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Promised I would update this story every two challenges so here it is!

(Hallway)

I walked down the hall at a casual grace, not going anywhere in particular, just wanting to think about a few events over the past few days. First off, since my 'confrontation' of sorts with Jessie, I had immediately kept a safe distance from her. She didn't even bat an eye in my presence, still politely nodding to me if I entered a room and whatnot. Still, I knew she would be a problem down the line and I should take care of her, at least eventually.

The last few challenges were very interesting from that Sasquatchinakwa chase, the growing animosity between Andrew and Leshawna, the Alpha nerd Harold's ridiculous investigation, and that little cow Heather saving Bridgette from having her head smashed in. Those parts were definitely unique and I'll make sure to keep them in mind.

Anyway, I had immediately started to analyze the two newcomers in the punk and dumb party guy. Geoff was hopelessly naive and was too easily to 'befriend' with an intro from DJ as he was hospitalized in the hotel's infirmary. The doctor had said that after a few days of healing, he could use a crutch to get around. The man was worried over the safety of his girl, but I was the one to tell him that Bridgette still had some friends on the island, which no doubt increased my standing in his eyes.

As for Duncan...the guy was rude and almost immediately gave me the nickname 'pretty boy' due to my godlike good looks. I had to stop myself from strangling the arrogant slimeball, but knew it would be bad and would cause some problems amongst the others. He was teasing, annoying and took every opportunity possible to belittle my so called 'girlish' features. Bad enough Noah always took shots at me, but now I had to take it from a guy who looks to be a reject from a Metallica concert.

I soon stopped hearing some noises from one of the living areas I had just passed, I heard Katie's voice "we don't know that for sure. He didn't say anything about it so we don't know if it's true."

"But the way he looked after what Harold said.."

"Sthadie." Now THAT was Beth's voice, I'd recognized the little ugly piglet's lisp anywhere "there are other guysth."

"But he's so tough and hot." Sadie said dreamily.

I politely knocked the door out of curiosity and opened it to see Lindsay, Beth, and the Wonder Twins sitting around a couch with the fat Twin in the middle. The other three seemed to be comforting her over one thing or another. Normally, I'd stay out of it, but what can I say? I was bored and my curiosity got the better of me.

"Oh hi Justin." Katie smiled friendlily "need something?"

"No, but am I interrupting something?" I asked with a confused expression.

Lindsay smiled "nothing Jared, just helping Sally on what to do with Anthony."

OK, so in translation, they were giving her advice with Andrew. It was a badly kept secret that Sadie developed a crush on the martial arts guy from the old Bass team. She always sighed and looked dreamily at the guy whenever he appeared on the tube. I hardly knew the guy besides that run in during the paintball hunt challenge. THAT wasn't fun with the bear run in.

Katie smiled tolerantly and led me out "sorry, but this is a girl's talk only."

I made sure to shrug, not wishing to start a conflict "sorry, but have to admit, it's a little strange to see you two like two different kinds of guys."

Katie giggled "yeah well, I like the sweet kind ones and Sadie's always had a thing for tough guys."

"that's interesting. So your talking about what Geoff said about Andrew having a girl back home?"

"Yeah." The tan twin nodded "Sadie was worried that he would, but we're trying to give her some advice if he doesn't."

I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow "but does he even know she exists?"

Katie frowned, causing me to make sure I wince "sorry, that came out harsh. Well, have fun."

The twin's frown vanished and she nodded, waving politely "see ya."

Giving one last friendly smile, I continued to walk down the hall and I realized I had entered the hotel's library. It was decently sized and had two levels to it with a few comfortable chairs scattered around the place. I looked around to find it mostly empty, except for a nearby Noah, who was lounging nearby. I inwardly frowned as he looked up "oh look, it's the Mr Universe wannabe."

"Ha ha, Noah." I outwardly frowned this time.

Noah shrugged "anyway, why are you here?"

"I was just going for a walk and I was passing by." I explained.

Noah smirked "lost? You've been here longer than most of us and still can't find your way around? Wow, you probably need a map."

I rolled my eyes "do you ever stop?"

He asked a question of his own "shove anyone in front of bears lately?"

Oh no I was NOT going through this again! Beth had forgiven me for that, but Noah was still a little irritated by that incident "I said sorry for that like a million times."

Noah scoffed "still a dumb thing to do."

I rubbed my shoulder, remembering another part of that incident "I can still feel when Andrew judo flipped me after I came up from behind him."

Noah scowled at that.

I noticed this sudden look of irritation and asked "he do something to you?" I then smirked in realization "still confused why he seemed to stand up for Heather?"

Noah stood up "after that crap she pulled on Beth, she doesn't deserve anyone protecting her."

"Little harsh from you."

Noah shrugged "it's human nature. Now this growing 'nice." He used air quotes "thing is convincing Laura and the others. Trust me, it basic human nature. Deep down we all want something and she wants to fool the others."

I shrugged, taking note of this "whatever, I'm out of here." I turned...

Only to come face to face with an entering Jessie only a few feet away. Silence followed for the briefest of seconds as I smiled.

She didn't smile back.

I walked past her nodding politely "Jessie."

"Justin."

I went through the door way and closed it almost all the way to overhear the sudden talk with Noah starting "you don't like Fancy Face either?"

I heard Jessie speak "there's something about him that is very...dark Noah."

"What? Him? Come on, the guy's a pretty boy too worried to get his nails dirty to try anything." He paused "although he does seem a little distant."

CREAAAAK.

The floorboard squeaked, leading me to hastily make my exit. I scowled to myself 'knew it. She would be a problem. At least it's a useless book geek like Noah instead of a useful one like DJ or Owen.'

I walked down a few more hallway's, again impressed by the interior and fancy design when I heard a loud explosion "BOOOOOM!"

"WOOOOO! SICK!" I then heard Owen shout

After making sure nothing was on fire, I peeked inside to see a soot covered room with Marcus, Eva, Tyler, and Owen sitting down in front of a TV blown to bits with what looked likes a combination of a PS3 and and XBOX 360 in on the ground in a mixture of white and black .

Owen noticed me and waved enthusiastically "HI JUST! We were just playing a video game."

I blinked in surprise "a game that resulted in a blown up TV? And speaking of games, the hell is that thing?"

Marcus grinned proudly and stood up, gesturing to "it's a PS 360! combines the graphics of both systems and can use both PS 2 games and XBOX 360 games."

Tyler chuckled sheepishly "yeah, Marcus built that thing out of two spare consoles we had and the TV apparently couldn't handle it."

Eva threw her controller angrily "DAMN IT! I was about to smoke you guys and the wussy TV couldn't handle it."

Tyler looked a little annoyedly at his girlfriend "hey babe, I was about to snipe you when the thing broke."

Owen shrugged "it was cool, but what I liked was the TV BLEW UP! That was SO COOL!"

I inwardly scoffed. His freak of a girlfriend was effecting him even when she wasn't here. He actually like the TV blowing up and not the games? Sheesh, maybe Izzy had an opening in the psycho ward where she was from.

Marcus then looked at the combined device "clearly needs more tests."

"Yeah dude." Tyler grinned "seriously, if you can make those things, you can make a KILLING off profits."

"Won't he need permission from the companies?" I pointed out.

He paused in thought and nodded "oh right."

I then decided to get some thoughts on the last challenge so I asked "so guy's, interesting challenge a few days ago."

"HAHAHAHA!" Eva cackled, causing me to flinch as the woman still scared me a little "yeah, that Crackpot in Training getting nailed in the head and falling on those needles made my day."

"Although it was real bad when Geoff fell." Owen put in.

Eva shrugged "eh, he's still alive isn't he? He'll live."

"Yeah, and I never thought Heather would actually save Bridgette like that. I have to admit, that was kinda cool." Tyler put in with a smile, only to see Eva's scoff.

"Please, that Bitch probably wanted her to suffer and threw her to those cactus's because the others would blame her for not saving her if her head slammed against those rocks."

"Eva..." Tyler started to speak, only for Eva to walk out muttering "I'm going to the pool."

I looked at this and turned to Tyler "she really doesn't like her."

"Yeah." the non athletic jock shrugged "guess she still doesn't like how Heather stole her MP3 and almost got her kicked off. Eva said she would have thrown a fit and would scare some of the others if that had happened. Thank goodness for Zeke."

Marcus looked up from the console after he was done fiddling with it with a few tools "well, that should decrease the effects, but we should find another TV."

Owen snickered "yeah, Chris will be ticked to find out this happened."

I smirked "well, we're not paying for it."

The other three chuckled at this with Tyler saying "good point."

I waved goodbye and continued my walk, interested in how the day was going and decided to visit Geoff in the infirmary. I walked the considerable distance to the small hospital like room to see him, DJ, and Duncan playing a game of poker on Geoff's medical bed.

DJ looked up and nodded "s'up man? wanna play?"

I waved him off "meh, I was in the area and just thought I stopped by." I turned to Geoff, making sure a look of concern was on my face "so when's that cast coming off?"

The party man shrugged "don't know. Maybe a few months or so. It was really bad."

Duncan scoffed "bad? Your lucky you didn't crack your skull and kill yourself."

Geoff shrugged again "meh, I'll take what I can get." His face then turned concerned as her rubbed his blond hair, having given his hat to his surfer girlfriend "I just hope Bridge will be fine."

DJ waved him off "your worrying over nothing. Bridgette can handle herself."

I spoke in from next to Geoff "besides she's got your friend Andrew looking after her. I say she's safe."

I then noticed the strained look on Duncan's face as I remembered that his girlfriend and Andrew were seemingly coming to blows. I decided to ask "still troubled over what's going on with Leshawna?"

"That is none of your business." Duncan scoffed, not even looking in my direction.

Geoff turned to him "I know you care about Leshawna but Andrew's our bro and remember 'bros before..."

DJ cut him off with a smack on the arm "DUDE! Don't call girls that!"

The resident party moron pouted and rubbed his arm "oh not cool man. I'm already injured here."

I chuckled "aw, suck it up and don't be a baby."

Duncan looked up from his cards at me "look pretty boy, we're in the middle of something."

I frowned "hey, I was just checking up on Geoff. No need to be hostile."

"Whatever, go back to your manicures and shampoos girly man."

'That's it, I'm gonna kill this damn' I started to think as my eyes flashed in rage for a brief moment, then calmed down.

I walked out saying "see ya."

Geoff and DJ looked up from their cards at me "later."

"What was that?" Duncan called out suddenly, leaving his cards on the bed.

I turned to him "excuse me?"

"You looked ready to kill me for a second there."

I blinked, putting on a confused expression "huh?"

Geoff raised an eyebrow "I'm sure it was your imagination. You've been a little distracted with some stuff recently."

A phone went off, cutting the conversation off, and Duncan looked down with a smirk "oh yeah."

"Expecting a call?" DJ asked.

Duncan grinned as he stood up "let's just say it's very important." He walked past me, giving me a brief stare, and continued as I heard "hey Mom, you got my message? Listen, I've got to tell you some stuff."

I decided it wasn't really anything interesting and walked off.

A few hours later I ascended to the roof of the hotel as the sun was starting to set. the bright colors flashing over the outdoor pool and highlighting the distant Wawanakwa island. I recalled the day and decided a few things. First, Jessie would be a problem in the future and maybe Duncan. Second, Tyler and Eva were starting to have problems. Finally, Sadie wanted to find a way to impress Andrew if he showed up here.

Today was just another day in this place.

Every day was another day closer to getting his vengeance.

'Tick tock, all of you, tick tock.'

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