Chapter 5- Pim's Moneymaking Scheme

-A few days later-

It was a rainy afternoon, and everybody was stuck at the hotel in one place or another. Barb and Lloyd had gone to the spa, and Phil and Keely were wandering the hotel. Pim was sitting in her hotel room extremely bored out of her mind. Then she got an idea. 'Hey,' she thought. 'There must be some way that I can con these 21st century knuckledragger hotel guests out of some money.' There were two things that Pim enjoyed more than anything- conning people out of money and annoying Phil. She looked through some of the gadgets they brought. "Replicator, nah. Invisispray, nah. Wizrd, nah. New Ager, hmm…" She remembered a time, about a month after Phil and Keely used the New Ager, where she was looking through some holograms. She saw the whole entire thing on hologram, from when Keely became 25, to her date with Mr. Hackett. Watching that hologram kept Pim laughing for a week.

She decided to make herself older with the New Ager to occupy herself. She set the dial to 25, zapped herself with it, and left the room to go walk around. "You there," she heard someone call. She turned around and saw a person who looked like a hotel worker. "What's the big idea"! she asked the person. "You work here, don't you"? asked the person. Pim looked confused at first, thinking 'That woman must really need contacts. She's really confusing me for someone else, or I have an identical twin I don't know about.' Then, she thought of something, 'Hey, if she thinks I work here, then I've got the perfect opportunity to con some of these suckers out of some serious cash. I'll just have to pretend to work here.' She smiled at the thought of her evil plan, and then said to the woman, "Yeah, I work here." She replied, "Then that's what you should be doing is working. You've got room service orders down in the kitchen. Get to it." The woman walked off. "Cha-ching," Pim said to herself as she walked off to find the kitchen.

Within five seconds of arriving in the kitchen, Pim was sent to the fifth floor with a round of sodas for a family of five. She knocked on the door. A man answered it. "That'll be ten dollars," said Pim after the man gave his family the drinks. "Ten dollars"? he questioned. "I ordered the same thing yesterday, and it was seven-fifty." "We have to raise the prices on our services once in a while," said Pim. "Today just happens to be the day we did it." "Well, I guess hotel room services are right up there with gasoline and car insurance, as far as how fast prices climb" the man said as he paid Pim. "Have a nice day," said the man, and Pim left. 'People in this century are so clueless,' she thought as she headed back to the kitchen. For the rest of the afternoon, she went room to room, conning everyone she saw out of as much money as she could. Everyone believed her 'price climb excuse'.

It was now seven o'clock, and she'd had enough laughs out of clueless primates for the day. So she headed back to her room. Everyone was probably back by now, so she had to stop in the hall and change back to fourteen with the New Ager, so no one would suspect her. She was right; everyone was back in her room, and waiting for her. "Where have you been? You've been gone all afternoon," asked Barb. "Here, and there, in the rec room," Pim replied. "We've been waiting for you for an hour," said Lloyd. "I was about to send the dogs." Barb said, "I hope you're hungry, because we're going to try that restaurant we saw on Orange Circle." "Great, let's go," Pim replied and they all left. Pim was relieved that she received no further interrogation about her whereabouts that afternoon.

After Phil and Keely had gone to bed, Pim decided to count her profits for the day. "One, two, three, four……… ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety-four." She'd made ninety-four dollars in one afternoon. "Wow, this I could get used to"! she said, a little too loudly. "Hey, Pim," Phil said after hearing her. "Stop talking to yourself and go to sleep."

(A/N: I know that this chapter is shorter. It's a subplot like they do to Pim on the show. And I also had some writer's block on it. I hope you are liking the story so far, please review.)

Next Chapter: 'Two Guys, Two Girls, in Florida'- All I'm going to say for now is that this chapter has a twist involving Phil, Keely, and the characters Mike and Chelsea that I added in the last chapter. Try to guess what the twist might be. It might be a few days before I get it up, because I'm going to the mall for most of the day tomorrow. )