I Call Your Bluff

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Young teenage girls ran home in sync on this particular Tuesday, fighting for seats on the bus and pushing each other out of their way. Young teenage girls all over the country barged through their front door and turned their televisions on, just in time to see the intro cards of what was probably the most popular TV game show in the world. I Call Your Bluff was coming to an end.

Eighteen year old Rebecca sat with her best friend, Chloe, a bowl of popcorn shared between them as the main host of the show, Emma Waterrun, strolled onto screen with pink confetti exploding around her. Emma Waterrun was dreamy as all hell. She rose men's standards so high, it was impossible to reach them. She had raven hair, the bottom of it faded into a pretty light red. She had green eyes with specks of brown in them, only noticed if you looked close enough.

Emma Waterrun was a tall woman, who rocked every outfit. She was a basic weight. Her hair stretched just above her waist, and she was always seen on red carpets with a different hairstyle every time. She usually wore heels higher than some people's hopes for their future. In Rebecca's school, she was the most crushed on woman there.

I Call Your Bluff was Emma Waterrun's genius idea. First, a man was chosen to win twenty million dollars. Then, six woman competitors would come on and compete for his love. To win him, they have to tell two truths and two lies. It's the man's job to take all six girls out on dates and get to know them.

Then, on the season finale, he picked the one he likes best and guesses the lies. If he gets them right, he wins twenty million dollars. If he gets it wrong, the money is split between the six girls. The audience knows the truths and lies already. There are fourteen episodes, one introduction, enough for the girls to go on two dates and the season finale.

The show was popular for Emma Waterrun's charisma and for the behind the scenes episodes, where Waterrun, the contestants and the filming crew are filmed doing funny and normal things, like jamming out to something on the charts or making fun of each other jokingly. It had been running for four seasons now, and according to the director, a rather undesirable yet glamorous old lady named Brenda Sora, a surprise was planned for the fifth season that even Emma Waterrun didn't know about.

It was Rebecca and Chloe's favourite show, and they couldn't wait to find out who this seasons dreamboat, some really muscular guy named Owen, was going to choose.

"I think he'll get with Halley," Chloe said with a mushy handful of dissolved popcorn in her mouth. Chloe was Korean, and quite wanted Halley to win as she was supposed to be the funniest of the bunch.

"I hope Becky wins," Rebecca, on the other hand, had been rooting for sassy Becky ever since she found out they had the same name.

Jason was conversing with Emma Waterrun, both fulfilling every guy, girl's and whatever else was out there's dream.

"You know, we should audition for the next season." Chloe said, swallowing her popcorn and grabbing another salty handful. "Since they're hosting it soon. Who knows, we might get a chance to not be forever alone."

"You're the one who'll be forever alone." A smile tugged at Rebecca's lips as she thought of the next sentence, "especially when puberty hits you, you'll look even worse."

Chloe slapped Rebecca a bit too hard on the shoulder, but laughed anyway. She was staring at the screen. "He's about to choose."

But first, Emma Waterrun ran through the women and what had happened over the last fourteen weeks, so Rebecca and Chloe continued talking.

"I bet he'll guess one of the lies wrong, but get the hardest to guess right." Chloe predicted, "like for Halley. He'll say she has a dog even though she's allergic, and he'll manage to guess that she works as a dentist was the lie."

Rebecca nodded, "and for Becky, who is the dentist, he'll say that she's a virgin, even though she told him specifically she lost it when she was fourteen."

They both sat in tension-filled silence as Jason went to pick his potential future girlfriend.

"So how that we've gone through all the contestants, which one would you like to k ow the truth about?" Emma Waterrun said from the television screen.

Jason pretended to think about it, although he'd obviously already picked one. "Well, Halley's a bit too weird to be my type."

Halley looked so offended as the pink light illuminated her went dark blue. Eliminated.

Chloe stood up and pretended to leave, walking into the kitchen, but poking her head past the door frame to continue watching.

"Rebecca's a bit nasty, to be honest." The light went down on Becky. Rebecca's mouth dropped. Chloe dropped the bowl of popcorn, which she had carried away with her. Unpopped kernels went everywhere, as did the remaining popcorns nobody had eaten.

"She's not nasty," Rebecca complained as a piece of popcorn rolled up next to her ass, offended for her name twin. "She's just misunderstood."

In the end, he managed to get both lies wrong, so twenty million pounds was divided between the six girls. The person he chose was the oldest one, who really was nasty to the other girls but was really nice to Jason.

"So should we audition?" Rebecca asked.

Chloe shook her head, sitting back down next to Rebecca and shoving her a bit. "And spoil the surprise for the next season?" She scoffed, a smile spreading on her face. "Over my dead body."