Chris Seeley and Kay Kay Gray's journey on Love Island Games was cut short after a shocking elimination - and an injury - but where will the couple go from here? Us Weekly caught up with Chris and Kay Kay on Thursday, September 25, shortly after Chris injured his finger and Kay Kay lost in a duel that ended their journey in Fiji. Despite the setback, Chris and Kay Kay were taking the shakeup in stride as they considered their future together after forming a connection in the villa. It feels like Love Island Games is a chance to do things differently compared to your initial seasons. How did each of you approach this spinoff? What were you maybe hoping to get out of it? Kay Kay: For me, it was so important to represent who I am today vs. who I was two years ago. My season was two years ago and I definitely wanted to do things differently. The first time, I stuck to one person - and I really stuck to that person. This time, I was like, "You know what? I've got to explore my options. I've got to just be free and do me." So I feel like I did that. Chris: I wanted to come in with a different mindset compared to season 7 of Love Island USA. I was just taking whatever came my way and going about it. This time, I wanted to have my own path and direct it the way I wanted to go. I was coming in with that competitive mindset and focusing on the things I wanted to focus on, which is trying to get to that money. Although it didn't work out in my favor - I am proud of how my whole experience went. 'Love Island USA' Status Check: Which Couples Are Still Together? Obviously, your time was cut a little short. But were you able to get a redemption - or at least show a different side of yourself? Chris: Especially compared to season 7, I am way happier leaving how I left this time. Although leaving single wasn't a bad thing, but just I feel like that moment and all the s*** that I had to deal with during season 7 was too much. With this, things were going really well until it didn't. I'm very proud of that. With this maybe being my last time, I love the ending. I'm for sure OK with how things went. Kay Kay: I feel like, this time around, I had fun. I was enjoying myself in that villa. I was making connections and I was making friends and I was showing my personality a lot. I felt more free to be me and more loud and more open with my energy. I feel like I did that. Would you come back for another season of Love Island Games or another season of Love Island USA? Are you leaving that door open or closed? Kay Kay: It depends on my singleness. You two just got out, but what is your relationship status? Are you going to put a label on it? Are you going to see how it goes? Ben Symons/PEACOCK) Kay Kay: We're just doing things at our own pace that is comfortable for us. There's no labels or pressure yet. We're just taking it as it comes and still getting to know each other. We literally just met two weeks ago. Realistically, there's a lot I need to learn about him and there's a lot he needs to learn about me, and we're just having fun with it right now. Chris: We are just going with the flow and taking it day by day. There's a lot we gotta learn and then a lot we gotta figure out. She's in Dallas and I'm in L.A. right now. So we gotta figure out what that looks like. And going forward, we are seeing if we even want to continue that - which I'm sure we both do as of right now. It's looking good. But like she said, no labels and no pressure. Just simply still getting to know each other how we were with no Villa and no games. Chris, how is your finger doing? We were worried that you were not going to be able to possibly play ball overseas in the future if needed after that injury. Are you on the mend? Chris: My finger is doing better. It's not broken. I got an X-Ray after the duel. I did just sprain it and got a little bit of ligament tendon damage. It's not too bad. I still can't do a full fist or bend it the way I want to or lift things. But it is getting better progressively. Of course, I didn't want to go out that way, but I feel like it wasn't worth taking the risk of it getting worse. Obviously, this was a shock because you guys were the first power couple. Do you feel like being crowned may have made you a target? Chris: I feel like we had a huge target on our back - especially after the first couples challenge. It led to the Heart Rate Challenge, when people were purposely not trying to get their heart rates up and it worked out in their favor. Then we became vulnerable. It hurt going from being the top of the top to the bottom. It somewhat felt like some karma for sending Solène and Mert home. But overall, the cards were dealt the way they were, and we just had to take it on the chin and accept it. Kay Kay: I also was saying the whole time we were the power couple, "They're gunning for us. They are going to be out to get us." I knew it. I didn't know it would be so soon and I didn't know it was actively happening, but I knew it