Now, we're off to the Playa! Thanks for reviewing, Silver Writer 0927, Gage the Hedgehog, and SuperKitty4789.
When I stepped off the boat to the place I'd be staying in until the finale, I gasped. Now this was the five-star resort on the application form. It was called Playa Des Losers, and everyone else was there, from Ezekiel to Leshawna.
It was great to see everyone again. Cody was out of his body cast and back to full form. The skunk spray had been long gone from Bridgette and she and Geoff were truly inseparable from then on. Izzy had befriended Eva and was now working on Noah. Ezekiel had discovered rap music and had started talking like a rapper and was trying to impress Bridgette with it. Courtney had discovered Harold had rigged the votes to get her kicked off and only wasn't killing him because she'd already hurt him enough and the rest of us wouldn't let her.
I hugged Leshawna when I got there. "Have you had things out with Harold yet?" I whispered.
She cast an anxious look at the geek. "Not yet, but I will."
I still got letters from my family. It was from Lisa, as usual:
Dear Stephanie,
We just got the hunting episode, and I'm glad you didn't kill any of them. Did Gwen really get all those duck dishes she asked for?
Bart loved the horror movie challenge, by the way. I was terrified when I realized you and Gwen were up against the real killer, but great job on that.
And as for the bike episode...have you still got your bike? Did you fix it? Are you going to try to bring it back to Springfield? And as for Lindsay...they bleeped out what she said, but good for her. And wow, she called you "Stephie"? You usually go ballistic when Mom calls you that, ever since you started second grade.
My predictions...well, now that Izzy's gone...when are you going to boot Heather? She should have already gone! If you don't take her out, I'm guessing you'll go for the nicest next. That's Geoff, isn't it? And probably Leshawna or Owen after that. I'll just have to wait and see. Wow, that's six weeks' worth of footage we've seen. And you obviously made it to the final five, since we made that video.
Hang in there! Good luck!
Love, Lisa.
If only she'd known I was out. But it wasn't so bad. It was like a holiday, and a lot of fun to chill with everyone that had left before me. Everyone was chilling. Noah read all the time, Katie and Sadie drooled over Justin, Izzy swam most of the time, Bridgette and Geoff spent all their time making out in the hot tub, Lindsay kept trying to find Tyler (except she seemed to have forgotten who he was, so he kept telling her and she kept forgetting), and as for me? Well, I sunbathed most of the time. Trent was doing the same, so we kept each other company, swapping stories. The only time he got annoying was when he kept asking about Gwen.
Three days after getting the letter, another competitor arrived at Playa Des Losers. I should explain here that there were thirteen bedrooms in the Playa and one was locked, so everyone except one person had to share at one point or another. Leshawna didn't have anyone else in her room, so she let me share hers.
Anyway, off-topic, when I saw the Boat of Losers coming that night and noticed the person on the boat, I flew up to the room Bridgette and Courtney were sharing and pounded on the door.
Courtney answered. "Oh. Hi." she said, when she saw it was me. "If you're looking for Bridgette-"
"First, I know that if she's not in the spa, she's probably in Geoff's room," (He didn't have a roommate so far – someone told me that once they were reunited, they went up to one of the unused bedrooms immediately, which became Geoff's room for the rest of the stay – at least we didn't have to see them making out all the time), "and second, I'm not looking for Bridgette. The latest elimination's come, and there's someone here who I'm pretty sure wants to see you."
Courtney's face went from confusion, to surprise, to..."You mean..."
I gave her a friendly push. "Don't fear the feels, girl! Get down there and tell him how much you missed him!"
Yep, Duncan was the next person after me to be voted off. Chef, who drove the boat, also sent along the rough footage of the episode when we ended up on the other side of the island, so everyone watched it. Apparently, they got the rough cuts of every episode, although they had apparently brought the one at the Playa before I was eliminated (later on, I watched them, and got to hear some very interesting confessionals – although I'm not sure exactly why Cody felt the need to make air guitar sounds for a full ten minutes when he managed to grab Gwen as his canoeing partner), so this was only the twenty-third episode they'd seen.
First, my hair was a mess for most of the episode. Second, all our arguing and things sounded really dumb. Third, Owen's friendship with Mr Coconut became less disturbing and just became hilarious.
Later on that night, when everyone else was in bed, I sneaked down to go and watch the episode before that one, because I couldn't wait any longer to see it, and no one else would want to watch it with me.
It was very informative about what people thought about everyone. Heather was well-hated. There were some mixed things on Duncan (most people liked him, but Harold hated him and Lindsay called him cruel). People seemed to like both Owen and Gwen a lot, but Leshawna was definitely the most well-liked. As for me...well, there were words like "immature" and "sarcastic" floating around, but there was also "tough", "energetic", "honest", and even "cool", so I gathered that people did like me. Whatever, right?
The reason Leshawna was voted off seemed to be a chain reaction. Chris asked Katie and Sadie who they wanted to join them at the Playa first, and they both said they missed Leshawna the most, accidentally voting her off. Basically, whenever anyone said "Leshawna", that was counted as a vote, so Courtney said it, accidentally voting, then Lindsay said it twice, then Izzy said it while telling no one else to say it. A parrot said it twice, and when Trent protested Chris counting the parrot as a vote, he said it. Wow. At least I'd actually been voted off! Getting kicked off because people kept saying my name would suck.
One more chapter at the Playa, and then...well, you know what will happen!