Dear Diary,
Well, the planet has a king, a queen, two heirs to the throne, and... There is someone else... I just can't seem to remember who... Oh yeah. The godmother got proposed to six times when she went with her friend, Sonny, to get her green card to stay in Transylvania. It's similar to Earth... Except these planets are like Earth countries.
When we were there, I was proposed to six effen times! I still can't get over it! A few of them were cute, one even from Earth. I had to turn them down, it was just... I want it to be love, not just to help them get a green card. I mean, Eddie and I... We were engaged. Magenta, I know you're reading this, just don't say anything. Not to me, not to Riff, not to Nattie, not to ANYBODY! I mean it, Magenta! Don't make me use your full name! I threaten the dogs! It's just... I couldn't say anything, Frank forbid me. Yes, I told Frank. I felt like I had to. I was just his groupie, but it was a commitment. In a way... And he was there for me, when he picked me up off the streets, he fed me, gave me my clothes, makeup, nail polish, hair dye, and an allowance. Now, that makes me sound like a prostitute, but it's true. Just... Pocket money. For me to buy my own clothes, movies, play tickets, records, and to pay for my dancing classes. He would've paid for them if he knew, but I wanted to surprise him. So I just made up about some Earthling disease, and he bought that I had to dance to keep healthy. I'm blabbing on again, aren't I? I'm truly sorry, Genta, just don't tell anyone. We were going to keep it a secret, just go and get married somewhere like Vegas. I read all the notes you send me, it's like we don't really communicate outside of my journal anymore. But it's easier. We discuss so many... Awkward things.
"Columbia. Genta wants you." Riff stood outside my door, because I had my head buried in a magazine. They have really good fashion, diary. Here on their planet. All... Unique.
"Why do you hate me?" I looked up, and he was confused and offended at the same time.
"Well," he said, sitting on the cushion next to me, and looked at me, still a little confused. "What would make you think that?"
"I don't know. It just... Forget about it. You said Genta wanted me?" I got up, and headed towards the door. It was silence except for my footsteps, even the dogs had stopped barking. It was easy for him to break the silence.
"What? Forget about what?" He got up to, and he was behind me.
"Nothing really."
"Fine." He looked down. "I do hate you, but not really. You... Are like a sister to me. Not a sister like Genta, but a sister. Like a younger sibling, that kind of hate. But when you stole my Genta, that was the last straw. I just hated you. I guess... It had been building up, ever since you were scared and we thought Genta should room with you." He looked up at me, and he was kind of tearing up. I knew it was most likely a load of shit, but I went with it.
"Aw!" I hugged him around the neck. "Can I call you Riffy?"
"No." He smiled at me and unattached my arms from his neck. "I imagine she still wants you."
I walked down the stairs, Genta didn't even look up from cooking, jamming her thumb over her shoulder into the conference room. I had been over to their house, cause I'm always lonely when Nellie is at work. I saw Sonny on the screen. "Collie! I thought you were just gonna ignore me!" Sonny is about fifteen, but she is short. Her face looks like she could be twenty, though.
"No, I'm here!" I sat down on the loveseat.
"It feels so weird dialing the royal residence... Even better of a feeling to have me in your phone book. I feel so important... Like a general! Or maybe a-"
"Does this conversation have a point?"
"Oh yeah! I met this girl at the bar! She looke-"
"How did you get into a bar!"
"Fake ID! Duh-huh! And cut me off a lot today! But, she looked a lot like that girl, Janet Majors, and she looked really slutty." I laughed a little, and she just looked at me weird. "But I took a picture with her, she looks a little out of it, so I got her address too. She's saying at a motel." She held a picture of them up, it was unmistakably Janet. I could also tell it was Sonny, with her bright purple hair, and matching eyes. I think she has contacts.
I had run out of the room though, as soon as I saw Janet. I dragged her in, and she still had a whisk in her hand. "Ouch! I swear to god Columbia. If-" But she cut off when I pointed at the picture. She was calm. "Sonny. Is that you in the photograph?"
"Mm-hmm." She rolled her eyes.
"Could y-you bring the lady with you in the lict-pict...ure over here, as soon as possible?" She was sweating, and was getting blue.
"Columbia, fix the queen. I'll get her down there." Magenta glared at the monitor now, and Sonny noticed. "Um.. Bye." She hung up quickly.
"How could she get here?" I looked up at her, and she was turning blue again, and I shook her. "How?" I almost whispered, that was all I could muster.
"She- She probably followed us. Found the hotel, took it here. I remember her, but I didn't say anything, I thought I was letting nerves go to my head. Let s go to the hall, wait there." We walked in silence.
"Hey!" Sonny broke the silence, but we could only see the pixilated version of her, and what looked like a pixilated version of Janet. After they formed, Janet looked horrible. Hollow eyes, and cheekbones. She hadn't had much to eat, you could tell. Like you could see her bones. Even her breasts, gone. What little fat, gone. Except on her stomach, but she was wearing baggy clothes, so it was hard to tell. Like a hollow shell of herself. It was silence again, but Janet broke it.
"Magenta. Long time no see." Genta nodded her head, still looking her skeleton up and down. "But Columbia. Didn't I see you in..." She swallowed back tears. "Dentonvale?"
"Yes. Genta, could you make us some tea?"
"Sure." She nodded at me, and I could tell she was grateful I got her out of the room.
I led Janet and Sonny down the corridor, into a sitting room. We sat down, and I was tapping my foot, when I realized it was my turn to talk. "Janet." I said breathlessly. "How are you?"
"This little beast is eating me alive. I throw up everything." She lifted up her shirt, and I saw a bump, like she was about four months pregnant.
I gasped, and Sonny just nodded. And... I've taken up a page, so I'll continue this.
-Collie, who at this point was as freaked as hell.
A/N And... I put Janet in here. It will end... Well. Janet fans... You might be happy. Don't doubt me now! I think... It's a good plan.
