The Last Normal Years

Strange Change of Culture P2

Saturday, September 11, 2004 evening closed in finally. 7:30.
Bloom's Pov
Stella hands me back the book, and by that I mean the modified book script. And I continued to read onwards aloud. "'Bashful asked. "Why wash?"
Happy agreed. "What for? We ain't going nowhere."
Doc concluded. "Ain't New Year's."
The other dwarfs shake their heads "No".
Snow White remarked aloud. "Oh, maybe you have washed."
Doc agreed with her. "Maybe we...yes, maybe we have."
Snow White is very unconvinced, and continues to speak. "And if... when?"
Doc gets taken aback and stammers. "Where? Where...uh, you said, where"...why, last week......month...year...why, uh, recently."
All the Dwarfs agreed. "Yes, recently."
Snow White asked. "Oh, recently. Let me see your hands."
The dwarfs, surprised at this statement, put their hands behind their backs and slowly back towards the wall. Snow White, however, is not about to let their potentially filthy hands slide by her.
Snow White: Let me see your hands.
The first is Doc, who shows his dirty hands, knowing it's no use trying to cover up the truth.
Snow White sighed unenthusiastically . "Why, Doc, I'm surprised."
Doc puts his hands back behind him, chuckling hesitantly. Then Snow White turns to Bashful.
Snow White urged immediately. "C'mon, let's see them."
Bashful shows his hands, which are just as dirty as Doc's. After the princess sees them, he blushes again.
Snow White stammers. "Oh, Bashful. My, my, my. (to Sneezy) And you?
Sneezy shows his hands, also very dirty. Snow White clicks her tongue disapprovingly, and Happy tries to clean his hands by rubbing them on his clothes, but this does not work.
Snow White stated. "Oh, worse than I thought."
Dopey's equally dirty hands show, but only for a moment before his sleeves drape over them. The next is Sleepy, who also puts his dirty hands through his beard.
Snow White gasping. "How shocking." She clicks her tongue again.
Grumpy frowns, but looks at his own hands and turns away.
Snow White sighs in firm disgust. "Heavens me, this will never do."
Grumpy, though did not lined up like the others, looks at his hand, but doesn't seem to care whether they're dirty or not and crosses his arms across his chest himself.
Snow White insisted. "March straight outside and wash, or you'll not get a bite to eat."'" I handed the book around to Flora who picked up where I had left off with the tale itself now. "'The dwarfs start to file out the door, knowing they have to eat or live, nor is it any use arguing with the princess. Dopey, as usual, is last in line, yet showing off his sleeve-covered hands. Unfortunately, he fails to look where he's going and runs smack into the pantry, where several pots and fans fall on him. Then Dopey runs out the door, surprisingly unharmed. Grumpy, however, just frowns out the door, disgusted at how easily his roommates have succumbed to Snow White's charms.
Grumpy exclaimed loudly. "'Heh!'"
Then Grumpy turns around and sees the princess looking down on him.'" Flora hands the book to Tecna, and Tecna continues on reading aloud again. "'Snow White immediately inquires of him. "Well? Aren't you going to wash?"
Grumpy says nothing and turns away, obviously not letting anything do with women, especially not ones like Snow White coming into his house and warning him what to do like she is his mother.
Snow White inquires. "What's the matter, cat got your tongue?"
Grumpy gets serious by Snow White's remark, and sticks his tongue out at her to show that it's yet in his mouth. Then he storms out, but like Dopey before him, he does not look where he's going and hits his nose on the door. Snow White laughs at this lightheartedly knowing it must have hurt. "Aw, did you hurt yourself?"
Grumpy simply scoffs and slips his hat back on. Then he storms out the door, locking it behind him and sits on a barrel. Then he puts a piece of straw in his mouth and chews on it.
Grumpy huffed. "Hah, women!"'" Tecna hands the book to Raine and picks up reading for a few lines afterwards. "'Doc whispers off-screen, "Courage, men, courage. Don't be hesitant."
Cut to the other Dwarfs standing around a small tub of water. Happy swishes a finger around in it.
Happy spoke. "Gawrsh, it's wet."
Then Sneezy sticks a finger in the water and immediately recoils, shivering.
Sneezy: It's cold, as well!
Bashful: We ain't gonna do it, are we?
Doc: Well, and it'll please the princess.
Happy: Heh, I'll take a chance for her.
Bashful/Sneezy/Sleepy all agreed with. "Me too!'"" Raine hands it over to Ace who picked up reading right away. "'Grumpy, who is watching from his barrel, is not amused that his brothers are giving in to the charms of a very young lady.
Grumpy: Huh! Her wiles are beginning to work. But I'm warning you; you give them an inch and they'll walk all over you!
Doc: Don't listen to that old......warthog. C'mon now, men.
Sneezy asks. "How hard do you scrub?"
Sleepy questions. "Will your whiskers shrink?"
Happy converses. "Do you get in the tub?"
Bashful inquires. "Do you have to wash where it doesn't show?"