"Like this?" Izzy asked. William shook his head, bunny ears swinging comically.
"Lean forward a little more." Henry said over his camera.
Izzy nestled farther into the side of the car, pushing into the windshield. It was clearly burning her skin, but Henry nodded. Izzy had to pull away, and saw that her upper arm was bright pink from the hot glass of the muscle car's front window.
"Oh, ouch." Dolli Mae cringed, trying not to move too much and ruin the shot for everyone.
"It's fine." Izzy said, leaning onto the windshield again. Now that her arm was the same temperature as the sun, the windshield didn't hurt so much.
"If ya say so..." Dolli Mae gripped the steering wheel, adjusting her seating on the stack of pillows she was perched on, too short to be framed by the low-riding car's driver side window.
Usually, she wouldn't care and keep driving, but something about the look on Henry's face and Maggie's increase in bitchiness made her feel embarrassed. Vinnie gave her a side-hug and told her that it was fine, but even so, Dolli Mae felt like dead weight.
"Am I okay?" Dollface asked from where she stood near the trunk of the muscle car.
Henry scrunched his face up as Maggie shook her head.
William scooped the girl up with a shout and placed her on top of the car, posing her like a doll.
Michael loudly protested with her, as only he was allowed to pick her up and put her on the roof of a car.
Specifically his, and only because she could help polish the roof and was wearing pants.
Not fishnets.
Dollface froze, stiff, then immediately knew what to do and put her legs on the car, knees clad in fishnet showing well below her brown hem. She tugged on it, but gave up, realizing that had been part of Maggie's plan as she leaned on her other hand. Dollface adjusted her black bowtie instead, fidgety and watching William move away from her line of sight.
She leaned on her hands, arching her back as instructed even as her palms and knees pressed heavily on the scorching metal roof. She brushed invisible dust off of a blue skirt panel, one that matched Princess's purple and red one, absently tugging on it.
Henry asked her to put the hand back down and stop squinting in the bright sun.
"Y'all sure I look okay here?" Dolli Mae asked from the driver's seat of the car painted to look like a pepperoni pizza.
"You look great!" Vinnie assured her from where he stood at Henry's side.
"Ya really think so?" Dolli Mae said, watching Maggie's sour expression increase in lemon power. Dolli Mae blushed as her eyes met Vinnie's. His eyes looked like sockets full of liquid gold when the light hit them just right.
"Yeah, of course you do!" Vinnie flashed a smile.
Maggie huffed and stomped over to Dolli Mae. She repositioned the tricorn hat and adjusted the fake hook so that it showed on camera better. She stepped back, then flicked the Party City eyepatch over a gold shadowed eye. Dolli Mae accepted this treatment, even though her weekly ice cream date with Vinnie had been crashed the other day by Maggie.
"Princess," barked Maggie, "Stand next to Wolfie!"
Princess glared, then waltzed to Wolfie, touching the red tie around her throat. Maggie got too close to her and posed the purple ears perched in Princess's blue hair.
Princess growled at her, then slapped Maggie's hands away from her face.
"Use the guitar as an armrest, okay sweetie?" Henry said, oblivious to the tension, "Can everyone arch their backs a little more?"
Wolfie pulled at the full length bodysuit with white stripes, hoping to God her parents never found out about this costume as she complied with Henry's newest request. She stomped her stiletto boots on the stained asphalt of the big city's Fazbear Junior's.
They still thought she was going to be a waitress in a baggy shirt and silly hat.
She was surprisingly good at lying to her parents, but then again, that's what happened when you were always over your child's shoulder.
It did help her cred with Marnie.
Maybe Marnie would join Thorne and String Bean as waitresses. She was always talking about how she needed the extra dough…
...Plus, she'd get to eyeball Foxx and Duke, the large, blond brothers who worked as dishwashers and Laser Arena attendants every other weekend…
...And maybe she'd look good in jean shorts and suspenders…
Wolfie hid her grin.
Even better, Marnie might decide double dates were not as good as alone time with Wolfie.
"And smile!" Vinnie shouted, his costumed step-father laid out 'seductively' in front of the group of posing girls.
They soon finished the car shots, and headed inside the empty pizzeria for character poses, Dollface right behind William, who led the way, eager to meet the Toy Animatronics.