Author's Note: I'll put the votes for each couple to the right of their names, and the "X" for them being voted off on the left.

-Izzy and Owen-0

-Heather and Justin-0

-Lindsay and Tyler-0

-LeShawna and Harold-0

-Beth and Cody-0

-Eva and Ezekiel-0

-Bridgette and Geoff-0

-Gwen and Trent-4

-Courtney and Duncan-4

-Sadie and DJ-0

-Katie and Noah-0

"Today's challenge," Chris begins once all the campers are standing on the dock, "is to complete an obstacle course in the building you are assigned to. Easy enough, right?" The campers groan. Nothing is easy when Chris is in charge.

"Ha-ha! You guys know me too well. Each couple has to be handcuffed to the other," Chris continues, "And the girlfriend has to be blindfolded! Ha-ha!" The girls all groan. "Now, Chef, show us the buildings!"

Chef is standing in front of a huge blue curtain, dressed in a red skin-tight dress. Duncan, Trent, and Geoff wince. Gwen fake-gags. Chef pulls a rope, and the curtain parts to reveal 11 ugly concrete buildings.

"The obstacle courses are inside the buildings. Find your names on the door, and that's your building. Good luck!" Chris calls, already walking towards his air-conditioned tent. Chef walks around the group, handcuffing the couples and handing the girlfriends blindfolds.

"Um, what if the handcuffs give my wrist a red rash?" Harold rasps. Duncan rolls his eyes. Chef ignores Harold and joins Chris in the tent.

"Go!" Chris shouts over the speakers. Tyler starts running, but forgets about Lindsey, who goes sprawling on the ground.

"Sorry, babe, sorry!" Tyler reassures her.

Meanwhile, Trent has his arm around Gwen's waist, leading her to the buildings. Gwen is walking and Trent is saying, "Don't worry, Gwen, we're almost there." And Geoff is holding Bridgette's hand, leading her, but Bridgette's blindfold isn't helping her clumsiness problem.


However, Duncan has just thrown Courtney over his shoulder and started running for the building. Courtney is screaming, "I can walk, you know! I do have feet, after all!" But when Duncan didn't reply, Courtney screamed, "Let me down, you brute! You, you… juvenile delinquent! You pig! Ape!" Duncan was smirking. The third building he comes to is his building.

"We're here, Princess," he says to Courtney, setting her down. Duncan opens the door and gasps.

"What is it? What is it?" Courtney asks. First is a rock wall. Then a rope wall, a one-log bridge over a rushing river, rock stepping stones over thin ice, a car tire tunnel, and a ladder up to a door (the obstacle courses were same for everybody, but Chris didn't want the boyfriends figuring out how to complete the course just by watching the other boyfriends who already figured it out).

"Um, I'll tell you when we get to each obstacle," Duncan grunts. "Now get on my back." Courtney crosses her arms. "No way!" she protests. Duncan sighs.

"Listen, you're the one with the blindfold. You have to trust me. How else are we going to climb up the rock wall?" Duncan sighs. Courtney climbs on Duncan's back, grumbling. Duncan starts climbing up the wall, but the he says, "Sweetheart, you're going to have to ease your grip on my neck unless you want me to pass out and fall to the ground." Courtney reluctantly eases up on her grip, and they get to the top of the wall.


Now Trent and Gwen are at the rock wall and Gwen asks, "What? What's first?"

"There's a rock wall," Trent answers, "Can you climb on my back?" So Gwen climbs on, and she adjusts her skirt.

"Ready," Gwen says, wrapping her arms around Trent's torso. Wow, Gwen thinks, Trent has, uh, a lot of muscles. She blushes. And as Trent starts climbing the wall, he blushes too because he's thinking of the last TDI episode of climbing the rock wall when Gwen had her skirt ripped off and her underwear revealed. They make it to the top of the wall.

Everybody except Sadie and DJ (Sadie was too fat), Katie and Noah (Noah was too wimpy), LeShawna and Harold (Harold has no muscles), and Beth and Cody (Cody was too uncoordinated) made it up the rock wall. Next was the rope wall.


"Go, Home-School, faster!!" Eva screamed at Ezekiel.


"Okay, Princess, there's a rope wall up ahead. What do you suggest we do?" Duncan sets Courtney on the ground. Courtney walks up to the wall and feels the rope.

"Hmm. The space is wide enough that I could fit through the rope. You could climb over, and I'll crawl through," Courtney suggests. And that's exactly what they do.


"Gwen, there's a rope wall. I could carry you up again…" Trent says. Gwen shakes her head.

"It would be too shaky. I can just climb over blind," Gwen insists. So Trent holds Gwen's hand all the way over the rope wall.


"Rope wall up ahead," Geoff reports to Bridgette, in their own building. "I can climb over the wall and help you through the rope net. The holes are big enough that you can probably climb through. Uh, not that you're fat or anything…" Geoff has never been smooth with words, Bridgette thinks as she hears Geoff climb the wall.

"All right, Bridgette, just walk straight," Geoff says. Bridgette sticks out her arms and slowly walks to the wall. Geoff takes her hands. Bridgette blushes.

"Now put your head through the net and I'll help the rest of you out," Geoff continues. Bridgette sticks her head through the net and wiggles her waist through. But her feet get stuck, and she almost falls, but she grabs Geoff around the waist. He holds her up, and they continue to the next obstacle. However, Owen couldn't climb the rope wall because he was too big, so he and Izzy stayed behind.

All of the couples cross the log bridge and stepping-stones fine, except Tyler, who was too clumsy that he fell off Lindsay had to stay behind with him. The car tire-tunnel was up next.


"'Kay, Princess, there's a tire-tunnel up next," Duncan said.

"A tire tunnel?"

"Yeah. The things with the wood posts holding tires up with ropes. Ya know?" Duncan informs her.

"Yes, Duncan, I know. But how are we going to get through if we're handcuffed together?" Courtney blindly holds up the cuffs.

"Well, we can army-crawl through the tires…" Duncan tries.

"Uh, no. That'll put too much distance between us. Not that I don't want to get away from you, but the handcuffs won't allow that kind of room," Courtney persists. Courtney moves to cross her arms, but then decides against it because that would put Duncan's hand too close to her breast.

"You have a point, there, Sweetheart. I can crawl backwards, and you can crawl forwards. How about that?" Duncan asks. Courtney nods and Duncan backs up into the tunnel. Duncan grabs Courtney's hand to lead her in.

"Can you go a bit faster, Duncan?" Courtney asks, a cute scowl on her face.

"Sorry, Sweetheart, no can do. What if Duncan likes being in this dark tunnel with you?" Duncan smirks, speaking in third person.

"Pig," Courtney mutters. But when Duncan leans in and once Courtney can smell his minty breath, she doesn't pull away. Duncan hesitates, so Courtney jumps in and kisses him. Duncan raises his free hand and intertwines it in her hair, supporting the back of her head. They finally break apart, breathing heavily, and Courtney whispers, "We better keep going."

"You got it, Princess," Duncan whispers back. And when they get out of the tunnel, Courtney takes Duncan's hand.


"Trent, I can't do this," Gwen says. My skirt is going to ride up in the tunnel, Gwen thinks, and Trent is going to see my underwear just like last season… Ugh, so embarrassing…Trent puts his arm around Gwen.

"Of course you can, Gwen. Don't you want the special reward?" Trent asks.

"Well, I do…" Gwen says.

"'Kay, then. I'll crawl backwards through the tunnel, and you can crawl forwards," Trent insisted. I nod. At least my skirt won't ride up then. We crawl through, and Trent helps me up as a crawl out of the last tire.

"Just up a ladder, and we've made it," Trent says.

"Uh, Trent, thanks for your help with the, you know, challenge. I couldn't have done any of this blindfolded," Gwen says, blushing. I bet I look retarded with my blindfold on, Gwen thinks.

"No problem," he says, and Gwen doesn't know where Trent is until he kisses her on the lips. Gwen reaches up and wraps her free arm around his neck. Trent lifts Gwen up, and when he puts her back on the ground, he ends the kiss.

"Let's win that prize, now, shall we?" Trent whispers.


"Geoff, you know I'm clumsy. I'm going to end up falling through the space in between each tire," Bridgette warns.

"You may not have to…" he leaves off.

"What?"

Geoff is sitting in a tire, and he pulls Bridgette into his lap. Then Geoff ducks into the tunnel and starts pulling them from tire to tire. "Just relax, baby, we're almost there," Geoff assures. Bridgette smiles and leans back against Geoff's abs.

"We're here!" Geoff calls, pulling Bridgette out of the tunnel and by his side. He puts his hat on her head and smiles, although Bridgette can't see his smile. "See how easy that was?" he says quietly, placing his arm around her waist. Bridgette smiles. For once he didn't get his words mixed up, she thinks, Now if only he'll kiss me because I can't see hi-- Her thoughts are interrupted by Geoff's long kiss.

"Why won't you lead me to the next obstacle?!" Heather shrieks. Justin says nothing. Only he knows that he doesn't want to get tire oil on his "precious body".

"Why won't you say anything?!" A pause. "Aghhhh!"

Oh, yeah. Eva and Ezekiel didn't wake it, either, because Eva got so fed up with Ezekiel that she beat him up. Yeah…

The last three remaining couples (Duncan and Courtney, Geoff and Bridgette, and Trent and Gwen) burst through their doors at the same time. The couples are in Chris and Chef's tent, and Chris and Chef are sitting on massage chairs watching TV screens of the other couples. The girls whip off their blindfolds, look at each other, and shout, "WHO WON?" at Chris and Chef.

Chris shrugs and says, "I don't know. We'll have to look at the video tapes in slow motion. Maybe some votes from readers could sway the vote for who won the special prize…" he leaves off mysteriously.

"But stay tuned for the next chapter!" he exclaims as the cameras zoom out.