Author's Note: I'll put the votes for each couple to the right of their names, and an "X" for them being voted off on the left.
-Izzy and Owen-3
-Heather and Justin-21
X-Lindsay and Tyler-0
X-LeShawna and Harold-4
X-Beth and Cody-4
X-Eva and Ezekiel-0
-Bridgette and Geoff-15
-Gwen and Trent-63
-Courtney and Duncan-87
X-Sadie and DJ-2
-Katie and Noah-14
"Gwen! Trent!" Bridgette exclaims, climbing into the House of Mirrors. Gwen and Trent were laying on the floor.
"Bridgette! Geoff!" Gwen replies, hugging Bridgette. "Oh my gosh, it was so scary! We had to climb out of the trap door while walls with spikes were closing in on us!"
"Jeez, that's scary! We had to, as strange as it is, do 50 sit-ups on a spider-infested floor," Bridgette says. Gwen shivers.
"I hate spiders."
"Yeah, me too," Bridgette agrees, and Geoff takes her hand.
"We should go find Courtney and Duncan," Trent suggests, slipping his arm around Gwen's waist.
So they walk around the corner of the maze, with Bridgette and Geoff in back. Bridgette and Geoff yell and scream at the sight of the hanging clown; Gwen and Trent had already seen it before, but that didn't make it any less scary. The couples press against the panes of glass opposite the clown, to get past it without getting close.
But then the glass spins around, leaving the couples in another full-concrete room. Duncan and Courtney were tied to separate chairs.
"Courtney!" the girls exclaim, rushing over to untie their friend. The boys go over to untie Duncan.
Once the white gag over Courtney's mouth is untied, she yells, "Watch out, it's a trap!"
All of a sudden, clowns jump from trap doors in the ceiling. Gwen and Bridgette scream, and rush to untie Duncan. A clown runs over, however, and smashes Gwen in the side with a wooden club. She flies into the wall.
"Gwen!" Trent yells, kneeling next to his unconscious girlfriend.
"Trent, get over here and help!" Geoff exclaims, trying to keep clowns from attacking Bridgette. Bridgette was almost done untying Duncan. Trent runs and starts fighting clowns.
"That's what you get for hurting Gwen!" Trent shouts, slicing a clown's neck with a dead clown's knife.
Finally Duncan is untied and he jumps into battle. Meanwhile, Bridgette goes to untie Courtney. After Courtney is untied, Bridgette and Courtney run over to Gwen.
"FREEZE!" the high-pitched voice screams. The clowns, as well as the guys, freeze. The boys gasp when they see three clowns holding knives to the terrified girls' throats. The other clowns retreat back up rope ladders, into the trap doors, except for the three.
"You boys have killed way too many of my bodyguards. I'm stopping this now," the voice continues. A huge trap door under Duncan, Trent, and Geoff's feet opens up, and they fall into a rushing river underneath. Bridgette and Courtney (Gwen was still unconscious) scream as their boyfriends are swept away by the heavy current.
The clowns drag the girls to the edge of the trap door and drop them in the rushing water as well. They scream again (except Gwen) as they fall into the murky, green water. They water pounds their bodies, dragging them downstream. The nasty river seemed to be in a type of sewer -- the walls and ceiling formed an arch over the river, and the concrete-brick walls were covered in slimy green moss/mold. There was a humid, dank smell that just hung in the air. As the girls traveled downriver, their bodies were hit with multiple objects underwater. Whether they hit a rock, log, or something else was unknown to them.
Finally they heard their boyfriends' voices.
"Gwen!"
"Courtney!"
"Bridge!"
As the girls zoomed around the corner, they saw their boyfriends clinging to a metal rung -- part of a metal ladder imbedded in the concrete, which led to a closed, wooden trap door in the ceiling. The girls tried swimming for their respective boyfriends, but the current was too strong. But that was okay, since the guys' long arms could reach their near-drowning girlfriends. Geoff and Duncan were holding onto Bridgette and Courtney, and the girls were coughing. Trent grabs Gwen's limp, floating body.
"Gwen, you okay?" Trent asks her pale, limp form. All of a sudden, Gwen's eyes flash open, and she yelps in pain. "Gwen, what is it?!"
She adjusts Trent's hand on her waist. "You were holding my waist," Gwen explains, semi-pulling up her shirt to show him her bruised waist.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Trent apologizes as Courtney, Duncan, Geoff, and Bridgette climb up the ladder. "Ready?"
Gwen nods and lifts her arms up to grab a metal rung. She winces and withdraws her arms. "It hurts to raise my arms," Gwen says. Trent shrugs and motions at his back.
"Climb on," Trent offers, and Gwen slides onto his back. He climbs up the ladder, carrying Gwen piggy-back. They step up into daylight, in the middle of the carnival, and Gwen climbs off Trent's back.
The couples wince and rub their eyes because of the brightness from the sun after being locked up in the House of Mirrors for so long, even though it is hardly bright out -- clouds have collected overhead and the sky was taking on a gray tint. Duncan drops the wooden trap door back over the hole in the ground. The sewer was finally disguised again. It was obvious how they hadn't seen the trap door before -- the top of the door was disguised with dirt and scraggly weeds, just like the rest of the ground at the carnival.
All of a sudden, a long strip of tickets fall into each camper's hands. They count their tickets.
"I have 15 tickets!" Geoff reports.
"Me too."
"Me three."
"Us too."
"So, we all have 15 tickets, plus Gwen's three, which adds up to 93 tickets," Trent says.
"Um, guys?" Bridgette says, pointing to the red sky in the distance.
"Crap. It's almost night-time," Duncan complains.
"We can hardly protect ourselves in the daylight," Courtney comments, watching Gwen poke her huge bruise on her side. Gwen was sitting in Trent's lap, who was rubbing Gwen's back. Courtney continues, "How are we supposed to protect ourselves at night?"
"We can take turns staying awake to keep watch," Duncan suggests. "The girls can stay up a bit until the sun completely sets, then us guys can keep watch during the night when it's pitch black out, and then the girls can watch us again when the sun is starting to rise."
"But then you guys will have to stay awake longer," Courtney points out, hanging onto Duncan's arm.
"I think we'd rather watch you longer," Duncan explains, watching Geoff and Trent nod in agreement. Courtney squints at Duncan.
"Fine. But you guys better start sleeping now so you won't get tired later," Bridgette says. So the girls sit back-to-back in a triangle, with their boyfriends' heads in their lap. The girls watched the sun go down, and the moon start to creep up.
"Duncan, it's dark out now," Courtney says, shaking Duncan's shoulder.
"Alright," he says, yawning. The boys take their positions, back-to-back, with their girlfriends curled up in their laps. Courtney rests her head on Duncan's shoulder, Trent cradles Gwen in his arms, and Bridgette rests against Geoff's chest with his cowboy hat on her head.
The guys sit up straight and watch dark shadows flit back and forth between the tents.
