Anysnooch, how y'all doin'? I needa ... sandwich and we're still at theee arcade
Mxne: Since when did my narrator get unrelated news?
Ivy: I don't know.
Timmy: ... I don't like these "guys". Cecelia, you're coming home.
Ce: I am not! I'm stayin' right hea, and you can't do anything about it!
Timmy: Don't make me call Croquet!
Mxne: Hey! that's MY Croquet! I'll call him.
Timmy: ... fine, so long as he gets here, and he will!
Guy 2: Didn't we mug some dude named Croquet yesterday?
Guy 3: Yeah. I thought he was sayin' "Let's go play croquet".
Guy 1: Me, too. 'zat mean he wasn't?
Guy 2: No, shirlock! He wanted us to play with him!
Guy 1: ...scratches head confusedly well, den, why'd we mug'm?
Guy 2: Because we thought he was ... nevermind.
Guy 3: ... go play something. mmm, Jukebox. when'd this get in?
Ce: -looks at g3 strangely - it's been thea 'bout three weeks.
g3: Oh, really? didn't notice. -pops change in- mmm, music.
Ce: What are you on?
g3: music.
Ce: yeah, right. ... music. -inches away from g3-
Mxne: -dancing wildly to music - "I fell into Yesterday!" -continues to dance off beat-
g3: heh heh, she's on something.
Ce: what is she attempting to do?
g3: I dunno, but she makes it look like fun.
Mxne: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! -begins jumping up and down wildly making random movements while doing so-
G1:hmmmmm, -does same-
g3: I wonder what happens when I - changes song-
Mxne: -stops, listens, grabs cashier's microphone- I'm runnin underground with the moles, diggin' them holes!
Ivy: she really loves music. -stares-
cashier dude: gimme that! -snatches microphone-
mxne & cashier dude: - fighting over microphone, both singing parts of the song-
g3: wow, I'm a genious, guys, take the games while no one looks.
guys: -do so-
mxne: stops, noticing games move Hey! you can't take that game! -tackles g2- That's my favorite game! -snatches it-
Ivy: wow, how many people does it usualy take to lift a dance machine?
Timmy: -has completely given up- I don't care. -goes home, pulling MXNE with him. Ivy tags along.-
much later that night, after everyone's ready for bed
Ivy: Hey, just popped in to ask you something.
mxne: yeah, what?
Ivy: how did you DO that?
mxne: dunno, I love that game.
Ivy: you do realize that you suck at it, don't you?
mxne: Yeah, so? I still practice on that one.
Ivy: isn't it the only one you require practice on?
mxne: yeah, and I wanna keep it there so I CAN practice.
Ivy: I hope max doesn't realize Ce's gone.
mxne: when does he realize anything?
Ce: climbes in through mxne's window. Ay, I brought a few guests, did daddy dearest notice me gone during dinner?
Mxne: ... there was dinner, and nobody told me?
Ivy: Maxine, chill. I DON'T think dinner was actually served yet, despite the late hour.
Ce? Ay! 'C'm in!
Guy 3: Don't yell so loud, you'll wake someone up.
Guy 2: So? Ain't like we actually care!
Guy 3: who's that ... Oh, Hyper!
Ce: What?
Guy 3: that one chick who gets hyper when music's on. She's truely on music when music is on.
Ce: ... Ok, and no more boxes of Crunch Berries for you, especially during lunch, why IS that your lunch, anyway?
Guy 3: I like it like that, yeah, baby, I like it like that
Mxne: I like it like that, I got soul, I got soul!
Ce: Shut up, both of you!
mxne: ... Outta my room. I gotta sleep. there's school tomorrow, and some interesting person or thing may come.
Ce: like "Steaky tales"?
Mxne: ... yeah, them. Look, I know it's veggie tales, but they'd taste good with steak.
Ce: you can't eat them. They're practically human! I bet they even have organs.
Mxne: Do my other vegetables have organs?
Ce: Go to bed. I can't afford to deal with four numbskulls.
Guy 3: Since when was I a "numbskull"? Numbskull!
Ce: Allaya are numbskulls!
Guy 3: I won't stand for this. puts music on.
mxne: -dances-
Guy 3: How CAN she do that?
Ce: ... I'm going downsatairs. The fridge might have some cooked food.
mxne: k. ... Why wouldn't it?
Ce: sighs BECAUSE we eat everything cooked the same night. See!
mxne: Learn to cook. soon.
Ce: I'll make Croquet do it.
mxne: He'll do no such thing.
Ce: Yes he will.
Mxne: He's mine, and if I say he wont, he wont.
Ce: Since when was he yours?
Mxne: He's always been mine.
Ce: So! I'll get daddy dearest to buy him from you.
mxne: You will not!
Ce: Yes, I will.
mxne: Try.
Ce: Try I will. AND I'll succeed.
- Ce and guys go downstairs.-
Ce: gasp Dad! You scared the mess out of me!
Max: looks up from his book. apparently, he usually reads and drinks in a red robe before bed.
Ce: I want Croquet.
Max: He's maxines, if she won't give him up, you can't have him.
Ce: I DEMAND to have croquet!
Max: I demand you leave me to read.
Ce: If I can't have him, she can't either.
Max: She can, and she will. Don't make me irate in front of ... wait, who are you, Cecelia, who are they, and is that one a girl?
Ce: mmmm... you don't really want me to answer that, do you?
Max: ... I guess not. I've been waiting for you. Dinner hasn't started yet.
Ce: you didn't want me to cook, did you?
Max: I expected you to be home when dinner should have began. Where have you been?
Ce: out.
Max: Out where?
Ce: Out there.
Max: "Out there" could be anywhere from here to Antartica! Where were you?
Ce: The arcade.
Max: There are 10 arcades.
Ce: 13.
Max: which one were you at?
Ce: Not Yugi's.
Max: what would make you go to... that's a game shop.
Ce: So? I stopped there, but I wasn't there.
Max: Where were you?
Ce: I was at The Arcade.
Max: What's the arcade called.
Ce: The Arcade! I don't know why.
Max: What were you doing there?
Ce: playing games.
Max: Playing games until 11:00 at night?
Ce: 10:38. We hung out at a gas station because we could.
Max: gas station. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?
Ce: What?
Max: What you're wearing, what else, tell me there's nothing else. Forget it, I don't want to know. I'm going to my room. Make a TV Dinner.
-Max leaves.-
Ce: hmm. I guess he's upset.
Guy 3: No, ya think? I'm gonna go home.
Guy 2: yeah, me, too.
guy 1: Fish 'n chips night 't my house. Layta!
Guys leave and chapter ends here.