The next morning, Cindy Lou's friends came in early at her house as she opened the door.
"Wow, you guys are early," She chuckled. "Come on in, my mom is sleeping from her night shift." Her friends entered.
"So, what will we do now?" asked Axl.
"We have to choose a dress for my mom. It's upstairs in her room. Don't worry, she's still sleeping," Cindy Lou whispered as they went up to Donna's room. When they entered, Donna was snoring so loud in her sleep. "Alright, guys, there's mom's closet. Let's just pick one if it's perfect for her date with Mr. Grinch tonight."
"You got it." Groopert gave her a thumb-up as the four children opened the closet, and picked the dress they suggested.
When they show the dresses the chose to her, Cindy Lou disagreed with some of the dresses, like yellow-green dress, Mexican dress, Minnie Mouse dress, and other ones. But when Izzy chose the purple glittery dress, Cindy Lou got up from the chair, and nodded happily as she agreed with that dress.
Meanwhile in Mt. Crumpit, on his doggy bed, Max heard the bell ringing rapidly from his master's bedroom. the dog quickly made coffee from the coffee machine, wore his tray hat with the coffee and creamer on it, and was about to take his elevator, but he felt Aggie took the tray from it.
"Don't worry, Max, I got it!" Aggie said as she flew as fast as she can up to the stairs, and Max followed him. Aggie can hear the bell from the kitchen to her room, so she actively left her room to help Max out.
When Aggie and Max made it to the Grinch's room, they were quite shock when they saw him doing butt exercise while wearing pants that read "Go Time". the dog was quite surprised his master did the same exercise again, while Aggie stared at him in disgust. When he bent down, he glanced as his two companions through between his legs.
"I read this in the book. Lovers starts with the abs, guys," Grinch said as the two were still disgusted by this.
"I think I'm gonna be sick!" Aggie held her barf in her mouth as she put the tray back on Max's head, and ran down the stairs to find a place to puke.
Ignoring his new friend running out of the room to puke, the Grinch made some stretches, until he's much relax again, "It's go time!"
The Grinch and Max descended to the library by his chair, while Aggie met up with them there from the door. Even Fred and his mate and child came too.
"Maybe I shouldn't let you read that book alone," Aggie said, still feeling dizzy after puking.
"I've been reading almost every page of the book you gave me, Aggie, and I just discovered that before taking Donna on our date tonight, I should give her little gifts; flowers and box of chocolates," The Grinch showed his friends the picture of the page where a male Who giving flowers to a female Who. "But how would I know if she likes them? What are her favorite flowers?"
While the Grinch was questioning himself, Aggie felt the head of her wand staff vibrating. She checked on its belly, and saw the name of Cindy Lou. Cindy Lou was the one who called her. She can't answer the phone with Grinch besides her. She has to find a place where she can answer her "phone" in private. "Umm, hold that thought. I'll be right back," Aggie told her friend as she rushed outside the library, shut the door behind her, and answered her penguin phone. "What is it, Cindy Lou?"
While her friends waited for Donna to wake up from her nap, Cindy Lou was downstairs where no one can here her talking to Aggie, "Aggie! Finally you answered!"
"Why? What's going on?" asked Aggie.
"I finally ask mom what's her favorite flowers last night before her night shift! They are tulips, any color, orchids, still any color, and lavender!" exclaimed Cindy Lou.
"This is great, Cindy! Just in time that the Grinch wanted to know your mom's favorite flowers, and he wanted to buy them for her. So, what about chocolates?"
"Well, she doesn't have favorite chocolates. She likes all kinds of it."
"That's okay. So, how was she? Is she ready?"
"Actually, she's still sleeping after work. My friends and I already chose a dress for her date."
"Perfect! Right on schedule! I'll see you tonight. We'll do just as we planned."
"Got it. See ya, Aggie," Cindy Lou turned her phone off.
When Aggie put her penguin phone back on its handle, she went back to the library, where the Grinch is still thinking about what flowers he should give to Donna. Aggie started to act casually.
"Sorry it took so long. A little bird told me that you should give Donna colorful tulips and orchids, and still purple lavenders. And if you want to know what kid of chocolate she likes, just give her anything," she said.
"All lavenders are purple, Aggie," the Grinch groaned and stood up from his chair. "And since when did you get a little bird?"
"I don't have a bird. I made it up," the winged human confessed.
"Then, how did you know Donna likes tulips, orchids and lavenders, and likes any kind of chocolate?" The green fellow asked.
"Just a hunch," she lied with a grin. "So, are you going back to Whoville and buy these things?"
"Actually, I have something else planned." The Grinch then turned to his dog. "Max, this morning, you, Aggie and I need to do some reckon." Then, he turned to the reindeer family, "Fred, Felicia, Fred Jr., you just sit right there, and don't touch anything."
Outside, the Grinch wore his monitor belt, and Max was tied with a drone on nis baxk, and wore a helmet with a camera and headphone on it.
"Are you going to do the same thing again of what you did when you give Donna that snowmobile?" Aggie recalled.
"This is different this time, Aggie." The Grinch explained, "I'm going to send Max in Whoville just to check on the prize of the flowers and chocolates that Donna wants, and I'll list them so I'll be able to bring the right amount of money to buy."
Aggie's eyes widened when she realized his new friend was right, "Oh, very smart, Mr. Grinch."
Grinch then turned to Max as he activated the drone to make the dog fly, "Alright, Max, you know what to do. Ready? Now off you go, Max. Fly, boy! Fly!"
When Max flew towards Whoville, he encountered the snow birds, which he barked at them to say "hi."
The Grinch saw what the dog saw as he commanded, "Max, stop socializing!" The dog obeyed as he proceeded to fly to town. "Okay, let's check on the flower shop." When the dog stopped by at the window of the flower shop, the Grinch and Aggie saw the prize of the given flowers through the monitor.
"Hmm, tulips are $4, orchids are $9, and lavenders are $2. Not so expensive," Aggie read the prize and commented.
"Great, I'll list it down," the Grinch typed it on the calculator typewriter. "Now, Max, go the candy store," he ordered as the dog flew all the way to the candy store and stopped near the window.
Aggie took a look, and saw one of the isle has a load of different kinds of chocolates, "If I were you, I rather not taking the dark chocolate. It's too bitter."
"Well, I can't argue with that. Dark chocolates are bitter. The rest of the chocolates, like plain and white, they are all sweet, just like Donna."
"She is sweet, but do you think that she thinks you're sweet?"
"Ha, ha! Nice one!"
While scratching behind his ear with one of his hind legs and heard his master and new friend talking, Max spotted counter of sausages as he delightfully flew towards it.
Without noticing his dog was after the sausages, the Grinch is still computing the prize for the flowers and chocolates, "Okay, let's see here. 10$ for white chocolates. For 50$, that would be sausages. Sausages?!" When he looked at the motor again, he realized his dog was onto the sausages again. "Max, please, not now! I'll buy you sausages later!"
But it's too late. Max took a bite on a sausage, but his propeller was tied by a rope of sausages. The drone was out of control, driving the dog into a trouble crazy joy ride.
"MAX!" The Grinch shouted in worry when he saw through his monitor that the drone was spinning out of control with his dog tied to it. "Max, are you okay?!" The next thing he saw through the monitor is himself and Aggie. "Oh, hey look, Aggie, it's us!" Then, he realized his dog is coming towards him so quickly, "Oh, dear."
When Grinch and Aggie glanced an incoming dog, Max crashed into his master with sausages with him. Aggie noticed a sausage on her hair that was dropped by Max, and took a bite from it, while Grinch groaned at his dog, "Bad dog!"
The Grinch, Max and Aggie made it back in the cave as Grinch threw the drone aside.
"Fred, we're home!" He called as he and his two companions went to the kitchen and noticed something confusing. "What are you doing?" He asked.
Fred and his mate, which the Grinch named her Felicia, let their child eat whip cream as it came out from his nose, and sucked it up back in, just like his father did. Both Grinch and Aggie looked disgust by this.
"Okay," Grinch decided to ignore that as he lead his friends to the planning room. "Come on. I have something to discuss with you." He showed a bouquet of flowers and empty box of chocolates on the table. "Listen, this is a very important thing to me that my first date should be perfect, and I need you to cooperate with me. Aggie, I will give you the most important assignment of all!"
"Really?! What is it?!" Aggie excitingly squealed.
"You're going to buy the stuff I listed for me," Grinch replied.
Aggie enthusiasm faded as she glared at her green friend, "So, you mean, you just sent Max to check on the prizes of the flowers and chocolates, and you want me to buy them for you?!"
"Aggie, please, I need to be ready. I'm still a little nervous. I just need to calm myself here in my cave. You have to buy the gifts for me. I'll give you money for that," he reached for his wallet, and handed the money to Aggie's hand.
Aggie hated to be treated like a slave or commanded, but she knew this is new to the Grinch, and he was unprepared. And that's why she's here: to help him. She then sighed as she grasped the money, "Alright, I'll do it… for just once, okay?"
"I knew I can count on you, Ags," the Grinch patted her on the shoulder, then turned to his animal friends. "And as for you guys, when Aggie brought back the gifts, you mist never eat them. They are for Donna for my date." He then grabbed a bouquet of different flowers fro the table, and showed them to the animals. "I know you reindeers love grass, leaves and flowers, so I think maybe you…"
Before he could say anything else, the reindeer were really tempted to eat the flowers, since it's what reindeer eat. The Grinch backed away with the flowers, "No, no, no! Look at yourselves! Discipline! We must—" But Fred already snatched the flowers from his hand.
Both Grinch and Aggie groaned at this result, "Resist." But then, they noticed Fred was only giving the flowers to his mate.
"Aww, I guess he took it for a right reason," Aggie giggled.
Back in the Lou-Who household, Donna Lou woke up from her nap after another night shift as she yawned so hard and loud. Once she sat up on her bed, she rubbed her eyes, opened them and startled to see you five children, including her own daughter, in front of her.
"What are you kids doing here?" She asked.
"Sorry we scared you, Mom, we're just here to help ready for your date with Mr. Grinch tonight," Cindy Lou explained.
"Thanks, sweetie. You don't have to do that. I can take care of myself," Donna hesitated.
"We don't mind, Mom. We really want to help you. In fact, we already chose you a dress."
Cindy and her friends showed Donna a purple glittery dress that they picked from the closet.
Donna gasped as she remembered that dress, "Oh, Cindy, this is a dress I used to wear when I dated your father!"
"And now, you're going to wear this for your date with Mr. Grinch!" Cindy exclaimed happily. "Isn't this coincidence?"
"And then, Ms. Who, we're going to help for your finishing touch later…" Ozzy took out a kit from his bag. "Make-up! My mom let me borrow this." Then, he secretly whispered to Axl, "I actually stole it."
"Alright, guys, let's get to work," Cindy instructed as she and her friends guided Donna to her bathroom.
"This isn't really necessary, kids," stammered Donna.
"Don't worry, Ms. Who, we know what to do," Izzy said.
Meanwhile, Aggie rushed to town to buy the things on the list the Grinch gave to her. She bought the bouquet of flowers that Donna like, and a heart box of different kinds of chocolates. Even is she already bought everything on the list, Aggie has more things to buy for this date as she made a sinister smirk.
With extra money she saved, Aggie went to the shopping mall to buy the things that Grinch really needed for his date, even if it was unnecessary for him. While she started shopping, she could here the song, "1999" by Charli XCX and Troye Sivan as she started dancing. Aggie went to the men's aisle to buy a tuxedo. She knew the Grinch's size, even if he never wore a shirt, she just knew by observing, thanks to her detective skills before she retired. She then bought men's perfume, hair gel, clean hair comb, breath spray, and men's soap and shampoo, just in case. She also bought hair dye just for her.
After shopping, Aggie rushed out of town to get to Mt. Crumpit. It's been a long shopping. She may have been spending almost 2 or 3 hours of shopping to buy these stuff. When she was about to pass Bricklebaum's house, she noticed something buried under the snow. When she was about to reach for it, it suddenly exploded with sparks. It's actually a fire cracker. The winged human was startled in fear and back away, trying to avoid the fire cracker, while her stuff were scattered on the ground.
Bricklebaum heard his fire cracker popping, but also noticed Aggie backing away from it. "Oh my goodness, Ms. Aggie, I'm coming." He rushed out of his house to put the fire cracker off, and helped Aggie to get up, "Here, let me help you up."
"Thanks, Mr. Bricklebaum, I really needed that," Aggie rubbed the snow off her arm.
While helping the girl up, Bricklebaum noticed something under his foot as he picked up and read it, "Hair dye. Gorgeous black dye."
Aggie panicked when the Grinch's neighbor noticed her secret stuff as she snatched it away from him, "How did that get in there?" She blushed.
"Hey, I'm sorry about made you un-comfy. We all have to keep the grey away. I, myself, use chocolate explosion," Bricklebaum explained.
"Actually, I already got white hair when I was a kid," Aggie corrected as she picked up the stuffs that were dropped fro the bags, and put them back in.
"What's with all these stuffs?" the happy Who asked.
"Oh, Grinch told me to buy flowers and chocolates, but I also bought other things, like a suit, men's perfume, and things that a man needs for his date."
"Should I come along? I'm his best friend after all."
"Uh, sure, whatever you say."
"Great! Now let me carry these bags for you."
When Bricklebaum took the bag for her, Aggie shrugged as they walked on the land way up to the Grinch's cave
The Grinch was playing with Fred Jr. by throwing a ball while the baby reindeer chased after it. Just then, someone's knocking on his door. He thought it was Aggie.
"Finally! She's here!" He's been waiting for Aggie for hours and he was almost starting to worry. But when he answered the door, he found not just Aggie, but also his happiest neighbor. "Aah! Bricklebaum! What are you doing here?!"
"Aggie told me you're getting ready for your date, and I'm here to help," Bricklebaum replied.
The Grinch then glared at the winged human, "Aggie, what did you do?"
"I didn't do anything, except buying the gifts you needed, and other things," Aggie said.
"What other things?" asked the Grinch.
"A tuxedo for your date, men's stuff, and my hair dye."
"Where did you get the money to buy those stuff? Wait a minute. YOU USED MY MONEY?!"
"Pretty much."
"Why did you do that?!"
"You need that. I knew you will. Now, enough complaining. We have work to do."
"This is not really necessary!"
"Of course it is, Grinchy, now get back inside. We'll fix you up," Bricklebaum said as he and Aggie pushed Grinch back in the cave.
"I'm not finish with you two! " He yelled.
When the helping began in the Grinch's cave and the Lou-Who house, the song, "Girl in the Mirror" by Sophia Grace, played in the background
The Grinch hesitated of everything what Aggie and Bricklebaum told him to do. Sure, as a girl Aggie wasn't allowed to be in his bathroom, so Max help Grinch out, even if he hesitated to use man soap and shampoo. After drying himself, Brickebaum, Max and the reindeer family combed the Grinch's fur, while used a scissor to cut long tips for him to be neat and tidy. The Grinch almost hesitated to use hair gel, but when he tried to use it himself, it's not actually half bad. Now, the last thing he has to do is to wear a tux that Aggie bought for him. He pushed Aggie, Max, Bricklebaum and the reindeer out of his room so he could wear the tux alone. While waiting, Max has to keep Fred, Felicia and Fred Jr. from eating the flowers and chocolates.
It didn't last long though that the Grinch walked downstairs with his suit, and met up with his friends who were waiting for him, "Okay, guys, what do you think?"
When the looked at him, Aggie spat out the juice that she drank from the juice box, and they all stared at him in shock, "Whoa, Grinch, you… you look.."
"Amazing!" Bricklebaum finished.
"Oh, really? I never noticed that myself when I looked at the mirror," Grinch made a pose.
"You look absolutely wonderful!" Aggie commented.
Max also barked in compliment.
"You are ready for your date, Grinchy," Bricklebaum exclaimed supportively. "Now I have to go home to take out the fireworks from my closet this New Year. Good luck."
"Thank you for your help, Bricklebaum," Grinch thanked.
"Anytime, buddy," He said before closing the door.
When Bricklebaum left, Aggie then turned to the Grinch, "So, do you want me to accompany you to Donna's house?"
"No thanks, Aggie," the green Who held his hand up. "I have a better idea."
Meanwhile, in the Lou-Who house, the kids helped Donna for her date. Only Cindy Lou and Izzy are in Donna's bathroom to choose good women's soap and shampoo for her. After drying herself, the girls helped the mother wearing the old dress Donna used to wear, and it still fits. When dress up is done, the boys are allowed to go inside now, and helped Donna put some make up. Since they have their mothers and their fathers taught them how to help their respective mothers how to put make up on them, the boys know what to do, but they still have Cindy and Izzy to help, since they're both girls. Donna was quite delightful and comfortable of having the kids do the make up on her. She really appreciated it. Later, Groopert brushed Donna's hair, Cindy put a green headband on her, Izzy chose the earrings, and Ozzy chose shoes for her; pink high-heeled shoes, much to Cindy's surprise.
It quite took hours, but it's already done. The kids went down stairs to watch Donna descended slowly down the stairs.
"Wow, she's beautiful," Izzy complimented.
"I think I'm in love with your mom right now," Groopert whispered to Cindy Lou.
Cindy exclaimed in disgust, "Eww! Groopert!" When her mom made it down the stairs, Cindy turned back to her mother, "Wow, Mom, you look beautiful!"
Donna chuckled, "Thank you, Cindy. I want to think all of you for this. I don't know you can do this for me."
"That's fine, Ms. Who, we're doing this for our friend. It's very important for Cindy Lou," Axl replied.
Cindy blushed as she looked at the clock, "Well, we have 30 minutes to spare. Perfect timing!"
Okay, I reused the "Go time", temptation/"we must resist", and flying Max scenes again. I don't know the currency of Whoville so I put dollars instead. If you know the currency of Whoville, please help me. Plus, this is also a musical chapter, but no one sings except background songs
1999 by Charli XCX and Troye Sivan
Girl in the mirror by Sophia Grace