This week, the girls are back in Mumbai and living together in an apartment along with Assistant Producer, Aarti from Channel [V].

I'm going to be meeting them today and I'm a little apprehensive… I haven't spoken to or seen them since Gokarna. Besides, I hadn't exactly left them on the most positive note; having gotten accused of robbery and all!

As I stand outside their apartment, I have no idea what kind of reception I'm going to get. So, I do the only thing I can; I take a deep breath, pin on a grin and ring the doorbell.

Arlette answers the door and is polite enough. She smiles, says hi and announces my arrival with a "Valsa's here". I'm happy to see that some of the crew are at the apartment (I had a fun with them in Gokarna). I see Arika lounging on the living room couch deciding what to order for lunch. I've been worried about her surviving the "fantastic four" and so I ask her how she's holding up. She surprises me. According to her it's been great living with them and they've all been really sweet. I only half believe the smile on her face but I'm happy for her all the same.

I wander into one of the bedrooms and meet Nidhi there. I've been feeling really bad about bombarding her with expletives during out last conversation and so the first thing I do is apologise to her for it. She smiles and says it's cool; she believed Kirtana had misled us all.

I tell her about my ride to the airport with Kirtana; how she hadn't expected me to pick up the phone and call Nidhi, the call from Rahul about the missing clothes, my irritation at having ended my awesome trip to Gokarna on such a bad note.

That's when Nidhi tells me that the goodbyes in Gokarna hadn't been the last they'd heard of Kirtana. She and Arika had been exchanging heated text messages with Kirtana, and as Nidhi tells me all the gory details, I laugh my head off at all this soap-opera like drama.

After elimination madness in Gokarna, it's nice to see the girls in such a relaxed atmosphere. As they lounge around in the apartment listening to Becky's insanely loud trance music, I enjoy watching them just be themselves.

They don't have much to do today but what they don't know is that VJ Pia is supposed to pay them a surprise visit in the evening and show them their portfolios. Rachel is performing with her band at Not Just jazz by the Bay today evening and her rehearsal is going to be delayed because of Pia's visit. She doesn't know that Pia's coming, so she's very upset and throwing a bit of a tantrum. She's locked herself in one of the bedrooms and sulking.

A little later, the girls are sitting around and just for fun, I ask them what they'd do if Kirtana walked in right now. All of them laugh. They're sure that Nidhi will pull out a sword from somewhere and slice her in half. Nidhi thinks it'll be a better idea to hang her by her thumbs… apparently that's a form of Chinese torture.

I hopelessly try to suppress my laughter. Little do they know that in next few days, they are going to be meeting Kirtana and the rest of the girls who were eliminated. Now that's the kind fun I wouldn't want to miss for anything in the world…especially after this conversation.

All day at the apartment, I notice that the group is teasing Arika and making snide comments and jokes at her expense. Nidhi's less brutal but she's telling Arika off when she gets irritated with her. Rachel's too upset about her missed rehearsals to either engage in or stop it.

Later, when we're all having a snack of chilly-cheese-toast in the living room, the topic somehow turns to Arika. In Gokarna, it was obvious that they weren't exactly fond of her and I tell them of my concerns regarding how she'd survive them in Mumbai. Becky tells me the reason they couldn't tolerate her was because even when they were nice to her, she would ignore them. Arika starts to claim that that was only because Kirtana would tell her not to talk to them. Their response is that Kirtana isn't her mom and she didn't have to listen to everything she told her. Then suddenly Arlette brings up how Arika had kicked her in the pool. I'm confused… hadn't Arika told me that Arlette kicked her and didn't apologise? The truth is that Arika returned the kick with an even harder one! It's starting to look like she's not such a harmless little thing after all…

When Arika isn't around, I ask Nidhi, Arlette and Rebecca why they're so hard on Arika. What is she doing that irritates them so much? They tell me that they're tired of her acting like a baby all the time. They hate that she puts on this innocent, helpless act whenever the cameras are rolling or when talking to a judge. Besides, they say she's very childish about a lot of things, indecisive about everything and constantly seeking validation from everyone about the way she looks, her personality, her clothes, etc.

Even though Arika's been grating on the Fabulous Four, surprisingly it's not stopping them from helping her out. The whole time i'm at the house, Arika is trying on outfit after outfit , in an attempt to decide what to wear for Rachel's show at 6pm, and she still hasn't made up her mind! Nidhi's been getting annoyed but she's offered to help Arika put together something to wear and Rebecca's offered to lend her earrings to match the outfit. Even Arlette who dislikes Arika surprises me when I walk into one of the bedrooms and find her ironing Arika's hair! These girls really don't seem as bad as I thought they were.

VJ Pia arrives and as I walk out the apartment door, I hear the girls cheering. Pia's just announced that they're getting their photographs from the portfolio shoot.

I can't help but smile. All the real drama may not make it to television… but the show must go on.