The sun was rising on yet another day in paradise at Wawanawka Resort, and one by one all the evicted contestants were getting ready for their day. The evictees missed competing and would love to be back in the house competing and performing for that 1 million dollars, but they also loved their days of tanning in the sun and nights of hanging out, singing karaoke and being with each other. Sami and Piper were seen in their usual spot, finishing up the yoga class they put together once Sami got eliminated.

Confession Cam

Sami: Ever since I've been eliminated Piper and I have been doing a yoga class every few days, and it's been a lot of fun. Not everyone comes each week, sometimes it's just one or two people with us, but it's a lot of fun and something we enjoy doing. I do miss competing and being with Zakk and all my friends, but it's so relaxed here, and I love teaching.

Sami, Piper, Nathan, Harlee, and Shawn finished rolling up their yoga mats as Sami congratulated them on a great class. Sami went over to Shawn to talk about his progress.

"Shawn, you were amazing out there. Even if you're not the best at this, I'm so happy that you're trying this."

Shawn faked a smile at Sami, only agreeing to do this for her happiness. She was never into yoga before this, and he just wanted to encourage her new passion as his friend, but he hated this. He felt girly.

"As you would say, Namaste." The two laughed as she gave him a hug.

Piper went up to Sami as she undid her dress, revealing her two-piece swimwear.

"Ready for our swim exercise?" Piper said to a tired Sami. "We've gotta keep our endurance strong if we want to make the school musical in the fall. They're doing Legally Blonde and we all know how dance heavy it is." Sami groaned as she grew to resent Piper for a moment, but realized she had a point.

"Let's do it." Piper and Sami dove into the Olympic-sized pool next to them as they swam and mingled with the other evictees.

"So Sami, you think your man's gonna be the next person eliminated?" Shawn asked her.

"Uh... no... I don't think... he's ready... to go yet." Sami replied in between strokes.

"The dude's probably dominating the house with his powerhouse vocals and tough attitude." Bob said as he mixed himself a banana smoothie at the in-pool bar.

Confession Cam

Bob: Zakk and Sami had a very similar game - nobody voted her out because they didn't want to hurt her feelings, and Zakk won't be voted out because people are too afraid of him. The problem is, they know the nice one will be okay eventually if taken out. Depending on who he decides to take with him to final 2 should he win, Zakk has a really good shot at winning this million dollars.

Kelvin, gaming on his laptop, butted in.

"There's no way Zakk will win. He barely has a social game, the only reason people side with Zakk is because he banged them or hasn't beat them up... well, except for Brandon O." Lissie lightly smacked him for his words in the middle of a texting war with her on and off again boyfriend.

"I think Analisia has a great shot at winning - she's smart, barely mentioned in conversation, and has a passion for performing." Lissie looked up from her phone, seeing Charlie nod in agreement. "And that's the tea on that." She looked down in her phone, gasped in horror with what was just said, and her thumbs went flying with rage.

Confession Cam

Charlie: I'm so proud of Analisia, she's gone through so much and is doing so well. I'd love to see her win, but we'll see what happens these next few eliminations.

Piper floated near the edge of the rails. "It's going to be a tough call. I mean, everyone in that house is doing great. It'll be a close call for sure." The others nodded in agreement as Piper continued her swim.

Rebecca gasped. "Wait, guys... what day is it?" Kelvin looked at his laptop time and date.

"Shit. It's Thursday. We forgot to watch the episode last night. Someone got eliminated." The contestants were so busy in paradise that they might have forgotten one important thing that week.

"But who?" Jason said, hoping and praying it wasn't Harlee. Though he'd love for her to be here to experience this with him, he couldn't bear to see her not in that mansion.

"They should be coming in about now." Shawn said.

Suddenly, the rolling of the suitcase wheels were heard in the distance and a shadow figure emerged from the back. Sami gasped as she saw who it was, and everyone mostly laughed and was confused.

"No way." Piper laughed as she watched Brandon D walked in, and everyone watched as Mika ran to him to kiss him. Brandon D clung onto Mika as she wrapped her legs around his waist, slowly kissing him as he stroked her hair. After they kissed, he let go of her and returned her to the ground.

"What are you doing back?" Mika asked. She was glad to see him again, but on a game level she remembered he was running that house last.

"I'm sorry I didn't make it to the finals... I really wanted to do it for you. To help you with your money situation." Mika took her hand into his.

"You don't have to do that for me... it's okay." Mika looked at him, sad that he thought he needed to help her. Suddenly, curious as to how he got here, the others looked at him in curiosity.

"What happened to you and your strong alliance members?" Brandon D looked at Lissie and rolled his eyes, not amused at her joke.

"Long story short... I freaked out at them, I got drunk with power, I lost the tiebreaker and everyone, even my alliance, voted me off." Bob got up to laugh at his karma.

"Maaaan, what I would have done to be there. I can't believe you went from voting out Sami to getting your alliance to turn on you." Brandon D looked at him.

"Okay, like you did so well in the game." Brandon D said as he walked closer to him. "You broke a girl's heart and cost us all the win in the Little Shop challenge." Lissie, noticing this was escalating, quickly went up to stand between the two of them, arms open wide to prevent any hands being thrown.

"Stop! Brandon is just trying to tell us what went wrong. We'll all watch it tonight, though." Bob and Brandon looked at each other and backed down, quickly going to their own corners and taking a breather.

"But anyway, I messed up. I got cocky. And Sami," Brandon looked over at Sami and she paused. "I'm sorry I got you out. I really am. You're just so powerful."

Brandon really did feel bad about creating a target on her. She was a nice girl, he's known it ever since he did the acting scene with her. He ha a lot of fun being her scene partner and he let himself get the better of him.

Sami smiled at him as she swam near him.

"Hey, don't be sorry. It was my time. I'm just surprised I made it this far, or that I was made so intimidated." Brandon and the others scoffed at her.

"Are you kidding?" Piper said, surprised she wasn't confident in her abilities. "You ran this season, even with a broken foot and recovering from a surgery. Sami, this is a great accomplishment and you did a great job." The others nodded in agreement and Sami smiled as she walked out of the pool, grabbing a towel to dry off.

She opened her arms up to Brandon as she wrapped her towel around her.

"Now come here, Brandon... let's hug it out." She smiled as he walked over to him, and embraced him as he half hugged her and half tried not to get his clothes wet. She laughed as she realized he was getting water on him, and stepped back.

"Sorry. I just... it's such a great environment here, I can't be mad at you. Especially since you're out of the running." Brandon laughed at that.

"Now come on, man. We'll show you to your room, give you the grand tour. You'll have plenty of time to feel remorse." Brandon looked as Nathan and Kelvin helped him with his bags, smiling that he was here. If he couldn't be in the house competing, he was sort of glad he could be here and just relax.

A/N: hello to all of y'all who don't exist/read this anymore. If there's a small chance anyone is reading this, hello! I am pretty determined to finish this at whatever pace I can get myself into. But if not, whatever. If you haven't reached out to me in the last few years, feel free to message me! Let's be friends again! We're all grown-ups so we can probably share other social medias with each other too. Slide into my DMs but not like that, ya nasties.

~Sami