Right, okay, next chapter coming up! Thanks for reviewing, PokemonFTW, OmniPlanckInstant, yeezynight14, What'dIMiss, Izaya Orihara 101101 and Bloodylilcorpse.

"Zoey called just as I was leaving," Mike explained, "She was already up here, although she lives about an hour away. So when I told her that I'd called you, she said she'd like to meet you, so I figured the three of us could all hang out."

Sammy didn't mind at all. If it worked for Cameron, it could work for her, too. And it did seem to work. It helped that Zoey was incredibly nice. The group decided to go ten-pin bowling together, and on the drive to the bowling alley, Zoey started asking Sammy all about herself.

"I mean, I watched your season," she said, "But it didn't really give the audience a chance to get to know you. You had to spend that whole time trying to change things. Has it worked?"

Sammy shrugged. "Sort of." she admitted. "I quit the cheerleading squad at school. That was always Amy's thing, not mine. I ended up joining the netball team, and the other girls aren't part of Amy's group, so I got the chance to make a reputation for myself before Amy did it for me. And I've stopped letting her push me around at home, although she hasn't stopped yet." She paused. "Are you on any teams at your school? I saw your gymnastic skills on the show. And archery, too. You were amazing!"

Zoey blushed, and Mike said "I've told her that she should do something with those skills, but she keeps saying she's not that great. Seriously, Zoey. Sammy thinks you're good – it's not just me."

Zoey kept her gaze down. "I've thought about trying to do something with it, but...you know, in my town, girls don't really do sporty stuff. I'm enough of an outcast with the way I dress and the music I listen to...maybe once I've finished school I can move out. Then maybe I'll do something with them. Sky told me at the party that she's planning to train hard with her gymnastic skills. I might not try to go Olympic-standard like her, though." She looked at Mike and smiled, and just for a moment, he moved one hand off the steering wheel to hold hers.

"Are you planning on moving in together once the school year's over?" Sammy asked, already knowing the answer.

"That was our plan." Mike admitted. "We still have to convince our parents. My mom's kind of protective of me, with my, um..."

"And since I'm an only child, my parents still think of me as their little girl." Zoey added. "I mean, they're pretty protective too, but as I've said to them, I'm nearly eighteen. I have to grow up and learn to look after myself sometime."

Sammy soon discovered that Sierra's All-Stars observation from her blog was right. She hadn't read it, but Sierra had typed it in one of her confessionals: "Zoey's even sweeter than she is on TV." It was hard to imagine that, but it was absolutely true. The editing hadn't exactly done Zoey justice, but it hadn't changed her, either – she was just more so – sweet, modest and optimistic. She wasn't quite as meek as she had been in the fourth season, but then the show had covered her confidence boost.

The bowling was fun. None of them were especially good at it, and all of them got at least one gutter ball, but it didn't matter. Sammy even had a stroke of luck when she bowled a spare. Zoey was the best, narrowly beating out both her opponents. Mike and Sammy were almost equal, with no more than two points between their final scores. Although Sammy was technically last (however close it was), she didn't feel quite so bad about it, without her sister to gloat or someone to point it out.

"That was a lot of fun." she said on their way back.

"We should make it a regular thing." Mike suggested. "I could ask Cameron along too, next time. Maybe not bowling, but just hanging out, anytime." He paused. "You could ask Jasmine. She seemed pretty cool."

Sammy smiled, her face still uncertain, but happy. "Maybe. She's pretty busy at the moment. I don't know if you saw it, but she was planning to set up her own business with the prize money, and Shawn actually did split it with her in the end, so she's setting it up. But I'll definitely ask. She'd probably want to hang out." She paused again, and added "And definitely ask Cameron – he seemed really nice."

"Just so you know, he's stronger than he appeared onscreen." Zoey said with a giggle. "The show edited out every moment where he showed strength. That confessional with the butterfly weighing him down was actually footage from his audition tape, before he left his bubble, just with the outhouse background. After the last year and a half, he's built up more muscle anyway."

Sammy shrugged. "I guess they wanted to really play up the whole 'Brain vs Brawn' thing. Is Lightning really as strong and stupid as they showed?"

Zoey and Mike glanced at each other. Neither of them had shared a cabin with Lightning. "Strong, yes." Zoey said finally. "I think the show played up his stupidity a little bit, but he wasn't one of the smarter people in our cast."

"Not that it's easy to be one of the smart ones with Cameron and B in our cast." Mike laughed. "Those two left us all in the dust."

Sammy giggled, too. "At least they weren't Scarlett. I wasn't on the island when she snapped, but she seemed to kind of be the 'smart one' of our season, as well as the frightening one."

Zoey shivered at the thought. "I saw that episode. I'm glad I wasn't on the island, too. I was relieved when she left." She smiled. "Mike saw through her before I did."

"Only because I was watching the show properly." Mike said modestly. "You only started watching it halfway through. You said you wanted to recover from the last season."

"I didn't figure Scarlett out until the episode she left." Sammy admitted. "And I was on a team with her for five days. Not that she actually ever spoke to me."

At that point, they reached Sammy's house. As she was about to leave, she remembered something. "Oh! Amy wanted to come with us for some reason. I know it's weird, but I feel sorry for her. I said no, but I felt guilty about it. If she asks again, what should I say?"

Mike and Zoey exchanged glances. Finally, Mike said "Tell her she's invited next time. But if she starts picking on you while we're around-"

"We'll let her know that she's not welcome again." Zoey added, her voice firm. She smiled at Sammy. "I used to be sort of like you. I mean, someone could knock me right over and I'd be the one who ended up apologizing."

Sammy didn't argue that she was more assertive than that. She knew Zoey was right. "So you were really portrayed exactly right on Total Drama, like me?" she asked. "Amy was actually shown to be a little worse. Max wasn't quite as annoying as he was edited. And another thing – they messed up the audio in the show. Jasmine calls me Sammy, too. They just changed it because they thought the audience would be confused if I had two names." She smiled bitterly.

"I wasn't exactly right." Zoey admitted. "In the fourth season, I was, though. I didn't apologize quite so much in the fifth season. I think they just kept in every time I did as kind of a trademark thing."

A curtain twitched at one of the windows, and Sammy caught sight of something. "I better go." she said. "I think Amy's spying on us. Call me when you next want to hang out."

"We will. " Mike grinned. "See ya, Sammy!"

"I'll text you later, okay?" Zoey called. "Bye!"

Sammy watched them leave, then let herself back into her house.

Hope that wasn't too disappointing. Well, the special is up next, which means a lot of twin interaction!