Okay, so I know this challenge is pretty darn boring and slow-paced. Honestly, it's just people trying to stay awake while some side action goes on. Just bear with me for a while? Please?
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Total Drama Redemption
Day Seven (07)
It was day four of The Awake-a-thon.
The seven teens that were awake yesterday were still awake today: Cody, Gwen, Trent, Courtney, Eva, Duncan and Heather.
I looked at my watch. It was now 7:34 AM.
The awake-a-thon had lasted for 69 hours and counting.
Sixty-nine.
Cody, you are one perverted guy.
DJ had left to go to the cabins, Owen was nowhere to be found and Courtney was still moving in place. I wondered how long she could keep this up.
I went over to Cody.
"Oh, hi dude. How you doing?" He asked.
"I should ask you that. You haven't slept in four days."
"It feels kind of weird. My eyes keep telling me to sleep but my heart says that I can't succumb. I have to help my team win this. We won't go down without a fight!"
"So who do you think will be the next to fall on the Bass side?"
"Courtney. She's not as tough as the other two, and I think she's wearing herself out by walking in place."
"Still, I'm surprised she lasted this long."
"I guess she wanted to prove herself to her team. She was almost out last time. I don't think she can afford to slip up for two challenges in a row."
"True. But I still think she'll be the next to go." I didn't think it, I knew it.
"Hey you! Get over here!"
I turned to see who the voice was. At first I assumed it was Izzy, but then OH SH-.
It was Bridgette.
I nervously walked over.
Please don't let it be about what I think it's going to be about
"I saw you in my cabin last night." Oh fu-.
"What?" I asked.
"You were in my cabin. In my dream."
"Huh?" Now I really didn't understand what she was talking about.
"I had a dream when you were in my cabin. Do you have any idea why?"
"Oh, a dream? That's exactly what it was. A dream. Yep, totally a figment of your imagination."
"So do you know why?" The surfer asked.
I tried to think of something. "Well, studies show that when you haven't gone to sleep for over your necessary sleep time, you might dream about crazy things, such as people you know sneaking into your house, or in his case, your cabin." Complete and total BS. Studies also indicate that adding 'studies show' before a sentence makes it more believable.
"Well that explains it."
Since I had earned my reputation as a book-smart person, she believed me. Good thing too, or else I would have most likely been disqualified.
I walked off. That was a close call.
"Dude. How do you do it man?" Cody asked me.
"Do what?" I asked him back.
"First Izzy and now Bridgette, what's your secret bro? You gotta tell me."
"Okay. I'll tell you." He looked over joyed.
"The first step is to not assume that every girl I talk to is my crush!"
"But she wanted to talk to you. Why?"
"I don't know. I've barely known her. We're on different teams and we've never talked before."
"There has to be a reason."
"No reason." I said, nervously.
"You're hiding something Noah, and I'm getting to the bottom of it."
"Good luck, Sherlock." I said smugly.
Was it weird that I was talking about luck on the seventh day? Seven is considered to be a lucky number in Japan, and had now extended to most of the world.
"Fine then, if you won't tell me, I know someone that will."
"Who?"
"Izzy." He said, heading over to talk to the redhead.
"What? No! Izzy doesn't know diddly squat about this."
"Then why are you getting so defensive?"
I sighed. "Alright, I'll tell you."
I then proceeded to spill the beans about what had happened last night. I had snuck into the girl's cabin to return Moby Dick, which Izzy had stolen. I had put in in Courtney's bag and was about to leave when Bridgette arose, said hi to me and then went back to sleep. I then fled the place.
"I can't believe it."
"What?"
"You mean to tell me that you went through all that trouble just to return a stupid novel, and you didn't even grab any undergarments?"
I slapped him on the back of his head.
"First of all, that's not a stupid novel; it is Moby Dick, one of the greatest books of the of all, I didn't know what would happen if Courtney caught me in there, or worse. Eva. And I sure as hell didn't want to find out."
"You're just a scaredy-cat." He said, yawning. "I bet I could have" He never finished that sentence because he fell to the ground. The dude was as tired as, well, a person who was super tired.
I didn't know what to do. Should I wake him? He had just gone to sleep. I thought it best if I let him slumber.
The scores were even yet again.
I decided to take a little nap as well.
-X-
Well that was refreshing. It was now 11 AM.
Cody was still asleep. My stomach rumbled.
I had forgotten completely about food for the entirety of the challenge. I guess I stuffed myself so much on that turkey lunch that my body wasn't absolutely hungry until now.
I went over to the Mess Hall. To my luck, Chef was serving food. My body was really hungry. I grabbed a tray, asked for an extra scoop and then sat at the table and began gobbling down.
Everyone else looked weirded out by my actions (Katie, Sadie, Leshawna, Geoff and Tyler), but I didn't care. I was hungry and I could care less that it was brown slop that I was so voraciously wolfing down.
After a while, people began to attend to their own business.
I was eating like Owen would.
Where was Owen? He was probably still sleepwalking somewhere on the island.
Once my appetite had died down, which took quite a while, I returned back to the campfire pit. There really wasn't much else to do but sit and watch the final six campers.
I had been at the Cafeteria for about two hours. 75 hours had now gone by.
Izzy, who had been sleeping up till now, woke up and came over to me.
"You wanna play cards?"
"Yeah, but not War. That takes forever."
"Agreed."
We played a few rounds of Speed, and then some rounds of Egyptian Rat Screw (E.R.S.). I devised a way that we could play Uno with regular playing cards. The four colors in Uno were the four suits. Kings are Draw Twos, Queens are Skips, Jacks are Reverses and Aces are Wilds. Jokers are Wild Draw Fours. Every other card was the face value.
We played Uno for a while, and then Izzy suggested that we play Strip Poker. I said that was taking it too far and we actually played War for a while, but then it got boring so we stopped playing and when separate ways.
Playing cards had caused five hours to go by and we were now eighty hours into the challenge.
"It's time for another bathroom break campers!"
Courtney got up to go.
Cody was still sleeping. He had been for ten hours. He was awake for four days. I decided not to disturb him.
Courtney came back from her bathroom break, and plopped down on the ground. She was out cold.
Gophers lead 3-2.
Duncan and Eva were talking about something. As where Trent and Gwen. Heather was the odd man-or rather, the odd woman out.
Geoff came back to the campfire pit. Duncan called him over and asked him to do something. Geoff nodded his head and headed off to the cabins.
I was still feeling somewhat drowsy, so I dozed off to sleep.
-X-
The dream I had was… weird, to say the least.
I was wearing swim shorts. I was at the beach. The waves were gently flowing. Cody was there too. He was also wearing swim shorts.
He leaned over and kissed me. On the mouth.
Why does this feel real? I opened my eyes to see what was happen.
I had been kissing someone.
It was Izzy. Her eyes then opened.
At this point, I did what any respectable gentleman in a situation such as mine would have done.
I got up, screamed my lungs off and bolted as fast as I could to the bathroom.
I looked at myself in the mirror.
What the hell Noah?
I was sleeping. It's not my fault! Right?
Seriously bro, what the hell?
How did this happen? Did Izzy come and sleep next to me?
At least it wasn't Cody this time right?
Stop trying to justify this.
Yeah. I'm pretty much dead.
I quit talking to myself and left the bathroom. I returned to the campfire pit.
Please don't let her be there.
She wasn't, luckily for me.
Chris was holding a cup of coffee in his hand. He was torturing the ones who were awake.
He then made an announcement. "Alright. You five stay with me. The rest of you go and get a shower. For heaven's sakes, you stink!"
Harold willingly complied, covering the spot where he peed his pants while running to the shower.
"Maybe he saw the boogeyman." I whispered to Cody, who was now next to me.
"Hey Chris, can we stick around for a bit? I want to watch." He asked.
"Um, sure. Just stay outside the campfire pit."
We walked outside of the pit. Some other campers stayed behind as well, while others were too tired to watch.
"Only five left. This should be close." He said.
"Let's see who wins." I said.
It was now 9 o'clock in the night.
"You forgot this." Said Izzy. She was holding Cody's chess set.
Wait! Izzy was here? Oh crap.
"Let's play." He said.
"Huh? Oh, alright." I was still thinking about what had happened earlier.
But Izzy then left us alone, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
While all of this was happening, Chris was getting ready to make things more difficult for the remaining five. As if things weren't tough enough already.
"The History of Canada. A pop-up book. Chapter One: The Beaver. National symbol and a 'dam' fine hat."
The five all groaned at Chris's 'joke' and so did I.
"Oh God, it's like I'm in history class!" Cody yelled.
"It's your turn." I told him.
He moved his pawn.
We played chess nearby the campfire pit while listening to Chris's narration. From time to time, we would check to see if any of the five campers had gone to sleep. None of them had, so far.
We kept playing for some more time, trying to multitask. Chris's monotone was starting to bore me.
Then I noticed the board. Oh man, I was in a really bad position. Cody had two knights, a bishop, six pawns, two rooks and a queen. Whereas I had seven pawns, one knight, no bishops, one rook and a queen. I was down by a lot.
It was now that I began concentrating. I also think that his attention got diverted to the sleeping challenge, because he began making some more mistakes than he was up till now.
I had somewhat managed to turn the tide. Then Cody played his A-game. Up till the moment when he let his guard down…
"Stalemate." I told him.
"No way!" He exclaimed. "But I had the advantage the whole time."
"But you misused it and squandered it. With great power comes great responsibility."
"Aw man, I totally had that."
"And you let it slip through your fingers."
He kept grumbling.
"How does it feel when you're the person that should have won?"
Finally. This was the first time that he had an advantage and blew it. It had managed to climb out of the massive hole that I had dug myself into. Maybe I'm overreacting for a chess game, but that dude had already stayed awake longer than me for this challenge. There was no way I was letting him beat me at chess as well.
We looked at the five campers, who were still awake. Then Cody spoke up.
"I'm starving."
"Let's go eat dinner." I said.
The campers that were out but still at the pit got up and began to leave.
We headed over to the Main Lodge, where everyone excluding the campers who were awake, was present. Except for Owen.
Cody was wolfing down his food similar to the way that I had.
I was still somewhat hungry, but not as hungry as I was that afternoon and definitely not as much as Cody.
We finished our dinners, and headed back to the pit to see what was happening. Nothing much had changed. We watched for a while. It was now 11:03. 85 hours had passed.
"I'm pretty tired." I said.
"Me too. Let's hope the challenge doesn't end while we're asleep."
We headed back to our cabins. I set my alarm clock to six o'clock, figuring seven hours of sleep would be enough.
"Hey, do you have any idea where Owen is?" Cody asked.
"Not in the slightest."
"Oh well, I guess he'll show up sooner or later."
Hopefully he won't show up in the nude.
I'll admit, I felt pretty guilty about sleeping in a bed while three of my teammates had to suffer outside on that campfire.
But, I shook the feeling off and fell into a cozy sleep.
Shorter chapter because I didn't really have much to work with here. Thanks for bearing with me so far.
