"Are we nearly there yet?"
"No, Zac..." replies Donna, fed up. "We've been driving for three minutes."
"Donna, I thought you never passed your driving test," says Lily in disbelief.
"Oh..." she replies as the car crashes into a ravine. They all get out the car and walk out of the abyss, taking their seats somewhere in the poorly described area.
"So, none of us can actually drive, huh?" asks Adam rhetorically, readjusting his fishnets from the fall. "What do we do now? We're still in the great state of Kansas and we have to drive all the way to..." He checks the Nightcast hunting map. "Montana?! Gross."
"Don't worry!" announces Lily. "I know a guy."
"Is this your boyfriend?" asks Zac. "We've been waiting for his cameo for over twenty chapters now."
"Well, I was going to just buy some train tickets, but I guess I could give my boyfriend a call. Amazing how I forgot about him this month."
She waits for twenty seconds for the guy on the other end of the call to pick up. "Hi, Reecey-poo."
"Hey!" yells Donna. "Pooing on boyfriends is my thing."
Lily tells her boyfriend that failure to take the group to Montana will result in no marshmallows for a week. He obliges and sets off to pick them all up.
"Um, guys?" says Zaccy-poo. "What's that bizarre and ominous shadow that suddenly swept across the land?" The area has been plunged into darkness.
Suddenly, the moon crashes down to the earth. It's surprisingly smaller than it seemed before, presumably so the author doesn't have to acknowledge the fact that the tide system should now be out of action, the earth's tilt should be going haywire, and gravity would be entirely messed up. Whatever.
The important thing is who maybe just died.
A hand reaches out from underneath the large, but not too large, rocky mass. A garlic covered hand.
"NOOOOOOOOOO" no one screams. It appears that Garlic Girl has died.
Mourn.
Mourn.
Hippopotamourn.
She cries out.
It's a real pandamoonium.
She's really going through a dark phase.
She's going to have to die lunar or later.
Powers... waning...
...
But the girl refuses to die. She thrusts the moon away and it flies back into orbit. Garlic Girl is now even more two dimensional than before, but she won't let that stop her.
"I want to come with you," says Garlic Girl to the main characters. "I can help you save Sunita with my culinary arts."
"Okay," says Donna.
Reece arrives in his car and everyone piles in, despite there not being enough seats (they make it work). He makes a grunting sound which roughly translates to "hello" as the others awkwardly touch him as a sign of approval. Lily, Zac, Donna, Adam, Garlic Girl and Reecey-poo hurtle down the highway, slightly less unsafe than they were before. With two new party members, they have a greater chance of defeating the wicked witch. But maybe more help is soon to be at hand...
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Once Upon a Girl
Short StoryShe was just a small town girl... After randomly finding herself displaced from her normal life and into a midwestern family, Sunita is trying to adjust to a brand new high school. Can she survive the dramas of teenage life? Note: this book is a par...
