I don't even want to talk about how long this took to update, but I'm back! The story goes on!
Disclaimer: I do not own Total Drama! All characters are 18 years old as of after World Tour.
H&M, Forever 21, Hollister, Brandy Melville- Lindsay and Beth's hands were full of colorful shopping bags from the various stores. About a dozen different shades of pink fabric overflowed from Lindsay's bags, and beige from Beth's.
"Lindsay, I just wanna say thanks. I missed you so much and I know you're super busy but you still took the time to help me choose alllll these cute outfits!"
"Oh my gosh, you know that's not even like work for me! It's the best! Especially when you have so much to improve on! I can just like, start from scratch, and that's the funnest!"
"Uh…thanks?"
"Plus, I'm not even realllllly busy. This is MY time now to shop, shop, shop, everything I missed out on doing all those silly seasons and challenges…Beth. Let's go in there!" Lindsay pointed to the pink-est store in the mall, Victoria's Secret.
Beth stared at the red-laced panties and ultra push up bras on the mannequins. "I don't know if this is really my style, Linds," she blushed.
"Course it is! Come on silly! Everyone wears underwear! Or at least I hope so!" Lindsay grabbed her wrist and dragged her into the frilly store.
Lindsay picked up a floral thong from the shelf- it was about the width of dental floss. "What do you think, what do you think?"
"I'm sure Tyler would love you in it," Beth said, blushing redder than the garment itself.
The name set something off in Lindsay's mind. She fiddled with the panties, brow furrowed and thoughts running.
"Yeah…" Lindsay said, quieter than usual. "Anyway, I have to ask you something, Beth. Super serious."
"What is it?"
"Do you wanna come with me on a huge shopping trip , international, every country, just hanging out and buying clothes the entire time?"
"Lindsay! That sounds so awesome! Of course!" Beth hopped up and down, in total ecstatic shock.
"Yayyy, eeeeeee!"
"Eeeeeeeeeee!"
"Just you and me, girls trip!" Beth beamed, putting her arms around Lindsay. "We can have sleepovers, and do face masks, and prank call guys! Why would I ever, ever say no?!"
"Haha," Lindsay laughed nervously, "Yeah! Just you and me in a big plane with Chris and Chef!"
"Wait, what?" Beth let go of her and suddenly her eyes looked full of concern. "Oh no! They're holding you hostage for another season, aren't they! Blink twice if Chris kidnapped you!"
"NO, no! Well, maybe?" Lindsay blinked twice, but not on purpose. Then once she realized what she did, "No! I made him do it!"
Poor Beth looked so confused, and Lindsay hated that she felt just the same as she did. She couldn't do much to console her.
"We have a deal! He stopped me from shopping all those times every season, and now he's gonna take me to all those places on his publicity tour! …So it works out, right?" Lindsay smiled uneasily. She hadn't really felt weird about it until she saw the look Beth was giving her now.
"What's in it for them?" She asked. "There's no way Chris would do ANYTHING that doesn't benefit him."
"I don't know…" Lindsay shrugged. "Maybe he's like, lonely, on that big plane just with Chef."
Beth chuckled and rolled her eyes, "Oh, I'm sure he is."
Lindsay picked up a C-cup tiger print bra and held it up to Beth, semi-successfully distracting herself. Beth shook her head and Lindsay picked up a plain white one instead.
"What do you think?" Lindsay asked.
"Maybe a little too big?"
"No, I mean about Chris."
"Um, he's a jerk! Obviously!"
"You think he's like, cute?"
"I know you ask that about everyone but seriously Lindsay? Chris the creep?"
"No, Chris Mclean!"
Beth sighed.
"It doesn't matter. He's the worst! Plus I've learned… people can look good on the outside and be nasty on the inside. You learned that too," Beth said, picking up a familiar looking maroon halter top from the display.
Lindsay frowned, the memories all flooding back to her.
"But you can be both! Good on the inside, and out!" Lindsay argued.
"You're one of the only people like that," Beth said lowly. "But to answer your question…I do want to come with you. I…think I need to, for you," Beth said.
Lindsay dropped the lingerie and grabbed Beth's arms. "Yayyyyyyy! We're going to have the BEST time! And we'll find you a guy too, ok!"
"Too? When's the last time you talked to Tyler?" She asked.
Just then, a shrill voice could be heard from the other side of the store.
"And if you don't look in the back room for a medium, RIGHT NOW, I demand to speak to your manager! And actually LOOK. Don't go to the back and pretend to look and just play on your phone! I'll know if you really looked!"
Lindsay and Beth looked over and saw the employee roll her eyes as she walked away from the freckled brunette.
"Courtney?" Beth was the first to say.
"And Jared?" Lindsay said, noticing the male model next to Courtney who was looking at himself in a nearby mirror.
"His name is JUSTIN, Lindsay, God!" Courtney said.
"Justin Lindsay God? What a strange last name," Lindsay wondered aloud.
"What are you guys even doing here?!" Courtney asked angrily.
"What is this, a Total Drama hottie reunion?" Justin asked, but upon seeing Beth, he added, "Maybe just a reunion."
"Why're you guys here? Is it really a reunion!?" Lindsay jumped, genuinely excited.
"Because Alejandro wasn't exactly available," Courtney grunted, "And not that I NEED to make anyone jealous, but if paparazzi happened to be called here, and I HAPPENED to be with Justin, someone might HAPPEN! To see it in the news, and HAPPEN to see what he's missing, because I can get any guy I wanted! If it even mattered!" Courtney yelled, voice raising with every word to the point that the last few words were pretty much just screeches.
"Hey, anything Alejandro can do, I can do better! I have twice the looks AND the brains!" Justin pointed his finger to his head, but missed and instead poked his eye. "Ow…"
"And what're you doing here? " Courtney eyed the pair. "Beth, if you're going to buy lingerie to show off to Justin, go right ahead. He's recently single and outlived all usefulness if these damn paparazzi don't show up!"
"Oh, I- I could never, haha!" Beth began sweating profusely in the presence of Justin and his extremely overpowering Hollister cologne. "Unless…?"
"Wow, talk about a horrifying mental picture," Justin shuddered and backed away from Beth.
Beth looked to the ground. "Lindsay…Maybe we should just get on the plane and go now. I don't feel like shopping anymore."
"Get on the plane?" Courtney asked, in an accusing voice. "You guys better not have your own private jet before I do!"
"Hey!" Lindsay angrily pouted towards Justin. "Don't say that about my friend! I bet you can't even draw mental pictures at all because your brain is so tiny!"
Courtney started giggling, but Lindsay only grew angrier. This was exactly why Beth was afraid to shop with her! And too shy to wear cute clothes! That jerk. Just like what she was saying before about pretty people being ugly on the outside. She couldn't believe he was trying to ruin their girls trip! He had no right! Who did he think he was!
"That's why Chris chose Alejandro for season 3 over you! At least Alejandro PRETENDS to make girls feel good, even if he's lying! You can't even be bothered to act like you're not a meanie all the time!"
Courtney was flat-out cackling at this point, holding her sides in laughter.
"What do we have here?" Some voices called from outside the store. Suddenly the store was white with the blinding lights of the paparazzi flashbulbs. "The not so brightest cast members turn against each other! Lindsay vs. Heather part 2!"
"Lindsay honey, turn over here!"
"Punch him!"
"Curse him out!" The paparazzi began crowding closer and closer.
"HEY!" Courtney yelled, "You guys were supposed to take pictures of ME!" She grabbed Justin and began kissing his cheek. "We are together, you hear me?!"
"No you're not! Justin could never get a girlfriend being as rude as he is!" Lindsay yelled.
The paps went wild, now swarming the 4.
"Hey, is that Courtney and Lindsay from Total Drama?" Some fans called out, and they began to run into the store as well.
"Ahem, and Justin?" Justin called out. "I was on 2 seasons! And talked a lot for one of them!"
The situation was quickly becoming out of control with the fans and cameras about to overpower the 4,
"Guys, we gotta go!" Beth grabbed Lindsay's hand, and began running out of the store. Justin and Courtney quickly followed, all being chased by a growing crowd of impatient fans shoving cameras in their faces.
Lindsay and Beth held hands as they dashed away from the mad crowd, Lindsay out of breath but managing to yell to Beth,
"We have to get to the plane and get out of here!"
"What… hahhh..do you mean…plane!" Courtney, just behind and running with Justin, said back. "Even I can't afford a private jet yet!"
"Total Drama plane! Fashion trip! Chris promised me," Lindsay replied, eager to just shut Courtney up already.
"WHAT! That wasn't in our contracts!"
"Justin! Over here!" A particularly quick fan managed to get a selfie in, to which Justin obliged even while sprinting.
"It's not- ugh," Beth said. "Over there!" Beth yanked Lindsay's arm over to a hidden hallway, and Courtney and Justin followed. "Quick! Get in there!" Courtney found an elevator and the 4 former contestants quickly ran into it.
"Hit the close door button- Justin, you dumbass, wrong button!"
"I'm confused!"
Courtney rolled her eyes and hit the close door button- which closed the doors the very second the crowd turned the corner towards the elevator, nearly closing on a paparazzi's hand.
Everyone sighed and slumped down on the elevator floor. After taking a minute to catch their breath, Courtney was of course the first to speak.
"So why again are you on the Total Drama plane? Why on earth would someone even as dumb as you, voluntarily go back there!"
"I wish I could've gotten on there…" Justin mumbled.
"Chris totally promised me a fashion trip around the world!" Lindsay said between heavy breaths.
"Just him?"
"Well, him and Chef…"
"What a freakin' weirdo." Courtney said lowly. "Do you even realize how lucky you are, the situation you're in? That Chris just put himself in? This is just BRIMMING with lawsuits you could file! SO much money in it!" She said, newly excited. "I'm coming too!"
"Who said you could!" Beth retaliated.
"Is this a new season? Justin asked cluelessly.
Lindsay, unsure what was going on in the brunette's head, said nothing. Her mind raced. Why did she somehow have a bad feeling, without any particular reason why?
The elevator opened near the mall's exit, the crowd nowhere to be seen anymore.
"I'm coming too," Courtney stated as a plain fact.
"Is this World Tour 2? Can I come too?" Justin asked.
"I don't care , Justin!" Courtney yelled, then turned to Lindsay with devilish eyes, and grabbed her hand. "Lead the way to the plane, Lindsay. Or more specifically, to Chris. It's time for a little confrontation."
