I am sorry. I went over to my cousin's house, they're internet is so bad! So I was all tired, So..I am so sorry If you wanted Do or Donut, I ain't doing it...
Pollyanna twisted the faucet on the local water pump and cleaned off her hands and arms. It was really fun, rolling in the sand. She saw a familiar capped magical dude. "Hey, Polly!" Ness called, running over to her. She turned it off and looked at him. He had a goofy grin on and one hand behind his back. He held out a cup of red fries. "Wanna try some special new french fries?" She reached into the cup, always happy to try new things. She looked at the few she picked up and threw them in her mouth. Ness snickered as she spit them out. 'Hot! hot!" She fanned her tongue and looked for anything to sooth the burn. Ness laughed and held up a vial with red grains in them. "They're "special", because they're seasoned with Fire Salt!" She desperately turned the vial, only for it to break.
She got up and ran to the closet building, the Big Donut. She burst in, catching Kumatora's and Duster's attention. She ran to the soda machine and turned it on, letting the cold drink sooth her tongue. But she also got Pop everywhere. She slumped down, laying on the ground. Her clothes were sticky. Kumatora ran over and began to walk to her. 'Polly! What are you doi-" She was cut off by slipping on the soda, falling onto her side. "Sowwy, Kuma.." Her tongue burnt to much to properly pronounce the 'R'
She got up and held her back, to which it was sore. "Pollyanna, ugh..Who do you think has to clean up this mess?" She turned to Duster. "Duster, clean up this mess." He sat two boxes of donuts down on the counter. "No way! I cleaned up the last 5 'Polly's'!" Kumatora looked at him with puppy eyes. "Aw, come on. That fall messed up my back…"She rubbed it. "It hurts real bad …" His brown eyes softened but he rolled them.
He grabbed a mop and a bucket. "Fine..move aside." He placed them on the ground, not noticing Pollyanna move. "Can you go get the soap?" Kumatora contorted in pain, obviously exaggerating. "Oh! It hurts! Sooo much!" He looked at her with concern. "Maybe you should take the day off…" He spoke softly. She snapped upright, and spoke. "Okay! You gonna be fine on your own?" Duster spoke. "Well, I guess so but-" She began to walk out. "You're the best Player Two!" She left. Duster sighed, happy. But he soon realized. "I can't run this place by myself!" He saw the small girl walk up and place a pile of napkins on the pile. "I can help!" She looked the brunet. "This place gives me so many donuts and smiles! It's time for me to pay back."
Duster handed her a shirt. She slid it on over her shirt and he said. "I hereby deputize you as "Kumatora-for-the-day". He grabbed her shoulder."Now,it's time I showed you the Employee Room." He leads her to the back, which is populated by several large supply boxes on the right, over a dozen Donut boxes lining the back left, and a CRT TV, two folding chairs and a small circular table furnishing the front left. Pollyanna, like most children allowed in a private room, gasp. "It's the most Magical place I've ever seen!" Duster doubted that, but he smiled at her anyways. "Here, let me give you the tour." He pointed to the wall of boxes. "These are the extra supplies: Cups, plastic silverware..sometimes I sleep on the napkins when I get tired." She immediately asked. "Is that why they're called, napkins?" Duster shook his head. "Not really, no." But he did chuckled lightly and ruffle her surprisingly soft hair. "Good joke, though." They turned around. Duster gestured to the table. "On breaks, we chill out here." He flicked his hand to the t.v "We can even watch television!" She smiled. Duster leaned in and whispered to her. "Sometimes, Kuma will cover for me so I can watch Canine Court." She zipped her lips it and flicked away the "Key"
They smiled at each other. Duster directed her to the final set of boxes. "And most importantly,The Donuts. They 're mailed in from some corporate bake-station." Pollyanna rose an eyebrow. "So, you don't bake them here?" His eyes shifted to a sugary, yet terrifying silhouette, yet to be cleaned. "N-no..Not since the accident."
Duster sat her down at the table and held up a VHS tape. "Now Polly, this job is a big responsibility, so you're gonna have to watch this video tape." She looked at the foreign object. "What Is that?" She asked, innocently. Duster held it with both hands. 'It's like a DVD shaped like a box, and it'll tell you everything you need to know." He slid it into the television.
A beat began to play, and the title read. "Do or donut." Clever. Pollyanna noticed the star was a young . Who's real name is Bud Carpainter. "Mr. Carpainter used to work here?" She asked Duster. "No, but he used a to a actor/R&B singer." Pollyanna soon became entranced in the song. With a slight swing of her feet, she enjoyed learning about the Heimlich maneuver, what to do in the event of fire and something called tax. With a dim light, Carpainter posed, and the song ended. Duster began to pull the tape. "Wow, that was great! Are all video tapes that informative?" Duster put the tape on top of the T.V. "In my experience..,yeah!" He smiled at her, today would be fun.
Pollyanna Gently grabbed a chocolate cream donut with a napkin and placed it in bag. "It started as a summer job, but that was two summers ago." Duster explained. He handed the bag to Mr. Fryman,who had Clement on his shoulders. Duster went to sit down for a moment. Pollyanna gasped when she saw Mr. Carpainter, trying to decide. "Hmm,I'll Have a.." Pollyanna cut him off, repeating the song. "Donuts! At the Big donut!" He smiled at the child and sang along. "They made the world go round~" He laughed. 'Wow." She leaned on the counter. "I can't believe you used to be actor/R&B singer!" His eyes dimmed. "Used to be?" He began to leave, but Duster could've sworn he heard the man mutter. "Kids these days, they don't know anything…" He chuckled and put his hand on his head. "Oh man. Last time somebody mentioned that song, we couldn't get him to leave.." He laughed.
She danced around, pouring a cup of coffee. "To perk up, you gotta percolate, a hot cup of coffee, makes the perfect day." She sang. She handed it to the teen. He gratefully took it. "Aw, thanks!" He began to joke. "Maybe I should phone up Kumatora to tell her that she can stay home, cause I found her replacement." He chuckled and took a sip of his coffee. "Really?!" Pollyanna gasped and looked at him, with a wide grin. Duster looked at her. "Oh, no. That was a joke." Her face fell. She balanced on the tips of her flats and said. "I know we both love Kumatora, but…" Duster nearly spit out his coffee. "This job is the best thing to ever happen to me and we should fire Kumatora." Duster shook his head. "We can't fire Kumatora." He tried to explain, but she delved. "Wait..Why not?" Duster began. "Well, you know, she may do things like come in late, and leave all the really hard work for me but…" She crossed her arms, that was her mental point. Duster looked at her, with hope for reason in his eyes.
"Look, I like Kumatora, she- she's a nice girl...once you get to know him. There was this one time when the new "Army of War" game was coming out, but Kuma was banned from the only place selling it."He paused to chuckle "She wanted it SO bad. So who does she beg to stand in line for SEVEN hours? Me." He barely noticed her soften and take a seat. "I didn't think much of it, but when I got to her house I saw she cleaned up her room a little, and she got a big box of String Cheese. They're my favorite. She let me be her Player Two, and we spent the whole night together." He stared, admirably, into his beverage. Pollyanna voice, sweet and calm now, brought him out of his stare. "Wow..that really is nice. Must've been a nice game."
"Yeah, it was." She twiddled with her fingers, feeling a bit bad for calling Kumatora out like that. "Hey, maybe we could do something nice for her?" Duster Smiled at her.
They walked down the way to Kumatora's house. Duster had a box of donuts in his hands and Pollyanna jumped around, singing. "Donuts! D-d-donuts! Donuts donuts donuts, donuts donuts donuts…" They walked up to ihs door. "I thought you wanted this to be a surprise? She can hear us a mile away." She stopped singing. "But the Donut Fever had fried my soul.." He rustled her hair, tossing it into a more wild style.
She moved her orange curtains aside and noticed that the Fish Stew Pizza car was in the street, right by his house. "Wait, aw man..She already ordered Pizza.." They heard 4 sets of laughter. They walked around the side of the house and saw Kumatora, Lloyd,Poo and Paula bouncing on the trampoline. Lloyd couldn't get back onto his feet, much to Poo's entertainment. Pollyanna leaned in and Duster took a step back. Lloyd managed to get to a still position. "Hey, Kuma. Thanks for inviting us over." He smiled, his glasses had long fallen off. She blushed, unnoticeable. "It's no problem,"She laughed, " 'cause I got the whole day off, by faking a severe back injury!" That earned hi-fives from Paula and Poo.
Pollyanna wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Ugh, she was faking this whole-" She turned around and saw Duster was shaking,. He was on the verge of tears. He noticed that he'd been caught in a vulnerable state and dropped the box, running off. He stopped in front of the car, his tears falling. Pollyanna caught him by the wrist. "Don't worry! Who..who needs crumby Kumatora?" He yanked himself free. "Pollyanna!" He cried, he reared back as if to hit the girl, but he put his hand down. "She's made a fool of me!" He grabbed his hair, covering his eyes with one hand. "Moron!" He yelled, at himself. Pollyanna looked distraught, watching her friend in pain. "She's burned me before…" He harshly grabbed his hair. "..just once I'd like to burn him back!" Pollyanna perked up. "I know how to burn people!" Duster looked confused. "Wait right here!" She was about to run off, before she stopped herself. "Hold on, this might take awhile, you should go home." She began to run to her house. "See you at work, tomorrow!" She called over her shoulder.
The next day, Duster sat in the back room, watching Canine Court and eating String Cheese. He dropped his snack once Pollyanna burst in with a plain donut and a red vial. "Burn,Burn people!" She put the tray on the table and opened the vial, about to pour it onto the donut. The brunet snatched it from the younger.
"You KNOW we can't add anything to the donuts!" He reprimanded. "It's just Fire Salt. I was..gonna prank Kumatora by putting a dash on a donut." He blushed, slightly. "She did really hurt my feelings...a little. But what kind of person does that make you, if you try to hurt her back?" She shifted uneasily over his disapproving glance and meekly answered. "Uh..a Hero?"
They heard the door opened and an exaggerated groan. Duster looked through the display case and saw Kumatora, holding her back. "Duster? I finally got out of bed but I don't think I can work today, either...Duster? Don't make me walk all the way to the break room." Duster's normally calm face turned angry as he poured the entire tube of salt onto the donut. "Duster!...This is gonna be hilarious." Kumatora straightened and put her hands on her hips. "Yo, Dust? Are you of all people slacking off?" Duster stepped out of the break room and looked emotionless. "Kumatora." He plainly greeted. "Hi, Kumatora!" Pollyanna greeted, her smile trying to get under control. "Why is ginger-snaps in a donut suit?" He walked over to the counter. "Don't worry about that. How's your back?" No concern was dropped into his voice. Kumatora put her hand on it. "Actually it still hurts like-"
"Really?" She waved her hand, dismissively. "No, no, its cool. I know I can count on you to help, "P2"." Duster nodded. "Sure. Just relax, in fact, why don't you have a donut?" He presented the Fire Salt donut. Pollyanna's grin spiraled out of her control as she attempted to keep it under-wraps by hiding her face. "Alright." Kumatora picked it up. "Oh careful. It's a little hot." Pollyanna began to snicker into her hand. Kumatora took a bite and said. "Wow, this is pretty good. Is it a new fla-" She was cut off by Pollyanna's loud laughter. "He..He said "It's Hot!"!" She howled. She rose an eyebrow before cupping a hand to her mouth. Tears welled in her eyes as she screamed.
A stream of flames burst from her mouth. Pollyanna yelped as Duster made a beeline for the fire extinguisher. "Pollyanna! Help her!" The child filled a cup with cold soda and handed it to the screaming teen. "Here! Drink this, Kuma!" She attempted to bring it to her mouth, but she couldn't fight her urge to held her burnt hand and made a dash to the door. "Kumatora! Wait!" Duster began to put out the fires. The sprinklers went off, drenching the two. "Pollyanna, I didn't want this…" She moved her wet hair aside. "I know how to fix this! We just need to get Kuma to calm down." Duster asked, nearly pleading to nothing. "How are we gonna find her?!" They ran outside and saw her leaving trails of fire. "I think she went this way!" Pollyanna and Duster followed, as fast as they could.
Mayor Dallaam stood next to a statue of himself. "...and of the many treasures of our wonderful city, this is certainly one of the sweetest." He gestured to a large sundae. "As Mayor, I'm proud to unveil this, the largest bowl of ice cream in Beach county! Yes, let's all scream-" He looked under his sleeve. "-For ice Cream" Kumatora, desperate, ran at the treat and dove into it, only for it to melt. She screamed and kept running. The mayor took out his phone. "Yeah, it melted Gary. …Well you should've said that at the meeting!" Pollyanna and Duster keep running.
Kumatora tripped in front of Funland Arcade. Pollyanna noticed Ness, standing in front of the place, eating the Fire Salt fries. "Ness!" He pointed to the teenager. "Why is the donut chick breathing fire?" She explained. "I tried to prank Kumatora with Fire Salt, but i used too much!" Ness looked at her seriously for a moment. "Polly...that's hilarious."
Kumatora looked towards her, struggling to talk. "You..did..this to me?!" Kumatora held her breath and ran at the girl, Ness watched and laughed.
"It wasn't Pollyanna!" Duster approached through the shadows of the fires. "It..it was me." He looked visibly distraught. Ness smiled. Oh, it's gettin' good! Kumatora released her grip on the younger's shirt, allowing her to run. "After all I do for you, you LIE to me? So you can sneak off with some other guys?!" Kumatora held her throat and appeared angry as tears of pain ran down her face. "And another girl!" He glared at the younger, making her squeal and hided behind her taken refuge..behind a pole. A small sob caught her attention. "That night we played video games, I don't know what it meant to you. But ever since then, I can't get the thought out of my head that you're a good person." Tears ran down his cheeks as he grabbed her hand and rubbed it gently with his thumb. "That night, I really thought. Player 2...Is that your way of saying I could've been anybody?"
Kumatora tried to talk, without breathing fire. "Du-ster." She coughed,smoke. Pollyanna noticed. "If a customer chokes on a donut…." She began to rush over to Kumatora. "State law requires that you assist them." She hugged her from behind. "Take both hand, right below the diaphragm!" They fell over, the fire donut coming out. Duster extinguished it and began to work on the other covered her dry mouth. "Another day, saved by Pollyanna Universe. With the bonus musical styles of Bud Carpainter. You..are welcome." She smiled. Kumatora put her hands in her pockets and walked over to Duster. He noticed that and said. "I'm not apologizing." She grabbed her throat and tried to speak. "No..No! I..wanted to ..I get it if you want to be alone." Duster gave her his attention. "Oh, no no no, stay. I me- I mean, you can help. But first let's get you some water and maybe get you out of those burnt shirts." He took her hand and lead her away. Pollyanna smiled, happy that they were okay. "Hey, we make a pretty good team." Ness stated as he finished off the cup of fries. "You were no help whatsoever!" Pollyanna called him out. He shrugged and threw the cup away. What a bunch of lightweights.
Once more..SORRY ;C. My Firefox is messing with my head, STOP WHITING OUT AND LET ME TYPE! So..Really sorry if this sucks. I'm tired.
I'll see y'all tommorrow for: Pollyanna and the Polly's!