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mimi martínez. "24". cosmetic saleswoman from vegas, baby. not here for seasonal girlfriends. hunting for a lover who'll kiss the ground she walks on. written by nora, she/her, 26. i follow from drugstoreglitter.

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#SINCEDAYONE.

                  MIMI MARTÍNEZ ( cis-female, she / her, alexa demie ) is TWENTY-SEVEN (but has told the show she’s twenty-four) and a COSMETIC SALESWOMAN FOR A MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING SCHEME  from LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. they are known as THE DRAMA QUEEN because they are TENACIOUS, but if things kick off, they can be a bit EXPLOSIVE. they’re PANSEXUAL and describe their type as TALL, DARK AND CUNTSTRUCK from their time in the villa, they’re hoping to find FAME. (   acrylic nails tapping against a heavily embellished iphone, translucent stripper heels with barbie doll heads in the heel, wearing a dress bought by your sugar daddy to sunday morning mass.  )    [ pinterest ]

stats.

NAME: Emilia Rosa María Martínez. NICKNAMES:  Mimi. AGE:   twenty-seven. (says she’s twenty-four) GENDER & PRONOUNS: cis woman, she/her. OCCUPATION:  sells cosmetics for a multi-level marketing scheme (kerri in this country in her pyramid scheme power suit JSDGHKJGS), but is determined to become an actress, or at the very least an influencer. ARCHETYPES:  the attention whore, the insta-famous, the future trophy wife, the femme fatale, the homewrecker, the gold-digger. ZODIAC: gemini sun, virgo moon, scorpio rising. RESIDENCY: las vegas. originally from boulder city. TATTOOS: ‘lucky you’ on her hip bone (tacky, but she got it at 16 when it seemed pretty renegade). ‘work bitch’ along her index finger

aesthetics.

von dutch. a strappy cami top that says ‘please do not do coke in the bathroom’. low-waisted jeans that show off your belly button piercing. acrylic nails tapping against a heavily embellished second-hand dell laptop. heart shaped sunglasses in every colour. translucent stripper heels with barbie doll heads and plastic spiders in the heel. spraying champagne you can’t afford all over the walls. still talking about your tenth grade performance as anita in west side story, narcotics in a heart shaped locket. an amazon wishlist full of lingerie linked on your tinder profile. wearing a dress bought by your sugar daddy to morning mass.  sex tapes recorded on VCR. a religious devotion to waxing clinics. necking shots like you were born to do it.  a weeping virgin mary statue above the kitchen sink.

character references.

Gabrielle Solis (Desperate Housewives), Ruby (Sex Education), Fatin (The Wilds),  Jennifer (Jennifer’s Body),  Bianca (10 Things I Hate About You), Beth (Dare Me), Ekin-Su (Love Island, 2022), Megan (Love Island, 2018) Frankie (Too Hot To Handle), Olivia Atwood (Love Island, Getting Filthy Rich),  Stefani (Zola),  Alice (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies)

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PLAYED BY:      nora, 26, gmt, she/her.     DISCORD:    i fort u was diffrunt jawja#8664

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Pearl — 2022, dir. Ti West

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𝐦𝐢𝐦𝐢 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭í𝐧𝐞𝐳    ;     ʙᴇᴀᴄʜ ʜᴜᴛ ᴄᴏɴꜰᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴᴀʟꜱ  #6 !

the past few days have been pretty crazy. is there anything that really surprised you?

      “ yes !  it's literally been the most insane week.  luke went home ? ”  at the start of the week, that had felt the most paramount, but then everything around it kind of overshadowed it. she hasn’t really had a chance to mourn the loss yet. not that he’s dead, just that things in here move so fast, if you don’t find someone new you’ll end up the same way, a packed suitcase and a one-way flight back to beg for the dead-end job you’d abandoned to come out here in the first place.  “ there was that dares game. i gave maddox a lap dance, made out with naomi, argued with rhys, made out with dylan of all people, seb got his dick out and i finally had sex ! ”  it sounds exhausting when she puts it like that. maybe that’s why she feels so all-over-the-place as of late.  “ feel like akon. i want to thank luke for giving me the opportunity, and maddox, for his unfaltering tenacity and commitment to doing a thorough job. ”  it’s probably in poor taste to thank luke for fucking up enought that she didn’t feel bad about fucking someone else, but whatever. no one’s married. and besides,  mimi’s not above fucking a married man if it gets her a dolce and gabbana hand bag. 

do you know who you want to pick in the recoupling/who you hope will pick you?

      “ honestly, maddox and i have already had a conversation and i know we want to pick each other, but i'm pretty sure jenny's planning on fucking things up and snatching him away with her greedy little claws. ”  if jenny knew what was good for her, she’d stay out of mimi’s way. she’s already sick of being compared to her. you’ll like her, you’ve got similar energy. apparently similar taste in men, too, and similar taste in pissing naomi off, which only makes her dislike the other girl more.  “ honestly, i kinda wish josh had just been a good sport and bonked her when she asked, that way naomi would be at risk and not me. and her dad can probably afford to just like, throw a load of money at the producers so she stays. my family are from boulder city. literally the only things anyone knows about boulder city is that it has the hoover dam, and emma stone's character was desperate to get away from it in la la land. ”

what conversations do you need to have before tonight?

       “ i think i’ve done all the conversations i need to have. it’s not like i’m naomi with three different guys willing to sack off their partner for a dip in the hot tub with me. my only option right now is maddox. ”  it’s not that she’s shut herself off in some weird attempt to commit, she just can’t afford to act like jenny. she’s been here since day one. everyone in this villa is so intimately connected that to push one part pushes all the others out of sync. it’s not like she’s suddenly going to try and cop off with marcus, or make things with josh work again. there are loyalties at stake. bombshells can’t understand that.  “ obviously i want to talk to jenny and tell her to back the fuck off and choose another man, but like. she avoids me like the plague. i’m pretty sure she’s scared of me. and he’s not really my man in the first place, so coming across all clingy and possessive is a bit much. ” not that it had stopped her after one day with josh, but she’s learning from past mistakes. had she not become so defensive and jealous, maybe he’d have picked her instead. it hardly matters now. 

which islanders do you think are in danger of being sent home?

      mimi’s silent for a moment, eyes pricking. dylan can accuse her of being a victim all he wants, but this time she actually feels like one, right down to her core.  “ i feel like it’s me. ” understatement of the year. all day she’s been on the receiving end of sympathetic smiles. they might as well offer to help her pack her bags.  “ i do feel like i’m going tonight which is shit because... i don’t know, i’ve just had the worst luck in here. like how come everyone else gets that opportunity to find something genuine and i don’t. josh didn’t want me, luke kept fucking up on purpose so he wouldn’t have to break things off with me, maddox only wants to fuck me and like... i don’t know his face goes weird if i ask him like his star sign or whatever. ”  despite promising herself before she came in she wouldn’t cry, her voice is hoarse, breath ragged, face wet with something she refuses to acknowledge. for fuck sake. this is probably the last time she’ll be in the beach hut, and now she’s gone and ruined her make up.  “ i just want someone to like just me, you know ? is that too much to ask ? ”  snotty and ugly, she waits until the camera assistant hands her a tissue and offers him a watery smile. “ i guess i just really don’t want to go home. ” 

which person would devastate you the most if they left tonight? is there islander that you want to leave/wouldn’t mind if they were gone?

    staring down the barrel of the lens, mimi throws her hands up in the air with disdain. “ me !? i’d be the most devastated if i left tonight ? was that not obvious ? ”  she’s pretty sure she’s freaking out the camera guy at this point, so mimi attempts to reign the angry tears in and returns her attention to the producer, zoomed in from a hotel somewhere, whose asking her the questions.  “ and i guess i’d be a bit sad if naomi left.  like, sure we fight. but it’d be so boring if she wasn’t here. ”   as for people she doesn’t mind leaving...   “ jenny can go home. ”   this thought brings her enough solace that when she wipes her eyes, the tears stop coming, mascara smeared as she smiles. “ she only just got here so her ticket’s probably valid for a discounted round-trip straight back to new jersey. what’s that thing they say on twitter ?  bye, felicia ! ” 

who do you think has the most solid connection?

    “ honestly ?  seb and liam. ”  it’s probably not the answer they’re expecting, and she’s not even sure she believes it herself, but she’s pretty sure everyone’s flapping their lips about how great romi and marcus are, and while yeah, they’re cute, banging on about their solid connection isn’t going to do her any favours. not if she wants to survive the night and make it to the grand finale.  “...and not to take the credit, but i feel like i helped that to happen. since they did those sex positions at the party they’ve basically been inseparable. ”  

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JENNY.

‘so if it’s josh you want, you don’t have to worry about me.’ it’s more than vaguely threatening, a reminder that she’s stepping on toes (stomping on feet, really) either way. josh makes more sense in that regard. she swooped into the villa to save him, so any continued destruction of his relationship with naomi shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. especially given the couple’s ‘understanding.’ josh all but invited her to intervene, outright asking for naomi’s permission to get to know her. but it’s messy now, her ego thoroughly bruised after their stolen moment the terrace. she knows how desperate it’ll look, and while josh hardly comes out the knight in shining armor, she looks like a snake—telling naomi not to worry just a few hours before jumping on josh first chance she got. she may get first pick, but josh comes out looking like the one in control. like he’d pushed her away and that’s why she isn’t choosing him when really she hadn’t been leaning toward coupling with him in the first place. she’s entirely convinced pairing with josh would kill all their sexual tension. sure, she’d have more time to work her magic in a shared bed, but it’d reframe naomi as the irresistible covert misadventure she’s trying to be. everyone wants what they can’t have whether they’re willing to admit it or not. 

but choosing maddox comes with its own set of drawbacks as well, all in the form of the girl standing in front of her. they’re hardly besties but mimi reminds her of her friends on the outside. they’re cut from a similar cloth and she really doesn’t want to hurt the only girl she’s gotten close with all because she stupidly wasted all her time grafting the most loyal man in the world, apparently. she’s fucked people in way longer relationships who’d given in way easier without even the excuse of being on a reality show that encourages infidelity. they just wanted her, and she knows josh does too. it’s infuriating and mortifying that he turned her down and, to add insult to injury, she’s now being forced to listen to mimi rehash her incredible sexcapade, per jenny’s own idiotic fucking request, when she can’t even manage a kiss back. it wouldn’t shock her if her face is actually turning green. “mimi, don’t even tell me that. i swear to god like, if i don’t get railed soon—like, really fucking soon—i might just leave, not even joking.” exaggerating a little though, maybe. it’s not just about her overactive sex drive. sure, she’s horny as hell, but she’s definitely had longer dry spells. it’s about having solid, tangible proof that she’s wanted here. that whether or not she’s someone’s number once choice, they enjoy her enough to at least give her that. fuck josh, honestly. and fuck naomi for getting him first. and fuck mimi too. she can feel the insecurity creeping in and grabbing her by the throat while that familiar desperation for control begins its clawing. it’s a familiar sort of internal chaos, the type known to precede decisions that don’t really feel like decisions until she’s left facing the consequences. “is it too early for a drink?” 

       like an expectant puppy, mimi’s waiting with a stupid little grin on her face for jenny to laugh at her joke. she almost says it again when the other doesn’t immediately respond — “did you hear that, jenny? i said he went down on me for so long it was like he’d evolved gills!” — but she holds her tongue, and she’s grateful she does because jenny’s response is anything but celebratory.  “ don’t be jealous, jenny. you asked ! ”  comes mimi’s slightly defeatist response. she turns her attention back to her preening, slides the file along the edge of her left-hand index-finger nail, smoothing it into a sharp little point.  “ i get it, girl. like i sympathise.  i was coupled up with both josh and luke before anyone would bone me, but then maddox came in and third time lucky. you’ll get there.”  just not with him, she silently adds, willing it into existence. if jenny made a move, whose to say maddox would refuse her ? in all likelihood, he wouldn’t. being at  ‘ the top of someone’s list ’ didn’t mean they wouldn’t fuck someone else if given half a chance, and considering they’re not even coupled up, would he even have the decency to tell her ?   would jenny ?   if jenny picks maddox and he sees things with her through, mimi could face the rejection of losing yet another love interest and the humiliation of being dumped from the villa in the same day. she can’t tell what’s worse. probably being dumped from the villa. there’s a chance, even if she stays single, that she could make it work, bide her time until the next bombshell comes in, but every time she finishes a night as a ‘ single ’  islander feels like a big red cross against her name. why is it so hard for her in here ? for once, she’d like to sleep inside with someone she wants to bone. or at least, wants to bone and isn’t mad at, because most of luke’s last few days in the villa were spent with the two of them sleeping back-to-back.  

         “ the showers are pretty strong. i’m sure you’ll figure out a creative solution. you’re a smart girl. ”  she isn’t, if she’s currently cracking on with both naomi and mimi’s men, the two women in the villa who are most likely to tag-team tear-your-head-off, but she’s new — she’ll learn.  “ i know you’re probably sick of hearing it, but maybe you should just like, focus on being your authentic self, making an actual connection, and trust that they’ll be so into you as a person that they won’t be able to resist fucking you into next week. ”  how’s that ‘ authentic connection ’ going for you then, mimi ?  mimi doesn’t really want to evacuate their vantage point up on the terrace — it’s a good place to gossip, because they can see the whole villa without really being noticed — but needs must. if jenny needs one of her daily-allowance of drinks, so be it.  “ sure. what do you drink ? ”  mimi asks. if she says cosmo and copies her again, she’ll hit the fucking roof.   pushing up from her seat on the bench, mimi tugs at the strings tying her bikini better to better accentuate her bum, because if they’re going to be going down to hang with the rest of the islanders, then she’s got to look her best. 

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LOCATION : day twenty-one  /   afternoon  /  pool.    FEATURING :  @mvggedoff​

        “ no, i’m forreal not shitting you, you can ask marcus—” she swears, half-laughing, the taste of chlorine stinging her nose. she’d plucked marcus’ name out of her ass because he’s about the only person in the villa who would go along with a ploy to convince kenny that prior to entering the villa, mimi was actually a world-champion synchronised swimmer. no questions, he’ll back her up. she doesn’t even need to ask.  “ i can give you a little one-on-one lesson, but you need to at least be a competent swimmer. i can’t polish a turd. ”  the last time mimi had been in this pool was after marcus had caught her and maddox on the daybeds and they’d decided to move things elsewhere. fuck. she hopes they’d had the sense to drain the pool afterwards, otherwise the producers could be looking at a lawsuit.  “ for starters, can you hold your breath underwater for a minute ? ”

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JOSH.

“ WE BOTH KNOW YOU LOVE IT, ”   he teases, slinging his arm around her shoulder and pulling her closer, so she’ll lean against him. he’s not sure when exactly his relationship with mimi had shifted into something so casual and friendly—two words he’s not sure he’s ever used to describe his relationship with a woman who he’s not sleeping with. mimi and naomi’s relationship might not be the best right now, nor will it ever, but there’s no longer the urge to steal a touch from mimi when nobody’s looking. the sexual tension is finally gone, maybe because it’s been passed over to jenny, but josh is glad.   “ not yet, but i wouldn’t be surprised if that comes today, ”   he snorts, lips curling at the memory from their past.   “ aren’t you glad i never took you up on that ?   who knows where we’d be now. ”   probably him and naomi wouldn’t still be together. maybe he wouldn’t have been in the bottom three.   “ i’ll tell you right now, she’s probably going to go for him. no offense, but maddox seems like pretty easy pickings. ”   and he seems far more like jenny’s type than seb’s, though he can’t imagine anyone being attracted to seb.   “ are you two, like, actually a thing then ?   i thought it was just a hookup. ”   and he thought she had been obsessed with luke, other than said hookup.

     her smile says just as much. mimi doesn’t even need to quantify,  “ yeah, i guess i kinda do, ”  but she does it anyway, sinking into the warm feeling of his arm around her shoulders, thankful for once that she doesn’t have to deal with the sharp-end of her own confusing desire. for now at least, she’s content with just this.   “ i mean, yeah, it was a hook up...” her lips twist as she tries to rationalise. was it just a hook up ?  is that what maddox has been saying ?   does she need to start telling everyone she’s not that bothered to get ahead of the sympathetic looks for when, in the next recoupling, he inevitably chooses ( or gets chosen by ) someone else ?   “—but like, don’t most relationships start that way ? ”   in mimi’s experience, it was rare she’d have sex with a guy and not be invited on a follow-up date. it was rarer still that she’d have sex with a guy if she hadn’t already memorised his birth chart. for a party girl, mimi doesn’t hook up often. she’s the russian tease of the coyote ugly pack — the kind to dangle the carrot, make them think they’re gonna get it, only to snap it away at the last second. you have to be when dealing with older men who are used to getting their way ; otherwise, you just get taken advantage of.  but in the villa, everything’s more concentrated. she can’t just go on a date with maddox, get to know him for a couple of hours, and then politely dip out, dismissing notions of blue balls with the explanation that she wants to see him again. save a midnight drink on the terrace — which kind of felt like a date if you ignored the fact that he’d been on an actual date with naomi earlier that day — things had been pretty much full steam ahead, and while they haven’t exactly talked about it  ( they always seem to find better things to do than talking ), he hasn’t outright shot her down either.  “ we’ve slept outside on the day beds together two nights in a row. ”  that’s got to mean something, right ?   mimi’s trying to get better at divorcing love from sex, and so far with maddox, it’s just fun. there’s no crushing emotions, no overbearing clinginess from either party, but at the same time, she doesn’t want to lose him when they’ve got a good thing going. in college, she’d been better at the whole no-strings-attached thing, but the older she gets the more hollow it feels to find yourself in the midst of a fuck staring down at your body from above and thinking what the hell am i doing here ? this guy makes his own rap music on soundcloud !   “ being sexually compatible is a strong foundation for any relationship. ”  at this point, she can’t tell if she’s trying to convince josh, or herself. maybe him and naomi had the right idea in saving the sex for after the getting to know you part.

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NAOMI.

– “RIGHT, WELL, GOOD THING I’VE BUILT UP A TOLERANCE TO THAT ONE,” naomi punctuates her sentence with a playful wink in mimi’s direction … though she only lifts up the cup again and takes a sip on the assurance that the producers would not allow mimi to kill her. ugh. the drink itself is unfortunately really good. naomi wishes it were disgusting just on principle, but now she wants to drink it all. forced to take in all of mimi’s peace offering due to her weakness for a good cup of coffee. “ yeah. it’s not really jenny i’m worried about, ” though maybe she should be. she’ll put the blame where it hurts more – on josh for not wanting her enough. “ which is to say that jenny’s choice is kind of out of our hands. it’s up to the guys to tell her what they want, if they want her to choose them, ” naomi explains, and she sounds fairly confident – until she looks at mimi’s face. mimi’s going to know she’s faking it because she feels the same way. “ ugh, ” naomi drops her head into her hands for a beat, “ i can’t believe i’m in this fucking position with josh again. i want to choke him out, but like, not in a sexy way. like actually kill him. ” her chest feels both tighter and lighter at the same time in admitting how powerless she feels. mimi’s question is kind, because it implies that naomi would get to pick, which is really sweet. on the other hand, naomi can’t answer it, because the last thing she needs is mimi knowing who else in the villa she wants to get to know so that she can try to swoop in afterward. “ i don’t really know. i want to talk to the new guy – he’s cute. bash ? ” naomi shrugs her shoulders. “ what about you ? ” 

         talking with naomi, she realises she’s missed this. as much as mimi hates to admit it to herself, this feels good, it feels healthy, and while fighting with naomi feels charged in the way she’s constantly on high alert any time naomi’s within a twenty-meter radius, being able to sit and just be while they bitch about some other girl is more comforting and normal than she expected it to be. naomi’s wink cuts through her, drawing a smirk across mimi’s mouth, that familiar buzz of the back-and-forth they once shared not quite igniting, but sparking at least. she can’t tell if she likes her more when they’re gossiping like bosom buds or attempting to tear each other’s hair out — all that matters is that she has her attention, fish hooked and reeled in until no one else is of consequence. “ you think they’d tell a smoking hot bombshell not to pick them ? are you insane ? ”   if she thinks men can be relied on for that, being around josh has clearly docked naomi a few braincells.  “ i can’t speak for josh, obvs, but i know for a fact maddox won’t do that, and i feel like i can’t really ask him to ?  we’re not in the same situation as you and josh. fucking a few times and cooking a man breakfast does not a relationship build, no matter how fire the sex is. ”  she’s fucked her way into a serious relationship before ( namely with rhys ) but here everything’s different. her situation with maddox is precarious at best, so in terms of jenny’s choice, he feels like the obvious pick. which means her place in the villa is at stake.  

        noting how tense naomi seems, mimi cautiously extends a hand, allowing it to rest on the dip between naomi’s shoulder blades.  “ hey... ”  she starts, attempting to manipulate her tone into something comforting and friendly. “ naomi, you know i’d help you, right ? ”  her smile is wicked, even if slightly inappropriate given the current anguish that naomi’s clearly experiencing.  “ if you’re serious about the whole killing josh thing, that is... you just tell me when, and i’ll grab a shovel. ”  she draws her hand back to rest against her lap, the other supporting her chin as she watches herself in the mirror, tries to see herself the way others might — overly brash, insecure, promiscuous, quick to anger, when all she really is, is a creature of intense and often overwhelming feeling. the villa just heightens all of her more unfavourable impulses ; she’s not a bad person, she’s just trapped in a place with people whom half the time she loves and half the time she hates, where she can’t seem to hold down a man without someone else coming along to snatch him. but at least people want her men. she’d probably be angrier if nobody had gone for luke, writing him off as the short, funny one who wasn’t worth their time.  “ bash ? ”  mimi responds, somewhat surprised.  “ wow... that’s unexpected. i mean, sure, he’s cute but you could eat him alive, naomi. personally, i don’t think i’d ever go there. he just seems way too tame, but you do you, boo. ”  

[tvandfilm]

DO REVENGE (2022) dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

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JOSH.

“ IT’S FINE. i kinda didn’t think you were going to vote for me, anyway. ”   josh cracks a smile, as if to say no hard feelings. maybe if it had been between him, liam and someone else, josh would’ve been wounded if mimi didn’t vote for him. but there’s no competing with luke, and josh is glad that somebody at least voted for him, even if mimi was the lone voice.   “ but no, i know you must not be having the time of your life right now, but… i’m here for you, i guess. i’m gonna miss luke, too. ”   he didn’t have much time to mourn his friend last night, but his absence is a lot louder today. josh takes a seat at the edge of the bed in front of them, giving her a nod.   “ yeah, we’re fine. it’s not ideal, everything, but it doesn’t have to affect us. ”   him saying that is trying to manifest it into happening.   “ the new girl is… a bombshell, ”   he laughs, the corners of his lips lifting.   “ i think you’ll like her, you two have a very similar energy. she’s definitely interested in me. ”   no use being coy about it.   “ but i’m grateful she chose me, at the end of the day. i could’ve very easily been gone by now. ”   the one little fact in his head that he can’t ignore.

           his softness is disarming in a way mimi doesn’t expect, smile lifting her lips as she sinks down onto the mattress beside him, finger jabbing against his ribs.  “ gross. you’re going soft on me. it’s disgusting and i hate it. ”  the opposite is true, his assurance that he’s there for her doing more to comfort her than josh probably even knows. it feels nice to have someone in her corner other than seb, whose loyalty is fickle as the tides. weeks ago, she’d never have expected to come out of this situation friends with josh, and it’s kind of weird that she doesn’t immediately get the urge to jump his bones. perhaps maddox had worked all of the sexual frustration out of her, leaving a more rounded version of mimi, one who thought beyond her own immediate desires.  “ similar energy. what does that mean ? ”  one mimi’s enough — the villa doesn’t need another.  “ let me guess. she try to convince you to go for a quickie in the showers, too ?”  her laughter comes hot and hard at the way josh stresses the other girl’s interest ; either jenny’s laying it on thick or josh has a lofty opinion of himself. “ yeah, well. time’s ticking. she’s got to graft it she wants to stay in the villa. like, i get it, i respect the grind, i’m all for a girlboss doin’ her thang, but also if she goes anywhere near maddox she best prepare for a scrap. i’ve lost two men in here already, and i’m not about to lose another. ” 

[demiegodshq]

[typeonpaper]

SEBASTIEN.

he lifts his hands, immediately on the defensive for how quickly mimi assumes the worst. “no, no, no — kicked it off, made it official, agreed to pick each other?” he clarifies with some urgency, tilting his head at her. “he hasn’t said anything to me yet, i think he’s chatting with naomi?” he doesn’t have the slightest clue what maddox is doing, but he wouldn’t be him if he did not plant some shitty idea in her head. “barking up the wrong tree there, though, i do not think she’s interested.” 

       she’s used to rolling things, her hips, the dice, her eyes, and when mimi rolls her eyes it’s so dramatic that it almost seems like she does it for a mascara commercial. the voice of her mother rings in her head — the wind will change and your face will get stuck like that — to which, she’d fold her arms, pout, stick out her tongue, a petty rebuke of  ‘ let it ! at least then i won’t have to look at you. ’    god. she misses her family more than she’d anticipated, that familiar ache sometimes when she hears a funny joke and wishes she could tell diego or raffy.  maddox said the funniest thing today.  “ i don’t really care who else he’s talking to, ”  mimi lies easily, shrugging as she reapplies her lip gloss.  “ he could be talking to dua fuckin’ lipa for all i care. as long as when he’s with me he gives me his full attention, it’s fine. ”  she doesn’t want to waste another afternoon of the precious time she has in here worrying about whether a guy she’s into likes naomi santos more.  “ seems a bit early to make things official. ”  mimi starts, circling back to the question he’d posed before probing at her insecurities.  “ it’s been like, four days. we’re just having fun, i guess. but yeah...  there’s a definite vibe. we have very different upbringings but similar values. he makes me laugh and he’s got a good dick, ”  she adds with a smirk, wishing she had a cocktail to sip on surreptitiously. 

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are you happy with how the recoupling went for you? did you get your first choice ?

  “ luke was my first choice, and i'm happy i got to pick him, although i do kind of wish he'd had to pick...” mimi admits, twiddling a lock of hair around her finger. validation is important to her, almost as much as touch, so it’s nice to hear when someone admits ( in front of everyone )  that they want you.  “ i guess after the whole sitch with dylan, it would've been nice to hear him grovel. i do have some reservations, what with the kissing and the lying, but fingers crossed we can move past it. ”   mimi holds her hand up in the air, one finger crossed over the other.  “ don't fuck up again, luke ! haha. ”

what was the biggest surprise of the recoupling for you ?

 “ kenny picking romi, for sure. i felt like she'd go for someone less... married off. like yeah, it’s fun to rock the boat, but if you’re like, rocking the boat just for the sake of making a stir, and you’re not actually gonna get anywhere with the person you chose, it feels like a wasted shot, no ?  callie would have been the obvious choice. callie and kenny... calkenny ? kencal ? whatever. i'm rooting for them. ”

how do you feel about losing charlotte ?

 “ oh crap. charlotte ! ”   mimi starts, clutching her face in shock. she knew they were missing someone !    “ yeah, that's literally devastating. couldn't have happened to a nicer gal, I-M-O. but also like, not being shady, but it's hard to make a lasting impression if you blend into the background ? don't get me wrong i LOVE charlotte. but that's probably just because she agrees with everything i say. ”  on reflection, most of mimi’s strongest female friendships start that way. big personalities and more argumentative types tend to rub her the wrong way.  “ anyway, charlotte, if you're watching this, you're doing amazing, sweetie. i can't wait for your dms to blow up with kind, sweet, princes ready to whisk you off your feet ! give my love to enzo. ”

what do you think of the new bombshells, maddox and sebastien? are either of them your type/someone you’d go for?

“ hell yeah. i mean, i probably shouldn't say that — i'm back with luke now — but last time i was in here i was like, producers ! send me a sexy bombshell !  and they sent two ! damn. ”  not that they were sent specifically for mimi. and clearly neither of them were that interested. “—and NEITHER of them picked me for a date. also damn. like, what the fuck ?  i feel like seb has this fun, infectious kind of energy to him that's impossible not to like. and maddox... well... he's like if someone got dwayne the rock johnson and rege jean page and mixed them in a blender. every time i look at him, my mouth starts to water. but he picked naomi for his date, so he's made his bed ( though clearly not with naomi )  so i guess he might as well sleep in it. ”  she’s done the whole being-second-best-to-naomi thing. she’s not about to catch that vibe again. not only is it exhausting, it’s demeaning. what’s so fucking great about naomi anyway ?  other than a fat wallet and a reliable father figure, what does she have that mimi doesn’t ?    “ boy, bye ! ”

who do you think they’re most likely to go for ?

“ maddox is clearly gunning for naomi. ”  which has her miffed, to say the least.  “ he picked kenny too, but i feel like that's a dead ting. i'm pretty sure i'd have more luck with kenny than maddox would. she's not batting for maddox's team. i actually think it's like, a totally different sport. with seb, it's harder to guage. maybe marcus, although that would be a gamble. i hope he goes for dylan. that way, he'd be out of mine and luke's hair. ”   god knows they could do without the added stress of another love triangle.

is there anyone in the villa outside of your couple that you’re still trying to get to know?

“ totally controversial, and this is strictly off-record, but i get the vibe that there’s like, unfinished business with josh. i don't care, i'll say what i want. ” she shrugs, tossing her hair over her shoulder, and placing a sizzling finger against her own ass.  “ and maybe maddox ? if i can get over the fact that he didn't pick me for a date. ” 

[typeonpaper]

MADDOX.

Pick me. Bold and brash and terrifyingly honest. It’s on brand for Mimi, or at least the Mimi he’s come to know during the last few days. Although he expects her to be frank, he doesn’t expect the school girl simpering energy that radiates from her. Not unlike a Disney Princess, her eyes are a twinkle and a girlish smile takes up her whole face. Was it a result of wanting to be picked first, or the natural afterglow of their ravenous fucking? He can’t imagine it’s because of some personal likeness - Mimi barely knows his last name. Nonetheless, he smiles back, warm and ego fluffed by her adoring eyes. Well, he could get used to this.

“You’re the top of my list.” Maddox confirms, two plates in hand from the cupboard and set beside the pan. It was an easy decision to come to, one made without Mimi’s signature pout or Jenny’s peach-perfect tits around to distract him. He and Mimi got on, in bed and outside of it. As it stood, she was the one to beat. He comes closer, the heat of her body radiating against his. At the very least, he’s got this part of the recoupling sorted. But she makes a good point, and Maddox can already see the gears turning in her head. Determined to do things different from the Prince Prick of all Pricks, he faces her question head on.

“I think I’d make Jenny’s list. But then again, so would you.” He says, charm laced to soften the unvarnished truth. “I’d enjoy getting to know her. I won’t deny that.” Maddox places a hand on Mimi’s shoulder, thumb resting along the pulse of her neck. “But if we’re ranking my priorities, you already know where you stand.” Chewing on the corner of his lip, he pivots. It’s his turn to ask the question.

“And what about Rhys? Are things truly done, or are we just bidding time till the finale?”

      mimi’s had her suspicions. she’s grown to recognise his tells in the attentive way he looks at her when she talks about home, the mugs of tea he leaves beside the daybed should he wake before her ( trauma porn, considering luke had tried to wean her onto the bitter british beverage, too ), the darkness in his eyes when she touches him just so, a look that makes her feel like he’s hook, line and sinker. maybe emotionally he’s not there, and now and then she has to ever-so-slightly readjust his chin to turn his head back towards her, but hearing that she’s the top of his list warms her in a way that could make her stupid giddy if she didn’t keep it in check. it wasn’t until his confession that mimi even realised she’d been seeking reassurance.  

        she flips the omelette, a brown crust sizzling on the side she’s uncovered that makes her stomach rumble. there’s no point asking him if the order would be different if jenny were thrown in with the rest of them and didn’t have first pick. sure, she wants to know, but she doesn’t need that insecurity gnawing at her if it doesn’t go the way she plans. she’s thankful that she’s facing the pan so that he doesn’t see her tense when he tells her what she already suspected. somehow, in her blood, she already knew. damn. jenny moves fast. somehow she’s weaselled her way in with not only josh, but maddox too. is seb next ? is rhys ?   “ okay. well i appreciate you being honest. and it’s not like we’re coupled up, so...”  her words falter when she feels his hand on shoulder, thumb against her neck,  ( her fucking neck ) and something inside her buckles, want hot and hungry rippling up inside of her and prompting her to drop the spatula. “ maddox... ” she breathes, both a warning and encouragement. jesus, she’s weak. doesn’t he know she turns to putty when he touches her ?   “ maddox, all i can focus on right now is you, ”  she starts, her hand finding his on her shoulder and drawing it away ( though not without sliding it down her side, over her chest, over her hip, over her bum in the process ). away from the heat of his hands, it’s easier to focus — both on the omelette and his question. he’s asking about rhys, and it puts a sick little smile on her lips, because if he’s worried it probably means he cares. or rather, he cares slightly more than either one of them initially planned on caring. this isn’t the no-strings-attached rebound she’d initially planned to get over luke, but maybe it’s better. if they can make it through this breakfast without one of them trying to jump the other’s bones, they’ll be breaking tradition.  “ why...  are you jealous ?  worried he’s a better fuck ? ”  amused and vindicated, mimi slides the spatula under the omelette, retrieves it from the pan, and slices it down the centre, half on his plate, half on hers, a weight finally off her now that there’s no sizzling pan to set fire to because she was too busy grabbing for his dick.  

        “ we’ve got history, ”  mimi states, slicing a corner of tomatoey goodness and sliding it into her mouth. her fork reaches for another piece, this time delivering it to maddox’s lips.  “ and while currently i’m not running off to rekindle things, i can’t say that rhys feels the same.  i mean, he did follow me onto the show.  who does that ? ”  he’s given her total honesty, and perhaps she should give him the same.  she doesn’t want to jeopardise her chances with maddox — because like fuck will she find some other guy in this villa willing to make her feel that good — but if she stays, she doesn’t want this coming back to bite her on the ass. and since she might be leaving, there’s hardly anything to lose.  “ i don’t want to get him back. what i want is you. but if rhys tried something... ”  she starts, swallowing, one hand reaching to squeeze against his hip and pull him towards her.  “—if rhys tried something, i don’t think i’d shut him down. ”   her eyes scan his for answers. is that a deal-breaker ?  to continue to sleep with maddox, does she have to shut down the possibility of anything ever happening with rhys ?   if maddox is allowed to get to know jenny, surely it’s unfair to deny her that same opportunity, even if it is with her ex. she knows that rhys cares about her, that he has the capacity to develop actual feelings for her that go beyond wanting to rearrange her guts, but with maddox she’s not so sure if he even possesses the emotional depth.  “ i’m not saying i want to get back with him, ” she states, in an attempt to reassure him, if he even needs her reassurance beyond the mutual desire. the hand on his hip offers a squeeze, while her other hand slides up his back. “ i’m not saying i’d pick him over you. i wouldn’t.  but we’re all in here to find something real. ”  she pauses, attempting to gauge maddox’s reaction to what’s potentially ground-breaking information. the nails on his back trail their way over his skin, her knee sliding up between his thighs.  “ at the end of the day, it’s love island not fuck island, babes. ” 

[typeonpaper]

JENNY.

jenny hums and nods her way through mimi’s monologue, conveniently distracted with re-applying sunscreen to avoid engaging too much—can’t say the wrong thing if you say nothing. they’d only been speaking a minute before mimi took her joke out of context, so she’ll happily walk on eggshells to avoid the confrontation. frankly, mimi intimidates her and, as her only friend in the house at the moment, she’s not trying to deal with the fallout of accidentally offending her. “are you just friends?” she asks, the comment itself begging the question. she’s genuinely curious, even arching a conspiring brow so mimi knows it’s just good ol’ fashioned gossip and not an attempt at marking territory that isn’t even hers. jenny’s mom always says ‘if you have to say it, it isn’t true,’ like the worst guys in the world claiming they’re nice. is mimi just trying to convince herself or is it really water under the bridge? there’s a smirk on her lips over narrowed eyes as jenny tries to filter out the important bits, genuinely thrilled to be engaging in girl talk with someone other than naomi, although there’s an element of competition in dealing with mimi too. it’s funny the way the three seem to gravitate toward the same people. a shame, too. they would probably be close on the outside. “i don’t think you have to feel guilty literally at all. like, luke definitely came off looking like the bigger asshole. i couldn’t believe he lied about it. it was so crazy to watch.” finished lotioning up her legs, she starts in on her chest, eyes flicking around behind her sunglasses to see if anyone’s looking. “no but maddox is so hot. like, good for you. i’m glad it’s going well with you guys. how was the sex? i was trying to figure out if he’s too good looking to be good in bed or not.” 

        “ we’re just friends, ”  mimi responds, matter-of-fact as a senator, though the nature of her relationship with josh is far less than simple than a black-and-white canvas. friends who flirt out of idle boredom, whose eyes linger a beat too long, friends who perhaps lean into a hug with a little more contact than they should, but ultimately, he’d chosen naomi, and mimi’s tired of settling for being second-best when people can’t get the person they want. she wants to be the first thing someone thinks of when they wake up, and the last thing they remember before they sleep. she wants to be the top of their list, not a clumsy afterthought scribbled in the margins. “ so if it’s josh you want, you don’t have to worry about me. ”   naomi, however, was another story. but judging by her reaction to the three-way-kiss, it seemed like maybe she’d just take it lying down, silently seething, x-ing out josh’s eyes in polaroid photos with a sharpie. it’s hard for mimi to visualise herself responding to that in any other way that anger so profound that she ends up cry-yelling. she’s always been an angry crier. it’s kind of embarrassing, actually.  “ yeah, well luke isn’t a bad person... he just says stupid shit sometimes. ”  she hates that everyone now talks about luke in past-tense, like a ghost, his ashes scattered over the terrace. he’s just gone back to fucking essex. mind you, some people would probably prefer death to living in essex. 

        josh, luke, maddox. it feels like jenny’s got a bingo-grid and is crossing off every man that mimi’s ever shown an interest in, digging her for the scoop on how pliable they are, how lenient, how easy it might be for jenny to roll down her stockings, expose her garters, and trip and fall onto their dick. not that mimi’s judging her. if she were less in her own head, she’d probably be doing the same herself. sex just doesn’t come as easy to mimi. the build up, the fore play, the knowing you both want it and it’s only a matter of time before you find yourself nine inches deep — that bit she’s an expert in ; some might even call her a tease — but the sex itself either leaves her obsessed, addicted, longing for something with a shelf life, or else it makes her feel like an empty vessel, a void to be filled, her body valuable only when it’s being used. “ thanks, ” mimi starts, forcing a smile as she attempts to snap back to herself and out of whatever that was. “ yeah, i’m happy, ” she starts, though the swell in her chest implies she’s anything but. this recoupling’s got her second-guessing every thought that she has, like she can’t even trust her own instincts. she’s learned to expect a plummet whenever she feels sort of happy with a guy. it’s only a matter of time before someone like jenny comes along to fuck things up.  “ i was definitely like, this is just a physical thing, at first. but i’m not thinking like that any more. it’s weird. i actually want him to stick around. ”  she’s not exactly thrilled at the idea of letting jenny know everything about her relationship with maddox just so she can tear it down.  eyes narrowing with suspicion, mimi decides to answer anyway.  “ i mean, yeah. he’s—”  faltering, she finds herself flushing. it’s hard to talk about maddox without feeling her pulse start to rise.  “ sexually, we’re very compatible. ”  there’s a knowing look in her eye when she fixes jenny with a wink. because as awkward as it is to be talking about this with the girl who might be planning on stealing her man, she doesn’t get to talk this way with anyone else, not now that she’s burned her bridges with naomi.  “ literally zero complaints. he went down on me for ages. like, an inhuman amount of time. i swear one of his entrepreneur mates must’ve developed a way for rich guys to evolve gills because that shit was something else. ” 

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SEBASTIEN.

“what is your plan, mimi?” he puts the french pronunciation on her name for kicks. he still hasn’t told her the implied meaning of it and does not plan to. “have you and maddox kicked it off officially?” 

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      seb loves to bitch, to scheme, to shit stir, it’s why she likes him so much, but when comes to her asking of her plans she can’t tell if he comes as an ally or an executioner.  “ what do you mean,   ‘ kicked it off ’ ? ”    it isn’t a phrase she’s heard before. “ are you implying we’ve called it quits ? why, what’s he said ? ”  suddenly paranoid, her eyes narrow. this villa would do that to a person, especially when they’re drowning in hangxiety. 

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