A/N: I can't wait any longer! I WANT CORPSE BRIDE ON DVD! –wails like Veruca Salt-

The Judging and a Snap

Well, of course, the real Pebbles, who is sitting at her laptop eating heart shaped chocolates and playing Neopets, was too lazy to continue the rest of the song and too busy dreaming up fluffely scenes for her other active fanfic. If you wanna hear the rest of the song, go buy it off of iTunes or something. xD

Let me just say it involved a card game, a bunch of souls up for bet, and Victor nearly wetting the bed. Seriously.

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"That's it. No more."

Everyone applauded, except for Jack, who seemed to be racking his skeletal brain, trying to figure out something to say.

Cricket poked Jack. "What's your verdict, dood?"

He was silent, then he crossed his arms and grinned.

"I have to say, it was pretty good. Especially the scenery-"

Pebbles' smile faded.

"What scenery?"

Victor's voice cracked a little as he explained, "We were in somewhere we didn't recognize, as if we were in the story itself. There were train tracks, and an old house, and…"

"I didn't take you guys anywhere. We were in this room the entire time."

Silence.

Amanda smacked her hand on the ground. "What the hell is with all of the weirdness?"

Jack flung his hand, as if shooing away the idea. "Let's just leave it for now. Anyway, good storyline, good ideas, good dramaticness…"

He sighed. "Not good enough to scare me."

Chaos erupted among the group.

"It was perfectly good!"

"Are you kidding me?"

"I nearly died!" (That was Victor.)

Pebbles threw a bag of marshmallows at the group. "Guys, guys! Yeah, I'll admit, it was perfectly creepy, once you put some thought into it, but COME ON. He practically invented fear." She bit into a chip with relish, and a loud snap came from one of her back teeth.

"AIEE!"

She stomped her foot. "Damn these braces! I can't do anything with them!"

Willy zoned out. Holli gave him a weirded-out look.

Erik stood up. "Let me see."

Pebbles opened her mouth and let him examine about to find the said broken bracket.

After a few seconds, he stuck his finger in and wiggled something. "There it is. Not too loose, but loose indeed."

Victor took a peek, and gasped and backed away.

"Good God, girl, what did they do to your mouth!" Obviously he had found the thick wire that spanned the roof of her mouth and was used to spread her jaw. He had also discovered the four teeth that were covered in metal.

"Is that permanent?"

Amanda showed him her retainer. "Of course not. When your teeth are all straight and stuff they take off the braces, replace them with this wire for about a year, and then remove the wire."

Willy snapped out of his little thought box, noticed the topic of conversation, and scrunched up his eyes. "There can be headgear, too."

Jack swung the topic of conversation around.

"Sooo…I found this book…"

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A/N: I have discovered at my last braces tightening that 14-year-old Amanda (me) is inaccurate when it comes to dental wear. I'm getting my braces off by summer, then comes my 13 b-day in August, then I will probably have my retainer off by the end of middle school. So…really I'll have bare teeth when I'm 14.

But this is fanfic, right?