Chapter 2: After Seven Years
Cindy, Jimmy, Mrs. Neutron and Goddard were putting assorted colors of icing on the lemon cookies
CINDY: Man, it's been like five years since I've helped you put icing on Mrs. Neutron's delectable lemon cookies!
JIMMY: I haven't done this for so long with Cindy. It's even more enjoyable with Cindy helping us.
MRS. NEUTRON: Wow, 5:30 already? I have to help you father with his 'project', Jimmy. Have fun you three.
Mrs. Neutron left Cindy, Goddard and Jimmy with putting icing on the cookies and goes to Mr. Neutron who is doing something duck-related
CINDY: Jimmy, what was you're mom talking about?
JIMMY: Nothing really.
Cindy does the lower-lip thing and Jimmy just couldn't defy
JIMMY: Fine. It has to do with some antique duck business my dad started. Real hit. So, wanna…
Jimmy is interrupted by the door. DING-DONG!
JIMMY: I'm gonna get that.
Jimmy answers the door and spotted his two friends, a round one with glasses and a thin one with a character shirt and carrying around an action figure of the same character on his shirt. He was standing behind the round one
JIMMY: Oh. Hey Carl, Sheen. Umm, Sheen, is there a fine explanation as to why you're standing behind Carl and freaking out?
SHEEN: Nothing really. I'm not acting like a baby because I thought I heard something, no.
CARL: He thinks Cindy's there. I told him she's not.
SHEEN: Carl, I know she's there! I heard her talking to Jimmy!
CARL: Hey, mind if we come in?
JIMMY: Umm, well about that, heh-heh, uh…
CARL: (panicking) Cindy's here! AHHH!
SHEEN: (stuttering) Who are you and what have you done with big headed Jimmy?
JIMMY: Sheen, it's me. Cindy just came over to apologize. She wants a fresh new start, to become friends.
SHEEN: But that's unlikely unlike unlikely her!
JIMMY: You do know you have no idea what you're even saying, right Sheen?
SHEEN: Maybe.
CARL: But remember last time? When Cindy tricked you into being friends with her!
JIMMY: No. We…
CARL: See it isn't you!
JIMMY: Carl, Sheen! Cindy and I chose to become friends but she got angry at the end and we were no longer friends, and in one day.
CARL, SHEEN: Oh, that makes more sense.
JIMMY: Now, you wanna come on over or what? (teasingly) We're icing the lemon cookies!
CARL, SHEEN: Oh boy!
Carl and Sheen rush on in, fighting over who gets in first and how to get in since they got stuck in the door. Jimmy walks over to the kitchen where Cindy is waiting and becoming edgy and eager and they wait for the two boys while they ice some more cookies
CINDY: (jokingly) Good luck to them for getting through the door.
JIMMY: (snickers) Yeah.
It had been a while later, fifty-two minutes. Carl and Sheen were then inside the house and the four kids had been finished icing the cookies and finished a few cookies. Cindy looked up at the clock which read five o' clock and panicked
CINDY: Oh no! I was supposed to meet Libby at the mall twenty-five minutes ago! Now she'll be real upset and would be ignoring me during the weekend! And we were planning on going to a Greystar concert.
JIMMY: Cindy, calm down. Goddard could take you at high speed. Okay?
Cindy nodded and Jimmy calls Goddard and orders him to take Cindy at high speed to the mall. Out in the front yard, Goddard transforms into a motorbike and Cindy hops on. Goddard then takes Cindy at high speed to the mall and they meet up with Libby, an impatient look on her face and bags in her hands
CINDY: Thanks Goddard!
GODDARD: Bark, bark!
Goddard goes back home and Cindy waves goodbye. Libby is standing right behind her with a very straight look on
CINDY: Oh, hey Libby.
LIBBY: (crossly) Where the heck were you! Neutron's place? I've been waiting like forever! I couldn't bear wait for you so I already went shopping and now you're here.
CINDY: Look Libby, I can explain.
LIBBY: Explain why you didn't come about an our ago, why were you at Neutron's or both?
CINDY: I went to say sorry to him. We started our friendship again.
LIBBY: That I'm happy about but not the fact I didn't go shopping with you for the first time after planning on it the entire week like we always do!
CINDY: Let's just go shopping.
LIBBY: Already did. Sorry. Guess you're gonna have to go alone. I mean really, you didn't come so I went shopping and just when I'm done you're here and ready and late! Well later.
CINDY: No way you just turned around and began leaving!
LIBBY: Oh, but I did! And I will keep on going!
CINDY: So maybe I came late. But I was icing Mrs. Neutron's lemon cookies with Neutron after apologizing. We were becoming friends, Libby, friends!
LIBBY: But just remember Vortex, I was there too! Ya, me! Me! I have been there with you all the time, whether or not you were friends with Jimmy and I have never bailed on you! You now for the first time in seven years has let me down! What do you have to say about that!
Libby stormed off before Cindy could really answer
CINDY: (out loud) Well fine if you want to be that way!