, I saw Lorraine was trying to talk to Steph about Strategy but Steph wouldn't listen. When it was Jess and Mark's turn to do it they chose to say what they saw instead of Steph and Lorraine who were quiet throughout there's.

"Orange team, you remembered 12 items but blue team, you remembered 16 items." Ian said as Jess and Mark hugged while we all cheered. "Orange team, it's back to the Sin Bin and the blue team, you'll have a treat back at camp. Thanks for playing beat the bugs and I'll see you tomorrow for your last chance for immunity." Ian finished and left. The orange team left straight away but we waited a bit and sung 'We are the Campions' all the way back into camp.

I sat on my hammock while everyone talked. I wasn't really in the talking mood and I was missing home. I have never been away from my family for this long before. In the jungle you often find yourself doing nothing for long periods of time. It really gives you time to think and miss home. I miss Abby. I miss my baby. Who knew that when I came in here that I would leave with my biggest secret out in the open? I bet Liam is fighting off the paparazzi at the moment, trying to keep mum and Abby out of it all. At least I know they will be on the other side of that bridge when my time comes. I wonder how soon that will be. I don't really want to be the first to be sent home but I could be. I'm not that interesting unlike the others and if you think people will vote for romance, there's Mark and Emily, they're pretty close. I've heard people say it's all about fan base. I have a pretty big fan base but so does everyone else like look at Dougie. I knew of him before I was even famous. Oh I don't know.

I had been say on my hammock for a while now and it was starting to get dark so I went and sat on one of the logs around the campfire. Mark and Emily were flirting, well Mark was flirting and Emily was...listening.

"Do you want a bed or a hammock tonight?" Mark asked Emily.

"Hammock for sure."

"Yeah, we could get in one."

"Really, we could fit?" Emily asked.

"Yeah, make it nice and cosy." Mark said and Emily went to grab something from one of the beds.

"Mark, did you wet the bed?" Emily asked.

"Yeah, when you came back from the pool in your bikini."

"Dinner's coming." Jess said. Emily got the menu from the basket and started reading.

"Celebrities, tonight you will be having Emu Fillet." She said.

"Because burgers and chips is too much." I said causing everyone to laugh. I went to my bed not really hungry. Mark cooked dinner but before it was done I feel asleep.

I woke up this morning and everyone else was already awake. Ant and Dec came down and said Pat was doing the trial. He was really annoying me. Once he was chosen he was saying this was all 'apart of his plan'. That he wanted to do a trial.

The time came for him to walk down and Dougie and I were walking him down. We saw him over the bridge with words of encouragement before heading back to camp.

"Does he honestly think he's coming back with all 12?" I asked.

"He really does." Jess replied.