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The girls all turned to see Janet standing behind them.

And next to her...

Justin.


Justin smiled and Fawn's eyelids started to flutter. "Hello, girls. As you know, I'm Justin."

"You talk?" Krystal asked, slight shock on her face, and she wasn't the only girl in awe.

Justin's smile only grew, and Janet looked at Krystal with a 'What do you think, genius?' look. "Of course I do! I just didn't talk a lot in Total Drama Island."

"Why didn't you talk more on the Island?" Ai asked, hiding Duke behind her back as Justin turned to look at her.

"Chris thought it would be better for ratings if I was just a pretty face."

"What a tool." Was Dave's comment.

Justin chuckled and continued. "Well, I'd love to chat, but this is a competition, and you ladies have a challenge to complete." He turned to Janet. "Janet here will tell you more.

Janet read from a grey clipboard: "Your challenge is called the "Homemaker Challenge". Justin needs a girlfriend who can handle cooking, laundry, and some cleaning. You must cook a meal, finish a basket of laundry, and a certain room. You will be given the room number. The first one to do a good job wins the challenge. The last one..." She paused. "Follow me, I'll show you to the kitchen."

Janet walked down the hall with the girls following her while Justin walked the other way. He walked into a cherry wood door.


The kitchen was an exact replica of the 'Top Chef' kitchen for quickfire challenges. Everything was spotless platinum, and there was a walk-in fridge.

Janet repeated the instructions to the girls and motioned toward a door on one side of the kitchen that led to the dining room, where Justin would soon be sitting.

"Anyone here know how to cook?" Dave asked, looking around in desperation.

"How hard can it be? You just follow the directions." Caroline offered, grabbing a Bette Crocker book from the nearby shelf.

"I know how to make Mac and Cheese." Fawn said, walking toward the walk-in. "All you need to do is make a cheese rue and boil macaroni."

"Okay, then you make that and I'll make, like, some rice balls." Ai said, slipping out of the room to put Duke safely into her and Dave's room, thought not in the cage...

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Caroline decided to make pie. Apple pie, nice a easy. There was a box of premade pie crusts in the freezer, and all she had to do was cut up some apples for the pie. She was doing pretty well, she had the oven and pan all prepared, she even had enough cinnamon and sugar in with the apple slices. Her inspiration? Apple pie is sweet and comforting.

Dave was working on hot dogs. It wasn't fancy, but it was quick and VERY hard to screw up. She was using a mini grill that was in the kitchen to cok the dogs, and she had all the fixings on a plate in individual bowls. Her inspiration? Find something good that cooks fast so you can move on to the next task.

Lily was watching a bowl of instant tomato soup cook in the microwave. She just wanted to get the cooking challenge out of the way and move on. Just for fun, she added some hot sauce into the mixture and watched it bubble in the microwave, laughing manically all the time.

Krystal decided to work on making something easy and good: Tamales. She liked tamales, and she wanted to make something easy that she could finish while helping Fawn grate cheese.

Speaking of Fawn, she was working on her Mac and Cheese. The rue was almost finished, and she had already finished the macaroni. All she needed was to add more cheese to the rue, mix it with the macaroni, and slip the mixture into the oven for a little while. Making Mac and Cheese was easy and, surprisingly, quick.

Ai slipped into the room only moments after she left, and she immediately got a pot of rice boiling. She made Onigiri (rice balls) filled with miso (fermented rice, barley, and/or soybeans. It's actually kind of good!). Easy, healthy, and the only thing Ai knew how to make.

Mingxia simply made instant pork ramen and added a can of mushrooms into it. she looked quite board as she slumped against the counter next to one of the stoves and stirred the ramen.

Finally, Aurore. She had no clue what to do. She didn't cook, she barely liked to use the microwave.

Fawn, having finished her Mac and Cheese, set it down on the stove to cool. she turned and looked at Aurore. "D-do you want some h-help?" She looked down at her feet as soon as Aurore turned her head to look at her.

"You'd help me? Why?"

"Because... You look like you need help."

"Um.. okay. Help would be nice." Fawn smiled, thought her head was still down and Aurore could not see it. Fawn grabbed some uncooked pasta out of a cub board, soem eggs, Parisian, and heavy cream. "We've going to make Fettichini Alfredo."

Aurore watched as Fawn mixed the eggs and Parisian together, and watched the pasta. Fawn added in tehheavy cream and she asked. "Arent' you supposed otcook it?"

"The pasta will be hot enought to cook it."

Finally, Aurore added the pasta and they mixed the dish. Aurore smiled and thanked Fawn, then returned to her vacant, cold self as she delivered her dish to Justin and moved to clean the laundry.

The smile alone was enought payment for Fawn.