(A/N): Hey y'all, I'm back with another shitty chapter about a dumb thing! I'll be honest, I was kinda bored with this chapter, but a good friend of mine managed to motivate me enough to type it all out today. The next chapter is something I've been really looking forward to, by the way. Expect that to be longer and more fun in general, I hope anyway. Toodles!
The outfit-swapped twins went to greet their friends at the door. They both waved and said hi, and invited them inside. Roxanne and Michelle squinted and hummed. Something seemed off about their best friends, but they just couldn't put their finger on it.
Though, Lola's voice seemed gruffer than Roxanne last remembered, and Lana's voice was higher pitched than the time a butterfly landed on her nose, from what Michelle remembered. Maybe she saw another one earlier or something. Oddly enough, despite being the self-proclaimed "Queen of Risks" who's not afraid to get her hands dirty, her ball-capped best friend was terrified of those fluttering multi-colored demons.
"Heyyyy, Lana! How's it going?" Michelle asked in a chummy way, wrapping her arm around who she thought was Lana. She tensed up from the rough contact, which the mud wallower took notice of.
"What's wrong? Spooked by a butterfly or something?"
Lola raised an eyebrow, unsure how to respond to a question like that. Was it an inside joke between her and the real Lana? In her best impression of her twin sister's voice, she replied "No, I'm fine. I'm fine, really." Her impression was pitch perfect, as she had dabbled in voice impressions during pageant practice and had even managed to use it to keep herself a peg higher than the other contestants.
Michelle seemed satisfied with the answer, giving a light understanding nod.
Roxanne and who she thought was her own best friend had already made it to the living room couch in front of the TV.
"So, Lola, wanna watch some Prison Pageants? The new episode's gonna start in a minute!"
Lana was about to respond with an automatic 'no' when she remembered her plight. "Dang it." She muttered to herself. "Yeah, sounds fun…" She said with her best impression of Lola's voice. Since Lola sometimes used her voice acting for evil (well, usually just to convince the others to give her Lana's food or to mock her by saying things in her voice that she would never actually say) Lana also took up practicing her own impersonation skills to do the same. She wasn't able to do it as well as Lola, but it was still pretty spot on, scarily so.
In conclusion, if they wanted to creep people out and act like a hive mind, they very well could.
As the episode of Lola's favorite show played and sealed Lana in her own little Hell, Lola was going through something similar.
"There's this new mud wallowing place, and it's even better than the old one." Michelle began excitedly. Lola inhaled deeply but quietly to stop herself from reacting with disgust with knowing what she was implying. But, living her whole life with Lynn and of course her twin made her mentally prepared for some of the grodier things in life.
"Yeah, I bet it is." She gave a nervous fake smile and a chuckle.
"And get this! There's a ton of rocks and burrows there so bugs and worms are everywhere there! It's an all-you-can-eat buffet!"
It took all of Lola's willpower to not vomit right then and there. She swallowed down the bile, along with her pride. "Y-yeah, that sure s-sounds… err, delicious, heh."
"So, you wanna go? It's still light outside so we've got plenty of time."
"NO! I mean, nah, I'm good. I just ate earlier, so I'm way too full for worms and whatever else is there."
"Huh, she never refuses an offer to eat bugs." Michelle thought. "Well, we could still go to there and just wallow if you want. It'll help you digest."
"Sure, we could." Lola said, accidentally raising her voice in pitch. Luckily, it went by unnoticed by the other girl.
"Then let's go!" And with that she was whisked away to her own muddy Hell.
The end of their torture couldn't arrive any slower. It felt like they had been suffering for hours when the episode of Prison Pageants ended and Lola and Michelle came back to the house covered in mud.
By then, their friends had realized that something definitely was up, and intended to find out what it was as soon as they could.
"Okay, Lola, you're acting like you've never seen this show before. I mean, seriously, 10 minutes ago I asked you if you had any new headcanons for your OTP, which you always squeal with joy about, but you acted like you had no idea what I was even talking about."
"And Lana, something is definitely wrong. I know something's wrong when you refuse to go to the deep end of the wallowing pit, your favorite part."
The twins glanced at each other with worried expressions. They let out a huge sigh and hung their shoulders.
"Look, you're right. Something is up." Lana started.
"We're… not who you think we are." Lola said.
Their friends gave them confused looks. "What do you mean?" They both asked at the same time.
Lola took off the red cap and untied the pigtails, letting her long hair flow freely. Lana picked them up and tied her own hair up, taking off the crown and replacing it with the hat.
"We swapped outfits today. We thought it would be fun, but well, it just caused problems." Lola said in a defeated tone while wiping as much mud off of her as she could. Even after spending an hour wallowing in the stuff, the wet, squishy texture of the mud would never not disgust her.
"Wait, what?!"
"Mhm. She had the idea to prank our family for a bit by swapping clothes and then doing what we usually do as our regular selves." Lana admitted. "We were going to change back after a little while, but then we forgot that we invited you and… yeah."
"Oh…"
Both twins blushed in embarrassment, their faces redder than Lana's cap and hotter than the coal she used to burn to keep the room warm enough for her pet reptiles and amphibians.
And then Roxanne and Michelle started howling with laughter, pointing and guffawing about the whole situation. They collapsed on the ground, still laughing like spotted hyenas being tickled while on laughing gas.
"You… you're wearing a dre- HAHAHAHAHAAAAA-" Michelle whooped, not even able to finish her sentence while pointing at Lana. "L-like that time you came to the mud pit… and you had this weird wig and sunglasses… and SANDALS! And your toenails were painted pink! I caaaaaant!"
"And here we have Little Miss Prim and Proper over here covered head to toe in that muck, like a mud monster!" Roxanne joined in on the riffing, also unable to contain her giggling.
The twins were less than amused. They rolled their eyes and sighed.
"Yeah yeah, get it out of your systems…" Lana grumbled.
"Wow, your friend is a jerk." Lola whispered into Lana's ear.
"I know, this is nothing compared to what she's usually like, I'm just used to it. So is yours, by the way." She whispered back.
"She gets like that sometimes too."
"Anyway, we're gonna go change back into our regular clothes so that we can actually enjoy the rest of the day, okay?" Lola announced once the chortles ceased.
"O-okay, you… you go do that." Roxanne gasped between breaths.
They left to go do that, and made a mental note to not pull a stunt like this again. Or at least not when friends are coming over.
