Disclaimer: Not mine...
A/N: Just something I have been working on, if you enjoy this then
I will continue... Woo oh. Maria isn't meant to annoy anyone, she is based on a character played in a LARP game that was devious and cool, and funny as hell.
Please leave contributions in the review box, whether you like it or not.
Thanks. LD
P.S. If anyone has the proper spelling for Spanish naughty words, or has some that I don't know of (which is anyone that has not been used) please please please put them in the review box for me... I need more!
Candy Apple Red
By Lady Devine
Part 1: Denial
Chapter 1: What did I ever do...
"What did I ever do to deserve you!" Karen yelled up the stairs. She couldn't believe that this teenage girl could be such a hassle. Girls were supposed to be easier then boys, smarter, more mature, and cleaner but for some reason Sarah refused to do as she should. No matter what
Karen did. She hadn't tried bribery yet, but it was the last thing on her list.
"Why don't you just wish me away then!" Sarah cried back down the stairs. She didn't mean it she realized, but she had defeated Jareth, so even if Karen did someone find out what the words were and send her away he couldn't actually take her away... could he?
She stomped into her room and plopped down on her bed. It was nearly nine and Dad would be back soon, she had to get dressed anyway, and she didn't feel like talking to Ludo or Hoggle or Didymus. The guys were great, but sometimes she needed to work things out for herself, one wonderful thing she had learned in her trip through the Labyrinth.
Karen stood at the bottom of the stairs and contemplated sending her step- daughter away. It wouldn't be so horrible, there'd be more chores but not that many more. It would be mostly quiet in the house. Karen giggled, "I wish the Goblins would take you away, right now."
Lightening flashed, and the rumble of thunder nearly shattered every window in the Williams home.
Toby began to cry.
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Karen Williams ran up the stairs, the house had gone dark suddenly, it hadn't even been cloudy outside when Sarah had come home late. Daniel was away on business and Karen was suddenly very frightened. She had been upset with him lately, she was positive he was having an affair with his new secretary. The last time they had gone out had been two years ago, and everything in her life became strange after that.
Sarah and Toby were suddenly getting along, but Daniel was being distant. She went into Toby's bedroom and picked him up, and hesitated from going into Sarah's with out knocking, but she had too, she had to make sure the girl was okay.
The door swung open easily and Karen started, the room was empty, except for Sarah's vanity, clear of mess, there were no picture's there but there hadn't been in nearly two years. "Oh, what have I done?"
"You wished your step daughter away, Karen. Away to the Goblins where she would no longer be a thorn in your side." Jareth smiled a toothy grin. "You are a beautiful woman, Karen, and you are young, you are far to young to have a seventeen year old daughter that won't help you. You have dreams that you still want to reach. I can give you those dreams. Simply forget about Sarah and everything you want will be yours." He tilted his head and waved a crystal in front of her face,
Toby reached for it but she pulled him back gently.
"I can't..." she said softly. Her dreams were flashing in that crystal, not dreams that a mother of two could grasp at.
"She'll be well taken care of, Karen. You need never worry about her again. Forget about her. Daniel will, and then you and Toby and Daniel can live in peace and quiet. No crying teenage girl to disturb you."
Karen reached out with her free hand the crystal was hypnotic. It's colors swirling surreally. "She'll be okay, there, in your castle. No one will hurt her, she will just be gone. As if she was still with her mother..." Karen's hand touched the crystal and it disappeared in a flash of sparkles.
"Very Good, Karen, now, go to your room, and put Toby in his pen, then finish your chores. Your husband will be home soon, with wonderful news." Jareth smiled his cruel grin again and watched her walk out of the room, a dazed look on her face and slowly close the door.
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Chapter 2: Stages
Sarah refused to open her eyes. She felt as if someone had hit her with a truck. Her muscles ached, no, they were screaming at her, and her head felt like it was in a vice. "Owie," she whimpered when she tried to open her eyes.
"Oh, dear me. I didn't even think that you would have a headache. I'm sorry, dear, let me get those candles out of here." The voice was of an old woman, thin and shaky, there was a hustle of noise and then silence.
She opened a single eye and it protested her brain agreeing that a total shut down was far more appetizing then dealing with light currently.
From what she could see she was in a large bedroom. Slowly she attempted the other eye and found that the room was quite beautifully decorated. There were huge colorful tapestries hung on each wall, and the bed that she was laying in was some wood that she couldn't describe. It looked like mahogany but was far darker. "Where am I?" She whispered through her headache.
"You're safe now, darling. That mean woman can never hurt you again." The voice was now connected to a heavy set, white heard woman with large compassionate eyes.
"Mean woman?" she rubbed her temples and rolled on to her stomach to keep the light out. "Karen's not so bad. She just doesn't like me very much."
"Oh," the woman said, sitting down next to her. "The King said that she wished you away. Here, drink this, it should sooth your aches."
"Wished me away?" She was growing more and more confused.
"Yes, dear. She wished you away. To the castle beyond the Goblin City." She fed a bowl of chicken broth tasting a bit woody. "He brought you here and you didn't take to the trip very well. You really were to old to be wished away anyway."
Sarah felt the tension from her aching muscle ebb away like the tide, and suddenly her brain connected everything that had been said in the last few minutes. "Oh my God! Karen wished me away!"
"That is what I just said." The woman smiled sadly at the girl. She was quite pretty, Sally understood why Jareth had loved the girl for so long. Even if the girl wasn't very bright.
"I know, I guess I just didn't connect someone wishing me away and Karen and being in the Labyrinth. Oh no, is he going to turn me into a goblin?"
"A goblin? Where ever did you get that idea?"
"Well, he said he would make Toby one of them forever. I just assumed."
"Hmmm, well, that's assumptions for you. No, he isn't going to make you a goblin I really don't know what he has in store for you." The woman smiled and patted her hand, "Anyway, he wants to see you girl, dinner is about ready and you need to get dressed. There, through that door is a tub and some toiletries, use what you need, this will be your room from now on. Oh, if you need me just ring."
"Okay, oh... What is your name? Wait a minute? From now on? Isn't she trying to run the Labyrinth to save me? Has she already failed!?"
"She didn't even try, dear. I'm Mrs. Kellerman, but you can call me Sally, I'm the house keeper here."
"I didn't see you the last time I was here." She was choking back tears.
"Well, I don't usually meet the guests." She laughed at Sarah's confused look and walked out of the room.
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Sarah found the bathroom easily. The room was incredible. The tile was sea green, the "tub" was pool sized and Sarah decided that she should go for a swim. She found a cabinet of bath salts, shampoo and conditioner and found that she felt even better after a good scrub. It took her only a few minutes to find a big fluffy towel and dried her long brown hair and body easily.
A tortoise shell comb was on a vanity with cosmetics and perfumes. "Well, I've certainly been provided for haven't I?" She said softly.
The reality of the situation had not quite hit Sarah yet, she brushed her hair, put a bit of lipstick on and dressed in a pale yellow dress that was hung artfully in the wardrobe. She felt lovely, the corset built into the dress fit wonderfully, and gave her much more cleavage then should be allowed in a seventeen year old.
She stood looking into a full-length mirror at her loveliness. She was particularly impressed with the French twist she had managed. She had wanted to talk to Jareth for a few years now and this was the perfect opportunity. "Good thing Karen wished me away or I'd have never seen him again..." Sarah paused, she looked at her self once more and frowned. Karen had really wished her away.
Tears spilled over her lashed like a waterfall. She was sobbing, loud gut wrenching sobs that she hadn't let out since she was a small girl. She fell into a puddle of buttercup colored folds.
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Chapter 3: Some Things Never Change
Sally Kellerman walked into the room with a sour expression. She had told the girl to hurry, and of course, because she was a teenage girl she was taking her sweet time. It was five minutes until dinner was served and she had still hadn't come out of the room. King Jareth was going to be mad.
The old woman was confronted with a sobbing seventeen-year-old. "Oh, Sarah! What is the matter girl?"
"That horrible, terrible, no good, bad cooking, horrible fashion sense having woman wished me away! I knew she didn't like me, but I didn't think she would ever actually wish me away! I mean, things have been so much better between us since I came home from the labyrinth the first time." She was wailing and Sally could barely understand her.
"You are going to have to calm down, Sarah. This isn't the most terrible thing that could happen. I mean, I am sure that Jareth isn't going to make you guard the Bog or anything too bad," Sally cringed as a fresh fall of tears came on. Sally had boys, she was as adept at taking care of girls as a monkey was taking care of a giraffe.
"Oh, come now. You have your friends here, and I am sure that Jareth will lend you a crystal to see how Toby is getting on."
"That's not it," she wailed. "I like it here, it's interesting, but I can't believe that she actually wished me away!"
"Sarah, you wished your brother away. You were frustrated and tired, maybe Karen was too."
"But I was just a kid! I didn't know any better!"
"Karen is just a woman, who didn't know any better. Now, you have to meet his Highness for dinner. Come now, go wash your face and we will get going. You're going to be late, but I think he may understand."
She sniffled and nodded. "Fine." She got up and went back into the bathroom, washed her face, reapplied her make up and came out feeling a little better.
Sally smiled and led the girl to the dinning room.
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Jareth anxiously awaited her arrival. She had been in his castle for twelve hours. Her trip through the void had been difficult for her, she was far to old to have been wished away, but she had been, and he had done his job and brought her to his castle. It was just an added bonus that she was beautiful and intelligent and intrigued him. He also may admit to anyone other then himself that he was madly in love with her for some reason.
That confused him. He had loved so few women during his reign, woman more beautiful, more mature, more defiant, but never had they had the interesting mix of all three of the qualities that he found attractive in such abundance.
The door opened apprehensively and admitted a vision in buttercup yellow. She swore a silver chain that accented the cleavage that the dress accentuated so well. Her hair was up in a French twist that made her lovely jaw line stand out. Jareth wondered how long he could stand being close to her with out having her for his own. _As long as I need
to. If I do anything forward Sally will have my head!_ Her eyes were puffy, he wondered if she had been crying. _Of course she's been crying she's probably completely miserable here._ He frowned.
"I apologize for being tardy, your Highness." She said quietly. God, he looked as incredible as she remembered, she wondered if she would ever have the chance to be in his arms again. _Oh my God, what is wrong with me! He stole my brother... Well, not really, but still, he wouldn't give him back when I asked..._ Her train of thought was derailed when stood and showed her to her seat. His hand leading her by the elbow, like a proper gentleman. She nearly swooned.
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Chapter 4: Conspiracy...
"All I want in life is a purple hoopty with my name in stickers on the back," the girl stood a good six inches taller then the dwarf that was attempting to talk to her.
"But... But... Don't you want a family?" Hoggle just didn't understand her, she was beautiful, the most beautiful dwarf he had ever met, she was smart and sweet and incredibly difficult to convince.
"Eventually yes, cause God said we should be fruitful and multiply, but
I have stuff I gotta do first, Hoggle." She flipped her long braid over her shoulder and frowned at him. He was really a great man, and would make a wonderful husband one-day, but right now things were too hectic her job at the castle had become far more interesting now that Lady Sarah was there. She was prone to throwing things and Jareth was running around the place like any minute his world would come crashing down. Maria giggled internally at the thought. He was acting like a teenager, walking on egg shells, trying to look, smell and sound his best Evil Kingly Goblin way. Maria thought it was pretty hot, but Sarah was just getting more and more aggravated with him. "Okay, Hoggle lets make a deal. You want to marry me, but I don't feel right about getting married before his Highness. So, you help me get those two puta's together and we can get married."
"Great... Now how's about 'a kiss?"
"No hanky panky till I got a white picket fence and a purple hoopty!"
She announced, "but, I think a little one wouldn't hurt." She leaned forward and placed a sweet kiss on his overlarge nose. "Now, we gotta plan out how Jareth can keep from being a stupido pendeho and Sarah a selfish whiney brat... "
Hoggle nearly said something, but rethought it. Sarah wouldn't ever know that he'd agreed with Maria, so it didn't matter. "Something about her makes him like her though, so what are we gonna do?"
"I have the perfect plan. Now, this is what we gotta do..."
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A/N: Just something I have been working on, if you enjoy this then
I will continue... Woo oh. Maria isn't meant to annoy anyone, she is based on a character played in a LARP game that was devious and cool, and funny as hell.
Please leave contributions in the review box, whether you like it or not.
Thanks. LD
P.S. If anyone has the proper spelling for Spanish naughty words, or has some that I don't know of (which is anyone that has not been used) please please please put them in the review box for me... I need more!
Candy Apple Red
By Lady Devine
Part 1: Denial
Chapter 1: What did I ever do...
"What did I ever do to deserve you!" Karen yelled up the stairs. She couldn't believe that this teenage girl could be such a hassle. Girls were supposed to be easier then boys, smarter, more mature, and cleaner but for some reason Sarah refused to do as she should. No matter what
Karen did. She hadn't tried bribery yet, but it was the last thing on her list.
"Why don't you just wish me away then!" Sarah cried back down the stairs. She didn't mean it she realized, but she had defeated Jareth, so even if Karen did someone find out what the words were and send her away he couldn't actually take her away... could he?
She stomped into her room and plopped down on her bed. It was nearly nine and Dad would be back soon, she had to get dressed anyway, and she didn't feel like talking to Ludo or Hoggle or Didymus. The guys were great, but sometimes she needed to work things out for herself, one wonderful thing she had learned in her trip through the Labyrinth.
Karen stood at the bottom of the stairs and contemplated sending her step- daughter away. It wouldn't be so horrible, there'd be more chores but not that many more. It would be mostly quiet in the house. Karen giggled, "I wish the Goblins would take you away, right now."
Lightening flashed, and the rumble of thunder nearly shattered every window in the Williams home.
Toby began to cry.
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Karen Williams ran up the stairs, the house had gone dark suddenly, it hadn't even been cloudy outside when Sarah had come home late. Daniel was away on business and Karen was suddenly very frightened. She had been upset with him lately, she was positive he was having an affair with his new secretary. The last time they had gone out had been two years ago, and everything in her life became strange after that.
Sarah and Toby were suddenly getting along, but Daniel was being distant. She went into Toby's bedroom and picked him up, and hesitated from going into Sarah's with out knocking, but she had too, she had to make sure the girl was okay.
The door swung open easily and Karen started, the room was empty, except for Sarah's vanity, clear of mess, there were no picture's there but there hadn't been in nearly two years. "Oh, what have I done?"
"You wished your step daughter away, Karen. Away to the Goblins where she would no longer be a thorn in your side." Jareth smiled a toothy grin. "You are a beautiful woman, Karen, and you are young, you are far to young to have a seventeen year old daughter that won't help you. You have dreams that you still want to reach. I can give you those dreams. Simply forget about Sarah and everything you want will be yours." He tilted his head and waved a crystal in front of her face,
Toby reached for it but she pulled him back gently.
"I can't..." she said softly. Her dreams were flashing in that crystal, not dreams that a mother of two could grasp at.
"She'll be well taken care of, Karen. You need never worry about her again. Forget about her. Daniel will, and then you and Toby and Daniel can live in peace and quiet. No crying teenage girl to disturb you."
Karen reached out with her free hand the crystal was hypnotic. It's colors swirling surreally. "She'll be okay, there, in your castle. No one will hurt her, she will just be gone. As if she was still with her mother..." Karen's hand touched the crystal and it disappeared in a flash of sparkles.
"Very Good, Karen, now, go to your room, and put Toby in his pen, then finish your chores. Your husband will be home soon, with wonderful news." Jareth smiled his cruel grin again and watched her walk out of the room, a dazed look on her face and slowly close the door.
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Chapter 2: Stages
Sarah refused to open her eyes. She felt as if someone had hit her with a truck. Her muscles ached, no, they were screaming at her, and her head felt like it was in a vice. "Owie," she whimpered when she tried to open her eyes.
"Oh, dear me. I didn't even think that you would have a headache. I'm sorry, dear, let me get those candles out of here." The voice was of an old woman, thin and shaky, there was a hustle of noise and then silence.
She opened a single eye and it protested her brain agreeing that a total shut down was far more appetizing then dealing with light currently.
From what she could see she was in a large bedroom. Slowly she attempted the other eye and found that the room was quite beautifully decorated. There were huge colorful tapestries hung on each wall, and the bed that she was laying in was some wood that she couldn't describe. It looked like mahogany but was far darker. "Where am I?" She whispered through her headache.
"You're safe now, darling. That mean woman can never hurt you again." The voice was now connected to a heavy set, white heard woman with large compassionate eyes.
"Mean woman?" she rubbed her temples and rolled on to her stomach to keep the light out. "Karen's not so bad. She just doesn't like me very much."
"Oh," the woman said, sitting down next to her. "The King said that she wished you away. Here, drink this, it should sooth your aches."
"Wished me away?" She was growing more and more confused.
"Yes, dear. She wished you away. To the castle beyond the Goblin City." She fed a bowl of chicken broth tasting a bit woody. "He brought you here and you didn't take to the trip very well. You really were to old to be wished away anyway."
Sarah felt the tension from her aching muscle ebb away like the tide, and suddenly her brain connected everything that had been said in the last few minutes. "Oh my God! Karen wished me away!"
"That is what I just said." The woman smiled sadly at the girl. She was quite pretty, Sally understood why Jareth had loved the girl for so long. Even if the girl wasn't very bright.
"I know, I guess I just didn't connect someone wishing me away and Karen and being in the Labyrinth. Oh no, is he going to turn me into a goblin?"
"A goblin? Where ever did you get that idea?"
"Well, he said he would make Toby one of them forever. I just assumed."
"Hmmm, well, that's assumptions for you. No, he isn't going to make you a goblin I really don't know what he has in store for you." The woman smiled and patted her hand, "Anyway, he wants to see you girl, dinner is about ready and you need to get dressed. There, through that door is a tub and some toiletries, use what you need, this will be your room from now on. Oh, if you need me just ring."
"Okay, oh... What is your name? Wait a minute? From now on? Isn't she trying to run the Labyrinth to save me? Has she already failed!?"
"She didn't even try, dear. I'm Mrs. Kellerman, but you can call me Sally, I'm the house keeper here."
"I didn't see you the last time I was here." She was choking back tears.
"Well, I don't usually meet the guests." She laughed at Sarah's confused look and walked out of the room.
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Sarah found the bathroom easily. The room was incredible. The tile was sea green, the "tub" was pool sized and Sarah decided that she should go for a swim. She found a cabinet of bath salts, shampoo and conditioner and found that she felt even better after a good scrub. It took her only a few minutes to find a big fluffy towel and dried her long brown hair and body easily.
A tortoise shell comb was on a vanity with cosmetics and perfumes. "Well, I've certainly been provided for haven't I?" She said softly.
The reality of the situation had not quite hit Sarah yet, she brushed her hair, put a bit of lipstick on and dressed in a pale yellow dress that was hung artfully in the wardrobe. She felt lovely, the corset built into the dress fit wonderfully, and gave her much more cleavage then should be allowed in a seventeen year old.
She stood looking into a full-length mirror at her loveliness. She was particularly impressed with the French twist she had managed. She had wanted to talk to Jareth for a few years now and this was the perfect opportunity. "Good thing Karen wished me away or I'd have never seen him again..." Sarah paused, she looked at her self once more and frowned. Karen had really wished her away.
Tears spilled over her lashed like a waterfall. She was sobbing, loud gut wrenching sobs that she hadn't let out since she was a small girl. She fell into a puddle of buttercup colored folds.
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Chapter 3: Some Things Never Change
Sally Kellerman walked into the room with a sour expression. She had told the girl to hurry, and of course, because she was a teenage girl she was taking her sweet time. It was five minutes until dinner was served and she had still hadn't come out of the room. King Jareth was going to be mad.
The old woman was confronted with a sobbing seventeen-year-old. "Oh, Sarah! What is the matter girl?"
"That horrible, terrible, no good, bad cooking, horrible fashion sense having woman wished me away! I knew she didn't like me, but I didn't think she would ever actually wish me away! I mean, things have been so much better between us since I came home from the labyrinth the first time." She was wailing and Sally could barely understand her.
"You are going to have to calm down, Sarah. This isn't the most terrible thing that could happen. I mean, I am sure that Jareth isn't going to make you guard the Bog or anything too bad," Sally cringed as a fresh fall of tears came on. Sally had boys, she was as adept at taking care of girls as a monkey was taking care of a giraffe.
"Oh, come now. You have your friends here, and I am sure that Jareth will lend you a crystal to see how Toby is getting on."
"That's not it," she wailed. "I like it here, it's interesting, but I can't believe that she actually wished me away!"
"Sarah, you wished your brother away. You were frustrated and tired, maybe Karen was too."
"But I was just a kid! I didn't know any better!"
"Karen is just a woman, who didn't know any better. Now, you have to meet his Highness for dinner. Come now, go wash your face and we will get going. You're going to be late, but I think he may understand."
She sniffled and nodded. "Fine." She got up and went back into the bathroom, washed her face, reapplied her make up and came out feeling a little better.
Sally smiled and led the girl to the dinning room.
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Jareth anxiously awaited her arrival. She had been in his castle for twelve hours. Her trip through the void had been difficult for her, she was far to old to have been wished away, but she had been, and he had done his job and brought her to his castle. It was just an added bonus that she was beautiful and intelligent and intrigued him. He also may admit to anyone other then himself that he was madly in love with her for some reason.
That confused him. He had loved so few women during his reign, woman more beautiful, more mature, more defiant, but never had they had the interesting mix of all three of the qualities that he found attractive in such abundance.
The door opened apprehensively and admitted a vision in buttercup yellow. She swore a silver chain that accented the cleavage that the dress accentuated so well. Her hair was up in a French twist that made her lovely jaw line stand out. Jareth wondered how long he could stand being close to her with out having her for his own. _As long as I need
to. If I do anything forward Sally will have my head!_ Her eyes were puffy, he wondered if she had been crying. _Of course she's been crying she's probably completely miserable here._ He frowned.
"I apologize for being tardy, your Highness." She said quietly. God, he looked as incredible as she remembered, she wondered if she would ever have the chance to be in his arms again. _Oh my God, what is wrong with me! He stole my brother... Well, not really, but still, he wouldn't give him back when I asked..._ Her train of thought was derailed when stood and showed her to her seat. His hand leading her by the elbow, like a proper gentleman. She nearly swooned.
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Chapter 4: Conspiracy...
"All I want in life is a purple hoopty with my name in stickers on the back," the girl stood a good six inches taller then the dwarf that was attempting to talk to her.
"But... But... Don't you want a family?" Hoggle just didn't understand her, she was beautiful, the most beautiful dwarf he had ever met, she was smart and sweet and incredibly difficult to convince.
"Eventually yes, cause God said we should be fruitful and multiply, but
I have stuff I gotta do first, Hoggle." She flipped her long braid over her shoulder and frowned at him. He was really a great man, and would make a wonderful husband one-day, but right now things were too hectic her job at the castle had become far more interesting now that Lady Sarah was there. She was prone to throwing things and Jareth was running around the place like any minute his world would come crashing down. Maria giggled internally at the thought. He was acting like a teenager, walking on egg shells, trying to look, smell and sound his best Evil Kingly Goblin way. Maria thought it was pretty hot, but Sarah was just getting more and more aggravated with him. "Okay, Hoggle lets make a deal. You want to marry me, but I don't feel right about getting married before his Highness. So, you help me get those two puta's together and we can get married."
"Great... Now how's about 'a kiss?"
"No hanky panky till I got a white picket fence and a purple hoopty!"
She announced, "but, I think a little one wouldn't hurt." She leaned forward and placed a sweet kiss on his overlarge nose. "Now, we gotta plan out how Jareth can keep from being a stupido pendeho and Sarah a selfish whiney brat... "
Hoggle nearly said something, but rethought it. Sarah wouldn't ever know that he'd agreed with Maria, so it didn't matter. "Something about her makes him like her though, so what are we gonna do?"
"I have the perfect plan. Now, this is what we gotta do..."
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