Anywhere But Burbank

Chapter 36: Cutting off Toxic Contact

"MacKenzie? Have you ever had any thoughts of cutting off contact with Raquel and Chloe yet?" Wakko asked MacKenzie on their day out at the local coffee shop. MacKenzie sighs and nodded. "Yeah, but it's just so hard, I don't even know what to say to them." She looked out the window. "They were really the reason why I was so harsh on Carrie in the first place." Wakko began to think about what she could do. He takes a sip of his hot chocolate and then got an idea. "Hey. I think I can teach you how to take them out of your life." "Oh gee Wakko, what do you know about something like that?" MacKenzie playfully rolled her eyes. "Chloe and Raquel are literal devils."

"Come on, let's go back to the tower." He grabs her hand and they run back to the water tower, going up together. He shuts the door behind him and they sat down on the couch. Wakko pulled out a book and opened it up, flipping to the first step. "Okay. The first step is finding your inner self, and getting realization that the toxic life is in you. Think.. When was the first time you ever met them?" He asked and MacKenzie began to think. She continued to finish her drink from the coffee shop and then she remembered. "The first time I ever met Chloe and Raquel was in preschool. We all were kids."

(Flashback: Chloe, Raquel and MacKenzie were 4.)

MacKenzie was having her packed lunch outside on the picnic bench. She opened up and then two other girls sit with her. "Excuse us, is this seat taken?" Chloe asked her and MacKenzie shook her head no. "No not at all. Say, you're both the new kids to this preschool, right?" She asked them and Raquel swished her braids. "Yes. I moved up here from Louisiana." "Ooh. I've always wanted to see the French quarters." Chloe held out her hand. "Hey, I'm Chloe and this is Raquel." MacKenzie shook her hand and then looked to a young Carrie sitting down alone. "Should we invite her over?" She asked but they shake their head no. "No, Carrie is too weird. She always is alone. Keep it that way."

(End.)

"Alright, I see where this is going." MacKenzie began to see the errors of their ways. "That's it. Just like that. Now the second step is to get them to meet up." Wakko tells her and MacKenzie nodded. She gets out her phone and texted both Chloe and Raquel. "Hey girls. I got something to say to you both. Can we all meet up at the boardwalk?" After a couple of minutes Chloe texted back "Of course." and Raquel texted back "Yeah, whatevs." "Alright. The last step is to get things to get revenge on them both. Now think about what you guys have done to be mean to Carrie before?" MacKenzie immediately threw in a bunch of wrapped pads and unwrapped tampons into a duffel bag. "Well we threw a bunch of these at her when her Aunt flo was in town."

(Later at the dock)

MacKenzie waited for them to show up. For what felt like forever, Chloe and Raquel showed up finally. "Hello there MacKenzie, why did you call us here exactly?" She asked and Chloe points to her duffelbag. "And why do you have that with you? Did you come from the gym or something?" MacKenzie stood up and opened it. "Oh no. I just thought you would get a taste of your own medicine." And then she began to throw the pads and tampons at them both by the handful before dumping the rest out on them. "MacKenzie, what the hell?!" Chloe asked her. "YOU GUYS BASICALLY TORE ME TO RUINS CAUSE OF YOUR TOXICITY!!" She shouts at them. "What on earth are you talking about?!" Raquel asked. "You still have you tummy pouch."

"SEE?! That's exactly what I mean, You ruined me, my marriage, the chance to see my kids. You never even stopped to see that Carrie had feelings. HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK?!" MacKenzie crossed her arms and then Raquel grabbed her. "You wouldn't have gotten nowhere without us, you know that!" "I would have my kids back with me. Carrie's gentle and kind nature changed me. Wakko changed me." MacKenzie right hooked them in the nose. "I'm done. Don't even think of coming around ever again. EVER!" She rushed to her car and went back before the cops showed up.

"Ms. Smith, Ms. Kane, this is your third offense of littering!" The cop tells them before Chloe stood there in shock. "Officer please, this wasn't us this time." Raquel pleaded as the cop wrote down a ticket. "I don't want to hear it from you. You both are paying separate fines of $750 and will have to pickup roadside litter for the next 24 hours!" Raquel growls and mumbled. "Carrie is going to pay for this.."