YES, this is the last part I have to rewrite from the printed type. Then I'll have to start from scratch with the other two, but that's okay. I also have to rewrite Shannon's little joke at the end, but I shouldn't talk about that yet...anyway, thanks for reviewing, Ali6132 and AvrilLavigneFan2001.

The next day, Chef woke us with powdered gruel. Literally two minutes later, came a knock on the door. Courtney answered it, and it turned out to be Scott.

"You gonna finish your gruel?" he asked.

"What? No!" Courtney replied. "Gross! Help yourself."

Scott did so, picking off a blob of it on that had landed on Courtney's head. "You clean up real nice." he remarked flirtatiously, staring at her the same way he sometimes stared at me.

I got dressed, grabbed a snack from my hoard to keep me going (a couple of Twinkies...too sweet for my liking, but I only had so many bags of chips), ate them outside so no one caught me with them (although it meant I had to sit in the rain), then went to the boys' cabin to ask Scott something.

"So, already flirting with Courtney?" I asked him, sitting on the steps. "What happened?"

Scott shrugged. "She's really hot. I still like you better, but..." he paused. "If you do get sick of the brainiac..."

"Stop." I warned him.

"Whatever. Your loss." Scott shrugged again. "I figured that if you really don't want me, I should give up on you, right? I've seen the show. Courtney used to date Duncan, and people tell me sometimes that I'm kind of like him – I bet I could make her happy, and I do like her. I like forceful women like her. That's one reason why I'm into you."

I ignored that last comment and smiled. "Good luck. So, does that mean we can just be friends now? You know, hang out and stuff?"

Scott grinned back. "Why not?" He suddenly stepped forward and wrapped me in a light hug. "One last reminder of what you're missing." he teased.

I gave him a light shove. "Go take a shower. I'll see you when the challenge starts."
Which was just before twelve. It rained almost all morning, and there was nothing to do. I made a confessional, but that was it. And it was so whiny, I bet Chris didn't air it. "Rain? Seriously? We were on the island much longer last summer and it never even rained once! It was a little cloudy when Chef chased us with the spaghetti bazooka and it wasn't exactly sunny when we were trying to get that flower from Larry, but it never rained like this!" I gave a sigh. "At least I don't have to see Chris grinning like he's about have fun kicking a puppy."

When Chris finally called for us via intercom, it was sunny again. Cameron was finally back, thankfully looking less beat up than Sam had. However, there was a stench wafting off him. He explained that it was a wilderness survival technique he'd read about. Basically, he caused a bear to think he was something inanimate, so it would...do business on him. This caused every other creature to give him respect. Yeah, it was gross, but it actually made them leave him alone.

The challenge involved giant stacks of pancakes. Each team member would get one minute to eat as much of the stack as they could. Then they would have to run an obstacle course, similar to the one from last year, with the baseball mitt Cameron and I had to land in. This time, it had the same obstacle Mike was on, the red balls, then the rolling pins, like the ones Jo and Scott competed on and the kicker, which Anne Maria avoided.

"That won't be so hard." Scott scoffed.

"Oh, really?" Chris said. "Huh. I wasn't gonna add this, but since Scott's not impressed..." he pulled out a walkie-talkie. "Bring it in! Say hello to my metal friend! I call it the salad spinner!" More like a spinner. It just spun people around and then threw them out.

"How does it work?" Mike asked nervously.

"Probably painfully. I don't know, we didn't have time to test it."

Our newest team member wasn't pleased. "Nice one, Scott. And yes, I was being sarcastic!" Scott just stared at Courtney. "What? What?"

"You're pretty when you're mad." he told her.

"Barf." Heather commented.

I giggled. "I think it's cute." I was going to encourage Scott flirting with Courtney as much as possible. Hey, it meant that he'd probably leave me alone.

There was one last rule. If the player barfed before finishing their pancakes or the obstacle course, they would be sent to sit out, and would have to leave their team to finish the challenge without their help.

"We need a team leader." Alejandro stated, looking up at Heather. "And I think it should be you."

"Fine." Heather scowled. "You go first, but you better have a big appetite!"

"As you wish."

Of course, Chris had "forgotten" to mention all the booby traps. So we didn't know how careful we had to be until a couple of rats began attacking Alejandro. On the Heroes stack, Sierra found fish eyes, and ate them, thinking they were blueberries. When she found out the truth, she was the first person to be benched, and Cameron had to take her place.

Then Alejandro had to go on the obstacle course. To be fair, he was pretty impressive, and managed to just about keep down his pancakes, even after the spinner.

"Dirt for brains, you're next." ordered Heather. However, I took one look at Scott, and decided he wouldn't be much help. He'd eaten too much powdered gruel earlier.

"Actually, Heather, I'm next." I told her, running up to the pancakes before she could stop me and taking as big bites as possible, trying my best not to let any of the sweet soft substance hit my tastebuds and slow me down. And then, just as the screech telling me my time was up sounded, a pest trap jabbed at my lips.

"Run, Shannon!" I heard my teammates yelling.

I pulled the trap off and ran, ignoring my aching lips. I slipped and slid as I jumped on the red things, but I did okay on the rolling pins. The kicker and the spinner were hell, but I kept my food down.

Sierra was filming stuff on her (battered) SmartPhone. It didn't seem like a night away from Cameron had stopped her treating him like Cody, though. In fact, she was worse, calling him things like "Codycam" and "Camdy".

Gwen and Duncan went up for each team. Duncan got a mouse trap on his lips, and Gwen was attacked by crabs. Heather wanted Courtney to go next.

"I'm not going after Gwen!" Courtney whined. "She'll leave a booby trap in there for me."

"I think she's a little too busy."

"Fine! But if we lose, Gwen goes home, deal?"

"Deal!" I was probably the only one who saw Heather crossing her fingers behind her back.

Gwen hurled, so she was benched with Sierra. Actually, her barf went all over Duncan and the rolling pins.

Mike went up for the Heroes, and then, the funny thing was, Courtney hit a booby trap that was worse for her than it would've been for anyone else When she screamed, I instantly remembered the episode.

"GREEN JELLY! GET IT OFF ME, GET IT OFF ME!"

"Why's she freaking out so much?" I heard Cameron asking.

Sierra answered. "Season One, Phobia Factor challenge! She's terrified of that stuff!" I remembered how Chris had offered to triple her team's points if Courtney jumped into a pool of green jelly, but she'd been too scared. It was weird, how she didn't get voted off. Instead, it was Tyler who couldn't face his fear of chickens. Actually, only three of their teammates faced their fears – DJ touched a snake, Duncan hugged a Celine Dion standee, and Sadie spent a whole day wearing a wig with a terrible haircut.

Anyway, back to the challenge. We were way ahead, until Sam tagged out Zoey during her turn, and went up to eat for the Heroes. Chris allowed it, but said we had to tag out someone too.

Heather was taking her turn, so Alejandro went up. "Tag my designer boot! Do it!" But Sam still finished the pancakes first.

"Come on, Ale-whatever!" Scott yelled out.

"Don't bother!" Heather said pointedly. "Obviously he can't do it!"

That motivated Alejandro, and soon he and Sam were neck-and-neck n the obstacle course. It all came down to who came out of the spinner first. It was...

My stomach dropped. Sam. Well, that was it...Alejandro would be gone, no matter who I chose to vote for.

But at the elimination ceremony, Chris told us that he'd discovered something. "After reviewing the footage of today's challenge and laughing a lot, turns out the Heroes didn't, in fact, complete the challenge!"

We gasped, and Mike said "But Sam finished the pancakes and the obstacle course first!"

Actually, Sam hadn't eaten all of the pancake. He still had some of it left in his pockets. "I just saved a little bit in case I had to go to Boney Island again!" he explained. "It's a terrible place! I'm sorry."

So we won, and the Heroes voted Sam off, although I'm willing to bet it was close between him and Sierra, who got the last marshmallow.

Sam stood. "Sorry I blew it, guys. But you would've done the same, if you were me and had to spend a night in that scary bitey place..."

Oh yeah, and Gwen hadn't accidentally hurt Courtney at all, that day. She was hopeful that her Courtney-hurting curse was over.

I was thrilled to be back in the spa hotel, of course, but nothing gave me greater pleasure than the prank I played that night. All I did was write a note and leave it on Heather's bed.

The note said: Psst, Heather, Sierra told me that everyone on the Internet thinks you and Alejandro should get really passionate right about now. I agree. If you two wanted to share a bed tonight, I'm sure none of us would mind.

Everything was worth it to hear Heather's scream of fury. At least she didn't know who'd written it yet.

Yes, I've redone the printed stuff! Now, I'll have to rewrite the other two, but I got all the printed stuff done in one day. That's good!