Hey everybody! I FINALLY updated. I know it's been a while, but life's been- shall we say, a nightmare. No, not really that bad, but between school, and, well, school, that's enough to ruin one's day. And, Erin, if you read this, well, at least you didn't freak out and stuff on FF.Net. But- Just, next time, you can just call me up to freak out, not do it on the net where everyone can read our cousinly rivalry.

K, here it goes, but first a few words of advice:

If your going as a a purple people eater for halloween, wear purple, not green. (personal experience. Well, actually my cousin Erin's. NEWay, that was revenge for flaming me on N.Com. AND saying my full name. Grrrrrrr)

If you don't like spaghetti, don't eat it.

Dogs bark, cats meow, and snakes hiss. People eat. Pickles.

Pickles are green and pickely and taste really good.

If we could just get along with our vegetable counter parts, the world would be a better place.

Love your Aardvark, and everything will be alright.

Okay, without further adu, the chapter:

Penny triumphantly licked her fingers, "Guess who's paying tonight! And you haven't even finished the body!"

Chelsea glared, "At least I have half a brain."

"Gee, I don't seem to remember it being I who got a 'C' on that third grade science test- and the fourth grade one- and the fifth grade one- and the sixth grade one, cuz you know I come up here to visit you and take 'em for fun, and a certain someone got a 'D' on the seventh grade one..."

"Yeah. That was my brother."

"Sorry, I never could tell you two apart."

"PENNY!"

Watching their friendly bickering, to which the other girls had just added their voices, Rudy felt a strange sense of isolation. And then it hit him. That same isolation was what Penny had felt most of the time watching him and Snap in Chalkzone. She was just as out of place. A new environment, new people, a new life. Was this what it was like for her, moving from place to place, just hanging out with whoever would accept her, but feeling like she was sitting on the other side of the room, not even there. Rudy heard his name, and snapped back to life.

"And now, I spend lunch trying to get Rudy to do his homework instead of drawing." Some how the conversation had veered toward this.

"Ahh, but what about all of those times that I drew to help you? or have you so conveniently forgotten those? Maybe a certain giant jellybean would refresh your memory..."

Penny burst out laughing, "Ahh, but it was you who drew the evil jellybean in the first place."

"It wasn't supposed to look like that!"

The other girls looked utterly lost. It was quite obvious thay Penny had told the, virtually nothing about Chalkzone, and she didn't plan to.

"So, what do you think of the Pinetree State?"

"It's--- different." All the girls laughed again. Then they started off on a long list.

"Ahh, but this is just Freeport. There's Bangor, and Acadia, and the Bay of Fundy."

"And Bar Harbor."

"Acadia. Same diffrerence."

"And, of course, the Gateway to Maine."

"SHe means Calais."

"And there's Meddybemps!!!" They all finished together.

"Meddybemps?" rudy asked.

"Our home town. And my Mom asked your mom, and your going there."

"WHAT!?!"

AN: Thanks everyone for reviewing. Your reviews really do help. Through this fic thingy, I'm going to be naming various lake towns that are found around the calais region (like Meddybemps, and Pochamoonshine, Nevada Lake, etc, etc). I have not been to all of them, just got some of them off of the atlas for lack of places, but most of them have the same characteristics.

ElvenQueenWren

I love my Aardvark, My Aardvark Loves Me, I Love My Aardvark By the Juniper tree My Little Aardvark goes: Oi, da dee oi da dee oi da dee oi da dee doid.