A/N: If I titled chapters, this chapter would be titled, "Joe Schmo Wannabe," because well, betwixt all the twists and turns of this story, their is still a large hole in the plot that has yet to have been revealed...until now. I'm only explaining you this so you can better understand the chapters coming after this because the plot of this reality show is about to shake.

Chapter Nineteen

While everything was stirring in Hawaii, there were also some interesting things brewing in New York and Chicago, with a large connection linking the two in California. Four different time zones--one complex plan.

Once upon a time, Miranda Sanchez worked for a major ad agency. One day, in early September, she received a phone call from her best friend, Lizzie's cousin, Caroline.

"Okay," Caroline said, "First of all, this might take a while to explain, so I hope you have time."

Miranda, interested in why her friend, who she rarely talked to these days in the first place, had a cousin who was calling her up, "Okay. What is it?"

"Right, so, My friend, Victoria had this long lasting relationship in high school and college and she signed up for a reality show that involved love and second chances...only she thought it was a chance for new love. Anyway, she told me that she met a guy and couldn't go through with it. I just got off the phone with her ex's best friend and he thinks the show has been cancelled. The thing is, it hasn't really. She's under a contract. I told her I'd take care of it, though, because if Tory ever heard the actual idea of the show, I knew there would be trouble, so I was thinking this is where you come in."

Thoroughly confused by this, Miranda said, "How did you get this number?"

"The power of the internet. Anyway, Miranda, I was thinking about replacements and I almost immediately thought about Lizzie. Didn't she date some guy for a really long time? She called him Gordy or something."

"Do you mean Gordo?"

"Probably."

"Well, do you think that would work?"

"Do I think what would work?"

"Do you think you could somehow manage Lizzie and Gordo to agree to appearing on this show."

"Nope. Not in a million years. They don't speak to each other anymore."

"Well, they won't know who the other person is to begin with. They will think that they are going to be living with complete strangers."

"Caroline...they have a really strong history with each other. I seriously doubt they will want to highlight this all to America."

"Yeah, but isn't Lizzie single? Has she really dated anyone since this guy?"

"Well, she's single, but this is really unreasonable."

"Don't you want to see Lizzie happy? Don't you want to know why your best friends aren't dating and aren't even friends? They'll get paid. If it doesn't work out, they don't ever have to see each other again."

Miranda thought about this for a minute. There was something appealing about this idea and tempting to try out, but she didn't know why. She sighed, "Okay, fine. What do I have to do?"

"Great! I'll handle Lizzie and if you could take care of Gordo. Just remember that he's going to have to pretend his name is Daniel and Lizzie will pretend her name is Tory."

"Okay," Miranda said and they hung up the phone.

A few days later, Miranda received another call from Caroline, followed by a call from her old friend, Lizzie, both telling her that she was going to be on reality television.

Miranda, who was trying to come up with a believable way to have Gordo agree, called his friend, Pete, that she met when she visited Gordo and told him what was going on. He acted eager to help out, waited for Caroline to forward the information, and then persuaded the less than eager Gordo to participate under the name Daniel, excusing them for privacy issues.

All systems seemed go. Pete, Caroline, and Daniel seemed to have everything under control and while Miranda seemed the most worried out of all of them, knowing that this could all end up as a really bad disaster, everything was cool.

In fact, after they had left and hadn't called any of them to tell them how it was going, it almost seemed too cool. Miranda expected a call from Lizzie to tell her what was going on, Pete expected a call from Gordo to tell him what was going on, and Caroline expected to be called from Lizzie because it was her idea and. Almost a week into the plan, they contacted each other and decided that they needed to know what was going on. After a while, Caroline volunteered herself to call her cousin, saying she would pretend that she was making sure she wasn't doing anything stupid.

Hours later, Caroline called Miranda and Pete to let them know that, "Lizzie seems to be having a good time. It was obvious that she was trying to hide something. She said everything was going fine and that Daniel was cute. She seemed nervous, but I think there is hope for them, because she didn't seem angry or anything."

They hung up and Miranda called Pete to talk to him alone, "Listen, Caroline calling them was helpful, but I still have no idea what is going on between them, and to tell you the truth, I'm getting a little nervous. I have a feeling that this might be ugly. Anyway, I'm thinking about calling the producers or something to see if they will let at least one of them come down and be a part of something. Do you think they'll let that happen?"

"Possibly. They have over a week before they get home and I'm sure they could use a little help from friends."

"Okay. I'm calling the first thing in the morning."

In case you are unclear, the entire premis of the show is a show within a show. The actual show is entitled, "Second Chance," where there is one ex-couple within the mix and the rest are actors and actresses. If they don't let anyone else know that they actually used to date, they'll win a certain amount of money, while theu think they are on a show called "The Perfect Connection." It's planned for them on purpose and the whole point is so they are forced to step outside their boundaries. Everyone thinks they know something that someone else doesn't. It's sort of like Joe Schmo, only maybe a little more complicated.

Now, like I said, the purpose of me bringing this up now is because something is going to happen in a future chapter that is a result of all this secrecy. Your job is determine what.

a) Lizzie overhears one of the actor's interview and hears something suspiscious.

b) Gordo finds a hidden camera in their room

c) One of them sees the actress who played Elizabeth hanging out in the mansion.

or something completely different.

Tell me what you thing of this chapter...