Brazen Girl by Ali Dean Page 0,56
lean into him and pat his knee.
It isn’t nearly as painful as I expect it to be. Half the show is about who is hooking up with who, and the other half is about the skateboarding competition. There’s some overlap, playing off emotions in the competition based on the latest hook-up situation, but that’s the gist of it. It’s definitely not something I’d normally watch, even with the skateboarding scenes, but from an objective standpoint I guess I can see the addictive nature of all the drama. It’s just kind of sad there’s not more about skateboarding culture. As people get kicked out on each episode, the focus on each individual’s background and their feelings about skateboarding are explored a little deeper, which is a slight improvement.
Beck orders pizza at some point and it arrives as the fifth episode is ending. My eyes are starting to hurt after over three hours of watching the screen.
“What do you think?” Beck asks for the hundredth time.
I finally relent and address what he really wants to know. “So, you walked in on Bikini Girl and Tariq?”
He cringes. “Yeah.”
“I thought that scene the next day was funny, where she asked what you thought about seeing her getting banged.”
“I wasn’t trying to be funny.”
I try to imitate Bikini Girl’s seductive voice: “What’d you think about watching me get fucked, Beck?” Then I switch to Beck’s matter of fact tone. “All I can think about is whether you washed the counter afterward. I ordered Lysol wipes. They should arrive tomorrow. I’ll be wiping the counters down before I eat every time.”
Beck shakes his head. “It had to be the first week too. So, every time I ate for the next ten weeks I had that in the back of my mind.” He shudders.
“I didn’t really expect Sarah Kase to put herself out there as much as she did. She kind of embarrassed herself, and she’s got more to lose than most on the show.”
“I was surprised too. But those two times they showed were really it. I guess she thought I’d go for it, that we’d both be the finalists and everyone would eat it up.”
Sarah came onto him once that first night after he saw Bikini Girl and Tariq and was escaping back to his room. Then in the third episode she got a little tipsy and threw herself at him in the hot tub. She might have even gotten a partial kiss, but Beck maneuvered himself right on outta there.
“I guess if they’d cut you off right before you escaped the hot tub it could have looked like you really got it on, but Beck, anyone looking at your expression could tell you weren’t into it.”
“Really? Yeah, I guess. Well, their angle all along apparently was to make it seem like I was having an affair with Camila, so there was a reason they showed my expression with Sarah and then me moving her off of me.”
“That hot tub saw a lot of action. We definitely need to get that thing deep cleaned and sanitized if we’re ever gonna use it.”
“I didn’t go in there again after Sarah accosted me.”
“You said someone else straddled you?”
“That was Camila. I was sitting on the back deck watching Moses skate when she just came right up to me out of nowhere and sat on my lap and started stroking my head. It was weird as hell.”
“When do they show that one?”
“Next episode.”
“What did you do?”
“I stood up and she fell to the ground. And then I felt like a dick so I helped her up. But they don’t show that part.”
“Man Beck, you got put through the wringer. I’m sorry.” I feel really bad actually.
“Knowing you were talking to me and getting to text or call you regularly kind of saved me. That and skating at that park every day.”
“The park is pretty sick. The pool too. But we’re getting the pool sanitized before I ever go in there too.”
“We need to get that entire place sanitized,” Beck says.
“I still don’t get how Camila makes it to the finals. Lennon and Sarah are so much better than her. Actually all the girls left on the show now are better than her.”
“Griff’s convinced it was rigged after watching the season finale.”
He’s joking but anything is possible.
“You really want to watch five more episodes tonight?”
“No, I really don’t. I didn’t want to watch any. But I feel like if you could endure ten weeks of filming, I can do