The New Waitress

In the women's bathroom of Mom's Diner, two cynical teenager girls were talking.

"Can you rig that glue gun of yours to shoot bullets? I'm ready to end my suffering." the girl in glasses said.

"Well, you're not your usually sunny self." replied the girl in the red coat.

The girl with glasses scowled. "I've got a bump on my head, a bug bite on my arm, a sandwich on my ass..."

"And all in front of Trent." the other girl answered back.

"Now turn the knife counterclockwise." the girl with glasses sighs. "I can't go back out there. You go on to Alternapalooza; tomorrow, I'll emerge and begin my new life as a waitress."

In this moment a third voice boomed around the pair, "Offer Accepted."

The girl with glasses barely got a "What?!" out before she was hoisted up in the air by an unseen force. She begged her friend for help, however the girl in the red coat simply shook her head sadly.

"What has begun now cannot be undone. Sorry Daria."

A strange grey goo was sprayed on the struggling girl and continued to spray and solidify until she stopped moving.

Jane left the bathroom and saw her brother and his friend Jesse at their table, they had heard the commotion and understood the meaning, they didn't even have to look at the woman who had served them to know.

Never the less Jane glanced at the woman, no longer walking about and sassing the crowd, she was dissolving into dust.

"Come on Trent," she said to her brother, "Let's go."

Trent nodded and he and Jesse got up and left with Jane to the concert, they'd leave the Morgendorffer's a note and the name of the diner.

The waitress finished dissolving in time for the door to the women's bathroom to open once more.

Out stepped a hard-nosed middle aged woman with a brunette beehive hairdo, a waitress uniform, and a name tag that said 'Darla'.

She got a broom and dustpan and cleaned up the mess and got ready for her shift, her first table arrived in short order.

She took one look at the crowd of popular kids and called out to the cook, "Three cheeseburger deluxe and four house salads, with oil and vinegar on the side!"

Unbeknownst to Quinn as she sat down with her 'friends', her sister was here with her, beginning her new life as Darla the Waitress at Mom's Diner, on Highway 666 1/2 on mile marker 42, on the third edge of the tesseract in which the Lawndale area dwells.

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