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CHAPTER 9
Week eight – Final part one
PUCK
He was fucking shocked that he was in the last week, like the last week of the fucking game? How the hell did he get there? Not that he wasn't stoked to be there, since that meant he could spend another week with Rachel in the house, without their parents nagging or someone making comments and shit.
He whistled when he walked in to the kitchen, he actually had time to eat this Monday since they didn't have to meet early like they had done every fucking Monday since they got here, today he was actually having breakfast with Rachel, hopefully alone but he didn't actually think that, since someone would find them anyway.
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"Hey baby" he said when she came in to the room, smiling like she always did,
"Good morning Noah" she said walking up to him, "are you making pancakes?"
"Yup, just the way you like them, I hope" he said and gave her a small kiss,
"Thank you" she said and took the plates and put on the table and waited for him to finish with the pancakes, "you really didn't have too you know"
"I wanted too babe" he said putting the pancakes on the table, "Dig in",
"So how's Santana? Still up in her room?" he asked her,
"Yes, Brittany leaving really did a number on her" Rachel told him, "but I do think she is starting to feel better"
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After they ate it was time to meet Julie in the show room and get some information about this week.
"We do actually have our first challenge today" Julie said smiling, "you will get a written test with questions about your stay here and the other contestants", fuck maybe he should have gotten to know some of them a little better? "This week there will be three challenges and you will get your scores on Thursday and then two of you is sent home, more information will be given at that time" he looked over at the others and wondered who of them would be the last four, he had to do is very best this week to get to stay until the end, "if that is understood please follow me for your written test"
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The written test went fucking awesome, at least he think it did, he obviously nailed the questions about Rachel but he think he did well with the others too. Waiting in the hall for Rachel to finish he walked back and forth, she had been silent at breakfast, more than usually anyway and when he thought about it she had been pretty silent the last couple of days, he was starting to wonder he had done anything wrong.
When she came out she gave him a kiss and a smile, so he couldn't be in too much trouble right?
"So you wanna hang out?" he asked her when they walked away from the room they had been in,
"I am sorry, I have plans with Sam this evening" what the fuck? Not that he was jealous at Sam or anything but she was hanging with him last night too and it was fucking stupid, didn't she wanna spend some time with him? Like had she suddenly got tired of him or some shit?
"Okay, maybe I'll just hang with Mike and Artie, playing a game or something" he said, he wouldn't mess things up by yelling at her and then it was nothing.
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RACHEL
She was talking a walk with Sam, trying to sort things out in her head, and Sam was a good listener,
"and what if he just don't want to be with me when we get home, and he starts to ignore me again, I don't think I can do that again"
"Rach, he is totally into you, like so much it's crazy"
"What if that's not enough Sam? What if he comes home and his friends say something and he dumps me"
"Rachel listen, I really don't think you should worry"
"But I do worry Sam, I don't want my heart-broken" she said sitting down on the ground, she was not going to cry about this, nothing had happened, why did she get these thoughts at all?
"What if you talk to him Rach?" Sam told her sitting down next to her with his arm over her shoulder for comfort,
"I know that I should do that, but what if he takes it wrong or get angry?"
"You just gotta hope he understands Rachel"
"Can we just sit her for a while, in silent?" she said, she knew she ha to talk with Noah, but what if she was right and he called things off. She really liked Noah, she always had even when he ignored her for years, but she knew that her wonderful best friend from her childhood was inside him, she noticed that in temple when she caught him with his mother and sister, she had even seen in at school, so if she lost him now it would hurt.
"Rach" Sam said, they had sat outside for almost an hour, they had talked some but mostly they had sat in silence.
"What?" she said looking up,
"I think Puck is coming our way, I'll let you guys talk" Sam helped her up and walked away, letting her greet Noah on her own.
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"Hello Noah, what have you been up to this evening?" she asked when he came up to her,
"Cut the crap Berry" Oh no, he is breaking up with her, was he her boyfriend?
"What?" she asked looking at his face,
"I kinda knew that you were acting strange, but are you cheating on me?"
"WHAT?!" she said, "Why would you say that?"
"The thing is I was thirsty and took a look out the window, and I noticed that my girlfriend were cuddling up to another dude, that's not right Berry"
"He was comforting me Noah, and he is my friend" Noah snorted,
"I watched you Rach, you were sitting like that forever"
"You are mistaken Noah, there is nothing going. I only want you" she said praying he would listen,
"So you and Sam are just friends?"
"Yes Noah, and he was only comforting me as a friend, would you thought more off it if he was another girl? "
"I guess not" Noah said,
"Please don't be angry about this Noah"
"I'm sorry for being a dick, but why have you been so silent and weird?" Noah asked,
"Sit down with me Noah" she said,
"did I do anything wrong?" he said and sat down next to her,
"No you have been wonderful Noah, this is all about me and me being insecure"
"What?" he asked looking at her, "tell me"
"Well, I am so happy that we are speaking again, and with us now being what we are now, I had actually never believed that this was possible. I really like you and I am afraid that you will dump me when we get back home"
"We talked about this" he said looking at her, "I don't fucking care what everyone else say, I do want you"
"You really do?" she said,
"Yeah babe, I have always wanted you but I was stupid for some years believing I wasn't actually good enough so I just kept out of your way"
"Yes you were stupid" she teased,
"Shut up Berry, what I want to say is that I'm not gonna let you go when we get back home, I love you" she stared at him,
"You love me?"
"Yeah, I think I always did, even when we were ten"
"You do know that this probably will be on television right?" she said smiling,
"Damn, I think I'm losing my rep babe"
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SANTANA
This house fucking sucked now, she just wanted this fucking week to be over with. Sure she still wanted to win, but she was kinda over this shit.
Rachel had tried to entertain her, but she didn't actually want to see someone sucking face, and she kinda figured that's what Puck and Rachel were doing all the fucking time. Sam was boring, like shit, Mike and Artie were always playing some stupid game.
They had another challenge today, she hoped it was something she could win. She walked after Rachel downstairs and really hoped the challenge would be a good one.
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"Welcome everyone, today there will be a cooking challenge. We have set up kitchens outside so that you all can compete at the same time." Fuck, she hated cooking, "this cooking challenge is different from the last one, you will only make one main meal, either for a dinner or a hot lunch. You will not get time to prepare, we have bought ingredients and your challenge is to make this meal as cheap and exciting as you can, you will have 90 minutes, let us go outside"
"Is everyone ready?" Julie said when they had placed them behind different stands, "90 minutes from now" she said and every one of them ran to get to the food, she had not a fucking clue what she could make, but she picked up some chicken, salad and pasta? That could be good right?
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The 90 minutes went fucking fast, but she was actually pretty proud of the dish. She looked on what the others had made, and they actually all seemed pretty good, fuck this would probably be a close race.
"Thank you, now I will get a cook to go over the dishes. I will see you again tomorrow for the last challenge"
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MIKE
The cooking challenge yesterday had gone pretty good, at least he thought so. Today was another day and they were just waiting for Julie to come and tell them what they would be up against today.
"Today we will have a scavenger hunt, you will all get a list of things you need to find or earn on different posts around the town and inside the house. You will work alone, and will start with five minutes between each other, the one with the best time gets bonus points, and you will get points based on how many of the items you get"
He was first one out, he took a look on the envelope and started running towards town, he had to find a pink glove?
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PUCK
Pink glove check.
An empty soda can, Check.
He was doing pretty good so far, he had seen Rachel running around and it sucked that he couldn't talk to her, like at all. He was now trying to find the stupid place where he had to earn a stamp (why the fuck did he need a stupid stamp), man this shit was getting hard, and how the fuck could he earn a stamp? Did he need to write a letter? Wait, wasn't there someone standing at the end of the street? Maybe he could get a stamp from that guy? Walking down he saw that there was a sign and that he had to throw darts and if he got at least 6 points he would get the fucking stamp.
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Running back to where Julie was he was fucking thrilled that he was finished, this was the stupidest thing ever, at least he fucking finally got all his things, and he had been at it for hours, or maybe not but anyway it took time.
He decided to sit on the stairs and wait for Rachel to finish, it was just her and Artie left, after a while he finally spotted Rachel in the distance, she did not look happy at all. She delivered her stuff to Julie and headed up to him,
"I think I will go home tomorrow Noah" She said and sat down in his lap,
"Don't say that, you're not the one who has been on the bottom like for the last three weeks"
"But you finished so fast Noah" she said and kissed his cheek,
"Babe, you will survive this, shit you will probably win the whole thing"
"Guys dinner" Mike came and said,
"Artie's not back yet man" he said looking down the road,
"He's right there man" Mike pointed and he noticed him turning the corner,
"I'm gonna wait for him" he said, "just take Rach inside"
"At least I got everything" Artie said when he came rolling up to him,
"That's good, some of them have missed a few" he stated,
"Maybe I still have a chance" Artie laughed before they went inside to get some food.
They all spent the night together, talking about the last weeks and tried to have a good time not thinking about that someone had to leave in the morning. Even Santana came out from here room and spent some time with them.
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"Alright guys, times for results, I will talk you through each challenge and give you your scores" Julie said while wrote their names down on the scoreboard.
QUIZ RESULTS
"Neither if you managed to get a full score on the test, but most of you did really well. As you might remember the score had 80 questions and you get a point for each question you got right, I will start with Santana" Santana looked up and nodded,
"You got a score of 59" she said and wrote it down,
"Not bad" Santana said, "Given that I didn't give a fuck"
"Sam, you got a score of 68" Julie said and wrote it down on the blackboard,
"Artie got a score of 70 points"
"Mike got a score of 73 points" he looked over at Rachel, he guessed that one of them would win this one, he gave her a smirk,
"Noah you have a score of 75 points"
"And Finally Rachel, you scored a 76 on the quiz", fuck that was close.
COOKING RESULTS
"For your cooking challenge we had a chef to taste and calculate the cost of your dish, you are all scored from 1 – 10 in this challenge"
"Noah, the chef said it was a really good dish, and you had the cheapest dish, there was a few things you could have done better, but your score is 8" fuck almost a to score, awesome
"Rachel, your dish was not the best, it was not the cheapest but very close and your score is 6"
"Mike, the chef loved your dish, but it was the most expensive dish, so he gave you a score of 5"
"Santana, like Mike your dish was good, but you added some ingredients that made the dish to expensive and he also scored you with a 5"
"Artie, your dish was okay and cheap, your score is 6"
"Sam, you did a good job and created a tasteful and creative dish, and it was also cheap, your score is 7" Fuck he won the cooking challenge?
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RACHEL:
She was proud of Noah, he had done so well in every challenge so far and she hoped he had done well in the last one too, she had hope she would score well but she was one of the last to finish so she guessed her chances was slim to be the winner.
RESULTS SCAVANGER HUNT:
" In this challenge you could get 400 points, none of you got the top score but some came very close, the results are based on how long you took and how you did with collecting the items"
"Rachel, you did collect every item, but you was very slow and had some difficulties at some of the challenges, you have a final score of 298 points" Not to bad right?
"Mike, you was fast and did well on almost every task, but you missed one and that makes you get a score of 302"
"Sam, you also did a good job but you had difficulties on one of the tasks and get a score of 332"
"Artie, you came in last and get a time penalty and your score is 278" that was unfair, he only came in fifteen minutes after her.
"Santana, you skipped three of the items and your score is 239"
"Puck, you did good and you have the most points this round with a score of 354"
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"Then the sad news, we have to send someone home, we have collected the votes online and put them together with your total score from challenges, and in the bottom we have Sam, Artie and Santana, and only two of them will be sent home today" she grabbed Noah's hand, they were both safe? He squeezed her hand and she could see him give her a small smirk, she was in the final.
"So who of you is safe? That is written in this envelope" Julie said and help up a black envelope, she opened it painfully slow, "Congratulations Sam, you are in the final, that means that Artie and Santana you have to leave us", she walked up and gave them both a big hug and told them she would see them soon, at least she hoped she would.
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