After a fight which ended with Alice telling Nobbi, Rory and Ben she no longer had a friendship with them, the Vet wanted a fresh start. But have some of the boys' theories on Alice sunk in with Bianca?
Alice and Nobbi hit the bocce pitch and talked about arguments gone by. “Nob, are we cool?” Alice asked, as she bowled her bocce ball.
“I know we’re cool alright,” Nobbi replied, and pulled Alice in for a hug. “Don’t stress.”
“I’m not, well I am, I do,” Alice stammered. “It was hard that you headed off to Dumpville but on the flipside it gave me a chance to think as well and I do appreciate you listening to me because I don’t want it to get worse.”
Nobbi shrugged his shoulders and repeated everything between himself and Alice was just peachy, and she shouldn’t worry. Alice laughed he had been “dogged” again with his “mystery prize”.
Laughing at the memory of setting foot in the Dump for the first time, Nobbi shook his head as he swung his bocce ball. “I was so pissed off when I got there,” Nobbi recalled. “Like I never disliked you or anything, it was just like what I said before. I mean I guess I didn’t understand you is all. Overanalyzing as well, on my behalf.”
But meanwhile, in the Locker Room Bianca was telling Ben and Travis how she was guilty of her first “sugarcoat” earlier in the evening. “I did my first what do you call it? I think I did anyway, my first sugarcoating tonight,” she explained. “Conscious sugarcoating.”
“Who with?” Travis enquired.
“Alice,” Bianca replied. “When she was talking about Nobs, I couldn’t say it because the look on her face was devastation.”
“Did she ask you if you think she’s fake?” Ben asked quickly.
The Italian Princess confirmed she was beginning to believe Alice was a little more strategic than she let on, but was adamant she’s not “fake” or “untrustworthy”.
Ben nodded emphatically in agreement, while Travis was backing Team Alice all the way. “I don’t think so at all,” Travis argued.
Yeah Ben agreed
“But I did sugarcoat,” Bianca admitted, guilty of what’s considered the BB House’s most severe crime. “And I will talk to her in the next few days when she’s not so upset.”
But Alice wasn’t done with her task of making amends for the evening – and while preparing for bed in the Locker Room, she broached the issue with Ben.
“I still don’t know where all of Thursday came from,” Alice began. “But I said to Nobbi it’s probably great you guys went to the dump or away.”
Ben turned to look at Alice. “To help you chill?” he prodded.
“To think about what was said, because it was such a big fight,” Alice replied. “By no means am I questioning things about you, it’s more like I don’t know if you enjoy my company. I’m not angry, I’m not upset I just don’t know where I stand with me as a friend.”
Ben explained he’d simply responded as an “overprotective” friend to Travis in telling him Alice had named him as her least liked HM. Alice listened carefully, and added she was still unsure as to where she stood with the Kombi boys – friend or foe?
“I’m not going to stand here and say ‘Let’s be best friends’ if it’s a shocking thing and our personalities just won’t,” Alice said. “It’s just more of a self conscious thing.”
Head Boy Ben acknowledged Alice had never personally slighted him, even though they were never going to be closest inside the House. “You’ve always been good to me and that’s all that matters in terms of us getting along,” he told a relieved Alice. “I know we’re not the closest people in the House, like I do like you and you are nice to me and I appreciate that. I have no issue with you whatsoever.”
With the situation confirmed to be “cool”, the tempestuous trio – Alice, Nobbi and Ben – appear to have repaired shattered bridges. But will it last?
