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*calms down* OK, here's the new chapter.
Kansas City was fun, for all the crap it got on The Wizard Of Oz for being grey and boring. I guess they had to step it up a notch after the 30s.
Shopping wasn't all that fun, though. I got a couple things, like a CD from this band I was not going to admit I liked to anyone else (I was alone when buying it – at least I hope no one was spying on me). But then, there was this major attraction called Great Wolf Lodge. I'd already known about it, but I didn't know Mom and Dad had. So on the second-to-last day of our stay in Kansas City, I couldn't have been more surprised to find out we'd be staying there for the rest of our time there, and had the day to spend in their water park, which was famed for its rides and slides. The Warners didn't act surprised, but they were even more excited than I was. They bolted down to the pool five minutes after we'd dragged our luggage to the room. The last I heard of them was Dot going on about how she couldn't wait to show off her new bikini.
I didn't bother to wait. I changed into my (white and blue) bikini upstairs and put my pink T-shirt and skirt over it, slipped on my jandals, stuffed my towel and goggles into my bag, and followed them, intending to take off my jandals and clothes in the changing room, since it wouldn't feel so weird as changing completely in the changing rooms. Obviously Dot and the boys hadn't cared about my level of modesty (although do boys mostly care about that), even though they had fur.
"Alex, tell the others you have to be up here and dressed before five!" Dad called after me.
"OK, sure!"
When I got to the changing rooms, I found Dot was already in her swimwear. Her bikini was pink and floral. It didn't look too different to her Animaniacs attire, in fact. Obviously she'd grown up a bit, but in the show, she would wear a skirt the same colour as her swimwear, and she still wore a flower scrunchie in her ears. Now, she put on a pink swimcap with room especially for her ears, and then smiled brightly at me.
"Hey, what took you so long?" she asked. "Come on, let's go have some fun!"
"OK, then, but tell the boys we're supposed to be back up at the hotel room and dressed before five." I said.
The boys were up in line for the toboggan ride for three. Dot bounded up to join them, so I went into the lazy river, a long river where the point was to go with the flow, something I didn't take the chance to do that often.
I was nearly at the end when I heard fangirly screaming. I could see a group of girls, younger and my age, crowding round something. "What's happening?" I asked a dark-haired girl near the back.
"Did you ever watch the show Animaniacs?" exclaimed the girl. "Everyone's saying the Warner Brothers and their sister are here! Except they look so different because they dress differently and are much older. Everyone's actually admitting they liked the show and are talking to them. I really want to get an autograph from them!"
This was awkward. Like the girl said, the Warners looked different now, and not many people recognized them. But this was one of the few times someone did.
Now I could see it. The boys each had a bunch of girls around them, enaging in fangirly behaviour, and they looked like they were thoroughly enjoying it. To be absolutely truthful, I felt a little jealous.
Dot was standing in more shallow waters, smiling and bringing autographs out of thin air to anyone who wanted one from her. One girl dashed up to her friend, who was near me. "Look!" she exclaimed. "It's laminated, but it's personalized, look!" she told her friend. I peeked over her shoulder.
The autograph said "For Ruby, stay as cute as me! Love, Dot Warner. PS: Call me Dottie and you die."
"Hey, P rincess Alexandra!" the call had come from the boys.
I sent them a look that said "You're calling me that in public?"
They took pity on me. "Alex, over here! Let her through, girls." I got a pathway through to the boys. Yakko slung an arm across my shoulders. "OK, everyone. This girl is the one who gets the choice." He then spoke straight to me. "They wanted us to do one song from the show. Thing is, the most popular ones are our solos, and we've already said we'll only do one all three of us did together. Anyway, the choice is left up to you. We'll do three if they're short, one if they're long."
I smiled. I'd liked their songs. "OK, then. You absolutely have to do 'Variety Speak'. Also, do the 'Senses Song'. Ooh, and the other one you should do is 'Aquaintances'."
Meanwhile, Wakko had called Dot over, and both the younger siblings were listening to it. All three siblings did all three songs. Except they made me join in with the third. "Whatever made them think that this could be a show?
Six friendies on a couch just drinking cups of Joe!
They lead such boring lives, but never fear,
Because we're moving in for a month, maybe a year!
Oh, we won't ever leave, no you can't throw us out!
We won't ever leave, you can scream, you can shout!
We won't ever leave, our new aquaintances."
After that, all the fans burst into applause and cheering. The Warners had obviously never stopped loving the spotlight, and made the most of it now. "Thank you, thank you." Yakko said. "Now it's time for us to leave and have some fun!" He grabbed my hand. "Come on, that slide toboggan thing for three is the best thing here."
I didn't like water slides much, until that slide. It felt easier having someone I knew with me, even if the other person there was a stranger (since there were only two of us).
That would have been the first day in Kansas that the Warners didn't try to annoy me, and I actually had more fun. And although I would never admit it to anyone else, my heart had beaten faster when Yakko had slung that arm around me when the girls were crowded around.
Well, I got around to looking up Great Wolf Lodge. The date wasn't there, sadly, but it was an awesome place. What did you think of my reference to 90s kids? Don't forget, the show finshed when Yakko was about ten or eleven, and he's sixteen in this story, so Alex must be a 90s kid. Now, please review!
