Now, Charlotte may have been mentally ‘slow’, but one couldn’t blame her for not understanding the situation. As far as she knew, Penny had awoken her from her sleep, gotten her dressed quickly, and dragged her off to the airport where she, Penny, and Ace took off in an airplane. No explanation, no chance to pack anything, no nothing. They were in the air and Charlotte didn’t even know where they were heading.
In short, as far as Charlotte could tell, Penny was being a ‘meanie’.
“At least she could let me go up to the front and see her and Ace,” Charlotte thought. But no, Penny strictly forbid her from entering the cockpit where Ace was piloting the plane. “And I really wanna know what all those noises are,” Charlotte wondered. She could tell they were coming from where Penny and Ace were, but because Penny said she couldn’t enter, Charlotte had to stay out. “And it sounds like something’s sprung a leak.”
And so, the harpy Charlotte sat in the back wit all the freight, staying calm and quiet as could be...
...For all of three seconds...
...
Hey, you try standing still when you have the attention span of a child with a severe case of ADD!
And so, Charlotte was humming the song “Chopsticks” as she kicked her feet against the crate she was sitting on. Boy was she bored. Bored, bored, bored... She was so bored; Charlotte felt that she was worse off than a plank of wood.
Getting bored with humming, (it only took twenty seconds) the harpy wondered what else she could do. And so, out of curiosity, Charlotte sat up and decided to check around to see what Ace had in the back.
The crate Charlotte had been sitting on had an ever-traditional ‘GD’ Logo on its side. “Probably some sciency-stuff of Gina’s,” Charlotte mumbled. Grabbing the top of the lid, Charlotte pulled it off to look inside...
And it wasn’t any sort of technology in there...
“Oh WOW!” Charlotte said in surprised. Using one taloned hand, Charlotte lifted the item out. “A can of tuna,” Charlotte looked over into the crate. “Wow! And there’s a whole bunch of them! I rarely see tuna around the Diggers,” Charlotte mumbled.
It was then that a thought came across the harpy’s mind. “Hey, if all this stuff is here, then what about Britanny and her need for tuna?”
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Britanny frowned as she sat the table. Her arms were crossed over her chest and her tail swayed back and forth. One could tell she was irritated.
Closing the refrigerator door, Gina had the carton of milk in her hand. She walked over to the cupboard, and as she looked for a glass, asked, “So, Britanny, did you get your tuna in?”
The growl that Gina heard was enough of in indication to shut up and let things be. “Yeesh, forget I asked.”
The irate werecheetah just grumbled. “I know Ace is a friend, but next time I’m going with FedEx...”
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Shrugging her shoulders, Charlotte dropped the tuna can back into the crate with the rest of the cans. “Now let’s see what else is here,” Charlotte thought as she looked over to the next crate...
And stopped as she saw the Planter’s logo on it...
“Is that...” Charlotte began, only to fall to instinct. Grabbing the lid, Charlotte tore it off to reveal bags of nuts! Bags upon bags upon bags of Planter’s peanuts.
Rubbing her hands, er, talons, er, whatever together, Charlotte drooled a little as she stared at the foil bags off legume-goodness. “Merry Christmas to ME!”
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(Posted Sat, 06 Dec 2003 00:57)
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