Wanna guess what this new challenge to eliminate an extra person is? Let's find out.
The next morning, I woke up feeling a bit tired. Surprisingly, my breakfast from Chef actually made me feel better – guess there was some kind of protein in it. Still, why hadn't I thought about bringing a ton of snacks with me this season?
Chris came into the crafts tent wearing a copy of Chef's hat. "It's for today's theme." he explained.
The movie genre was..."Since we're getting rid of the boring ones before we do the stuff that's more fun," Chris said with a smirk, "Today's genre is remakes! And you can't have a remake without new actors playing old characters."
Our challenge was to pick one member of our team to act. Then the opposing team would pick a previous player – anyone who was on the first season or who had been kicked off here – for the team's actor to act. Then, the team would have fifteen minutes to coach the team member on how the person would act, and to create a costume for them. Then, Chris would have our team interview us as the person and judge the acting. Whoever acted more like the other team's person won, and the losing team would go to elimination.
"Can I do it?" I begged my team. "Please? I'll show you I can act, just look at the Heather routine I made up!" I turned to the girl in question. "You might want to take notes."
Finally, I tossed back my blonde hair and put one hand on my hip, and put on a stuck-up tone to my voice. "Lindsay, go do this challenge for me. Beth, spy on Gwen and report back to me – she's up to something. I am so gonna win this game. I can play these losers perfectly, I mean they might as well just give me the cheque. Just look at who's left, ew! I mean, who else deserves it more than I do?"
Leshawna burst out laughing. Heather flushed, giving me a death glare.
"Nice." Duncan commented casually. "Didn't think you had it in you, blondie."
"She is gonna nail it." DJ stated.
So I got to be actor, while the rest of the team had to make my costume.
I would've been happy, except I was nervous. I was good at acting, but Heather was very easy. The other team chose an enthusiastic Lindsay as actress, and we made her play Eva. But the other team said that I had to try to act...Izzy!
So the rest of my team started to make my costume and do my makeup to make me look as much like Izzy as possible. Luckily, Izzy had left one of her tops in the cabin, so I wore one, and since her skirt looked like a palm leaf, it wasn't too hard to stitch one to my size.
The top was a little tight, since Izzy was slimmer than me, but it fit me enough to be just comfortable enough to wear for a few hours.
Meanwhile, they had to make me look more like Izzy. We didn't have any wigs, though.
"I'll curl and style her hair." Heather offered. "I've been dying to style hair." I heard her muttering under her breath. After she was done, they'd use spray-on hair dye, so I would have curly red hair by the time we had to present our team, starring me as Izzy.
Style, hmmm? Heather attacked my head. Now I can take a few tugs, but Heather was obviously being rougher than she needed to be.
"Is this to do with the imitation?" I managed to ask, wincing at the pulling she was doing. "No offence, Heather, honest! You could watch reruns of Total Drama Island and see what I mean!"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Heather said innocently. "Stay still, would you? I can't do your hair properly if you keep squirming, and I actually want to win this challenge."
"I'd be able to keep more still if you weren't pulling my hair on purpose!" I snapped. "Quit it, and you'll find it's easier."
Heather did become a little bit gentler after that, but only by a little bit.
Finally, I was dressed just like Izzy, my hair curly and wild with the dye that made it Izzy's colour, wearing green contact lenses.
I put on a bright smile, trying to look like Izzy.
"Tone it down a little bit." Gwen instructed. "Not too bright." I obeyed. "That looks good."
"Remember, don't answer when anyone calls you Izzy." Leshawna reminded me. "She only answers to Kaleidoscope or E-Scope. If anyone calls you Izzy, just do what she does."
"You mean, whistle innocently?" I said.
"Exactly."
"And move around a lot." DJ suggested. "Izzy never stays still for long." I tried a flip, and just about did it, laughing.
"Can't you make your laugh a bit more manic than that?" Heather said, her arms folded. I tried desperately to imitate Izzy's cackle, and she nodded approvingly. "You should still work on that, though."
"And talk fast." Harold instructed. "Like, not too fast but faster than usual. And go off-track and tell random stories."
"Oh yeah, and don't take anything seriously." Duncan finished with a smirk.
Chris made our team go first, which might've been why I sucked. I know, my smile was too bright, I talked faster than I meant to, my laugh was totally off the mark, and I answered to "Izzy" until my team scowled and I whistled as an afterthought. I nailed Izzy's physical mannerisms, though, and I hoped that might be enough to help our team win. It wasn't like Lindsay could do any better, right?
Wrong. The Killer Grips had taught their actress well. They'd managed to find something blue in the costume trailer for her to wear, had used spray-on dye to make her hair dark, and put it into a ponytail. Lindsay herself seemed so disgusted by her appearance that her scowl was genuine, and although her voice was a bit too high to sound threatening and she wasn't quite as scary, she still did a good impression of Eva – forceful, strong and short-tempered.
"Screaming Gaffers, I'll see you at the awards ceremony tonight." Chris said. Heather turned to me with a wicked smirk.
I hung my head. The results were fixed from the start.
Sure enough, I was the one deprived of my gilded Chris award that night, and I walked to the Lame-o-sine, sighing.
I had an interview while I was sitting in the back, though. "I can't believe I managed to let my team down so early! I messed up worse than I've EVER done, EVER before! So am I going to some amazing place to hang out where Izzy, Geoff and Bridgette are staying too?"
No, I was going to a film studio. This season, there was an Aftermath show, and ex-contestants would be on it. As it happened, Geoff and Bridgette would be hosting, while the peanut gallery would consist of the ex-contestants. I would start as a guest, but then come in later on as part of the peanut gallery.
Bridgette greeted me at the studio. "Hi, Elle." she said. "I'm sorry you got kicked off, but I'm glad you're here. Geoff's been acting kind of weird. Ever since we got kicked off. I'm not sure what's up with him. It's not all the time, but I keep seeing these little things."
"He's always acting weird." I joked. "What's new?"
"I'm serious." Bridgette said quietly. "He's suggested all this stuff for the Aftermath show that seems kind of...sadistic. I'm really worried about him. The thing is, the producers love it, and so he keeps coming up with more and more. I've tried to ask him what's going on, but he just brushes off my concerns. Most of the time, it's nothing, but when I do ask, he doesn't even seem to realize anything's changed about him."
I frowned. "That's not like him at all. Geoff's not the best listener in Canada, but if you're that concerned, I know he'd listen to you. And it's definitely not like him to enjoy that much sadism. I guess we'll have to just knock some sense back into him before the first Aftermath."
I know I booted Elle early, but I don't like TDA. She will get further in TDWT, though. The reason she hasn't won anything yet is because realistically, how many of you can say honestly that you think you could've gone up against players like Gwen, Heather, Duncan, Courtney and still win? Elle has her strengths and weaknesses, just like any other contestant, and she has just as much chance at winning as any of them...except for the villains, of course. Please review, as I write for the aftermath show!
Seriously, please review.