B. Balloons
"La la laaaaa!" Katie sang happily. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and her new orange tree was growing beautifully. But of course, the peace didn't last.
"Nice voice, Katie-Kat-Kit-Kat!"
"STOLL! Get out."
Travis snickered. "Hahahahahahaha, not happening." He started to sing in an obnoxiously loud voice that grated on Katie's nerves. "LA LA LA LA!"
Katie ignored his 'song' and kept gardening. Travis, undeterred, kept singing.
"LA, LA, LA, KATIE KAT IS A GRUMPY CAT LA, LA, LA, LA, LAA LAA LAA, SHE'S SO BORING SHE ONLY GARDENS ALL THE TIME, or CHASES ME WHEN I PUT CHOCOLATE BUNNIES ON HER ROOF, LA LA LA LA LA LA!"
Katie frowned. "Why are you here?"
"I have a gift for YOU!" Travis sang, his voice starting to become his real one and sounding beautifully. "I have a balloon for you!"
He took a pink balloon that was behind his back and Katie reddened at the sweet gesture.
"Let it go with me!" he said to her.
"Fine. But promise to leave me alone afterwards, OK?"
"You got it, Katie-Kat!"
She held on to the balloon, hand below Travis's.
"Ready? Three, two, one!"
They let go and the balloon sailed up to the sky.
Frank was visiting Canada, to see if his grandmother was still there.
Thwip! Something hit his head, but not very hard. It was a popped pink balloon. Frank turned it over and felt something inside the balloon. He stretched his fingers into it and pulled out a piece of paper. He recognized Travis's chicken-scratch handwriting instantly. It took him a few seconds, but he finally deciphered the words.
"Here's to hoping that Katie-Kat loves me back."
"AAHA!" Frank thought and found some mist at a fountain of a lion, threw a drachma in, requested Iris to show him Piper, and she appeared.
"Look at this, Pipes!" He threw the paper inside. Piper read it, and she smiled. Uh oh, Frank thought.
"We're going to get these two together, no matter what!"
Frank was puzzled.
"How are we gonna do that?"
"Hmm...not quite sure yet, but it will definitely happen."
Uh oh, Frank thought again as the image of Piper faded.
