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Helloooo! What time is it? Sequel time! Let's get it started! What time is it? Sequel time! It's gonna be crazy! What time is it? Sequel time! And procrastination!

Hello and welcome to my A Gift Of A Friend sequel! (Prologue) Yay!

Welcome everybody that is here! If you haven't seen the first book? What the actual hell are you doing? Go read it! Otherwise this will make no sense, and I don't want to recap a whole 12 chapter story right here right now, if you wanna read it it's on my profile! Come back here when you're done! Thank you!

Okay, now that we've told the stragglers to catch up, now let me welcome everybody else!

Hello again dear readers, I know you have been deeply deeply anticipating this book, I can tell, because I still get likes and favourites on the original book to this day! Which I am very very very very very very grateful for! I am really happy that you love this book about stupid self insert LOL, I am really proud of my first book. It means so much to me that you guys have followed me throughout it all! Thank you so much, and I hope you are really really enjoying the sequel just as much as you enjoyed the first one, I hope it is as better as the first one but I'm not gonna hold my breath to that.

Now comes the boring part that I really didn't want to type out, but I really wish I did when I first implemented these guys into the story. Now as the readers that have read the first book know The Animaniacs cast members are part of the story. And this is where I have to put a huge fat disclaimer!

The portrayals of Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, And any more cast members or part of the team that I tried to implement, are going to be very different. I repea Different to how you see them in real life. I am very much aware that this is most certainly not how they will act in real life, I am very much aware that I have totally rewritten them wrong. And I was debating whether or not to include them in the story. But thanks to Leela and her encouragement for me to leave them in, I will be leaving them in the story. Now, in a slight chance, and I mean very slight chance the aforementioned voice actors see this? I am very sorry, I deeply apologise for betraying you this way. I am aware that I am a stupid human being for doing this and that I must be crazy. But I do sincerely hope that you find this flattering in the best way possible. As I keep imagining they are basically alter egos of themselves, they are just in their toon designs let's say. I really really think you are incredible and extremely extremely talented voice actors and actresses, just think of it as a surprise when you see yourself part of our awesome Roger Rabbit esque universe.

Okay now that that's out the way. Updates will know whenever I can actually update, thankfully I have the prologue and 4 1/2 chapters done. (I've started work on the fourth one it's not quite there yet) but I'll be posting as I write the story, LOL I'm not very good at planning these things, usually I like to write a couple of staff post it, get feedback and then continue then I can implement your guy's feedback too!

I think that's all I wanted to say, so thank you again from the bottom of my heart to everyone that followed, favourited and reviewed. Without you guys this sequel honestly would not of happened!

Enjoy


They say that love is one of the strongest forces in the world.

"I can't believe you're actually gonna do this, Brain!" Sparkle said excitedly in the middle of looking in the mirror at her beautiful outfit. Sparkle was wearing a white dress with a rose themed flower crown. It had been a long, dramatic and eventful time for sparkle. The first year with her labratory mice had been something she would never forget. They were the greatest gift anyone could've gotten. Sparkle could not believe that it has been a year already. A whole year! That was crazy!

Brain chuckled lightly to himself. Hopping down from sparkle's drawers where he was busy getting ready. He was wearing a smart shirt with matching smart pants, he was wearing a tie that made him look really sophisticated. Brain gently clambered up her chair, sitting on her lap. "I can't believe it either, a year ago today we became yours." Sparkle giggled in response.

Carl Wheezer chuckled. "That's not what she's talking about Brain, and you know it!" Carl teased.

It had been an eventful time for Carl too.

Carl wheezer was the older adoptive brother to sparkle. He's only been living with them for five months. He still couldn't understand why his own mother would disown him, on Christmas Day of all days, he doubts he'll get an answer but is more than content without one.

Being sparkle's older brother has been an eye-opener for him into maturity. Carl has become very mature and grown-up since taking on the role of being her older brother. He isn't as cowardly as he once was, willing to fight anyone that dare hurt his sister. He also is very very protective of her. Always being there for her. When Sparkle opened up to him he realised just how isolated and lonely she was. Being an only child for your whole life with no one really to guide you wasn't easy.

When times get difficult Carl is always there.

Flashback.

Pinky and Brain were out world dominating, and their parents were at work. Which left Carl and sparkle home alone. Carl was sleeping on a mattress on the floor, right next to his baby sister who was sleeping in her profiling bed with the sides up so she wouldn't fall out.

But she wasn't actually sleeping at all.

Carl got up, peering over the side of her bed. "You're worried about them, aren't you?" Carl softly asked.

Sparkle sniffles in response, Causing Carl to take his sister's hand and squeeze it gently. "They're gonna be okay sparkle, they're not gonna die, they told you they're not gonna, it's just your anxiety talking, that's all. Mr Anxiety is just trying to get into your head and give you all these horrible thoughts that you don't need to worry about."

That didn't help at all.

Sparkle just started crying. It had been a long day today. Today was the anniversary of her grandfather passing away, so the subject of death was quite triggering today. Carl realised his error, frowning at the realisation. He dropped the top end of her bedside down, pulling her into a hug, his 10th one today.

" I miss my grandad so much, why did he have to go?" Sparkle sobbed.

Carl squeezed his sister tightly. "I know sissy, I know... I know it's hard to go through that, but I'm right here, I'm okay, i'm not goin' nowhere, you're stuck with me unfortunately." Carl said with a giggle.

"Do you think grandad will be proud of me?"

Carl snorted. "No duh! Course he will! He'll be so proud of you it'll be unreal! You've done so much over this past year it's crazy! Crazy awesome that is!" Carl said making sparkle smile. Mission accomplished.

"Thanks for being there Carl, I really Owe you a lot." Sparkle said nuzzling her brother on his nose.

"Nuh uh, it's like you said to me on Christmas, Larry and I don't owe you anything, and the same applies here. You owe me nothing, I'm more than happy to be there for you, besides, that's what big brothers do, right?"

End of flashback.

Carl smiled at the memory, before coming over to see his baby sister. Carl was matching his sister by wearing a white button up T-shirt with black pants. Sparkle turned to him, smiling. "You look absolutely gorgeous sis! Your dress is so pretty!" Carl complimented, giving his sister a hug who happily returned it.

"Aww!" Sparkle says. "Thank you! You look awesome too Big Brother!" Sparkle complimented back.

" I can't believe we're doing this, Pinky's gonna love this!" Sparkle squeals excitedly, the megalomaniac had to shush her so that she wouldn't ruin the surprise.

"C'mon you three! NARF! You're gonna be late for your acting lesson! Rob and the others are waiting!" Pinky hollered from the living room impatiently. The trio suspiciously giggled, coming out of sparkle's room. They entered the living room to be met with pinky with his paws on his hips waiting expectantly. "There you three are! Why did it take you guys so long to get dressed today?"

Brain facepalmed. "Pinky, did you forget? The children have a dress rehearsal today, remember?"

Pinky looked confused. "Dress rehearsal? In your acting lesson?"

Carl chimed in. "You remember the play we got the script for, right? Now that we've practised it enough they want us to do a dress rehearsal!" Carl elaborated.

"Ohhh! That one! Now I remember! Of course, the one you've been practising for weeks! Now I remember, haha silly me! Poit!"

Phew! That was too close.

Brain smiled at Carl proudly. "Excellent improvisation Carl, that was some quick thinking my good man, you're getting much better at your improvising, I'm very proud of you." Brain winked, Carl winked back, before turning back to pinky. The group nodded before heading off to their acting lesson.

In the acting lesson.

Sparkle and Carl immediately rushed over to Rob, Maurice, Jess and Tress, Randy,, Leela, Cassie, Francesca, The Warners, Leonardo Raphael Donatello and Michelangelo, Florence, Jack, Timothy and Casey, along with PJ and pistol.

"How the goddamn hell are we gonna pull this off?!" Maurice hissed.

"Don't worry buddy, we've got this, everyone remember what to do?"

The group nodded.

Once everyone was in their positions, the lesson started like normal. They were practising how to do a group number, so they decided to do Helpless from Hamilton. But it wasn't just for that reason, it was for something much greater.

But then, Tress froze up out of fear. The music stopped, Rob breaking character to rush over to her. Tress Was shaking and crying. Rob pulled her into a hug, kissing her forehead. "Hey, shhhh, breathe, it's okay Tress, We all freeze up sometimes, we can sit this out if you're not ready, we'll just find two others to help us today, that's okay." Rob comforted her, as he guided her to the seats to sit her down.

"Well ain't that just great!" Yakko shouted in exasperation. "How The hell are we supposed to do a dress rehearsal without our leads?!" Yakko asked annoyed.

Yakko gave a slight wink to Rob who winked back.

The oldest sibling walked over to pinky, who was looking very concerned. "Pinky, I know this is a lot to ask and all, but would you do a huge favour and play Eliza for us? We reaaally need to do a run through of the song, and we figured Who better to play her then someone that's had over 20+ years of acting in their entire life! So, are you up for it?" Yakko asked, giving him the biggest puppy dog eyes ever.

Without missing a beat pinky said. "Oh yes yes yes yes yes! I'd be more than happy to Play Eliza for you! I've always loved her character! It's been a dream of mine to play her! Poit!"

Pinky had no idea that this is about to turn into the best day of his life.

Brain stepped forward, taking pinky by the hand. " I shall play Alexander, besides, we can't have Eliza Hamilton without Alexander now, can we?"

Pinky flutters his eyes sweetly at his partner. "Oh Brain! You're going to play Alexander with me? How sweet!"

Everyone suspiciously giggled again apart from Brain. "Yes, always. I will always act alongside you."

With that, everyone started the song again. Pinky as Eliza, and Brain as Alexander. As the musical number progressed, the megalomaniac couldn't help but glance down a few times, but he tried his best not to break character. Pinky was too distracted playing the Schuyler sister to notice that his partner was nervous, which, in this instance, the megalomaniac was very grateful for. Now came the most nerve racking part.

In character the megalomaniac guided pinky away from everyone else and started his part of the song

Pinky unaware that his life was about to be changed forever.

"Pinky, I don't have a dollar to my name

An acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame

All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain

A couple of college credits and my top-notch brain

Insane, our family brings out a different side of me

Sparkle confides in me

Carl Will always vouch for me

No stress, my love for you was never in doubt

We're gonna take over the world and we'll figure it out

I've been livin' without a family since I was a child

My father left, my mother died, I grew up buckwild

But I'll never forget my mother's face, that was real

As long as I'm alive, Pinky, swear to god you'll never feel so."

Brain got down on one knee, opened a box with a ring inside, looking up at pinky with tears of happiness in his eyes. Randy stopped the music as Brain held up up the box, smiling on the verge of tears.

Pinky, very confused, didn't understand anything. "Brain? Wha-what the?"

"Pinky, Will you marry me?"

Pinky gasped. He started shaking, as tears welled up in his own eyes, he couldn't believe it! Pinky covered his mouth in shock, so many emotions all happening at once. But after a minute of awkward silence, pinky nodded profusely while saying. "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! A thousand times yes!" Pinky squealed, as the megalomaniac put the ring on his finger. Pinky looked around to see everyone clapping.

Sparkle and Carl had tears in their eyes, as they were so excited. Sparkle zipped over in her chair, bouncing ecstatically, smiling as wide as she could. Brain picked up his now fiancé spinning him around in circles, before the two of them shared a passionate kiss. Yakko whooped the loudest. "WOOOOOO! FINALLY! 20+ fucking years! After 20 fucking years! Finally! It's about time you two got fricking married!" Yakko exclaimed overjoyed.

Brain put his partner down, as sparkle looked at him. " surprise!" She exclaimed doing jazz hands. Pinky was very confused.

Rob walked over laughing. "Yeah little guy, we've kept this a surprise for months. Brain's Been wanting to propose to you since January, but, sparkle reminded us that it was also going to be a year today that she got you, so we've been planning this proposal with him for months."

Pinky quickly looked at Brain, Who nodded.

"So, you mean-?"

Leela giggles. "Yep! We were acting the whole time! Tress Wasn't really nervous, she just pretended to be so that you could take her place. Obviously Rob couldn't play Alex, so he offered to 'comfort' her so that Brain could play Alex, once we figured that out everything went as planned! You've done so much for sparkle since she got you, it was the least she could do. After Brain told sparkle and Carl that he was going to propose to you, Sparkle gathered all of us and we set to work working on the perfect proposal for you!"

Leela picked up the mouse, setting him on Sparkle's lap. Sparkle gently picked him up, snuggling him against her cheek.

Pinky kissed his human owner on her cheek, as he pulled back to look at her. "Thank you sparkle sweetie, thank you very much. This is the best anniversary gift ever, thank you so much. I'm so honoured I mean that much to you, I'm so happy you came in to our lives. This is been the best year of my entire life, and I hope we can have many great ones after this one. Happy anniversary sparkle, our world wouldn't be the same without you."

Carl ran over too as pinky told him the same

Later that night.

Carl was sleeping on his usual mattress, Brain sleeping beside him.

Sparkle was lying awake in bed, pinky curled up with her. Pinky noticed that his girl wasn't sleeping rolling on his stomach to face her. "Whatcha thinkin' about honey? Poit!" Pinky asked quietly.

Sparkle sighed. "Be honest pinky, Am I a daughter to you?" Sparkle asked shyly.

"If you want to be." He replied just as quietly.

Because sometimes love can also be a weakness.

Sparkle glanced over to Carl who was busy dreaming of llamas. She thought back to him on their doorstep on Christmas Day, she thought how kind of her parents were to him, and then that suddenly changed. But, there was no time to dwell on the past. It was now time to look forward because Love Is In Bloom