"Last time on Total Drama Island." Chris began as the camera turned on and zoomed in on him. "The Killer Bass kicked butt in the Awake-a-thon thanks the Dawn the Moon Child's freaky hippie magic helping her stay awake longer than anyone else. Heather orchestrated the first Total Drama Island alliance by convincing Lindsay and Beth to join forces with her. She then tried to snatch Eva's MP3 player but Lincoln quickly confronted her and swiped it back, ruining whatever Heather was planning. The Screaming Gophers were then treated to their first elimination ceremony where Heather managed to convince her team to get rid of Tyler so he couldn't get all kissy-kissy with Lindsay. Really wicked stuff dude. Who will break the rules of their new alliance? Will Dawn be able to stay awake until the end of the episode? And who will take the next humiliating walk down the Dock of Shame? Stay tuned for the most dramatic campfire ceremony yet on Total. Drama. Island!"
At the main lodge, both the Screaming Gophers and Killer Bass were at there tables eating breakfast. Both teams looked incredibly tired and still recovering from the Awake-a-thon. The two worst ones being Gwen and Duncan who both looked completely miserable. Although the winner of the challenge Dawn was nowhere to be seen in the lodge. Lincoln and Harold as well.
Just then Chris came over to the Killer Bass table and looked down at Duncan who was resting his head against the table. "Duncan." Chris said, getting the delinquents attention. "You look like crap, dude."
"Stuff it." Duncan told Chris, not removing his head from the table.
"Harold snored all night. Courtney groaned out, explaining why the Killer Bass looked like they were in worse condition than the Gophers.
"Wow. Four nights with no sleep?" Chris said to Duncan while laughing. "How much are you hurting, dude?"
"Wanna find out?!" Duncan yelled as he slammed his hands down on the table as he stood up.
"No, no, it's cool." Chris told Duncan while backing up, some of the Killer Bass ready to stop Duncan in case he tried to attack the host. "It's cool."
Everyone then heard the door opened and looked to see who it was. They all gasped when they saw it was Harold…but it wasn't the ginger they were gasping at. It was the mustache drawn on his face with black marker. Harold nodded his head before he started walking like a boss towards the Killer Bass table.
The Screaming Gophers and Chris started snickering as Harold sat down at his teams table. Soon enough, the Killer Bass all started to laugh. "Okay, what?!" Harold yelled to his team, wanting to know what was so funny.
"Someone messed with your face, dude." Geoff told Harold as his team continued to laugh as Harold checked his reflection with a spoon.
"Hey." Harold smiles as he put his fingers on the drawn on facial hair. "sweet 'stache."
"Hey-hey, everyone!" Chris got everyones attention as he gestured towards the doors that were opening up. "Its Dawn! And Lincoln to."
Stepping into the lodge was Lincoln carrying an incredibly tired looking Dawn piggy back style. All of the Killer Bass cheered as Lincoln carried Dawn inside while some of the Gophers, especially Heather, glared at the two as Lincoln went over to the Bass table and set Dawn down at a seat with him taking the one next to her.
"Good…Good morning…everyone." Dawn said in between yawns before face planting on the table. Everyone looked in concern as Lincoln sat Dawn up straight again, allowing her to lean her tired head against him.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Yeeeeeeeah, that last challenge took a lot out of Dawn…and the rest of us." Lincoln explained with a bit of a sheepish chuckle. "But anyway, Dawn's kind of out of it right now. She can barley stand up on her own. So I offered to be her caretaker until she's all rested up again. It's the least I can do for her since she won the challenge for us."
"Yeah she's gonna be like this for a while." Lincoln said as Dawn started snoring into Lincoln's arm.
While that was happening at the Killer Bass table, over at the Gopher table Heather started speaking to Beth and Lindsay. The ones she had made an alliance with the other day during the Awake-a-thon. "So, let's go over the rules one more time." Heather said with Beth and Lindsay listening closely. "Number one, I am the captain of this alliance, so I get to make the rules. Number two...?"
Lindsay thought for a second before continuing for Heather. "Breaking the rules can result in getting kicked out of the alliance?"
"Good." Heather nodded as Lindsay clapped a bit for herself. "Number three, I can borrow any of your stuff without asking, but my stuff is strictly off limits."
Lindsay and Beth looked unsure at this one as the dumb blond spoke up. "I don't know about that last rule." Beth nodded in agreement.
"That's cool. I can change it." Heather said making Beth and Lindsay smile. "I can also find someone else to take to the final three with me." Lindsay and Beth flinched at this and quickly shook their heads. "Good. Now first things first, we have to win the next challenge. We can't let those fish heads pull ahead of us."
"Okay campers, listen up!" Chris got all that campers that were still awake attention. "Your next challenge begins in ten minutes! And be prepared to bring it!"
"What do you think the challenge is gonna be today?" Bridgette asked as she looked to her team.
"It can't be to bad considering the last challenge." Lincoln guessed after thinking for a moment. "I mean look at us we're not exactly in the best condition to do anything super crazy."
"Hmmmmm." Eva hummed, getting everyone's attention on her. "My sports senses are going off." The Killer Bass all look to each other before looking back to Eva and smirking.
CONFESSIONAL – DJ
"If Eva's is right and we have a sports challenge today, then I'm confident that the Killer Bass got this." DJ said while nodding, his usual smile on his face. "Eva is crazy strong! During the first challenge she lifted up those crates like they were nothing and when we were supposed to open them with our teeth, Eva got hers open with a single bite!"
10 minutes later, the 22 campers and Chris made their way to a gym-like area set up on the beach. There were bleachers on both sides with the walls made of glass and Chef was sitting in a high chair between the two bleachers wearing a referee's uniform with a whistle around his neck.
Duncan was quick to fall onto the bleacher and send a quick glare to his team. "Wake me up, and it'll be the last thing you do." Duncan threaten before closing his eyes with some of his team nervously nodding and gulping.
"Ugh…" Dawn groaned as Lincoln once again carried her around. "Chi…low…need to…refresh…"
Lincoln was quick to head to the top of the bleachers Duncan as sleeping on and laid Dawn down on top of them. "Get some rest. You've earned it." Lincoln whispered to Dawn before joining with the rest of his team. Yeah it kinda sucked to have both Duncan and Dawn out of this challenge, but it seems like Eva was right about the sports thing. So with her on their team, they should be good.
Both the Killer Bass and the Screaming Gophers gathered around Chris as he tossed a red rubber ball up and down in his hand. "Today's challenge is the classic game of dodge ball." Chris informed everyone. Just then the Gophers flinched as they looked to see Eva loudly cracking her knuckles and giving a mad grin with the other Bass grinning as well.
CONFESSIONAL – EVA
"Dodge ball huh?" Eva grinned before chuckling and crossing her arms. "Oh this is gonna be a lot of fun."
"The first rule of dodge ball is..." Chris began saying before being interrupted.
"Do not talk about dodge ball?" Noah joked with Owen and a few other chuckling in response.
"As I was saying…" Chris got things back on track quickly. "If you get hit with the ball..." Chris then threw the ball in his hands at Courtney, hitting her in the gut. "You're out."
"Hey!" Courtney yelled at the house before picking up the ball and throwing it at Chris. "You can't do that!"
Courtney then tried to throw the dodge ball back at Chris only for the host to catch the ball easily. "If you catch the ball, the thrower gets sent out and the catcher gets to bring in another team member out on the court."
"Throwing balls." Noah rolled his eyes and spoke sarcastically. "Gee, another mentally challenging test."
"I know right." Lindsay agreed, not getting Noah's sarcasm as he and Owen looked at each other awkwardly.
"Okay now Geoff, try to hit me." Chris said as he picked up another ball and threw it to Geoff. "If you're holding a ball, you can use it to deflect a ball, but if it knocks the ball out of your hands, you're out."
"So wait, what do I do if the ball comes at me?" Lindsay asked as she was having a tough time keeping up with all the rules.
"You dodge!" Chris said as he used the ball in his hand to deflect the ball Geoff threw at him and hit Lindsay. This caused the ball to hit Lindsay right in the face with the dumb blond falling to the floor and a bruise appearing on her face. "Oooooh!" Chris winced. "You were supposed to dodge!"
"Ugh…" Lindsay grown as she stood up. "Right."
"You have one minute until game time." Chris said as he walked next to the chair Chef was on. "You'll all have 5 people on the court each game. If you catch a ball, you can bring in whoever you want. Its best of five and you get a point by hitting all five people with the ball!"
"Soooo…" Geoff began as he looked to Eva. "So is the plan pretty much give Eva all the balls and let her clean house?"
Everyone slowly nodded as Eva grinned. "I like that plan." The athlete of the Bass quickly agreed with the strategy.
"Wait, hold on." Lincoln spoke up getting everyone's attention on him. "I think we should we have an actual plan for this. While I don't doubt that Eva is easily the strongest person on the island."
"You better not." Eva said as she crossed her arms.
"But its also important that we work as a team and have something up ourselves to guarantee victory." Lincoln told everyone with some of the Killer Bass nodding in agreement. While Eva could more then likely clean house, it was always important to have a plan. Especially in case something back fired. "Alright there's what I'm thinking. We use a spear and shield strategy."
"Hit us Linc." DJ said as he and the Killer Bass listened closely to Lincoln's plan.
"So basically in elementary school me and my friends thought of something called Snake Formation for playing dodgeball." Lincoln explained his plan to his teammates. "Its where four of us line up from tallest to shortest in a straight line and move in unison to dodge the balls. And since we've in a straight line, they can only take us down one at a time."
"Hey that's pretty cool dude!" Geoff complimented with a grin on his face.
"Thanks. So, here's the plan." Everyone leaned in closer to Lincoln. "The four of us all the shield while Eva is the spear. Five of us line up with Eva in the back. We dodge all the balls we can so they're all on our side with Eva using them all to take down the Gophers."
"Hmmmm…" Courtney put a hand to her chin as she thought the plan over. "It's not bad. What do you all of you think?"
All of the Killer Bass look to each other as they thought it over. It was silent until Eva spoke up and nodded. "Let's do it." The athlete agreed as Lincoln smiled that their MVP was agreeing to his idea.
CONFESSIONAL – EVA
"I've seen Lincoln. And he certainly doesn't seem like much of an athlete." Eva stated with her usual blank face and arms crossed. "But he's got a good mind for strategy. That sort of thing is just as important as strength when it comes to sports."
The campers were now on the court. For the Killer Bass, the ones up were Lincoln, Courtney, DJ, Katie, and Eva. For the Screaming Gophers it was Heather, Lindsay Owen, Cody, and Leshawna. "Alright everyone, Snake Formation!" Lincoln called out as he and his team put their plan into action. With DJ in the front, Lincoln behind DJ, Courtney behind Lincoln, Katie behind Courtney, and Eva in the back.
"What are they up to?" Heather asked as she narrowed her eyes at the Killer Bass.
"Both teams ready?" Chris asked with both the Gophers and Bass nodding. "Remember, best of five games wins. Now! Let's dodge some balls!" Chef then blew his whistle loudly and signaled the start of the game.
"Remember DJ, you gotta tell us which direction to go." Lincoln told the tall teen in front of him. DJ gave Lincoln a thumbs up as three of the Gophers picked up the balls on their side of the court with the Bass's ball remaining on the floor.
Cody was quick to step up and threw his ball at DJ. "Left!" DJ called out as he and all the Bass behind him all stepped to the left in unison and all successfully avoiding Cody's ball.
All of the Gophers, with the exception of Noah who was reading a book on the bleachers, rose their eyebrows as they try to figure out what the Bass's strategy was exactly. Owen then narrowed his eyes as he charged forward as the threw the ball in his hands at full force. "Duck!" DJ yelled as the Killer Bass all ducked down with Owen's ball speeding past their heads.
"Can someone remind me what I'm supposed to do with this again?" Lindsay dumbly asked as she helped up her dodge ball. Heather growled a bit and rolled her eyes before taking Lindsay's ball and throwing it, aiming it at DJ's feet.
"Right!" The tall teen called out as his team quickly stepped to the right and once again dodging the Gophers ball.
"Well that's some pro dodging action right there." Chris commented while nodding his head, Chef also nodding with a smirk on his face.
The Gophers quickly looked around to see where any other balls were on there side only to find that they used up all the ones they had. DJ and the rest of the Killer Bass smirked with Lincoln yelling out. "Eva! Spear Mode!"
Eva didn't waste a second as she quickly moved to where the dodge balls were with a mad grin on her face. The athlete picked up two balls before throwing them towards the Gophers at speeds high enough to where the balls looked right red blurs. Cody and Owen couldn't hope to react in time as both balls hit them directly in the gut and sending them to the glass walls of the outdoor gym. The remaining Gophers quickly tried to pick up the balls Eva thrown but Heather and Leshawna were soon taken out just a mere two seconds after Cody and Owen as Eva threw two more balls at the girl's heads.
Last up was Lindsay who was frozen solid and could only tremble violently. Eva walked up, savoring the moment, as she held up two more dodge balls with a mad grin on her face. "Your move princess." Eva said in an incredibly amused tone.
Lindsay flinched hard and looked around before raising both of her hands. "I surrender!" Lindsay quickly gave up, not wanting to face the wrath of Eva. Heather and a few other Gophers face palmed as Chef blew his whistle and pointing his thumb at the Killer Bass, earning them a point.
Lindsay slumped down and walked towards her team and was meant with the disapproving glare of Heather. Meanwhile the Bass, except for the sleeping Dawn and Duncan, all cheered and started to pat both Lincoln and Eva on the back. "Good job Lincoln!" DJ gave Lincoln a strong pat on the back. "That plan of yours was awesome man."
"Hehe, thanks guys." Lincoln blushed a bit while sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck. "But it was only due to Eva's awesomeness at sports that we we're able to pull it off so easily. Good job Eva!" Lincoln then held his hand out for the athlete for a high five. Eva grinned and gave Lincoln a high five…resulting in a loud smacking sound being heard due to how hard Eva high fived him. "…OOOOOOOOWWW!"
"Sorry!" Eva quickly apologized as she retracted her hand. "I can't control my strength sometimes…"
"It's…It's fine…" Lincoln squeaked out while holding his now red and throbbing hand.
"Uuuuh, why don't you go rest on the bench and heal up dude." Geoff offered while putting a hand on Lincoln's shoulder. "I'll fill in for you dude."
"Yeah…sounds good." Lincoln said as he headed over to the bench along with Katie. With Lincoln swapped for Geoff and Katie swapped for Sadie, and the Gophers having Trent, Owen, Izzy, Justin, and Beth on the court.
Chef blew his whistle to start the second game with Lincoln sitting on the bleacher under the sleeping Dawn. Looking to the lightly snoring girl, Lincoln saw some of her hair messily covering a bit of her face and a small amount of drool coming off her lip. Lincoln silently snickered as he wiped the drool off with his thumb before wiping it on his pants.
"Hey, that was a really cool plan you came up with." Lincoln turned his head to see Bridgette sitting next to him and giving the white head a small smile. Lincoln continued holding his red hand as he gave a sheepish smile to Bridgette. "You're pretty smart huh?"
"Oh, uh, it really wasn't much." Lincoln said with incredible amounts of modesty. "I just did the thing that seemed like it would make sense. I bet anyone could think of something similar."
"Aw come on give yourself more credit Linc." Bridgette encouraged Lincoln with a small smirk and crossed arms. "I can see you're quite clever. You should have more confidence in yourself! Yeah!" Bridgette then proceeded to high five Lincoln…on the hand Eva just high fived earlier.
"OW!" Lincoln let out causing Bridgette to recoil a little. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!"
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!" Bridgette quickly apologized before she gently took Lincoln's wrist. "Here, let me look at it." Brigette gently looked over the Loud boys red and swelling hand with Lincoln wincing. "Ok, it doesn't look to bad. I actually have some ointment for this kinda thing back at the cabin." The surfer girl then looked up at Chef and asked. "Hey ref, is it ok if I take Lincoln to get his hand treated real quick?"
Chef nodded his head in response with Bridgette smiling as she gently took Lincoln's other hand. "Great! Thanks." The surfer girl said to Chef as she started to lead Lincoln outside the gym. "We'll be right back you guys."
After a quick walk back to the cabins, both Bridgette and Lincoln were seen in the girl's half of the Bass Cabin with Lincoln sitting on Bridgettes bed with the surfer girl digging a bit through the drawers of the cabin. "Ah-ha! There it is." Lincoln then watched as Bridgette pulled out a first aid kit. Opening it up, the blond girl took out a tube of what he guessed was the ointment she was referring to earlier as well as a roll of bandages. "Here, let's get that fixed up."
Bridgette then opened up the tube and put some of the ointment on her hand. As she walked up to Lincoln, she rubbed her hands together to spread it out on both. The surfer girl once again took Lincoln's hand and started rubbing the ointment on it. Lincoln winced at the stinging he was feeling due to it. "Its alright. It's supposed to sting." Bridgette reassured him as Lincoln tried to keep his mouth closed. "It'll help your hand feel better I swear."
"Yeah…thanks." Lincoln managed to smile a bit as Bridgette finished up rubbing the ointment on Lincoln and proceeded to start rubbing some bandages on his hand. "And thanks for helping me out Bridgette. You didn't have to do that."
"Yeah but I wanted to." Bridgette kindly told Lincoln as she continued to wrap bandages onto his hand. "I mean what are friends for right?"
Lincoln gained a bit of surprised look at this and rose a brow at Bridgette. "We're friends?" Lincoln asked as Bridgette finished up her bandage job.
"Well yeah." Bridgette shrugged as she put the bandage roll back in the first aid kit and put it back in the drawer. "I mean why wouldn't we be?"
"Heh, s-sorry." Lincoln apologized as he used his unbandaged hand to scratch the back of his head. "I wanna be friends with you. Guess we just haven't talked that much since the game started is all I didn't think you really regarded me all too much."
"Well then let's change that." Bridgette offered as she sat down next to Lincoln and leaned her back against the end of the bed. "Let's chat for a bit. Get to know each other more."
"But that about our team? Shouldn't we be there to help them?" All Bridgette did was raise an eyebrow at Lincoln as they both remembered what happened during the first game and how easily they dominated the Gophers. "…Ok. Good point."
"So then, what should we talk about?" Bridgette asked as she rested her head on her hands and looked right at Lincoln. "Why don't you tell me about yourself? You said you had ten sisters huh? That must be a pretty hectic house hold."
"You don't even know the half of it." Lincoln chuckled a bit causing Bridgette to silently laugh a little as well. "My last name is Loud for more reasons then one. It's gotten a little less crazy since three of my sisters are moved out so far but it can still get pretty chaotic. The neighbors even call our house the Loud House and not just because our last name."
"Yikes." Bridgette couldn't help but giggle a little bit. "Kinda makes me happy I was an only child."
"Really?" Lincoln asked with a raised brow. He knew a few people that were an only child, one of them being his best friend. And a lot of the time when he met people who were an only child were kinda lonely and made up for it by trying to make a lot of friends. One example being his best friend Clyde who was pretty much the only one he knew who would come over to his house and actually enjoy the company and chaos his house hold gave. "So, you never got lonely?"
"Nope, not at all." Bridgette shook her head with her calm and collected smile never leaving her face. "I've been surfing since I was five so I've always had a big surfer group back home. Plus, I had a lot of friends in school to. Not to mention my mom. I would say my mom is easily my best friend."
"Huh, that's pretty cool." Lincoln complimented as he started to relax a little bit more and leaned back on the other end of the bed with him and Bridgette and Lincoln looking at each other. "Bet that's means you two are really close then?"
"Absolutely." Bridgette nodded as she looked up with memories of her mother coming to her head. "She's pretty much been there for me my whole life, especially since my dad was never around growing up. She taught me how to surf when I was only 5-year-olds. Not only that but she also taught me a lot about nature, crystals, and pretty taught me almost everything I knew. For example, animals are friends. Not food."
"Oh so you're a vegan?" Lincoln asked he tilted his head a bit in curiosity. "Kinda like Dawn?"
"Well, more of a vegetarian. I still enjoy things like eggs and milk." Bridgette explained to the white head in front of her. Bridgette then hummed as she put a finger to her chin. "Well, maybe a pescatarian to a stretch. Can't deny I like tuna fish sandwiches."
"Hey that's cool. Fish is good." Lincoln smiled and shrugged in response. "While I can't deny that I enjoy eating meat, I can respect people who don't like it. We all have our own principles in taste. Its what makes us human."
"Exactly! There's just so many people who disrespect vegans and vegetarians for no good reason." Bridgette pointed out as Lincoln nodded in agreement. Just then a smirk appeared on Bridgettes face as she thought about what Lincoln said when she told him about one of her principles. "Sooooo…how are things between you and Dawn?"
"Huh?" Lincoln gave a confused look to Bridgette. However, he couldn't stop the faint hints of pink coming to his cheeks as he moved his eyes away from Bridgette. "Things are fine…why do you ask?"
"Oh no reason~" Bridgette said in a bit of teasing voice. While she normally respects people's privacy on manners like this, she couldn't help but at least lightly tease. "Its just ever since we all came to the island it seems you two are always with each other. And you were rather quick to offer to carry her around today while she rested~"
"Well…yeah." Lincoln's blush grew a bit brighter as he started to sheepishly scratch the back of his head. "She won the challenge for us so I felt like I owed it to her. And she's just a really sweet and nice person to hang out with. Sure, she may seem a bit mysterious but that's just part of her time." Bridgette then started giggling causing Lincoln to lightly frown at her. "Whats so funny?"
"Ya know its ok to admit if you have a little crush on her." Bridgette told him causing Lincoln's eyes to widen and for his cheeks to go from pink to red. "It's perfectly natural to get this sort of way sometimes." However, Lincoln proceeded to frown at Bridgette again before standing up and started heading to the door. Bridgette's face quickly turned to both a look of surprise and a frown as she watched Lincoln start to leave. "Wait, Lincoln! What's wrong?"
"If you're just here to tease me about my love life or something then we're done here." Lincoln grumbled at Bridgette angrily as he headed towards the door. "I'm heading back to the challenge."
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" Bridgette quickly sped walk towards Lincoln and grabbed Lincoln's unbandaged wrist causing Lincoln to look back at her with a small glare with Bridgette giving him an apologetic look. "I'm…I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sound mean or anything I just couldn't help but notice how much time you two spend together." Bridgette explained causing Lincoln's look to soften. "I heard about you two cleaning the beach so I thought there was something going on between you two, really I didn't mean anything bad by it."
"…" Lincoln was silent for a moment before letting out a sigh and giving a sad and apologetic look to Bridgette. "No, you're fine. I should be the one apologizing for overreacting." Sensing his distress, Bridgette gave Lincoln a small smile and put a hand on his shoulder. "Its just…before the game started I…had a bit of a falling out with someone and it…it still really stings."
"You wanna talk about it?" Bridgette offered as she gave Lincoln a sympathetic smile. "I bet it'll really help to talk about it with someone."
"Heh, that's exactly what Dawn said." Lincoln couldn't help but chuckle as Bridgette's words mirrored what Dawn said to him the other day. Bridgette walked over to her bed again and sat down and patted her hand on the space next to her. Lincoln thought about it for a moment for sighing and nodded. "But…you two are right. Talking about it should help." Lincoln then walked up to the bed and sat down next to Bridgette. "I guess I'm just used to being the one people talk to and not the one doing the talking."
"Well no better time like the present." Bridgette said as she patted Lincoln on the back. "So go on, I'm all ears."
"Ok…so…you know how we all sent in audition tapes in order to get onto the show?" Lincoln asked as Bridgette nodded, remembering the audition tape she went in. "Well…I sent in my tape as well as a girl named Ronnie Anne Santiago. Who was my…girlfriend at the time."
"Oooooo…" Bridgette winced a bit at the news as she quickly began to piece together things in her head. "Was?"
Lincoln sighed and nodded as he put a hand against his face. "Yep…" Lincoln slowly began as he struggled to make up the words to say next. Bridgette put a reassuring hand on the Loud boys back. "When we sent them in we both agreed that if only one of use got in, we'd support the other as they went. Well I'm her and she's not so you can guess how that turned out."
"Is it safe to guess she didn't go with your 'support the other' agreement?" Bridgette asked as she felt that she really had things completely figured out now.
"Oh you better believe it." Lincoln groaned out as he proceeded to lay down on the bed and look up at the bottom of the upper bunk. "When I got on and she didn't, she expected me to decline the offer. But when I said I was going it all went down hill from there. She got mad and started yelling at me. Soon it turned into an argument and then…it ended with her looking right at my face and dumping me." Needless to say, Bridgette's mouth went agape at hearing the story.
CONFESSIONAL – BRIDGETTE
"Ok, I've heard a lot of reasons for couples breaking up before, some stupider than others." Bridgette explained with crossed arms as she looked into the camera with a disapproving glare. "But that! That is just petty."
"Lincoln, listen to me and listen good." Bridgette stood up and put her hands on her hips. Lincoln looked up at Bridgette and saw her giving him a serious look that made him look right into her eyes and listen up just as she said. "If she broke up with you because of that then maybe its for the best. Someone that petty doesn't deserve a sweet guy like you."
Lincoln sighed a bit as he looked down at the floor. "You're just saying that…" Lincoln grumbled, refusing to look up at Bridgette. "I'm not really all that special. I'm just kinda the guy in my family…"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Bridgette asked curiously while giving him a soft reassuring look.
"Well its just…everyone in my family has something that really makes them stand out and be special." Lincoln began explaining to Bridgette as he rested his head on his hands. "My oldest sister Lori is becoming a business woman, Leni has keen fashion skills, Luna's an expert musician, Luan's a comedian, Lynn's a huge athlete, Lucy is great at poetry, Lana's a maniac and is working towards being a race car engineer, Lola's a pageant queen, Lisa is a freaking super genius, and even Lily is picking things up quick from all our siblings. As for me I've also been known as either just the one brother or the middle child. I'm not really special or anything."
"Don't say that Lincoln. Everyone is special in some way." Bridgette told Lincoln as he forced him to looked up at her. The surfer girl gave him a small but toothy smile to reassure him. "I'm sure there's something you're really good at. You came up with that really good strategy for the dodgeball game which I'm sure is still kicking butt!"
"I guess so…" Lincoln said without much confidence in his voice. "But it wasn't even me that came up with the snake formation in the first place that was one of my friends."
"Even still, I'm pretty sure during the first three days at camp you told the guys how you were known as the man with the plan." Bridgette told Lincoln with a small smirk and raised brow. Lincoln blushed a bit in embarrassment as he remembered that. While he and a few of the guys were getting to know each other, Lincoln let that little bit about him slip. Looks like some of the girls, or just Bridgette, managed to over hear that. "Also…didn't I see you sketching something in a book the other day when were at the beach?"
"Uuuuuuuh…" Crap…Lincoln didn't think anyone was watching him. During the second day of camp, the day after the first challenge, Lincoln may or may not have decided to sketch a bit of the landscape in a drawing journal he brought. He wasn't counting on anyone seeing it! But just then Lincoln watched Bridgette moved her eyes over to the door. Lincoln knew exactly what Bridgette was thinking and was about to stand up only for Bridgette to push him down onto the bed and quickly run out of the cabin.
"Bridgette!" Lincoln yelled as he quickly got up to chase after the surfer girl. But due to his rush Lincoln ended up tripping over his feet a few times before he managed to make it out of the girl's side of the cabin. Looking to the boy's side, he saw that the door was open with Bridgette no doubt inside. Quickly headed in himself, he was to late to stop the girl as she saw her in front of an open drawer and in her hands…Lincoln's drawing journal. "Oh come on Bridgette! Not cool!"
"Lincoln…" Lincoln wasn't expecting the kind of tone coming from Bridgette. She sounded…impressed. Amazed even as she looked through the pages of Lincoln's drawing journal. "Did you seriously draw these with just a pencil?" Bridgette asked as Lincoln blushed a bit at the compliments. "These are amazing!"
"T-They're not that great…" Lincoln said with more modesty in his voice then Bridgette would have liked. He deserved to brag about these. "They're just kinda rush jobs and dabbles…" Lincoln flinched a bit as Bridgette looked up from the journal and looked up at Lincoln with a face of complete disbelief.
"Ok, Lincoln, if these are rush jobs…" Bridgette showed Lincoln a drawing of the camp ground that looked like a photograph turned into a pencil drawing. "Then when you have time you must be at Da Vinci levels of painting and drawing."
"I'm really…" Lincoln cut himself off as he scratched the back of his neck and looked at Bridgette and a tiny smile actually coming to his face. "You really think they're that good?"
"Yes! Lincoln look!" Bridgette then shoved the journal in Lincoln's face and started to flip through the pages. "You seriously have a real talent for this! Where'd you learn how to draw like this?"
"I guess I kinda taught myself." Lincoln answered with a shrugged as Bridgette pulled the journal away from him. "I always liked drawing since I was a little kid and I just kept at it I guess. Art was always my best subject at school so that helped as well. Guess I never really thought it was really that big of a deal. I mean compared to what my sisters can do."
"Well then you shouldn't compare yourself to them Lincoln. You really do have an amazing gift here." Bridgette told Lincoln as she gave him back his journal. Lincoln looked at it for a bit as he thought about Bridgette's words. "And hey, maybe you can teach me how to draw sometime?"
"Wait that?" Lincoln wasn't expecting the surfer girl to be asking that. "You…want me to teach you how to draw?"
"If you don't mind." Bridgette shrugged as she looked up into Lincoln's eyes. "I've always wanted to learn how to draw and paint but could never find the time. Art is something they usually teach you when you're on the honor roll. At least at my school."
"Well…" Lincoln thought about it for a bit before looking at Bridgette…giving him puppy dog eyes. 'Oh God damnit.' Lincoln smiled a little bit before nodding at Bridgette. "Alright, alright, put the eyes away. I'll teach you."
"Yes! Thank you so much!" Bridgette then proceeded to hug Lincoln, once again taking Lincoln off guard. Lincoln then eased up and returned the surfer girls hugs as she patted his back and told him. "Just remember Lincoln, you're special. And I'm glad to have you as both a teammate and a friend."
Lincoln couldn't help but smile warmly in response as he and Bridgette separated. "Thanks Bridgette. I'm…really great to have you as a friend as well." Bridgette smiled warmly at Lincoln before the white head added. "Also, in exchange for teaching you how to draw do you'd think you could teach me how to surf? That's something I've always wanted to learn how to do but Michigan isn't really known for its killer waves."
Bridgette giggled a bit before smiling and nodding. "I'd love to teach you." Bridgette said before holding her hand out and shaking Lincoln's hand. "You got yourself a deal."
"Sweet." Lincoln said before pointing out the door. "We should probably head back now. We've been gone quite a while. Don't wanna let the others get any ideas or such."
This time it was Bridgette's turn to blush a little as she laughed. "Yeah good idea. Let's go." Bridgette agreed as she and Lincoln headed towards the door.
Lincoln stepped past Bridgette and opened the door for her. "Ladies first." Bridgette couldn't help but roll her eyes and smile a bit at Lincoln's gesture as she stepped through the door with Lincoln following. "And hey…would you mind not telling everyone about my drawing stuff please? I don't want everyone finding out. At least not yet."
"Don't worry." Bridgette reassured Lincoln by putting a hand to his back. "Secrets safe with me. And Dawn probably." Lincoln nodded in response. Similar to essentially everyone at camp, Dawn figured out his whole life story just by looking at him. "Thought so. And hey, if you're not ready for a relationship yet then that's completely fine. But I'm sure someone like Dawn would completely understand what you're going through and would like to help."
"Yeah…" Lincoln said with a small smile on his face as he looked at the ground. "Maybe you're right." Bridgette couldn't but grin in response.
CONFESSIONAL – BRIDGETTE
"I can't help it." The surfer girl said with a shrug. "I've always wanted to play cupid since middle school."
"Man how long were we gone for?" Lincoln asked as he and Bridgette approached the outdoor gym. "How do you think our team is-" Lincoln then opened the door and-
"The Killer Bass win!" Bridgette and Lincoln were quiet as they heard Chris announce their team winning as well as Chef blowing his whistle loudly. Looking around, they saw the Killer Bass cheering, with Eva in particular grinning and crossing her arms over her chest.
Meanwhile everyone on the Screaming Gophers were all groaning as they were covered in bruises and bumps. Everyone expect Noah who was still on the bleachers reading a book.
"Well…that went well." Bridgette smiled at Lincoln as the Killer Bass finally noticed the two were there and started crowding around them. Specifically Lincoln.
"Dude, that strategy of yours worked like a charm!" Geoff told the white head with a giant smile on his face. "We did that the whole game and were completely invincible!"
"Wow, wasn't expecting it to work that well." Lincoln sheepishly admitted as he scratched the back of his head with Bridgette giving Lincoln two thumbs up. "That's great!"
"So man, how the hand doing?" DJ asked as he pointed to Lincoln's bandaged up hand. "Eva seemed to do a number on it."
"Oh yeah! Don't worry its fine!" Lincoln reassured everyone as he moved his bandaged-up hand a little bit. "Its already feeling better thanks to Bridgette!"
"Alright! Way to go Bridge!" Geoff complimented the surfer girl as he sent him a wink and thumbs up. "Now come on! Let's wake up Dawn and Duncan and have a victory party!" All the Killer Bass cheered in response as they did just that. Meanwhile all the Screaming Gophers were looking quite unhappy at Noah.
THAT NIGHT
For the second time in a row, the Screaming Gophers were at the Elimination Ceremony. In Chris's hand was a plate with ten marshmallows. Tonight, 22 campers would turn into 21 and the Gophers would be losing yet another teammate. "Campers, you've already placed your votes and made your decision." Chris told all the Screaming Gophers in front of him. "One of you will be going home. And you can't come back. Ever. When you hear me call out your name, come pick up a marshmallow."
"Owen. Gwen. Cody. Trent." The four mentioned campers smiled as they all went to get their marshmallow.
Heather. Beth. Justin. Leshawna. Izzy." Izzy took Lindsay's hands into her own for a second before walking up with the other five campers to get their marshmallows.
Now there were only two campers left. Noah, who was looking pretty confident in himself. And Lindsay, who was looking the exact opposite. "The final marshmallow goes to…" Lindsay tensed up with Noah's confidence not fading as Chris called out the next and final camper to get a marshmallow. "Lindsay."
Noah's jaw dropped as Lindsay cheered and went to go get her marshmallow. "What are you kidding me?!" Noah yelled as Lindsay kissed her marshmallow. "Alright, well, see if I care! Good luck because you just voted out the only one with any brains on this team!" The remaining Screaming Gophers responded by throwing their marshmallows at Noah. "Ow!"
"You need to learn a little thing called respect, turkey!" Leshawna yelled at Noah with a few of her teammates laughing.
"Whatever." Noah rolled his eyes before heading to the dock of shame. "I'm outta here."
As Noah headed out to the Boat of Losers, Chris looked to the camera and said. "Alright, so it wasn't the most dramatic campfire ceremony ever." Chris admitted before pointing is fingers at the camera. "But I still get paid. Haha! Bonus!"