Your Pain is My Pleasure: Part 1

***"How is everything I've heard... real?"***
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## Your Pain is My Pleasure: Part 1

### Director

Potato Flakin

***Your Pain is My Pleasure: Part 1*** is the ninth episode of *The Adventures of Evie and Mya* in Season 2, and the nineteenth overall.

## Synopsis

Shetani is exposed at the school for everything that she's done, but she isn't going down without a fight.

## Content Warning

*This episode contains mentions of abuse and violence.*

## Transcript

*The episode begins at Pinelake Park, with an entire army outside the Piney Woods.*

"Alright, everyone, listen up!" Winter rallied. "As you may know, we've got everything we need to bust Shetani and get her out of Pineshadow for good. Here's the plan. Me, Evie, Mya, and Amira will do the talking while Shetani is on that stage giving her presentation to the seventh graders. Evie and Mya's parents will deliver the news to the sixth and eighth graders. And Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Naecher will make sure Shetani is held back. Are we all clear?"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"With that being said, I'd like to talk to Amira alone, away from all of you," Winter stated. She and Amira went toward the park structures.

"Amira, me, Evie, and Mya uncovered a few things after busting into your aunt's house yesterday. A diary and some lyrics. Remember those?"

Amira gasped. "You found those? Oh, please don't tell me Shetani found them!"

"No. In fact, we took them for ourselves. We learned the song you wrote - *Monster*. I saw the picture you painted with it."

"I'm sorry if it was too depressing and creepy for you, Win. I enjoy songrwriting; it's my new passion."

"No! Not that at all. We saw it and your diary pages as a way to bust Shetani... And your songwriting was actually pretty clever, although it details what you went through painfully."

"Really? You really think that about me?"

"Yes, Ira. We all do. Trust me, you're not the only one who struggled to fight their past. I struggled with mine as well." Winter quickly summarized what she had dealt with to Amira, who looked at her wide-eyed.

"Oh my gracious! I'm so sorry you had to deal with homophobia, I hate homophobes. Not to mention Daniela," Amira said.

"That's in the past now, and everything's mostly healed. But there will be no peace until Shetani is gone for good. And I'm going to be by you every step along the way. *Te amo*."

"*Te amo* to you as well, Winter. Now let's get back. Promise to be by my side?"

"Promise!"

Meanwhile, Evie leaned back against the tree she often visited. Her mother was with her.

"Evie, baby. I'd like to quickly say something - I'm sorry. You know I'm a stickler for my culture and I haven't been the best mother to you. I've placed you at higher standards since you were young because of my beliefs. I scolded you because I didn't want you doing stupid things like roulette - but seeing Shetani's character, and what you had to go through - I'm sorry."

"So, mom, you promise to not force me to be what you want anymore?"

"I promise, Ev. I've treated you wrong and I didn't help your confidence. Go out there today and be prideful. Don't hold back. Be who you want to be. I'm going to love you with all my heart."

"Thanks. Now let's go."

*Cut to the intro*.

**SEASON 2, EPISODE 9 - YOUR PAIN IS MY PLEASURE: PART 1**

*Cut to the outside entrance of Pineshadow middle school.*

"Shetani's presentation is set to start at 3:05 PM. Right now, it's 2:50. Everyone, set up your stations," Evie instructed. "Hawkins, Naecher, go from the cafeteria exits and rig Shetani's presentation with our video. Mom, dad, Heartleys, spread the word. Bluelund's with us, so she'll let you in. Mya, Winter, Amira, you're with me. We'll go with Hawkins and Naecher behind stage and hide with them. Cassandra isn't here, but she's preparing something special."

"Aye-aye, captain Ev!" Mya said as she took her place beside her girlfriend. "Right, let's go. No time to waste at all."

They followed their teachers around the school to where the cafeteria was. Winter held Amira's hand tightly as they entered through one of the back doors.

"Winter... What if I can't do this? What if I'm overwhelmed with fear and can't speak?"

"Ira - I'm not going to let Shetani get the best of you. I promise. Remember to be yourself... And most importantly, I'm never going to let you get hurt again."

Amira looked at her girlfriend gratefully, sticking to her closely. She felt her confidence building.

The cafeteria was quiet, with no signs of Shetani, Bluelund, or any teachers and students around.

"Alright, let's get this show on the road. Doreen, you have all the editing things?" Mr. Naecher asked.

"Indeed I do, Matthew. Shetani has given us exclusive access to this, and we can edit however we want. Let's see here. I'll keep the beginning slide and add ours in."

By 3:00, five minutes before the presentation, the entire slideshow had been rigged to include the video exposing Shetani. By then, seventh graders nervously packed themselves into the cafeteria, chattering amongst themselves.

Mr. Naecher peered through the curtain, seeing Shetani by the entrance of the cafeteria. "Okay, girls, you hide. Doreen, you're with me and the other teachers. Don't make a sound."

The four girls gave them a thumbs-up, and they hid behind the left section of the curtain. Shetani had walked up to her small speech desk, and waited a minute.

After she shuffled a few papers, she finally began speaking. "Greetings, seventh graders. Today, you are all gathered here for a very important presentation of the rules!"

*Let's stop and stare at this idiot.* As much as Winter wanted to blurt that out, she remained quiet, not wanting to give their plan away.

She pulled up her presentation, titled, "Rules, Revisions, and More Etiquette." A few students in the crowd groaned.

"Ah, rules, a boring sight to you all," Shetani commented. "Sit down and relax, because I've had to make revisions to make sure no student breaks them. This will be a *perfect* school!"

She flipped it over to the next slide, and the video Mrs. Hawkins had added began playing.

Shetani began watching in horror as the video began showing detail after detail of her abuses of power, and then her own abuse to Amira.

The seventh graders and other people in the cafeteria had stunned expressions on their faces. Some began screaming things at Shetani. Pencils and other objects were pelted at her.

"**WHO ADDED THIS TO THE PRESENTATION**?" She roared in fury.

"***We did***." The crowd then watched in amazement as Evie, Mya, and Winter stepped out, with Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Naecher with them.

"***WHAT***? You're not supposed to be here! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? This is not true! Look here. These traitors are trying to throw me out! I did nothing!"

"You did do something. If you saw the video by now, you know that Shetani is a manipulative, disgusting, power-hungry, unloving, controlling, abusive liar who only desires others' pain and power for herself. We've dealt with her abuse first hand!" Winter revealed, determination and power in her voice.

The crowd gasped in shock.

"She brutally beat Amira, tortured her, starved her, beat her, and emotionally scarred her, so much so that she wrote her own version of a song about being unable to leave a monster!" Mya cried. She assumed the sixth and eigth graders were learning of all the treachery from their parents. The song lyrics were displayed on screen. Mya then returned to her comedic charm. "You know, maybe we should call the doctor for *you*, Shetani - because you're quite messed up!" The middle schoolers laughed, enjoying the joke.

"We have more! As she wrote in her diary, she was merely defined as an overworked, broken slave, a collar on her neck to prove it. It's buried in the ground now, somewhere near Pinelake Park!" Evie added.

"*Stop*! This isn't true!" Shetani pleaded. She was being held back by Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Naecher.

"Besides her own *niece*, Shetani has also been known to try bending the rules unfairly!" Winter declared. "She banned anything relating to gay pride. Prohibited us from being ourselves! And as a person who has dealt with homophobia, I felt like I was taken advantage of because I am a lesbian who was in a broken relationship with a backstabbing freak!"

"And we have a statement to make!" Mya said, winking at Evie. She immediately grabbed the microphone, and spoke loudly, pointing to Evie. "This strong-willed lovely lady is **my girlfriend**!" Gasps filled the cafeteria as the fact that Evie and Mya were an official couple was revealed. "Love is not wrong, and if any of you aren't straight and want an attractive- Ah, no, don't know how to finish it. But you surely get my point?" The crowd nodded.

Evie grabbed the microphone from Mya's hands, looking at her with a slightly unamused look. "This principal thinks she can break us because of our pride. She thinks that she can delete gay pride. She thinks she can hurt those who are out and about with their sexuality. She's trying to control you, gatekeep you! That's homophobic! You shouldn't let her do that anymore!"

The crowd began chanting agreement with what was revealed.

Shetani was furious. "I am your principal. I am allowed to revise the rules! It was for learning purposes!"

"I don't think that's the case. You never learn from your mistakes. Especially if you tried disposing of your own *niece*!" Winter proclaimed.

The crowd was so taken aback that some students fell back into others. They had just learned that Shetani had tried killing Amira.

"***I DID NOT***!" Shetani snarled. "And you can't prove that because she's dead! You can't *speak* for her!"

"Oh really? I can speak for *myself*, thank you very much!" The students and teachers watched in shock as Amira stepped out, her brown eyes ablaze.

Shetani was in a livid state of stunned disbelief. "How is this possible? **You are supposed to be dead**!"

"Not dead at all. Look up at the screen, she-devil." Shetani's jaw dropped when her confession that she hired someone to kill Amira played on screen. She had been tricked into thinking that she destroyed the only recording.

"Haha, very funny." Winter stated in a mocking tone. "Evie here got it on her phone. And I already sent the evidence I had of you to Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Naecher. Goes to show that you're extremely dumb in your quest for whatever you want. And you're also stupid if you allowed *any teacher access to your presentation*. Cause we rigged it."

There was nothing Shetani could do now. The entire school now knew she was a liar and a danger to society. Her eyes widened, and she looked as if she was stuck in a state of stupor.

Amira stepped up to face her aunt. "You made me think I was mentally insane for hanging around you. I thought something was wrong with me and that I needed a doctor. I once had hope that you would reform and love me like a true aunt would. But now I see you're a sick beast who has the inability to look at her own reflection. My parents and grandmother don't love me either, but I've found one person who does!"

Amira marched right over to Winter, and leaned against her shoulder. She wrapped her arm around her waist. Then Amira turned to face Shetani again. "You will **never** hurt me again. I never knew what love even remotely was because of my entire family treating me like I was an object. You stole what made me happy, you stole my freedom, and turned it into your own pleasure. But I learned love, felt it, received it with Winter. I found love in a hopeless place. She got me out of the *hell* you created on Burlsberry Lane. I will never be your slave, and I will never be controlled or deceived. I am who I want to be, and I'll love who I want to love!"

"It's over, Shetani," Evie boldly told her. "You're being held here until the police arrive. Enjoy your lifetime prison sentence. You're a traitor."

Shetani started to cackle loudly, which unnerved the four girls that had just exposed her. "You'd really think you'd get away with this, did you? You'd really think you'd get away?"

Suddenly, out of nowhere, she knocked Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Naecher back with her arms. Before anyone could even react, she grabbed Amira and Winter by their shirt collars and started dragging them away.

"No!" Mya cried. She tried lunging for Winter, but missed and fell on the ground. Shetani easily dodged those who tried to stop her, and soon enough, she was out of the doors at the entrance to the middle school building.

***TO BE CONTINUED***

## Cast

* **Mae Whitman** as Winter
* **Zoe Saldaña** as Amira
* **Lauren Tom** as Opal
* **Peyton Elizabeth Lee** as Evie
* **Dakota Fanning** as Mya
* **Rob Wiethoff** as Mr. Naecher
* **Lynette DuPree** as Mrs. Hawkins
* **Grey DeLisle** as Shetani
* **Dee Bradley Baker** and **Kari Wahlgren** as additional voices

## Trivia

* This is the first episode where Grey DeLisle voices Shetani following the death of Jessica Walter.
	+ In addition, this is the final episode that featured *Pattern* as the intro before it was replaced by *Mortals*.
* The episode's title, along with the title for *Your Pain is My Pleasure: Part 2*, are derived from the line of a similar name from the Rihanna song *S&M*.
* This is the first episode to be released in April 2021.
* When Mya tells Shetani that they should call the doctor for her, she references the chorus of *Monster*.
* While Amira is calling out Shetani for her treatment of her, she says that she found love in a "hopeless place." This is a reference to the Calvin Harris and Rihanna song *We Found Love*.