Confession Begins
Sierra: Me and Alejandro are not an item! Just want to make that perfectly clear to everyone at home that just because I fell asleep on him does not mean that I am the future Mrs. Burromuerto. The only man for me, and the only man I will ever want, is Cody!
Confession Ends
Cody was snoring soundly while Alejandro was doing sit ups on the floor.
On the girl's side of the cabin, Courtney was still in the process of making her bed while Katie was still asleep.
Eva was performing pull ups using the top bunk of her bed.
" 18,19,20!" Eva huffed and took a drink of water after letting go., "Why do you even bother to make your bed? Not like this place is ever gonna look presentable."
" I do it every morning."
" So, it's force of habit?"
" More like I'm not gonna let this show turn me into some irresponsible vagrant."
Eva was about to respond, but Chris's voice over the loudspeaker made her stop.
" Morning campers! Report to the cafeteria for your next challenge. It's a doozy."
Katie sat up, rubbing her head.
" I really hate Chris." she complained.
"Well, hope you all had a good night's…."
"Get to the point, Mclean!" Gwen almost shouted.
"Fine, it's an eating challenge today." Chris replied, sounding dejected.
"Like the brunch of disgustingness?" Gwen asked, her face already turning green from memory of that challenge.
"Even better!" Chris's mood immediately perked up. "Whereas all the food in the first challenge was invented by Chef, all the food today are authentic delicacies from all around the world."
"There are a couple of rules for today's challenge: First, each person can only go once. Second, if neither of you can manage to finish the meal, whoever ate more gets the point."
Chef wheeled in two carts, each with a covered up platter.
"First challenge is a little speciality from Japan called Shirako." Chef lifted the lids, revealing plates of what resembled soft, small brains.
Confession Begins
Gwen: Brains? What does Chris think we are, zombies?!
Eva: Bunch of pansies, it doesn't look that bad
Confession Ends
"Alright, I'll bite Chris. What is is Shitako?" Courtney asked.
"It's Shirako, the sperm sacs and semen of cod fish…"
"No!" Ezekiel shouted, "No, I can't eat that, eh."
"Like, totally. That's gross". Katie agreed.
"Well, lucky for you you might not have to. We'll be going through 5 courses today, and I'll let you guys decide who takes what meal. Just one rule, nobody can eat more than one meal."
Courtney brought Katie, Alejandro, Cody, and Eva into a huddle.
"So, anybody wanna get their course out of the way?" Courtney asked hesitantly.
"I would senorita, but I'm afraid I have a weak stomach." Alejandro answered.
"Courtney, that's totally grody!"
"I'll do it." Eva said "Might as well get this over with."
Eva sat down at the table while Bridgette sat down across from her.
"Ready, set, eat!"
Bridgette gulped and poked the shirako with her fork. Eva, meanwhile, stabbed it with the fork, cut it in half with the knife and placed it in her mouth.
Eva's eyes shot open, and she painfully chewed twice before swallowing. Bridgette quickly picked up the shirako with her fork and took a small bite. The surfer chick's cheeks turned green, but she managed to get it down.
Eva threw the rest of her shirako in her mouth and hit the table with her fist before swallowing.
"And the Squirrels take the first point! Our next delicacy comes from The Middle Kingdom, China, and are known as the Century Egg."
Chef placed two plates down where the shirako had been.
"These are Quail Eggs, left to ferment in a mixture of ashes, salt, lime and blak tea for 3 months."
Confession Begins
Cody: They're like hard boiled eggs(chuckles) if the outside had the consistency of Jello and the yolk was hard and green.(Cody's face goes green, and he vomits)
Confession Ends
Cody sat down, the strong smell of ammonia making his stomach turn. Duncan sat down as well, trying to look cool and composed, but failing as the smell made him gag.
"Reay, set, eat!"
Cody looked to Courtney, a nervous smile on her face. Cody set a look of determination upon his.
Cody grabbed the egg and took a bite, gagging as he chewed.
Duncan, on the other hand, took his knife, cuttin the egg in half. He took one half and dropped it in mouth, swallowing without chewing.
Cody swallowed his bite and immediately took another, looking distraught as Duncan swallowed the other half.
"And the Beetles take the point!" Cody retched over the side of the table.
Courtney looked to be sharing his pain, which Alejandro noticed.
Confession Begins
Courtney: It was a nice attempt. I just hope Cody'll be okay later.
Alejandro: my heart goes out to the lovesick fool. His failed attempt to impress Courtney was
entertaining, if nothing else.
Confession Ends
"I think it's about time you kiddos had something cold and refreshing to wash this stuff down with. Our next meal isn't actually a meal, it's just one glass of Kumis."
"Let me guess, it's some type of prepared blood?" Gwen chimed in.
"Mixed up Placenta from, I don't know, a duck?" Duncan threw in his guess.
"Nope, it's fizzy moldy horse milk. Mongols come up with the weirdest recipes!"
Chef placed two large glasses where the plates holding the century eggs had been.
Ezekiel was pushed forward by Duncan, and after some deliberation among the squirrels, Katie stepped forward. Both took a seat.
"Ready. Set, drink!"
Katie and Ezekiel locked eyes, each one daring the other to be the first one to drink first.
The homeschooled teen broke first, lifting his glass and letting the foul liquid fill his mouth while gagging. The bfffl followed suit, managing to down half her drink before stopping.
Ezekiel pinched his nose and finished the rest of his drink.
Confessions Begin
Ezekiel: There aren't any words in the english language to describe just how wretched that was, eh.
Katie: (She's puking into the toilet)
Confessions End
"For our fourth contest, we have a particularly disgusting delicacy from Greenland: Kiviak Made when you kill a seal,disembowel it, stuff it full of birds called auks, slather it with grease to make sure maggots can't get into it, and bury it under rocks for several months." Chris sounded as giddy as a kid at Christmas "But don't worry, you just have to eat one auk, bones included."
"You want us to eat the bones?" Alejandro complained
"Don't worry, they're soft due to the fermenting."
Gwen and Sierra looked at each other.
"Wanna rock paper scissors for it?" The goth offered. Sierra nodded.
Gwen put up scissors, while the insane fangirl put up rock.
Gwen sat down at the table, looking sick the whole time. Courtney sat down across from her, an equal mix of snobbiness and anger on her face.
"Ready, set, eat!"
Courtney picked up the bird, put the leg in her mouth and bit down. She bit again…
Confessions Begin
Katie: (faints)
Alejandro: (puking, even harder than Katie was earlier)
Cody: That was awesome! Absolutely disgusting but awesome.
Confessions End
" Yeah, get it Courtney!" Eva cheered as Courtney put the beak of the auk in her mouth and chewed before swallowing.
" Miss C.I.T. gets the P.O.I.N.T.! And now, for the final part of the challenge, a little desert to finish off the final members. How do you kids like the sound of lamprey pie?" Chris asked, large smile on her mouth.
"Oh come on!" Sierra complained.
"Malibu ate Sperm sacs, I ate a fermented egg, Homeschool drank moldy milk, and Pastey just ate a whole bird. Can you not manage one slice of pie?".
" I can, but I wouldn't have to if Gwen had managed to win for us."
Duncan's eyes narrowed, staring daggers at the amazon.
Sierra confidently strutted up to the table, while Alejandro slowly plodded to his seat.
Chef set the plates, each one holding one slice of the lamprey pie, on the table.
Sierra took a bite out of her pie, not cringing in the least. Alejandro tried doing the same, but he gagged due to the flavor.
"Hurk" the sound came out of Courtney's mouth just before she put a hand on her mouth and ran outside the room.
"Courtney!" Cody followed, sending the fangirl into a fit of mixed rage and sadness.
Confession Begins
Sierra: I could be dying and I don't think Cody would care! That hussey's got him wrapped around her little finger, and she doesn't even deserve him. I deserve him! I've waited my whole life for someone like Cody to come sweep me off my feet!
Confession Ends
Sierra looked sadly at the door where the love of her life and C.I.T. had just left one minute ago. She didn't move, one solitary tear making its way down her cheek.
"Yo, purple hair! Get your head in the game!" Duncan shouted. At this moment, Sierra looked across the table to see Alejandro chewing the last bite of Lamprey pie in his mouth before he swallowed.
"And the Squirrels have it! Beetles, I'll see you at the campfire today...along with the Squirrels."
"What?!" asked everyone else in the room at the same time.
"The reward for winning the challenge is that the Squirrels get to vote off a member of the Beetles. So Squirrels, you should probably figure that out amongst yourselves."
Eva, Katie, and Alejando were sitting around the fire. Courtney was still puking her guts out in the bathroom while Cody was holding her hair back.
"So, I think it's pretty obvious who we should vote off" Eva said.
"Yeah, Duncan's totally gone." Katie replied.
"Duncan? I was talking about Gwen."
"Gwen, please without Duncan she'll totally fall apart!"
"Oh yeah, cause that's what happened in the first season when Trent got eliminated." Eva replied with sarcasm.
"So it's agreed, we'll vote off Duncan tonight."
Eva snarled.
"I was being sarcastic, Bird Brain."
"Hey!" Katie complained.
"Ladies, ladies," Alejandro cooed. "you both make good points, it would be in our best interests to eliminate either Gwen or Duncan."
" So, we're agreed, we'll be getting rid of Duncan tonight." Eva was about to argue when Alejandro put his hand on her shoulder.
"Duncan has already won a season, her logic is not so flawed." Eva huffed, heading towards the bathroom to find Courtney leaving with Cody following.
"Hey, we're voting off Duncan tonight, that ok with you guys?"
"That's great!" Courtney responded, her mood temporarily lightened.
"Everybody else is in agreement?" asked Cody.
"Yep." Eva responded.
"And the final marshmallow goes to…...Gwen. Duncan, pack your bags, you're out of here."
Duncan huffed and stood up, glaring at Courtney. He said not a word, simply making his way down the dock of same before boarding the boat of losers.
Courtney's triumphant smile quivered before failing.
Courtney was on the edge of the dock, her legs pulled up to her chest, and a sad frown on her face. She didn't turn around even though she heard the footsteps of the tech geek.
"Are you okay?" Cody asked
"I should be better than okay. That ogre is gone, Gwen's been hurt and the team won today…so why do I feel like garbage?" She added softly.
"I think because while he's gone, that's not what you really wanted."
"What are you, a psychologist?"
"Nope, but I do have lots of female friends...and in my experience, when somebody harms them, they usually want two things above all else: an explanation and an apology."
Courtney huffed.
"I already got an explanation, remember? 'You're too controlling, I feel like you're drowning me'?"
"But you never got an apology. You and him really cared for each other…"
"Where are you going with this?"
"You loved him, and he just left you without saying goodbye." Cody's voice was tinged with sadness.
"Did someone hurt you?"
"No, I've never even had a girlfriend." Cody chuckled " Just, I can see your pain."
Hiding beneath the dock was the purple haired Amazon Sierra, who was starting to cry.
"Cody, I just wanted to say: thank you."
"You're thanking me? You're the one who helped pull me together after the whole Gwen thing."
"Cody, you've become probably the only friend I have on this show. Eva's ok, Katie is fine, and Alejandro seems decent, but you're the only one who I feel like I can actually talk to. I didn't exactly make many friends on the Island or the Film Lot. So thank you for being a true friend."
"Well, in that case, you're welcome."
Sierra started to cry, submerging herself in the water.
Confession Starts