Uh huh. Fourth episode already. Wow. Please enjoy! Thanks for reviewing, Alex – and the focus on Max and Scarlett will increase after Max decides to make Scarlett his "sidekick".
I went foraging again with Jasmine the next day.

"Hey!" Sammy appeared at the window of the treehouse. "You guys are going foraging without me?"

Jasmine raised an eyebrow. "Gee, Amy, you've never gone foraging with me before. That was something Samey did, ie: not you." Yeah, like I said, everyone called her that except me. Even Jasmine, her friend.

"Right!" Sammy said. "I mean, foraging, ew! I'd rather wear those shorts."

"There's the Amy I know!" Jasmine grinned. "Come on, then!"

I smiled.

As we looked for stuff, I talked to Sammy. "Heads up, I might just be acting like I hate you." I said. "You know, so no one catches on. I hate Amy, so if you're Amy, I have to make like I don't like you in front of everyone else."

Sammy nodded. "I know! I hate Amy too after the sixteen years of abuse she put me through."

To disguise herself, Sammy stuck a blueberry on her face to look like Amy's mole, and no one seemed any the wiser, although Scarlett confided to me a few days later that she'd always known.

Rodney did the vacant stare again, to Scarlett when she stopped him from stepping in raccoon dung, and then Sammy when she offered him blueberries.

"Is it me, or does Amy pick way better berries than Samey?" Rodney remarked after giving Sammy the vacant stare.

"Pretty sure they're the same." Sammy said, although I could see her temper rising.

"Perhaps you had an involuntary association with Samey and unpleasant tastes." Scarlett suggested.

"Indeed." Max spoke up. "Her hideous malproportioned face was spoiling the fruit."

"I don't see any difference with it." I argued. "In fact, I think Sammy picks better berries than Amy." I got a grateful smile from Sammy, although when I raised my eyebrows, reminding her that she was supposed to pretend she was Amy, she got the message and glared at me instead, the way Amy would've.

"Morning, campers!" the intercom blared out Chris' voice. "Time to start today's fun activity!" We had to get to the meeting area straight away, with our team on one log, and Team Maskwak on the other.

"I'm saving you a seat, Sugar." Ella smiled at her teammate.

Sugar, on the other hand, scowled. "I know what you're up to! Gals who sit on the end always get less camera time!" She pushed Ella off the log and sat down next to Sky.

"But...I wasn't..." murmured poor Ella. To be honest, I sometimes felt like shoving Ella, too. She wasn't mean, but she was too nice, and it got really irritating. That girl needed a few lemons and a meat pie, to make her less sweet and more savoury. Otherwise, she was going to ruin everyone's teeth with her sweetness.

The challenge was called Truth or Scare. Basically, each player would either be asked a question that they had to answer truthfully, or do a scary mini-challenge.

Topher, as usual, started complimenting Chris, but by this time, it was starting to annoy even him. I didn't know how much more I could take of Topher.

Sammy was the first player chosen, and she had a truth. Oh yeah, and if she lied, we had a chicken who would know. Oh, and also, Chris gave us these metal collars. If one of our teammates lied or failed to do the dare, Chris would press a button, and the collars gave the whole team electric shocks.

Chris gave her the question. "Who do you dislike most?"

Sammy looked nervous. "The person I hate most is..." she began "Amy!"

The chicken sensed she was telling the truth.

"You hate yourself?" Topher said. "Deep."

"Care to explain, Amy?" Chris asked.

Jasmine made up an explanation for her. "The truth is, that Samey is...not your fault, Amy. Don't hate yourself for your sister's shortcomings. You did what you could."

Rodney had another truth – who he thought was the most attractive girl on the island. Eventually, he lied. He said it was Sugar.

Ella tried to comfort the blonde. "I'm sure Rodney thinks you're the second prettiest. No shame in that."

"What?" shrieked Sugar. "I ain't no runner-up!"

"Calm down!" Chris called out. "And Ella, stop picking fights with Sugar!"

Okay, that was out of line, and poor Ella protested. But to be honest? I didn't feel sorry for her.

Sky got a scare – she had to drink a jug of mineral water in thirty seconds.

It was Shawn who helped her, shaking up all the water and then making it shoot into Sky's mouth. Wow.

I didn't know Shawn too well, but I'd seen him around, because he was always up foraging around the same time Jasmine, Sammy and I were. Only Jasmine really talked to him, though. All I knew was that he thought there was a zombie apocalypse coming any day now, and it seemed that his fear resulted in mad survival skills.

Max got a truth. "What do you fear most?"

"I fear nothing!" Max claimed. Of course, it was a lie.

More happened. Dave didn't do his scare...mostly because it involved Sky, who accidentally stopped him. Then Dave freaked out when Shawn was told to pick his nose and wipe it on the person sitting next to him (Yeah...Dave was a little germaphobic).

Then Ella said if she could change one thing about herself, it would be whatever was stopping her friendship with Sugar. And even though the chicken knew Ella was being truthful, Sugar didn't. In fact, Dave and Shawn had to hold her back from attacking.

I got a truth. "What's the worst thing you've ever done?"

Did everyone really have to hear that? No way. I was sure I'd lose all my friends. Sammy probably wouldn't even come near me, and I was pretty sure Scarlett wouldn't, either. I thought Jasmine might understand if it was in self-defense.

"Knifed a possible rapist." I mumbled. Well, I got my team a point.

"Could you repeat that?" Chris said. "So we can all hear?"

I groaned. "Or we'll get electrocuted, right?"

Chris grinned. "Yep, that's right, Kerry. So speak up."

"Fine." I sighed. "I once knifed a possible rapist because it was him or me!"

The teams gasped, but luckily, my friends seemed to understand. Well, Sammy looked a little afraid, but she smiled tentatively at me, Scarlett's expression didn't change and Jasmine clearly understood.

Rodney kept getting horrible truths that he didn't seem to be able to do, but we were still tied. It was time for sudden death.

Rodney got chosen again.

"Not again!" Max groaned.

"Hey, this is for the game!" Jasmine snapped at him. "Show some support."

"Fine." Max sighed. 'We believe in you, you blubbering buffoon!"

I punched him in the arm. "Rodney, let us down and I swear you're toast!" I yelled out. "Win and I'll be your slave for the evening!"

Max narrowed his eyes at me. "Threats and bribery? That's a good and evil idea...maybe I'm rubbing off on you."

I ignored him.

Rodney had a scare and he was up against Ella. They had to open a bag holding the other team's shock remote. Whoever untied the rope holding the bag first and shocked the other team won.

Which is why we lost. Rodney's big blunt fingers were too clumsy, while Ella was deft and nimble, easily untying the knot.

"Would you like some help?" she asked Rodney.

"Ella, just push the button and your team wins!" Chris snapped at her.

But Ella couldn't do it. "It's just too mean!" The chicken did it for her. So it was our turn to go to elimination again, and it was easy to choose who was going to go.

Chris tried to keep the tension once he was down to one marshmallow and everyone except Scarlett and Rodney had one, but he couldn't, because there was absolutely no reason for Scarlett to go home.

"I'm not surprised that I'm the one leaving." Rodney said as he waited in the cannon. "After playing with people's hearts the way I did..." He tried to make a little speech to some of us. "Jasmine, Scarlett, Kerry, Amy, please understand. This...that you...I...I mean that...there's love...and raccoon...and hey, what with all the shocking...because chicken I love...girl island...four...uh-oh..yeah!"

I turned to Scarlett. "Since you're the smartest person I know, did any of that make sense?" I asked.

"Techically, no." Scarlett answered as we started to walk back to the treehouse. "My guess is that he had an infatuation with most of us and appeared to believe that we knew that and kept hurting us by switching his affections to another one of us. You would have noticed the way he sometimes looked at one of us. It meant that he thought he was in love with the person he was staring at at the time."

It all made sense now. His problem with the most attractive girl on the island, his talk about love, asking Sammy if he could have a moment with Amy, staring at all of us girls and only staring at Sammy when she started posing as Amy.

I grinned at Scarlett. "I'm glad you're on our team, Scar. With some of the people on our team, I'd go insane if you were on the other team."

"The feeling is mutual, Kerry." Scarlett answered. "But..." she frowned. "I'd rather you didn't call me Scar."

I shrugged. "Sorry, Scarlett."

That was two losses. I just hoped we didn't lose again. Otherwise, we wouldn't have our numbers advantage any more.

I knew Scarlett wouldn't like her name to be shortened. And to be honest, being on a team with Topher and Max would drive me insane. Especially when Amy was there too. I like Jasmine and Sammy, but Sammy's so underconfident, and Jasmine is a little indimidating, even though she's nice. Please review!