OK, bring on the sleepover, the reunion party, and before all that, the watching of All-Stars! Thanks for reviewing, Nicky Haugh, Lord of the Sloths, SuperKitty4789, DannyPhantom619, Pokemon FTW and The Phenomenal Flair.

Just like last year, the whole cheer squad came over to my house to watch the premiere of the first episode of Total Drama All-Stars. However, two of the girls were absent – I hadn't known them well, because they were in the year below me. They were twins, flyers with big turquoise eyes and fair hair.

"You know why they're not here, right?" one of the seniors said. "They're supposed to be on the next season, and it's starting in, like, two days."

"You know what one of them told me?" one of the frosh girls said, giggling. "That she only auditioned for the show so she could stay with the other! And I thought they didn't like each other."

"I don't know." one of the sophomores said, frowning. "One of them – you know, the one everyone calls Samey – told me that she auditioned to get away from Amy. I don't get why."

We didn't think much about it, and forgot about the twins being on the next season. We'd have to wait for it to come out.

Sierra made good on her promise for our girls' night. We all ordered in cocktails and room service, again playing more stupid games and styling hair and makeup. Sierra blogged about it nonstop, which was a little annoying, but it didn't matter too much.

Lindsay had to convince Zoey to order a daiquiri, but after a first sip, my redheaded friend smiled and admitted "You're right, Linds. This kind of drink really does make me stop dreading drinks!"

We all giggled, all trying our own cocktails. Beth had ordered a margarita, me a sidecar, while Lindsay wanted a ramos gin fizz and Sierra decided on a Mai Tai, but we all enjoyed them equally. We didn't even want to experiment and just ordered repeats. Zoey stopped after two, but Beth and I both had three, and Sierra had five. We had the good sense to stop Lindsay from ordering a seventh, though – she was starting to make even less sense than usual. For one thing, she'd asked if the entire cheer squad was also part of a synchro team, when most high schools only had one regular swim team! Even Lindsay would have known something like that.

Apart from the cocktails, we raided the minibar (hey, it was a luxury night, spare no expenses) and...well, let's just say that by the end of the night, all that was left was a few of those tiny milk containers.

Apart from the food and drink, we mostly spent the night sitting around, talking and trying out new styles on each other. Despite Zoey being a lightweight drinker due to her inexperience and saying she kept coming over dizzy because of it, me knowing I was a bit tipsy and not really caring, Beth suddenly having way too much energy and being unsually restless for such a careful person, Sierra being at her most exuberant and giggly and Lindsay clearly being completely hammered, we actually managed to have a great night, all of which we agreed was a night to remember.

Well, except Lindsay, but she forgot things so easily already that her forgetting our sleepover night was nothing new. And when she woke up the next morning, the first words out of her mouth were "When can we do this again?"

While All-Stars was still airing, the channel was showing auditions of the newbies. When I checked Sierra's blogs after seeing a few, she already had all the names and stereotypes ("UNDER CONSTRUCTION") and had based them on the auditions.

I saw the twins' (from our squad) audition tapes apart, but when I heard the quieter one speak, I was legitimately surprised when she began with "I'm Sammy, not Samey...I don't even know why I said that." I knew the other girls called her Samey, but I didn't know her that well, so I'd never called her anything. It hadn't entered my head what her real name might be. And judging by her denial about being called that at all and claiming she didn't have a sister, she would rather be called Sammy.

I saw Amy's audition a few days after that, and I couldn't believe it. I hadn't known Amy that well, either, but it was clear from the first five seconds of her audition tape that she was only auditioning for Total Drama to show her sister who was better. Wow. If I could tell them apart when they came back, I'd have to talk to the squad about that. Amy really was the rich bitch stereotype most of us tried to avoid, while Sammy seemed shy and sweet.

The other competitors whose auditions I saw seemed...weird. A few of them seemed normal, like a Mulan lookalike who mentioned she'd miss her boyfriend but said she was willing to do what it took to win and a boy who stammered out most of it before declaring that he'd play viciously. But then, there was a boy who declared that he wanted to be on Total Drama as a step to taking over the world and that he was much more evil than anyone who'd been on the show before (yeah, and he admitted that he babysits...I'd be surprised if none of the kids he sat for were taller than him). And there was a girl who declared she should be on Total Drama because she'd been in some commercial. Weirdness! I did like the more athletic types. One boy spent his audition just showing his climbing and dodging skills, and despite some mention that made me think he might have a little problem with horror movies, he seemed cool. Another girl was wearing a track team top and had an athlete's build, which made me think she'd be one to watch in the physical challenges.

I discussed some of the newbies with Lightning, and he agreed with me. "I used to run track." he told me. "But it was kinda dull. No point in running unless it's to win a game, you know?"

I pretended to be shocked. "So there's no point in running for, like, a bus? Or for racing down a dock?"

"Hey, if Lightning's racing you, then there's a difference." Lightning pointed out. "Who wouldn't want to impress their girl?"

The new season, Total Drama Pahkitew Island, aired two weeks after we were all back at school. I was finally in senior year and the last cheer captain had left, making me hope I had a chance at being captain this year. But whatever happened, the twins did the same thing I had and invited the squad to their house to watch the premiere of the show.

It wasn't too hard to tell the twins apart when they were together. I figured out soon enough that Amy had a mole on her face and Sammy didn't. Sadly, this also meant Amy had a lot of moments where the rest of us were giving her hard looks.

Scenes such as kicking Sammy off her when they were all falling from the sky and Amy knew that Sammy might not have a parachute (she did, but onscreen Amy actually seemed annoyed), and when she used Sammy as a shield from tennis balls (and told her to stop squealing every time she was hit)...all that kind of thing. She was also pretty rude to a big guy on her team called Rodney.

Sammy went a bit pink, too, when she watched the scene when she tried to correct Chris on her name and he refused to listen to her protests. And when she stated in her confessional about auditioning to get away from Amy.

Whatever, though. We couldn't just kick Amy off the squad. We needed the symmetry with the twins. They were two of the best flyers we had, although after two more episodes of Amy's abuse, none of us could really find it in us to like her anymore. However, most people were being extra nice to Sammy, the more her team talked her down.

Then, the day came. Sierra sent everyone a message for her reunion party, and the day before, she put up an RSVP list on her blog. Apparently, everyone was coming except Ezekiel (still feral), Noah (parties just weren't his thing), Scott (he just didn't want to and didn't say why), and Scarlett (she was from the last season and was stuck in a correctional facility for the time being after threatening to let Pahkitew Island explode with five of the other competitors if Chris wouldn't give her the million).

Funny thing, though...the girl in the track team shirt (her name was Julie) was treated as a major threat after Scarlett was gone, but the only reason for that seemed to be because she'd listened in on other people's confessionals. Sky (the Mulan lookalike) accused her of poor sportsmanship, but she seemed just like anyone else at the party. She wasn't treated as a villain by anyone else, unlike some of the other low-key villains who were only trying to win like Lightning (he was just kind of a jerk to most people, even though he was fine outside of the competition or with me) and even Courtney (she didn't really trick people or do underhand stuff that much, unlike, say, Heather). At one point, I saw her chatting away to Tyler like she'd known him for years.

When I finally got close enough, Julie spotted me and immediately grinned at me. "Hi! You're Danni, right? I remember watching you on Revenge of The Island, I mean, I was really rooting for B at first and then after he was gone I liked Lightning but you were honestly my third choice!"

I let out a chuckle. "Then you won't mind me telling you that I liked your best friend on the island better than you?" I was referring to Ella, Julie's sugar-sweet friend who danced around humming, like she thought she was in a Disney movie. Even now, she was happily talking to Anne Maria, who was looking more and more bored with every second, but Ella didn't seem to notice.

Julie gave a sigh. "Well, if I had my way in the final four, I would've taken Ella with me. She's a lot stronger than she looks, but..." and she smiled wickedly. "She would've been easy to beat! I don't mind that Sky won, though. If it couldn't be me, it could at least be someone I respected."

"You still like Sky?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Who doesn't like Sky?" Julie shrugged. "Well, her ex-boyfriend probably hates her now since she dumped him for Dave, but she would have dumped him anyway. She doesn't like me much any more, but I would've liked to stay friends with her if not for her disliking me now and all." She smiled. "Oh well, Shawn knows all about my listening in too, but he's pretty much how he always was with me." (He was the other finalist – the guy I'd mentioned who seemed to always think he was in a zombie movie).

"Was he really that paranoid?" I asked. "Or was he relatively okay?"

Julie laughed. "Both! Oh, he was paranoid all right." she giggled. "He never talked about anything except the impending apocalypse...well, and the challenges, and Jasmine, of course." (Jasmine was a cool Australian girl – in fact, she and Shawn were across the room from us right now). "But he was cool, too. He was actually way more reasonable than most of our team."

I grinned at that. I could imagine that with her way-too-into-LARPing teammate Leonard and the pageant queen Sugar (who did nothing but pick on Ella), Shawn really was one of the normal ones.

I got around almost everyone that evening. I was really pleased to talk to some of the gen-1 contestants I hadn't had a chance to meet properly. Geoff and Bridgette were just as nice as they were on camera. Courtney, who I found talking to Gwen and being actually pretty friendly, seemed a lot more relaxed than she was when she hadn't just been locked in a crate. Justin I didn't like much, but Katie and Sadie seemed less annoying off camera.

As for the party itself? Well, Sierra had actually had enough money to rent a public pool just for all of us, so that was fun. I mean, at least I got to show off my swimming skills without worrying about my clothes weighing me down this time. I even challenged some of the major athletes to a race, including Lightning and even Jo, who insisted. Brick. Eva, Tyler and Sky also joined the race. And, perhaps not surprisingly, it was the bodybuilders who couldn't keep up. Soon, there was just me and Sky in the lead. And as for the winner?

Sky. I'd known that her skills as a gynmast were off the charts, but I hadn't really seen her swimming. I guessed, that like me, her upper-body strength was an asset.

"So I guess one of the first Olympic events you'll use the money to train for is going to be swimmng?" I asked after the race was over. "I remember you mentioning that in one of your confessionals."

Sky smiled politely. "Well, yes. One of them. But there's a lot of events I'll be training for and swimming isn't the only one on the list."

Something she'd told Dave sparked in my memory. "Is rhythmic gymnastics at the top of your list? You told Dave your sister was in that, if I remember that episode right."

Sky raised an eyebrow. "You pay attention to detail. I did say that."

I shrugged. "I just remembered because Dave mentioned how he has the problem of always saying dumb things when he's about to tell a girl he likes her, and I remembered how he did that back then. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm glad you won the last season. There were some people on the season who didn't deserve it, and I'm not sure Shawn really needed what he would've spent the money on...unless it turns out every conspiracy nut was right, you know?"

"Well, thanks." Sky said, obviously not sure how to continue the conversation. She made some excuse and left.

After the party, I reflected on my time as a reality TV celeb. Even though Ronan had talked me into it, I realized that I actually had sort of enjoyed competing. I mean, if I thought about it, I'd built a rocket, won an ice-skating contest, faced my fear of thunderstorms and done so much more. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I'd done it twice. Even though there were some awful times on the island, all the friends I'd made and the sheer experience were all worth it.

This is Danni Kramer, signing out!

Oh, and PS: I'm deputy cheer captain.

Well, that's it. This is the end of Danni's story. I hope you enjoyed following her through the two stories and that you weren't disappointed with the ending. I'll be working more on The Ridonculously Explode Race from now on, so hope you continue reading that!