Chapter 2

A couple of days later

Flaky stood on her front porch, then stared open mouthed at the card that lay innocently in her hand. She blinked then read the card for a second time.

It had to have been a mistake. Giggles never made a mistake on her guest list. she left it all year just so she could cross of anyone who wasn't 'suitable'. A tomboy like flaky would have never got on the list. So what was it doing in her letter box?

Going back into the house, she threw the ripped open envelope into the bin. She went into the kitchen and started to eat an apple.

She had never been on that guest list before. (CRUNCH) She never expected to be on that guest list before. In fact (CRUNCH) she had never even wanted to be on that guest list in the first place.

Giggles and her crowd were completly uneccesary to the planet anyway, they didn't contribute anything. Who needed them.(CRUNCH) Certainly not Flaky.

The telephone in the living room rang. Putting the half eaten apple down. She went to pick up the phone. She had barely asked who was there when a voice shouted
"FLAKY! FLAKY IS THAT YOU? GUESS WHAT I'VE BEEN INVITED TO GIGGLE'S PARTY! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I DON'T BELIEVE IT! FLAKY?! FLAKY?! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!"
All of this was said without a single breath being taken.

Nutty didn't recive many invatations so Flaky could picture him in his room shaking with exictement. Possibly holding the invite in a vice like grip. just in case it flies away.

Only Flaky had really got to know Nutty for the kind-hearted person he really was. It wasn't his fault that everyone else only ever saw him on a sugar high. They didn't see him copying down notes for Flaky when she was off sick. They didn't see him sharing his lunch because she had left hers at home (though he did keep all of the sweets) . They didn't know how much of a good friend Nutty could be.

"II CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I MEAN GIGGLES SMILED AT ME YESTERDAY BUT I DIDN'T REALISE..."

"Nutty calm down" Flaky had to interupt before this got out of hand. "I got invited too, which is strange. There is something funny going on if you ask me." This only added to Nutty's exitement.
"YOU GOT ONE TOO! BRILLIANT! CAN WE GO TOGETHER?"

Flaky's little nose wrinked with disgust.
"Me? You know how much I hate that crowd, I may have said that I was invited, but I never said that I was going." Flaky was unsure if the silence on the other end of the line was a good thing.
"Look, Nutty it's probably a mistake..."
"A MISTAKE, OH NO!"
"And anyway, I have other things planned for that night. I'm cleaning my room."
"THATS NOT FUNNY..."

Flaky felt as if she had kicked a puppy. A sugar high irritating puppy.

"I'm sorry Nutty, but I have to be honest, if it is a mistake then you will be even more hurt when you get there then have to go home."
"WHAT IF IT'S NOT A MISTAKE? GIGGLES COULD HAVE INVITED US."
"Sure and the deserts going to flood tomorrow."

Weren't they okay without needing the friendship of giggles? Didn't she already have enough fun with her friends? So what if they werent part of Giggle's crowd, they have a good time together.

"I'M GOING TO CALL HANDY AND SEE IF HE HAS AN INVITE TOO"

Nutty hung up.

The doorbell rang and Flaky yanked it open to see that Toothy and Lifty were at the door. They were an unusal pair. Total opposites, while Toothy was loud and outgoing Lifty never really spoke to anyone.

Lifty was the new kid at the the school. Won a scholarship and now lives with some relative. He never spoke about why he didn't live wit his parents and in turn we never asked.

Toothy took Lifty under his wing immedately as he didn't like seeing lifty on his own. After a while they became firm friends. Toothy's entusasum for Lifty made it easier for him to be execpted into the group. Lifty was quiet but he didn't appear to have a mean bone in his body.

As soon as Flaky saw the white cards in their hands she knew exactly why they knocked on her door.

Toothy had a gleam in his eyes, holding the invation with triumph. While Lifty only held his with is finger tips as if it was going to attack him. Was it the thought of attending the party that frightened him, or was he confused about getting an invite?

"So...you both got invites too." Flaky open the door to let them in.
"Do you too know what on earth is going on?"

Toothy pushed past her, pulling Lifty in too.
"We've been invited to the best party ever, thats whats going on. Finally! I mean it's about time Giggles noticed us. She must have come to her senses and realised that its not a party unless Toothy is invited! I mean, we aren't big deals at school, Flaky I'll admit that, but were not exactly nerds like Snuffles either!"

The phone rang again.

"I bet thats Handy. He probably just checked his mail. Bet you anything that he's has an invite too. Probably because of everything he has made in woodshop class this year. Giggles probably has a thing for workmen."

Well Toothy was right about it being Handy on the phone.

Handy had been invited to the party too. He also appeared to know that Petunia had yet again been invited too (like every year).

That did puzzle Flaky as Handy already had a girlfriend some rabbit named Curls. He has met her at the summer camp not too far from town. So far no one had seen Curls (Handy said it was because she lived too far away) but Handy spoke about her a lot. So why was he so exited that Petunia was going to be there?

"So who's going then?" Handy brought Flaky out of her thoughts.
"Well, Nutty's pretty set on going,as is Toothy and if Toothy is going then Lifty will too. I'm not going though. I've got better thing to do. Anyway, come on over, and pick up Nutty on the way"

Flaky put the reciever down, no one was going to talk her into going to one of giggles parties.

No one!