Gwen's POV:
The blaring of the bullhorn once again woke me up, although this time I didn't fall out of my bunk.
"We've got to burn that thing." LeShawna कहा from her bottom bunk as I climbed down from my चोटी, शीर्ष one.
"Agreed." I said. Once reaching the floor, I looked around and noticed that the Killer Cavemen girls were all here except for Izzy. "Uh, has anyone seen Izzy?" I asked, scanning the room with my eyes in an attempt to locate the locate the psycho redhead.
"She didn't come with us to the संगीत कार्यक्रम last night." Bridgette कहा as she wearily pulled her स्वेट-शर्ट, स्वेटरशर्ट, sweatshirt over her head. Her eyes had bags and dark circles lining them.
"Um, what time did आप guys come घर last night?" Sierra asked.
"Three A.M." Bridgette answered.
"And right now it's..." I trailed off.
"Time to get your butts out here!" Chris screamed through his bullhorn. I groaned, then dressed quickly, making sure to put on my टील, टीला, गहरा हरिताभ नीला lipstick as well. I walked out with the rest of the girls in a big group, except for Courtney, who walked behind the clump of people, giving us death glares the whole time. Truth be told, I'm scared for my life.
When we walked to the clearing Chris was standing in every morning in, the boys had already arrived, and Chris was wearing a beige cowboy hat.
"Hey, nice hat. It's just like Geoff's." Heather sarcastically complimented.
"It is, Dude!" Geoff whined. I only now noticed that Geoff's head was bare except for his shaggy blonde hair.
"Well why does Chris have it?" I asked.
"Party Boy got a little crazy at the संगीत कार्यक्रम last night, and Chris had to carry home. He probably swiped the hat while Geoff was K.O.'ed." Duncan explained to me.
"Can we focus on me, please?" Chris whined.
"I'm focused on you, Chris!" Sierra कहा excitedly.
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Sierra: I know last season I wanted my mom to get rid of all of her Chris stuff, but that would've meant Mom would have to sell our whole house! So having Chris around so much made him grow on me again.
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"Thank you." Chris कहा with a smile that almost made our little purple-haired stalker faint.
"But wait!" Owen interrupted, annoying Chris. "Where's my little Izzy?" Owen asked eagerly.
"Yeah, where is the nutbar?" Duncan chimed in.
"Izzy was sent from our infirmary to a चोटी, शीर्ष secret government testing facility until further notice." Chris answered in a monotone voice.
"Wait, so Irene's not on our team anymore?" Lindsay asked sadly.
"As of now, she's not." Chris answered. There was grumbling and yelling and complaining coming from the other team, while I'm pretty sure we cheered internally. Them being down another player gives us a good advantage in the challenge today...whatever that's going to be. "Hey, hey, hey! Don't be mad at me, the chick's psycho. 'And, don't forget about the until further notice.'" He कहा in his evil voice.
"Okay, well, we may be down another person, but we can still do this! Right, guys?" Bridgette asked her team. Her team all stared blankly at her in response, causing Bridgette to frown and hang her head sullenly.
"Yeah, yeah, we get it, you're depressed. What's the challenge today?" Heather demanded.
"Right. Well," Chris began, and started fiddling with Geoff's hat he had perched on his head, "This cowboy hat here inspired me, and today, we're going country western!" Chris exclaimed.
"Righteous. Now hand over my hat, man!" Geoff said.
"Sheesh! Fine!" Chris कहा as he handed the beige headwear back to it's owner, "Boathouse! NOW!" Chris yelled angrily. We cringed and then scampered in a large group over to the mostly red boathouse, बूथहाउस that Cody had built a couple days before. We weren't going to the boathouse, instead, Chris led us to a newly constructed building right अगला to it. Once reaching it, we found that it was a stable, and a poorly built one at that. Inside that were two of the old, really good for nothing घोड़े that Chris kept on set. Unfortunately, they were probably treated better than us.
"Oh, horses! How pretty!" Bridgette exclaimed. Pretty? What horse is she looking at?
"Okay, so the first part of the challenge is a horse race. Each team must try and get their horse to the finish line before the other one, and आप do it any way आप want to." Chris explained.
"Psh, we got this, where's the finish line, baby?" LeShawna asked the host. He pointed up and we all sighed, for we knew that the finish line was on चोटी, शीर्ष of the thousand foot high cliff.
"Okay, then, Chef will hand आप your breakfast, and then आप can get going." Chris said. He then walked away, but the gap was filled द्वारा Chef, who was handing out flat and stale bran muffins. Joy. After our entire team had received ours, we basically just shoved the crap in our mouths and got to work.
"Okay, we need a plan!" Courtney declared.
"Why don't we just ride it?" Cody asked. Sierra squealed and grabbed him into a tight headlock.
"That's a great idea, Cody! Let's go!" She squealed, hopping onto the horse. Not even ten सेकंड्स after landing on the steed's back, the brown animal tumbled to the ground, squished द्वारा Cody and Sierra's combined weights.
"That's why." LeShawna answered. Harold helped them up, and they began to कॉनवर्स again, but I tuned them out to try and get the scoop on the other team's status. They were standing all around their old horse, and most of them looked confused, except for Owen, who just looked gloomy. The guy can never win with that crazy girl.
"Hey!" Duncan कहा suddenly, "I've got an idea! I grab a few things of bleach from Chef's kitchen, set my lighter to it, and Bam! The place blows up, horse goes flying and lands at the finish line." He explained with a confident smile.
"Duncan, that's horrible! We can't hurt this poor little fella." Bridgette कहा in a baby voice as she patted the horse's side.
"Yeah, I can't hurt any और जानवर again!" DJ yelled in a panicky voice.
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Duncan: Okay, so I'll admit that it wasn't one of my best ideas, but horrible? Nah. A horrible idea is trying to use dental floss to escape from the yard at juvie. Let me tell you, THAT sucked.
Bridgette: Ugh! What is wrong with him? We are NOT going to hurt that poor little guy. He's probably in enough pain already living in that dump.
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"Yeah, hate to rain on your parade, expert criminal, but if आप blew the place up, the horse wouldn't go flying, it'd be dead." Noah कहा flatly. Duncan raised a fist to him, and...well...I didn't want to see the rest, so I gave my attention back to my team members, and was happy to see our horse was standing on all fours again.
"Okay, maybe if we just grab him द्वारा the reigns," Courtney started, and picked up a thin leather strap attached to the brunette horse's face. The horse didn't take it well, and immediately kicked out it's back legs. Luckily, no one was standing behind it.
"That's not going to work." I said, eyeing the animal thoughtfully.
"I know! Let's take his horse food, and make a trail to the finish line that he can follow, and eat at the same time!" Harold exclaimed. LeShawna swiftly picked up the silver bucket of horse खाना and held it up to the redhead's face.
"Would आप want to eat that?" LeShawna asked him. His face scrunched up in disgust and he shook his head. "That's what I thought." She कहा after placing the bucket back down.
"But I like where we going with that idea, we just need to improve it." Courtney pondered.
"Oh great, the C.I.T.'s going to preach to us again." Heather complained.
"At least I know what I'm talking about!" Courtney snapped.
"You mean आप look like आप know what you're talking about, when you're really just as confused as the rest of us." Heather corrected.
"I am not! I know exactly what I'm doing twenty four-seven! After all, I was a C.I.T." She कहा admiringly about herself.
"Oh, and so humble, too." I replied sarcastically. Courtney shot me a hateful glare and would have कहा something except for the fact that an ear-exploding sound started coming out of Owen's mouth. Gosh, I knew his voice wasn't conditioned for singing, but this is just ridiculous. He was गाना this loud, sad, and very-off key version of the song he and I sang in Jamaica about Izzy. Their horse looked like it was about to cry when it started running at चोटी, शीर्ष speed toward the cliff.
"Wow, I've never seen something so afraid of गाना before." I कहा with a slight grin.
"Well, I've never seen something so prone to winning before, so we better get moving!" Courtney screeched, grabbing both of the horse's reigns this time. Huge mistake. The horse started going wild, thrashing and kicking all over the place. Dust consumed my throat and nasal passages, and I fell to my knees gagging. The horse's rumbling and nonsense soon started to fade, and I knew our challenge had just trotted off. After the dust settled, I felt the pollution expel itself from my lungs, and I took a deep breath of the fresh air. I looked around at everyone, who in the same position as me. I then looked for our horse, whom आप could barely see now. Luckily, though, our un-trusty घोड़ा had started up the cliff at light speed. Suddenly, Heather grabbed my arm and yanked me up off the floor.
"Follow that horse!" Heather screamed at the चोटी, शीर्ष of her lungs as she pointed upwards towards the morning sun. I brushed the noticeable dirt off my black clothing and ran as fast as I could with the team. Halfway up the hill, I began panting uncontrollably, and my lungs began to burn, begging for me to refresh them with water. I didn't stop, though, and I couldn't stop. My team needed me, and I needed to not be a target to everyone on my team except Heather. I shut my eyes and ignored the pain as I kept running. Soon, I heard us pass and surpass Owen's terrible singing.
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Gwen: Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathetic for the guy and all, losing Izzy like that again. But would it kill him to take a breather so that his गाना didn't sound so gloomy and...bad? I mean, gloomy's supposed to my thing. *points to herself with both thumbs* Mine!
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I closed my eyes tighter and tighter each time the burning felt like it was spreading. Right when I felt as if I was going to faint any मिनट now, I heard my team cheering and their running stop. I opened my eyes and saw that we had gotten there first, and won! I smiled hugely and twisted a bit of our horse's exhausted brown mane in between two of my pale fingers.
"Good job, buddy." I heard Cody congratulate our animal friend.
The आग in my lungs started to simmer at the exact moment the Killer Cavemen arrived, and Owen (thankfully) stopped singing.
"Oh...Dude, we lost?" Geoff said, collapsing on the grassy ground and madly wiping sweat off his brow.
"Told आप we should've gone with the explosives." Duncan said. He was the only member of their team to not have their tongue wagging out या desperately gasping for air.
"No...we shouldn't have..." Bridgette panted with an accompanied dirty look directed towards Duncan.
"So wait, did we win?" Lindsay asked out of the blue. Her and Tyler had made the trek with him carrying her bridal style.
"No, sorry Linds." Tyler कहा sadly, disappointed that he had let down his girlfriend with hopes of winning. She then looked deeply into his eyes and smiled at him before pecking him cheerily on the lips. Tyler smiled a goofy, love-struck smile and gently put the girl down.
"Wow, आप guys finally get here! You've got to ditch this losing streak, man." Chris कहा to the other team with his hands on his hips.
"Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris!" Sierra called excitedly.
"What?" He whined in return. No doubt Sierra was about to ramble on about some even in Chris' past that he himself doesn't remember, but lucky for us, Courtney did something useful for once and got in between the super-fan and host.
"Sorry Chris, we were just curious about our prize. आप did promise us one आप know." Courtney reminded him a gentle voice that almost made her sound nice...almost.
"Since when does that mean anything?" Noah asked as he patted Owen's big back. The big guy was still sulking over Izzy's सेकंड elimination via secret government facility.
"Actually, there is a prize." Chris then pulled out a large, brown, leather saddle.
"A...saddle?" I asked skeptically.
"Oh, are we going to ride the horsies back down now?" Lindsay asked excitedly.
"Uh-uh. We better not be. Saddles are not good for the booty." LeShawna said, दिखा रहा है us all her behind.
"Yeah, we can't harm the booty!" Harold yelled. After that, everyone was silent.
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Heather: Um...what did he just say?
DJ: Now that was just messed up!
Geoff: Super freaky, dude. Messed up stuff.
Gwen: I don't...actually know what to say.
Noah: No comment.
Harold: *Smiles* What?
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"Uh, yeah, can we ignore Geeky McDorkas over there and get this challenge done?" Duncan asked, getting up from the grassy earth and shaking out his body thoroughly.
"Fine with me." Chris replied. "Okay, guys, so this saddle isn't for the horse. It's for the mechanical bull!" Chris yelled happily.
"There's no mechanical सांड, बैल here." Heather protested.
"Why don't आप check the dock of shame again and get back to me on that?" Chris asked derisively. I rolled my eyes and began the journey back down the deadly cliff.
No earlier than an घंटा after that, were were standing on the dock, which sure enough had a mechanical सांड, बैल sitting right there. It wasn't dead-bolted into the rotten wood of the dock, though. That would be way to hard on Chris, because one, it's one less angle the camera can shoot him at if a rodeo bar toy is in the way, and two, Chris is too cheap to risk having to buy a new dock. Either way, this just does not look safe.
"Well, at least we're the ones with the saddle." Courtney कहा optimistically as she held up the dark brown horse riding equipment. Chris then plodded onto the dock in his हाकी, खाकी shorts and dark aviators once again.
"Welcome to the सेकंड part of the challenge! Each member of your team will take a turn riding this mechanical bull. whichever person at the end has the longest time wins it for their time, and losers wave bye-bye to somebody right here tonight. Let's get this hospital fest started!" He yelled with his fists raised to the sky. "Screaming Squids, since आप won the challenge, you're up first." He said. We looked at each other and Courtney looked hesitantly at the saddle she had clutched to her chest.
"O-okay, I guess I'm up." She stammered. Let me tell you, she was absolutely frightened. Her walking was unbalanced, and her hands shook uncontrollably as she secured the saddle onto the otherwise smooth robot's body. After quadruple checking all the straps and buckles, she hopped on, and Chef flipped a switch on the remote he was holding in his hand. The सांड, बैल began to jerk Courtney in every and all directions. She started screaming at the चोटी, शीर्ष of her lungs, maybe even breaking the sound barrier, until she crashed onto the ground nearby.
"Thirty-two seconds." Chef said, looking at his watch. She slowly but surely propped herself using the सांड, बैल that had made her that way, and shakily crept back over to our team. She groaned something incoherent, but was sure to involve something along the lines of "You'll be hearing from my lawyers!" and then we watched in horror as her eyes rolled back into her head, and she crashed limply onto the wooden dock. Two interns scrambled out with a stretcher, piled the ill-looking heap formerly known as Courtney on there, and ran off to the infirmary tent.
"Okay, who's next?" Chris asked as if what just happened there was normal.
"Are आप crazy?" Heather asked.
"Yeah, I'm not doing that." Noah added from the other side.
"Well, I'll go! For you, Gwen." Cody कहा dreamily. I smiled nervously and watched as he hopped on the सांड, बैल confidently and clasp his hands around the base of the saddle. Chef once again flipped the switch, and Cody was flailing madly about, going everywhere the सांड, बैल went. There was one hard thrust from the machine, and Cody toppled over into the waters of the beach. My team and I ran to the scene, and saw nothing but the चोटी, शीर्ष of Cody's head bobbing up and down with the waves. Sierra jumped in, shoes, necklace, and all, and grabbed the bobbing head. We met her at the sand where she had Cody sprawled out, and were happy to see him spitting out water.
"Fifty सेकंड्स on the dot." Chef told us.
"Next!" Chris screamed. For some twisted reason I don't have a clue about, I volunteered myself. I kept my cool as I walked from the समुद्र तट back to the dock. As I walked द्वारा the opposing team, I felt my arm get griped tightly.
"Uh, आप sure this is a good idea?" Duncan asked me skeptically.
"What, are आप worried about me या something?" I asked mockingly.
"'Course not." He answered. Lie.
"Then let me go so I can beat you" I कहा almost seductively. He smiled wickedly at me and released my arm. I walked over to the सांड, बैल and hopped on. I grabbed tightly onto the little handle thing the saddle had and heard the click of Chef's switch. I was soon moving super fast and catching glimpses of the sea and sky. I clutched tightly onto the saddle as the speed increased. It soon got faster and faster, and the sweat on my hands multiplied so much the handle was now a curse for being so slippery. I tried to grip it once more, but a sudden jerk thrashed mr to the ground. The only long-term pain I felt was a weird twist in my right wrist. I got up quickly when I heard cheering coming from my team.
"Whoa, One मिनट and twenty seconds!" Chris yelled in an announcer-like voice. I smiled and walked over to my team.
"Woo! आप go, girl!" LeShawna said, giving me a high-five. as soon as I felt the slap of her palm against mine, I felt the searing pain radiate once और throughout my wrist. I hissed silently and clutched the injured area in an effort to not be sent to the infirmary before watching Duncan's little show. He had already whipped the saddle off and was clutching the smooth exterior with both his hands and feet. I heard Chef flip his switch once more, and the सांड, बैल revved into action. It once again went crazily about, and flailed and yanked and jerked all over the place, but Duncan still kept his grip. It went on like that until Chef turned the सांड, बैल off.
Duncan gracefully hopped off the machine.
"I've held on to slipperier." he shrugged. (A/N: Mind OUT of the gutter, please and thank you.)
"Sweet, dude." Geoff complimented.
"Woo! Go Danny!" Lindsay cheered.
"Any और takers?" Chris asked with a brow raised. All noise stopped for a moment.
"Nope. Now can आप send the Squids to the campfire ceremony already?" Noah asked, pointing to us with his thumb.
"Why would I do that when आप guys are the losers?" Chris asked with a devilish smile.
"What?" They all screamed.
"But-but, Duncan stayed on the longest!" Tyler pointed out.
"Yeah, but we didn't have any stats on your team to compare it to." Chris clarified. There was silence as Chris began to walk away. "See आप at the campfire!" Chris called, and he was then out of sight.
My team and I were all waiting in the blackness on the dock to see who the unlucky one would be this time. I nervously rubbed my arms together, forgetting that I had an ace bandage wrapped tightly around my badly hurt wrist.
"Ugh! I can't wait until we get rid of the know-it-all." Heather कहा to me through gritted teeth.
"Don't worry, we'll get her gone soon enough." I assured her. We flashed each other a small smile which quickly disappeared once we realized what we were doing and watched the other team file out of the campfire area. Owen didn't have a marshmallow.
"Owen? Why?" I asked with a raised brow.
"Well, we प्यार Omar..." Lindsay began.
"But he's useless without his nutbar." Noah finished. Everyone from both teams went over to Owen and surrounded him in a big, huge group hug. Owen even made Chris and Chef शामिल होइए in. After that uncomfortable experience was over, we waved goodbye to the big guy as he hopped onto the boat, tipping the चोटी, शीर्ष half up towards the sky. The नाव drudged along slowly, and Owen was soon out of sight.
"At least he can be with Izzy now." Tyler said.
"Yeah." Bridgette कहा optimistically, but आप could tell she was on the brink of tears. I knew Bridgette all too well. She doesn't take someone she loves leaving very well.
"I think I might miss the human vacuum cleaner." Chris said. "Now, go, या something." He कहा to us as she motioned the same thing with his hands. We trudged back to our cabins and again, did our usual pajamas, then straight to बिस्तर routine. Right before I fell into my state of R.E.M., I heard the rustling of the trees and leaves outside my cracked window, and then the silent whisper:
"Night, Pasty."
The blaring of the bullhorn once again woke me up, although this time I didn't fall out of my bunk.
"We've got to burn that thing." LeShawna कहा from her bottom bunk as I climbed down from my चोटी, शीर्ष one.
"Agreed." I said. Once reaching the floor, I looked around and noticed that the Killer Cavemen girls were all here except for Izzy. "Uh, has anyone seen Izzy?" I asked, scanning the room with my eyes in an attempt to locate the locate the psycho redhead.
"She didn't come with us to the संगीत कार्यक्रम last night." Bridgette कहा as she wearily pulled her स्वेट-शर्ट, स्वेटरशर्ट, sweatshirt over her head. Her eyes had bags and dark circles lining them.
"Um, what time did आप guys come घर last night?" Sierra asked.
"Three A.M." Bridgette answered.
"And right now it's..." I trailed off.
"Time to get your butts out here!" Chris screamed through his bullhorn. I groaned, then dressed quickly, making sure to put on my टील, टीला, गहरा हरिताभ नीला lipstick as well. I walked out with the rest of the girls in a big group, except for Courtney, who walked behind the clump of people, giving us death glares the whole time. Truth be told, I'm scared for my life.
When we walked to the clearing Chris was standing in every morning in, the boys had already arrived, and Chris was wearing a beige cowboy hat.
"Hey, nice hat. It's just like Geoff's." Heather sarcastically complimented.
"It is, Dude!" Geoff whined. I only now noticed that Geoff's head was bare except for his shaggy blonde hair.
"Well why does Chris have it?" I asked.
"Party Boy got a little crazy at the संगीत कार्यक्रम last night, and Chris had to carry home. He probably swiped the hat while Geoff was K.O.'ed." Duncan explained to me.
"Can we focus on me, please?" Chris whined.
"I'm focused on you, Chris!" Sierra कहा excitedly.
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Sierra: I know last season I wanted my mom to get rid of all of her Chris stuff, but that would've meant Mom would have to sell our whole house! So having Chris around so much made him grow on me again.
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"Thank you." Chris कहा with a smile that almost made our little purple-haired stalker faint.
"But wait!" Owen interrupted, annoying Chris. "Where's my little Izzy?" Owen asked eagerly.
"Yeah, where is the nutbar?" Duncan chimed in.
"Izzy was sent from our infirmary to a चोटी, शीर्ष secret government testing facility until further notice." Chris answered in a monotone voice.
"Wait, so Irene's not on our team anymore?" Lindsay asked sadly.
"As of now, she's not." Chris answered. There was grumbling and yelling and complaining coming from the other team, while I'm pretty sure we cheered internally. Them being down another player gives us a good advantage in the challenge today...whatever that's going to be. "Hey, hey, hey! Don't be mad at me, the chick's psycho. 'And, don't forget about the until further notice.'" He कहा in his evil voice.
"Okay, well, we may be down another person, but we can still do this! Right, guys?" Bridgette asked her team. Her team all stared blankly at her in response, causing Bridgette to frown and hang her head sullenly.
"Yeah, yeah, we get it, you're depressed. What's the challenge today?" Heather demanded.
"Right. Well," Chris began, and started fiddling with Geoff's hat he had perched on his head, "This cowboy hat here inspired me, and today, we're going country western!" Chris exclaimed.
"Righteous. Now hand over my hat, man!" Geoff said.
"Sheesh! Fine!" Chris कहा as he handed the beige headwear back to it's owner, "Boathouse! NOW!" Chris yelled angrily. We cringed and then scampered in a large group over to the mostly red boathouse, बूथहाउस that Cody had built a couple days before. We weren't going to the boathouse, instead, Chris led us to a newly constructed building right अगला to it. Once reaching it, we found that it was a stable, and a poorly built one at that. Inside that were two of the old, really good for nothing घोड़े that Chris kept on set. Unfortunately, they were probably treated better than us.
"Oh, horses! How pretty!" Bridgette exclaimed. Pretty? What horse is she looking at?
"Okay, so the first part of the challenge is a horse race. Each team must try and get their horse to the finish line before the other one, and आप do it any way आप want to." Chris explained.
"Psh, we got this, where's the finish line, baby?" LeShawna asked the host. He pointed up and we all sighed, for we knew that the finish line was on चोटी, शीर्ष of the thousand foot high cliff.
"Okay, then, Chef will hand आप your breakfast, and then आप can get going." Chris said. He then walked away, but the gap was filled द्वारा Chef, who was handing out flat and stale bran muffins. Joy. After our entire team had received ours, we basically just shoved the crap in our mouths and got to work.
"Okay, we need a plan!" Courtney declared.
"Why don't we just ride it?" Cody asked. Sierra squealed and grabbed him into a tight headlock.
"That's a great idea, Cody! Let's go!" She squealed, hopping onto the horse. Not even ten सेकंड्स after landing on the steed's back, the brown animal tumbled to the ground, squished द्वारा Cody and Sierra's combined weights.
"That's why." LeShawna answered. Harold helped them up, and they began to कॉनवर्स again, but I tuned them out to try and get the scoop on the other team's status. They were standing all around their old horse, and most of them looked confused, except for Owen, who just looked gloomy. The guy can never win with that crazy girl.
"Hey!" Duncan कहा suddenly, "I've got an idea! I grab a few things of bleach from Chef's kitchen, set my lighter to it, and Bam! The place blows up, horse goes flying and lands at the finish line." He explained with a confident smile.
"Duncan, that's horrible! We can't hurt this poor little fella." Bridgette कहा in a baby voice as she patted the horse's side.
"Yeah, I can't hurt any और जानवर again!" DJ yelled in a panicky voice.
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Duncan: Okay, so I'll admit that it wasn't one of my best ideas, but horrible? Nah. A horrible idea is trying to use dental floss to escape from the yard at juvie. Let me tell you, THAT sucked.
Bridgette: Ugh! What is wrong with him? We are NOT going to hurt that poor little guy. He's probably in enough pain already living in that dump.
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"Yeah, hate to rain on your parade, expert criminal, but if आप blew the place up, the horse wouldn't go flying, it'd be dead." Noah कहा flatly. Duncan raised a fist to him, and...well...I didn't want to see the rest, so I gave my attention back to my team members, and was happy to see our horse was standing on all fours again.
"Okay, maybe if we just grab him द्वारा the reigns," Courtney started, and picked up a thin leather strap attached to the brunette horse's face. The horse didn't take it well, and immediately kicked out it's back legs. Luckily, no one was standing behind it.
"That's not going to work." I said, eyeing the animal thoughtfully.
"I know! Let's take his horse food, and make a trail to the finish line that he can follow, and eat at the same time!" Harold exclaimed. LeShawna swiftly picked up the silver bucket of horse खाना and held it up to the redhead's face.
"Would आप want to eat that?" LeShawna asked him. His face scrunched up in disgust and he shook his head. "That's what I thought." She कहा after placing the bucket back down.
"But I like where we going with that idea, we just need to improve it." Courtney pondered.
"Oh great, the C.I.T.'s going to preach to us again." Heather complained.
"At least I know what I'm talking about!" Courtney snapped.
"You mean आप look like आप know what you're talking about, when you're really just as confused as the rest of us." Heather corrected.
"I am not! I know exactly what I'm doing twenty four-seven! After all, I was a C.I.T." She कहा admiringly about herself.
"Oh, and so humble, too." I replied sarcastically. Courtney shot me a hateful glare and would have कहा something except for the fact that an ear-exploding sound started coming out of Owen's mouth. Gosh, I knew his voice wasn't conditioned for singing, but this is just ridiculous. He was गाना this loud, sad, and very-off key version of the song he and I sang in Jamaica about Izzy. Their horse looked like it was about to cry when it started running at चोटी, शीर्ष speed toward the cliff.
"Wow, I've never seen something so afraid of गाना before." I कहा with a slight grin.
"Well, I've never seen something so prone to winning before, so we better get moving!" Courtney screeched, grabbing both of the horse's reigns this time. Huge mistake. The horse started going wild, thrashing and kicking all over the place. Dust consumed my throat and nasal passages, and I fell to my knees gagging. The horse's rumbling and nonsense soon started to fade, and I knew our challenge had just trotted off. After the dust settled, I felt the pollution expel itself from my lungs, and I took a deep breath of the fresh air. I looked around at everyone, who in the same position as me. I then looked for our horse, whom आप could barely see now. Luckily, though, our un-trusty घोड़ा had started up the cliff at light speed. Suddenly, Heather grabbed my arm and yanked me up off the floor.
"Follow that horse!" Heather screamed at the चोटी, शीर्ष of her lungs as she pointed upwards towards the morning sun. I brushed the noticeable dirt off my black clothing and ran as fast as I could with the team. Halfway up the hill, I began panting uncontrollably, and my lungs began to burn, begging for me to refresh them with water. I didn't stop, though, and I couldn't stop. My team needed me, and I needed to not be a target to everyone on my team except Heather. I shut my eyes and ignored the pain as I kept running. Soon, I heard us pass and surpass Owen's terrible singing.
Confessional
Gwen: Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathetic for the guy and all, losing Izzy like that again. But would it kill him to take a breather so that his गाना didn't sound so gloomy and...bad? I mean, gloomy's supposed to my thing. *points to herself with both thumbs* Mine!
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I closed my eyes tighter and tighter each time the burning felt like it was spreading. Right when I felt as if I was going to faint any मिनट now, I heard my team cheering and their running stop. I opened my eyes and saw that we had gotten there first, and won! I smiled hugely and twisted a bit of our horse's exhausted brown mane in between two of my pale fingers.
"Good job, buddy." I heard Cody congratulate our animal friend.
The आग in my lungs started to simmer at the exact moment the Killer Cavemen arrived, and Owen (thankfully) stopped singing.
"Oh...Dude, we lost?" Geoff said, collapsing on the grassy ground and madly wiping sweat off his brow.
"Told आप we should've gone with the explosives." Duncan said. He was the only member of their team to not have their tongue wagging out या desperately gasping for air.
"No...we shouldn't have..." Bridgette panted with an accompanied dirty look directed towards Duncan.
"So wait, did we win?" Lindsay asked out of the blue. Her and Tyler had made the trek with him carrying her bridal style.
"No, sorry Linds." Tyler कहा sadly, disappointed that he had let down his girlfriend with hopes of winning. She then looked deeply into his eyes and smiled at him before pecking him cheerily on the lips. Tyler smiled a goofy, love-struck smile and gently put the girl down.
"Wow, आप guys finally get here! You've got to ditch this losing streak, man." Chris कहा to the other team with his hands on his hips.
"Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris!" Sierra called excitedly.
"What?" He whined in return. No doubt Sierra was about to ramble on about some even in Chris' past that he himself doesn't remember, but lucky for us, Courtney did something useful for once and got in between the super-fan and host.
"Sorry Chris, we were just curious about our prize. आप did promise us one आप know." Courtney reminded him a gentle voice that almost made her sound nice...almost.
"Since when does that mean anything?" Noah asked as he patted Owen's big back. The big guy was still sulking over Izzy's सेकंड elimination via secret government facility.
"Actually, there is a prize." Chris then pulled out a large, brown, leather saddle.
"A...saddle?" I asked skeptically.
"Oh, are we going to ride the horsies back down now?" Lindsay asked excitedly.
"Uh-uh. We better not be. Saddles are not good for the booty." LeShawna said, दिखा रहा है us all her behind.
"Yeah, we can't harm the booty!" Harold yelled. After that, everyone was silent.
Confessional
Heather: Um...what did he just say?
DJ: Now that was just messed up!
Geoff: Super freaky, dude. Messed up stuff.
Gwen: I don't...actually know what to say.
Noah: No comment.
Harold: *Smiles* What?
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"Uh, yeah, can we ignore Geeky McDorkas over there and get this challenge done?" Duncan asked, getting up from the grassy earth and shaking out his body thoroughly.
"Fine with me." Chris replied. "Okay, guys, so this saddle isn't for the horse. It's for the mechanical bull!" Chris yelled happily.
"There's no mechanical सांड, बैल here." Heather protested.
"Why don't आप check the dock of shame again and get back to me on that?" Chris asked derisively. I rolled my eyes and began the journey back down the deadly cliff.
No earlier than an घंटा after that, were were standing on the dock, which sure enough had a mechanical सांड, बैल sitting right there. It wasn't dead-bolted into the rotten wood of the dock, though. That would be way to hard on Chris, because one, it's one less angle the camera can shoot him at if a rodeo bar toy is in the way, and two, Chris is too cheap to risk having to buy a new dock. Either way, this just does not look safe.
"Well, at least we're the ones with the saddle." Courtney कहा optimistically as she held up the dark brown horse riding equipment. Chris then plodded onto the dock in his हाकी, खाकी shorts and dark aviators once again.
"Welcome to the सेकंड part of the challenge! Each member of your team will take a turn riding this mechanical bull. whichever person at the end has the longest time wins it for their time, and losers wave bye-bye to somebody right here tonight. Let's get this hospital fest started!" He yelled with his fists raised to the sky. "Screaming Squids, since आप won the challenge, you're up first." He said. We looked at each other and Courtney looked hesitantly at the saddle she had clutched to her chest.
"O-okay, I guess I'm up." She stammered. Let me tell you, she was absolutely frightened. Her walking was unbalanced, and her hands shook uncontrollably as she secured the saddle onto the otherwise smooth robot's body. After quadruple checking all the straps and buckles, she hopped on, and Chef flipped a switch on the remote he was holding in his hand. The सांड, बैल began to jerk Courtney in every and all directions. She started screaming at the चोटी, शीर्ष of her lungs, maybe even breaking the sound barrier, until she crashed onto the ground nearby.
"Thirty-two seconds." Chef said, looking at his watch. She slowly but surely propped herself using the सांड, बैल that had made her that way, and shakily crept back over to our team. She groaned something incoherent, but was sure to involve something along the lines of "You'll be hearing from my lawyers!" and then we watched in horror as her eyes rolled back into her head, and she crashed limply onto the wooden dock. Two interns scrambled out with a stretcher, piled the ill-looking heap formerly known as Courtney on there, and ran off to the infirmary tent.
"Okay, who's next?" Chris asked as if what just happened there was normal.
"Are आप crazy?" Heather asked.
"Yeah, I'm not doing that." Noah added from the other side.
"Well, I'll go! For you, Gwen." Cody कहा dreamily. I smiled nervously and watched as he hopped on the सांड, बैल confidently and clasp his hands around the base of the saddle. Chef once again flipped the switch, and Cody was flailing madly about, going everywhere the सांड, बैल went. There was one hard thrust from the machine, and Cody toppled over into the waters of the beach. My team and I ran to the scene, and saw nothing but the चोटी, शीर्ष of Cody's head bobbing up and down with the waves. Sierra jumped in, shoes, necklace, and all, and grabbed the bobbing head. We met her at the sand where she had Cody sprawled out, and were happy to see him spitting out water.
"Fifty सेकंड्स on the dot." Chef told us.
"Next!" Chris screamed. For some twisted reason I don't have a clue about, I volunteered myself. I kept my cool as I walked from the समुद्र तट back to the dock. As I walked द्वारा the opposing team, I felt my arm get griped tightly.
"Uh, आप sure this is a good idea?" Duncan asked me skeptically.
"What, are आप worried about me या something?" I asked mockingly.
"'Course not." He answered. Lie.
"Then let me go so I can beat you" I कहा almost seductively. He smiled wickedly at me and released my arm. I walked over to the सांड, बैल and hopped on. I grabbed tightly onto the little handle thing the saddle had and heard the click of Chef's switch. I was soon moving super fast and catching glimpses of the sea and sky. I clutched tightly onto the saddle as the speed increased. It soon got faster and faster, and the sweat on my hands multiplied so much the handle was now a curse for being so slippery. I tried to grip it once more, but a sudden jerk thrashed mr to the ground. The only long-term pain I felt was a weird twist in my right wrist. I got up quickly when I heard cheering coming from my team.
"Whoa, One मिनट and twenty seconds!" Chris yelled in an announcer-like voice. I smiled and walked over to my team.
"Woo! आप go, girl!" LeShawna said, giving me a high-five. as soon as I felt the slap of her palm against mine, I felt the searing pain radiate once और throughout my wrist. I hissed silently and clutched the injured area in an effort to not be sent to the infirmary before watching Duncan's little show. He had already whipped the saddle off and was clutching the smooth exterior with both his hands and feet. I heard Chef flip his switch once more, and the सांड, बैल revved into action. It once again went crazily about, and flailed and yanked and jerked all over the place, but Duncan still kept his grip. It went on like that until Chef turned the सांड, बैल off.
Duncan gracefully hopped off the machine.
"I've held on to slipperier." he shrugged. (A/N: Mind OUT of the gutter, please and thank you.)
"Sweet, dude." Geoff complimented.
"Woo! Go Danny!" Lindsay cheered.
"Any और takers?" Chris asked with a brow raised. All noise stopped for a moment.
"Nope. Now can आप send the Squids to the campfire ceremony already?" Noah asked, pointing to us with his thumb.
"Why would I do that when आप guys are the losers?" Chris asked with a devilish smile.
"What?" They all screamed.
"But-but, Duncan stayed on the longest!" Tyler pointed out.
"Yeah, but we didn't have any stats on your team to compare it to." Chris clarified. There was silence as Chris began to walk away. "See आप at the campfire!" Chris called, and he was then out of sight.
My team and I were all waiting in the blackness on the dock to see who the unlucky one would be this time. I nervously rubbed my arms together, forgetting that I had an ace bandage wrapped tightly around my badly hurt wrist.
"Ugh! I can't wait until we get rid of the know-it-all." Heather कहा to me through gritted teeth.
"Don't worry, we'll get her gone soon enough." I assured her. We flashed each other a small smile which quickly disappeared once we realized what we were doing and watched the other team file out of the campfire area. Owen didn't have a marshmallow.
"Owen? Why?" I asked with a raised brow.
"Well, we प्यार Omar..." Lindsay began.
"But he's useless without his nutbar." Noah finished. Everyone from both teams went over to Owen and surrounded him in a big, huge group hug. Owen even made Chris and Chef शामिल होइए in. After that uncomfortable experience was over, we waved goodbye to the big guy as he hopped onto the boat, tipping the चोटी, शीर्ष half up towards the sky. The नाव drudged along slowly, and Owen was soon out of sight.
"At least he can be with Izzy now." Tyler said.
"Yeah." Bridgette कहा optimistically, but आप could tell she was on the brink of tears. I knew Bridgette all too well. She doesn't take someone she loves leaving very well.
"I think I might miss the human vacuum cleaner." Chris said. "Now, go, या something." He कहा to us as she motioned the same thing with his hands. We trudged back to our cabins and again, did our usual pajamas, then straight to बिस्तर routine. Right before I fell into my state of R.E.M., I heard the rustling of the trees and leaves outside my cracked window, and then the silent whisper:
"Night, Pasty."