Wordgirl's Life Story Series
Part 2: The Story Begins
(Becky has gotten up early one morning and decided to begin to write her book about her life.)
Violet: Morning Becky, so are you going to begin your book?
Wordgirl/Becky: Yes, I am. Thanks for the breakfast this morning.
Violet: I want my best friend to have the fuel she needs to write an excellent book.
Wordgirl/Becky: That's why you're my best friend for all eternity.
Violet: And I feel the same about you too, Becky. I'm going to run some errands today. Will you be alright?
Wordgirl/Becky: I'll be fine. Thanks.
(Violet leaves the house for a few hours to run some much needed errands and then Becky heads to the living room to begin her book.)
My Life Story
By: Rebecca Botsford-McCallister
AKA Wordgirl
Chapter 1: Lexicon
My early life on Lexicon was very short. I was born to Norro and Minna Laria. I was their only child, although I had a lot of family members like grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole works. I believed that they loved me very much and I know I loved them a lot as well. When I was a year old, my parents and I were attending a special launching with famous Monkey Space Pilot, Capt. Huggyface. I must've wandered away from my parents and found myself wandering around the launching platform. Like all young children at that age, I was curious of the spaceship and wanted to explore it. But like all children, at the age, I grew tired and fell asleep on board the ship. To this day, I still wonder how come no one saw me enter the ship at the beginning. But anyway, to make a long story short, I woke up and Capt. Huggyface saw me and he had lost concentration on his flying and we crash-landed on Earth, where we spent the next 17-18 years together, living with an Earth family.
When I was 18, after graduating from my high school on Earth, Capt. Huggyface and I returned to Lexicon, after it was repaired by my fiancé, at the time, Tobey McCallister, who also came with us. He's the first Earthling to ever visit Lexicon. When we returned, I had learned that Capt. Huggyface had a large family that had missed him for the last 17-18 years and that he also had a girlfriend, Lillybud. In the two years we were there, Tobey and I learned a whole lot about the planet and it's culture and all. Tobey and I introduced an Earth food to the people; Sandwiches. They had never heard of such a meal. But when Tobey and I introduced it, it became a hit like in less than a day. I had also learned some history about the planet, like when I was living on Earth, a terrible plague hit Lexicon that was called 'The Lexiconian Flu' and it wiped out a huge portion of the population, including all the members of my Lexicon family. I was 6 or 7 when it began and I was 9 or 10 when it ended. I feel fortunate that I wasn't there to perish along with them, but I also feel quite guilty and sad that I never got to meet any of them and to learn about my Lexicon family. Thankfully, I had my Earth family still.
Then when I was about 24, I had been asked to return to Earth to be a witness in a trial and I had brought my Earth mother, my husband, Tobey, two of my children, and several former villains along with me. It was great to let some more of those I've grown to love, on Earth, see where I came from and they all had a great time while there. They had asked to go back for more visits, but I never got around to do so again.
Then when I was 50, after our youngest child had graduated from high school, Tobey and I moved back to Lexicon and we stayed there together until his death at age 85. For five years, I remained there until I decided to head back home to Earth and I brought with me, the remains of my whole Lexicon family, my deceased husband, and the remains of my beloved sidekick, Capt. Huggyface.
Lexicon was and still is a wonderful planet. Full of fields of plants and so unspoiled. I don't think any of the animals on Lexicon face the same fate as those on Earth. What I'm saying is that Lexiconians don't overkill their wildlife and so there are no animals facing unnatural extinctions due to human development. And the citizens are so approachable and friendly. They do have their issues from time to time, but nothing like on Earth. I'm not saying that Lexicon is better than Earth, it's just people have learned to get along better. Lexicon is also probably like 10000 years older than Earth and civilization is about 1000 years older. Lexicon has three moons circling it, with only two of them with people living on them. The third is usually used as a temporary prison planet, before being taken to the prison planet, Millina. And Lexicon does have it's downsides. Circling it in space, along with the three moons, are a collection of red space rocks, which are Lexiconite in it's pure form. I've had experienced it's effects many times. And before I left to go back to Lexicon at age 50, my late husband, Tobey and another former villain/friend, Dr. Steven Boxleitner, designed and made me a radiation-like suit so I can be safe while passing by the red rocks and not feel the effects and it works. I thank Tobey and Doc all the time, even now, after they had both passed on.
Well, that's Lexicon. What a wonderful planet to be born onto. But I love my adopted home, Earth just as much, if not, more so.
(After Becky finishes with chapter 1 of her book, Violet comes home from running her errands.)
Violet: Hey Becky, I was wondering if you would like to join me for lunch today?
Wordgirl/Becky: Great, I can use a break from writing my book here.
Violet: What did you write so far?
Wordgirl/Becky: I just wrote about Lexicon. Would you like for me to read to you, what I wrote?
Violet: You can read it to me during lunch, at Chuck's Sandwich Shoppe.
Wordgirl/Becky: Great idea. Let's go.
(They enter Chuck's Sandwich Shoppe and are greeted by his stepson, Matthew, who's married to Becky's oldest daughter, Stephanie McCallister-Guy.)
Matthew: Hey, Mrs. McCallister. I heard you had come home. My daughter, Molly told Steph and I.
Wordgirl/Becky: That's true. How are you and my daughter doing these days?
Matthew: We're doing fine. Steph and I are up there in age, but we're doing great. Did you get to meet our granddaughter, Nadine?
Wordgirl/Becky: I sure did. She's very beautiful. I heard she's married now as well.
Matthew: Yep. We're waiting for any news about whether or not she and her husband are expecting.
Wordgirl/Becky: Well, don't pressure her. It'll happen when it happens. So, I heard that your son, Joshua is running this sandwich shop now.
Matthew: Yep, and we're both training my grandson, Mack. He wants to run the sandwich shop one day as well.
Wordgirl/Becky: I know that your step-dad and your step-uncle would be so proud of you now.
Matthew: Thanks. He's graduating from high school next June.
Wordgirl/Becky: I'll be sure to be there.
Matthew: So can I take your order?
Wordgirl/Becky: Yes, please. I'll take a PB&J. And a glass of chocolate milk.
Matthew: And for you, Mrs. Ming?
Violet: I'll take a Tofu Melt and iced tea with lemon.
Matthew: Coming right up.
(Just then, Stephanie comes walking into the resturant and she sees her mother, Becky.)
Stephanie: Mom, I'm so happy to see you. (She hurries over to hug her mother.)
Wordgirl/Becky: I'm so happy to see you too, Baby. No matter how old you kids get, you'll always be my babies.
Stephanie: Thanks. I heard from Molly that Dad died. I went to the cemetery and visited his grave. Thanks for not leaving him buried on Lexicon.
Wordgirl/Becky: I knew it was a good decision to bring his remains home again.
Stephanie: So I also heard that you're going to be writing a book about your life story. I think that's a great idea and I know if you were to sell it, you would be sold out.
Wordgirl/Becky: I'm thinking of writing one and placing it into the museum library as well.
Stephanie: Great. Well, I have to go now. I'll see you all later. Maybe you, Teddy, Charlene, and I can get together and have dinner?
Wordgirl/Becky: A special dinner with my beloved children? That will be the best. And maybe we can also visit your father together as well.
Stephanie: That will be great, Mom. (Hugs her mother.) I love you, Mom.
Wordgirl/Becky: I love you too, Stephie.
(Stephanie then leaves the sandwich shop and heads over to the museum library.)
Violet: So, you were going to read some of your story?
Wordgirl/Becky: So, I am. (She then reads to her friend, Chapter 1 of her book.) So what do you think?
Violet: It's great. I love it. And I know others will also.
Wordgirl/Becky: Thanks Violet. I always love to hear the encouragement from my friends. Oh, you never told me about what happened to Eugene and his family.
Violet: Sorry. Eugene and Emma moved back and they are living with Bethany and her husband. Scoops and I had dinner with them like two months before he died.
Wordgirl/Becky: I'm still so sorry to hear about Scoops. You know that I really liked him when we were kids.
Violet: I know you did. And part of me always felt guilty that he chose to be with me and not you.
Wordgirl/Becky: That's ok. I ended up married to a great guy who started off being one of my villains.
Violet: I forgot to ask, do you still have your powers?
Wordgirl/Becky: Yeah, I do. I just don't want to use them too much anymore. The only one I still use a lot is my power of vocabulary. The rest, I don't need to use anymore.
Violet: Can you still transform?
Wordgirl/Becky: I probably can, but like I said about my powers, I just lost the desire to do so.
Violet: So when are you going to start on Chapter 2 of your story?
Wordgirl/Becky: Probably after lunch today.
Violet: Ok. I'm going to go and visit Tommy today. He hasn't been feeling well and I need to make sure my oldest son is doing ok.
Wordgirl/Becky: Is Stacy still with him?
Violet: Yeah, but I'm still his mother and I want to be there for him.
Wordgirl/Becky: You know, I'm sorry about the time you first became pregnant with Tommy. I was so worried about how well you and Scoops were going to be as teen parents. But I can see that you both were great parents.
Violet: I understood your concerns. Scoops and I were very young parents. And I admit, there were times that it was hard, but Scoops and I were glad to have him. He is one of three great kids. Liam and Holly are the other two great kids.
Wordgirl/Becky: That they are. And Holly is my daughter-in-law and the mother of some of my grandchildren. But Stephanie, Teddy, and Charlene are great kids as well.
(Later that day, they leave the sandwich shop and Violet takes Becky home, before heading to visit her oldest son, Tommy Ming, who's now 74 years old.)
The End…for now
More to come…