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A banded-toed gecko darted across a rock. A greater Egyptian jerboa slipped under the tribe shelter. A tattooed arm dropped a dead body against the base of a tree. An Iberian ribbed newt learned how to love.

It was a quiet morning at the Dadčs camp as Jonathan and Eddie took a short walk along nondescript Moroccan terrain, shoving each other playfully until Eddie fell to the ground, staring up at Jonathan's beautiful, flawlessly muscular chest. Smirking down at him, Jonathan held out his hand, pulling Eddie back up against him. Eddie ran a hand over his chisled torso before he blushed and giggled, taking a step back.




"So, dude, do you think any of the girls on the other tribe are hot?" Jonathan yawned, stretching his arms wide and putting one around Eddie's shoulder, ruffling his hair.

"Bruh, I'm so glad you asked!" Eddie giggled, leaning into Jonathan. "That Kendra chick is one hot freakin' tamale, you know, bruh?"




"Hey, uh... Ed?" Jonathan stopped in his tracks, spotting something ahead of them.

"She just seems like the type of chick who can throw you against a wall and have her way with you, bruh. I'm so into-" Jonathan started shaking Eddie, snapping him out of it.

"There is a [BLEEP]ing dead body right in front of us!" Jonathan stared, and Eddie stared back into his deep, deep blue eyes... Damn. It was like he could see the fucking ocean in those eyes. They were so... so beautiful. Eddie slowly leaned in. "Dude! Wake up!"

Blushing, Eddie shook it off. "Whoa, bruh. I don't know what came over me, I... Wait, what? Dead body!?" Eddie turned and walked over to it slowly, scratching his head. The corpse laid terrifyingly still, like a person who had been dead for three days. "Who gives a crap about a wild boar, bruh? Let's just drag it back to camp and eat it for dinner."

"...Bro. It's a woman. I think."

"What? No way." Eddie nudged the body, making it slump onto its back. "Oh, crap! Who is that!?"

"Who cares? Let's go tell everyone."

~*~

Debbie knelt to the early morning fire, tossing in small twigs one by one. With each toss she could feel the lingering stare from across the pit. Charlie sat on a tree stump bathing in the radiating sun that penetrated the camp. As much as he tried to look away, Charlie remained fixed on Debbie. He nudged Abi Maria beside him just as Debbie was leaving the camp in search for more wood. “You think they’re real?”




Abi shook her head instantly “She told me she works as a principle” Charlie’s brow arched as he took a swig of a near-by water canister.

“Honey, that’s four meetings and $7,500 later if you asked me. I can’t get away from them. I wake up and there are tits, go get some water only to come back and there are tits, throw rocks in a challenge and all I can see are tits. Call me foolish but I thought by agreeing to come here, I’d be surrounded by a tribe of Jonathans and Eddies” Charlie made a pause. “I’ve seen weave more real than those”

“I know you ain’t talking about my hair.” Remarked a hidden voice coming from within the shelter. Jtia pushed aside the palm leaves draped over the front and stretched, reaching towards the sky. “Yeah that’s right, I heard you ladies speaking”

“Sorry to wake you up princess” Abi hissed. Jtia didn’t twitch a muscle. Instead, she continued to stare with razor sharp eyes.

“For your information Abi, that nasty smell in the air woke me up. At first I thought it was you with your legs open but you were gone. I asked Eddie when he got up but he was too busy covering his shorts and running to the forest. Can’t you smell that? It literally smells like death. Is Dan making breakfast?” She peaked around to find Dan but he wasn’t in sight. Jtia made her way towards Peter and Hayden, who were talking by the water. “Good morning abs” she said while tracing Hayden’s chest. His face suddenly turned red and his smile dropped.

“Jtia” he nodded. Peter was facing out to the clear Atlantic Ocean with his arms open wide. The cool breeze caressed his face as he gently inhaled.



Hayden looked over Jtia and noticed Eddie and Jonathan returning to camp. Frantically, they were gathering everyone together. The three by the beach headed back and met up with Abi, Charlie, Debbie and now the two boys. “What’s going on bro?” Hayden tickled Eddie, who quickly pushed him away.

“Not sure if any of you know this by now but there’s a dead body just outside of our camp. At first I thought I should have been freaking out but I don’t think she’s a part of our tribe,” said Eddie.

“Thank goodness” Debbie panted, with her hand firm against her chest. “I nearly had a heart attack. I could literally feel my heart pounding out of my chest.”

“Really? Because I thought that was something else” Abi began.

“I was smelling a dead body? Does anybody else just want to rip off their noses and get new ones?” asked Jtia. Jonathan picked up a large log and began weight lifting. Eddie purposely tried to ignore Jonathan.

“Well I can’t say I smelt anything bad but we stumbled upon it on our walk this morning” Eddie claimed. Everyone could feel the jealousy radiate off Charlie as he entered the conversation abruptly.

“What were you doing on this walk?” Eddie laughed and kicked a stick Debbie had collected for the fire.

“Nothing special. Point is there’s a dead girl by our camp and no explanation as to why she’s here, what happened and who killed her. Any suggestions?”

“I was thinking we could have some kind of rice with beans. I grabbed some coconut to chop up and we could fry it in the rice. I think these berries are good to eat and if not, I’ve already tried them so you’ll know later on. Want to catch some fish? I think we should catch some fish. I would but I can’t find my shoes. What’s going on, it looks like there’s a meeting?” Dan said, walking into camp.



Peter had his arms stretched out while standing by the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, his feet slightly sinking into the shallow and wet sand that he was standing in. Breathing in everything. Peter has always been a type of person who really respects life and respects the existence of humanity and the achievements made by humanity. Every little thing fascinates him, more so then the average human being. Positive thoughts were racing through Peter’s head while he was standing, still staring into the long costal line of Morocco. Slowly but surely Peter was pulled out of his trance like state, and was abruptly shaken by Dan. Peter saw by the fear in Dan’s face at the moment that something horrible happened. Dan informed Peter that they found a dead body and that Peter would have to help carrying the body away. Like…. Wow! This is not something Peter expected while being out here. Peter asked questioned ‘Who’s dead body?’. Dan was almost in tears, he then said with a snickering voice: ‘I don’t know who it is, but the fact that a dead person is in our camp makes me worried!’. Peter thought to himself right away It must be Brett and Lex, they love doing shit like this to create more chaos and tension! But Peter didn’t say anything and walked with Dan back to the camp. Peter’s feet were being covered by more and more sand by each step he took due to the wetness of the ocean. By the time they were back at the camp, an entire blanket of sand wrapped Peter’s feet. Dan pointed to the dead body. And Peter also didn’t recognize her, a strange feeling washed over Peter, it was one of his fascination obsessions about the human body and the organisms in the world. For Peter he couldn’t believe that a once breathing, living, full of life human being was just gone, wasted. Peter looked closely and saw that the body didn’t look like it was dead for longer than 2 weeks. The first thing that popped through Peter’s head was: What have Brett and Lex done?

Hayden glared at Dan, Jtia rolled her eyes and Jonathan worked out.

“I quite like the big berries” Eddie added.




One by one they all walked to the dead body to take a look and sign a tree with their initials. It was Debbie’s turn to pay her respects. “Oh dear” she stepped over the body and instantly heard a crunch sound. Jonathan and Eddie covered their mouths and laughed at Debbie’s foot in the girl’s now caved-in skull. “I’m sorry girl, I wanted to get a good spot on the tree, it was too high to reach”. Debbie signed the tree with a piece of rock, carving in her name right above “Eddie was here”. Pushing aside Hayden as he posed, thumbs up beside the body, Jtia scanned her surroundings.

“I knew I could smell something,” she said. “We have to do something with her body, we can’t just leave it out here to rot in the heat.”

“What do you suggest?” Dan asked.

“I say we burn the body and get rid of the ash,” suggested Jtia. “Boys, do your thing. Get Johnny Bravo over here to drop the log and put those muscles to work”. She pointed to Jonathan who was glistening in sweat. Hayden grabbed on end of the body while Jonathan grabbed the other. Struggling to lift the limbs, the boys could hear a cringing tear. Without hesitation, the body split in two. Jonathan held one half as Hayden held the other, his mouth open wide.

Charlie laughed from a distance, still on his tanning log “She had to split”. Debbie covered her mouth with her hand to block a giggle. Charlie fingered his facial stubble and brushed fruit flies away from his shoulder as he contemplated the largest and most complicated mystery in the Dadčs camp. Why wo-




Abi shook her head. “Great idea, Jtia, please continue to enlighten us with your years of knowledge. Doing what exactly?”

“Because you’ve been so helpful Abi” Jtia lashed back. Abi put her hair in a tie and went face-to-face with Jtia.

“We all know you did it. Who smelt it dealt it,” screamed Abi. “You did it”. Abi looked for followers amongst the tribe. People began to look at Jtia.

“Oh, so y’all are going to look at the black girl?” snapped Jtia but it was too late. Everyone had walked away. Eddie, Jonathan, Peter and Dan carried the heavier pieces of the body as Charlie, Abi, Debbie and Jtia set up the fire pit for a memorial burning. Without making it obvious, Debbie turned to Abi and glared at Jtia.

“You really think she did it, girl?”

“I know she did it. Just look at her, always moving around, her shifty eyes and her idea to burn the evidence was convenient,” answered Abi. “I wouldn’t put it past her to come after us next.” Debbie paused what she was doing with fear in her eyes.




Meanwhile, the boys bonded over the body parts. Peter, Dan, Charlie, Eddie and Jonathan, as the 5 strong and muscular men of the tribe, had to bring the body to the pit. Peter and Charlie found the weight of the body very difficult to carry, but knew they couldn’t show their weakness to the other 3 guys. Once they ‘slooowwllly’ came to the pit. Peter chucked a head into the pit and laughed “Heads up boys”. Jonathan giggled and began tickling Dan with an arm.

“Need a hand?” Dan chuckled, tossing the torso into the pit and rubbing his hands clean. Once they were done, Abi, Debbie and Charlie greeted them. Debbie danced to the rancid pile of guts and placed white flower petals on top.

While on the walk to the pit. Peter noticed some very trifling vibes coming from Eddie and Jonathan, and especially after we came back. Eddie was sitting abnormally close to Jonathan considering they only knew each other for a little over 2 weeks.

“Puta” whispered Abi. Her bitter face soured some more. “Since Jtia isn’t here right now, we should take this time to talk as a tribe. We lost Angie, no big loss there. Angie was a bardajona filho da puta fudas caralho! Jtia is the same thing. She’s the only outcast of our tribe and she murdered ‘Jane doe for’ attention”

Hayden, completely ignoring what Abi had to say, looked around for Jtia. “Hey, has anyone seen Jtia? Shouldn’t she be here for the ceremony or whatever this is?”

“I was just saying-”Abi barked but yet another person’s attention was elsewhere.

“Is that fire?” Peter asked. Abi stopped talking and looked over to the camp.



-----CAMP FIRE-----

Eddie had his head resting lightly on Jonathan’s shoulder while J’tia was singing some Nicki Minaj songs around them camp-fire. The flames that launched from the fire created little whirlwinds of beautiful bright lights. It was a perfect night for love…


----CHALLENGE BEACH-------

The smell of burning flesh lingered in the air as both tribes met with Lex on Challenge Beach. “Dades, get your first look at the Sebou tribe, Katie voted out at the last Tribal Council”. Sebou refused to look at the Dadčs tribe. The shame was too much to handle. “One more thing before we get to our challenge today. Dades, if you haven’t noticed, you’ve always been one person short”.

Debbie snorted “Huh?” looking around for other reactions. Brett emerged out of the forest; wind gently blowing his hair and caressing his shirt tight against his defined chest. Eddie’s legs crossed.

“Crystal Cox” entered Brett. Jonathan’s eye twitched at the word use.

“Who is that?” Dan asked.

“A puta” Abi snared. Jtia shook her head, ash from the fallen shelter descending to the sand.

“What matters is that she’s no longer a part of your tribe.” Lex added. The Dadčs tribe all gave Brett and Lex a terrified look. “We took care of the situation. We’ll be sending in a team to collect her later this evening where we left her.”

Dadčs remained silent.

The End.