| oh, here we go again |

[1] Why do I look like my minecraft skin?

-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- [APRIL 28TH 2024]

Wenny had to force herself not to flinch when the door to her office slammed open. She sighed, placing down the beaker that she luckily had just emptied, and turned around.

She could tell who had entered just by the fact that they were wearing heelies.

Earlier that year, her siblings had unfortunately decided to do a 'white elephant' type of gift giving for Christmas, and Allen had bought heelies he planned to take for himself ....when Kat got to them first.

Wenny still chuckles at the memory of his face when Kat took them out the bag.

But now... she wears them EVERYWHERE.

Going to the mall? Heelies.
Vidcon? Heelies.
Need to go run some errands? Heelies.
Oh, what will she wear to go from the front door to the stairs? HEELIES.

It got so annoying that Betty made Kat promise to not get any dirt inside, or else she'd be "banned for life and you'll never get anything similar ever again." Betty's words, not Wenny's.

"Hey Kat. What brings you here?" Wenny asked her, slowly putting all her equipment away while still paying attention to the other girl in the room.

"Wenny, I need to know something." Kat said, walking- or, well, sliding into the room and stopping at the first table in her way.

"Hm?"

"When is your science phase gonna end? Also, when did we get a lab?"

"End? Why would it be a phase?"

"Wenny! This is just like your family phase! Except this time you've... gotten a permit for a lab in the house?"

"Last time I searched you didn't need a permit."

Kat's eyes shot to Wenny, that statement clearly more interesting than the pH scale poster on the wall. With her mouth practically about to unhinge like a snake's, she whispered "what do you mean?"

"Well, I searched it up and some webite called sciencemadness or something had people saying it was perfectly okay."

It took exactly 4 seconds of silence before Kat started freaking out.

"We could get in SO MUCH legal trouble about this Wenny!! You can't just build a lab in our home, especially not without the government's permission!?!"

"What do you mean she doesn't have the government's permission?"

Sometime during all of Kat's panicking, Kim had entered the office.

"SHE DOESN'T HAVE A PERMIT FOR THIS LAB KIM."

"....."

annnnnddd....

"WHAT?!?"

Wenny groaned, having finished putting away all the equipment she was using. "Kat, be careful with that glass bottle on the table there, don't break it."

Said person turned around, offended. "You think I'm THAT clumsy? That I'm just gonna flail my arms around like this and brea-"

All three of them watched with an equally horrified expression as the bottle fell off the table, onto a stain Wenny had never bothered to properly clean off the carpet.

with a very loud crash, it had broke.

Nothing happened for a few moments.

Just Kat, Kim and Wenny staring at the spilt mixture.

Everything was fine.

...

Until it started spewing black mist, of course.