London stood atop the Sky Deck under the light of the full moon. A red carpet rolled out in front of her, but for once it was not for her. As people began to fill the many seats set up for the occasion, the camera focused on her. The heiress stepped up to the stage and signaled for Woody to begin filming.
"Good evening, and welcome to another exciting episode of Yay Me, Staring London Tipton! I'm your host London Tipton!" Woody inserted applause from his laptop. "Now, I'm sure all of you are wondering, why this isn't being filmed in my room. Well, that room is hideous."
"London, just announce what we're doing," Bailey shouted from off screen.
"Fine, please welcome my co-hosts for this chapter, my horribly dressed roommate Bailey, and my two poor friends, Zack and Cody."
"Thanks, London," Bailey said sarcastically as the three of them joined her on the stage.
"We understand that some of you have written some stories about our life on the ship and the hotel," Zack proclaimed.
"And we think it's about time we recognize the best stories out there," Cody added.
London flipped her long dark hair over her shoulder and tried to regain the lemon-light. "Over the past month, a few of our fans have been searching for the best stories out there, and we've found some good ones."
"So, London, which stories stood out to you?" Cody asked.
"Those that had me in it, duh," the heiress replied, rolling her eyes.
Cody turned to his twin brother. "Uh, what about you, Zack?"
"Those that had lots of action and explosions," he answered enthusiastically.
"You people are hopeless," Cody said and threw up his hands. "You couldn't appreciate the brilliant descriptions those authors wove into the stories? The great suspense and character development? The creative plot twists?"
"Some of them were funny," the older twin countered.
"Why do I bother?"
"Don't worry, Cody, I found some of the romance stories incredible," Bailey said as she stepped forward.
"Really?" Cody beamed.
Bailey snickered. "Of course, I can think of one story about a farm girl who comes on a ship for school and meets the man of her dreams."
Cody blushed. "Aw, you're so sweet Bales."
At this, Bailey gave a smirk. "I never said who she fell in love with."
"Well, if you're done with your boring mushy stuff, let's see who the nominations are!" Zack said. "The envelope please, Woodster."
"Right here, Zack." Woody joined his friends on stage with a paper in one hand and a jelly doughnut in the other.
Zack dramatically unfolded the paper and made the announcement. "I have no idea what this says."
"Zack, they're words," Cody informed him. "That means you have to read them,"
"I know that, Cody, it's just the paper is covered in jelly filling." Zack held up the sticky, jelly-smeared page.
All four hosts glared at Woody.
"What? I was hungry." Nervously Woody looked down and then back up at the group. "Don't worry, I have it saved on my flash drive. It should still be in my laptop."
"Uh-oh," Zack said as a look of fear came across his face.
"What's wrong now?" Cody asked.
"I wondered why that ham and cheese sandwich was crunchy."
"Great, now what do we do?" Cody asked despairingly.
"I guess we have to hope the committee has a back-up file somewhere," Bailey said.
"Preferably one my brother did not eat," grumbled Cody. "London, you tell the viewers what we have planned, and we'll go get the nominations."
"Sounds good," London said as the other three left the stage. "Loyal viewers, we have been working hard finding the best stories out there, and we need your help to decide on the best of the best. And if you're lucky, we might even have some special guests coming. Yay guests!"
A/N: Unlike most of the awards done in the past, the original nominations were chosen by a committee of prominent readers on the site. While we have attempted to find the best stories here, we might have missed some, so in addition to the current nominations, I'll add one story of your choice in the following categories: Adventure, Romance, Tragedy, Comedy, and Drama. Please pm your votes to me, and I'll start reveling the nominations next chapter. Special thanks to Elianna22 for betaing this chapter for me
