The next morning you all had breakfast served in first class, the porridge was slightly better than Chef's usual one but still wasn't amazing. You settled on eating a few chocolate chip cookies and that was enough.
Izzy was seated next to you and you were both getting a massage by the interns as Tyler who sat across from you next to Alejandro were eating their porridge.
"Oh man first class rocks!" Tyler yelled happily with a mouthful of food.
"Today we eat the breakfast of champions." Alejandro said smiling back at him. Tyler gave back an awkward smile, probably seeing Alejandro differently after what you had told him yesterday.
I just hope Alejandro doesn't notice...
"It was about time, honestly we should've done the first and second challenge." you said trying to move the attention away from Tyler's nervous expression and closing your eyes peacefully as the intern rubbed your back.
"Oh yeah, that's the spot." Izzy said sinking into the chair clearly enjoying the massage she was getting.
The sound of snoring filled the room and you all turned towards the couch where Owen was still sleeping. Slowly he turned and fell off revealing a crippled Noah underneath.
"Finally!" he cried sitting up and cracking some bones in the process "thanks for not noticing I was missing all night, what am I Tyler?" he said. Despite Tyler being your best mate you couldn't help but find this comment funny.
"Hey!" Tyler shouted turning towards his direction and spitting out his porridge in the process.
The direction being the one that Alejandro just happened to be in causing his face to be covered in Tyler's porridge mush. You found this even funnier and couldn't help to let out a laugh which he noticed.
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"Is Alejandro going to get me voted out now that I spat my porridge out at him?" Tyler asked worriedly
*
It was funny to see the pissed-off look on his face that he tried covered up quickly but Tyler still noticed.
"Sorry Alejandro..." he mumbled apologetically but before Alejandro could respond you did so for him.
"Oh you don't need to apologise to him, he doesn't deserve it." you said playfully giving Alejandro a sweet smile to which he returned with the same pissed-off expression.
Getting up you went to the first class bar to get yourself a glass of water and to your surprise someone had followed.
"You're not allowed to stay that kind of stuff you know?" he said annoyedly coming up next to you and using a serviette to wipe his face.
"Oh yeah? Why not?" you asked facing to turn him
"Don't tell me you've already forgotten what we discussed yesterday." he said leaning in closer as you leaned back.
"Of course not... but an alliance doesn't stop me from saying what I want." you said because it was true, just cause the two of you were in an alliance didn't you had to be nice to him.
"Well chica, I'd prefer it if you'd keep your snarky comments to yourself. We're allies now." he said wrapping an arm around your shoulder as you inched away disgusted muttering a small 'whatever'.
Taking back his arm he walked over to the snack section and picked a bunch, before you could question him on it he grabbed your wrist with his free hand and exited the first class area.
"Where are we going now?" you said trying to pry his hands off your wrist but his grip was too strong.
"To the economy area, it never hurts to get. little friendly with the other team." he said as if it was normal
"And you're dragging me along because..?"
"Come on (Y/N), a clever girl like you should be able to figure it out." he winked and you rolled your eyes.
When you reached the doorway, Team Victory were on the right side sitting down looking solemn with Courtney and Gwen not too far away. On left side was Heather, Sierra and a traumatised Cody.
"Watch and learn." he said confidently gesturing for you to hide behind the curtain before clearing his throat ready to speak up.
"Ladies, I took the liberty of smuggling a few things out of first class." he held out the snacks offering them to everyone on the right side before making his way to the left. Everyone thanked him some with practical hearts in their eyes.
So this is how he does it? He's just overly nice for no reason?
"Sierra, my former teammate, I smuggled this one just for you." he stood before her holding out a chocolate bar and looking proud.
"Well she doesn't want it. We never trust the enemy, especially the excessively disgustingly flirty ones." Heather snapped resting her arm upon Sierra's shoulder.
"No thanks... enemy. Hahaha!" Sierra copied Heather's underlying tone as she narrowed her eyes at Alejandro.
He shrugged it off giving them one more charming smile before leaving and coming back to you. As you made your way back to first class he started to complain.
"Of course Heather's bonding with Sierra, she's Chris's favourite!" he started as you walked "If that manipulative minx gets Sierra then she'll have Chris too!"
"You're saying that as if you're not a manipulative minx yourself." you said and he immediately gave you a dirty look.
"What did I tell you about saying things like that." he said annoyedly and you merely shrugged.
"Well it's not like I'm wrong, anyway why don't we just get Chris to turn on Sierra?" you suggested and he gave you a look for you to continue explaining.
"Think about it, Sierra knows so much about him. There has to be some embarrassing things that she knows that he probably doesn't want out. If we get her to spill something then she wont be his favourite any longer... I think?" you said, the plan did seem a bit rough but-
"(Y/N)! You're a genius!" he exclaimed out of nowhere holding onto your shoulders with and looking straight at you with an excited smile. Like a kid on Christmas who had just received the present they really wanted. The smile was so contagious, you couldn't help but smile back.
I know.
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"Take a seat, grab a handle, and I'll tell you where we're going!" Chris announced.
He had asked for everyone to come down to the storage room and enter an orange life boat which Alejandro came and took a seat next to you. Tyler and Lindsay were behind.
"Sweet boat ride, right Lindsay?" Tyler said trying to spark up some conversation.
"Um sure... Dave was it?" you heard her respond and immediately felt bad for Tyler.
"Why are you the only one wearing a life jacket?" you heard Noah ask from further behind, probably addressing Chris.
"Because there's fourteen of you and only one valuable me. Hit it Chef!" he yelled and the boat was dropped from the plane into the water. It took a second to recover from the fall as Chris sped the boat up, you looked up and around to see if you could recognise which country you were in and funnily enough you just passed the Statue of Liberty.
America!?
"Welcome to New York City!" Chris yelled.
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"New York, New York?! Do you know how many stores there are here? I'm gonna buy, like, ten seasons worth of lip gloss without even trying!" Lindsay squealed.
*
Chris parked just in front of Liberty Island as everyone filed out of the boat and got on the Island. Once everyone was out the boat Chris started to explain today's challenge.
"Your first challenge is a carriage race to Central Park. Which I like to call: Liberty or Death!" he said dramatically throwing in some hand movements as well.
But Central Park isn't on this island..?
"Oh I've always dreamed of riding a horse drawn carriage!" Owen said excitedly, you started to wonder if the carriage in question would be big enough to hold his weight.
"Don't even think about making me the horse, Heather!" Courtney said eyeing her teammate.
"Slow down conclusion jumpers, it's a baby carriage race." Chris said but there were no carriages in sight.
"So where are the carriages?" Leshawna asked looking around.
"There! I hope you brought your climbing gloves" Chris said pointing up at the Statue of Liberty where three different colour carriages were hanging off the very edge at the very top.
Shoulda seen that coming...
"LOL Chris, I think your mischievous spirit makes the game." Sierra said smiling at him.
"Thank you Sierra, it's nice to be appreciated." he said putting enunciation on the 'appreciated' part suggesting that none one else does.
"Appreciated? I love you! I always did, even waaaay back when you were making those terrible movies about talking cats." Sierra said.
"Uh..." Chris was at loss for words and embarrassed as a few chuckles and giggles were heard.
"I was even going to call my first fan club 'The Christians' but that name was already taken." she said creepily as Chris pat her head and pushed her away. Alejandro and you both shared a knowing look as Chris continued.
"Okay! Less chatter more splatter! I mean- climbing, more climbing! We'll leave the splatter to fate, anywho." he said ignoring his own minor slip up in words.
"Once you reach Lady Liberty's crown, pull up your rope to bring your team up faster Once everybody's up, your team grabs the correct carriage off the spike, races back down to your boat and follows the buoys to your next exciting destination: Central Park!" he explained.
"Um, so when do we go shopping?" Lindsay asked raising her hand.
"You don't." Chris straight up told her causing her to scream in horror.
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"(Y/N), you saw Sierra earlier right?" Alejandro whispered as you all made your way to the start
"Mhm, how couldn't I? Chris was definitely a bit peeved." you said "Now all we gotta do is give her a little 'push'" Alejandro scoffed at your choice of vocabulary.
"Yeah and it's gonna have to be you who does that, Heather already told her that I'm the enemy." he crossed his arms "you think you're up for it?"
You gave him an affirmative nod along with a relaxed smile "Totally."
All the teams were lined up next to their allocated colour mats with the rope hanging above it.
"I'll go first." you offered getting ready to start climbing the rope, as Chris blew the whistle you set off.
The rope wasn't made of any material you could name and was extremely uncomfortable, you overheard Chris saying it was 'steel wool' which explained the pain.
Whatever, can't go back down now.
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"It's been twenty five blister busting minutes and nothing! You guys are bumming me out!" Chris yelled from atop as you glowered at him.
If we ever put Chris through the challenges he gives us, he wouldn't survive a second.
As you were getting higher you looked down to see who had gone after you and honestly you weren't surprised to see Alejandro. He grinned up at you and gestured his head to the side and when you looked there was Sierra climbing up.
You both nodded as you swung the rope and held onto hers grabbing her attention.
"Hey Sierra, I noticed Chris has been a bit off lately." you started as she looked up at you.
"These days he's been looking a bit sad you know? I think he misses his past days, back when he was in his prime. But he feels like no one cares, no one remembers..." you said trying to sound as solemn as possible before letting go of her rope and went back to your own.
"Poor Chris..." you heard her mutter once you had left. "I care! I remember!" she shouted and you smiled triumphantly. You looked down at Alejandro who was giving you a thumbs up which you returned before you continued climbing.
"Hurry it up people! I'm officially bored!" Chris shouted once more just as you pulled yourself up and finally made it to the top.
"Maybe you try climb the Statue of Liberty with steel wool and see how easy it is?" you suggested glaring at him as he shrugged.
"Yeah, no. I'd rather not. Pick up the pace people!" he continued.
Oh well, Sierra's going to be coming for him soon anyway.
You pulled on the rope trying to get Alejandro up and as he eventually got to the top and was on the ground, Chris started clapping right in front of his face and told him to 'chop chop'.
"You...are pure...evil!" he said between pants as he glared at Chris who was smiling casually.
"You're one to talk." you snickered helping him up as he smiled and looked down at you.
"I could say the same to you, señorita." he said referring to your previous actions.
*
"I'll admit, being in this 'alliance' is kinda fun." you confessed "I never thought I'd say this but I'm actually starting to enjoy it."
*
"(Y/N) isn't half bad at helping me out, together we'd get pretty far" Alejandro smirked "too bad she's always hanging around Tyler, what a waste."
*
You hummed amusedly and the two of you helped the rest of your teammates up. First was Tyler, then it was Noah and next was Izzy. All five of you had to help out to try get Owen up.
As you did so, you overheard a conversation going on with Sierra and Chris which was quite loud due to a certain someone.
"Hey Chris! I own everyone of your TV appearances on DVD, even your cooking show! 'Keep it Plain with Chris Mclean!'." she started, you could see Chris's eye start to twitch.
"Your recipe for white rice is sooooo great, it's totally unfair that you got cancelled after only one episode!" Sierra said sympathetically placing a hand on his shoulder.
Once again everyone who was at the top started laughing and you and Alejandro both gave each other a quick discreet high five.
"I-I was going through a phase." Chris reasoned looking absolutely horrified.
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All the other teams had gotten all their people up and had gone down the 30-story fireman pole to get to the boat. Meanwhile your team on the other hand was still struggling to get Owen up.
After what seemed like an eternity you finally got him up and were all exhausted, you personally collapsed on the floor out of tiredness. Everyone apart from Izzy who had just been observing.
"I'll go get the carriage!' she said somersaulting her way to the edge. She hopped in and rode it all the way down as she hit the fireman pole and ended up going down upside down leaving the carriage outside.
Tyler went down next followed by Noah and then Owen. The only thing was that he couldn't even fit. Alejandro and you walked over to him as he started laughing.
"Do you think you could give me a push Al?" he asked and Alejandro nodded carefully, picking up the baby carriage and whacking him down with it so he'd go through.
You watched him go down as he screamed in the process and looked back at Alejandro who was smiling as if he hadn't done anything.
"Ladies first." he insisted as you thanked him sarcastically before making your way down also.
Once everyone was on the boat, your team started of and sped ahead close behind Team Victory For some odd reason, Team Amazon had turned and were going the opposite direction putting you guys in second place.
What are they doing? Oh well, whatever it is it's helping us.
You honestly thought you guys would be in dead last due to the little Owen situation but things seemed to be taking a turn for the better.
"Who will survive? And who's taking a dive? Find out when we return on Total Dram World Tour!"
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Ending Note:
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