Week 6

[Jackie Ibarra]

Before I get started on this week so far, let's take a look at what I have for alliances.

• Andrew (my favorite boo)
• Danielle
• Jessie
• Lori

Now a couple things about these alliances....people keep asking about Nick and I. For the record, Nick and I never agreed to any kind of final 2/official alliance. Yes, in the little house we had one single exchange like "let's work on getting to the big house together," but that's really as far as it went. Maybe he's expecting more, but he's gonna have a rude awakening at some point. Of course, I'm not going to burn that bridge til necessary.

Also when Danielle and I talked to form an alliance, she brings up getting along with Meg really well. Why the heck does everybody I work with want to work with Meg?! C'mon guys, I'm ready for her to leave!

Ok Julie just messaged me that she's ready for POV, so be back to finish this later!

[Jackie Ibarra]

So my alliances...

Andrew is my favorite and probably the one I'm most loyal to. We have gotten along so well since our first conversation and again, he is my BB boo <3 He is one of the people I trust most in the house. Seriously, I feel like I could do a whole DR just raving about him.

Danielle, I'm not so sure of. Sometimes I feel really good talking to her. Other times I feel like she's playing me a bit. I do trust her to an extent and want to work with her, but I'm watching my back a bit as well.

Jessie is my other favorite. She is so incredibly sweet and we get along so well. I really feel a true connection with her and she is probably the other one I'm most loyal to. She just seems very genuine.

Lori, I know IRL, so I only trust her as far as I can throw her. Yes, she's loyal, but she'll also cut a bitch to get to the end (Love you!)

Anyways so HOH comes around and apparently I don't pay enough attention to the board. At least that's what I feel the lesson I've learned is.

Luckily when the results of the comp are posted, people keep going up....but not me lol! Apparently everybody either likes me so much or just hates everyone more because I didn't go up to answer a question until the finals when I became HOH. Easiest HOH I won ever!!! Except there's a twist. Dual HOH's this week because it's a double eviction week. Which wouldn't be so bad if the other HOH wasn't Marcellas. Oh well I'll make due.

Since I'm friendly/aligned with the majority of the house, my noms are a little tricky. I decide to go easy this week and nom Dustin and Eddie, publicly because I talk to them the least (which is true), but privately because I want them both out anyways. I know the house wants Eddie out anyways so I figure it will be a simple week.

As for Marcellas, he decides to nom Lori and Nick, both people I'm working with in some way. I'm gonna have to choose between them, but maybe I can figure out a way to avoid that.

Ok chatting on AIM has made this take a while so I'll be back tomorrow!

[Jackie Ibarra]

K going to finish this week in one final swoop! (It was so much more than I was expecting that I feel like I need 800 DR’s to go over it in detail)

So noms were done and this week seems to still be going fine. I talked to multiple people and they all supported the idea of Eddie going home. Then Julie posts POV and when I see “puzzle” I get psyched. As I’ve said before, I am the queen of puzzles. POV isn’t a huge deal to me as long neither of my noms win, but it would be nice to have just because of how I inadvertently won this HOH. Then I see it’s a slider puzzle – not my fav, but I can deal. I start working on it and I get it pretty quickly! But wait….my time is still going. Apparently the blue corners matter. Oh those stupid corners, why couldn’t they be all the same?! Anyways I finish it in about 23 minutes and I figure there go my chances of POV.

But wait!

There’s a new POV now and the old one doesn’t count. This is a cryptogram and though it takes me a minute to get started, once I get going I zoom through it. I just hope it’s good enough. Once everyone has competed, it’s present/prize time (which everyone should have seen coming from Julie’s hints earlier). I’m just watching praying that I beat my noms as well as Marcellas. One by one I see their names appear and each time I breathe a little easier. They all go for prizes but Dustin snags the veto. I’m not too worried though because there’s still plenty of people after him. It gets down to Andrew, myself, Nick, and Jessie.

First out is Andrew and he snags the prize of HOH advantage. That’s totally fine with me because I know if Andrew gets HOH I’m good. Hoping Nick goes next, I’m a little disappointed to see my name next. (Sidenote - I still beat Andrew because I’m the bomb.com ?)

I go with my tried and true strategy of choosing purple - which works out for me once again! (Forevermore- I’m choosing purple if it’s an option. Thanks again James <3) I end up getting the second veto which tbh, I’m a little disappointed by. There goes my chance to steal it from Dustin. But I know Nick is coming up so I figure I still have a chance.

Sure enough, next out is Nick. Assuming he’s taking a POV, I message him “You better take Dustin’s POV and not mine lol.” And then I get this back: “Jackie, will you save me if I leave you with the veto?”

Like what the heck dude? Just take Dustin’s veto and you’re safe and keep my loyalty. But he wouldn’t even consider taking Dustin’s. I start trying everything I can think of to ensure he doesn’t take my veto and start talking up the powers. It’s not even about keeping the veto from Nick, I just can’t let Dustin leave this comp with it. In the end, Nick decides to take the vote cancellation. I decide to worry about the drama that’s gonna cause with the vote later.

Jessie gets the last prize and get immunity for the next week. Now earlier in the comp, Jessie and I had talked and she assured me she had my back to get the veto if needed. But thanks to Nick we have all this unexpected pressure. Jessie messages me asking why I want and we do quick strategy. I know she’s getting pressure from other sides as well, but she seems to still be focused on what’s best for us together which makes me feel good. Just as she posts her decision to take the veto, Dustin messages me with a last plea. I tell him I’m sorry, but she already posted. He says it’s ok, but I see some damage that might need to be repaired there. In the end though, Jessie and I control veto and I’m happy with that. Eddie got an extra vote, but other than that the powers don’t really affect me.

Then comes the real drama-

I’m going to start with my HOH reign. Eddie messages me after the comp but before my speech trying to get me to use the veto on him. Since all he gives me are vague hypotheticals and threats, it doesn’t really have an effect on me. He tells me there are people after me, but won’t give any names so sorry! Nothing I can do for you. After veto, I talk to a few people and confirm my target is still Eddie. That’s all well and good until I get to Danielle. When I talk to her, she starts talking how Dustin’s the bigger threat because he has more support, etc. I tell her I still want Eddie and she says ok. I think all is well and good until I hear from Lori that Dani is campaigning “HARDCORE” for Dustin to go. I’m like seriously? This shows how loyal this girl is. We already had this conversation. As the night goes on, I hear from more people that she trying to flip votes to get Dustin out. Yea, don’t think this alliance is gonna last….I’ll stick with the people who actually seem to be true to their word. Later on, when I talk to Nick he alludes to the fact that it’s going to be a tie vote and I’m breaking the tie. Lori, Andrew, Jessie, Shane have all assured me they’re voting Eddie. I’m thinking that Drew is a firm vote for Eddie as well which means Marcellas, Danielle, Nick, and Meg have to vote out Dustin in order for Eddie’s extra vote to make it a tie. Thanks for making it super obvious where people’s loyalties lie, Nick!

Now for Marcellas’ HOH….so I’m in the position I was hoping would disappear at the beginning of the week – Picking between Lori and Nick. Now Nick has had my back, but Lori and I are in a legit alliance (We seriously had one of my favorite convos in the game where she “formally” asked me to be in an alliance with her and I “officially” accepted lol). With all I was hearing in regards to my HOH, it seemed like keeping Nick would just be causing trouble. Add that to the fact that Andrew and Jessie who I’m also aligned with hate Nick and want him out. What really cemented my decision was the fact that both Danielle and Nick were coming to me telling me “not to believe what Jessie says without screenshots” and according to Eddie (seriously), Jessie’s talking trash about me and Danielle. It all just seemed unbelievable with everything combined. The only people talking trash about other houseguests to me at this point is the two of them. And you’re the ones acting shady in the first place. Looking at votes after talking to Nick, it seemed like it was going to come to a tie once again that I would have to break. He said he had 3 confirmed votes and it would be mine that would force the tie which he had made a deal with Marcellas to break in his favor. With everything I heard up to this point, it was safe to assume his three votes were Danielle, Meg, and Eddie. On the opposite side, it was Andrew, Jessie, Drew, and Dustin.

[Nick- if you’re reading this after the fact, please know it wasn’t anything against you. It was more about who you were aligned with. I didn’t trust Danielle and Meg and I DEFINITELY didn’t trust Eddie. How could I make a decision that would take away a firm ally and replace her with people I didn’t feel have my back? At this point with everything going on, I felt extremely close to Andrew and Jessie so that would mess with those relationships as well. I really tried not to lie to you, but you must have had a feeling because you wouldn’t stop asking about my vote. That also cemented it because I didn’t feel you really trusted me-which at this point was right- but still that doesn’t bode well for a future alliance. You said in one of the messages that I should be making my own connections and I did. They just put me on the wrong side of you this week.]

I go ahead and put my votes in to evict Eddie and Nick and just wait hoping everything works out the way I want it to. Finally Julie reveals.

First up: Eddie vs. Dustin! With a vote of 5-5, I break the tie sending Eddie home. Right away I get a message on AIM from Eddie saying “you’re a piece of shit.” Well thanks for confirming I made the right decision!

Next (and the one I’m most nervous about): Lori vs. Nick! I’m biting my nails walking through the store frantically refreshing and there it is. By a vote of 5-3, Nick leaves. From Nick, I get these messages:

“I got evicted”
“Was it you who evicted me?”
“I’m guessing it was. I don’t even really need to ask”

I wonder about responding, but thankfully my phone dies and takes away that opportunity. Nick ends up leaving gracefully and does not cause drama (THANK GOD). With how things played out, I don’t feel as comfortable for next week, but I’ll take faith in one of the cardinal rules of BB: When you feel completely safe, that’s when you go home.