"Who's taking it off?"
"Me!","This guy!" Xavier and Mason said at the same time.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And no."
I said "no" each and every time I swatted at the animals.
They're testing me.
"Don't touch the filthy animal. Just clean off the van so we can get."
"Clean it off with what?" X asks.
"I don't know. Be creative. You're supposed to be the smart one here."
"Do you have some lemons?" X asks Andrea.
"Maybe...why?"
"Because I need it to clean off the car," he whips out his black smarty-pants glasses and puts them over his stupid eyes.
Harshness intended.
"And I'm hoping that the acidity from the flesh of the fruit will be able to combat any pathogens that may or may not be living in the crevices of aforementioned vehicle."
"aForEmEnTioned VehiCle," I mocked childishly.
"I'll get those for you right away."
Andrea walks off.
And Xavier laughs a sound resembling a baby's.
"Ahh... I was just messingwith'er. Who cares about the danged lemons? I just know that it will make the dead rat on the van stink."
And he cackled some more.
Real original.
"Nice," Robin said genuinely impressed and slapped him on the back of his head roughly, jolting him out of his laughing fit.
Two minutes later and more than a dozen lemons' juice covered the external part of the van. It was clean though.
"Ok. No more wasted time. Last one in the van is driving," I say and clap my hands.
I didn't expect for no one to go in.
"Last one in the van is gay."
Crickets.
"Last one in the car loves Henry!" Robin exclaimed.
Everyone got in - except Andrea.
And then there was an eruption of horrid shrieks.
"It stinks in this thing! Did you take a shid in this thing 5 years ago or what?"
I said that.
She said nothing.
I look inside it carefully. There's nothing here except for a pudding cup. Except I don't know what it is and I don't want to know.
I grab it with my nails and throw it at someone. I don't know who it was and I don't want to know.
We all board.
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