Chapter 2: Lei Making (A/N: Charlotte's my OC and the chinchilla is her pet. And confessionals will be in italics)
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"Thanks again for giving me this job, Ms. Striker." Charlotte told Monica.
"No problem, Charlotte. And call me Monica."
"Sorry, just really excited to be here. I tried auditioning for Chris Mclean's shows, but he never picked me."
"Well his loss. Now let's get started."
Monica then went off, and Charlotte followed her. Pepper squeaked in excitement.
"I know, Pepper." she told her pet.
In the girls' trailer, the girls were picking beds. "I can't believe, we're in Hawaii." gushed Taylor.
"Me neither. I never thought I'd get to come here." Mia added.
"And we can see the ocean too." said Lucky, looking at the window.
The other girls looked out it too, and saw the nice scene.
"This is so excitin'! Not only do we get to compete in some awesome challenges on TV, but in one of the most beautiful states in the country." Vivian replied.
"You're really happy to be here aren't you, Vivian?" asked Tammie.
"You got that right. I've always wanted to come here."
"Can't wait until we get to go to the beach. Feel the sun on my skin, and the hot sand on my feet." Setsuna mentioned.
"You like the beach, Setsuna?" wondered Lucky.
"Yep, I love anything that has to do with the summer."
In the guys' trailer, they had just picked out their beds.
"This is going to be loads of fun." said Caden.
"You got that right. I can't wait to try all the new opportunities." agreed Edu.
"Yeah yeah, let's get this bed picking over with." replied Kevin in an annoyed voice.
"Aren't you looking forward to being in the show, Kevin?" wondered Frank.
"I mean this a once in a lifetime opportunity."
"I'll be looking forward to winning that $1 million bucks."
"Don't count on it." Elijah piped up.
"I bet I can win that million."
"Hey, guys. I know this is a contest, but we could also treat this as a vacation." Kahlin piped up.
"Vacation is nice. But there's so much more to Hawaii than that." Johnny mentioned.
Then they heard Monica's voice coming from outside.
"Attention, contestants. Please report to the mess hall."
The teens left their trailers, and went to the mess hall where they waited for further instructions. Monica then came with with Charlotte and Hailey.
"All right, everyone just some things to say before we get started."
They all listened.
"First of all, let me just say it's a pleasure to have you all here on my show. To those of you have some concerns about being on the show, I can assure you I'm not going to put you through any sadistic challenges just for my amusement or ratings. I'm no Chris Mclean."
"And I'm no Chef Hatchet." Hailey piped up.
"Now it's time to assign you to your teams."
Charlotte then handed her a clipboard.
"Okay, when I call your name step to the left of me." she instructed.
"Frank, Taylor, Edu, Setsuna, Caden, Mia, and Kahlin."
Those seven stepped to the left.
"You are now Team Plumeria."
"Plumeria?" asked Taylor.
"It's a type of flower." Edu told her.
"And Lucky, Johnny, Vivian, Kevin, Tammie, Elijah, and Gianna. You are now, Team Anthurium."
"Is that another kind of flower?" wondered Elijah.
"Yeah." replied Johnny.
"Oh great. We're named after stupid flowers." complained Kevin.
"Now, that you have your teams, and if you need a minute to vent, you can use our confessional booth."
She pointed to a small trailer.
"So this is the new one, huh? Pretty nice." said Frank.
"This definitely a good place to vent." observed Lucky. "I'm impressed."
"Now, let's get started with your first challenge." Monica declared.
They all followed Monica to a tram, and piled into it. As they all sat down in their seats, Monica and Hailey drove them away. As Charlotte rode, Pepper looked around. Gianna caught sight of Pepper.
She had to admit, he was very cute. She stuck out her finger, and wanted to pet him, but this caught Charlotte's attention.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Oh, sorry. It's just your little chinchilla is so cute."
"Thanks, his name's Pepper. You can pet him if you want."
Gianna then petted the little creature, and Pepper enjoyed it. Edu looked around, and noticed Setsuna. She glanced at him, flashed him a smile, and waved at him. This caused Edu to smile back, and waved at her. When they came to their destination, they all got off.
"I wonder that we're going to do first?" thought Lucky.
"Hopefully nothing so crazy." replied Caden.
When the tram stopped, they all got off, and saw two long tables with some bowls filled with flowers, long strings, and at the end of each table was a statue of a surfer.
"Your first challenge will be something simple. You'll be making leis." Monica instructed.
"Sounds easy." mentioned Kevin.
"Sounds easy, but Hailey..."
"You'll have to try and cover the entire statues with leis, in only 90 minutes." Hailey finished.
A timer then appeared from some trees, showing an hour and thirty minutes.
"All right, Team Plumeria table 1, and Team Anthurium table 2."
And each team went to their assigned table.
"All right, everyone ready?" asked Hailey.
"Ready." they all told.
"Then ready...set...go!" Monica announced.
As the timer started, the teams got to work.
"So anyone know how to make a lei?" asked Caden.
"It's simple. Just take the string, put some flowers on it, and tie it into a necklace." explained Mia.
"Well then let's get started." urged Frank.
And with that, they began making leis.
"All right everyone, I think we should work this like an assembly line." Johnny instructed.
"What should we do?" asked Lucky.
Johnny instructed Vivian, Lucky, and Elijah to string the flowers, Kevin and Tammie would tie them into a necklace, and then Gianna and himself would put them on the statue.
"Shouldn't Tammie here help string the flowers?" suggested Kevin.
"And why is that?" Tammie wanted to know.
"Well...girls do like flowers."
This made Tammie, Lucky, Vivian, and Gianna scowl at him.
"Okay, okay. Everyone just stay where they are, and get to work." Johnny said, trying to keep everyone calm.
"I can't believe he just said that." said Tammie.
"I mean how stereotypical is that?"
"I don't get what they're so annoyed about. I was just stating a fact." Kevin replied.
At the second table, Team Plumeria decided to each make their own lei.
"This is too easy." said Taylor.
"It may be easy, but it's still a challenge." reminded Frank.
After 15 minutes, the team had managed to put some leis on the statue.
"So far Team Plumeria is in the lead. And we're 15 minutes into the challenge." announced Monica.
"We're doing great, guys." encouraged Mia.
"Let's keep it up." added Kahlin.
"Come on, everyone. we gotta step it up here." said Kevin.
"We're going as fast as we can." Gianna told him.
"Well go faster."
Everyone rolled their eyes. As the timer went down, leis covered more and more of the statues. Then it was down to five minutes.
"We're down to the final five minutes, everyone. Gotta get those leis on there." Monica informed.
"Let's go guys, we can do it." Johnny told his team.
"We're almost done, just keep going." told Mia.
They all put together leis as fast as they could. While Johnny put each lei around the statue, Gianna waited until she got a certain amount before putting them on.
"Come on, Gianna. You gotta keep going." Johnny told her, as he put another lei on the statue.
"Hey, this is my method." she replied, as she collected her fifth lei.
"How we coming, with the leis?" asked Setsuna.
"Mine's almost done." informed Kahlin.
"Same here." added Mia.
As the timer turned from 5, to 3, and then to 1, everyone was scrambling. Team Anthurium was just about out of flowers, and team Plumeria were almost out of strings. And then the timer buzzed.
"All right, time's up!" Monica announced.
Everyone quickly stopped working, and looked at the statues.
"Let's see what we have here."
The statue in front of Team Anthurium was covered with leis all the way up to the neck. While Team Plumeria's statue was covered all the way.
"Well judging by the statues it seems we have our winners, Team Plumeria."
Team Plumera cheered happily, while Team Anthurium groaned.
"For your reward you'll be enjoying a luau. While Team Anthurium, you'll be voting someone off."
They went back to the main site, and Team Anthurium thought about who to vote off. They discussed it that evening during dinner.
"So who are we gonna vote off?" asked Lucky, as she ate some spaghetti.
But no one said anything.
"Well no one wants to be the first person voted off, but one has to go." Johnny told.
"Well this is simple." Kevin informed.
"Who didn't give their all in the challenge?"
Everyone looked at each other.
"Well...Gianna...you could've done a better job with putting the leis on the statue." mentioned Tammie.
"What?" Gianna wondered.
"You should've put the leis on as soon as you got one instead of waiting to get a certain number." added Tammie.
"Hey it was a logical method."
"But it did waste some time." Elijah pointed out.
"My method didn't waste any time. It was a good one. Wasn't it?" Gianna asked the viewers.
That night, Team Anthurium gathered at that season's elimination ceremony. The teens sat on some little benches, and Monica, Charlotte, and Hailey were standing in front of them.
"Okay, you've all cast your votes, and now it's time to see who's leaving." Monica told them.
While everyone looked a little nervous, Hailey gave her a clipboard and Charlotte was holding some flowers. But Pepper started to nibble at the petals.
"Pepper, don't eat the flowers." whispered Charlotte to her pet.
And she took him off her shoulders, and put him in her little shoulder bag. After giving the flowers to Monica, she spoke up.
"Here's how it's going to go. When I call your name you'll come up and get a flower, which happen to be Anthuriums."
The flowers were red, round, with a yellow pollen stalk in the middle.
"When I call your name come get a flower."
The team looked at one another.
"Lucky."
She happily got up, and got a flower.
"Elijah."
"Vivian."
"Johnny."
"Tammie."
It was now down between Kevin and Gianna.
"And now the final flower goes to..."
Gianna looked at Kevin, Kevin looked at Gianna.
"...Kevin."
"Yes!" Kevin cheered, as he got the flower.
"Aw man." complained Gianna.
Monica gave him the flower, and looked back at Gianna with a sorry look on her face.
"Sorry, Gianna. But you gotta go now."
"Fine." Gianna replied.
She got up, and went to pack her things.
While that was happening, down at the beach Team Plumeria was enjoying their luau reward. They ate great food, drank pineapple juice, and even limbo danced.
"This is awesome." said Edu.
"Let's hope we win more challenges in the future." hoped Mia.
"You got that right." agreed Frank.
The camera then turned to Monica.
"And that's the first episode of Totally Epic Hawaiian Style. Which team will win next, who will go home, and what'll we do? Find out next time on Totally Epic...Hawaiian Style." she announced.
That's chapter 2
