rookie - chris "ct" tamburello

chapter nine

When it was time to start the challenge, I put both my hands on one side of the pole while Morgan put hers on the other side. I had played basketball from middle school through college, and was a D-1 athlete. I knew I could try to put it in a triple threat position and just swing my elbows until she let go. I figured that's what I would do, I didn't have any better ideas.

"Alright guys, first to two points, wins, ready, set go," as soon as he blew the air horn, I was thrashing my arms. Morgan had a great grip, but no more than ten seconds later, she was on the ground. I kept thrashing my arms trying to get the pole away from her, and I heard CT's voice in the background.

"Yeah Katie, that's what I'm talking about keep going!" That's pretty much the only push I needed, and with one last pull, I had the pole taken away from her.

"Yeah good job babygirl," I heard CT yell. I didn't realize while we were playing, but I guess I had hit myself in the mouth, because when I went to take out my mouth guard, there was a little bit of blood in it, nothing too bad though, I knew I had to get through this second round.

"Hey, you put up really great effort that round," I told Morgan with a serious tone.

"Thanks, you're definitely going to be hard to beat," I wasn't positive, but I was pretty sure she had mentally checked out at this point, and I felt like she wasn't really going to put forward effort.

"Don't give up okay, if you're gonna go down, go down fighting," then I saw a little bit of fire come to life in her eyes, and I knew she was ready.

"Alright, Katie if you win this one, you will be staying in the game, Morgan you need to win this one to stay in the game," he paused, "alright, ready, set, go!"

Time almost felt like it was going in slow motion. I pulled as hard a I could, and I actually pulled her all the way to the ground. That was never a good place to be. I couldn't even hear what the crowd was saying, it all sounded like buzzing. All I was focused on was pulling off this win for both CT and I. I was pulling her off the ground, slamming her back into it, until finally you could tell she had enough. Her body was exhausted. She lost her grip. The pole was in my hands. I had just won my first elimination. That was crazy. Then reality kicked in.

"Yeah that's my partner!" CT yelled, "you're getting good sex tonight!" that made me blush a little, but I just rolled my eyes at him.

I dropped the pole and went over to help up Morgan. As soon as she got up, I hugged her, and whispered into her ear, "You did so good tonight, and I'm sorry that it just wasn't your night. You were really good competition though."

"Thanks," she whispered back, "win this one, for the rookies," I heard her voice cracking and I felt bad for her. I really didn't want her to go home.

We went back over to TJ, "That was a really good elimination girls, probably one of the best first eliminations I've ever seen," that made me smile a little,"Katie, congratulations, you won tonight and you will be going back to the house," he turned back towards Morgan, "Sadly Morgan, tonight wasn't your night, so this ends your time here on the challenge, but I'm sure we'll see you soon."

"Thank you TJ, bye guys," Morgan waved bye to everyone and I returned it.

"Bye Morgan!" I smiled at her sincerely as she walked out.

As soon as she walked out of our sight, TJ started talking again, "Katie, I am amazed with your performance tonight, that's definitely one of the best eliminations I've ever seen."

I giggled a little and smiled, "Thank you TJ," I kept smiling.

"I think you've definently proved yourself tonight, and I think you definitely deserve to go back to the house," he smiled at me.

"Thank you TJ," I smiled again.

"Alright, now everyone get back to the house, I'm sure I'll see you soon."

"Bye Teej," everyone said at the pretty much same time. TJ didn't answer them, he seemed to do that a lot.

When we were dismissed, CT came running down to me, and he picked me up and hugged me again. I hugged back, again one of the most comforting feelings in the world.

He dropped me slowly and kissed my forehead, "I'm so proud of you for the way you performed tonight. That's better than even what I have done."

I rolled my eyes at him, "Yeah, whatever remember that one elimination with Bananas, the whole backpack thing."

"Well yeah, but that was against Bananas, he can't do shit," that made me laugh.

I turned around again, and Ninja was there, "Girl, that was so good, I'm so proud of you for pulling that one off," she smiled.

"Thanks, it was definitely very hard," I laughed a little bit.

Everyone was congratulating me, and eventually we walked back to the house together. On the way over to the house, Cara came by.

"Hey, that was a really good performance today, I was actually really suprised by they way you performed tonight," she smiled at me.

"Thank you so much Cara," I smiled back at her.

Authors Note: Hey thank you for the read! I really hope that you enjoyed this one. Since I posted two chapters in a day, I might not post one tomorrow, I'm not sure yet tho. I might add a little bit of spice to the next chapter just to change it up. Also thank you for all of the views and everything!!