You know, I keep wondering, what makes the world go round? Is it really chocolate or music? I'd let Wonka decide the obvious, but wouldn't really matter, he makes mine go round anywayy 3D

Chapter 3

The snow was delicately falling down outside her window as she wistfully stared ahead at the sky, not the street. Nothing was really interesting to Lilly to know about or be a part of that world down there. She had her own world, but that wasn't enough, because her life made her think about a hundred other obligations she had to do, that she found little time and serenity to ponder about her own, secretive little world. She felt home in there, but it didn't do her much good. It didn't really take her away and let her do all the special things she so ever dreamed of. Because it wasn't real, it was just a fantasy. Some fantasy everyone would think lame of, and think of her as careless and unworthy and lost, so she kept it to herself and no one knew about it. She seldom spoke about herself, even to her family, for they only made things more difficult. They'd think she's paranoid and depressed and would try lightening her up by telling her to go out and meet new people, but that was the last thing she wanted, to participate in the world. No one could ever live detached like that, but Lilly had hopes she held tightly on to. And it was her secret, until someday, maybe then the long awaited for might happen.

A candy wrapper was flying ahead of her closed window. It hovered in the air for a while before it stuck on the glass along with the falling snow flakes. Lilly wondered for a second, before she slowly opened the pane and reached her hand out into the blowing cold wind for the wrapper. She examined it as she shut the window. It was ripped in half, but Lilly looked closely at the letters, a W and an o. Of course, it couldn't have been anything else but the obvious. Oh well, a Wonka bar wrapper strangely reaching into her bedroom this weird way. But then a glow of a frantic realization sprang into her eye as she was carelessly fiddling with it. "That's it then," she exclaimed. "My destiny."

"… totally sick of it!" A whiny voice muddled her thoughts, and when she looked up, she saw Andie staring in annoyance.

"You people drift away while I keep talking to you!" she protested. "And then when I look at you both I realize I've been talking to myself! You and you're stupid blank expressions!"

Kay was standing next to Lilly, blinking in amazement as if suddenly awakened.

"I'm sorry, Dee! You know me, you know how I can't help myself!" he said. "But it's so boring around here…"

"So you just drift elsewhere in a fantasy land!"

Kay sheepishly smiled, and Lilly giggled to herself as she watched this. "Well… not exactly a fantasy land…"

"Well, you better live for real, Kay! Or I will really lose it this time, before you lose totally your own head!" Andie lectured then turned to Lilly. "And what about you? Commiseration world?"

Kay laughed. "Don't mind her! Lilly was probably brooding over a scene in her piteous past!"

"Not exactly like that!" she said quietly.

"Enough, you two! Enough!"

"Andie, you can't blame us for not finding anything more thrilling to do!"

"Well, adventure boy! I'm sorry if you don't feel thrilled enough about our upcoming gig!"

"It's not really a gig, Dee! It's a play! A formal play! And yes, I am thrilled! But it's not until next week! And it's not the type of thrilled I am talking about!"

Andie sighed heavily. Lilly swallowed. She could sense that there was an outburst coming up. "Hey, how long will it take us to go to the funfair! We've been walking for a rather long time, don't you think?" Lilly broke in shakily, her attention was all drawn to them so she didn't know where she was going.

"Whoops!" she slipped on a wet cemented area and crashed into some muddy snow.

"Lilly!" Andy screeched, and quickly put all her effort in waving her arms and digging into the snow to pull Lilly out.

"Lilly, are you still in life?" she panted. She swiftly glanced behind her.

"Kay! Why aren't you helping me?" she yelled. "Kay!"

Andie looked up. She's already taken half of Lilly out of the snow, who was coughing, her neck stuck between Andie's arms.

"Andie!" she choked, letting her notice her again.

"Oh, sorry, Lilly!" she inertly said and immediately turned back to Kay. He was frozen in his place, staring high at something immense that was apparently unbelievable to him.

"Kay?" He turned. Lilly and Andie were standing close to each other, gaping fearfully at him.

"Are you girls okay?"

"Are you okay? You're freaking us out with that face!"

"Look at this! Can you believe this?"

The girl's eyes moved sideways to where he waved his arm, then reflexively back at him.

"What's so overwhelming about a gate of a freaking factory!" Andie blurted out. She was first angry, and now she was tensed. Kay turned to her as if horrified.

"You're not serious, are you? You both surely know who this belongs to? You know what kind of factory it is, yeah?"

Andie wriggled uncomfortably in her place and Lilly licked her lips. Kay was mortifying them with all the faith he was weighing on them, that they would somehow know what it is.

"Em… Kay… uh… no," Lilly let out uneasily. "We don't know what factory this is!"

"Yeah, how would we? I mean, this is not our town!"

"That's right! We've wandered away too far!"

Kay gaped at them in disbelief, his arms dangling loosely by his sides. "You're so pathetic!" he finally said. "You know… Oh, no wait I forgot, you're both two ignorant losers who are not bothered to get insightful with the world outside because you're practically not living in it!"

"Ah, talking about Lilly!"

Lilly painfully nudged Andie.

"Ouch!" she said giving her a sharp look.
"I meant it!" Lilly glared. Andie sighed and turned to Kay.

"Look, Kay! It's just a factory! A plain, aimless factory that probably delivers what, a hundred-thousand packs each day loaded with crap so the people can squander their whole lifetime slurping up acid!"

"I'm not talking about soda cans!" Kay persisted after giving her an absurd look. "I'm talking about THIS! Smell it! The smoke rising from the pipes, doesn't all this at least feel different than any other air?"

The two girls looked up at the gigantic structure looming over them through the shadowy morning mist. It did look different, alright. Different than any other enormous thing they saw. Even the air around it swelled a strange curiosity inside.

"What's that scent?" Andie, who was daunted for a second, was able to flutter her eyelids shut and breathe in slowly. Lilly had her eyes fixed on the huge pipes of the factory, her jaw slightly dropped.

"This is even bigger than any other building around here! It's like the Eiffel tower in Paris! You can see it as the one thing soaring above all other entities when you look outside your window!" she said with awed interest.

"Stop making foolish relations, Lilly!" spat Kay who was beginning to get a little frustrated.

"You're quite right! It does feel creepy!" said Andie vaguely, still gawking up. She shivered for a moment. "What a weird thing, very mysterious. I would rather die before I step one foot forth and go in there!"

"Why do I suddenly feel like I'm tied in with two slow, mindlesswomen from another planet?"

"Why don't you tell us what it is and get over with it?" Lilly retorted. Suddenly she felt something pounce on her and cover her mouth. It was Andie.

"Shhh… I hear something coming!"

Kay heard it, too. "Hide!" He pushed them into a corner away from the gates. They stood stuffed in silence, until suddenly the gates started to open, then almost immediately trucks began to emerge. The three companions watched with terror as one truck came after another, all in mechanical sequences. After they were all gone, the gates stridently closed. When they felt safe, they came out and stood with their backs to the gates, looking at the red trucks disappearing into the long trail.

"I know what this is!" Andie shrilled. "It's Willy Wonka's chocolate factory!"

Kay sighed with relief. "Yeah, how dumb to have realized it just now!"

Andie whirled towards Kay and poked a finger against his chest, bombarding him with all the insults she could think of. She kept walking towards him and he kept steadily walking back.

"Take it easy! Relax, Andie, I think you might wanna take a breath!" Lilly heard Kay stammer as both of them wandered a few feet away, arguing. Lilly walked over to the gates and tried to get the best view inside. She never thought she could ever find herself running into it whilst having a very long walk with friends. When she was nine years old, her classmates constantly mentioned Wonka's chocolate factory and everyone thought it was a legendary thing. But since Lilly wasn't supposed to eat candy she hadn't got into hearing them very much, she wouldn't care. Those inventions that every now and then sprang out of this factory left her doubtful. But since the people were too dull to make up such creativity, Lilly knew they had to be to true. Anyways, she had to avoid listening to them, because they seemed very tempting.