I know this time Payton doesn't have a bet or anything. So, if Eva wants to be with Payton - I'll be happy for her.

But as long as she isn't with me, I won't ever be truly happy.

So I get up, clutching the box with the ring inside - going to find Paris.

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Eva Trend POV

Mychael proposed to Paris, and Paris said yes.

There's a pit of sadness in my heart that I can't get rid of. I feel like ever since Mychael announced their engagement, I've been stabbed a million times in the heart; slowly bleeding out every second I continue on with my life.

The night it was announced, I had run off to the bathroom and locked myself inside. I cried, for a really long time. I only had Lauren and Noen to comfort me.

I'm just glad that I have friends that are comforting.

They had left to go back to dinner though. It was getting a bit suspicious. They told everyone else that I wasn't feeling well, and that I would be resting in the hotel room.

I've finally come to terms with the fact that I still like my ex boyfriend. My ex who's marrying my sister. For god's sake, dream Jacob was right. I'm too late, and Mychaelade is going to stay with Paris for the rest of his life. I can't go back in time and tell Mychael how much I love him.

Right now the guide is driving us to the Daintree rainforest, and everyone is chatting about their wedding. Maverick is sulking in the corner quietly talking about how much he shipped Meva, and Danielle is giving Paris the stink eye for taking all the attention away from her. Jacob is glaring at me, as if he knew what he had said in his dream or whatever.

"Eva," Jacob says quietly. "How dare you."

"What do you mean?" I ask, looking at him strangely.

"YOU DESTROYED MY CHANCE AT BEING BEST MAN!" He cried, tears rolling down his cheeks.

Was Jacob really in my dream? Wait, was he?

"How did you know about my dream Jacob?" I accusingly said.

Jacob looked at me before looking at the ground. "I know everything you dream about. Including the time that you were putting down a dog that actually turned out to be Paris-"

How the hell did he know that? Anyways, I cover his mouth and I whisper scream at him to stop. He complies and goes back to designing new ugly orange sweatshirts, and I'm back to crying inside my head about Mychael and Paris.

I wish that the tiktok trend about being able to see the same colour as your soulmate or being able to write to your soulmate was true. Because I could really use it in a situation like this. But to be fair, I don't think that anyone would have Paris' colour.

"Right o," The guide says into his microphone. "As you can see, we are approaching the Daintree rainforest. We will go into compartments as we travel across. Who's excited?"

"Me!" Jacob squeals, "koalas!"

No one has the heart or energy to tell Jacob that koalas don't live in rainforests.

We all pile out of the van and wait in line as the guide buys our tickets. It takes a moment, mostly because Jacob decides that it's the perfect time to have another fit, and ends up splashing cold water onto an innocent bystander.

"Oh, it's you again," Louise boredly drawls. We all do a double take, and stare at her.

"What are you doing here!?" Maverick screams, "are you following us?"

"Don't give yourself so much credit," she coldly sneers. "I've got family in cairns, I'm just visiting them."

The guide comes back with our tickets, and they fly out of his hands when he sees Louise.

"Maverick, do you have a girlfriend now?"

"No-"

The guide gushes, and goes to hug Maverick. "I'm so happy! You've been a single pringle for so long I was starting to think that you were a lost cause-"

"I've had girlfriends before," Maverick grunts under his breath.

"Well obviously you were dumped because you weren't good enough-"

"For your information, I was the one who dumped them-"

"Don't worry," the guide grins, "I'll keep your secret."

"You do realise that you've basically yelled out the fact that Maverick is hopeless at love to everyone... right?" Cash smiles in amusant.

"I'm not hopeless at love!"

"Don't worry," Sebastian exclaims, "we have a strict cone of silence!"

Louise sighs. "Y'all weird." And then she walks away to her group of friends.

The guide is on cloud 9, jumping around Maverick chanting subtly underneath his breath, "Maverick's got a girlfriend, maverick's got a girlfriend!" He finally stops after Lil huddy threatens to punch him in the stomach for the 6th time, and Paige hands out all of our tickets to us.

It turns out that I was sorted into the same carriage as Payton, the guide and Maverick. On the way up the mountain, the guide spends a good amount of time on embarrassing Maverick and talking about his wedding. And then Maverick accusingly glares at me and rants about how he was disappointed that Mychael and I weren't the ones getting married. And then the guide muffles him with his bare hands, and Maverick spends the rest of the ride trying to get out of the guide's grip.

"I used to be a professional wrestler," the guide grins.

"I thought you were a drag queen," Maverick manages to stutter out before he is muffled by the guide's hands again. The guide beams as Maverick stops moving, and becomes a dead fish.

Our carriage has a couple of jerks, and once we finally almost get to the end, the guide tries to wake up Maverick. He doesn't respond, and that's when we all start panicking. The guide throws his spare water onto Maverick, and he still doesn't wake up.

When the doors open, the guide drags Maverick out of the compartment, and the staff members call a doctor. Payton starts doing CPR, and already after 2 seconds, Maverick wakes back up and rambles on about how much his ribcage hurts.

"You were faking it the whole time?!" I screeched.

"I panicked, okay?" Maverick said, "I thought if I pretended to pass out then the guide would let me go."

The doctor comes rushing into our area, and gets a defibrillator, ready to shock Maverick. Maverick starts crying as the doctor chases him around with the machine. They get a couple of laps in before the doctor finally catches up with Maverick, tackles him, and goes to press down the pads onto his chest.

"I HAVE A FEAR OF DEFIBRILLATORS!" Maverick screams.

"I gotta resuscitate you!" The doctor yells back.

"Hasn't he already been resuscitated?" Paige squeaks.

"Oh," the doctor realises. "Ohhh, yeah, sorry about that."

"How are you even qualified?" Brooke says in disbelief.

"I am way more qualified then you guys," the doctor sniffs, "I got my degree from a 2 week medical course online!"

And with that, the doctor leaves.

"I swear, the weirdest stuff happens to us," Trinity whispers under her breath.

Maverick picks himself up from the ground, and we start walking along the nature trail. They had a couple of instagram boards lying around, and we all took turns taking pictures with them (mostly Danielle and Paris). Sarah spends hours taking the 'perfect' picture for Danielle. I wonder why Sarah didn't become a photographer instead.

We get back into the carriages, and Paige has a good idea to separate the guide and Maverick. We travel across the huge rainforest, all of us gaping at the waterfalls that flow out from the mountains. When we get off, Jacob says that one day he'll jump off a cliff and swim into the waterfall while passing by the park's security. The security guy dispatches a bunch of guards to guard all the waterfalls, and asks Jacob to come with him for suspicious behaviour. He gets released 5 minutes later with a lollipop in hand, leaving a room with the security dude crying.

None of us ask why he's crying. I'm pretty sure everyone already knows. Jacob probably sang his song, 'sweatshirt' and the security man's poor ears couldn't take it.

We walk along the trail, and finally stop at a small shopping area. Danielle, Jacob, Sarah and I all trail off towards a jewelry store where Danielle starts looking at the rings on the stand. I see a familiar looking ring, then look in Paris' direction and realise that one of the rings on the stand was identical.

"This looks just like Paris' engagement ring," Danielle realises. She plucks the ring off the stand, and examines it closely. "This ring is so ugly."

Danielle isn't wrong. The ring is an ugly crystal green, and it's also been adorned by a lot of colours. Her ring just looks... Really busy. I have no idea who picked it out, or designed it, because whoever did has serious taste problems. Paris seems to love it though, she thinks green is her signature colour, along with all of the colours of the rainbow.

"Danielle, do you want me to buy you this ring?" Jacob asks, snatching the ugly ring from Danielle's hands. The store owner shoots a little glare at Jacob, and tells him to be careful with it. Jacob fits the ring onto Danielle's ring finger.

"It's so ugly!" Danielle scowls, "I hate this."

Danielle attempts to remove the ugly ring from her finger, but it doesn't slide off. Jacob looks at the ring weirdly, and tries to pull it off. He struggles, but it doesn't come off. Danielle tries to help, but the ring's practically been glued to her finger.

"Is the ring stuck?" The store owner asked, "it's okay I've got some soap. I'll get it off."

The store owner slathers on some soap, and attempts to take the ring off. It turns out that the soap didn't help at all. Danielle's fingers are too fat. We all sigh, and Jacob chucks over a 50$ bill.