Author's Note: A big thank you for all the great reviews you sent me for Chapter 2. You have no idea how much it means to me! Also, a big thanks to all those of you who favourited or put my story on alert. The first part of chapter 3 is basically going to be a repeat of chapter 2 but in Scott's point of view so you'll also see some of his thoughts on things that happened in chapter 2. I suggest you do not skip it since there are some important parts. I really hope you like it since I spent a whole day working on it and trying to make it perfect :)
Here are the answers to your reviews:
kingdomheartsluver21: Thanks for your review and hope this was soon enough for you! :)
ARadomperson: First of all I want to thank you for taking the time to review again! You have no idea how much it means to me knowing someone's been here for my story from the start and is still here! I was happy to update so no need to thank me. Hope this chapter satisfies a little your hunger to know how they'll match everyone up ;) Thanks again for reviewing and hope to hear from you again! X
KittyPurryMeow: First of all, thanks for reviewing again. Like I said in the reply before this one, it means a lot to me when readers review to me more than once because it feels good to know that someone's been there from the very first chapter and is still there. Hope I'm not sounding stupid but it's true. I'm glad you're happy that I'm not going to have Scott and Dawn from hating each other straight to making out. I was scared some readers might be upset with that. I hope the way I portray characters like Lightning and Dakota will be to your liking. You're going to get to see Dakota very soon! I'm glad you love my story. Like I said before, it really, truly means a lot to me to have such great readers that support me so much. I'm also glad you liked the part where Scott fell on Dawn, hope it surprised you ;) It's great that you heard their voices in your head when they talked since that's what I was aiming for. Anyways, I'd just like to say that I don't mind long reviews. In fact, I really enjoy them. Just be prepared to get a long reply in return ;) Hope to hear from you again and hope you like chapter 3! :) xx
thjgdh: Glad you like it! P.S I accept your challenge ;)
Akela Victoire: I'm glad you like the story and that you think it has potential. It really means a lot. I don't really pay attention to the word count so replying to reviews doesn't make a difference for me. I just write all that I feel there is to write. I don't want to check my word count, see it isn't enough and end up making a chapter sound forced just because I was trying to make it longer. Another reason I respond to reviews in the beginning is so that new readers get to see that I do respond to reviews. That's really important to me…that people know I respond to reviews since I know there are writers who don't (no offence meant for those who don't reply since I know how busy life can get. I just wanted to make my point that I respond). Hope you don't think that I'm insulting you or anything because of your review. I actually want to thank you because this way I get to answer you and people that might have the same thoughts. Thanks again and hope to hear from you again! (P.S Sorry if it's too long of a reply!) :)
Unfortunately, I don't own the Total Drama Series or any of its characters :(
On with chapter 3! Enjoy! :)
Chapter 3
Scott's POV
If I thought I had underestimated Dawn before it was nothing compared to what I was thinking now. She made me help her clean the toilets. I still hate her but I guess I respect her too now. Not everyone could make me do something like that. In fact, I think she's the only one.
I was making my way towards the breakfast room when someone snatched my hand and turned me around. Obviously, I hadn't been expecting this so while I was turning around I lost my balance and fell on top of the person who had snatched my hand. Guess who it was? Surprise, surprise! It was Dawn.
She wasn't expecting me to fall either so when I fell on top of her she fell on the ground with me on top. We were face to face and that's when Dawn looked up and our eyes sort of…connected. We kept looking at each other for quite a while. We were frozen.
I was the first one to snap out of it and I stood up while shaking my head. "What now?" I asked. She was looking a bit offended. Probably because I didn't offer her a hand. Why would I have? She's the reason we fell in the first place.
"I-I don't agree with your plan", she stammered. Was she serious? First she makes me agree to do this stupid thing and now she's going to whine because the plan wasn't good enough for her?
"What the hell is wrong with my plan?" I yelled. "I'm practically handling everything and you're still not satisfied! What else could you possibly want?"
"That's the reason I'm not satisfied!" she yelled back. I had to admit I was a little shocked. Ever since I met her I hadn't seen her yell once. She must have been really mad.
"I want to be a part of the matchmaking. I don't want to just give you the pairings and have you do everything else. I want to help", I heard her say. I couldn't help it. I burst out laughing right in her face. The thought of little, creepy Dawn helping in anything that involved being sneaky was just too funny.
"You… helping?" I said still laughing. "You said it yourself yesterday. I'm sneaky and persuasive something you're not so I don't really need your help but since I don't actually want to be doing this and since I would not mind seeing this plan fail miserably…fine we'll do this together ", I said, smirking throughout my whole speech.
She could probably tell that I wasn't taking this seriously because all of a sudden she went back to blackmailing me.
"Look Scott, either you take this seriously or I'm going to go to the breakfast room right now and show everyone the video. Are you really going to make me do that?"
That got rid of my smirk. When was I going to learn to keep my mouth shout around Dawn? She was starting to be very dangerous.
"Fine", I answered her question while glaring daggers at her. "Here's the plan. You get me a list of who you want to end up with whom. We'll start working on the easiest couples and work our way up. How does that sound to you?" I asked still glaring.
She smiled her innocent smile at me. "That's better. I already have the list of couples if you want. We can start working on them right now at breakfast!" I could tell that she was getting excited and I started to feel even more disgusted that I was actually going to be taking part in something so stupid.
With a huff, I snatched the paper with the couples written on it from Dawn's hands. I opened it and quickly scanned through it. "I think the easiest couple is Sam and Dakota. They're already sort of together so it shouldn't be very difficult."
"I would say that Mike and Zoe are pretty easy too but we mustn't forget about Mike's bipolar disorder. One second he's flirting with Zoe and the next he's making out with Anne Maria as if his life depends on it. That complicates things. Then there's Brick and Jo and I think everyone would agree that they're very difficult. They can't even see each other without arguing. No, we'll have to leave them for last."
I looked at Dawn and saw her give me a stunned look. "How could you know all that?" she said looking impressed. I shrugged. "How do you think I managed to get all those players eliminated? Sure, I was really sneaky but I also got to know the players well so that I would know the best way to go to get them eliminated." Dawn looked even more impressed now.
"You know Scott, the more I talk to you the more I'm assured that I did the right thing in asking you to help me in my matchmaking plan. Anyways, what do you think we should do to get Sam and Dakota together for real?" said Dawn.
I thought this through well. I had to take it seriously after all. "How about I talk to Sam and you talk to Dakota. First of all we have to get them to admit their feelings for each other to us. This won't be difficult to do with Sam since he already thinks Dakota's hot."
"The problem will be with Dakota. She knows she's attracted to Sam but she won't admit it to anyone and that's all she thinks it is. Attraction. But the truth is that what she feels is more than attraction. It's love", I said the last part with a disgusted look on my face and Dawn rolled her eyes at that.
"I like that plan", she said. "I'll start talking to Dakota during breakfast but I don't know if she'll listen to me. She doesn't really like me."
"I wonder why", I muttered under my breath but she acted as if she didn't hear me even though she obviously did.
"How about we meet up after tonight's elimination ceremony and talk about what we find out and about what we'll do next?" said Dawn. I reluctantly nodded. "I'll see you soon then", she said.
I just rolled my eyes and made my way towards the breakfast room already knowing that I was going to enjoy breakfast even less than I usually did since I was going to have to talk to Sam about feelings. And not just any kind of feelings. Romantical feelings. This was going to be a very long day.
Dawn's POV
I couldn't help but still feel shocked at how well Scott knew all the participants of the show. Can you blame me? Most of the times Scott looks as if he couldn't care less about what was going on with the other participants. Actually, scratch that. Not most of the timesbut all the time.
If I had had any doubts before I definitely didn't have any now. Scott was the right guy to help me with my matchmaking plan. There was no way I could ever plan a way to get three couples together. His plan has a good chance of working. I just hope I'll manage to talk to Dakota and get her to admit her feelings.
Speaking of Dakota's feelings; how could Scott look disgusted at the thought love? Love is the most precious feeling in the world and he acts disgusted? I swear that as hard as I try to figure him out I'm never going to manage to do it and that really gets on my nerves.
All my life I've always managed to learn about people and read their feelings through their auras but Scott's aura is just impossible to read. Believe me I tried but I just couldn't. All I could get out of his aura was that he had a difficult childhood but that's all. I hadn't even realized he had been a traitor to his team until that challenge where we had to shoot the bells with mutant seagulls while on top of a speedboat. Scott was a real mystery to me.
I have to admit that what he said hurt a bit. When I said that Dakota doesn't really like me I heard him say, "I wonder why." I don't know what I had been expecting. I knew he didn't like me before because he thought I was creepy but now it has turned into hate because of the whole blackmailing thing. It wouldn't kill him to try and be nice though, especially since we're going to be talking together quite a bit because of our matchmaking deal.
Sighing deeply, I started following Scott and slowly made my way towards the breakfast room , already planning what I was going to tell Dakota in my head.