Total Drama: the Comeback

𝐈𝐕 - 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 [𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨]

* the events in chapters III and IV happen at the same time *

[𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐕]

He keeps looking at me. He keeps looking at me while smiling without saying anything. Why does he keep looking and smiling?

"What are you looking at?" I asked in a tone: I was actually surprised by myself for using that voice. After Total Drama seasons were over, I rewatched the episodes and I realized I was too mean with the other competitors, just because I had to win. I promised not to behave like that anymore, unless someone got on my nerves. Alejandro was really getting on my nerves.

"Nothing at all, don't worry" he answered, but he kept smiling.

"Listen here, you hispanic kind of man, if you think I'm going to fall for your stupid flirts like I almost did in World Tour, well then you're wrong. I know how you treated Bridgette, Courtney, Leshawna, DJ, Harold, Cody, Owen and Noah. I won't trust you now" I replied. He played dirty in that season, causing a lot of eliminations. Even if I have to admit that he used a good strategy, it wasn't right at all.

"Oh dear, my intentions with you are completely different" he winked while saying that, why can't he be normal for once in his life?

"Sure are, how am I supposed to trust you after everything that you've done?" I asked. I may still find him attractive but not loyal.

"Okay Heather" he said and started walking around the bedroom "there are two main reasons: the first one is that I am an actor now, if I disrespected a woman, everybody would know the exact second I did probably, paparazzi and haters are everywhere and can't wait for me to return to my old habits. Then, you are not like the others: you're smart, beautiful, athletic, you have a strong attitude and you don't let others tell you what to do, you are actually the one telling them" he stopped for a bit and I replied.

"Should that change my mind about you?" I didn't want to get tricked again, not so easily.

"There is still something you don't know: when I showed as a new contestant in World Tour, Chris forced me to be the villain of the season. He wanted to create drama between friendships and couples, because he told me that after Action, people weren't that interested in his reality anymore. As a reward, he offered me 10.000 dollars and the 1.000.000 dollars if I was the last one standing. For example, do you think I wasn't aware of Tyler's and Geoff's relationships with Lindsay and Bridgette? I had to ruin them, unfortunately" he finished talking and sat on the bed. I listened silently and I couldn't hide that I felt bad for everything he had to do.

"Oh" was all I managed to say.

"Yeah, oh" he replied, probably annoyed by my answer.

"Alejandro, you deserved an apology. I didn't know Chris obliged you to do that, I really thought you did all of it for fun back then: I thought you were a bad person because you decided to be one, and I acted accordingly to that, treating you like shit. Now that I know all about your story, I wished I've never behaved in that way. I'm sorry.

"Well Heath, you are not completely wrong" he answered.

"What do you mean?" I asked pretty confused.

"I was actually a bad guy. It all started when I was a kid, because I didn't want to accept the conditions me and my family lived into" I wanted to stop him, the conversation was getting deeper, but I decided to listen to him and maybe help him. He probably needed someone to talk to.

"My family and I lived in a little house in Spain, near Madrid. We didn't have a lot of money, but we had enough to live with it. Everything changed when my father got arrested for illegal traffic of narcotic substances. One morning the police knocked on the door and got in as soon as my mother opened. Me and my older brothers, Carlos and Josè, were chatting in the living room and we heard loud noises coming from inside of the house. We ran to the hallway and saw police officers checking all over our apartment. They looked everywhere: kitchen, living room, bedrooms, bathroom and they eventually found what they were looking for. Ten bags of white dust were put inside of the pillows of our beds by my dad. Me and my brothers were so confused by the situation and surprisingly we got picked up and taken away from our parents, while another man almost fought with my father to put him inside of the police car. We haven't seen our parents from then, because three men took us to an orphanage. I screamed, I tried to free myself from the man's grip, but I couldn't" I heard a crack in his voice and he stopped to dry his tears, then he kept going.

"That is when I started misbehaving: I tried to escape, I stole things from other kids in the place, and the very worst came when a woman and a man adopted me. We had a lot of arguments, I didn't want other people to be my parents when I knew my real ones were out there somewhere. Well, my father was in prison, but I didn't know where my mother was, I actually thought she killed herself because of the situation my dad left her in: he was the only one working in the family, and without him, my mom had nothing" Alejandro stopped and looked at me. 

I got close to him and hugged him. I am not good with words, so I thought that the hug could have worked.

[𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐕]

[𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐎'𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐕]

Did she just... hug me? This is surely one of the most shocking moments of my entire life. I hugged her back and we stayed like that for a while.

"Al, again, I'm really sorry for everything, believe me when I say you didn't deserve it. I feel guilty for not trusting you before, I shouldn't have been so attached to past memories. I want you to know that if you want to talk, well, I'm here and you have my number. I know that I could have apologized before, but I was too proud to admit that my actions were wrong" she stopped and then continued "I just now realize I behaved like shit during the reality, not towards you only, but towards every competitor" she sighted and lowered her head.

"Hey Heather, you know it is not a problem anymore, eight years has passed since then and..." I couldn't finish speaking that she talked over my sentence.

"Alejandro you don't uderstand" tears began to sign her face "the only reason I acted like a bitch was my family: I didn't want to participate to any of the seasons, but my mother in particular sent me because she wanted to get even more rich and wanted to see me behaving like a "true woman". Every year I begged her not to let me go, but she didn't listen and each time was the same.  She didn't even calm down when I almost won the money in World Tour, because that fucking idiot of Ezekiel jumped in the active vulcano with the cash case. I failed each season I participated in and my parents literally stopped considering me like their daughter, just because I was a "loser, failure, insicure girl that couldn't show her values to the world, even if she is supposed to". That's why I'm living with my sister now: she's the only one that stayed by my side, even when she didn't have to" she went silent and looked at me directly in the eyes, I felt the tension rise between us.

"Al, please. don't tell this to anyone, it is very personal and you're one of the few people I told this. I trust you again now, because if I didn't, I wouldn't have told you this" she said in a serious tone. I replied that her secret was safe with me and there was no reason to doubt it.

I wanted to show her that I really changed and that I was not the same person as eight years ago.

"Thank you for sharing your story with me. Obviously, I won't tell anyone. Let's not forget this night, shall we?" she asked while smiling. I forgot about her beautiful smile.

"I'll remember it surely" I said back.

We both layed on the bed and hoped we would wake up on time in the morning: it was 3 a.m.

[𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐎'𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐕]

Now that both couples are sleeping, we are ready to discover the plan they will organize to defeat Chris, or at least to stay safe around him.

But the real question is: will they manage to get up from their sleep?

Stay tuned and see if they will, it is written in the next chapters, don't miss any.