May 10, 2008 3:16 AM
At the first opportunity, Shy rushed about the girls’ room to grab and hide Nikki’s clothes. For the House Player’s fourth task, she had to hide half of Nikki’s stock of clothes without anyone knowing. Since she was always first to bathe, Shy had the room to her for a few moments, and she stuck the clothing under her mattress. She had another go at clothes-napping moments after, in between chores and even with Valerie sleeping in the next bed. After taking her bath, Nikki noticed the lost items and rushed to Kuya. Contrary to her expectations, Kuya simply shrugged off her panic and reminded her to be more responsible next time. Shy succeeded in her task once again, increasing the pot money to P30,000. However, she had to figure out a way to return Nikki’s clothes. She hot her chance when Kuya called Nikki in the Confession Room, and in just a few minutes, she managed to stick all of Nikki’s clothes in the In Chick’s luggage, with a few seconds to spare to prevent suspiciousness. Once out of the Confession Room, Nikki was still at a loss as to what happened to her things; Kuya remained mum on the entire event, and told her to just search again. The other teens urged her to look in the luggage, and lo and behold, her missing clothes were in her maleta! This did not lessen her confusion, and in fact added to it, as she continually claimed that they truly weren’t there earlier.
Her relationship with Josef was falling to pieces. True to his word, Josef had been studiously staying out of Nikki’s way, and made efforts to avoid situations with her. This had Nikki out of sorts, but as much as the girls wanted to ease her worries, there was no way around it. After all, Josef wasn’t obviously avoiding her; he just kept himself busy with tasks and Alex (who was in on the challenge). Still, Nikki felt bad that Josef was treating her differently and seemed set on avoiding her like the plague. During the weekly task, Rona instructed them to hold hands to keep from falling. Nevertheless, Josef stayed away and conversed minimally.
Two more tasks were up next. One was in honor of Mothers’ Day, where the teens composed a poem for their moms (mostly, it was Rona who dictated) within 30 minutes. They texted this to Beauty who was in the Confession Room, who in turn wrote it down on a huge card and later recited it to the guardians. Roses were also given by the teens to the ilaw ng tahanan.
Their last task was a game where they had to go into the pool, blindfolded and with only Shy’s voice to guide them as they picked golden coins that were hanging by a string above them. Before letting them wade in the pool, Kuya showed them live crabs getting poured into the pool. All the while, they thought that there were live crabs nipping at their heels, when in actuality it was only Luis with tongs. Shy, who was their guide, was in on the gag, and also acted as though there were real crabs. Beauty was first in, but she didn’t even last a minute before she scrambled back up, crying. Josef was next, but not even he was up to the challenge. All the teens took their turns and in the end, Priscilla won, with 3 gold coins. For this, she and a housemate of her choice (Rona was her pick since it was with the Positive Girl that she felt most close to, despite their recent conflict) got to go take a trip to ManilaOceanPark. Both were amazed at the sights and thoroughly enjoyed their “underwater” prize trip.
