Episode Eleven: Keep It Down

Day Thirty-One:
A Long, Long Time


Mick in a confessional

Babette slowly rose from her sleep at the Air Tegrin camp. The other five members of her tribe were all awake and sitting around the campfire eating breakfast. They greeted her with a hearty good morning as she reached into her bag and pulled out a small piece of paper. On this paper she had tally marks representing the number of days that they have spent in Indonesia. Babette took her pencil and made another tally mark on that page. She counted them all and realized that this was their thirty-first day in this game. “You guys, we’ve only eight more days left!” Babette screamed to her tribe members. They smiled at her as they ate. In a confessional later that day, Babette commented “I’d never thought that I’d make it as far as I did in this game. The whole game has been Hell and very stressing on me. Ever since Cecely was voted out, I thought for sure that my days were numbered but now here I am in the Final Six. It’s been a long, long time in this game and it’s absolutely amazing to still be in this thing like this. I also have some hopes of getting Matahari to the Finals. I know Bulan is completely split up, and right now we have a three on three advantage. If we boot out one more Bulan, Matahari can take our advantage again, and one of us can win!””

Mick also expressed his feelings in the game. “I am the oldest one left out here, and was one of the oldest ones in the game, and I feel great to have outwitted, outlasted and ouplayed a bunch of kids and was able to make it this far. Ever since the first day of the game I was playing my ass off to stay in this thing. Once Karen’s name was read off for the first time, I knew that it was going to be a long and hard journey. I knew I was playing the game great and I think I switched from Bulan to Matahari at the perfect moment. All Emily and I need to do is get Kyle on our side and then after we get rid of Cole we can take this to the Final Three, and I’m pretty sure once I get there I’ll have the game in my back pocket.”

Though Mick and Babette were pretty serious and sure that they would win the game they did not know of the scheme Cole had and was planning behind all of their backs. He said to the cameras: “It will take a lot to have Cole stop playing the game, I may be down, but I will never, ever be out. Right now, it looks like Olivia, Kyle, Babette, Emily and Mick are all going to vote against me. But I have the perfect story to tell Kyle, Babette and Olivia and it may work to get them on my side. Let me just warn those out there watching that the next Tribal Council will definitely be an interesting one!”


A Word


Cole in a confessional

“Hey Kyle, can I have a word with you?” Cole asked Kyle. Kyle turned to face Cole and they both took a seat along the beach. “Kyle, I don’t know how to tell you this. I know you don’t trust me and we’re practically enemies, but I really have something to tell you. I really think you’re trusting the wrong person.”

“What do you mean?” Kyle asked.

“Emily, you’re trusting Emily and I have to tell you that she’s not the sweet girl next door that you perceive her to be,” Cole told him. Kyle gave him a somewhat skeptical look. “All right, well you see Kyle, you know she’s the one that voted against Madison right?”

“Yeah, I know she was the one who did that. Mick did too,” Kyle said.

“Well let’s focus on Emily right now. She was supposed to vote with our alliance, but instead she voted out Madison. Well the other day she comes up to me and tells me that she did that just so Mick would feel safe and think he had a spot in the Final Four. Of course Asher and I were very angry at her and we didn’t believe her, we thought she was just trying to save her ass, ya know? Well anyway, she told me that what she wanted to do was make Matahari believe that she was on your side but really vote you out.”

“Me?” Kyle asked.

“Yeah, and then once you were gone pick off Olivia and Babette. At first I was going to go with this, but then I figured that we couldn’t trust that. To tell you the truth, I’ve grown in this game. In the beginning I was all about lying and deceit, but now I care about other people’s feelings. I’m wasn’t going to let her make me look like the bad guy so in the end it would be her in the Final Two and people would think that she played the game innocently and would vote for her to win. I told Asher this and he said he’d talk to you guys and get you all to vote for Emily with us.”

“He never told us that,” Kyle said.

“That’s what makes this all so frustrating. I didn’t know he didn’t tell you that until right before Tribal Council when he said he couldn’t get up the nerve to. I was pissed at him, because I knew that completely screwed over our plan and then when I was talking to him Emily overheard us and found out we were trying to get her out. And that’s where we left off.”

“Wow!” Kyle explained.

Cole continued, “You may not believe me, and I don’t blame you, but I’m telling you now that you’re trusting the wrong person and I think we need to get her out.”

Kyle had a confessional: “I don’t know whether to believe him or not. I mean, the story sounds great and he seems sturdy and true about voting for Emily, but I don’t know which strategy would be better. I’ll have to ask Babette and Olivia about them both.”

Cole’s confessional: “That fruit believed me! I knew that story would get him to believe me, and I am so fucking happy that he did. It makes me laugh though some of the crap I told him. Especially about how I’ve grown in this game. Ha! If anything grew in this game it’s been my large ego and cockiness.”


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