Fungi- A Tale Of Two Warriors

chapter sixteen

(Alex) 
So.. apparently Violet has a friend? We came across an old gas station and I  pushed away from Mary Ann and limped inside. My back hurts like hell and I wanna lay on my bed, ugh. But then I remember that my bed is gone. Something about Josh, I can't remember much about it.
 Yeah, Violet knew this guy Blake and I think she secretly had a slight crush on him for a year but then she went off the branch and into the bushes, if ya know what I mean. She hugs him and they go to the side of the store to converse. Violet was sitting on the cashier shelf. Mary Ann explores the other rooms and from where the two friends are talking, I overhear ‘supermarket’.
I pass it off and I feel a tap on my shoulder, making me jump before groaning in pain to see Josh. His emerald eyes glittered and he grabbed my arm and led me to what I believe to be a bathroom. He stared into my eyes for a strange amount of time ,hesitating. Josh soon regained his thoughts.
“Look what I found!” He holds a pony galaxy ring in front of me. He waves it around like he just found a diamond. “You know what you’re looking at here? Limited edition galaxy pony wars ring of power, this one is the soul of happiness. Only 103 of these were ever made! My brother searched for one of these!” He pulls a string out of his pocket and makes a necklace out of it. He didn't bring me here for romance. He didn’t bring me here to tell me a secret. He took me all the way over here ...To show me a plastic ring from a very old cartoon! 
I push out of the bathroom and find Mary Ann, leaving him fanboy-ing in the bathroom next to the condom dispenser, holding his new prized possession like it was his baby. I enter the room Mary Ann is and tell her about what had just happened. She looked at me, then over in his direction and started to laugh. I felt offended in more ways than five and asked her why she was laughing. She wiped her eyes and said,
 “My daughter loved that show, she evidently found another one of those rings and carried it everywhere with her, even school. She would come home every day and watch that silly cartoon. Her favorite pony was lieutenant glitter chipper who would raid the enemy barracks and convert soldiers into joining her side with talk of friendship and love. You remind me so much of her. Except of course your reaction to seeing the ring that could ‘save Exinebos and all its people!’.”
“What was her name?” I asked.
“I've told you before, honey. Her name is just like yours, Avery Alexandria Ann.”
“You definitely like the letter A, don’t you.”
“And apparently your mamma loved abandoning her...” She muttered quietly to herself.
“What?” I said.
“Nothing, sugar.”