I would just like to thank everyone who reads and reviews this story. I really appreciate it knowing that at least some people are enjoying my writing. Also, I'm sorry that it took this long to update. I had a temporary job for a couple of weeks at it was taking a lot of time out of my day. Hopefully, I'll be updating fast once more! Here you have it.

Winter Chores

The Autumn Leaves

"Wow." Colleen said, looking out of the window. "It must have snowed a lot last night. The snow looks four feet deep."

"Four feet?" Maddie rushed to the window. "That's pretty crazy."

"Doesn't it make you want to just jump in?" Colleen giggled.

"Maybe?" Maddie nervously smiled. "Depends how deep it is."

"You're no fun." Colleen smiled. "If my brother were here I'd probably push him in."

Maddie sat on her bed. "Do you and your brother fight a lot?"

"Not really." Colleen explained. "Colin and I get along for the most part. Just some fun sibling teasing, the usual."

"Oh, I get it." Maddie said. "I have two younger sisters, but I wish there were someone my age that I could talk to about certain things."

"Like boys?" Colleen smirked.

"That's one thing." Maddie giggled.

"Can't talk to Colin about that." Colleen laughed.

Confession Cam:

(Colleen) "Maddie is a pretty good roommate." She nods. "But can I trust her as a friend?"

Janae walked back into her room to find her side of the room neatly put together and Luigi sweeping.

"Hello, bella." Luigi smiled at her.

"Good morning, Luigi." Janae shook her head and tried not to smile.

"How did you... Sleep?" Luigi asked.

Janae rose an eyebrow. "Did you watch me sleep?"

"What? No." Luigi said. "Of course not, bella. All I did was stand outside your door."

"Uh." Janae looked disgusted.

"To protect you." Luigi calmly said. "I didn't want any ghosts or demons to get a hold of you."

"Hilarious." Janae chuckled.

Confession Cam:

(Luigi) "Eerie things like ghosts do not scare me. I scare them." He awkwardly grins.

Arin then walked in the room. "Hey friends." She smiled.

"Hi Arin." Janae said in an upbeat voice and smiled. "How was your sleep?" She asked all over-the-top.

"It was, uh, great!" Arin smiled.

Confession Cam:

(Arin) "Me and Janae are like... best friends!"

"Couldn't have been better than Janae's." Luigi said. "She-"

"Now it's time to go." Janae said, annoyed. She grabbed Arin's hand and took her out of the room. As they walked somewhere else, they passed Lesley.

"Hey ladies." Lesley smiled.

Janae rolled her eyes.

Confession Cam:

(Lesley) "Obviously Janae doesn't like me. Maybe I'm the next on her hit list." He shrugs. "I don't know if I should do something about it."

The Summer Suns

Colin and Katherine were by the pool area hanging out.

Colin yawned. "It's pretty early."

"Yeah." Katherine said. "I'm used to waking up early. I don't even need an alarm anymore."

"Neat." Colin smiled. "I wish I had those capabilities."

"Just wake up early and your body will get used to it." Katherine explained.

"Oh, I know that." Colin said. "I just... Don't." He laughed. "I'm usually up late playing video games or watching anime."

"Anime?" Katherine asked.

"Japanese animation." Colin said. "To explain it in the least terms."

"So... You know Japanese?" Katherine asked innocently.

Colin laughed. "There are English subtitles. I'm surprised you don't know about anime."

"All I know about is the glamorous life." Katherine said. "I'm home schooled, so I'm only taught the important things, as my family says. But I'm not ignorant."

"Home schooled." Colin said. "That's interesting. I'm surprised you aren't completely antisocial."

"As an actress slash singer, I kind of have to be social, but only to the right people." Katherine explained.

"Am I the right people?" Colin frowned.

Katherine, confused, raised an eyebrow.

"You seem like you're embarrassed to be around me." Colin said. "Delanie even said it."

"Colin, are you upset?" Katherine paused.

"I just want to know why you're embarrassed to be my friend." Colin asked.

"Look," Katherine sighed. "Delanie isn't the only person who wouldn't approve of my friendship to you."

"But why?" Colin asked.

"It's a cold industry." Katherine said.

Confession Cam:

(Colin) "Look, I don't know how they're going to edit me as a character, so I may seem a little clingy right now. I'm not." He shakes his head. "I just want to open Katherine up and get to know her better. I'm not that good at a social game and neither is she. I want to get along with her."

(Katherine) "Colin is so nice and so smart." She sadly states. "But I know for a fact that I would never be friends with someone like him in the real world... Then again, I don't even know the real world." She sighs.

Katherine looked at the clock. "Well, I guess it's time for me to go wake up the others and get breakfast."

"Right." Colin said.

Gloria opened the door as Katherine stepped to it, catching her off guard. "Good morning." Gloria smiled. "I have many new things I'd like to sell." She held up binoculars. "You can use these to watch out for people who are coming. Like me." She smirked.

"No thank you." Katherine said politely. She then tried to pass Gloria, but Gloria wouldn't let her.

"Why doesn't anyone want to buy anything from me?" Gloria complained. "This is what I'm good at!"

"I... Um, I'm sorry?" Katherine tried to pass again.

"I have a family tradition to uphold!" Gloria snapped. "You must buy something."

Katherine looked at Colin, then at the clock once more. "Okay, okay." She pulled out some money and took the binoculars. "Here."

"Pleasure doing business with you." Gloria smirked.

Confession Cam:

(Gloria) "I'm expert at fooling people." She crosses her arms. "It's only a matter of time before these fools come around. Then, I'll practically be getting fed money!" She smirks.

"Contestants!" Chris's image appeared through each TV screen. "Gather around in the living room. It's time for your next challenge!"

"Joy." Lesley rolled his eyes.

"Your last challenge involved digging. This challenge is kind of similar." Chris smirked.

"Oh no." Colleen said.

"It involves shovels." Chris smirked. "As some of you may have seen, there's a lot of snow outside. Your duty for today is to shovel all that snow out of the way."

"I knew it." Colleen said.

"The team that can shovel the amount of snow that it takes to fill up the ditch at the side of the house in the fastest time will win." Chris explained. "And don't groan. It's winter, meaning you have to deal with shoveling snow."

"This challenge is so rigged." Delanie said. "Isn't it?" She turned to Katherine.

"How is it rigged?" Eli asked.

"We have to shovel... Again!" Delanie said. "Last time we barely even made it through. I haven't had to do one chore my entire life. Neither has Katherine. It's almost like they're trying to get us out of here."

"That... Actually kind of makes sense." Nick said.

"You would think that they'd try to keep us! Considering the publicity they're obviously going to get for having celebrities on this season." Delanie crossed her arms.

"Let's just not dwell and split up." Colin said. "We'll cover more ground that way."

"Fine." Delanie sighed and picked up a shovel.

Confession Cam:

(Delanie) She is fanning herself and breathing in and out quickly. "Get it together, Delanie. Method acting. Method acting. Okay."

"Where are we, uh, going to dig?" Arin asked Janae as she and Luigi followed her to a spot.

"Here." Janae said. "We're right by the ditch."

"Awesome!" Arin smiled. "So, wait, what were we supposed to do?"

"Watch and learn." Janae smiled. She then turned to Luigi. "Luigi?"

"Oh, of course, bella." He bowed and then dug up some snow and tossed it in the ditch.

"Oh." Arin said, looking at her shovel. She still looked a little confused.

"Need help?" Janae asked.

"Allow me to show her." Luigi said, repeating what he just did.

"Oh... Okay." Arin said, shoveling up a bit of snow.

Janae sighed.

Confession Cam:

(Janae) She laughs. "My allies are idiots."

Luigi came to Janae. "Hello..." He awkwardly smiled.

"Bella?" Janae rose an eyebrow. "I already know what you're going to call me."

"Do you get called that a lot?" Luigi asked.

"Does it matter?" Janae asked, turning towards the snow with her shovel.

"Well, if you don't, you should." Luigi said, digging too.

"I'm smarter than you think I am." Janae said. "So stop playing your little game."

"I'm not playing any game other than this Total Drama game." Luigi said. "I do think you're very nice looking."

Janae looked at him, then smiled. "Thanks, Luigi."

Luigi smiled. "Does this mean I can take you out?"

Janae chuckled and got back to digging. "I don't know about that. I mean, it is winter after all."

Confession Cam:

(Luigi) "Perhaps when the season changes?"

(Janae) "There's no way I'll ever catch feelings for Luigi. However, I can use his feelings for me to my complete advantage. Plus, it's something different."

"Hey there." TJ smiled at Nolan, who was by himself digging up some snow.

"Hi." Nolan said.

"Why're ya by yourself?" TJ asked, joining him in digging.

"I was told I had to be for this challenge." Nolan said.

"You don't have to be." TJ said. "I'll dig with ya."

"Okay then." Nolan said.

TJ frowned. "So, Nolan. Tell me about yourself."

Confession Cam:

(TJ) "Nolan sure is a quiet fella." She smiles. "I wanna see what he's about!"

"Room for one more?" Eli smiled and joined the two. He then turned to TJ. "Talked to him yet?"

"That Nolan's harder to talk to than a woman on a date with her true love." TJ said.

Eli turned to where Nolan was to find him not there anymore. "Great." Eli sighed. "I think we should give it up then. I don't know what his strategy is and it's pretty much a joke to me now."

"Eli!" TJ said. "Don't say that. We can still open Nolan up." She smiled. "He's just a lil shy."

"Do you like him?" Eli giggled. "I think you like him!"

"What?" TJ playfully pushed Eli. "No I don't! Ah'm not here for a relationship. "Just would like to get to know all mah teammates."

"I guess that's true." Eli nodded.

Confession Cam:

(Eli) "I'll let her keep trying with Nolan. But I have to try with someone else."

The Autumn Leaves were off to a pretty good start.

Vincent shoveled up a large pile of snow and threw it in the ditch.

"That was a big pile." Maddie said. "You really are strong."

"Yeah." Vincent said. "My strength often gets me into trouble. Sometimes I'm really rough when I don't mean to be."

"Is that so?" Maddie asked. She playfully tried to push him but he didn't move. "Okay then." She laughed and got back to digging.

Vincent smiled.

Confession Cam:

(Vincent) "I don't know how I feel about Maddie. She is my friend, don't get me wrong, but she's always around me for some reason."

"Talking game?" Janae appeared next to Vincent.

"Nope." Vincent said. "We were just chatting."

"Sure you were." Janae said. "I know you're involved in an alliance with Maddie. I just want to make sure I'm not the target."

"Wait, you're pointing a finger at me but it's obvious you're working with her." Vincent said, pointing to Arin, who smiled and waved at him.

"Uh, hi, Janae." She smiled.

"Arin, I told you not to follow me!" Janae snapped.

"Oh, that's what you meant?" Arin asked nervously.

Janae rolled her eyes. "It's okay, Arin." She then turned to Vincent. "I won't deny that I'm working with her, but I'll tell you this. If you have numbers, so do I."

"Uh..." Vincent didn't know what to say.

"Just promise me you wont target me and I'll do the same for you." Janae said.

"Okay?" Vincent nodded.

"Great." Janae smiled. She turned and walked away, leaving Arin.

"I'm not supposed to follow her." Arin said to Vincent.

"I think you are now." Vincent said pointing to Janae, who stood looking at Arin with her arms crossed.

"Oh!" Arin shot up. "Uh, okay.." She trudged towards Janae.

Vincent brushed that off and turned back towards Maddie.

"What was that about?" Maddie asked.

"I really don't know, actually." Vincent said.

Confession Cam:

(Vincent) "I'm worried my friendship with Maddie will make me a target and that's the least thing I want. I'm here to prove a point."

The Summer Suns were working very hard.

Colin shoveled with Nolan. "This challenge is pretty boring, don't you think?" Colin asked.

"It's alright." Nolan said. "I'm waiting for things to speed up though."

"Maybe the challenges are slow because it's the winter season." Colin said.

"Perhaps." Nolan said. "It would make sense."

"I hope winter is over soon." Colin said. "I hope I make it past winter." He then said.

"You are very likely to." Nolan said. "As am I. I don't think we're targets."

"I think I am." Colin said. "Delanie wants me out of here and I'm pretty sure she's working with Katherine and Nick."

"They have to be." Nolan said. "But we can't let them eliminate you."

"Then who?" Colin asked. "TJ? She's a sweetheart and so is Eli. Then there's Gloria."

"Perhaps we can sway them towards targeting Eli." Nolan said. "The die doesn't have a good feeling about him."

"Yeah, we can try that." Colin agreed.

Confession Cam:

(Colin) "I just want to split up their alliance so that Katherine can stop hiding our friendship."

(Nolan) "As of right now, Colin is my only ally in the game. I have to keep him safe."

"No way, Facundo?" Delanie laughed.

"Way!" Nick said. "What's so bad about that?"

"I don't know." Delanie giggled. "It's a weird mix for me."

"Well, he's totally my type and he's hot!" Nick said.

"You like bad boys." Delanie laughed. "Too bad there aren't any here."

"Maybe there are some on the other team." Nick said eagerly.

"If you make it that far." Delanie said seriously. "...Oh, I'm just kidding!" She laughed. "They aren't separating us."

"No way!" Nick said. He then smirked at Delanie. "What about you? Who would your crush from TDA be?"

"They're all so not up to par." Delanie joked. "But if I had to pick someone, it'd be Joshua."

"Joshua?!" Nick laughed. "And you thought me picking Facundo was random."

"He's a baseball player." Delanie said. "Totally hot."

"Not!" Nick laughed. "What about you, Kat?"

Katherine was busy shoveling snow into the ditch. "We're almost done here." She said.

"Answer the question, Kat!" Delanie said. "And please don't say you'd get with Eddy."

"He was actually pretty nice." Katherine said.

"I just can't picture you guys together." Delanie shrugged.

"Neither can I." Katherine said. "He was pretty good with Grace."

"Until she cheated on him." Nick said. "That must have sucked."

"I was cheated on in this one movie I did." Delanie said. "It sucked for my character."

"I've never been cheated on." Nick bragged.

"Good." Delanie said.

Confession Cam:

(Delanie) "Katherine remains unresponsive. Something must be up."

(Nick) "The guys here are all making me homesick cause there are so many hot guys at home. I mean, Delanie doesn't like Colin, so I can't get to know him. I don't really talk to Eli. And Nolan seems to be in his own little world. I hope that when we meet the other team I'll find at least one contender..." He laughs nervously.

Gloria angrily shoveled snow into the ditch. "I can't believe I haven't even made much so far. This game is a joke!"

"What's wrong?" Eli asked, hearing her from a few feet over.

"I'm frustrated." Gloria said. "These people won't buy my wares."

"It's okay." Eli tried to calm her.

"No it's not!" Gloria said. "My purpose when coming here was to make money and I've hardly made anything!"

"Well in that case, I'm frustrated too." Eli said.

"You're trying to make money too?" Gloria asked. "So that's why I haven't been selling anything." She snapped.

"No, no." Eli said. "I'm frustrated because I came here to win and nobody wants to work with me in this game. But you have to keep trying."

"You're right!" Gloria said. "I'm going to keep trying." She said as she stomped over to Kat, Delanie and Nick. "For sale! Snow glasses!" She grinned.

"We don't want to buy anything." Delanie said.

"No thanks." Nick said.

"Katherine?" Gloria asked. "I know you bought something from me this morning, but-"

"Bought something? I didn't see you bring anything to our room this morning." Delanie said.

"That's because..." Katherine thought.

"Yeah," Gloria said. "This morning I saw Katherine and-"

"Gloria!" Katherine shot up. "I'll buy something from you!"

"Really?" Gloria asked, smiling.

"Yeah, yeah. Just please be quiet and go away." Katherine whispered to her. "Here." She handed her some money and Gloria happily went on her merry way.

Confession Cam:

(Gloria) "Interesting... This morning Katherine bought something to get away from Colin. Now she bought something to get away from me mentioning him..."

(Katherine) "That was a close one."

On the Autumn Leaves team, Lesley and Colleen were working close to each other.

"I think we'll be done within the next ten, fifteen minutes." Colleen said.

"I'll be done in five if I keep doing what I'm doing." Lesley smirked.

"Definitely." Colleen sighed.

"Is there a problem?" Lesley asked. "You seem upset."

"No." Colleen said. "I'm just a little tired. We've been digging for who knows how long."

"You wanna relax a bit?" Lesley said to her. "I can shovel with two arms." He reached for her shovel.

"No way!" Colleen laughed. "I can dig for a few more minutes."

"You sure?" Lesley playfully asked her.

"Positive." Colleen said.

"I wish this were a painting competition." Lesley said.

"I bet you do." Colleen said. "You're so annoying." She said playfully.

"I'm annoying?" Lesley stopped and looked at her.

"The most annoyingest guy I've met." Colleen stuck her tongue out at him.

"I'll show you annoying." Lesley said. He shoveled up some snow and chucked it at her.

"Hey!" Colleen laughed. "That wasn't... Nice!" She exclaimed as she threw a snowball back at him. The pair started to throw snow at each other and laugh.

Confession Cam:

(Colleen) "Okay, maybe we got carried away." She shrugs. "But every time I'm with Lesley I'm always having fun. Does that mean that I like him? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe I can have a chance with him? I don't even know. Maybe I just think I have feelings for him because he's my only friend here."

"Contestants!" Chris's voice is heard. "It appears we have a winner! Congratulations to... The Summer Suns! You have won for the second time in a row! You have a reward for this challenge: a party! And you're going to meet: Chef!"

"Yay!" Nick said. "I'm so vlogging about this encounter."

"Party!" TJ exclaimed. "How excitin!"

The Summer Suns enjoyed their party, but Gloria pulled Eli to the side.

"Hey Gloria." Eli smiled. "Feeling better?"

"Way." Gloria smirked. "I have a proposition for you."

"What's that?" Eli rose an eyebrow.

"You said you needed an ally." Gloria said. "And I need money. So tell you what, I'll sell you my vote for every time we lose."

Eli smirked deviously. "That's a deal."

Confession Cam:

(Eli) "Yes! Another definite vote." He smiles devilishly.

(Gloria) "More money and protection." She smirks proudly. "Can you say cha-ching!"

The Autumn Leaves

"Another loss." Janae groaned. "Perfect."

"At least we don't have to go through another elimination ceremony, bella." Luigi said.

"

"True." Janae said. "But I'd still like to win."

"I apologize." Luigi said. "I should have worked harder."

Janae laughed. "Yeah, you should have."

"So what's the plan?" Luigi asked.

Janae smiled at Luigi, then turned to Arin, who appeared to be daydreaming. "Can you get me some lemonade?"

"Oh! Uh, sure." Arin said and made her way out.

"The plan, as of now, is for you and I to be in the final two together." Janae told Luigi.

"Really? Me and you?" Luigi smiled.

"Yes, Luigi." Janae said in a monotone voice.

"Can we seal this deal with a kiss?" Luigi asked politely.

Janae rolled her eyes, then kissed him on the cheek.

Confession Cam:

(Luigi) Is blushing red as he looks down towards his crotch.

(Janae) "The only reason I'm bringing him to the final two is because I'm sure he'll throw it for me." She pushes up her glasses. "And yes, kissing him was out of character for me. I know that. But I'm sure my parents will respect my game play because I'm nothing like Stephan."

"I'm nervous." Vincent said.

"That's why you pulled me aside?" Maddie asked him. "We're all nervous, Vince."

"I know, but I'm afraid we may be at the bottom of the team." Vincent said.

"Trust me, we aren't." Maddie said.

"Thanks," Vincent said. "And sorry, I needed a bit of reassurance." He laughed a little.

Confession Cam:

(Vincent) "Just wanted to make sure." He smiles.

(Maddie) "Vincent is really paranoid about our spot in the game. It feels nice to know that he's thinking about me too but I don't know if we're really in a spot for him to be paranoid. It must be coming from that thing I feel he's hiding."

"Tonight would have been a close one." Lesley said to Colleen. "Especially because we were playing around during the challenge."

"I always tend to smile when I'm with you." Colleen said.

"Cause I'm a beast ass friend." Lesley smirked.

"So you are my friend." Colleen smiled.

"Yeah, we have to look out for each other in this game." Lesley patted her on the back. "I'm pretty much working with you."

"You're right." Colleen nodded.

"I have your back." Lesley said.

"I have yours." Colleen smiled.

Confession Cam:

(Colleen) "I would have never pictured myself with a guy like Lesley... But I think I don't just think I like him... I do like him... I think." She groans. "This is so confusing."

NEXT TIME: A small love triangle forms (any guesses?) and Janae takes an unexpected turn in her strategy. Eli has plans for the celebrity alliance. Also, another cast member of TDU is revealed.