Hey. I would've posted this yesterday but a bit of a family emergency came up. Long story short, one of my cats died. I'm okay though. I think the next chapter will be the last. Enjoy.

Chapter Eight: Don't You Love Surprises?

Now that Miranda knew for a fact that Rosalina wasn't trying to steal Jake T. Austin from her, she had some business to take care of.

Miranda walked over to Richard. "Hey, sorry about that. Listen though, do you mind? We need a quick break," Miranda said sweetly.

Richard threw his hands in the air in defeat. "Why not? You two used up all the props anyway."

Miranda smiled and plucked the microphone out of Richard's hand, before facing the camera. "Hey, we'll be right back after a quick break. We have to go clean this pizza off."

"See you when we get back," Rosalina threw in, waving at the camera.

As soon as they finished signing off, Miranda grabbed Rosalina's wrist and dragged her to their dressing room while the crew rushed around to clean up and replace the food for the last round.

In the girls' dressing room, Miranda faced Rosalina and pulled off her mask. "Okay, I have a plan that both of us will benefit from."

Rosalina grabbed a towel first and started wiping red pizza sauce off of herself. "What is it?"

Miranda brushed cheese off her shoulders while she spoke. "Well, since now we know that we both like totally different guys, and there's a slight chance that you might win a date with Jake or vice versa, I have a plan to make sure that if Nat wins, you win, and if Jake wins, I win."

Rosalina pulled off her mask and looked at Miranda, clearly interested. "How can that work out?"

"Well, we already know that Jake is #11 and Nat is #13."

"Yeah, and?"

"Well… let's just say that Nat were to win, but I also won. If that were to happen, the two of us would suddenly really need to go to the bathroom or leave and do something right away. So we would run off, switch outfits really quick, and suddenly, you would be #1, the girl who just won a date with #13," Miranda said smiling. She grabbed a snowy white towel off the pyramid of towels stacked on a table in the corner and began wiping off pizza sauce from her shoes.

"But they already know what numbers we are," Rosalina said doubtfully.

"We could just say that they must have given us the wrong outfits," Miranda suggested, flicking a black olive off her forearm.

"Hmm… that could work."

Miranda nodded with a devious glint in her eyes. Rosalina had the same look about her expression. They were going to fool a highly rated game show.

When they resumed filming, Richard had a fresh apron and hat on, and the set and its contestants were clean of any and all pizza toppings. The bowls of sauce, cheese, and other toppings were refilled and it looked so clean again, you wouldn't guess that You're So Random had just experienced their first food fight.

Richard was beginning to look like his usual peppiness had been drained out of him, and like he was counting the minutes until he could go home. "Okay," he said, forcing a smile. "You know the rules to the "Top This" round. Let's just get started, shall we?"

Richard held up a little flag with a little cartoon pizza on it. "Ready, set, go!" He waved the flag through the air.

All four contestants blindly started reaching for pizza toppings and threw them on the pizza crust in front of them. Rosalina wished that they didn't have to wear masks and blindfolds, but then it wouldn't have really been a challenge to make a somewhat edible and traditional looking pizza.

At the end of two minutes, the buzzer went off and Richard waved the little flag again, resembling someone waving the white flag to surrender.

"You may remove your blindfolds, contestants," Richard said cheerfully. Keeping a safe distance from the girls, he walked around the counter, inspecting the pizzas that were haphazardly thrown together.

"I think we'll need to get some judges out here, because I wouldn't want to be too impartial," Richard said casting a glance towards Miranda and Rosalina. "Bring out the judges!"

The three extremely popular judges were barely visible to the audience before everyone started going nuts. Miranda, Rosalina, Jake, and Nat both strained to see who it was that was going to be judging them. Miranda and Rosalina turned to each other and started jumping up and down for joy when they caught sight of the judges.

Richard chuckled into the microphone. "I'd go into the long back story about who these guys are, but from the sounds of it, you all know who the Jonas Brothers are."

Kevin, Joe, and Nick all walked over to Richard, waving and smiling at their screaming fans the whole way.

"Don't you love surprises?" Richard asked. "Hey, guys."

"Hey," all three said at slightly different times.

"So, as you know, I need help judging these pizzas, and eliminating one boy and one girl. Can you help me out?" Richard asked.

"Definitely," Nick said.

"Alright!" Richard and the Jonas Brothers stood in front of the long counter. "Now don't worry guys, these pizzas were made blindfolded just to give these four teenagers here a little more credit."

All three of them laughed.

"So, I need you boys to judge on whether or not it looks, you know, traditional looking, and whether or not it looks edible. It's up to you guys now," Richard said dramatically. "Take your time."

After looking over the four pizzas, the three brothers conversed and turned to Richard.

"Have you reached an agreement?" Richard asked. His excitement was due to the fact that he was seven minutes away from being done with this Valentine's Day Special for another year.

"We have," Joe said with over-the-top-seriousness.

"Alright then… who is winning this thing? Kevin?"

"Well, I've got to say, it was a close call. Especially since some of us find everything edible looking…" Kevin began. Kevin and Nick both looked at Joe. "But we all agree that the two best pizzas are from #2 and #13."

The audience started clapping and cheering loudly.

Rosalina looked in shock at Miranda. Miranda gave her a heartfelt thumbs-up. Rosalina couldn't believe it. She had actually done it. She'd won a game show, but more importantly, she had won a date with Nat Wolff.

"Well, get over here you two," Richard said waving Nat and Rosalina over to him. "Now… you have remained masked for who knows how long, and it is finally time to unveil our winners. Now face each other, and on the count of three, take your masks off."

Nat and Rosalina faced each other and waited.

"1… 2… 3!" Richard called out.

They pulled off their masks. Nat looked beyond shocked, and so did Rosalina even though she had already known what to expect. It was completely different seeing him in front of her and knowing she would have to come clean on their date. Their date. How crazy was that?

"And the winners of our grand prize are Nat Wolff and Rosalina Dimeco! They now have a date to any restaurant of their choosing! And stay tuned because on our next episode, we'll have some follow-up footage of their date!" Richard put a hand on both Rosalina and Nat's shoulders and spun them around to face the camera also. Jake and Miranda had also taken their masks off and joined them in front of the camera while the other previously eliminated players walked back onto the set towards Richard and the camera.

"And that is our Valentine's Day Special. Wasn't that… fun?" Richard almost choked on the word fun. I guess the instant replay feeling of getting nailed in the head with gooey red pizza sauce had still yet to fade from his memories. By that time, all of the original contestants, numbers one through fourteen, stood in front of the camera once more, six on Rosalina's side, and six on Nat's side. They had obviously been given specific instructions on where to stand.

So much for spontaneity and realness. Rosalina thought to herself.

The theme song played, they all waved goodbye, and then the camera's light went out for the last time that day. The show was over.

And that was chapter eight. I'm still working on chapter nine, so I don't know when it'll be out. Sometime soon though, probably, since writing relaxes me. Except when I get writer's block, then it just drives me crazy trying to think of an idea. Anyway... I'm rambling again. So... hope you liked it, and, seriously, is everyone else's keyboard broken out there? Because it's still just Obsessively Me and Music of the Wind reviewing. I need more than that. Not trying to be mean or pushy or anything, but it's starting to bug me since I know that more than two people are reading this. Okay... so... I think I covered everything. I'll update soon, I'd love it if more people reviewed... Yep, that just about covers it. Thanks for reading. Bye.