After the Leg - 5
The sun started setting upon the horizon of Rankin Inlet. As it was happening, teams were starting to settle down for the evening. Almost every team was having dinner. There was a picnic set up by productions for each team to sit and chat with each other while eating.
At one picnic table, the Unlikely Best Friends sat with the BFFFLs and Opposing Roommates.
"Sooo…" said Gwen talking to Olivia, "You like rave parties, huh?"
"Definitely!" exclaimed Olivia, "My favorite kinds of music are electronic and hip hop! I dunno why, but they're so in sync with my soul."
"Wow." said Gwen, impressed but not really showing it, "You'd definitely want to meet some of my friends in college. Sure they'd love to have fun raving with you."
Olivia bounced from her seat and looked close into the goth, "Really?!" she exclaimed, "When this is over, take me!"
Gwen's eyes were wide as dinner plates. She looked around, confused and uncomfortable, but she looked back at a hopeful Olivia, "Uh… sure thing… Maybe I can call you and we can hang out too?"
"Definitely!" Olivia exclaimed, "I can tag my friends along too and see what they think!" Olivia grabbed Gwen in for a tight hug, before getting off the table. "Toodles! Gotta go skate on some ice!" She gleefully walked off.
Gwen and Courtney stared at Katherine. "You put up with that?" asked Courtney.
"Yeah…" said a nonchalant Katherine, "It's a handful, but that's life, if you ask me."
"I'd be down to hang out with her." Katie raised her hand. Sadie nodded along with her. "Besides, we'd love to join in with Olivia and her friends!"
"Cool…" said Katherine, her demeanor not changing, "I think you'd like it if you went with her to the parties on our campus… I know I have, multiple times…"
"Did you enjoy them?" asked Sadie.
Katherine shook her head, "They were really the same kind of party a lot of times, only they got louder and louder and louder. That's why I just go and stay in my dorm and study my heart's content."
"Great!" exclaimed Sadie.
Katie turned to her BFFFL, confused with her remark. "Studying in your dorm is great?" she asked.
"Well, yeah!" said Sadie, "Besides, I like to study! I'm studying so that both you and I can open up our ice cream parlor, and I'm also studying to become a dance choreographer for a part-time job."
"Oh…" nodded Katie, "That's good to hear."
Courtney stood up from her table and walked off.
Meanwhile, Scott spotted Gwen and awkwardly considered avoiding her, but then something forced his gut to go and see her…
"Hey…" Scott came to her.
Gwen looked up to see the dirt farmer near her, "Scott? What're you doing here? Not in the mood to throw mud at some homeless kid?"
"No…" said Scott, folding his arms, "I'm over that kind of stuff… I just feel like I wanted to talk to someone, y'know?"
"Where's Rodney?" asked Gwen.
"He's taking a swim…"
"In Hudson Bay?" asked Katherine.
Scott nodded his head, "He likes cold water for some reason…"
"Weird…" said Gwen. She turned to the BFFFLs and Katherine. "I'm gonna go talk with him for a little bit. Don't wait up for me…"
Standing up, the goth followed the dirt farmer somewhere away from the crowd.
"So…" said Gwen, "You're still upset with me after All-Stars, aren't you… For y'know, getting Courtney eliminated?"
Scott shook his head, "Not anymore… I've overreacted against you when I shouldn't have, and… that was just wrong of me to do so… Courtney, she's given me a little more time to think about, but I'm over her now…"
Gwen looked around, a little wary of what she should say to him, "Can I be honest with you?" she asked him, "I know that Courtney is sorry for her chart in All-Stars…"
"Really?" When Gwen nodded, he continued, "Well what's wrong? What's making you not wanna forgive her?"
"I don't know…" Gwen said, scratching her hair, "I want to, honestly, but I don't know if she's… changed much… What if she's the same bratty self she was in Action, or World Tour, or in some cases All-Stars? I'm not sure if I'm able to trust her anymore. That's what I've learned from being on Total Drama."
"Yeah?" asked Scott, "I learned from there that you stay away from your nightmares!"
"What, like Fang?" asked Gwen, "Followed you all the way to Monaco?" Scott nodded, his face red with traumatization.
Scott shook his head off, trying to forget about the mutant shark that keeps on following him, "Look, maybe you can try mustering up the courage to… y'know, talk to her, and talk about how you feel? And maybe you two might work with each other on it…"
"Have you talked to her and worked with each other?" asked an incredulous Gwen.
Scott's eyes went wide open. Embarrassed, he ran the other way, leaving the goth in suspense. "Nice conversation…" she muttered.
The camera cuts to the Town Heroes, Student & Counselor, Brothers, Lesbians, British Royals, All-Star Hockey Players, Maple Scouts, and Pizza Sisters, all of whom were sitting with each other, chatting up a storm with each other. They were served a BBQ; grilled salmon, chicken wings, salads, potato chips, coleslaw, and beans.
Among the conversation they were having with each other, Guilietta brought something up, "Y'know, it's such a shame that the Stay-at-Home Moms were eliminated today."
"Yeah…" agreed Jose, feigning his sorrow, "Such a shame…"
"I really don't know why they lost…" said Harvey, "Did they experience some kind of mishap during the challenge?"
"I guess…" said Alejandro, "But I guess sometimes it goes to show; when you show some great signs early on, there's always a chance they might fall apart…" This earned a few nods from the other teams.
Giulietta turned to Luke with a smile on her face, "Soooo Luke… Care to explain to everyone how long it takes until liquid solidifies?"
Luke let out an exasperated groan, "Fine…" he turned to the rest of the teams, who were staring intently towards him, "Liquid solidifies when it reaches a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit."
"Now say it in Celsius!" Giulietta stated to him, finger-banging towards his direction.
Luke rolled his eyes, "Liquid solidifies when it reaches 0 degrees Celsius." He leered at his counselor, "You happy now?" This earned him a nod.
"Quick question, y'guys…" Lewis piped up, "You haven't seen where Terrence was, have you?"
Some of the teams shook their heads or denied where he was.
"No?" Lewis asked, "Ah…"
"I heard he got into it very badly with Carla." said Patrick, "The poor sap…"
"Well, she had it coming!" Seren pointed out, "That b***h really made his life hell, if you ask me! I mean, if that were my girl, I'd hurl her into a lake and tell her it's over!"
"Which, you don't, and you have me!" said Mitzy.
Lorraine grabbed a potato chip for herself, "Well if you ask me, I feel like they don't deserve each other, and they're just gonna keep on resenting one another… Can't say they'll make the next leg."
"Wow, Lori." said Tracy, "This might be the second time or so you've actually talked to someone without having them be on your phone."
"Well, I guess without my phone, it's starting to make me understand the real world a bit better, and-" She catches sight of Terrence, who was having two plates in his hands, walking past the group table. She points towards him.
Everyone turned to see the jock, "Terrence!" exclaimed some of the members. This got the jock to turn his head towards them.
"Hey guys…" he said, still feeling upset.
"C'mon, take a seat, buddy!" Lewis said as he scooted his rear to make room for him. Terrence trudged over and sat with the rest of the group.
"I really don't have a lot of time, guys…" said Terrence, "I need to bring this plate back to my room as soon as possible." He held the plate on his left hand, filled with two pieces of salmon, three chicken wings, and a scoop of beans.
"Is she feeling okay?" asked Giulietta.
"Actually, this is for someone else…" said Terrence.
*CUTAWAY*
Terrence was sharing his room with Wyvern. The muscular punk glared at him. "This is my side of the bed!" he gestured three-quarters of the master bed both he and Terrence were going to sleep in.
"But that leaves me with just little room…" murmured Terrence.
"Yeah? So, tough guy?!" he questioned, threateningly, "You get a mark on my side of the bed, and you'll sleep outside!"
"Fine…" said Terrence.
"Yeah, without clothes on, under mountains of ice!" Wyvern added.
*END OF CUTAWAY*
"Oh, that's gonna be tough…" said Lewis, "Do you want to talk about it or something, like regarding Carla?"
"No way…" Terrence shook his head, "I'm over her attitude. I don't care if she ruins my life back at home. I want absolutely nothing to do with her. She's been controlling me for a long time, and I want none of it anymore…" He got up from his seat and left before anyone could say anything.
Lewis turned to the others, a concerned look on his face, "He's really hurting right now…"
"I know." said Harvey, "Both of them are. Why don't we talk to them and explain what and why they are feeling that way, and then maybe we can finally get them to talk…"
"Maybe…" said Tracy, "But we gotta make sure they are on an appropriate level of emotion and mentality for us to talk about it, right?"
"Right…" said Lewis, before picking up a chicken wing and taking a bite from it.
Meanwhile, Tyler and Oscar saw Katherine, who was talking with the BFFFLs.
"Hold on…" said Oscar, eyeing Katherine, "I need to go make headway…" He walked over to her table. "Hey there…"
Katherine looked up to see the not-clumsy jock, "Hey… Oscar?" she tried to recall.
"Yeah." he said, "How's it going?"
"Nothing special…" murmured Katherine, "Just… glad to be here still…"
Katie and Sadie turned to the Jocks, "We finally got out of the Bottom Three…" said Katie.
"Yeah, and thank god for that!" Sadie nodded her head, "I felt like I was gonna pass out at some point if we got eliminated, nevermind make the Bottom Three again…"
"Yeah, well unfortunately we were in that position…" said a blue Tyler, "But the ice is too slippery, and I felt like I was gonna lose control riding on it…"
Oscar plopped a seat next to Katherine, "So… I have a question…"
"Does it involve any of the clothes Tyler is wearing?" Katherine tauntingly asked, eying the boy in question.
"Hey, I tossed that nightshirt out as soon as we hit the airport!" Tyler argued.
"What nightshirt?" asked Katie, turning to Tyler.
"Nothing!" Tyler yelled, embarrassed.
Katherine and Oscar disregarded Tyler's nightshirt episode and they moved on to each other. "Soo…" Katherine asked the black-haired jock, "What was your question?"
"Oh right!" Oscar realized, "So, I don't wanna rush things or anything, but… If you and Olivia were to win the race, what would you do with the prize money?"
Katherine chuckled, "Well, I'd save that kind of money to make my own… fashion design…" she sang, "I've been drawing concepts of what they would look like."
"Really?" Oscar asked, "Can I see?"
Katherine looked around, nervously, "Umm… I don't think I feel comfortable showing them to you yet."
Katie and Sadie popped right behind the jock, "Can we see it?" asked Sadie, "We LOVE to see what you've done so far…"
"Well, I just…" Katherine saw the BFFFLs' puppy-dog eyes. She turned to see Oscar just shrugging with a sheepish smile on his face, "Okay then… But do you promise not to laugh at them?"
The trio, along with Tyler, nodded their heads.
"Okay, here we go…" Katherine took out a folded piece of paper. She unfolded them to reveal it to them. "Well, what do you think?"
Katherine's designs on the paper are revealed to be a woolie hat designed as a golden retriever's head, a scarf with golden fur, and a light yellow dress with an identically colored tail on the back.
Sadie looked at her, confused, "Um, are those like, your only designs of outfits?" Katherine nodded, and the bigger BFFFL continued, "Well, I just wanna say-"
"They look stupid." a blunt Katie said out of nowhere.
Katherine, Oscar, Tyler, and especially Sadie went shocked towards the skinny BFFFL.
"What?" asked Katherine.
"Well, I wouldn't say they're stupid," Sadie tried to say, "I would say-"
Katie turned to her BFFFL, having a serious look on her face, "Sadie, don't lie to me." she said, "They are stupid. No way will anyone ever buy them if they're even produced…"
Oscar turned to see Katherine, who was welling up with tears, her face becoming red.
"I'm sorry…" she quickly said as she ran out of her seat, taking the paper with her.
Oscar and Tyler glared at Katie, "You didn't need to say that!" admonished Oscar.
"Well… they are stupid. They look like that poor dog has been maimed for its parts to become clothing of what sort." a blunt Katie said, "I mean, who wants that?!"
"I think you might want to ask that Icelandic woman wearing the swan scarf back in Season 1…" Tyler stated.
"Whatever…" said Katie, "She'll learn from my advice, and she'll just go and stick with it." She got up from her table, taking her plate with her, "I'm gonna go get dessert…"
"Katie, wait!" Sadie followed her, leaving the Jocks behind.
The scene transitions to a minute later by the hotel all teams were staying at. Tyler and Oscar were walking by the exterior. It looked like neither teammate was going to break the ice with each other. However, Oscar wanted to say something at last…
"I can't believe she said that to Katherine and hurt her feelings!" stated Oscar.
"Me neither…" said Tyler, "That just felt… out of nowhere, if you ask me, man."
Oscar turned to Tyler, "Ty, you know Katie, don't you?" he asked.
"Well, yeah, but after World Tour, we stopped talking to each other…" said Tyler, "Last time I saw her, we were all on that yacht to tease the viewers for Revenge of the Island… I mean-"
Suddenly, they were shoved aside by Lance, who was walking with Molly.
"Guess who, dumb animals…" hissed Lance, earning him glares from both Jocks.
Focusing on the Bullies, they are walking to get some food. "Man, can you believe we got first place?" said Molly, "Awesome!"
"'Cause we got that Zip-It and sprung to the icy Hudson…" agreed Lance, "Those teams never saw anything coming, amirite?"
"Correct…" said a smirking Molly.
Suddenly, they were hit in the faces by a door. Opening that door was V, whose room was filled with faint sobbing noises.
"Man… I need some grub…" he said to himself, tired of Carla's constant blubbering.
"Nice entrance, smart guy…" Molly told the punk, her voice muffled.
V shut the door to see Lance and Molly dazed from the hit. It wasn't long until Lance regained consciousness and shoved V out of the way.
It cuts back to the picnic, where the Brothers were stalking the soda fountain.
"So, Jose…" said Alejandro, "It was nice to have us deal with the Bullies, right?"
"Ahaha, si, indeed, Al…" laughed Jose, earning Alejandro a glare, "Of course, it was nice of them to let us take care of the Moms…"
*FLASHBACK*
Back on the private plane, the Brothers and Bullies were talking about who to get rid of…
"Kay now…" said Molly, trying not to get everyone else's attention, "So which one of us should take care of the Moms?"
"We can show you how it's done…" said Jose.
"Oh no way, Jose!" said a glaring Lance, "Let us do the reckoning!"
Jose chuckled, "I'm afraid you two don't require the techniques to sabotage…"
"Try us…" said Lance.
Alejandro looked around a little bit… "How about you play rock-paper-scissors with us, and if you win, we'll let you do it. But we'll show you how it's done if we win."
"Perfect…" said a smirking Molly.
Both teams prepared a fist for each other. "One. Two. Three!" they said as they started rocking their fists, resulting in…
The Bullies each pulling paper, and the Brothers each pulling two scissors.
"Huh, lucky…" groaned Lance, "Be lucky it wasn't extreme rock-paper-scissors… We'd destroy you in seconds."
"So what's the plan?" asked Molly.
"We'll show you how it's done, alright?" said Alejandro.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
It goes back to reality, with Alejandro and Jose talking to Lance and Molly.
"And that's how we took care of them…" said Jose, "But it was mostly my idea, since I've read that nickel mines up here can have different kinds of gemstones…"
"Cool… Little lucky I say, huh?" asked Molly.
"Yes, indeed…" said Jose.
Meanwhile, at the dessert table, Katie was scooping a few scoops of ice cream, with Sadie by her side. Sadie was still upset with Katie, how she told off Katherine's fashion design drawings that she would make.
"Y'know, Katie, you didn't need to sound rude to her." she stated to her BFFFL.
"I'm sorry, Sadie, but sometimes you have to be brutally honest about it. Though I didn't want to make her cry. I dunno why she jumped ship because of that…" said Katie.
"Yo…" someone's voice was heard.
The BFFFLs turn around to see V, who had a plate of salmon and beans.
"V!" exclaimed Katie.
"Heard you guys were safe from the Bottom Three…" the punk said, "How's it feel to still be in the air?"
Katie and Sadie looked at each other, shrugging, smiling at each other, "We're just glad to not be stuck in the Bottom Three." said Katie.
"Exactly!" Sadie exclaimed, "Sixth place isn't too bad, right?" Katie shook her head. "And we don't have much anxiety to deal with getting out of it too much… Though we are gonna have to try a lot hard in order to stay afloat."
"Nice…" said V, before he turned to Katie, "So Katie, you interested in watching a movie?"
"Wait- like, you and me?" asked Katie.
"Yeah."
Sadie glared at the punk, "Hold on a minute! What about me?" she asked, angrily.
"There's no more than two peeps where we're gonna watch," said V, "But don't fret, she'll be yours back in no time."
"I'll be back in my room after the movie's over, Sadie." said Katie, "I'll miss you!"
Sadie was weirded out by the response Katie gave her. But before she could say something else, she noticed Katie's sundae in the open.
"Wait, Katie!" she cried out, "Your sundae!"
Katie turned around, "I'm not hungry anymore," she said, "Maybe you can have it for me?"
Sadie was left in the dust. She took one look at Katie's sundae she was not going to have.
It cuts to later, with Sadie already eating Katie's sundae. She was still upset about what Katie did. She and Katie were 'Best Female Friends For Life', just as their team name was, as well as how they were called. She gets that her and V were friends, but Katie and Sadie always do stuff together, sans the Botch-or-Watch, which they agreed that they would only leave it to one of them to perform the work. To hear her friend want to do something else with someone else, that just took Sadie by surprise.
Suddenly, she was approached by Rodney, who was wearing a towel over his head and a robe over his body. "Hey, Sadie…" he said to her.
Sadie looked up to see the hulkling country boy over her, "Rodney!" she called.
Approaching her, Rodney pointed to the spot on the bench next to her, "This seat taken?"
"Uh…" Sadie looked around, wondering if Katie would come back, "Actually… no." was all Sadie could say, "But you can sit with me for a few minutes…"
"Sure!" Rodney sat next to the chubby BFFFL. "So, what's going on these days?"
"Eh… nothing much…" Sadie frowned, "Except that… Katie went to see a movie with V…"
"Oh?" asked Rodney, "And what's wrong with that?"
"Nothing's wrong, it's just… usually Katie and I do stuff together, but this time, Katie didn't want me to come for some reason…" said a glum Sadie, "It's weird, because we're 'Best Female Friends For Life'. And without each other… it's really convoluted…"
Rodney shrugged, "Did something happen between you two?" he asked.
Sadie shook her head, "No… But this is the first time I've started to break out into hives…"
Rodney scoped the big BFFFL's face. "I don't see any hives on your face, Sadie." he said, "Are you sur-" An embarrassed Sadie pointed to her rear, with the back of her legs red. Rodney had nothing else to say but, "...Oh… Does… that hurt?" he asked.
"Yeah, but I try not to scratch it too badly…" said Sadie, sitting back down in her seat. She turned to Rodney, "How's everything for you?"
"Well, I just got out of the water," said Rodney, "I was too busy thinking about what to tell Courtney."
"What were you thinking about telling her?" asked Sadie.
Rodney stood up. "Okay, here it goes…" He clears his throat, "Courtney, you and I… we're icy, and what you said about totem poles and nickels, they're beauteous, and sweet timbers and shoes. You're my voice of beans and ice cream sundaes! Ah, this, yeah, we are acceptable on sheets and taxis-"
As he was speaking gibberish, Sadie leered at him. "Okay! Okay! I get it!" she exclaimed to him, making him stop talking, "Now look, I don't want to be the biggest thorn in the haystack, but I would just try not to do anything to piss her off…"
"How come? Is she short-tempered?"
"In a way, yes." said Sadie, "But it's just… there's been a lot of trust issues between some of the first gen Total Drama alumni and her, and I don't want to sound rude, but she's had a bad reputation with her exes."
Rodney laughed it off, "Nonsense!" he said, "She's the nicest little angel a guy has ever seen! She's giving me hints that she might love me… Who were to even think about it?! Love is right in front of me, and that love is Courtney!"
Sadie was disappointed with Rodney, but she didn't want to show it. "Well… I hope you and Courtney are great for each other… You two sound… promising…"
"Thanks, Sadie!" said Rodney, standing up, "Now I gotta go and wash this Hudson Bay off of me! Scott doesn't like the smell of lakewater…"
"Okay…" said Sadie, "Thanks for stopping by."
Before Rodney left, he turned around to Sadie, "Oh, and Sadie? I hope you and Katie are still going to stay best friends."
"Of course!" said Sadie, "We're 'Best Female Friends for Life'! Why would we stop being friends?"
"I'm not sure…" said a confused Rodney, "But you and Sadie sound pretty in sync. I'm not saying you girls should go on a date or something, but you girls definitely deserve each other!"
"Uhh…" Sadie blushed, "Thank you. I'll try to keep an eye on her!"
"Awesome!" Rodney nodded, "Later!" He waved as Sadie did the same thing before he ran off back to the hotel.
Sadie was all left alone, hoping to make sure she keeps an eye on her BFFFL.
1st - Lance & Molly - Bullies
2nd - Willis & Fredrik - All-Star Hockey Players
3rd - Alejandro & Jose - Brothers
4th - Arnold & Percy - Maple Scouts
5th - Patrick & Elizabeth - British Royals
6th - Katie & Sadie - BFFFLs
7th - Scott & Rodney - Young Farmers
8th - V & Wyvern - Punks
9th - Katherine & Olivia - Opposing Roommates
10th - Courtney & Gwen - Unlikely Best Friends
11th - Harvey & Lewis - Town Heroes
12th - Seren & Mitzy - Lesbians
13th - Luke & Giulietta - Student & Counselor
14th - Tracy & Lorraine - Pizza Sisters
15th - Shannon & Narissa - C-List Celebrities
16th - Tyler & Oscar - Jocks
17th - Carla & Terrence - Homecoming Couple
18th - Carmen & Georgia *E*
19th - Martin & Margaret - Grandparents *E*
20th - Jonny & Avery - Rappers *E*
Next episode - Somewhere golden, going north to south!