Now, for the next chapter. Thanks for reviewing, RivaFlo101.

I was woken up the next morning by a shrill voice yelling "Wake up!"

I opened my eyes, and soon realized the yell wasn't for me. Amy was shoving Sammy out ot the treehouse. "Go with Jasmine and get me some food!" the mean twin ordered. "And don't be all lazy like you were when you were born!"

I woke up fully at that, and stepped up. "Amy, two words. Shut. Up. None of us want to hear it. You tried to kill Sammy yesterday, you blamed her for being the second twin today. That's enough!"

Sammy and Jasmine were already out of the tree and walking together, but it didn't matter. Amy screwed up her face at me. "You're calling her Sammy? She's Samey!"

"Like I care what everyone else calls her." I snapped back. "She's only called Samey because that's what you call her. I think she'd know what her real name is. Meaning, it's Sammy!"

Amy was looking hopelessly confused now. "I don't get you." she said. "I mean, since when does ANYONE side with Samey-"

"You say one more word and you will not have fun." I warned. I was reaching my boiling point.

Amy didn't listen, "I mean, I'm the better twin, I'm perfect, and Samey is-"

I pushed Amy out of the treehouse. "Oops!" Hey, it wasn't that far to fall. The second Amy hit the ground, she was fine, apart from a few bruises.

"Campers!" Chris' voice echoed through the island via loudspeaker. "The only good thing about this morning is that it's gonna get worse...for you! There's a path heading into the forest. Follow it to today's challenge!"

By the time Jasmine and Sammy got all the berries, we were ready to go. We divided all of them up equally. I should add that I was the only one that called Sammy by her real name. Everyone else had picked up on what Chris said and called her Samey.

"Glad you got berries, Amy." Topher commented. "They have all the antioxidants that give my skin that healthy camera-worthy glow."

"I got the berries, not Amy!" Sammy protested.

"Oink, oink, spot the attention hog!" Amy shot back. "I was the one who, like, made you go!"

I was walking with Scarlett, while Max was boasting to us. "I have created a plan so diabolical, so evil, so-" As the loudspeaker's call to walk faster interrupted, I caught Scarlett's eye and rolled my eyes at Max. She nodded and smiled. Clearly she found Max's insistence of being evil as ridiculous as I did. Especially when he answered the loudspeaker's order with a "Yes, sir!"

Our challenge was an obstacle course, in which each of us would tackle a different obstacle. First, there was a greased up bridge over a bed of thorns. Then there was a greasy zipline over a chasm. After that, there were these greasy tubes the player had to go through, followed by greased tyres for the fourth player. Then the next player had a wheelbarrow race across a greased up ground. The last player would climb a rope up a greasy wall. Whoever got over the wall first won the challenge for their team.

Oh yeah, and Chris originally wanted us to take a relay baton, but we didn't have any, so he made each player take a greased-up pig.

Topher was getting annoying, laughing uproariously at every joke Chris made, and complimenting him every five seconds.

"But there are only six obstacles, and we're a team of eight!" Scarlett pointed out.

"Four of you will have to double up on two sections of the race." Chris answered. "Now, decide who's on what, cause the race is about to start!"

"Jasmine, me?" Rodney said. "Sure do! No, wait, I mean-" He didn't seem to know what he meant.
I gave a sigh. "Rodney," I said patiently, "Jasmine didn't say anything to you." At that moment, Rodney froze, staring at me vacantly. I frowned. "What?"

Rodney spoke again. "Kerry...I-"

"Stop talking!" Amy snapped at him, punching him in the stomach. "Samey and me will partner up, end of story!" This time, Rodney stared at her.

"Wouldn't be fair to stick one of you with Samey." Amy continued. "She's horrible at everything."

I shot Sammy a sympathetic look and then looked at everything. "Can I do the tyres?" I asked. I wasn't too bad at stepping around things like that. "Someone can partner up with me."

Jasmine took charge again. "Rodney goes first, Topher second, Amy and Samey third, Scarlett and Kerry on tyres, Max on the wheelbarrow, I'll take the wall. Go, go! Hop to it like kangaroos!" I knew Jasmine was Australian. She'd just made a reference to a native Australian animal!

On that note, I was starting to get used to Jasmine, and I wasn't so intimidated by her any more. She was a bit bossy, but still a good leader. And once you got past her size, she seemed like a nice person.

While we waited for Rodney to be done and able to pass the pig to Topher, Max showed Scarlett and I his latest invention from across the tyres.

"Um...what is it?" Scarlett called across.

"It's a helmet of evil, obviously!" Max answered. "This will turn any animal into an evil companion!" He put it on a rabbit. "Ooh, look how diabolical it's becoming! Isn't it terrifying?" The rabbit didn't look or act any different.

"Oh yes, it's soooo scary!" I said sarcastically.

"Goosebumps, Max!" Scarlett added in a sarcastic monotone (but it could be mistaken for genuine). "I have goosebumps." We rolled our eyes at each other when Max stopped looking at us.

Rodney did okay. Just okay. I mean, he looked useless next to Sky, who gave her pig one last shove that sent it flying across the grease, and then rode on it until it got through the obstacle. However, Topher more than made up for it, ziplining perfectly, while Shawn fell down the chasm.

Believe it or not, before handing the pig over to the twins, Topher tried to do the announcement to cut to commercial. Chris caught him in the middle of it, and quickly reminded him that it was the host who was supposed to do that.

Sugar cooed over her pig, wasting time, but she still got into the pipes before the twins. I could hear them talking.

"Just get it in the tube already!" Amy ordered. "I'm the beauty and the brains, you're the doer of stuff that sucks!"

It was actually the pig that ran into the pipe, probably sick of hearing of Amy's annoying voice. On its leash, it basically dragged the twins through the pipes. They were covered in grease by the end.

Scarlett pulled out some pecans from her skirt pocket that Sammy and Jasmine got for us that morning. "Pigs love pecans." she explained.

Ella was standing next to us when Sugar came out of the pipes. "I'll take it from here." she said.

Sugar held onto the pig. "No! I'm keeping her – or him...her, him...is mine! Forever!"

Ella paused. Finally, she said, "Well...maybe I can just piggysit her for a bit?" She didn't wait for an answer, and simply began singing. "Hey there, little girl, or fella, if you came over here, it'd be mighty swella!"

The Maskwak's pig loved Ella's singing, and immediately ran to her. However, Ella did slow them down by singing and dancing across the tyres.

Finally, the twins and our pig came out. Scarlett made a trail of pecans so the pig would follow us.

"I'm sweaty and disgusting!" Amy complained, glaring at Sammy. "I look like you!"

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Sammy apologized. "But you were the one that scared the pig."

"You beg my pardon?" snapped Amy. "Whose fault is this?"

"Mine."

"Yes! Always!"

"Kick Amy off first." I muttered to Scarlett as I hopped greasy tyres. She shrugged, running nimbly through the tyres.

Ella got told off by Chris for singing, which also scared her pig and slowed her down.

"Bring me the pig!' Max ordered us. "I command it!"

The pig was soon in the wheelbarrow. Max passed his helmet to Scarlett. "Hold this while I limber up."

I noticed a plug on the helmet. "Um...did he have that in when he put it on the rabbit?" I whispered. Scarlett shook her head.

I grinned. "Let's see if it works!" There was a smirk on Scarlett's face for a split second, before she plugged the helmet in and placed it on the pig's head.

It did work. Actually, the pig kept throwing grease at Max.

"The helmet works!" I called over, giggling. "It's an awesome invention, Max!" Scarlett stayed quiet and serious, but I could tell she agreed with me.

Dave freaked out at all the grease he got over him, but he got the pig to Leonard before Max got ours to Jasmine. Sky managed to calm him down, anyway.

Stopping the wheelbarrow actually hurled the pig (and helmet) forward, so the helmet broke, and Jasmine didn't have too much trouble with it. She managed to calm the pig down, and then climbed with it. And she won!

Granted, Jasmine's win would've been more impressive if Leonard hadn't been trying to levitate the pig rather than climbing, but she was still pretty damn skilled. We all cheered, except for Max. I high fived Scarlett, who turned to our other teammate. "Come on, Max, we won!"

We had chicken beaks and feet as our prize, so I decided to stick with the berries. Maybe I'd go foraging myself tomorrow.

The dynamic in our team was getting better. Sammy was getting pretty friendly with Jasmine. Scarlett was loosening up, the more time I spent with her. Everyone on the team was around sixteen, but at the start, you couldn't have told that with her. Now, she was still quiet and serious, but she smiled and talked to me like anyone else.

Rodney was weird. He said something to Jasmine, and then ran off in tears. I sidled up to her. "Did you get any of that?" I asked.

Jasmine shook her head. "I don't understand anything he's said to me."

I grinned. "Me, neither. Poor guy. He sounded like he wanted to tell you something important that he'd have to apologize for."

I talked a little bit to Sammy, too. "I was listening to you and Amy." I said quietly. "Why do you let her push you around? I called her out on it this morning, in fact – pushed her out of the treehouse."

Sammy smiled briefly, then shrugged. "She's never really treated me that nicely. But everyone always takes her side. She's the pretty popular one, and the smartest."

I frowned. "Well, I don't know you that well, so I can't comment on most of those. Obviously Amy's more popular, I can tell from your lack of self esteem. I don't think Amy's any smarter than you, but I don't know either of you well enough. But she's not the pretty one. You guys are almost identical. How can she be the pretty one? Besides, she has that awful birthmark – you don't, so obviously, you're the pretty one."

"R-Really?" Sammy said, looking completely shocked.

I smiled at her. "Really. Hey, are you going to go foraging again tomorrow?"

Sammy smiled. "Jasmine is. If she wants me to come along. I will." She sighed. "Amy will probably make me, anyway."

"Can I come?" I asked. "We should get as much as possible, you know, so if we don't win or get something disgusting as a prize, we still have something to eat later on."

"You don't have to ask me." Sammy answered. "You can do what you want."

Leonard was eliminated that night. No surprises there.

Ugh, Kerry is way too nice! I need to do more with her! It's just because she has a lot of sympathy towards Sammy and she can't stand Amy. Please review!