After everything that happened on this awful day, I finally returned to my hut to rest up. I was both mentally and physically tired, so I was able to get to bed quite quickly. I was still feeling quite shitty, but RK comforting me really did help. The next morning, I woke up not too early. I changed clothes and left my hut to grab a shower before breakfast. As I was heading down to the bathrooms, I ran into Sapphire, someone who I really didn't want to talk to at all.

"Girl!" Sapphire greeted me.

I groaned. "Hey Sapphire."

"Girl! We need to get off this stupid island!"

"Yeah...We really do."

"It just sucks here! I need to be at home!"

"Yeah..." I slowly headed for the door to the bathrooms.

"Hey!" Sapphire looked angry. "I'm not done yet!"

"Sorry Sapphire, I really gotta shower, I'll see you at breakfast." I then quickly walked into the bathrooms before Sapphire could start whining again.

"Would it be bad if I hoped she was next?" I asked myself.

I played with my ponytail for a bit, before I hopped into the shower. After wrapping up, I left the bathrooms and headed down to the hotel patio for breakfast. Once I reached the forest, I ran into Rory, who was also heading down.

"Rory, hey!" I greeted.

Rory turned to me and smiled. "Hey there Natalie. What's up?"

"Still trying to get over yesterday, but I'm doing better.

"Yeah, me too. Though I still feel like I'm owed an apology for nearly being voted for...Not from you of course, since you're the one that saved my ass."

"Yeah, don't mention it. I'm just glad we got out of that cave alive, well...most of us at least..."

"You truly are the hero among us. Twice now, you saved everyone's ass."

"But at the cost of others." I sadly thought to myself.

Rory and I chatted as we continued to walk to the hotel patio for breakfast. Once we arrived, we grabbed food and sat down to eat with the others. Everyone was there, except for Ellen, Simon, and Henry.

"Wow, there really are so few of us left." Harvey stated.

"Don't be unartistic, Harvey." Bridget replied. "Not all of us are here right now.

"Simon and Ellen, of course." Dane added, who was holding hands with Miranda.

"Shut up NERD!" Harvey cried as he got up with a raised fist to punch Dane, but quickly sat back down when Irene casted him a glare.

"Looks like Henry is joining us for breakfast." Gavin replied, who was holding hands with Sam.

"Henry, he just needs more time." Irene replied. "Even though we all know it was one sided, he truly did care about Kirsty.

"You can say that again." Sapphire responded, while rolling her eyes. "Henry constant mentioning of his love for her was so annoying!"

"Pot meet kettle." I thought to myself.

"He isn't the only one." Rory laughed.

"WHAT?!"

"You shut up too! You stupid prank geek!" Harvey cried as he picked up his empty glass and threw it at Rory, but his aim was so bad, it ended up hitting Dane in the face.

"Ouch!" Dane cried as immediately grabbed his face in pain.

"Dane!" Miranda cried. "Are you okay?!"

"Yeah." Dane replied as he rubbed his face. "I'll be fine in a bit."

Sam had gotten up from her seat and walked over to Harvey. She then punched him in the back of his head four times.

"Mommy!" Harvey cried in pain.

"Stop being a dick, Harvey!" Sam yelled as she went back to her seat.

"Can we please try and not act like we normally do?!" Irene demanded. "Incase any of you forgot, Dana isn't here anymore. We don't have someone to take care of us if we get hurt."

"Which is very bad news for this group." RK replied.

"This so isn't artistic." Bridget added.

"I wanna go home!" Sapphire whined.

"Will we...ever get home..." Miranda asked as she hugged Dane, which made me sick to my stomach.

"Calm down, everyone." I urged. "Our situation has honestly only gotten worse, but even with that being the truth, we need to keep hope alive and do our best."

"Natalie is so right!" Gavin exclaimed. "We gotta keep trying!"

"Hope certainly is very artistic." Bridget replied. "But I don't see any of it around here."

"Our hope is that we won't give up." I answered. "Right now, we still have a chance to get everyone off of this island alive, we can do it. If we submit to Aqua Tail and his damn killing game, we have no chance of ever getting off this island."

"Let's show that otter what we can do!" Rory pumped up.

"Yeah!" Sam agreed, while doing a backflip. "We're not gonna give up!"

"I guess that is our best option." Dane smiled.

Everyone started to show signs of hope, it made me feel a lot better.

"You done it again, Natalie." Irene smiled at me. "Perhaps now is the time to pass on my leadership role to you."

"What? No way." I replied. "You're still the best person to lead our group Irene, I'll just help out when I can."

"If you insist."

"Let's go kill that otter!" Harvey roared.

"Not the best idea, Harvey." Gavin replied. "Remember, if we touch him, we'll die."

"You'll die!" Harvey stood up to punch Gavin, but was tackled by Sam, knocking quite a bit of dishes and food off the table.

"Seriously?!" Sapphire pouted.

"I think breakfast is over." RK added.

Irene walked over and separated Sam and Harvey. "I agree."

We all wrapped up breakfast, and cleaned up the spilled and broken stuff, before heading our separate ways for now. I decided some nice atmosphere at the beach would do me good. I walked to the beach. Irene and Bridget were both there, sitting on a beach towel, while chatting and holding hands with each other.

"Hey Irene, hey Bridget." I greeted as I walked over to them.

They both turned to me and smiled. "Greetings, Natalie." Irene greeted.

"Isn't this beach atmosphere, simply artistic?!" Bridget asked cheerfully.

I nodded. "Yeah, it sure is."

"Do you wanna sit down?"

"Uuhhh...No thanks, I don't want to interrupt whatever you two were talking about."

"Nonsense." Irene replied as she grabbed my arm and pulled me over to their beach towel, quite forcefully. "We'd love to have you join us."

"On our date!" Bridget cheered.

"Date?" I asked, both a bit confused and feeling a little uncomfortable.

Bridget started to stroke my ponytail. "Your hair is so artistic, Natalie! I love it."

I pulled my hair from Bridget's grip. "I told you to stop touching my hair!"

"Yes Bridget." Irene agreed. "Don't make Natalie uncomfortable. We should all be comfortable on this date."

"Oh fuck." I thought to myself.

I spent a bit of time on a "date" with Irene and Bridget, which consisted of a lot of flirting from both of them, Bridget touching my hair, and eventually both of them making out and trying to get me to join, but of course I declined.

"What a fun date." Irene smiled as she rubbed Bridget's back."

"For sure!" Bridget agreed, before turning to me. "How about you, Natalie?"

"Honesty..." I started with. "Why the hell are both of you coming on to me, when you two are dating?"

Both Irene and Bridget burst out laughing.

"Natalie!" Bridget continued to laugh. "Don't be so serious, and be a bit more artistic!"

"Huh?"

"Indeed, Bridget and I are together." Irene stated. "But we are both okay with having a third person involved whenever we feel like it."

"And nothing could be more artistic than a pansexual, lesbian, and bisexual!" Bridget cheered.

"Great!" I groaned to myself. "I already knew both Irene and Bridget were just a bit perverted when it came to females, but this is just getting ridiculous! Yeah, I'm bisexual and am attracted to girls, but I'm not attracted to either of these two, and three ways are definitely not my style."

"Look guys." I started with. "I'm flattered and all, but this kind of "date" really isn't my thing...But maybe next time, you should invite Sam. She is also bisexual and has invited me to hang with herself and Gavin."

Bridget shook her head. "Since Irene is only a lesbian, she wouldn't be attracted to Gavin, and since Sam is dating him, she wouldn't join anyone else without him."

"And Miranda, Sapphire, and Ellen are all straight." Irene added. "Not that we would want Sapphire or Ellen, but that just leaves you Natalie."

"I see." I replied as I got up. "Well sorry, but it just isn't for me."

"We're always hear if you change your mind." Bridget laughed.

"We'll see you around, Natalie." Irene added.

I waved to them both as I left them on the beach, they started making out once I started walking away. Honestly, both of them made me quite uncomfortable, but maybe it is just their way of taking their minds off the killing game. Shaking what just happened to me aside, I continued walking until I came by the basketball court, where both Harvey and Rory were. Harvey was beating up Rory.

"Take that, prank nerd!" Harvey yelled as he punched Rory in the stomach.

Rory went down. "Man, fuck off!"

Harvey punched Rory again, I quickly ran up to them.

"Stop it!" I demanded.

Harvey turned around and smiles as I ran up to him. He started flexing. "Natalie! Hey babe! Wanna watch me beat the shit out of this nerd?"

"No!"

"But I'm seriously kicking his ass!"

Already having enough of Harvey, I punched him in the stomach, making him fall to his knees and eventually his back.

"Mommy!" Harvey cried in pain.

I then walked over to Rory and helped him up. "You okay, Rory?"

"A bit sore, but I'll be fine." Rory replied. He then walked over to Harvey and kicked him in the head, knocking him out. "Man, fuck you!"

"Now that Dana is gone, I really do feel like people are gonna be staying hurt a lot more often." I thought to myself.

I walked over to Rory. "How did Harvey manage to get you? You normally escape after pranking him."

Rory looked a bit down. "My leg is still sore from when Dana pushed me down the stairs, I couldn't get away."

"Oh wow."

"Yeah, but I'll be fine eventually."

I spent some time chatting with Rory about his injuries, while Harvey just laid there, still unconscious.

"Yeah, yesterday has kind of killed my pranking mood." Rory stated. "But in good time, I'll be back to pranking everyone on this island, except you of course, Natalie."

"Yeah, thanks." I thanked.

"I still can't believe how easily I was thrown under the bus, it just sucked."

"I can only imagine how it felt, to be accused of being the killer by nearly everyone."

Rory gripped the straps of his backpack. "Yeah...well...enough of this depressing shit, I'm ready to start pranking people again!"

"Already?"

"You know it, I'm gonna go think of the best prank to pull on this dip shit, Harvey! See you, Natalie!" Rory waved to me as he ran away from the basketball court.

I waved back and sighed. "Rory...he sure is a colorful character, but I suppose after yesterday he deserves some slack."

I started to leave too, when I felt something grabbed my leg.

"Shit!" I screamed as I jumped around and kicked whatever had grabbed my leg.

"Ow!" Harvey cried in pain as I had kicked him in the face, knocking him out again.

"Damn it, Harvey!" I was pissed.

"There really isn't anything new to say about Harvey." I thought to myself, quite bitterly.

I left the basketball court and eventually ended up in the forest, where Gavin and Sam were in the middle of a make out session. I tried to leave without being seen, but I stepped on a branch, making them stop and face me.

"Great!" I complained to myself. "I hope they don't ask me to join their date like Irene and Bridget did!"

"Natalie!" Sam exclaimed as she backflipped over to me. She landed right in my face. "Come join us!"

"Uuuuhhh... No thanks..."

"Come on! We'll have fun."

"Sam, don't pester her." Gavin stated as he walked over to us." "Besides, three people isn't my style."

"Thank you, Gavin!" I thought to myself.

"Fine!" Sam pouted as she crossed her arms.

"Yeah...Anyway, what are you guys up to at the moment?" I asked. "Besides making out."

"Just enjoying some time together in this small, but nice forest." Gavin answered as he put his arm around Sam.

"Well, actually we just came here for some time together!" Sam added. "It didn't have to be here, but then we realized just how nice this place is!"

"Indeed it is!"

I laughed. "Yeah, I'm sure both of you were admiring how nice this place is, with your eyes closed and lips locked together."

"What can I say, we got back on track to what we came here to do!" Sam replied as she looked at Gavin with flirty eyes.

"Yeah, we did!" Gavin laughed, as he looked around the forest. "But this place truly is nice."

I spent sometime admiring the forest with Sam and Gavin. It definitely wasn't the most exciting thing to do, but the forest honestly is a nice place. Plus, at least Sam and Gavin weren't nagging me to join their date, so it was a fine time.

"Wow." I said. "This really is the first time I noticed how nice this place is."

"It sure is!" Gavin exclaimed. "Nothing like a good way to clear our minds before getting back to focusing on getting off this island!"

"Hell yeah!" Sam replied, while doing some backflips.

"Aqua Tail is going down!"

"HELL YEAH!" Sam continued to do backflips.

I laughed, these two truly are perfect for each other. "Well thanks for showing me just how nice this forest is, guys. I'm gonna head off for now, so I'll see you two later.

"Bye Natalie!" Gavin waved goodbye.

"See you!" Sam waved as well.

I waved back as I left the forest and continued on walking. Those two still are quite crazy, but at least they aren't the bad kind of crazy. I continued walking until I reached the huts, where I ran into Dane on the path.

"Hey Natalie." Dane greeted as he walked towards me, but he ended up tripping and falling down on his face.

I was already getting nervous before he noticed me. "You okay, Dane?"

Dane slowly got up, in a decent amount of pain. "Ow, but yeah, I'll be fine."

"That's good..." I was trying to hide it, but I was quite nervous to talk to Dane, but I didn't want to look weird by playing with my ponytail right now.

"How are you holding up after everything that just happened?"

"Hanging in there."

"Yeah me too, but I know it has take a toll on all of us here, especially Miranda."

"...Where is Miranda right now?"

"She's resting up in her hut for a bit, I just came from there."

"Oh...I see..."

"Yeah, my poor girlfriend..." Dane looked down for a bit, before suddenly getting really happy. "But you know what, I still wouldn't change a thing about her, Miranda is just perfect the way she is!"

"Oh fuck me.." I thought to myself.

"I'm so blessed to have someone like her, especially in this horrible situation!"

"Yeah...Miranda is..."

"Just perfect!"

"Gross!" I thought to myself. "Dane's blabbering about Miranda is like when Henry was doing the same about Kirsty!"

"We're just so happy together!"

I unfortunately got stuck talking to Dane about Miranda, well mainly him going on about how awesome she is, while I just listened. I thought it was gonna make me more upset, but shockingly, it was just annoying.

"I know Miranda and I just started dating." Dane continued talking. "But I'm already so excited about our future together, after we get off this island of course!"

"Ew!" I thought to myself.

"Yeah...I can tell..." I replied.

Dane finally appeared to go back to normal. "Thanks for talking to me about Miranda, Natalie. It was nice being able to share my feelings with someone else about her."

"Yeah, no problem at all Dane."

"Well I'm gonna go see Miranda, later!" Dane waved to me and started to run up to her hut. He tripped on the way there and fell down on his face, but quickly got up and continued to Miranda's hut.

"Wait, didn't he say she was resting up and that he just came from her hut?" I thought to myself.

Whatever honestly, I turned around and started walking away. Dane's feelings towards Miranda is still something I dislike, but I still wasn't upset about everything I just heard. I didn't feel like crying or feel the need to play with my ponytail at all. Listening to Dane was annoying and honestly quite awkward, but it may just seem I'm finally getting over any feelings I had for Dane. I smiled to myself as I continued to walk away from the huts.