Cassie's Love •Willy Wonka•

14: "She a blueberry!"

"Ooo- watch this." Wonka says excitedly. An alarm starts blaring, smoke starts coming out of a machine. Wonka is running around excitedly as we all watch him. Soms liquid starts bubbling. Then a stick of gum leaves the machine.
"You mean that's it?" Mike says unimpressed.
"Do you even know what 'it' is?" Wonka asks.
"Its gum." Violet states.
"Yeah, its a stick of the most amazing and sensational gum in the whole universe. Know why? Know why? Because this gum is a full 3 course meal all by itself!" Willy says proudly.
"Why would anyone want that?" Mr Salt says.
While Willy flicks through his cards i start to speak.
"Because everybody, it will stop the need for eating food. Imagine all the anorexic people. They won't eat food maybe if they get the taste of food again they will slowly start wanting to eat again, helping them."
"Mom, what's anorexic?" Violet asks.
"Its not a good word, honey." Mrs Beauregarde says staring at me.
"Violet, anorexic is something where a person will stop eating food to stop gaining weight." I say.
"I have the right card, here we go. It will end all kitchens and cooking. Just one strip of Wonka’s chewing gum and that is all you will ever need at breakfast, lunch and dinner. This piece of gum happens to be tomato soup, roast beef and blueberry pie." Willy reads.
"Or what Willy said works too." I say.
"Its sounds great." Charlie says.
"Its sounds weird." Veruca says in disgust.
"It sounds like my type of gum." Violet says taking her piece of gum out and putting it behind her ear. Then grabs the dinner gum and goes to eat it. Willy quickly goes to stop her.

"I'd rather if you didnt. There's still a one or two things that are-" Violet interrupts Willy by saying "I'm the record holder in chewing gum. I'm not afraid of anything."
She then puts the gum in her mouth and starts chewing it.
"How is it, honey?" Mrs Beauregarde asks her daughter.
"Its amazing. Tomato soup- i can feel it running down my throat!"
"Yeah, spit it out." Willy sort of demands.
"Violet, please just spit it out. Something as may happen. You know science anything can go-" I try to reason with her.
"Its changing. Roast beef with baked potato. Crispy skin and butter."
Willy grabs my hand and pulls me behind one of the machines.
"What are you doing?" I whisper.
"Shhh." He puts his finger on my lips. "Last time one of my Oompa Loompas had one stick of this gum they exploded. I don't know if it will happen to the girl but."
To this i give him a strange look and come out from behind the machines. Willy rolls his eyes and looks around dramatically in annoyance. "Cassie, get back here."

"Keep chewing, kiddo! My little girls going to be the first person in the world to have a chewing gum meal!" Mrs Beauregarde encourages.
"Violet spit it out." I say but more demanding this time. She goes to spit it out but her mother shakes her head firmly at the child telling Violet to ignore me.

"I'm just a little concerned about the-" Willy says.
"Blueberry pie and ice cream." Violet says happily.
"Yeah, that part."

Slowly, Violet starts turning blue.
"Holy shit."
"Cassie, language." Charlie tells me.
"What are you, captain america?" I say back.

"Whats happening to her nose?" Veruca asks.
"She turning blue." Mr Salt says.
I grab onto Charlie's shoulders protectively again. This time Charlie grabs onto my hands that are on his shoulders. Willy puts his hands on my shoulders from behind me as well. Like a weird protective conga line.
"Your whole nose has gone purple." Mrs Beauregarde informs.
"What do you mean?" Violet asks desperately.
"Violet, your turning violet! What's happening?" Mrs Beauregarde asks.
"You see, I told your daughter to spit it out but you couldn't have your daughter listening to me no. Right now Violet would be fine if you just trusted me." I say to the woman. She just gives me an angry look and looks to Willy for some help.
"Well, I told you I hadn't got it right, because it goes a little funny when it gets to dessert. Its the blueberry pie that does it. Im terribly sorry."
Wonka slowly pulls me and Charlie back behind the others.
"Its alright, darling." He whispers into my ear. Shivers went down my spine at the closeness. He then randomly kissed my ear.

Violet starts to swell up.
"Mother, whats happening to me?" Violet asks panicked.
"Shes swelling up like a blueberry." Charlie says.
We all see Violet swell up more and more. I feel sick just watching. As much as I dislike Violets attitude sometimes, she doesn't really deserve this.
"I'm gonna be sick." I whisper.

Wonka sneaks behind Mrs Beauregarde. I think he's off to comfort her but that wouldn't be a Willy Wonka thing to do now would it. Instead he says. "I've tried it on 20 Oompa Loompas and each one ended as a blueberry. Its just weird." This startles the woman as she obviously didn't see him sneak up behind her.
"But I can't have a blueberry as a daughter, how is she supposed to compete?" Mrs Beauregarde panicks.
"That shouldn't be your concern. If she was my child, I would be more concerned about the fact she's a blueberry. Your daughter may not even want to compete anymore. Fucking hell woman. She's your daughter. Your fucking blood and dna yet you dont love her enough to even acknowledge shes a blueberry. Her health isn't the concern, its the competing." I finish off my rant.
"You could put her in a county fair." Veruca suggests.

Then the Oompa Loompas appear again and start singing and dancing.

Listen close, and listen hard,
The tale of Violet Beauregarde
This dreadful girl she sees no wrong
Chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing all day long
Chewing, chewing all day long.
chewing,Chewing all day long.
Chewing, chewing all day long.

She goes on chewing till at last
Her chewing muscles go so fast.
And from her face her giant chin
Sticks out just like a violin
Chewing, chewing all day long. chewing,
Chewing all day long.
Chewing, chewing all day long

For years and years she chews away
Her jaw gets stronger every day.
And with one great tremendous chew
They bite the poor girls tongue in two
And that is why we try so hard
To save miss Violet Beauregarde
Chewing, chewing all day long chewing,
Chewing all day long
Chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing all day long

"Will somebody help the fucking girl instead of just singing. Thank you. Lovely song but still."
"Cassie calm down." Charlie says. He then hugs me. We stand there hugging while I listen into the conversation.

"I want you to roll Miss Beauregarde into the boat and take her along to the juicing room at once." Wonka demands. The Oompa Loompa bows before heading over, with the other little men, to Violet.
"The juicing room? What are they going to do to her there?" Mrs Beauregarde asks panicked.
"They're going to squeeze her, like a little pimple. We've got to squeeze all that juice out of her immediately."
"Mother?! Help me please." Violet shouts at her mother as she gets rolled away. Then Mrs Beauregarde follows her daughter out of the inventing room.
"Come on, let's boogie! Without the boat, we will have to move double time just to keep on schedule. There's far to much to see."