Despite her protests against still having feelings for a disinterested Michael, Zoe’s lovelorn obsession continues apace. Zoe tormented herself all day with a stream of angst about Michael and Estelle’s growing affection, before demanding a dodgy evening cud-cud from the man in question.
Zoe started the day on a bad foot, awaking from rage dreams about the girl who’s caught the eye of her dream man.
“I did not sleep well last night,” she grumbled to Layla and Benjamin in bed. “I kept waking up in fits of rage, shaking and stuff. There’s something wrong with me, I don’t know. Must have been the sugar high or something,” she reflected in a post-Halloween haze.
After a pause, however, the real story came out. “This sounds really stupid, but I was like, I was terrified Estelle had stayed in bed with Michael,” she confessed. “And I kept waking up and looking over and I couldn’t work out where she was.”
Layla and Benjamin attempted to comfort her, but the latter only made it worse when he mentioned Estelle had first hopped into bed with Michael some nights ago.
“Why does he let Estelle cuddle him and stuff?” a puzzled Zoe asked the room, labouring under the impression that the romance was one-sided.
“I thought I was noticing things other people weren’t. And I was like, ‘No, I think she is truly dead-set keen on Michael’.”
“She is,” Benjamin and Layla chimed in unison.
A bitter Zoe declared, “That has, for me, put the cherry on top of the cake.” Meanwhile Estelle and Michael were sharing a shower, in what – considering their secret kiss the night before – was a pretty awkward silence. When Zoe wandered into the Bathroom in search of hot water she was forced to share the shower with the maybe-couple. She stood as far from them as possible, a pensive frown on her face as she cast a couple of longing looks in their direction.
But she clearly couldn’t get their growing closeness off her mind, later confessing to Layla, “I’m not angry or furious anymore. I’m just actually genuinely really disappointed.”
Zoe was quick to insist she saw Michael as a good friend only, and was more disappointed that despite Estelle professing a deep regard for Zoe’s friendship, she had done something a mate shouldn’t.
“I know there was nothing ever going to happen with Michael and I don’t expect it to,” Zoe was adamant. “But I’m actually hurt that she would go behind my back and hook up with Michael if she could. She tried. That really upsets me. Am I out of line to be thinking that?”
Layla assured her that she wasn’t out of line at all.
“I feel just embarrassed, I feel stupid,” Zoe confessed.
“That’s pretty much the biggest knife you could put in my back as a mate.”
But if Zoe had put Michael firmly in the friend-zone, she sure had a funny way of showing it. Later that night in the Captains Quarters, she demanded a cuddle from her erstwhile love interest. While cud-cuds are often purely platonic in the BB House, this one was followed up by a salacious squeeze as Zoe smothered Michael.
When Michael groaned in protest she quickly assured him she was “only joking”.
“You’re my mate, Michael, don’t worry about it. I promise I won’t break up you and Estelle,” she murmured, in an unprovoked and slightly awkward admission.
While the moment passed with the presence of Layla and Benjamin to ease any weirdness, Zoe went in full-tilt once again about an hour later. In this one last stab, the man elected not to react. At all.
Which is just as well, since Zoe’s not good with rejection. She earlier confessed to Benjamin she wasn’t sure she would cope if Michael actually hooked up with Estelle Benjamin was adamant it wouldn’t happen, but Zoe pressed, “How do you know she’s not gonna crawl in [his bed] every night for the next seven nights?”
“How could he do that?” Benjamin protested. “It’s so two-faced. He’s been so nasty about her the whole way through show, he can’t afford to now hook up with her.”
“Treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen, baby,” Zoe theorised. “Hate’s the first sign of love.”
If that’s true, Zoe must really love Estelle right now. Whether Zoe still loves Michael, or is really ‘just friends’, it’s clear he’s just not that into her. It remains to be seen, therefore, if Zoe will let go of her anger like a bird released, or go full bunny boiler on the unsuspecting pair. Stay tuned to find out.
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