FIVE
Things are cherry bad.
That's how you would say it at the Blend.
Her moms thought
that fruit puns
were an absolute must have for all business.
Never in a million years,
had Maddie envisioned
a moment like this one.
Sitting cross legged
around a small circular wooden table
were her two mothers,
her twin brother,
his utterly silent boyfriend,
Ash's irritated looking manager,
and the devil himself,
all with bowls of untouched cherry pudding
in front of them.
It's as if all of hell went lose.
Oh wait, it did.
"What's ashton parker doing here
and why is their smoothie on both of you guys?"
Her brother gapes for the sixteenth time,
his wild brown hair flopping as he shakes himself
"B-but you're-and she's-and what the hell?"
"Can someone tell me what this is?" The manager points
at the bubbling pit of toxic lava spewage,
or rather organic hot cherry pudding with chia seeds.
Maddie huffs,
"Clearly, I was walking in the straight line
un-needing of assistance
when this oompa loompa decides to pummel my forehead
with his chin to 'help me,
all resulting in the both of us collapsing,
thanks to hi-"'
Ash cuts her off with a blank stare
"but you pulled me down."
"I will pull you down to the depths of hell with me if I must."
Maddie replies coyly, lifting a brow.
The manager clears his throat
"Wait guys is the fork supposed to melt into the pudding?"
Once again he is ignored.
Cleo, her mother, starts to speak.
"We are all here because there's been a slight confusion
regarding the love affair of my daughter
and a very famous young actor."
She's interrupted by her wife, Mai,
who is now fueled by some sort of passive aggressive fire.
Very motherly of her, Maddie supposes.
Mai clasps her hands on her lap,
"Maddie - you are not to date anybody until after you are married.
Then you can date your husband."
Cleo carefully steps in"Mai, I don't think that's how it works,
but anyways, how can we possible clear things up as of now?"
Finally, all attention rests upon the manager,
who was struggling to yank his spoon free from the pudding.
After several attempts,
He sets down the bowl and fixes his tie.
"We clear the air by accepting what is given."
Mai raises her brows. "Was that from a fortune cookie?"
"Unfortunately." the manager admits.
"Okay, so we need Maddie to pretend to be ash's girlfriend
and have him break up with her."
A bowl of pudding goes flying in the air.
and the sound of chaos rings around the room.
Things are cherry bad.
YOU ARE READING
Arrogant with a Side of Smoothie
ContoMaddie Nguyen is a homeschooled teenager who happens to be a maladroit employee of a family owned smoothie bar, who was supposed to have her senior year as an unquestionably stress-free adolescent. But that was before-before she ran smack into the t...
