Chp. 2
I Got A Rocket in My Pocket And I'm Ready to Roll
The plane landed in Orlando, Florida the next night and at NASA HQ in Cape Canaveral where they were outfitted in their space suits. Miley and Lilly admired their tight-fitting ensembles. "Maybe this'll get Oliver to notice you!" Lilly teased. Miley struggled to suppress a giggle but failed. "Oliver? Please! Get real!" Miley said this with false contempt, hoping Lilly would take the hint. "Okay, whatever. It's not my fault that sometimes it seems like he sees right through you. I mean if it was me, I would've faked being blind. That way, he'd be all over you like molasses on a succulent- -". Miley stopped her, "Okay, you're grossing me out with your pancake analogies!" Later when they met up with Oliver, wearing his helmet sitting down, he seemed a little surprised at their uniforms when he stood and banged his head on an awning. "Fantastic." He said. "Aren't you a little short for an astronaut?" Lilly ribbed. "It's only the uniform, sweetheart." A moment of romantic infatuation passed between the three of them but ended abruptly when Robby Ray and Jackson entered. "Wee-Doggies! This is one fashionable space threads! The only it needs…is a mullet." Miley groaned. Jackson came up behind him. "Already took care of it, Dad!" He presented him with a removable mullet. "Yes, Sirree! That's just what this thing needed!" He placed it behind his helmet. Lionel entered. "Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to board our shuttle." Everyone followed Lionel into the docking bay labeled '94', unaware that their last steps on Earth until outer space would be the last they would take as normal human beings. They almost seemed to be walking in slow motion as if no armageddon was on its way. Then, Jackson tripped and caused everyone else to tumble to the ground. "Well, look at it this way. This'll be the last time in a long while we'll experience gravity." Miley groaned. "I wonder if outer space could still let me give you a swollen upper lip!"