Mirage

Trap Days, ft. Tammy Boy

Once upon a time, a long, long, long, long, time ago-(Keefe, they asked how we got together, not your take on science fiction.

Don't interrupt the story, Shady. The kids are itching to know.

No one's itching and stop making it sound like we have kids, this is a LIVE!)

LONG TIME AGO-(Stop rolling your eyes at me!)-Tammy, me and our five other friends were on a mission to catch some evil people. Like, no joke, they were kinda crazy and one of them was my mom, so you can trust my take on that!

I'd known Tam for a whole... long time by then and I knew I hated his guts. (That's just mean, dude.

You've said the same thing about me, we're even! Now, shhhhhh!)

We were creeping through a Neverseen base while they were being led into a trap that the Forkman came up with. It was mostly underground; super gross-and that's coming from the guy who kept, like, forty gulons in his room for a prank.

The whole way down there, he and I were arguing as future boyfriends do. (I think that's just us.

Yeah, okay, it is.)

He'd just about had enough of me and yelled-slash-whispered, "What's your problem?!"

And I was like, "My problem? You're the one hung up on some stupid reading!"

"If it's so stupid why don't you just let me take it!"

(There's no way I sound like that.

I'm literally mimicking your voice.

Your point?

Anyways.) "Maybe because I don't want some weirdo poking around my head!"

"I'm the weirdo?" And it went back and forth like that for about ten minutes until we actually got to where we were supposed to be searching. The seven odd us split up and poked around their base but it was basically deserted.

Then, Tam called us over to point out some little trapdoor on the floor. I was the first there because I'm always number one. (Stop lying to the veiwe-

Shhhhhh!)

Dex started poking around it like Technopaths do but I found this tiny, camouflaged button right in the center of the plate and I thought, Hey, what would happen if I pushed it? Now, before you yell at me, I thought that because no one was actually on the thing, no one would get hurt.

But the gods hate me, so after my dumba- (You can't curse; there could be kids watching.

Don't let their innocent faces fool you, kids have said worse than that.

True but I don't want them to try and banish you over this so just don't.

Fiiiiine. If you want to be boring.)

After I pushed the button-and yes, I was yelled at for that-the huge tile under me and Tam flipped and threw us onto some underground slide that went about a half-mile down. All this time, the others were screaming and pretty much losing their minds.

I was also screaming and losing my mind-I don't know what was going on with Tam, I was a little busy falling down a metal slide at a hundred miles per hour. (That was a hyperbole, by the way.

I thought that was obvious?

It's really not.)

It was a long minute until I finally hit the weirdly soft floor. At least they prepared to have to go down there and didn't not leave a cushion for someone to fall on the very hard rock floor. I had just enough time to roll out of the way before Tam fell out of the ceiling right after me.