Captain's Log

by BlueScarlet465

It's seven months after Margaret left and went to her dream college. What would happen if she decided to visit during her Spring Break? What would happen if they go camping for old times sake and Rigby sees Eileen's diary? What will he find out when he reads it? All questions will be answered when you take a peek into Captain's log...Mostly Rigleen sprinkled with some Morderet

10. Ch 10: The Big Step and The Big Mistake

A/N: REGULAR SHOW…IT'S ANYTHING BUT…MINE. STILL DON'T OWN IT :(

P.S. Last time we left our characters, Rigby just figured out that Eileen knows about him thinking that she looks hot w/o her glasses on (and has used it against him). So now he is seeking payback…oh boy…

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Captain's Log

Chapter 10:

The Big Step and The Big Mistake

Mordecai POV: Next Day

I woke up early the next morning on the couch. So early that the sun was just peeking out of the sky and it was still pretty dark in the house. Thinking that I might have a few hours to sleep some more, I made my way up the stairs but when I went past the computer room door, my mind started to think

'We're probably going to have work today…and judging from all of that rain yesterday, I could imagine the sh**load of jobs Benson is going to have us do so…'

Hatching a plan, I went straight to action and walked to the end of the hall to where my room was. I slowly opened the door and tried my hardest to walk with stealth to my drawer where I kept my keys to the house and my wallet. After that, I also grabbed my black sneakers from under the bed

'Safe so far'

Next was my jacket which was in the closet. Why I put it there is beyond me but I knew it was going to be a little chilly this morning and I wasn't freezing to death so, yeah

I eased my way to the closet and as soon I set one foot on Rigby's side of the room, the squeaking started

'It would be squeaky on his side of the room'

With every cautious step I made, I could feel the sweat pouring down on my face until I placed my hand on the closet door knob

'Ok, here we go. Just one turn and…' I heard one click and the whole closet exploded with junk that toppled over me

"Wh-what?" I heard Rigby say from his trampoline. I quickly hid in the piles of clothes and toys and uh, this better not be pizza on my foot "Uh, stupid closet busted open again…don't feel like closing it again…just let Mordecai get it" I saw him toss over in his trampoline while I mental yelled at myself

'Damn it. Now I have to wait for him to go to sleep again…'

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When I heard him snoring again, I slowly got up from the mountain of junk I was buried under. Then I grabbed my jacket that was hanging from the back of the door and I steadily made my way out of the room

Once I made it out of the room, I wanted to curse up a storm but I let that anger subside as I took a quick side trip to the bathroom and washed my foot off in the tub

After that was done, I went back down the hall. I opened the computer door and walked straight to my present for Margaret. I peeked at it from under the sheet that it was hiding under and was glad that there was no harm that came to it. So I put my shoes and jacket on, put my keys in my jacket pocket along with my wallet and carefully grabbed Margaret's present.

Once I had successfully snuck out of the house, I was able to breathe easier as I was walking out of the park. You could tell that the sun was up by the fact that it was bright enough to see your surroundings somewhat but you couldn't see it in the sky do the fog that was setting in. Well, despite my limited vision, I had to hurry because seeing that it was daytime only meant that I had less time to get this to the post office and still make it back before Benson got here

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When I got to the post office, there wasn't that many people here; lucky me, only two people were in front of me. I waited patiently in line as they were either asking long questions or sending packages but the longer I waited, the more anxious I got as I kept looking at the clock on the wall

"Next in line" I heard the woman behind the desk say

'Yes it was finally my turn' I walked up to the front desk and the person said

"Hello sir, how…" She started to laugh when she looked up at me but she quickly held in her giggles and tired to get back to business "How may I help you sir?"

"I would like to mail this to Milton University, please. I'm kind of in a hurry so-" I told the woman behind the desk

"Ok" another giggle leaked out

"Is everything ok?" She handed me a form

"Fine" *giggle* "Just fill out the address to where this is heading to and the return address and we'll print out your label" As I filled things out, she took my present to Margaret, found a box for it, packed it and started to weighting it

"Ok, here's the information you want" I said to her. She read it over and started to print out the label. She put the label on the box and came back to tell me the price which I paid

"Alright, you're all set" she told me

"Thank you" I told her but when I tried to leave she stopped me and said

"Oh, and sorry about laughing earlier"

"It's ok, what was that about anyway?"

"It's just the thing on your face"

"Huh? What thing on my face" I said as I was feeling my face and felt nothing

"You didn't know?" She pulled out a pocket mirror and gave it to me to look in and what I saw had my eyes flaming

"RIGBY!"

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Rigby POV: A little earlier, after Mordecai left

"Uh, stupid Mordecai making so much noise. It's too early for this sh**" I was tossing and turning in my trampoline trying to fade back to sleep but I was fully awake now. It was way too early to start on my plans of payback on a certain someone so I grabbed the book that was hidden under my pillow and tried to read myself to sleep. Maybe I might be able to find something extra to do to her if I'm lucky

Eileen Diary POV:

Brr, wow it's getting cold. Well, even though Winter is trying to rear it's ugly head, a tiny bit of nippiness sure won't stop me from having movie night with Mordecai and Rigby and it sure didn't stop us from escaping from a killer bear either…

"Are you sure you're going to be warm with just a sweater on?" Margaret said to me while she was driving us to the guys' house

'Yeah, they invited us for movie night tonight and I'm so excited. I hope it's a scary movie…I know, I'm still in Halloween-mode. Still kind of mad that I wasn't able to really enjoy it because of work but that's besides the point. Getting off track here'

"Nah, I'm fine" I reassured her "Besides, we're going to be inside mostly anyway"

"True"

When we got to the park house, we happen to see that green guy we saw the first time we came here, along with his pale friend walking down the front steps

"Uhh God, you chicks again" the green guy said "If you're going to come here so much, you might as well live here"

"Come on Muscle Man. We need to find a working TV if you don't want to miss the Monster Truck Death Showdown tonight" the pale guy said as he touched his friend's shoulder; motioning him to keep moving. And with that, they walked down the dark path through the park but I couldn't help but notice the pale guy turn slightly around and smile at us for a split second. I don't think Margaret caught it though

"I wonder what was that about?" I asked Margaret while we walked up the steps

"I don't know but all that matters is that they're walking in the opposite direction" Margaret said as she rang the doorbell. Soon Mordecai opened the door and he looked a little exhausted like he ran a marathon or something. However, he put on his usual smile for us and said

"Oh, you're here. Come in" Mordecai opened the door wide to let us in and after Margaret put her jacket in the hall closet along with my sweater, we walked into the living room which is where we saw Rigby sweeping something up. Kind of weird since they have a carpet floor. When we got closer to the couch, that's when we saw the busted television which explain the sweeping

"Dang, what happened to your TV?" Margaret said surprised

"Mordecai bashed it" Rigby said as he picked up the last bit of glass off the floor

"Oh no" I said disappointed

"I wonder how we're going to have Movie Night now?" Margaret said

"I hope a new television wouldn't cost so much for you" I said

"Nah, I doubt that. I bet it would only cost like ten dollars" Mordecai said as he came into the room

"Mordecai, I know that there are some cheap TV's out there but I doubt that there would be ones that cost ten dollars" Margaret said very skeptical

"Maybe back in the early 80s" I added

"You sure about that?" Mordecai said walking up to the broken television. Then he bent over and started picking at the shattered screen until we saw him peel something and just like that, the TV looked normal again

"What the-" Margaret and I said confused and shocked over what we just saw

"I know, very convincing huh? Best ten bucks I ever spent" Mordecai said to us "There is even real glass in it for good measure. Well, that's 4-D hologram stickers for you"

That's when I started to piece together the situation; remembering back to what the pale guy said earlier about finding a working TV…hn, I have to give it to Mordecai, very clever

"So now that that's over, it's about time we start MOVIE NIGHT" Mordecai said to us all pumped up now. He grabbed a box of videos that was in the corner of the room and he dumped it on the floor. After that, we all gathered around the pile and started looking through the video tapes

Mordecai was the first one to pick which happened to be 'Love by the Dozen' but it got rejected immediately by Rigby because it was a romantic comedy. Meanwhile, I was looking for something scary which I soon found under all of the tapes

"Hey guys, what about this one? Looks terrifying, huh?"

"Um, 'Cease & Deceased'? Nah, Rigby can't handle that scary stuff" Mordecai told me

"Dude" Rigby said kind of pissed off

"What? Remember 'Death for Breakfast'?" Mordecai said to him "After watching that, you didn't eat pancakes for a week"

"Oh come on, just because I was sleeping in that week, you all of the sudden think that I was scary of that movie?" Rigby said trying to defend himself

"Ahhh! Help me! The bacon is going me!" Mordecai said making fun of Rigby a bit which made the rest of us laugh. Well as funny as that was, I'll have to make a note of this. Don't want to frighten him too much in the future

"You're the bacon" Rigby said under his breath

'Hm, why do I have the taste for bacon pancakes all of the sudden?'

"Hey, do you guys have any movies with adventure themes?" Margaret asked after the laughter died down

"Hm, let me see" Mordecai told her as he started to look but before he could find one, Rigby said out of the blue

"Uh, forget this. What's so fun about watching an adventure movie when we could go on a real one?"

"Huh?" The rest of us said perplexed a bit

"Yeah. As a matter of fact, we should go to the abandon park zoo" Rigby told to us

"For what?" Mordecai said not really liking the idea "Just to walk around some zoo as cold as it is? Who wants to do that when we could stay inside all warm and toasty and watch movies like we planned to do"

"Ha, don't mind him, girls. Mordecai is just afraid that Death Bear might still be around is all" Rigby told us

"Death Bear?" Margaret and I said together

"What? Don't tell me that you two never heard the story of Death Bear?" Rigby said surprised that we didn't know about this 'Death Bear'

"No" Margaret told him

"Well gather round ladies and I'll tell you of the eerie tale of a zoo and the evil bear that lived within its walls" Rigby said motioning us to come closer

"Uhh" was all I heard Mordecai say as he leaned on one of the arms of the couch; bored already

"The tale of Death Bear begins about fifteen to twenty years ago when the park zoo was still open. From the outside, you could say that it was your average zoo with animals and people waiting to see them. There was even a mini train that the kids would get overly excited about that would take you all around the zoo. Seemed like a happy, fun place to go to, right? I guess you could say that but go to the back part of the zoo and you would walk into a whole different setting. In that area next to the birds, you would have found the cages where they kept the bears. On the outer part, you had bears that would relax on the logs or lazily walk around bored but in the inner chambers, deep in the bowels of the zoo contain one lone bear; this bear was Death Bear. A bear that frightened its keepers and even the other bears that were kept there; to the point where he was kept in the inner cell most of the time out of fear that he would kill someone. Why the zoo kept the bear in the first place, I don't know but one day, the zoo's fears came to life when the bear was let out on a cold winter evening; kind of like this one. The trainer was simply about to get him ready for his check-up not knowing that he would become his dinner. The news spread like wildfire to the point that people were too afraid to go to the zoo anymore. Thus, forcing the zoo to close down. However, when the animals had to be transferred out, Death Bear wouldn't leave; no matter how many measures they took to get him out. So years went by as the zoo slowly was being forgotten; decaying over time, but one thing to this day lurks there. Pacing in the small space of its cage, Death Bear remains, more evil than ever before. But you may ask, how is he still living? Well, it is said that he found a way out of the chained deserted zoo. So now when he's overcome with hunger, he roams around Twin Peaks, breaks into peoples' homes, eats their food, then eating every person in it-"

"Woah" Margaret and I said

"Pff, lame" Mordecai said still leaning on the arm of the couch "Now if you three are done telling scary stories, how about we pop a tape in and start Movie Night" Mordecai took a seat on the couch and picked up a bowl of popcorn. He took a big whiff and said "Mmm, this semi-burnt popcorn is smelling pretty tasty right now. I even saved a spot right here for you, Margaret" He patted the space next to him hoping that Margaret would agree and come over but Rigby had other plans

"Hn-Hn, talking like a person that is scared of Death Bear"

"Are you kidding me? Death Bear is just a dumb urban legend. Who would be scared of that" Mordecai said defending himself "Margaret, you know I'm not scared, right?"

"Mordecai, it's ok" Margaret said walking to him "If you're scared, I mean. That story was kind of creepy"

"What? No. It's just…it's suppose to be Movie Night and-" Mordecai complained

"All I'm hearing is excuses, dude" Rigby told him, crossing his arms "Fear is written all over your face. Looks like if you want to prove to us that you're not scared of Death Bear than you'll have to go to the zoo yourself. In fact, I dare you to take a picture inside Death Bear's cage"

"Oooo" Margaret and I said as we looked at Mordecai for a response

"No way, dude. That's so dumb" Mordecai said holding his ground

"Come on, Mordecai" Margaret said trying to entice him "It'll be an exciting adventure"

"Not to mention very spooky and desolate" I added all excited about the whole thought of going on mini escapade tonight

"Eileen, we're trying to make him not scared, remember?" Margaret told me

"I'm not scared!" Mordecai said irritated now but neither of us were convinced "Uhh, ok fine. We'll go to the lame a** zoo and take the stupid picture of the dumb bear cage"

"Yes" Margaret said thrilled that we were going now

"This should be fun" I said also eager about the zoo, soon about to be ventured by us

"I'll get the camera" Rigby told us as he ran up the stairs. Then Margaret turned to Mordecai and said to him

"Sorry about Movie Night but I promise we'll watch a movie another night, ok"

"We better" Mordecai said still moping that we weren't going to watch a movie

"Stop being such a downer" Margaret said laughing as she punching his shoulder

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After Rigby got his camera, we put on what we were going to wear outside and we headed for the zoo. Since it was in the park already, Mordecai found it pointless to bring the car so we walked the whole way

It took us about twenty minutes of walking through dark roads and a gloomy forest until we came across it. Like a normal zoo at night, it was silent and deserted. The only difference was that it was slightly falling apart like no one had been in there in years. I'm surprised that they didn't tear it down; plant more trees or do something with this complex instead of just leaving it here like this

We started walking around the front entrance until I noticed this awesome looking lion statue like the ones that you would see in front of libraries. That's when I got an idea

"Wow, check it out. I'm a lion tamer" I said to Mordecai and Rigby while I was putting my head into the lion's mouth "Execution, successful" I pulled my head out thinking that they took a picture but I turned my head to a bunch of blank stares

'Oh come on, what did I say that was weird this time?' I thought as I climbed on top of the lion statue 'I hope that I could bounce back from this...Hm, this lion is surprisingly comfy to sit on when you've walked for twenty minutes through a forest'

"Hey, I can't find a way to get in and the gates are locked" Margaret shouted to us

"Uh, man" I said a little disappointed

"No way" Rigby said running to gate of the zoo while Margaret walked back to us

"Oh well" Mordecai said looking kind of happy over the turn of events "Looks like it wasn't meant to be. But on the bright side, we still have enough time to continue Movie Night; you know what I'm saying...I could taste the popcorn already. Hey, you girls coming or-" Before Mordecai could finish, we heard Rigby say

"Hey guys, I found a way in"

"Awesome" Margaret said walking to where Rigby was

"Great job, Rigby" I said following her to the big hole in the wall that Rigby found

"Aw what?" I heard Mordecai say behind us, still standing there

"Mordecai, you coming?" Margaret said to him as she crawled through the hole first; me second

"Yeah Mordecai, you coming?" I heard Rigby repeat as he teased Mordecai a bit but I didn't hear the rest since Margaret didn't want to stop and wait for them so I followed her through the zoo so she wouldn't be by herself

I started to take everything in the more we walked the empty pathways; glancing past the empty cages and broken trees. You also had the darkness curtain the whole area except for the small amount of moonlight that was just enough to found our way around. Creepy, I must say

"So, you ready to meet Death Bear?" I asked Margaret

"S-Sure" she responded quite shaky "I'm practically antsy with anticipation" Even though she had a confident response, you could tell that she was a bit nervous. Maybe it was because we were walking through a deserted zoo, just the two of us, with no knowledge of what lies ahead. But that's the fun of spooky adventure, right?

"Hey girls!" We heard Mordecai yell out to us

"Over here" Margaret called back. We waited for them to caught up to us then we continued on our journey

"Wow this place looks so cool" Rigby said as he looked around

"It looks weird without the animals though" I told him

"I know, right" Margaret added "It's like the apocalypse happened early or something"

"You're not scared, or you?" Mordecai asked her

"Ha, don't try to flip the script on me. You're the chicken here" Then she pushed his shoulder again "Don't make me laugh"

"Hey, look" Rigby said pointing a random building "The Reptile House. You think that you could handle going in there?" He said to Mordecai

"Pff, step aside" Mordecai said pushing Rigby out of the way. So we follow Mordecai into the Reptile House even though I question why we did that when we are looking for a bear and not a lizard

As we made our way through the dark building, I looked through the broken glass of some of the containment units that use to hold reptilian creatures; most of them having tree limbs and torn fake background panels. Makes you wonder what was inside them…

"Hey, Rigby. Do you think that Death Bear really exists?"

"Hell yeah. Especially with that big hole in the wall and all this destruction surrounding us…I wouldn't be surprised if Death Bear was waiting for us on the other side of this building" Rigby said obviously trying to scare me

"As if" Mordecai said over his shoulder, still walking "No one has been here in years. You think that a bear could possibly-" Just as he was about to finish his sentence, the cutest little squirrel scurried out of one of the containment units and scared Mordecai to the point that he fell backwards and fell on his behind

"Ha, I don't see how you're going to prove to us that you're not afraid of Death Bear when you can't even stand up to a tiny squirrel" Rigby said still laughing "Maybe I should lead. There might be something worse up ahead like possums" With that, Rigby starts walking towards the exit of the building so I follow him while Margaret tended to Mordecai

Not really paying attention, my eyes continued to scan my surroundings and the more I looked at it, the more it got creepier but a 'creepy' that made you more interested than afraid. Is it that the isolated pathways showed nothing but ruin thus giving the illusion of concealment of the mysteries that lie here or the potential danger of walking through the dwelling place of an ominous creature whose existence is questionable? Either one was sending goosebumps up my arms along with the tension of each step giving us bitter silence. So to calm my nerves, I thought I would let out some of the thoughts that was racing through my mind

"Hm, this place is so huge. This makes me wonder how this place was like in its hay-day. It must have been something"

"You've never been here before?" Rigby asked still walking

"Well, considering that I never been to Twin Peaks before I moved here about two years ago…no"

"That's like not seeing the Statue of Liberty when you live in New York. This place was so famous that everyone from California would come here from little kids on school trips to families that lived nearby…you need to get out more"

"Hey look, a train" I said running towards it. When I got close, I touched it and rust covered the two fingers that glided across its surface. Even though the child in me was imagining how fun it would have been to ride this thing, my brain started to hatch an idea

"What of it?" Rigby said when he walked beside me, looking uninterested at the mini train toppled over some "Last time I checked, we're looking for Death Bear. Not some stupid train"

"I know but didn't you say that the train tours go around the zoo's main attractions? If that's the case, wouldn't it go past Death Bear's cage at some point?" I could see that Rigby was about to say something be he stopped and started to think it over

"That's a good thought except for the fact that the train didn't lead to Death Bear's Cage"

"Well then, there's a shed over there. That might have been the loading station for the train. If we look in there, we might get lucky and find the train route and hopefully a map that might help us find where Death Bear's Cage might be" Before Rigby could respond, I made my way to the shack and started to investigate and in no time at all, I found a map on one of the walls "Hm, look what we have here" At that moment, I felt something grab my shoulders which scared the crap out of me "Ahhhh!"

"Ha, gotcha" I heard Rigby say behind me

"Don't do that. You scared me to death"

"Well you did set yourself up for that one; walking into a beat down, shady shed not expecting anything" He said sounding proud of himself

"Whatever, come look at this"

"You found something?" Since I couldn't see the map very well, I pulled out my cellphone and it illuminated a small portion of it

"It looks like we're here and Death Bear's Cage is…over…umm…here" I said scanning the map until I found it "It looks like you're right about the train not stopping at the bear section. It seems like if we follow these tracks until we come across a tunnel and hit the penguin tank, then get off to the right of the tracks until we see the bird section, then we should find it" I said to him as I walked to the only window in the building "Judging by the landmarks near us, we should head in that direction" Rigby looked out the window with me to see where I was pointing but he happened to catch something I didn't

"Hey Mordecai, Margaret. We found some more train tracks" Rigby yelled in the opposite direction I was pointing

So after we reunited with Margaret and Mordecai, we continued on our quest to find Death Bear

As we walked along the train tracks, we came across a tunnel like the one on the map. At least we were going in the right direction. As we grew closer to it, a memory of yelling in those fun house tube places in Big MacFarms gave me an idea [1]

"Hey guys, scream through the tunnel as loud as you can" I went first and for a second, you could feel a release of tension or whatever stress was lingering about, if there was any. There's nothing like shouting to get a load off your chest…or at least that's how I felt about it

When I reached the end of the tunnel, I saw that Rigby was right behind me and it looked like he had some amusement with this silly act too. So much that he had to take a second to catch his breath then he started walking again

"Rigby, we should at least wait for Margaret and Mordecai. Why are you in such a hurry?" I asked him

"No reason" was all he said (with a hint of an sinister tone in his voice) as he trekked on along the track. Seeing that Margaret made it out, I started to follow Rigby again. I don't know why he insists on walking by himself out here. Even though there is a good chance that there is nobody here, it's still not a good idea to walk out here alone

By the time that I found him, Margaret and Mordecai caught up with us and we continued on until we hit a point where the rails were uprooted from its tracks. Since we didn't reach our main landmark yet, I started to look around to see if I could find any leads

"Great, what do we do now?" Margaret said

"Um…I think you should check this out" I said because instead of finding a landmark, I found something strange in the ground

"What the heck? Is that a footprint?" Margaret said looking at the print in the ground

"If it's real, it's pretty huge" I said stunned at the size of it

"That can't be a footprint. It's probably some hole in the ground" Mordecai said

"Nah man, look at it. It has to be Death Bear's" Rigby told him

"Well if it is, the tracks lead that way so-" I said pointing the way

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"Uh, we have been walking here for hours" Mordecai started to complain "At this point, we're never going to find the cage. We might as well just-"

"Um, Mordecai. I think that you're speaking too soon" I told him

"Woah" Rigby said as we stared at the huge containment area with a huge hole gaping through its bars "This is definitely it" He ran into the cage while we followed

"Well, we're here. Let's just take the stupid picture already so we could go home" Mordecai said still annoyed over the whole situation

"Oh no. We're not taking the picture here. This is just the front entrance. Anyone could take a picture here" Rigby told Mordecai "No, we're going to the real cage" He pointed to a small steel door, slightly ajar, next to a fake rock face "Down through there"

"What?" Margaret and I said

"Dude, we're not going down there" Mordecai said to him

"Oh, I thought you said that you weren't scared, Mordecai" Rigby tauntingly said as he walked through the door

"Rigby" Mordecai yelled at him but Rigby ignored him and continued on "Damn it" he put his hand over his eyes, trying to contain the stress he was feeling

"Um, well-" I said in this awkward moment

"-are you coming?" Margaret finished my sentence

So we went through the door and attempted to find where Rigby went. We walked through this huge hallway full of cages left and right; empty like the others we previous saw. I don't know why but walking through here…the atmosphere just seems more illicit than when we were outside. Something wasn't right

"Rigby, where are you!" Mordecai yelled into the dim hallway

"How slow are you? Hurry up" We heard Rigby respond

"Guys, I don't think we should be here" I said concerned now

"Rigby, come on. This isn't funny" Margaret yelled

"I'm not stopping. You're just going to have to catch up"

"Dude, quit messing around and get over here" Mordecai yelled. Rigby didn't respond this time and all we could hear was his laughter filling the air "That's it. We're going. Come on girls" He started to walk back and so did Margaret but I was torn between finding Rigby and my fears of continuing forward but before I could make a decision, our ears we filled the shrieks of Rigby in trouble

Hearing his screams made us backtrack and we ran; hoping that he was ok but when we ran around the bend, we were confronted with something that scared the crap out of us

"Hahaha" It was Rigby who was now laughing his butt off at us

"Dude, what the hell" Mordecai said getting up from the ground

"Ha, this is rich. You should have seen your faces" Rigby said in between laughs "I can't believe it. You-You guys really thought-"

"Dude, you scared us to death" Margaret told him

"You had us thinking that you got caught by Death Bear" I added

"What? Death Bear isn't real. It's just a myth and you guys totally fell for it" Rigby said still not getting that he had us worried

"Whatever, you had you fun. Can we just go home now?" Mordecai said to him

"Alright, but let's just take the picture at least. We're already here so-" Rigby said setting up his camera on top of a rock. We positioned ourselves in front of a large steel door and wait for the camera to flash. That's when I notice the numerous scratch marks on the door behind us

'These marks looked like they were made by an animal but what animal can make marks this deep into steel? If Death Bear was real, he probably could…'

"Ok, we got five seconds" Rigby said running into position

"Hey Rigby, you know what this door was used for?" I asked out of curiosity

"What do I look like, a zookeeper?" Rigby quickly responded before the camera flashed "Sweet"

"Alright, we took the picture so I'm going" Mordecai said leaving with Margaret behind him. Meanwhile, I stuck with Rigby as he was trying to see how the picture looked like. As he fanned the picture he said to Mordecai "You have to admit, I got you good"

"Whatever" Mordecai said not even turning his head to address him

"Well, I have to admit that you got me good, Rigby" I told him. And it was true. He had me going and I don't feel bad in telling him that either

"You know it. I mean really, like Death Bear is going to be down here after all of these years" He then started to knock on the door behind us "Hey Death Bear, you in there?"

"Yeah, your thirteen pizzas are here" I said joining in and we both had a good laugh. When our laughter died down, Rigby looked at the photo again and started flapping it again

"Damn, these pictures take forever to develop" he said

"Well you know that you're not supposed to shake it, right?" I told him

"Hey, you're smart. You know what this part does?"

"Yeah, you just turn it like this. That adjusts the lens to zoom in or out. And if you do this, it adjusts the focus…"

In the middle of my explanation, we were surprised by this sudden growl that came from right behind us. It was so powerful that it blew Rigby's hat right off. We looked to the left where Margaret and Mordecai stood and they were paralyzed with fear so we briefly turned around and I wish I hadn't. We couldn't believe our eyes. It was…was…

*ROOOAAR!*

"Death Bear! Run!" I said and we immediately ran for the exit

"Oh my gosh. I can't believe Death Bear is real" Rigby said terrified

"Rigby, I'm going to kill you if we get out of this alive" Mordecai told him in between breathes. That's when I looked behind us and saw that Death Bear wasn't too far behind us

"Not if Death Bear gets to us first" I told Mordecai

"Eileen. Now is not the time to be thinking like that. Now is the time is focus on not dying" Margaret said

As we got to the end of the long hall, one by one we went through the small steel door. Mordecai being the last one was almost slashed by the bear's claws, but he made it by the skin of his teeth. Luckily, the way the bear came at us, he got one of its arms stuck in the doorframe. However, he was slowly getting loose so we took this opportunity to run for it and escape

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We managed to get out of the zoo and into the park house before Death Bear could catch up to us. So after Mordecai shut and locked the door, we thought that we were safe…boy, was I wrong. Mordecai didn't take two breaths before this spike-looking-thing pierced the door; inches from puncturing his head

"Quick, started blocking the door" Mordecai said and everyone began finding huge objects to barricade the door with. Meanwhile, I thought I would call animal control so while we were buying time, we could be getting help before someone got hurt

Margaret and Rigby managed to get a bookshelf and Mordecai got a grandfather clock but before they could get them into place, the door busted open. The sudden burst caused everyone to drop what they were holding and fall to the floor. Mordecai unfortunately had the bookshelf fall on top of him

Meanwhile, as everyone was groaning in pain, I felt myself freeze up because the bear's eyes locked onto me. I heard Animal Control on the other end of the phone but I couldn't get one syllable to pass my lips; I was so scared

The bear didn't hesitate and lunged in my direction…and I have to say, I never thought that having your life flash before your eyes could actually happen but after that moment…I have never been so close to death; I really thought my next breathe was going to be my last as I saw the flash from his demonic eyes reflected my oncoming demise

At the last possible moment, I flinched; thinking that I was soon going to feel my body being torn to shreds but the pain of its claws on my skin didn't occurred. Instead it was replaced with a loud crash. I looked in the direction I heard the loud noise come from and saw an enormous hole in the wall. Seeing that Death Bear wasn't in my sights, I quickly went back to the task at hand and said on the phone

"Just come the park. And please hurry, it's Death Bear" and I hung up. I saw Mordecai climb out of the hole in the wall; trying to get himself together which only took a second

"Everyone, run up the stairs now" was all we heard from him and we didn't hesitate as we ran to the second floor

"I just called Animal Control. They should be here any minute" I told them when we got to the top of the steps. No sooner when I said that, men in S.W.A.T suits were coming through every doorway and entrance into the house. They didn't waste any time and started shooting the bear with tranquilizer darts. However, they were proving to not having any effect on him so Death Bear briefly turned its attention to the men in black suits and made little work in taking them out. One guy even got his arms sliced off. Ouch

While Death Bear almost finished rampaging on Animal Control, one guy was thrown up to where we were and was render unconscious. Our attention was drawn to him for only a second but we put our gaze back downstairs where we saw Death Bear about to move up towards to us

Mordecai saw that the guy thrown up here had a gun so he took it but when he grabbed it, it released a dart and it hit Rigby in the arm

"Damn it, what the hell man" Rigby said in slow-mo

"Sorry dude" Mordecai said as he aimed the gun and started shooting the bear who didn't show any signs in stopping. As hopeless as it looked, Mordecai didn't stop. Even when the bear came to the last step and was inches to his face but seconds after, the bear halted in its tracks. The darts were finally kicking in and Death Bear started to falter until he fell down at Mordecai's feet

We stared at the bear for a few minutes, waiting to see if it would show any signs of consciousness but it laid there motionless

"Phew, it's finally over" Margaret said wiping some sweat from her brow. Mordecai dropped the gun and also wiped his forehead while he leaned on the wall

"Hey, be careful with that. Do you know how much those guns cost?" We heard the Animal Control guy behind us say

"We just got attacked by a ravenous bear, some of your men got dismembered and you're worried about a stupid gun?" I said to him, surprised that he was even up

"A gun that saved your lives…Don't listen to them. Daddy's here. Daddy's here" the guys said caressing his gun like a child

"Ooooh Kaaay" we all said

"So was that adventure enough for you" Mordecai said to Margaret when he finally caught his breath, Margaret laughed as shove him with her right arm

"Well, it looks like they're wrapping up things here. I think it's way past time for me and Eileen to get going" Margaret told him

"Alright, see you" Mordecai said and we went out of the house to only find that her car was wrecked like someone or something was slammed into the windshield

"What the heck! You got to be kidding me!" Margaret yelled

"Margaret, what's wr- ohh" Mordecai said coming outside

"Damn, what happened?" Rigby said still slow-mo

"I don't know" Margaret said as her anger turned into concern

"Judging from the way the windshield is broken and the broken glass from the window over there, I'm guess one of the Animal Control guys was thrown out of that window and landed on your car. See, there's even a tiny bit of blood on this glass right here, see" I said pointing to the blood stain on the windshield

"They better consider themselves lucky that I have insurance so money is not an issue. But I still have to get to class tomorrow and uhhh" Margaret said while holding the back of head in frustration

"Don't worry Margaret" I said to her "Everything will be alright. There's always the bus"

"…I'm dead"

"Hey, is that quitter talk, I hear?"

"Ha, very funny Eileen"

"Specking of bus, it's really getting late, I wonder if we still could-" I look at my phone for the time "-oh, shoot. That last late bus just passed ten minutes ago and there won't be another one until around four in the morning"

"Great, now we don't have any way of getting home" Margaret said sounding pissed off at the world

"Well, you could always stay here for the night" Mordecai offered

"What?" Rigby said

"Are you sure? You keep talking about how unreasonable your boss is" Margaret asked Mordecai

"Yeah, after all we just escaped from being killed by a bear. Plus, it wasn't your fault that your car get totaled. I'm sure he'll understand. Besides, you're probably going to be gone way before he gets here anyway"

So after Mordecai convinced Margaret to stay the night, we walked back into the house. I was thinking that we were going to sleep in the living room or something but it was still trashed from when Mordecai sideswiped Death Bear through the wall. So the only other option was their room?

"Oh what, are you serious" Rigby said not comfortable with the idea

"What, the only other space was the attic and the basement and I'm not going to let them sleep there" Mordecai told him

"But if you plan on letting us sleep here, where are all of us going to sleep when there is only one bed?" I asked

'It was kind of strange how both of them live in this room and there is only one bed…um, I'm not going to think about the too hard'

"We'll Rigby could sleep on his trampoline like he always does and you two could share the bed" Mordecai said

"What about you?" Margaret asked

"Um, I think I still have a sleeping bag somewhere. I'll just use that" Mordecai told her

"Uh, now I feel bad" I said

"Don't worry about me. It's only for one night anyways" He said looking in his drawer for something

"Thanks Mordecai" Margaret said to him

"Here, catch" He said throwing something at her "I'm about to change into some pajamas so if you want, you could change into that. It's the closest thing I could find that won't swim on you"

"Oh thanks?" Margaret said

Mordecai then grabbed another shirt from a different drawer and threw it at me

"Hey, that's mine" Rigby said while he was sitting on his trampoline

"Come on" Mordecai said while dragging Rigby out of the room so we could change. When they shut the door, I started to change but I noticed Margaret still sitting there with the shirt in her hands

"Aren't you going to change?" I asked her as I slipped my sweater off but all she did was stare at the shirt "Margaret, are you ok?"

"Yeah" She said as she took her boots off "I'm just trying to get over this 'lending of clothing' step"

"Step?"

"Yeah, when a connection grows between a guy and a girl, there are pairs of stages and phases of affection that take place. There's the pleasant phase and the much longer gradual phase. In this case, this shirt is part of the pleasant phase: the lending of clothing. This shows a level of trust. A token if you will" Margaret started taking off her jacket and hung it up on the door "Now the only question is, do I accept it?"

"Uh, I don't know about all of this Teen Magazine type logic your spilling out but if you are thinking that way, why don't you give him that chance?"

"I don't know, I've just been with so many guys that I really don't want to start another relationship. And if I do try, what if it doesn't work out? That's like losing a good friend in the worst possible way. I couldn't imagine losing him like that"

"The way I see it, life is full of 'what ifs' but it's your choice to decide whether to go for it or regret never going through with it. Sure there is always the chance of failure, just like with your past boyfriends but I don't know...I see him as being worthy of taking a chance on. After all, he is a pretty nice guy" Margaret stared at the shirt like she was pondering what I just said then she told me

"Yeah, I guess he is"

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I have to say, that was the best sleep I have ever gotten. Now I understand why Mordecai took both of those mattresses; these mattresses are to die for. The only thing that ruined it was the alarm clock going off at 7:00am

Answering the call of the clock, everyone started rustling out of their sleeping areas but I couldn't find the strength to get out of this comfortable bed. I guess I was so use to getting up at nine that this was almost foreign to me. It's not like I could go back to sleep either because of the morning noises of people getting themselves ready bombarded my ears. I could even sense that Margaret was up and about

"Come on dude, get up" I heard Mordecai say

"Just a few more minutes" I heard Rigby say very drowsy

"No, I already let you sleep in a bit while I took a shower now get your lazy a** up before I drag you in there"

"Uhhh" I heard some footsteps being made but they didn't leave the room "This sucks…Lucky nerd gets to sleep in"

"What? Oh, I thought she was with Margaret downstairs. I didn't even notice her under all of those covers. You think you could wake her then? I'm still trying to find my underclothes" I remained still under my cover thinking that Rigby was going to touch my shoulder and lightly shake me…wishful thinking, right? Instead, I got the pants scared off of me by Rigby yelling in my ear

"Hey four eyes, get up" (Mind you, he was still talking slow-mo) I was so surprises by his actions that I shot up like a rocket. Little did I know that he was right over me so when I rapidly sat up, my head connected with his; causing the most painful headbutt ever

"Ow!" We both said as I fell back down on the pillow; covering my forehead while I heard Rigby fall to the floor

"You idiot" I heard Mordecai say

"Ow" I heard Rigby say again

"Are you ok, Eileen?" I heard Mordecai ask me

"Uhh" was all I could muster out as I was trying to ride through this rushing headache. While holding onto my forehead with my right hand, I reached over to the nightstand with my left hand; hoping to come in contact with my glasses. When I felt them, I put them on my face

I looked around the room to see Rigby still on the floor and Mordecai in a dark blue robe standing at the foot of the bed

"I'm just going to go and found Margaret" I said getting out of the bed and leaving the room

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After we all got dressed, we went outside to find that Animal Control was just getting a helicopter and was about to lift Death Bear up from the scene

'...so let me get this straight. It either took them all night to get that bear out of this house or they just left him here overnight? Uhh'

"They had all night and their just now doing this?" Margaret said looking up at Death Bear in the helicopter

"I still feel bad for Death Bear though" I said also looking up too

'Even though he was a ravenous bear that tried to kill us, I still feel bad that it had to come to this…shooting it and injuring it like that…'

"I wouldn't be worried about him. I heard that those animal sanctuaries are like five star hotels or something" Mordecai told me

"Hey Mordecai" Margaret said punching his arm again "Thanks for saving us and all. It was really brave of you"

"I wouldn't call it bravery" Mordecai told her "To be honest, I was a bit scared" That's when I saw Margaret hug Mordecai which surprised him and myself as well

"Well conquering your fear is basically what bravery is, right?"

"I-I guess so" Mordecai said stuttering while frozen in place for a moment but then found the courage to hug her back

"Well, I guess I'll see you later, right" She said letting him go

"Yeah, cool"

Watching this made me swell up with emotion; it was so adorable. However, when I turned my head and saw Rigby just standing there; feeling like he was chopped liver and such so to make him feel better, I addressed him

"Rigby, even though you weren't exactly courageous. I still think that you were pretty cool" Rigby froze when he heard me tell him that but he managed to say

"You too, Four Eyes"

"Hey, that reminds me. How did that picture turn out?" Margaret asked Rigby. He pulled out the photo from his pocket then showed it to us

"Rigby!" Margaret and Mordecai said. It was only a picture of our feet. He must have had it zoomed in too close or the rock he placed it on wasn't elevated enough

Oh well, even though I would have loved to get a copy of that picture, I guess recording it in you is just as good too, Diary. After all, I still have the headache and the bruise on the side of my forehead as a temporary reminder. At least it's on the side and not right smack in the middle of my head. I could easily cover it

Dear Diary,

Just like Margaret promised, we had our movie night but this time we went to the movie theater instead. Even though nothing really exciting happened, I guess it was better than staying home…well...there was one thing that happened out of the ordinary but I'm getting too ahead of myself...

After Margaret picked me up from work, she drove to the park and picked up the guys. Since we got to CINE-PLEX pretty early, Mordecai thought that we would have some dinner before watching 'Crime Town Diaries'

"I'm kind of pinching my pennies this week so I don't know if I'm going to buy any food from the movie theater" I told them

"No worries" Mordecai said "There's a food truck over there"

"Ok" Margaret said

"That sounds like a plan" I added

We walked up to the food truck and Mordecai ordered first

"I'll have a Sloppy Dan Dog w/extra onions"

"Extra onions? You sure you want to do that, dude?" The vender asked him

"Yeah, pile them on" Mordecai said reassuring him. It didn't take long for the vender to make the hotdog and soon turned around to hand it to him

"Ok, here's one Sloppy Dan Dog with extra-" Before he could finish, the cart suddenly moved backwards down the street, causing the vender to drop Mordecai's hotdog on the ground. Mordecai then did the most disgusting thing I've seen him do. He actually picked up the hotdog off the street and ate it

"Ew! Gross" Everyone said to him

"What? Five second rule" He said trying to explain himself but it was a lame excuse. That was nasty "Too bad that truck took off like that. Now we'll have to find somewhere else to get food"

"Nah, after seeing that, I think we should just go straight to the movie" Margaret said sickened by his actions

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After we watched 'Crime Town Diaries', I have to say, the movie was pretty interesting but I heard that the director is planning to create a remake; staying more true to the comic book series. Considering that the comic was so much better than this movie, I'm really looking forward to seeing it

"So guys, what's next for tonight" Margaret asked Mordecai when we left the movie theater

"Well I can't think of a better way to end our night than to finish it off with a cold glass of one of my famous homemade Mordo-shakes" Mordecai told us

"Alright, I can't wait" Margaret as she got in her car

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The ride home was quick, especially since we had the radio playing Praise by Lyndonna [2]. In my opinion, even though I really don't care for her as a musical artist, I have to admit that this song was pretty catchy

"So what's in those Mordo-shakes anyway" Margaret asked Mordecai as she pulled up in their driveway

"It's a surprise" Mordecai answered her as they started to get out of the car

"They're just regular milkshakes. Mordecai's just stoked that he finally figured out how to make one" Rigby told me when Mordecai and Margaret got out of the car

Rigby and I walked out of the car and caught up to Margaret and Mordecai and Rigby asked him

"I still can't believe you're going to load up on milkshakes, especially after that chili dog incident"

"Uck" Margaret said pointing to her tongue like she was going to gag

"I was trying to forget that" I told them

"What? You're still going on about that? You're acting like one hotdog is going to fill a person up. There is always room for dessert, especially when that dessert is Mordo-shakes" Mordecai said all pumped up but his happiness was short lived when he started to feel his jacket pockets

"Shoot, I think I forget something in the car" Mordecai said

"Oh, I'll go and help you then" Margaret said walking down the front steps with him

Them leaving left just Rigby and I on the front porch. There was an awkward silence as me and Rigby stood there waiting for Mordecai and Margaret to come back so I started the ball rolling by asking how he thought the movie was but that somehow escalated to something else

"There is no way that Monroe was a better shot than Jackson" Rigby told me "Did you see how many guys he shot in that movie?"

"Did you see how many times he missed too? Monroe had better aim and rarely missed his target"

"But he was mad slow and took a billion years to wound someone"

"But still, bullet count is important when it comes to shooting. What good are you when you run out of ammo in less than two seconds?"

"When you actually hit a decent amount of people. You think that someone is just going to wait for you to take your time to aim? Nah, handling a gun is all about speed"

"And accuracy" That's when Rigby poked me in the head. It just had to be the spot where the bruise was "Damn, your stubborn. If I didn't feel it for myself, I wouldn't believe that you would be this hard-headed" He said rubbing his head as we both remembered back to last week when we headbutted each other. That's when he stood in front of me and I watched slowly as his hand traveled to my hair; brushing it back a bit. I could feel my heart increase its pace every second he stood this close to my face. I'm telling you, the tension was killing me

As I could feel the blood rise in my neck, I saw him smile wickedly

"Hey, who is ready for Mordo-shakes? I know I am" We heard Mordecai say. Rigby quickly poked my forehead again (this time on the opposite side) while laughing under his breath

"Took you long enough" Rigby said changing his tone to annoyed

"You have no idea" Mordecai told us "Now let's get inside, I'm dying to make these shakes already"

As we started to make our way inside, Rigby told me

"You know I was the one that came up with name 'Mordo-shakes'"

"Yeah, whatever" Mordecai told him as he closed the door behind

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I have to admit, those milkshakes were pretty good but despite the good atmosphere in the room, I couldn't help but notice how glum Margaret looked so after we left, I asked her about it

"Remember the shirt thing we talked about last week?" Margaret told me

"Yeah"

"Well…we…almost kissed in the car a few moments ago"

"What? Woah…what do you mean almost?"

"Well, I was helping him find his wallet and I don't know what came over me but…I felt a vibe that I never thought I would feel when I'm around Mordecai so I found myself about to kiss him but he…rejected it" I could see that Margaret was really upset by this as one lone tear fell down her cheek "I really thought…I don't even know what I was thinking"

My brain was working on overdrive as I tried to think of on excuse of why he would do that. After all, I know that he is crushing on her for the longest now. Could it be nerves that got the better of him…or...or...

"That was an interesting movie night though, not counting last week's. Got to watch a crime film, got to have some tasty milkshakes-"

"Eileen, where are you getting at?" Margaret said not interested in me babbling

"-Mordecai eating that tainted chili dog…" I made sure I took a long pause so it could sink in "I could only imagine how gross it was as it touched the gravel of the street and how smelly it was with all of those extra onions" I watched as all of the information I was feeding her sank in. That's when I saw her features mellow just a tad

"Ha, that doofus" was all she said before letting out a huge heartfelt laugh

Dear Diary,

It's that time of year again when the air is filled with different assortments of food. No, it's not Thanksgiving yet but you're close. It's the annual pie contest so all of this week, my mind has been on nothing but pies, pies and more pies. This year, I was spending a lot of my extra time on finding a better technique to win that pie contest because last year, which was the first time I entered, my pumpkin pie almost won with third place while this British guy that looks like the monopoly dude won first prize. Kind of saddening when I poured my heart and soul into that pie. And it was a past down family recipe too…But that was in the past so I'm not going to let that get me down this year. I got a whole new game plan and different references to go by to construct a masterful pie that will hopefully win first place. The only thing I need to worry about is Margaret joining this year...

"Eileen, I've see you write in that notebook constantly for two day now, what up?" Margaret asked me one day on one of our combined shifts

"Just crossing off some previous experimental ideas for pies"

"Oh, making something special for Thanksgiving?"

"Actually, I'm going to enter it in the Annual Pie Contest that the park is hosting. But the competition is going to be fierce with 'monopoly' guy competing again so I'm building up my chances by trying-"

"Pie Contest, huh?" She said pondering the idea "I think I've heard something about that. Ok, I'm in too"

"Wait, what?" I said scared and surprised at her sudden urge to participate

"Yeah, I'm free this weekend so it'll be cool to try"

"But…" I was trying everything in my power think of excuses for her to not to take part in this. After all, we know the obvious reason "this is the last day to register your name on the contestants list, yeah, and when it comes to timing, they're really serious. I few second late for registering and they don't care if you cry a big mess of tears-"

"Well it shouldn't take me long to get there in time. Cover me while I deal with this right quick, ok"

Before I could protest, she left the shop and sure enough, she got in…uhh. I like Margaret, I really do but remembering from her past blunders with cooking…I just hope she could somehow produce something that is edible...

Well, I don't have time to worry about that because I still have to perfect this pie I'm making. I only have a day left

Dear Diary,

Why does it seem that every time we go to that park, half the time life-threatening stuff happens? Just when I thought I was simply going to partake in a pie contest and go home. But oh no, a killer pie has to magically pop out of nowhere and start eating everyone…

"Eileen, you ready to wow some judges" Margaret asked me when she found me in my booth, preparing my pie

"Yeah, I finally calculate a good formula for a great mixed berry pie and I'm sure I'm not going to get third place this year"

"Well, I think you're in for some competition because I got a sure fire winner in my hands. I'm confident this killer apple pie is going to be something to die for"

"I'm sure it is" I said to her, trying to sound positive

"Well, I have to tend to my first place winner in the oven so good luck to you, Eileen" she said running off to her booth

"You too" I said while I finished preparing my filling and poured it in my slightly baked crust

'Alright, I mixed the berries and stuff, all there is is to make my top crust and put it in the oven' So I started to flatten my dough. Then I cut slits in the middle but for decoration, I put two small incisions on every main one which oddly enough made it look like a simple snowflake

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While I still had about twenty minutes to go with my pie, I see Margaret running back to my booth

"Hey, you have got to see this" She said pulling me to her station

"Margaret, I'm still cooking"

"It'll only take a second"

"Ok, but I'll have to get right back to monitoring my pie afterwards"

When we got to her red and white striped booth, she pointed to her…finished pie

"Look at it, it's the best one I cooked yet and it didn't even explode in the oven like the others. I'm telling you, this lucky apron is doing wonders for me"

'It's working wonders all right. I've never seen a pie look like the la brea tar pits because honestly, it looked like those apples sank and died in that pie'

"All it has to do is cool down and those bubbles should deflate" Margaret continued "After that, would you like to give it taste?"

"No! I mean, save it for the judges to enjoy. After all, they deserve to get to first taste of the pie" I said trying to give an excuse to not eat it

"You're right" Margaret said

'Phew, it worked'

"Then after that, then you could taste it" she told me

'What! Uhh, I could already feel the discomfort in my stomach already'

"Yeah, sure" I said unenthusiastically "Well, I have to get back to my pie so-"

"I have some time to kill so I'll join you. I'm dying to see how your pie looks like anyway"

"Ok"

So we walked back to my booth and I saw that it was just about ready so I carefully pulled it out and set it on a rack to cool

"Wow that looks awesome Eileen. And it smells heavenly" Margaret said

"Thanks Margaret"

"Looks like I have some competition on my hands" she said bumping me with her elbow "Well, I'm going to head back to my booth, I don't want to miss the judges faces when they take their first bite" She said running back to her booth very excited

"I just hope that isn't their last bite" I said under my breath

'It just baffles me how she could think that half the dishes she makes is edible when it clearly looks like its toxic and would kill somebody immediately. Would she really eat something like that? …I hope the judges go easy on her'

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I waited a while for the judges to come and every minute was filled with anxiety as I hoped that they would get here before my pie got cold. But in the mist of my long wait, who should I see walk to my booth? Mordecai and Rigby

"Hi guys. Nice to see you here. So what job does your boss have you doing this year? I hope it's not something too troublesome" I asked them

"We've actually been bumped up big time" Rigby said

"Yeah, we're actually going to be judging your pie, Miss. Eileen" Mordecai added

"Woah, you're the judges. Well I'm happy that you'll be the first to try my pie. I've worked extra hard on this one" I said cutting them two slices of my pie. I watched as they took a bite of it "Well? What do you think?"

"Mmm, you did pretty good Eileen" Mordecai said first

"So much better than your pumpkin pie" Rigby added as he took another bite

"This is so good in fact that I think that I'll give you a perfect ten" Mordecai told me

"What, are you serious?" I said surprised that he said that. I was expecting something around a seven or an eight if I was lucky but a ten? This meant that I was going to go to the finals "This is awesome. Thanks you so much guys"

At this moment, I was feeling so ecstatic that I could hardly contain myself. However, it was short-lived when Margaret came running back to my station

'I wonder what the judges said about her pie?'

"Eileen, you wouldn't believe it" She said so thrilled "I got a perfect ten on my score sheet. I know I had a winner when I first set eyes on it"

"Wow, that's great" I told her "That means that I'll see you in the finals too"

'How did this happen? Well, maybe the pie's looks deceived me this time around'

"Finals?" Margaret asked me

"Yeah, when there is more than one person that gets a perfect score, they face off with a final tasting"

"Well, I don't mean to brag but after seeing them taste my pie, I know I got this in the bag. But it feels good that my pie could compete with yours, Eileen. You little cooking wiz"

"Thanks Margaret and let the best pie win" I said shaking her hand

"Which will be my girlfriend's over here" We heard someone say to us

"Oh, hi Muscle Man" Margaret said not happy to see him. After seeing who addressed us, I was also a bit concerned; not of Muscle Man but of the person accompanying him

'Hm, I remember her. She was in the cheerleading squad back in high school...Wow, she has gotten chunkier. She doesn't even look like that well-built girl that always caused a lot of trouble for our pep squad too; talking about how the pep squad had no place in the school when there were beautiful cheerleaders to perk everyone up. I know the pep squad only did things twice a year but at least everyone was always excited when we had a pep rally. Who wants to see a football game to watch cheerleaders in the freezing cold while cheering for a losing team? Even the marching band made the games seem better than the cheerleaders did…Uh, why did it have to be her that showed up here?"

"So Starla, you got a ten too?" I asked her

"Oh, look who it is. Its little Miss. Mole…caused a whole mess of trouble when you left the senior graduation afterparty. So this is where you disappeared to?"

'I put one fake mole on my face and people just won't let it die, will they. I get it, it looked silly, alright'

"Yeah" I said trying to sound cheery

"Well, you could say goodbye to any chance of winning because Starla has this contest already won so you might as well give up now" Muscle Man told us

"I'll believe it when I see it" Margaret said

"Hey, any of you want a piece of my pie" I heard Muscle Man's friend say from behind us

'When did he get in my booth?'

"Soon there might not be any more left, seeing that mine was good enough to get a ten" he continued

"You too, Fives?" Muscle Man said shocked at the news his friend just gave us

"Yeah, Mordecai and Rigby said it was out of this world and definitely was worth a perfect score" Fives said holding his pie for us taste

"I'll be the judge of that" Muscle Man said taking a fork. I also took a fork because I was also curious. So we both took one bite of his pie and I swear I've never tasted anything like it. It felt like I tasted nothing but somehow it was full of flavor. Just eating one bite put me in a slight daze that it took Margaret nudging me on the shoulder to snap me out of it. I never thought I would feel like I got high off of a pie

"Eileen, you ok?" she asked me

"That was awesome. What was that made of anyway?" I asked Fives

"Just you're normal ingredients for a coconut cream pie pureed to the point where you only get the essences of its flavors. It's kind of a tricky recipe to make since you're basically capturing the souls of your ingredients and compressing them in a pie"

"That explains its airy texture" I told him. That's when we heard someone talking rather loudly on his cellphone

"I told you, dearie. I'm at the Pie Contest now" It was a skeleton guy with a scythe "Yes, I entered your Raven Pot Pie and they even said that it got a ten…No, not yet. Apparently, there are others that got tens so I'll call you back when the finals are over…Love you too, and I hope that your leg gets better" The guy hung up the phone and continued walking

"What, even Death got a ten?" Muscle Man said mad and surprised at the same time

"Just how many people got perfect scores anyway" I said pondering over the situation. That's when we saw a random guy with pie glasses running down the booth with his pie screaming

"Yeah, I got a ten! I got a ten! Take that suckers"

"Something is up, I could feel it" Muscle Man said banging the table with his fist

"I agree" Fives said

"Me too, how are there so many people that are going to the finals? This has never happened the last time I was here" I told them

"It hasn't happened ever" Fives told us

"Well whatever Mordecai and Rigby are trying to pull, I'm going to get to the bottom of it right now" Muscle Man said storming off with Starla. Fives left soon after but not after saying

"Nice pie by the way" I was wondering what he was talking about until looked over and saw a small hole in my pie (beside the triangle slice I made when I gave a piece to Mordecai and Rigby)

'When did he do that?'

"So are you coming to see what's up with our judges" Margaret asked me about to leave as well

"Nah, I'm going to stay here and tend to my pie. Don't want anyone else sneaking bites out of it"

"Alright" and she left to the judging tent

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I took a chair and relaxed for a while until Mordecai and Rigby would come out but after I was starting to doze off, I was awaken by this roar and people screaming. I walked out of my booth to confirm what was causing all of the commotion when I saw this giant pie terrorizing the pie contestants and eating them

I ran towards the massive mayhem to see if I could find Margaret. Soon I found where she was but I was too late as I watched her get eaten by that ravenous pie. That's when I heard Mordecai yelling

"Promise Pie, what are you doing?"

"You said you had a hard time judging the pies so I'm simply eliminating the competition so it'll be easier for you to judge"

'So Mordecai and Rigby had something to do with this? I just hope that they know how to stop it' I thought as I hid behind a pole that was holding one of the tents. I wish I could do something to help but what was I going to do? So I watched helplessly from a distance, praying that they would think of something…and sure enough from a slip of the tongue, a person plopped out of the monster's stomach

'Yes, so judging stops it…still a little cliché, but ok'

So I observed as Mordecai and Rigby judged the heck out of the pie; watching people one by one being spewed out of it's stomach until the pie shrunk to a normal size pie. Once the pie was weakened, Mordecai 'took out the trash' and the pie was smashed on the side of a garbage truck. After everything seemed to be back to normal, we found out that the monopoly guy won again. I felt happy for him but I feel bad that Mordecai had to tell Margaret how bad her pie was. She took it rather hard too; especially since I got second place

"I'm not going to cook ever again" Margaret said packing up her stuff. Honestly, half of me was happy with that comment but at the same time I didn't want to see Margaret so upset

"Margaret, it's ok" I said trying to console her

"No, it's not ok. I tried to make a pie and Mordecai hated it. Do you know how embarrassing that is?" She slammed her bubbling mess into the trash can and started to load her cookware into the trunk of her car "I can't believe that I can't cook something as simple as an apple pie"

"Margaret-" before I could say anything else, she drove off and I was left in a puff of smoke so I walked back to my booth and started to pack up my stuff

'Wow, I haven't seen her this upset. I wish I could do something to cheer her up'

When I finished packing my stuff in the rolling travel case I brought, I happened to spot Mordecai and Rigby cleaning the mess the monster made while I was walking out of the park

"Stupid pie; leaving all of this extra work to do. I hope I never see another pie ever again" Rigby said as he was dissembling one of the booths. That's when I saw a hand grab the last piece of pie I made that I was carrying. I looked over and saw Rigby taking a big bite out of it, then put the rest back in the tin "Ok, now I don't want to see another pie again"

'Well there goes the slice that I was saving for myself'

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When I got off the bus, I went straight to my apartment and put all of my cookware in the sink but as I was about to throw away the half eaten piece of pie, my mind started to wonder

'Even though I didn't get first place and Mordecai and Rigby weren't completely honest to everyone when they were judging the pie, I'm glad that they still thought my pie was good enough to make second place. Plus, Rigby of all people went back for seconds so today wasn't a total loss. However, I do feel bad that Margaret left the pie contest depressed over her pie. I have a feeling that she was somewhat trying to impress Mordecai with her cooking skills so I feel for her that her approach failed' I kept looking at the pie, questioning what I should do until an idea sprung in my brain

Not wasting any time, I grabbed a couple of apples and ran out the door

When I got to my destination, I rang the doorbell. It took a couple of time for her to answer but as soon as the door opened, I stormed right in

"Alright, today you learn how to make a pie..."

Dear Diary,

Washing my brain, washing my brain, that image is stuck in my head. Oh sorry diary, something happened an hour ago that I'm trying to forget but what happened earlier is worth writing about...

As Margaret and I were working in our combined shift, someone I didn't expect came through the door

"Hey Mole" It was Starla saying that horrid nickname rather loudly. Even though I wanted to ignore her, she was a potential customer and Margaret was busy in the kitchen so I had to take this one

"Yes?" I said

"You're coming to my one year anniversary party tomorrow at the roller rink" Starla told me sounding rather unstable

"What? Huh? Why?"

"Do I have to have a reason? Now give me a strawberry smoothie to go, I'm parched" She said shooing me away

"Ok? Anything else?"

"No"

"Alright, I'll be right back" I went back into the kitchen, gathering strawberries and other ingredient I would need for the smoothie

"Eileen, is everything alright? I thought I heard someone yelling" Margaret asked me while she was fixing up someone else's order

"You did and apparently I'm going to the roller rink tomorrow"

"Oh, cool, that sounds like fun"

"Would you like to come?" I asked her

"Hm, I don't think I have anything planned for tomorrow so sure, why not"

"Good, I didn't want to go by myself with Starla so-"

"Starla? Woah woah woah, what did I just agree to?"

"She's having an anniversary party tomorrow and-"

"Uhh, that means that Muscle Man is going to be there"

"But that also means that Mordecai might be there too" Margaret paused to think it over

"Ok, but if Muscle Man does something disgusting, I'm leaving"

"Thanks Margaret"

When I finished making Starla her smoothie and I left the kitchen and brought it to her

"Here's your smoothie...So Starla, is it ok if I bring a friend?"

"Yes" she said rather fast

"Good, so can I ask for some more details? You never said which roller rink and at what time so-"

"Oh, yes. It's the Rink O' Rama. It's a few streets down when you get off route 4; exit 59"

"I think I know where that is"

"Good, so you'll be there at 8pm"

"Well, I still need to work but I think I could swing 9pm"

"Fine, that'll work" She said getting up out of her seat with her smoothie "Bye" and as quick as she came in she was gone

I have to say that was weird, especially when Starla and I didn't see eye to eye back in high school but something told me that she seemed a little desperate when she came in here so even though my brain was screaming that this was a bad idea, I couldn't help but feel bad for her that she had to result to asking me to come to an event; despite our history. Well if anything happens, I was at least happy that Margaret would be there with me

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When 9:00pm the next night came around, Margaret and I arrived at the roller rink which is where we just so happened to Mordecai and Rigby in the parking lot

"Mordecai, Rigby hey" Margaret yelled as she got out of her car

"Margaret?" Mordecai said rather surprised

"What are you two doing here" Rigby said when we walked to them

"Starla invited us and-" I started to say until we were interrupted by someone

"Mole, you made it" It was Starla dressed up in a simple pink dress and skates "Come on, you already missed an hour of the party" She said pulling my hand and dragging me into the roller rink. She sat me down in a random table and paused as she tried to catch her breath

"Is everything ok, Starla?" I asked her

"No, everything is not, ok. This is one of the biggest days ever for me and everyone I invited canceled on me. Do you know how angry that makes me feel?"

"Well, technically Muscle Man is your main priority, right? So if he's here, should none of that matter?" I asked her

"That's true but I'm still mad that Muscle Man invited a whole bunch of people that cared enough to come while all I got were hang ups. Thinking about it makes me want to tear those b****es heads off"

"Well, if it means anything, I'm glad about your anniversary"

"I don't need your fake pity" She told me rather cold. That made me walk behind her and put my hand on her shoulder

"Who said it was fake" I said as I turned around and leaned on the table with my back to her "Anyone that could find someone that truly cares about them and could make that relationship last a whole year; I consider them to be very fortunate indeed. So don't let something trivial as that ruin your night. Enjoy yourself and the person that you're destined with" That's when I felt her hit my hip

"Uhhh, just go on and skate before you cause me to ruin my makeup" she told me so I walked away to where they distributed the skates...I could tell that I struck something. I just hope that she takes it to heart

As I finished paying for my skates, I heard someone yell my name

"Eileen" It was Mordecai with Rigby tagging along side him "There you are. Margaret has been looking all over for you"

"Well, Starla wanted to talk for some reason and-" I told them while I tied the skates onto my feet

"That's weird, why would she do that?" Rigby asked

"I have no idea but I know one thing, I have a pair of skates and I'm prepared to get in that rink and get my skate on" I said rolling past them "See you in the rink"

As eager as I was, I tested my skills on the rink slowly. I haven't skated in a while and I wanted to at least test to see if I still could. I rolled onto the wooden floor and it took me a minute to get the hang of it but eventually I could feel my skating abilities returning to memory; which was the simple 'stop and go without falling' skill

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After skating a couple of songs, I rolled out of the skating floor and my attention was soon drawn to an area that was selling minor trinkets but what caught my interests was the glow sticks

"Glow-in-the-dark-skate is almost about to start. Get a glow stick and shine like a star on the skating floor" I heard the vender said

"Sure, I'll purchase one" I told him

"Great, and so which one would you like?"

"I'll get this bracelet and this one and this one and this one and this one too"

"Ok, that'll be $7.50, Miss" I paid him the money and strapped two glow bracelets on my wrists, two on my ankles, and one slightly larger one around my waist

'This should make me bright enough'

So I rolled back onto the skating floor and just when my wheels hit the wood, I heard the DJ say

"Hey skaters, it's time for glow-in-the-dark-skate. All skaters without glow sticks, please exit the skating area" After a minute passed, the lights went out and a song started to play. A new song that I found myself starting to get addicted to lately. I felt my shoulders starting to shimmy with the beat of the guitar and my feet skated double time to the piano part…oh no. All I had to hear was

"Like the legend of the phoenix…" and I was gone [3]

Rigby POV:

"I remember this" I said as I reached for my phone and pulled up a video I posted on YouTube. I clicked on Skating To Get Lucky and watched the video of Eileen danced on the skating floor...I remember when I first saw her out there. She was moving kind of erotic but she smoothed out as she continuously passed people; dancing to the slow rhythm

I fast-forward to the bridge where some guy dropped his glow sticks on a string. That's when Eileen scooped them up and started drawing designing while skating close to the center; looking like a laser light disco ball. By this time, some people were skating to the edge of the skating area so they could watch too because most people thought that this was a random performance the skating rink planned

We continued to watch as she swing n' swayed around the rink while twirling the glow sticks. However, she surprised us when the last chorus was playing, when she was skating backwards. Mind you, there were still people skating and she was so close to hitting one of them too until she jumped and did a backward flip over the guy while landing into a split (still skating backwards)

When she came to the curved edge of the rink, she straightened up and turned the first corner but she didn't turn the second corner as the song faded out and she slammed right into the wall barrier right next to me. Somehow, she didn't fall and still held onto the wall like she 'meant to do that'

As the video continued to play, I found myself closing my eyes at the last two seconds where you could faintly hear her say

'How was that?'

I put away the book and my phone and meditated on that. Even though it was a little over a year ago, it was still fresh in my mind…the way she tilted her glasses in the dark like that

"Damn, her beautiful brown eyes" I whispered into the air "I hate the fact that she knows that they are somewhat my weakness…well, I think it's about time that I repay her for using that against me, huh"

I looked at the clock and it showed that it was 11:00am

'Wow, time sure flies. I would have suspected Benson to be busting through my door by now. He must be still sick or something. Oh well, suck to be him'

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After I got myself ready, I grabbed the things I would need and ran like lightning to the Coffee Shop. It was still a bit cloudy out but at least the rain finally stopped

When I opened the doors, I saw the new waitress but I didn't see Eileen

'I guess I came too early'

"Hey, Rigby"

"Hi" I said not really interested in talking to her

"Can you believe the storm we had yesterday? It was so crazy that it cause a tree to land on my new car"

"Yeah, that's fascinating and all but can you get me an espresso or something" I said trying to give her an excuse to leave

"Okay?" She left with my order and I sat there waiting for Eileen to show up

When she was taking too long, I decided that I would go to the bathroom and plan out my strategy which was something simple that involved an MP3 Player and an unexpected audience of random customers

Once I checked to see that my MP3 was charged and I had the right song, I left the bathroom but before I walked all the way down the stairs, I heard Eileen's voice

"Wow Tuck, long time, no see" I ran back up the stairs before she could see me and hid at a distance that I could still hear their conversation "Is everything ok?"

"I guess…can you get me a cappuccino?" he said kind of sad but mixed with a bit of exhaustion. I leaned over just an inch to see him with his hand cupping his face as he stared in the direction where Eileen would be brewing coffee

'Damn, I wish they would hurry up. I definitely can't do this with Tuck around'

When she came back with his cappuccino, she sat down across from him and started to talk to him again. That's when I ducked back behind the wall

"So what's up" She asked him

"Well, I have a message for you"

"From father" she said sounding anxious

"Well, you remember when he mentioned college right?"

"Oh, don't tell me he-"

"Yep, apparently hanging up on him wasn't the best thing to do, Eileen"

"I know but he could be so stubborn sometimes"

"But I don't get it" Tuck's voice started to sound more worried and serious at this point as they continued their conversation "Why wouldn't you want to go? You could finally learn how to put your sewing skills to good use and not to mention that your dad found two scholarships that would help pay for your expenses. Plus, we'll be able to see each other more"

"I know but I just can't"

I took a peek and I saw her look at her hands; looking like she was really depressed

"I know it seems like your dad is being pushy on this matter but I agree with him on this one. This may be a big step for you but you shouldn't be so apprehensive. After all, this is a chance that you could better yourself. You may not know this but it worries the both us that you're struggling to make ends meet and you're burning yourself out on this dead job…You have so much potential and yet you want to settle" That's when I heard a stool move across the floor "Well, I have to run but please think about what we said because you only have three days left"

With that, I heard the ding of the front door so I guess he left. I questioned myself whether I should go down there. The mood for revenge had long been killed and I just wanted to go home but something stopped my train of thought when I heard her say to herself

"I want to go…I need to go…but I…I…I…maybe their right"

That's when I felt my legs grow weak and I slid down the wall until I was sitting on the floor. I tucked my head in my knees as those words played over and over in my head

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I don't know when I got home but I found myself walking through the front door and being greeted with a punch to my arm. The force was so great that I hit the wall

"Think I was going to forget about you drawing on my face this morning? Really, what is your deal-" I slowly was tuning Mordecai out as I slowly got myself together and walked up the stairs

I didn't bother to turn on the lights as I closed the door of our room. I just laid there on my trampoline with my eyes staring at the ceiling while my mind continued to overflow with questions

'Damn it. Why am I sweating over this? She never said that she's leaving and even if she is, it's not like I care. It's not any of my business that she wants to go to college'

'Where she'll see Tuck more?'

'Uhhh, what do you want now!?' I said to my annoying conscience

'You haven't made the connection yet, did you?'

'What connection?'

'She'll be able to see Tuck more. That means that she'll be going to the same college that Tuck goes to'

'So what?'

'That means, you-know-who will be there too'

'Chad, so what? She already sees him all of the time anyway'

'But if she sees less of you and more of him, then just may be-'

'Why would that matter. It's not like I care?'

'Well if you didn't care about her, then why are you moping around here right now?'

'I don't care about her! I don't care that she's going to college. I don't care that I'll barely see her. And I definitely don't care that she might find a new love interest'

'I'll believe that when pigs fly'

"SHUT UP! Just shut up" I found myself yelling as I turned over in my trampoline in frustration. When I shifted a little, I found that stupid diary poking my side. Mad that it was making me uncomfortable, I was almost about to throw it somewhere but I stopped

'I'm so tired of you and everyone else thinking that I like her…well come tomorrow I'm going to prove to everyone that I don't'

~NEXT DAY~

It took hours for sleep to overtake me and even then it was dreamless because the war in my mind wouldn't cease. My conscience knew what I was planning and he wouldn't stop at nothing to bring it to a halt but I was going to go through with this whether it liked it or not

"Rigby, get up. It's time to got to work" Mordecai said when he got out of the shower

"Yeah, whatever" I said as I walked past him into the bathroom

I didn't take much of a bath when I climbed into the shower. I just stood there and let the water cascade on my body while my mind still raced about what was to come

'I told you, I don't care about her!'

'So I guess seeing her almost die didn't have an effect on you?' Memories started to spring in my head but I quickly dashed them 'And what about all of those times you had when you actually enjoyed her company…don't tell me that you're not going to miss that? Go through with this and its sure to ruin anything you had with her'

'Just stop it. There was nothing between us. It was always Mordecai bunching us together anyway'

'But it wasn't' I started to think back to about a few months ago when Margaret left and Mordecai was in his depressed-mode…and how I found myself going to the Coffee Shop, just talking to her about how frustrated I was with him. Then I thought back to two days ago when we played Blizzard Racers...I could hear the deep sigh I made echo in the small tiled space. It was full of stress, anxiety and also sorrow

'This is why I have to do this' I told myself

'Ok, now I'm confused'

'Of course, so am I, but all will be made clear come lunchtime'

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Surprisingly, Benson didn't have that much work for us to do in particular. It was just to pick up the trash and debris that was scattered all over the park due to the storm two days ago. However, the amount of work wasn't the main thing on my mind...

"Dude, are you feeling ok? You don't look so good" Mordecai told me when we were just about finishing up

"I'm fine. I just didn't sleep well last night" I told him

"Oh, well hopefully Benson won't give us more work after this so you might be able to get a nap in" He said as he loaded the last bag into the dumpster

"Nah, as a matter of fact, I have somewhere to be" I said about to leave

"Alright. Be careful"

After saying bye to Mordecai, I made my way to the Coffee Shop when I knew that the new waitress was on her shift and Eileen wasn't. I walked through the door and I was greeted by her as usually but when I sat down, she could tell that something was up

"Is everything ok, Rigby? I usually don't see you this down" Even though it seemed so simple in my head, now that the time had come, I could feel my palms sweat with anxiety as I was having second thoughts. While my mind began to race, she pulled up a stool and sat across from me and asked "Is it something about Eileen?"

The shock that she nailing it caused me to snap out of my daze and I proceeded with my plan

"Can I ask you for a favor?" I asked her

"Sure, Rigby. What is it?"

"Don't slap me"

"Why would I-" Before she could finish, I pulled her in close and kissed her. Even though it lasted for a second, it seemed like forever as my mind wondering what I was feeling but before I could declare it, she pulled away. I could tell that she was blushing but not out of affection "What the heck, Rigby. What was-" As she was scolding me, she happened to turn her head and she saw someone that made her freeze in fear "Oh no…wait"

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A/N: OH NO! It looks like Rigby has done something rash and looking at Chapter 11…the tension only gets worse

P.S. Did anyone get the Adventure Time reference?

P.S.S. Did anyone ever wonder who the new waitress is? Well you should. Her identity will be revealed in the next chapter

[1] Big MacFarms=McDonalds...anyone remember those play places they use to have in the restaurants? Too bad they don't have them anymore

[2] Praise Me-Lyndonna=Applause by Lady Gaga

[3] The first time I heard 'Daft Punk-Get Lucky' I immediately thought that it was a perfect skating song and I was like "Bald Spot…why not"

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