The Firefly Field Theory

|4| You Sure This is a Shortcut?: Part III

Ladies and Gents,

My only advice to you right now is to brace yourselves.

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PART III:

Z gets up first and reaches out to pick up all the paper plates and the empty pizza box, “Did you put the cake in the fridge?” he asks Bravo.

Oh goodie! There is cake too.

“Yeah I did. Listen get the costumes we have to leave in an hour. Annie, sweetie please go home and tell anyone who asks you where Samha is that she said she wanted to stay in the park for a while and will join us at the birthday party. If they ask anything tell them you told her where it is and she said she would be there. It starts in an hour so you have to make sure you, mom and khala leave timely.”

That is so not what samha says. If I was allowed to speak I would yell get me out of here. Although I know they are not dangerous, I have a feeling I wasn’t brought here just for pizza. There is something happening here that I am not aware of, Annie gets up, hugs her elder sister then she leaves.

“Samha we can call you Sam, right?” Bravo asks me. I nod that is what everyone calls me.

“Sam follow me, we have to go get ready.” she says getting up and crossing the living room to the door at the other end. I follow her.

Get ready for what? What is happening?

Inside the bed room, Z is standing with a huge hollow oval shaped casing of sorts. The convex side is painted in a deep dirty green color and the inner flatter surface is somewhat yellow. He places the huge casing on the bed and bends down to one end. I notice the case has a large hole cut out at one end, with smaller cavities peering at the sides there are also two holes at the opposite end. He pulls out a plastic bolt from both sides and lifts the upper case to reveal the black hollow core. The gaps at both the ends of the case come apart like half circles. It makes no sense. What is that a green nut shell?

“The guy was a Godamned genius, I can’t believe it, Bravo look at it its perfect! So freakin real!” The excitement in Z’s voice is just adding to my confusion. What is going on?

Bravo walks over to the closet next to the bed and rummages through it; she turns and asks Z,”Where is the one for her? and where did you put the bag?”

“In the toilet.” he says not removing his eyes from the green abominable nutshell.

“Go inside and get that costume on quick.” she says to me and then turns back to the closet to pull out a green fluffy dead animal of sorts. Placing it on her shoulder she makes a beeline to the door, "Move it, I’ll change in the TV room, and Z get dressed quick then send Wall-e to the toilet, we have to strap those shells on too.” Passing orders is this girl’s favorite hobby. I don't want to listen to her but everybody does what she says so I can’t stand out by disobeying. I enter the toilet and turn the light on.

Where is that dark greenish thing? I shut the door and stare at  the dirty green revolting casing hanging from a hook. When I stretch it out to the length of my shoulders in front of me it rings bells but I fail to put my finger on it.

Wait a second how am I going to wear this?

I open the door,”Ahh Z?”

“Yeah?”

“Like do you guys have a bag or something to put my clothes in? Cuz like… I can’t pull the costume over them.” I say sheepishly.

“I already told you didn’t I? there is a bag inside, put your clothes in it and take it with you to the car.” He doesn’t even sound the slightest bit of nonplussed.