Alejandro was actually watching Noah. He could tell something wasn’t right with Noah, he could tell that Noah was very untrusting of him. And Al didn’t know why.

Alejandro got up and sat next to him. Noah didn’t notice and kept thinking to himself, almost dozing off.

“Noah? You ok?” Al asked, he acted like he cared but really he was trying to get blackmail or something out of him. Noah jumped a bit not expecting Al to be talking to him or sitting next to him

“Now I’m not, you’re talking to me.” Noah said sarcastically, slightly smiling when he saw Al needing to calm himself before speaking.

“Are you always this sarcastic?” Al sighed

“Depends, do you always ask dumb questions?”

“Noah you making it really hard to talk to you, friend!”

“Then don’t? I was just fine not talking, what makes you think I want to talk to YOU?” Noah growled, getting pissed at this point

“Somebody’s grumpy,”

"Whatever!" Noah sighed, leaving Al angry.

“Guys! Guys! Do you I could be the mama monkey and Noah could be my son and I’d have to pick the dirt off him like they do on TV?” Izzy exclaimed

“Woah! No, you are not touching m-” Noah was interrupted

“Izzy I love your creativity, I bet Noah would love it even more!” Al smiled at Noah expense. Izzy began pinching at Noah’s clothes acting like she was picking off dirt.

“Izzy you would make a great monkey mom!” Owen laughed

Al noticed Noah started to squirm and his eyes were all panicked. Izzy kept picking at Noah’s clothes, accidentally pinching his skin at sometimes. Noah would jump every time, almost curling in on him self.

“Noah? Why do you look so distraught my friend?”

Noah just shook his head, not risking a giggle to slip out.

“Uh oh Izzy! I don’t think Noah likes your act!”

Izzy turned to Al confused. Noah turned to Al with panic.

“No! No Izzy I did like it, very creati-tive, HEHMP!” Noah tried to pled but Al put his hand over his mouth.

“He lying Izzy!”

Izzy growled and dug her hands into Noah making him squeal. Izzy wasn’t even trying to tickle Noah, she was just mad.

“Uh oh, somebody’s about to find out Noah’s ticklish!” Owen whispered to Tyler.

“Noah’s ticklish?” Tyler said out loud.

“OWPHEN!!” Noah muffled under Al’s hand,

“Oh so that’s what that was!” Al said grabbing Noah’s hands and pinning it above him.

Noah shook his head violently, squirming around to try to get free. Al was very strong, and Noah was very weak, who knew!

"Owen you knew Noah was ticklish?" Al asked, reaching to poke at Noahs sides

"Well, just look at him! He was squirming like a earth worm!" Owen joked

"NONONONONO!" Noah begged trying to dodge Als hands

"Noah stop moving!" Al grumbled, deciding to just sit on Noah's legs to keep him for moving.

"Owen I swear to god, once I'm out of this your so dead!" Noah threated, snapping his mouth shut as Al finally latched his hands onto Noah's sides.

“There we go! So Owen mind elaborating on what you mean?” Al yapped.

“Well, it was the first season and me and Noah had just met!-“

“OWEHEN!!”

“He was reading this book and I decided to cheer him up. It’s strange though, he gets weird after you tickle him.” Owen explained, turning to look at Noah to see his head hung in defeat and face burning red.

“Aw how cute,” Al teased moving spots randomly to try to get Noah to break.

“Huh, anybody wanna help me out here?” Al spoke

That one sectance alone sent shivers down Noah’s spine, it’s good that nobody in that room has ever tickled Noah, but that makes it worse.

Owen sat down towards Noah’s legs, Izzy sitting closer to Noah, and Tyler just there to keep his arms up and pined.

“Wow Noah, I never seen you this worried before. Something wrong?”

“Y-Yeah! You guys are about to gang up on me for no reason! I have a right to be scared!”

“scared of a little tickles?” Al said wiggling his fingers close to Noah stomach making him suck in to try to get away

“Stop thAHAT!” Noah squeaked as Al dove his hands straight to his stomach.

“Oh shoot, did we start already?” Owen asked jumping in to start tickling the top of Noah’s knee. Noah kicked out like a reflex every time Owen touched his skin

“GAH-hehehAHaHa! Quihihit ihit!!” Noah giggled

“There’s that nice laugh!” Al smirked

“Eheheahat. Shihihit!” Noah growled

Al scoffed in anger, sadly for Noah this just encouraged Al to get him back harder. Al moved his hands lower, underneath where his belly button would be. Owen moved his hands to his calves. the combo of spots made Noah insane, he needed something to take his mind off it.

“Aw poor thing, bad spot Noah?” Al teased

“FUhUhahuKIng STAhAHoP!!” Noah shook his head violently

“Izzy why don’t you join in?” Al asked

“Hmmm, that’s a good question! I was waiting for the right moment!” Izzy spoke softly fluttering her fingers around Noah’s neck and ears.

Noah squealed falling into a fit of child like giggles

“this is fun!” Izzy said

“Indeed,” Al agreed suddenly changing positions to squeeze Noah’s hips.

“FUHAHAHAHCK!!” Noah gasped bucking from side to side. Owen began to massage into both Noah calves, using his thumb to add pressure into the boy.

Noah screamed kicking out, cackling like crazy. Seeing Noah like this made Al feel two different things. First, satisfaction for Noah making a fool of him, and second, Awe for never seeing Noah like this ever. Laughing freely, well I guess not freely, he has no choice.

“GOHOHOHOHOD GET OFFFFFF!!” Noah begged

“I think Noah’s getting tired guys!” Owen spoke backing off

“Tried? Nah, Noah are you tired” Al jokingly asked

“SHIHIHIT! YES I AHAHAHAAMMM!!” Noah threw his head back

Izzy began to stop, which was a surprise to everybody. Turns out she just saw a rat run across the floor and needed a new ‘ally’.

“Al, you might wanna stop soon. I don’t think he can take much more” Owen said softly

“PLEAHEHEHEASE!!!”

“Fine, but he has to apologize!”

“FOHOHOR WHAHAT!!”

“For saying, implying, that it’s such a bore to talk to me!” Al said dramatically

“IM SOHOHORRY!! IM SOHORRY!! YOURE NAHAHAT A BOHORE TO TALK TOHOHOHO!!” Noah took in a breath of air as soon as Al stopped.

“There! Now was that so hard?” Al spoke

Noah just giggled back at Al, transitioning to the ‘weird’ Owen was talking about.

Noah spent the rest of the day, all smiles and giggles. When he woke up the next morning, he tried to forget anything abt the day before. ‘God I was such a headache!’

Sure Total Drama was a reality show, but its not completely reality. See, the Total Drama producers had a schedule. Just so everything ran smoothly, they would film challenges on Tuesday, on Wednesday they would film extra stuff for filler, Thursday through Friday they would go through and edit the footage, and Saturday to Monday, the campers would have the days off. 3 days off just to cool down, that's it.

Noah sat on the bottom bunk, knees curled up to his chest as he flipped through the pages of the book he held Infront of him.

"Buddy Noah, are you just gonna read the whole time? You gotta learn to have fun!!" Owen joked nudging him as he walked by.

"If having fun means making a fool of myself on nationals television? Then no thanks I'm good." Noah groaned not taking his eyes off the pages.

"Aw c'mon buddy-" Owen whined, making Noah's eye twitch at the word 'Buddy' "-loosen up a bit!"

"Unlike you, I have a life outside of this show, so no I am not going to 'loosen up'" Noah said, extending his legs and using air quotations around 'loosen up' with his fingers.

“You gotta laugh a little! Be happy! People are gonna think you’re just a sarcastic..and no offense when I say this… a-hole!” Owen said taking Noah’s book and setting it to the side

“Hey! I was reading that!” Noah growled

“Noah, I can see right through you bud!”

“Yeah, no really it’s fine! Just take my book out of my hands why don’t you! I didn’t even see what page I was on!” Noah still annoyed at Owen previous action

“What I see, is a lovable, soft, teddy bear of a man underneath your cold outside persona.” Owen said smiling putting a hand on his shoulder

“..You couldn’t be more wrong.” Noah said looking up at him, shrugging his shoulder to try to get Owen off

“Cmon show me a smile!” Owen teased

“I think I see a smile!” Owen said is a voice making Noah cringe a bit

“We’re in a cabin, not an elementary schools picture day!” Noah rolled his eyes

“Smile for me Noah!” Owen said now poking at him

“Hey! Stop THat!” Noah jumped trying to push Owens hands away

“I see a smile~ I see a smile!” Owen sang now poking faster

“Dohont touch meHa!” Noah covered his month in order to stop anymore giggles from escaping

“Aw is my little buddy Noah ticklish?” Owen laughed, he stoped poking to see if Noah would give his an answer

“Gehet! Away frohom me!” Noah tried to sound angry but his body wouldn’t let him,

“Yeah yeah! You don’t sound like you mean it,” Owen said

“I- I did mean it!” Noah recovered fixing his voice to sound more like himself

“Sure” Owen smirked digging his fingers into Noah’s sides and scribbling over his stomach

“GAH- EAHAhahahHa!” Noah’s laugh was so unlike him, it was low but high pitched, it was loud but quiet at the same time

“Dohohont tihihihahickle mehehehe!!” Noah squirmed

“Now you’re smiling!” Owen said moving up to his armpits

“OWENOWENOWENOWEN!! PLEHEHEASE!!” Noah begged, laughing and screaming like he was being murdered, kicking his legs agents the bed

“alright alright” Owen let up, removing his hands from Noah

“Nehever! Doho that eveher again!” Noah threatened catching his breath

“Ah, but you enjoyed it!” Owen teased. Noah glared at him for a while, he then broke up into short giggles and snorts.

“Noah?” Owen asked confused, Noah realized what was happening and fixed himself up real quick.

You know when you just told a stupid joke and you look at a friend to see if they got it, but you both just stare at each other for a while until you start laughing? That’s what was going on. Something in Noah’s brain kinda went wonky after being tickled. It flipped a silly switch in his brain making him un-sarcastic, more friendly.

“Ach-em, Sorry.” Noah apologized, now feeling awkward as ever, he grabbed his book Owen put aside and started flipping through the pages to see where he felt off

“Sorry? Buddy you don’t have to be sorry!” Owen chuckled, making Noah feel more embarrassed

“Whatever, just, don’t talk about this to anyone? Alright! I don’t need people thinking I’m some sort of push over! You take this secret to your deathbed!” Noah said, back to his sarcastic tone

“Alright buddy! Whatever you say!” Owen smiled