Chapter Twenty Seven - Hangover Heaven


Hilarity woke up, only to find herself lying on a carpet with someone else lying across her legs and another person next to her. And as it happened she spent a few blissful seconds wondering who the hell they were before the tremendous hangover set in!!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" her scream echoed across the entire Island.

"Wot? WheramI? I don't wanna go to school!" Thomas mumbled inaudibly as he woke up then emitted a similar scream for the very same reason.

"Well well, if it isn't the hung-over heartbreakers." said Jareth smugly and stood up "Are you finished screaming yet? Cause it's breakfast time and I'm in the mood for a nice big fry up." the two aliens groaned loudly "You know, really fatty sausages wit bits of gristle in them and fried eggs that aren't quite cooked with the wobbly white bits" another groan "all congealing together with mushrooms on the side..."

"You BASTARD!!!!" screamed Hilarity and quickly covered her mouth and raced Thomas to the nearest toilette....

"Feeling better?" the goblin King asked evilly when Hilarity came downstairs half an hour later looking considerably crap.

"You know, this is why I don't like it when you stay round my house, Jareth!" she snarled. "And after all the fuss you made when you had a hangover!"

"Yeah but I don't have one now. That means I can torture you again."

"You've still got you're hair in pigtails though!" Hilarity laughed, relishing the small victory. "I doubt that school girls are very good at torturing."

"Oh crap!!!" said Jareth angrily as he tried to undo the unfortunate hairstyle he had acquired the night before. "It seemed like a good idea at the time!"

Just then Thomas shuffled downstairs looking even more worse for wear than he usually did.

"Oh Tom! I'm so sorry, you fell off the wagon! I completely forgot!" cried Hilarity.

"Never mind. I'll just have to try harder next time." the dishevelled alien replied. "So are we going to go on this treasure hunt or what?" and he pulled a rather crumpled map from his trouser pocket.

"Oh yeah! That old thing!" said Jareth.

"Christ! I'd almost forgotten about that as well." said Hilarity "Well, we have been at sea for the past four months, you lose track of things."

"Anyway, we better tidy up and get out of here before the owner gets back." said Thomas.

"You know what I'm seriously not in the mood for treasure hunting right now." said Hilarity, massaging her throbbing temples.

"Oh come on! The Island's not that big. How hard could it be?" said Jareth....
"How hard can it be! HOW HARD CAN IT BE?!!" Hilarity shouted angrily from somewhere in the undergrowth. "It's bloody impossible! That's how hard it is!!!" they had been lost in the jungle for most of the day and were still no closer to their destination. To make matters even worse, Boris insisted on following them.

"OK! So I underestimated this place." said Jareth defensively "Hmmm.... Maybe I could put a forest bit in my Labyrinth...."

"You've already got one!"

"Oh yeah! I'd forget my head if it wasn't screwed on, must be the humidity." said the Goblin King "Now according to the map.... this part of the Island doesn't exist!"

"Well that's a lot of help, isn't it?" said Hilarity sarcastically.

"The map's got to be at least three hundred years old, you can't expect it to be that accurate." Jareth argued. "And what's wrong with that stupid Goblin?"

"I think I haf been bitten by somethingk!" said Boris who was now shivering even though it was nearly forty degrees. "And now it seems I haf some sort of horrible disease!"

"Oh damn it!" Hilarity swore "Well, I'm sure if we press on we'll find a cure for it."

/Is this the end for our heroes? Are they doomed to be lost in the forest for all eternity? Will Boris survive his new case of Jungle Flu? Will Thomas manage to stay on the wagon? Will Hilarity's hangover ever end? Will they realise that they are now the stars of the galaxy's favourite new reality TV show?! Find out soon/

"Oi! Who are you?" said Hilarity.

/Ooops! Gotta go!/