A/N: I know I'm writing other fics right now, but I got thinking about Justin. I started reading a story where he was friendly with a partially-sighted girl who wasn't affected by his looks simply because she couldn't see them. So I'm going to take it upon myself to write my own Justin/OC!
Plot: Justin is feeling down after Total Drama World Tour has aired and he's no longer the manipulative guy with the good looks. His glory days on the show are over, and although he has modelling jobs lined up, he's still depressed. Can a chance meeting with a fourteen-year-old part-time waitress help him?
Disclaimer: I do not own Total Drama, I do not own George Street Diner, and I do not own Toronto. But I do own Lily.
If I was to be completely honest, I hated the part-time waitressing job at George Street Diner. But it paid, and I could do it, nine hours each weekend. Simple as that. At least it wasn't an office job, where I had to do nothing but type and sit still. I could do that, but not after a week of doing that at school. It was iPad central there. All my work was literally saved on my iPad.
But the thing was, it was Saturday evening, and I'd been at this George Street since two-thirty for my four-and-a-half hour shift. Tt was already six thirty, and I was feeling really tired, wishing I could punch out right then. The last half-hour of the shift was always the hardest, because that's when the creeps start coming in. And it wasn't just me saying that – my BFF Morgan always worked the same shift as mine – actually led me to this job – and even she said that. In her exact words "They only come here because the waitress uniforms are skin-tight and they want something to look at."
Not that they were looking at a fourteen-year-old. Especially one who didn't have much in the way of a figure. Yeah, the creeps were mostly teenagers, but sixteen at the youngest, usually, so they weren't interested in me. I did once hear a boy customer talking with his mates and calling me "jailbait", and it took all my willpower not to go back over there and slap him, or throw his Coke float in his face when I served them (all they wanted was some kind of ice cream treat).
Okay, maybe I should start by introducing myself. Hey there, my name's Lily. Lily Carlan. If anyone's interested, my middle name's Angelina, but only my parents ever use that name if I've done something like deliberately leave all the washing-up when it's my turn, or when they want to get my attention when I'm watching Total Drama.
Oh yeah, that. Total Drama, in case you've been living somewhere where it doesn't air, like a time period before reality shows existed, is only the greatest reality show ever. Morgan agrees with me – we talk about all the contestants. Neither of us like Chris McLean, the host, that much, but we love watching these people around our age competing. And the best part is, most of them live in Toronto, so us, living in Toronto, are always on the lookout for contestants (Morgan says she thought she saw snarky Noah once, but she said it could've been any shrimp dressed like a nerd).
There's been three seasons done so far: Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, and Total Drama World Tour, all of which were done within a yearspan – TDI was done in the summer, TDA was in the fall, and TDWT took a break and then began at the start of the spring.Right now, there's another one coming up. All I know from the promos is that it's called Total Drama Revenge Of The Island and involves a new cast of contestants. It's a bit of an adjustment, since the first cast of 22 have only had two real additions since the first season – Sierra, a fangirl with a ton of blogs, and Alejandro, a sneaky backstabbing hottie with ticks in every box in an application for boyfriend material...except that he didn't care about any of the girls on the show, except maybe Heather.
We both have favourites. Morgan likes Owen, but then, everyone does. Her favourite girl contestant is Lindsay. Come to think of it, she's mine, too – she's so nice and friendly, even if she is a bit shallow and dumb. My favourite moment of the show will forever be the day she stood up to Heather and told her exactly what she thought. Then her retrospective confessional was "I don't know what came over me. Oh wait, yes I do! Heather's a total ***!"
Although Morgan likes Lindsay as much as me, she did tell me she has a little bit of fondness for Katie and Sadie, two girls who are more than just BFFS. Morgan and I are "best friends forever". Katie and Sadie are BFFFLs, "best female friends for life". I couldn't take their squeeing for most of the episodes together in, but Morgan likes them, although we reenacted (and had a good laugh at) the scene when Katie has to go and Sadie's calling from the dock about how she misses Katie already and they're all "I miss you more" and "no, I miss you more" and "no way, I totally miss you more". Yeah, I don't get my BFF sometimes. But she understands why I don't like them.
My favourite is Trent. Sweet, sensitive, compassionate, good-looking, talented...a little crazy when he gets stressed, but hey, I'd get stressed if I was him and my girlfriend was on the opposing team, especially when she was hanging out with a hot rule-breaker like Duncan, even with his bitch of a girlfriend watching from the sidelines. Yeah, I never liked Courtney. She went on the first season, got with Duncan, got eliminated unfairly, then sued her way into the second season and then yelled at Duncan for hooking up with cool Gwen (not that I liked her much – at least, not after the first season), Trent's then ex-girlfriend. It didn't help that Duncan didn't even hook up with her until the third season, in which hopelessly uncoordinated Tyler saw them kissing, and then Alejandro made him blurt it out in front of Courtney, who started screaming at Gwen and lost control completely. Still, part of the reason I didn't like Gwen was because she dumped Trent after he got a bit stressed and started having dependency issues on 9, his lucky number.
My little sister Kelsey teased me a lot about Trent. She even sewed me a Trent doll for my thirteenth birthday, then took it back and went on webcam on the second Total Drama Action Aftermath segment (there were four that season, hosted by former contestants, cool party boy Geoff and even cooler surfer girl Bridgette), making out that she was me if I was a crazy Trent stalker by kissing the Trent doll nine times then starting to read out a creepy love poem. If I remember, it said "Your hair is black, my heart is blue, I'll stuff you with rags and sew you up too..."
Yeah...Kelsey is only eleven, three years younger than me, but when she wanted to humiliate me by doing something like making out she was parodying me, her mind turned out to be really twisted. Morgan and my other friends teased me about it for weeks, even after several episodes had passed, and everyone else into Total Drama was talking about the superhero movie challenge.
Hmm...what else about me...I have pale blonde hair which refuses to curl, even a little bit, and blue eyes. I'm really skinny, and boys don't notice me because I'm nearly as flat as I was when I was half the age I am now (seven for anyone who can't divide). I tried doing those exercises from one of Judy Blume's books for a few months, but then Kelsey caught me doing it and I couldn't stand her knowing.
Okay, okay, enough exposition. So you know I'm Lily, I'm in my freshman year at Earl Haig Secondary School, taking all the usual subjects, plus dance (my best subject) and music instead of visual arts (I can't draw, but I can play a few simple songs on guitar and sing okay – you should've heard me singing the stuff from Total Drama World Tour the day my friends and I goofed off and began singing the song when Sierra was saying Cody broke her heart). So let's get to the story.
I went through my usual routine on a Saturday night. After I finished my miserable uneventful shift, I walked home as usual, had a snack, then lay in my room for awhile, waiting for seven, when I could switch on the TV in my room, because the new Total Drama season was starting at eight-thirty.
Literally just as the show was starting, the door opened and Kelsey bounded in. "Lil, Lil! Is it starting?"
Okay, something else you should know. I hate being called Lil. Lils is okay, and if you're my parents or feeling brave, I won't kill you if you call me Lily-flower. Lil is just...uggghh!
But I was too interested in the show, and muttered "Knock next time, Kelsey, and are you seriously going to watch?"
"Of course!" Kelsey said. "I only didn't watch the last season because they took Beth off." Yeah, that was her favourite contestant.
"Taking Trent off didn't stop me." I muttered. Yeah, after the first season, the show didn't bring back everyone for the second. For the second season, they left out Eva, Katie, Sadie, Noah, Cody, Ezekiel and Tyler. Originally, Courtney wasn't on, either, but she got around that. Geoff and Bridgette were the first kicked off, which is why they hosted the aftermath show. Then on the second season, the ones left out were Geoff, Trent, Justin, Katie, Sadie, Eva and Beth. In Bridgette's absence, Geoff's co-host for the aftermath was a washed-up host woman called Blaineley. But since Bridgette was an early out, she tried her best to take her rightful place as co-host back, even though Blaineley tried to stop her, and constantly brought up the fact that Bridgette kind of...did a few things she shouldn't have with Alejandro while she was still in a relationship with Geoff. Even though they got past that. Bridgette even called the guy "Ale-heinous"...anyway, back to the show.
Kelsey instantly fell in love with the new cast. "Oh wow, I love that girl's hair! How does she get it so long and glossy?" She had mousey fine hair, while mine was always thicker and darker, but it became very fine if it got to shoulder length. The girl Kelsey was talking about had long blonde hair, which strangely went with her pink clothes. Usually pink suited people with dark hair.
"More cash than anything?" I muttered. "As for the girl next to her, more hairspray than sense." No, I'm serious, one of the girls sprayed her hair nonstop, and then said her looks were worth more than the million dollars. So I want to look good, but I wouldn't give up a million dollars, even if it meant I had at least C-cup sized boobs and long curly hair that I never had to bother with too much.
The episode did show the original cast on a boat, and Owen even swam back halfway through the episode to tell Chris the boat didn't stop, not realizing that they weren't competing, but apart from that, the episode had nothing noteworthy apart from the thirteen new contestants. In the end, one team voted off chatty Staci, who wouldn't shut up for two minutes about what her ancestors did. And most of those were probably lies, anyway.
Yeah, my Saturday wasn't the best. If I had known what Sunday would bring, maybe I would've been a little more impatient, or optimistic because I knew what was coming.
So what is coming? You'll have to see in the next chapter! Review, would you?