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.

X-Izzy and Owen-3

X-Heather and Justin-42

X-Lindsay and Tyler-0

X-LeShawna and Harold-4

X-Beth and Cody-4

X-Eva and Ezekiel-0

-Bridgette and Geoff-63

-Gwen and Trent-113

-Courtney and Duncan-161

X-Sadie and DJ-2

-Katie and Noah-72

Josh and Courtney sit on a boulder in the woods. They mainly talk about high school, college, their hometown, and their future careers. Duncan would normally be bored out of his mind, except Josh kept giving Courtney these looks. Duncan couldn't explain it, but it was strange.

Josh leans back on the boulder, and Duncan leans forward, towards the TV screen. Duncan squints. Oh yeah. I'm gonna kill him, he thinks. Josh had placed his hand over Courtney's hand.


"Have you gotten any scholarship proposals from school yet?" Josh asks, "Harvard is pretty expensive…"

Courtney rolls her eyes and smiles. "Daddy says we have most of the tuition we would need for Harvard, but there is still some cost left… I'm working on getting a few scholarships, but nobody has contacted me yet. What about you?" Courtney leans back on the boulder, propping herself up with her hands.

"Yeah, the hospital my dad works at has a scholarship for me, for a couple thousand dollars. He wants me to be a doctor like him, but I still want to be a lawyer," Josh says, sighing. Courtney cocks her head.

"You're definitely smart enough to be a lawyer! Why won't he listen to you?"

Josh leans back like Courtney, placing his hand over hers. She doesn't even flinch or look at his hand. He shrugs and replies, "My dad is just stubborn. I just think he thinks I'll turn into so know-it-all, rich, powerful jerk-face." Courtney giggles.

"There are always a couple of those kinds of lawyers." This time it was Josh's turn to laugh. Courtney smiles, and Josh starts twirling a lock of Courtney's hair.


Duncan grips the metal table -- hard.


"But I'm sure you won't turn into one of those types of lawyers," he says. Courtney looks down and fumbles with the edge of her sweater.

"I do get really competitive, though…" she mumbles. Josh drops the lock of hair and holds her chin, turning her to face him.

"Great lawyers are competitive, Courtney. They are confident, too, like you," Josh assures her. Her drops his hand from her chin. She smiles warily.

"Thanks."

"You'd make a great lawyer," he continues, "And a beautiful one, at that."


Duncan's eyes widen, and even though he agrees with Josh, all his muscles tense and Duncan breaks out in a cold sweat. Courtney is MY girlfriend, Duncan thinks.


Josh places his hand behind Courtney's neck, under her hair, and pulls her in for a kiss. Courtney's eyes close and she grasps the collar of Josh's polo, pulling him in closer.


The static turns on and Duncan stands up. The chair falls backwards onto the floor, and he shoves the TV off the desk. It crashes on the floor, and the glass shards from the screen shatter all over the floor.


Courtney all of a sudden pulls away from Josh and hops off the boulder. "What's wrong?" Josh asks, blinking at Courtney. She stalks off down the path, and Josh jogs after her.

"Duncan," she mumbles.

"Aw, come on, Courtney, he's an asshole!" Josh exclaims. Courtney whips around so fast, Josh almost stumbles into her. He steps back. Courtney glares at him with clenched fists and watery eyes.

"He may be an asshole, and a deviant delinquent, and a sick pervert, and a criminal, and a punk with lots piercings, not to mention his mohawk, and many other things too," Courtney says menacingly quiet, "But he's also my boyfriend." Courtney spins around and runs to the cabin, letting her tears fall, and leaving Josh standing open-mouthed in the woods.


"And how's Reaper doing?" Gwen asks Xavier. They were sitting on the Dock of Shame, watching the sunset. He laughs.

"Reaper's fine, he just got arrested again," he explains. Gwen gasps, but has a smile growing on her face. She chuckles.

"Oh my gosh! What'd he do this time?" Gwen asks. Xavier chucks a rock far off into the water.

"He got a DUI. He's lucky his parents haven't disowned him yet, since they got him outta jail with bail money," he replies.

"Aren't there laws about a certain age a kid has to be before their parents disown them?" asks Gwen.

"Pff. I don't know," says Xavier. They laugh. But then Xavier develops a serious facial expression. "You sure have changed, Gwen."

"What? How?"

"Just by the way you talk. You seem… different, I guess. I just can't explain it. And I see you smiling a lot more than you did before. You just seem more… happy. Or relaxed, or something," Xavier says, eyes exploring Gwen's face. She shrugs. I don't know.

Maybe it's from finally breaking up with Trent. He always seemed a little desperate, Xavier thinks, Well, here goes nothing.

Xavier leans in and kisses Gwen. She hunches over; her personal sign of being surprised. But Xavier thought she was kissing back, so he deepens the kiss. This time, scratching her personal sign of being surprised, Gwen leans back. But since Xavier's hands were on her back, he falls on the dock with her.


Static floods the TV. Trent just stares at it, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, not believing Gwen would cheat on him like that. Trent stands up, shoving his chair against the wall with more force needed, and grabs his palm-sized notebook and a pen from his back pocket. Trent sits in a corner and starts writing a new song for Gwen -- no matter how much this song hurts her.


Gwen puts her hands on Xavier's shoulders and gently pushes him back. "Xavier, I have a boyfriend," she reminds him. How could he do this to me? He KNOWS Trent and I are going out! I thought he was my friend! He shouldn't make me-- Gwen thinks. Xavier interrupts her thoughts.

"Chris said you and Trent broke up," he says, getting off Gwen, and blushing.

"WHAT?!"

"HesaidformenottotellyoubecauseTrentwasreallyharshduringthebreakupanditwouldstirupsomebadfeelingsforyou--" Xavier rushes, shrinking away from Gwen, who looked like she could kill somebody, namely Chris.

"Slower," Gwen orders through clenched teeth.

"Chris said for me not to remind you because Trent was really harsh during the alleged breakup and it would stir up some bad feelings for you, and of course I wouldn't want to see you cry, I mean, I never have actually seen--" Xavier rants. But Gwen stands up on the dock and runs for the cabin, leaving Xavier sitting on the dock. She runs up the stairs and into the cabin, where she finds Courtney and Bridgette sitting on Gwen's bed, crying.

Gwen sits down by them and crosses her legs. "What's wrong?" she asks. So Courtney tells her story, and then Bridgette.

"Hmm," says Gwen, "Xavier told me something after he kissed me that might explain everything…"


Duncan spots an air vent on the ceiling. He looks at Trent, who was hunched in a corner writing something in his notebook, and at Geoff, who was already sleeping and mumbling about Bridgette. So Duncan hops up on the desk and reaches up. His hands grip the cold metal covering of the air vent.

Duncan rips the grate from the ceiling and chucks it to the floor. A metal clang fills the room, but Trent and Geoff ignore it. After all, Duncan had been throwing things around the room ever since he saw Josh kiss Courtney. He hoists himself up and crawls into the metal vent. I gotta see Courtney, Duncan thinks, And I'm gonna get my hands on Josh no matter what.

(Author's Note: I thought this chapter was getting pretty long, and so I stopped writing since I don't want to bore my readers with a super long chapter. Lol. Just so you guys know, Noah and Katie will be the ones eliminated. The votes were 47 to NxK and 44 to GxB. Since Noah and Katie got the most, they'll be the ones to go. I'll have them leave the island in the next chapter.)