Plaiddragon's Plots
The Andy Story
Chapter 1
This, my children, is what happens when you and your best friend decide to write a popcorn story at midnight. This story is the beginning of the end... Actually, it is the first story Robin & Penny wrote together and the first known record of our future history series. This story is, therefore, about five years old. The Andy Story is an unashamed romance, so if you don't like romance, go jump through a scrunchy.
Once upon a time, in another dimension that can only be reached by traveling by scrunchies, there lived two best friends. The first was named Emilia and she had back-length brown hair and green eyes. The other was Calamine who had shoulder length red hair and blue eyes. Emilia also had a dragon named Azelmyth.
In the evenings in the clearing of the forest where they lived they would build a fire and sit and sew scrunches and tell stories. Now one day Emilia met Edmund, a boy her age with a dragon of his own named Iyingflay. The two fell deeply in love and so Edmund came to travel with them and share their fire at night and tell stories of his own around the fire. Calamine tried hard to like Edmund but try as she might she was always exceedingly jealous of both of the others. Of Emilia for she had someone to love her, something that Calamine did not have, and of Edmund for taking her best friend away because, the way she saw it, Emilia had never been the same since she had met Edmund.
So one day she decided to take a walk in the forest to try to think things out. On her walk she ran into Andy. Andy had attended magic school with her and though they had never been close friends, they knew each other and had been known to stop and talk when they saw each other. But today Calamine was busy fuming over her situation and didn't even notice Andy when he landed as an eagle in front of her.
Quickly changing to a human Andy walked beside her. After a little bit he tapped her on the shoulder and said, "Hello? Are you awake? "
Calamine turned, startled, "Oh, it's only you. Hey, Andy could I yell at you? It's not your fault but I need to vent my troubled emotions."
"Oh, sure. I just wanted to say hi, and you want to yell at me. Sure yell at me, but there is a surcharge of $.50 or one scrunchy."
"YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!! IT'S ALL NOT YOUR FAULT!!! HOW DARE YOU NOT DO THAT!!! IT'S ALL EDMUND'S FAULT!!! HOW DARE YOU NOT BE THE CAUSE OF ALL MY PROBLEMS!!!! HOW COU--"
"Thank you for coming to yelling at Andy enterprises." Andy interrupted. "After the first twenty-one exclamation marks there is an additional charge of another scrunchie. Thank you, and please continue."
Calamine stood flabbergasted for about a minute. Then, picking up where she had left off, she continued her yelling. "--COULD YOU NOT BE THE CAUSE OF ALL MY PROBLEMS!!!! HOW COULD YOU NOT SAVE ME!!!!" Calamine stopped suddenly, and collapsed into tears on Andy's shoulder.
Through all of this Andy had been wondering just what Calamine's problem was. Who is Edmund and why is it all his fault? Why does she need to yell? Why is she covering my shoulder with tears?And if it's Edmund's fault why is she yelling at me and not at him?
After a little while Calamine calmed down. Pulling out her scrunchy chain, Calamine asked, "How many scrunchies do I owe you anyway? Two for yelling, and how many for crying on your shoulder?" She was trying not to burst into tears again.
Andy, realizing she was holding back tears, said, "Well, for one scrunchy you still have five minutes crying time. And, if you promise to answer my questions about your yelling, you get two more extra."
Calamine repressed a smile and said, "You drive a hard bargain Andy, but OK. I promise."
She immediately turned and burst into tears on his shoulder. Andy didn't actually keep track of how long she cried on his shoulder, while he wished that he could do something, anything besides sit there and silently promising her that she could cry on his shoulder anytime.
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