'Ello! I'm on a writing binge today, woo! So you get a not-late update! Woo!
Don't get used to it.
KOTLCgirlSoKeefe: Thanks! I'll try! :D
L: Haha, that one was probably my favorite too. Tam is such a mood. And yeah, they did! Lol. Poor Dexy. Thanks!
Jem: Yay! Thanks.
Country-Fangirl: Thanks! You're in luck, because those are two things I excel at! XD.
Alright, enjoy!
"Hi everyone, welcome to today's Fourth Wall Break book club meeting!" Sophie announced, starting the Zoom meeting.
"The book club has an official name now?" Dex asked.
"I think the real question is, you chose to name it 'Fourth Wall Break book club'?" Biana said.
"What? It's a great name. Very accurate," Sophie argued. Indeed it was. The ultimate fangirl was too lazy to count each fourth wall break, but it was quite a lot. Even the cover displayed a picture of a fourth wall break! There could not be a better book club name for a club that broke the fourth wall about breaking the fourth wall.
"Well, as the official stuff namer-" Keefe started.
Fitz interrupted him. "When did we make that official?"
"We didn't," Sophie answered for Keefe.
"It's been implied!" Keefe exclaimed. "Think of all the nicknames I've given you, Foster!"
Sophie rubbed her temples, sighing. "I prefer not to."
Keefe ignored that. "Well, there's Foster, Mysterious Miss F, Ultimate Splotching Champion, Girl Who Dropped Bronte on His Grumpy Butt, Lady Lectures-a-lot, Little Miss Heartbreaker, The Foster of Many Floods-"
"We get the idea," Dex interrupted.
Ignoring him- though whether it was because of Dex's irrelevance or Keefe's determination to list each one was unclear- Keefe continued. "Foster Grumpypants, Captain Mood Swing-"
"We get it!" Sophie exclaimed, muting him. "You like giving things nicknames."
INDEED I DO, Keefe put in the chat.
"Can we just get started?" Linh said.
"Can I just leave?" Tam offered.
"Yes to Linh, no to Tam," Sophie decided. "Today's question, to make it interesting, is what was your least favorite scene?"
"Ooh, that's a good question!" Biana said. "I'll have to think about that a bit more. Oh wait, maybe it was that time when I nearly died and got a myriad of scars on my shoulders. Or, you know, that week when Sophie was slightly mad at Keefe because it was bad for my OTP. Yeah, that one was definitely worse."
"Yeah, some answers are pretty obvious," Tam agreed. "Does that mean we don't have to answer?"
"Nice try. What do you think, Tam?"
Tam groaned. "I guess I kind of walked into that. Probably when I decided to say something nice to Keefe, that I wasn't mad about him joining the Neverseen. I mean, the horrors it did for my salty reputation! And our statues as enemies! People ship us, Sophie! They ship us! Do you even realize how awful that is? That would be if you were, like, shipped with Stina!"
"I think people actually do that," Sophie said thoughtfully. "Though Dex plus Stina is way more common, as is Biana plus Stina."
"Right, but doesn't it infuriate you that you're shipped with your sworn enemy?"
"Actually, I think my sworn enemy is more along the lines of Fintan. You know, the guy who actually tried to kill me?"
"All of you fail to comprehend how terrible that scene is! Keefe, you must agree. Back me up here!"
Keefe nodded vehemently. "Yeah, that was an awful scene. Us, almost acting like friends? BLEH! And shipping us is even worse."
"They're agreeing with each other," Biana stage whispered.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Tam screamed.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Keefe screamed at the same time.
"Aww, they're still in agreement!" Linh squealed. "So much for sworn enemies."
Tam, in his rage, began throwing saltshakers while Keefe therapeutically messed up his hair. Excuse me, Hair. Both boys had extremely odd ways to deal with anger- another similarity between them!
Sophie muted them both. "Um, Fitz, what do you think?"
"Hmm..." Fitz pondered the question. "I would say the worst is any scene that has my traitor of a brother in it. Except for the one where he was almost dead, that was good. Oh, and the scene where Keefe gives Sophie the paintings wasn't great either."
"I love those paintings!" Sophie exclaimed. "Why do you hate them?"
"You called Keefe the master of gifts or something like that," Fitz explained.
Keefe, who had evidently calmed from his rage, unmuted himself. "Yeah, because I am!"
I am the master of gifts! Me! Do you know how many baked goods I've given you!? It's a lot! And that teal heart necklace! And you had the nerve to suggest I wasn't the gift master? Hmmph."
"Oooookayyy..." Sophie said. "Linh?"
"Probably when Biana got hurt," Linh answered. "I thought she was dead- it was terrifying."
"Look at that!" Marella exclaimed. "An answer that doesn't spark a way-off-topic and insane conversation. Mine was when I manifested as a pyrokinetic. That wasn't fun."
"On the plus side, you get to scream 'THIS GIRL IS ON FIIIIIIRREEEEEEE!' at random intervals," Dex offered.
Marella shrugged. "True." She cleared her throat. "THIS GIRL IS ON FIIIIIIIIIREEEEE!" she screamed, igniting her hands and waving them around.
"Aaaaand, back to the insanity," Sophie declared. She muted Marella. "Keefe?"
"Hmm. I didn't like the part where I got stabbed. Or where you were mad at me. Or pretty much any time the color teal was mentioned. Or when my mother tried to kill us all. Or when I was forced to go to the Waves of Wimpiness. Or-"
"We get it, that wasn't a great book for you," Tam interrupted, flopped in a room full of saltshakers, but mostly calm.
"Hmm. Would it be wrong to say the whole eight hundred pages, then?" Keefe asked. "Wait, I did like some parts- like when I proved myself as the gift master- so I guess not. Maybe seven hundred fifty of the eight hundred?"
"I think that's a good estimate," said Dex. "My least favorite scene- can anyone guess?"
"You were in some of the scenes?" Biana asked, brow furrowed. She wasn't trying to offend Dex, but it was just fact that a majority of the Nightfall scenes were Dex-less (and therefore, worthless).
Dex let out a long sigh.
"When you were told to stay behind and work on the gadgets?" Fitz guessed.
Dex sighed again and shook his head no.
"Um... the triplets do anything to prank you?" Linh said.
"Guys! The crush cuffs scene! With the failed kiss!" Dex exclaimed, annoyed with those morons for forgetting. Then again, maybe that was a good thing, that they didn't remember his humiliation much. Not that being completely forgotten was much better.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," everyone else said together.
"Yeah, Sophie, that is not how you reject someone," Marella added.
Sophie's cheeks reddened. "I get it! I'm bad with romantic stuff! Which is pretty bad for a main character in a series starting to be more romance than actual plot! And I'm super oblivious! I get it!"
"At least you know your flaws," Biana said. "That's the first step to overcoming them."
Sophie groaned. "Anyway, my least favorite scene was, of course, almost dying."
"You'll have to narrow it down some," Tam said.
"All of the times I almost died."
"So, the whole eight hundred pages again?" Fitz suggested.
Sophie shrugged. "Yeah, pretty much. So, everyone's answered, but I was wondering if you all read the Keefe short story?"
"Which, for all my readers, can be found on Shannon Messenger dot com under 'Fun Extras,'" the ultimate fangirl jumped in.
"Um, yes. Thank you. So, has everyone read it?" Sophie asked. Everyone nodded. "Great! Shall we discuss that?"
Linh, Marella, and Biana looked at each other. Then they all started squealing, pterodactyl screeching, and saying things like "ASDFGHJKL!", which Sophie wasn't even sure how they pronounced.
Fitz rolled his eyes. "Don't mind the fangirls."
"Mind the fangirls!" the ultimate fangirl argued. "Fangirls are awesome! Linh, Marella, Biana- good job! You're becoming one of us! I couldn't be prouder!"
"Anyway, I guess the story was alright?" Keefe said. "What I'm confused about is how this Shannon Messenger person found out what I was thinking."
"Author's know everything," the ultimate fangirl said mysteriously. "And most of us end up getting attached to the side characters more than the main one."
"Hmm," said Keefe. "Sophie, what did you think?"
Sophie blushed furiously.
"I guess that's our answer," Keefe said.
Sophie turned off her video. "Fitz, what did you think?"
"I didn't like it much. Too much Keephie. Is there a Fitz short story?"
Sophie nodded. "After the next book, Flashback. And I think that's everyone..."
"Um, no," said Dex. "I'm mostly indifferent about the story. Though I'd like to point out that I never got one, in any of the books."
Marella shrugged. "Neither have any of the girls. Only Sophie's love interests do. And Tam, probably because he was in the Neverseen and that's interesting or something?"
"Okay, now we're spoiling the next books. Shall we reconvene next month for Flashback?" Sophie said.
Everyone nodded.
"Okay, bye!"
MEETING HAS BEEN ENDED BY HOST.
Okay, hope you liked that one! Flashback update should come at the end of August, right on schedule. Please review!
