I was woken up by Tyrone this morning bringing me and the other bottoms a cup of tea on a tray. "Morning, the guys have gone for a morning gym session so I thought I'd bring us all a tea" he explained handing me mine. I rolled over and noticed Hayden wasn't in bed with me. "Ugh, I feel like I could vomit" Tyler cried looking pale. "Let's have some girl talk then, I won't lie, I'm totally interested in Corey and I think someone likes Andres" Hugo says excitedly, taking a sip of his tea. The bottoms looked at me and I respond, "Ok look, I do like Andres but I'm with Hayden and I also like him. I don't think things are wow with us but he is a really sweet guy". "Does he give you flutters though?" Tyrone asked. I paused for a moment, "I don't know, like I said I'm not wowed by him. I can't exactly say Andres wows me either, I don't know him that well. Yet I do know Hayden a lot more". "You seem torn?" Tyrone asked as he laid across his bed with his cup of tea. "I would like to get to know Andres more, would anything happen between us? That I don't know but certainly not while I am with Hayden" I admit. "Ok I have to be honest, I also think Andres is really hot". "Oooo Jake's got competition," Hugo says sassily. " Am I really evil for liking another boy while with Sam?" Tyrone asked. "No don't be silly, it's still early days even for you and Sam, it's only been six days" Hugo explained. Tyrone seemed pleased with what he heard as Hugo turned to Tyler who was laying down just listening to the conversation. "What do you make of the newbies?". Hugo seemed like he was making an effort to make amends, Tyler seemed reluctant to speak to him but he didn't have much of a choice. "I like both of them so I think my head could be turned towards either one of them". "I think you and Corey are a good match" I called from my bed and sat up properly brushing my hair in place. "Yeah I could spend some more time with him I guess". "I'm just happy to know that whenever the next islander elimination comes, it won't be between us because the ratio of tops is greater" Tyrone explained to us. "This is true, makes a change from how things have been. The tops have been living a peaceful life, not having to deal with the worries and stress that comes with elimination or competition for that matter. It's about time they got shaken while we have a rest" Tyler explained. "I have a good feeling about today, I think it will be fun," Tyrone said sounding cheery.
A little later we all got out of bed, brushed our teeth and put on our swimwear for the day. Hayden after having worked out, came back to the bedroom to find me and sat on our bed. "You ok?" I asked standing next to him. "Where's your head at this morning? I know yesterday you said you might just be friends with the new guys but how do you feel today?". I could sense Hayden was nervous about losing me. A recoupling or an elimination is likely to be soon and this seems to be making the tops feel uneasy. How sincere was he? Only time would tell. "I mean, I won't lie to you, I don't have a plan or anything I'm just going about my day as normal". "Ok, obviously I'm not really ok with you flirting with the other lads". "I actually find jealously like that quite attractive. It means you care" I smiled softly. "Thanks, I'm just being upfront with how I feel. I know you boys are loving it right now watching us guys suffer. I guess it's fair, it started the other way around. I have to say it isn't fun at the moment for really any of the tops. Even George and Matt who have openly said they aren't properly with there partners are on edge". I rolled my eyes, "Come here". I stepped forward and held Hayden's face, caressing his right cheek with my left hand. I look up at him and stood on my toes to give him a long kiss on the lips. I held the kiss for a few moments, enough for it to be passionate but not on long it got carried away. I soon pull away, smile and leave him in the room as I go outside to catch the morning sun.
As I do I notice Andres, Hugo and Alfie by the pool. I walked over to them and sat on the edge of the pool, Andres was in the water, Hugo and Alfie were also sitting on the edge. From what I could tell Hugo was enjoying himself but Alfie and Andres seemed slightly tense. I took a guess and felt that both were trying to impress Hugo and he was loving the attention. "At the end of the day, I think I have the bigger d**k to impress Hugo with" Alfie teased as he looked at Hugo. I was a bit shocked with what Alfie said, flirting was one thing but he was being very s****l with Hugo and he's still coupled with Tyler. As I sat down I decided to change the flow of the conversation and keep Alfie's mind away from s*x even more so towards Hugo.
My tactic worked for a little while but the conversation started to die off, life ended up leaving when he saw Collin walk by. I felt like something was strange with those two, I saw them hanging out alone together yesterday. Also, while I was upstairs having girl talk, Collin remained silent, it was as if he wasn't in the room with us.
Soon I decided to move on with my day, leaving Andres with Hugo. I made my way strolling over to the kitchen for a drink. This was when I caught George and Hayden whispering by the fridge. They tried to look incognito but I could tell they were chatting privately. Judging by their reactions it was most likely about me. "What's up guys?" I asked slowly. "Oh nothing" George smiled. I rolled my eyes and walked over to Hayden, "you'll tell me won't you". I looked up cutely at his face, placing my hand onto his arm and batting my innocent eyes. "Ok I'll tell you" Hayden replied. "DUDE! How weak are you?" George panicked. "Shut up!" I replied quickly as I returned to Hayden with my cute eyes. "Oh hell no!" George yelled as he grabbed Hayden's arm and dragged him away from me, shouting "bro code". "Sorry Jake, you bottoms have a code so do we!" He yelled as he was taken out of my sight.
I rolled my eyes again at my defeat. I felt disappointed Hayden didn't tell me whatever secret George was hiding from me. I poured myself a glass of juice and saw Collin, Tyrone and Same on the daybeds and thought I'd have more fun with them than laying alone.
I walked over and laid on the bed beside Collin by Sams feet. Tyrone was sat with his legs over Sams lap. "Hey, you Ok?" Collin asked looking at me. I replied stating that I just wanted to relax. "That's what I'm doing, I've noticed that Corey and Matt have been spending time together today, they seem to bond well. However, Matt does seem reserved today, I think it's the competition. The vibes are unbalanced today with the tops" Collin explained. Sam raised his eyebrow and asked Collin to explain further. "I think Matt isn't getting the usual amount of attention, I mean think about it. For six days he has had plenty of attention and drama from more than one bottom. Today the spotlight has moved and it's not pointing his way, I don't think he likes that". "Well Tyler might be doing some flirting with Corey today from our chat earlier, I'm sure that will please him at least" I pointed out recalling our earlier chat. "I know I remember, I'm pleased he's not going to go for Matt, I know we aren't a proper couple. Well, to be honest, we aren't really working out but I don't think Matt and Tyler would either" Collin told us. "I thought the same, hence why I gave Tyler a nudge towards Corey to follow that path" I admitted. "Maybe I need to move onto someone else, I know me and Matt aren't working. There isn't any point in me trying to light a fire when it's raining outside". "Look at you getting poetic" Sam chuckled. "I saw you chatting to Alfie last night?" I asked out of the blue. Collin paused for a moment and seemed slightly embarrassed I brought the topic up. "Oh no that wasn't anything" he replied shrugging off my question.
We sat together a little while longer in the sun when Hugo called us all over for a text that he read by the pool.
Islanders, it's time to find out who in the villa has been naughty and who can keep quiet. Today's challenge is called kiss and tell.
"Well sounds like we may be doing some kissing. I'm ok with that" Hugo giggled. "Well I'm excited to do a challenge with you all" Corey smiled.
Everyone started to walk over to the docks. As we approached them, I saw five large red question marks three in a row with two behind, there was a big black line in front of the red marks and on the other side were seven blue question marks. Four in a row with three behind. "I think this might be a top versus bottom challenge" Alfie smiled looking competitive.
Hugo's phone makes a noise, he then reads out another text.
Islanders, in your teams you will have to decide which islander did the deed from a deck of cards provided to you. Once you have decided on the player from the opposite team, the person who drew the card will kiss that player the team thinks it was. The winning team will receive cocktails tonight!
"So I can't go and kiss who I want then?" Alfie asked. "Well, I guess you can but you won't win the point for the team," Hayden told him. "Oh so I can play to win or play to kiss the boys I want, interesting" Alfie smirks. "You can kiss who you like Alfie" Colin called. "Like hell he can! He's coupled up to me!" Tyler yelled from his question mark.
Tyrone draws the first card, "which top spent just over £500 on a date?" He reads out. The bottoms huddle as the tops stood still on there marks. "Ok, so who am I kissing?" Tyrone asks. "I think it's Andres, he probably earns good money in London as a jeweler" Tyler suggested. "Just because he may earn well doesn't mean he spends it. Besides I think it's Hayden, he would do something like that to impress a boy. When he's confident he can show off a little" Hugo pointed out. "I agree, I think it's Hayden too" I replied. "Well, I guess if Jake is telling me to kiss his partner, I should listen to him. I won't go overboard on it" Tyrone winks at me.
We all turn around and step on our marks as Tyrone walks over to Hayden to stand on his toes looking up at him. Hayden leaned down for the two to kiss on the lips for a few seconds. Tyrone soon walked away back to his place, Hayden speaks, "that is correct it was me". "Hayden I have no issue with that being you" I called out loud as I and the other bottoms giggled. "I like to look after my boy" Hayden told the group and shrugged.
Matt draws the next card for his team and reads it out. "Which bottom takes over an hour to get ready and can change his outfit multiple times, even if it's just meeting friends for a casual get together?". The tops huddle together as we stood still on our marks, we watch them whispering to each other before they turn around and stand on their marks. Matt then walks over to me and places both his hands on my face, holding onto my head before kissing me on the lips passionately, soon I place my hands on his shoulders allowing him to kiss me for as long as he felt he wanted to. I loved the feeling Matt's lips on mine, he was a good lips, his lips were a little bigger than mine and it felt like his lips were holding onto mine. As we pull apart everyone stared at us. Some with blank faces, others looking a little surprised. "Wow" Colin sighed not looking happy with me. As Matt returns to his place ignoring Colin I spoke, "Erm... that is correct" I admit feeling a little awkward.
I then take the next card from the deck and read it out, "which top has had the most s****l partners?". We then grouped together and whispered, "I'd say it's Alfie, to be honest, he's even been with girls before he knew he liked guys. It question says most s****l partners, that doesn't exclusively mean men" Tyler pointed out. "I was thinking Hayden," Tyrone told us. "I think it could be Alfie too," Colin said. "I'd say Alfie too because of the girls. If it was just guys I would have said Hayden but adding girls defiantly Alfie" Hugo explained. "Personally I think it's Hayden or Matt," I told them. "Jake could be right with Matt" Hugo wondered. "I think the majority has voted Alfie," Colin told me. We turned around and by being outvoted, I walked over to Alfie and placed my hands on his face giving him a single kiss on the lips for a few seconds. "The question is, was he right?" Corey asked the group as I returned to my place. "Actually the guys know it's me. Like Alfie, I also have slept with girls. I have him beaten, Hayden is second and Alfie is actually third" Matt confirmed looking smug as he crossed his arms.
"Can I go next?" Andres called as the tops allow him to take the next card. "Name the bottom who was once kicked out of a club for dancing on the table and falling off it drunk". The tops huddled together as the bottoms stayed silent. They seemed to take a while with this one but soon they ungroup and Andres walks over to me and kisses me on the lips for a few seconds passionately. His lips were soft but his kiss had depth to it, they locked onto mine quite well. We pull apart and Hayden doesn't look impressed with me, giving a blank stare in my direction. As Andres returned to his place, I stayed quiet as the tops waited for my verdict, "it's not me" I say holding my hands up. "Actually it was me" Tyrone called out smiling. "That I wasn't expecting" Sam replied seeming surprised.
Colin takes the next card and reads it out, "The top who gets waxed at least once a month". We huddle together and Tyrone speaks, "before we go anywhere I can confirm it's not Sam, I've seen what's down there". "It's not Matt he's too laddish for that" Colin tells us. "It's not Alfie either and I highly doubt Corey," Tyler told us. "So that leaves George, Hayden and Andres" Hugo confirmed. "I mean, Hayden is smooth all over. However, I don't think he waxes, he actually doesn't have that much body hair anyway, I think he shaves his. I think it's Andres his skin is silky and his body is completely hair-free" I explained. "I agree," Hugo told the group. "I'll go with Andres too" Tyrone followed and Tyler also agreed.
We all turned and around, Colin walked over past the black line and kisses Alfie in front of us, all the bottoms eyes widened. "The f**k?" I said with my mouth dropping open watching Colin passionately kiss Alfie. We all turned to look at Tyler who seems utterly stunned and lost for words for once in his life. "Colin what the hell! That's not cool!" I yelled sounding annoyed. "Ugh your a fine one to talk Jake, you just made out with Matt in front of me and passionately kissed Andres!" He snapped. "They both kissed me!" I yelled. "To be fair, we did all agree that you should kiss Andres" Tyrone pointed out in a calm tone. "Well it's just a game guys," Colin told us. "I think some of us are playing a different type of game!" Tyler snapped.
"Maybe we should move on, no points for you guys on that" George says as Alfie takes the next card. "The bottom who cancelled a weekend with his boyfriend to be with his friend who was depressed and needed to be on suicide watch". "That's deep, that's not nice" Hayden called. "Well it wasn't Colin was it," Tyler said sarcastically. The tops huddle together as Colin ignores Tyler. We wait for them to decide until they ungroup. Alfie then walks over to us and he kisses Colin as he does Colin rubs his hands over his body. "I genuinely don't know why they are both out to hurt me today!" Tyler said sounding annoyed. As Alfie pulls away Tyler speaks again, "clearly you don't know me at all or know what loyalty is! Obviously your both out here just to make out with each other and ignoring the game!". "Maybe we should wrap this game up, emotions are running high" George suggested as everyone quickly agreed.
Tyrone announced as we were walking back to the villa, the cocktails were going to both teams tonight. I wasn't sure if it was a draw or if the show just thought both teams could use the drinks. Either way, I was happy to have lots of drinks tonight. I walked over to the villa and saw Tyler walking off alone. I felt it was better to leave him to clear his head and have some space, so I spent a couple more hours in the sun.
I remained out of the cliques and drama for the afternoon remaining alone. As I was heading inside the villa towards the end of the afternoon sun, Tyrone pulled me and Hugo aside into the living room. "I'm a bit nervous about what happened earlier". "I'm annoyed at both of them," I told him. "It's sad that we can all be having fun and then something bad is going on right under our noses" he explained. "What do you mean?" I asked. "Well, me and Tyrone spoke this morning before the game and we both agree that Colin and Alfie have been getting close recently. So in other words, a little longer than today's game" Hugo explained. "NO!" I gasped. "They both kissed each other like it was planned. Both just went and did it but what we want to work out is when did this start? It's been going on longer than today which means Alfie has been cheating on Tyler and Colin has been cheating on Matt" Hugo told me. "Alfie is a bit of a sneaky flirt don't you think? Has he ever tried it on with you in private?" Tyrone asked. "I mean he's given me compliments before, told me I'm hot and attractive but I'm not interested in him, to be honest" I explained. "He tried it on with me on day two" Tyrone replied. "He also tried it on with me on a few occasions this week. I didn't think much of it at first, I just thought he was a flirty guy but then when Andres and Corey came in he asked me about recoupling together. Then it clicked, I bet he started flirting with Colin not long after we came in, he's worried about being eliminated. Colin has announced that he and Matt aren't really working, therefore Alfie must have seen it as an opportunity. Tyler seemed a bit taken with the newbies maybe he thought Tyler would leave him" Hugo explained. "That weirdly makes sense," I said looking like I was thinking. We all paused for a moment and then I spoke, "he's playing all us bottoms to stay on the show!" I told them looking shocked. "We agree," Tyrone told me. "We haven't mentioned this to anyone else yet, I wonder how Tyler feels right now" Hugo wondered. "And Colin, he's being played too. He's a victim too, despite not an innocent one" Tyrone pointed out. "To be fair if Colin has gone behind all our backs that is snaky. On the other hand, maybe he's innocent and really likes him but is being played" Hugo wondered. "We need to get Colin and Tyler in here for a group meeting" I suggested. "Yes, good idea, let's do it at the party, we need to start getting ready now anyway, we can group off for a bit" Tyrone explained as we all started getting ready for the party.
Later on, I leave the villa after having got ready for the party I saw Tyler sitting by the fire pit on his own. "Want to chat?" I asked coming and sitting next to him. "That would be nice. I can't believe today" Tyler said softly. "I bet your hurt". "Well yeah. It's one thing for Colin to kiss Alfie, which was more of a rage feeling but Alfie kissing Colin actually hurt. I guess I blame myself, I thought this would happen but I ignored it". "How did you know?" I asked seeming puzzled. "Call it intuition... Basically, I found out a couple of days ago that Alfie was still chatting to the boys". Wait, you knew he was doing that?". "I didn't think about it too much, I tried to put it in the back of my mind trying to tell myself it was because we all didn't know each other. Yes, it was annoying but I tried to ignore it. I also thought maybe he was rattled by the new boys and it would die off. I think all the bottoms have had there heads turned a little with Corey and Andres coming into the villa". "Well, Tyrone and Hugo are calling a meeting on the roof if you want to head up there. I'm going to grab Colin now". "Yeah I could use some words with him myself, I'll be gentle I promise" Tyler replied and walked off inside.
I made my way over the to the other side of the garden to find Colin also sitting alone on the day beds. "Can I sit down? I think maybe we should have a chat about this you and Alfie thing" I said as I sat next to him. "It's not like that, there is no me and Alfie. We just kissed that's it". "Hun, I don't believe you on that. It did look a little planned to us". Colin seemed annoyed at me for not believing him, "well you don't have to believe me. If I'm honest I don't really care what you think. I'll tell you how it is and you can believe me or you can decide to not. I haven't thought about Alfie that much until Corey and Andres came in" he told me as I thought about what everyone else has been saying. "He just took me aside and we had a chat. We just clicked and gave each other relationship advice even though mine with Matt is dead now, more so after today. We haven't kissed until today. But, I had to kiss him to see if it was real". "Hun, I don't know how to tell you this... Alfie hasn't just been chatting to you, he's been chatting to all of us. I think he mainly stuck to you because you were the most vulnerable because of not having anything special with Matt". Colin seemed upset, "I feel silly all of a sudden". "Look were gathering on the roof for our cocktails away from the tops, we are having a bottom boys-only night and having a little meeting about today. Come up and join us" I announced as I took Colin with me upstairs.
The two of us came upstairs with the others and Tyrone gives us all the first round of drinks. "Let's just clear the air now, so we can have a nice enjoyable night, no arguing just chatting," Hugo told us. "We need to do more than just clear the air" Tyler snapped. "You got something to say?" Colin snapped back. "Take it down like five thousand notches both of you!" Tyrone said firmly. "Obviously, we have all been thinking about the challenge today" Hugo announced. "Oh, you mean when Colin went after my man. Hardly gave it a second thought" Tyler said sarcastically. "Look, we need to talk about Alfie," I told the group. "I'm concerned he has been playing us. Mainly Colin" Tyrone pointed out. "I thought what we may of had was real. Maybe not now" Colin said seeming embarrassed. "Even I've come to realise that Alfie is not who I thought he was. We need to do something about this, Alfie cannot play us all just so he can stay on the show" Tyler told us. "We should do something" I agree. "I say we freeze him out" Tyler suggested. "What do you mean?" Hugo asked. "Avoid him, give him the silent treatment and simply act like he doesn't exist. I'm done with him we're over" Tyler told us. "Sounds interesting" I replied looking like I was thinking. "I don't know, I'm not happy with him either but I do want us all to try and be civil at least" Tyrone suggested. "Maybe it is natural for us to be frosty with him. Had we of not found out, he could have broke our group apart" Hugo pointed out. "Look I'll be honest, I have no intention of not talking to Alfie. Maybe he's not who I thought he was but I do genuinely like him. I'm sorry if that's an issue for some of you but I can't help the way I feel" Colin told us. He paused and then got up to walk away.
The four of us left him to be alone. We carried on with our evening making it as relaxing and drama free simply drinking together. As the hours tick by people start heading to bed. I wasn't quite ready though, I was a bit tipsy but I made my way downstairs to walk around the garden. At first, my brain was telling me to find Hayden but I ended up seeing Matt sitting alone by the fire pit. "Alright?" He asked looking at me knowing I had a few drinks. "yes" I giggled and sat next to him. "Clearly you can't hold your drink" he laughed. There was a moment of silence until Matt turned to me and spoke, "A bit of an atmosphere tonight isn't there. For once we had nothing to do with it". I chuckle slightly as the breeze picks up giving me slight chill for a moment. "Come here," Matt said as he put his arm around me and pulling me into his warm body. I sat cuddled up to Matt for a while, neither of us speaking. I started to drift off to sleep, "Ok come on, time for bed" Matt chuckled taking his arm from me and nudging me. Hayden wondered outside seeing us together and came over. "I found him here alone, he's drunk" Matt lied. "What am I going to do with you, come on" Hayden smiled as he scooped me up into his arms and carried me to bed, I put my arms around his neck and rested my head on his shoulder. Hayden acted like a perfect gentleman taking off my shoes, shorts and shirt while I was half asleep on the bed. He then climbed into bed next to me and held me close to his body giving me a kiss on the head before drifting off to sleep himself.