Save the Bees

Chapter 6

Mom: Would it kill you 2 to just make a little honey? (Barry and Y/N roll off the raft and sink into the pool.)

Mom: Barry and Y/N, come out from under there. Your father's talking to you and Y/N. Martin, would you talk to them?

Dad: Barry and Y/N, We're talking to you. (Barry and Y/N keep swimming downward through the honey, which clears and leads them to a park where Diana, Rae, Loki, and Maddie are waiting for them, reclining on a picnic blanket. "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies is playing in the background. They swat a mosquito that lands on their legs, then looks at Barry, Y/N, Loki, and Maddie for their reactions. All are surprised, but then laugh about it.)

Diana: You 4 coming? (said in a sultry way)

Barry: Got everything?

Rae: All set. (They get into a two-man ultralight plane with a black-and-yellow paint job and put on their helmets. They and the plane are now Barry, Y/N, Loki, and Maddie's size.)

Y/N: You 2 go ahead. We'll catch up.

Diana: Don't be too long. (The plane takes off. Barry, Y/N, Loki, and Maddie soon catch up and they fly together.)

Rae: Watch this! (The plane does a loop, trailing red smoke that forms a heart, then crashes into the side of a rock pile, bursting into flames.)

Barry and Y/N: (yelling in anguish:) Diana and Rae! (Their cries change to bubbles escaping their mouths)

(Barry and Y/N break the surface of the pool, gasping for air.)

Dad: We're still here, Barry and Y/N.

Mom: I told you not to yell at them. They don't respond when you yell at them.

Dad: Then why are you yelling at me?

Mom: Because you don't listen.

Dad: Ah, I'm not listing to this.

Y/N: (dries herself and puts on her sweater and Berry puts on his sweater) Sorry Janet, we've got to go.

Mom: Where are you 2 going?

Barry: Nowhere. We're meeting 2 friends.

Mom: (calling after him:) 2 girls? Is this why you 2 can't decide?

Y/N: Bye!

Mom: I just hope they're Bee-ish. (Diana and Rae exit their florist shop, flipping the sign over and locking the door.)

Loki: (he sees the Tournament of Roses Parade poster) So they have a huge parade of just flowers every year in Pasadena?

Diana: Oh, to be in the Tournament of Roses, that's every florist's dream. Up on a float, surrounded by flowers, crowds cheering.

Maddie: Wow, a tournament. Do the roses actually complete in athletic events?

Rae: No. All right, I've got one. How come you 4 don't fly everywhere?

Barry: It's exhausting.

Diana: Hmmm.

Y/N: Why don't you 2 run everywhere? Isn't that faster?

Rae: Yeah, okay. I see, I see. All right, your turn.

Loki: Ah! Tivo. You can just freeze live TV? That's insane.

Diana: What, you don't have anything like that?

Maddie: We have Hivo, but it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease.

Rae:Oh my. (They turn a corner onto a busier street. People start swatting at Barry, Y/N, Maddie, and Loki.)

Man: Dumb bees!