Carmen was making her way down the sidewalk. After a day of school, and staying to do cheerleading practice, she was ready to head on home. However, on her way back, she bumped into a wizard.

"Oh, sorry sir!" Carmen said apologetically. However, the wizard simply glared in response.

"...Sir? Are you okay?" Carmen questioned, before the Wizard shot a spell at her. After a brief second, nothing really seemed to have happened. Carmen then shrugged then walked away.


The very next morning, Carmen woke up, yawning as she did. "Well, time for another day at school." Carmen said as she got up. She took a glance at her alarm clock,

"6:50..." Carmen muttered. Oh well, class starts at 7:20, so-

Wait.

She woke up at 6:50.

Class starts at 7:20.

OH CRUD.

Without a moments hesitation, Carmen started doing everything as fast as she can. Shower, dry off, eat, brush teeth, greet her parents farewell.

She left, and started to run. "Okay, if I can run fast enough, I can get there-" she was cut off when she ran face-first into a metal pole.

"Oof...should've paid attention to my surroundings..." Carmen muttered, before hearing growls behind her. Taking a look back, she saw a man on the floor, unconscious. And the dogs he was walking were growling at her because she knocked him out by accident.

"Uh...nice doggies?" Carmen said fearfully, before making a break for it while screaming as the dogs chased her. However, she eventually got away...

...because Hector stepped on her, and thus she was stuck under his foot for the rest of the walk to school.


"Ow, ow, ow, ow..."

Carmen said those words repeatedly as Hector's foot took a step, her body in utter pain. Luckily for her, she eventually came off, leaving her flattened like a pancake. Luckily, her friends noticed her.

"Carmen? Is that you?" Penny asked, shocked by her friend's injury.

"Yes..."

Masami was next to ask a question. "Are you okay?"

Getting up, Carmen quickly blew into her fingers to be no longer flat as a pancake. "Just in a whole lot of pain."

"You may want to head to class." Molly suggested.

"I know..." Carmen muttered, before heading off.

"Gosh, I had a rough start...though I'm sure thing'll get better." Carmen said to herself, before bumping into Tina.

"Cactus, pay up." Tina said.

"H-Huh?"

"I want you to pay up. Give your lunch money to me now!" Tina demanded. Carmen dig through her bag to find none. "Um...I don't have it...I rushed to school today."

"Well then, I'm hungry right now, and you look like a good substitute." Carmen's eyes showed fear. "T-Tina, can we talk about this?" Carmen begged, hoping to get out of this.

"No." And with that, Tina slammed her jaws onto Carmen, and swallowed, trapping the cactus inside her.

Carmen screamed in terror as she slid into Tina's stomach and looked around in a panic. "Oh no...no, no, no...I gotta get out..."

Outside, Tina was sitting in class as Miss Simian was doing role call. "Balloon!"

"Here Miss Simian!"

"Toast!"

"Present!"

"Robot!"

"I am here."

"Cactus!"

Beat.

"Cactus? I swore I saw her in the hallways."

That was when Tina started hiccuping and holding her stomach in pain. The reason? Carmen wasn't sitting around, and was fighting inside. "I...don't feel so good..."

"...Fine, go to the Nurse." Miss Simian said begrudgingly.

Tina, thinking Carmen was nothing but a memory now, made her way to the Nurse's Office. "Nurse, my stomach feels weird!"

She sighed and motioned Tina to get close. But when she did...

...Carmen pushed her face against the stomach, showing an outline of her body while she let out screams. "For crying out loud, Tina..." The Nurse replied. "I'm getting the pole."


Carmen groaned at her day thus far. First, she is late for school, then she gets chased by a pack of dogs, then gets stomped on by Hector, gets eaten alive by Tina, and when she came to class after it all, she got a three day detention without being given time to explain why she was late.

"Oh, today is just the worst..." Carmen muttered, unaware Alan made his way towards her.

"Carmen?" He asked, causing her to jump in surprise and fall to the ground with a thud.

"Oh, it's just you Alan." Carmen said, trying to catch her breath.

"You looked stressed. What's the matter?" Alan asked as Carmen took a deep breath. "Today was terrible..." She said.

"How bad was it?"

After explaining her bizarre terrible day, Alan wrapped his string around her. "Don't worry. I'm certain it will get better." Alan told her, causing her to smile. "But that seems like bad luck. I'll see if Carrie knows anything."


"There you are Carrie!"

Carrie paused upon hearing Alan's turned around to see him looking worried. "You okay?" She asked.

"I'm fine, it's Carmen I'm worrying about." Alan said. Carrie raised an eyebrow. "I was smelling magic on her...what is the issue though?"

"I think she's suffering from Bad Luck."

Carrie looked at Carmen on the playground. The cactus was getting hit by balls unintentionally. "...I see. I think I have a spell to get rid of that."

Alan smiled that his girlfriend will be free from the spell. "Then let's do it."


Afterschool, Carmen was injured, in trouble, and amongst others. She weakly walked out of the school building and tripped on a step of a stair, causing her to tumble down. Rolling onto her side, she sighed, before feeling a shadow loom over her.

"Oh, what now...?" She muttered, before seeing Alan over her, alongside Carrie.

"Hey Carmen, I figured out what's going on." Carrie said.

"What?"

"You're cursed by bad luck. But I can fix that." Carrie took out her spell book and started chanting. Afterwards, a light flashed and Carmen shook her head. "W-What happened?! Am I alive?!"

"Yes, and it's safe to say that you're no longer cursed." Carrie said.

"Thanks Carrie."

"Don't thank me, thank your boyfriend."

Carmen looked at Alan and blew him a kiss. He smiled back. Things were going back to the way they usually were.