As my eyes flutter open, and I swear I heard fairy Jacobs voice in the back of my head saying - "Don't wait until it's too late."

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The first night in Cairns is either extremely uneventful, or I've just been too caught up in that weird dream I had yesterday. Paige is taking us to the great barrier reef inner reef to do some snorkelling.

Everyone has been keeping their distance from me. They don't think I've forgiven them yet. And to be honest, I'm not sure if I have forgiven them.

Going into that weird dream really put things into perspective for me. Now I realise that everyone's life would've been so much more different then from what it is now.

"Eva!" Paige calls out, "come sit with us? The ride will be 2 hours I think."

Looking around the guide's yacht (somehow he managed to get the yacht from camp) there is nowhere else to sit. Cash and Maverick are playing fortnite in the corner with Trinity and Sebastian while Lauren is intently watching behind them.

Lauren politely asks me to play uno with them, and deals with 7 cards. The game of uno is long and fun, mostly because Lauren somehow got every plus 4 card and Paige had to take almost every card from the pile.

"HAHA UNO BITCH!" Lauren cheers, slamming her second last card onto the table.

"What the hell?" Paige flustered says, "You just got lucky!"

After that game, it's all silent and I decide to go outside and look at the rippling waves. Danielle and her friends are sun baking, and they already look extremely sunburnt. They forgot to use sunscreen.

"Danielle, you look like a lobster." I calmly remind. Danielle takes off her shades and sickly smiles at me.

"Thanks Eva! Lobsters live forever, so that was a really nice compliment!"

I scooch on over to the other side to avoid Danielle, and Paris keeps on trying to make it look like she's gonna fall off the yacht. She sticks her hands over the yacht and starts screaming about how she'll die. Mychael keeps on taking her arm away and returning it back to the yacht, but she continues to repeat and repeat.

Suddenly some grey shiny dolphins emerge from the water and start swimming along with our yacht. Paris, Zoe, Danielle and Sarah think they're sharks.

"AHHHH! THERE ARE SHARKS!" They all shriek in unison, running around frantically on deck.

"Those are dolphins," I point out.

"WE NEED A HUMAN SACRIFICE, WHO'S VOLUNTEERING?" Zoe scaringly says. She grabs Payton by the shoulders, and throws him overboard with the dolphins.

Payton's screams as he hits the water, and Sebastian gets jealous that Payton gets to swim so Sebastian jumps overboard too. His tan goes streaky, and he yells for Lauren to get him a new bottle. Then Lauren jumps overboard to give Sebastian the spray tan bottle he asked for and Danielle yeets Jacob into the water for entertainment.

"MAN OVERBOARD!" Paige shrieks.

The guide stops driving the boat and starts tutting Paige. "It's 'person overboard' Paige. #feminists. Plus we're already at our location already."

The guide throws over the snorkels to the group stuck downstairs and hands us ours. Apparently Maverick, Cash and Mychael are going to be scuba diving.

I fit on my snorkel and cannonball into the water.

"Awww!" Mychael gushes, looking down at the fishes below us. "They're so cute! I wish I brung my fishing pole!"

"No no no!" The guide counters, "you aren't allowed to fish here. Under the national protection or something. #savingfish."

"What's with all the hashtags today?" Trinity asks.

"#haters."

We swim around for a bit, and then I accidentally bump into a baby jellyfish. I almost die from fright when I remember that they're only babies. They don't sting.

"It's a jellyfish!" Danielle smartly says, "it can sting you! But I heard it's really good for your skin!"

I sigh and rub my hands on my forehead. "No Danielle, jellyfish are poisonous. They can hurt humans really badly."

"What about the jelly? I use it in my skin routines!" Paris jumps in.

"#noanimalcruelty!" The guide adds in. He's on a canoe and he's happily rowing around.

"I'm a fish!" Jacob happily adds in as he quickly swims around. He looks like he's having fun.

On the other hand, the scuba divers are checking out the seafloor and admiring the fishes and coral swimming around. Some of the corals are white. Most of them are actually. It's honestly quite sad.

"Why is the coral um... white?" Sebastian asks, "I think it needs some colour! Like my spray tan!"

"I swear to god if you actually do that I will have you arrested!" The guide roars.

"Then why is it white?"

"It's natural for coral to do that. When coral doesn't get enough nutrition, or they get stressed because of water temperature or something, they release algae they have that forms the colour on their skin. They can survive up to 10 weeks doing this process."

The guide leaves in boredom and everyone else was so focused on my explanation, no one noticed Sebastian swimming down really low and applying the spray tan onto the coral. It's orange.

"There," Sebastian gasps after coming back onto the surface. "Good as new."

"It's ugly," Lil huddy sniffs. "It needs some designer. Luckily I carry my Gucci watches wherever I go."

Lil huddy takes off his very expensive watch and throws it down onto the coral that had just been spray tanned. Lauren starts helping sebastian spray tan the coral. Soon the entire reef is orange, even the coloured ones. It's also covered in a ton of Gucci watches.

"Hey kiddos! I'm back!" The guide happily greets, "how was the reef?"

The guide's smile falters when he sees what Sebastian and lil huddy had done.

"THE ENTIRE REEF IS ORANGE AND COVERED IN GUCCI WATCHES! WHAT HAVE YOU KIDS DONE?"

"Can we leave?" Jacob suggests, "I cut myself and it hurts really badly."

Everyone turns around to see Jacob's body covered in multiple cuts, his eyes wincing everytime a small wave hits him. "I think I cut myself on the coral."

"Should we go back?" Trinity asks, "Jacob looks like he hurt himself really badly."

"Nah, he'll be okay." The guide dismisses, "let's stay here for a bit longer. I still want to explore."

"Useless guide." Lil huddy sniggers, "not that I'm complaining."

Jacob frowns, and continues to energetically swim around the area. Danielle rests on her pool floaties while Zoe and Sarah try to find some magically mud to use as Danielle's face mask. Noen and Brooke both hand in hand swim over the reef.

Jacob swims around near the ocean floor, and comes up at the surface for air every 2 minutes. I will say he's a very strong swimmer, but he keeps on touching coral and annoying the wildlife. Cash tries to get him to stop, but Jacob fights back and they start wrestling each other underwater. The guide swims down to the coral, and bubbles fly out of his mouth as he tuts the spray tan bottles casually laying on the seafloor.

Jacob emerges back to the surface, and starts whining even louder. "Can we please go? My cuts are really bad!"

"No!" Danielle annoyingly barks, "I need to wait for my mud mask to set in. Stop him, my slaves!"

Zoe and Sarah get fistfuls of water, and start trying to throw it at Jacob. Sadly this doesn't work because they don't seem to grasp the concept that water is a liquid. Not a solid.

"How does this water keep on running away?" Zoe confusingly asks, "It keeps on slipping through my hands!"

"Yeah! It's really strange!" Sarah agrees, "we might have to resort to something else. Why don't we use this?"

Sarah pulls out a stingray, holding it by it's barb. Everyone starts shrieking loudly, Paris and Danielle evacuate back to the yacht quickly as the stingray squirms around in Sarah's arm.

"PUT THAT DOWN!" The guide hollers, "I DON'T WANT A REPEAT OF WHEN YOU NEARLY DIED AT CAMP!"

"Fine," Sarah grunts, letting the stingray swim away. "I've got a baby shark, will that do Danielle?"

"O0o0o0o0h!" Danielle grins, "we could make shark fin soup!"

"It's a baby Danielle!" I cut in, "that's cruel!"

"But I heard that it makes your skin better!" Paris reasons, "I got it from Wikipedia!"

"Why would you trust wikipedia?" Noen boredly drawls, "That's unreliable."

"Guys, I really want to go now," Jacob complains, "my arms hurt a lot."

We all spin around to look at him, and sure enough, Jacob's cuts are even more severe than before. He has a couple of little cuts on almost every part of his body that were glowing red, but it wouldn't be anything too major. Not to mention, his usually tomato face was now a chilli.

"How did you get sunburnt so quickly? We've only been here for 20 minutes," Paige inquires.

"Well, you see, as a Sartorius, we have very sensitive skin." Jacob states. "Now, where's that shark?"

Sarah waves good naturedly, covered with a small bite on her arm. "So it got away."

"Sarah!" Danielle groans, "I knew I couldn't trust you with anything! Zoe, you are the new head slave now, working at $-10 an hour, Sarah, you're back to working at $-100 again."

"Wait, by $-10 an hour you mean they have to pay you?" Charli asks.

"Yeah," Danielle ignorantly sighs, "I know. I'm so nice by charging them so little."

"$10 is hardly little-"

"Shut up guide. I know you're still salty about the fact that Lil huddy bought Gucci shoes with your money, but that doesn't mean you should take it out on me! All I did with your money was buy some expensive perfumes and designer bags!"

"Wait... YOU WHAT?" The guide fumes.

"They charged $700 extra because Jacob did some minor damage to the store, but $700 is like nothing!"

"I would high five you," Lil huddy calmly says, "but no."

"Alright, we're leaving now." The guide grunts, leading us all back to the yacht.