Just so you know, there is a magical place in Wichita called the Exploration Place, and I shall warn you of the Monty Python quotes you're going to see… there are some in here… and if you want, and if you're on Facebook, there is actually a "like" page for "Hayley With A Chance." And I'd love to see how many fans there are for this story

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Title from Micheal Buble's version of the song "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"

"Oh my god! no friggin' way!" Sterling shouted when he saw the billowing fog form into a tornado in some weird contraption at the Exploration Place, he quickly stood in the middle of it, causing the fog tornado to dissipate.

Hayley laughed as she climbed in with him, "Now you can go back to LA and tell everyone you were in a tornado."

Cori quickly took a couple pictures of the pair in the tornado together. After waiting another ten minutes for the fog to come back they decided to move on to the next stop. They wondered through the other exhibits and then wandered into the Children's medieval castle. There were only two or three kids in the area. They wondered through until Sterling found the costumes.

"Guys look at this." Cori and Hayley heard from a doorway, only to see Sterling's head pop out with a crown on his head. "Costumes." He said simply with a goofy grin on his face/

Cori took a quick picture as Hayley ran into the room with him. And after a moment of rummaging through the few bits of kids costumes in there, they came out in their outfits.

Sterling picked Hayley up and carried her out of the way, as they started to act out the scene, "We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril." He said with possibly the worst British accent he could pull off

"I don't think I was." She said scratching her head

"Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril." He would not put her down.

"Look, let me go back in there and face the peril." She struggled in his arms

"No, it's too perilous." He set her feet on the ground

"Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can." She said lifting the small helmet out of her face.

"No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on." He grabbed her hand and led her in one direction

"Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?" she tried to pull the opposite was, back into the castle.

"No. It's unhealthy." Sterling replied

"I bet you're gay." She smirked at him

"Am not." He gasped.

They quickly took a bow.

Cori applauded, "That was so awkwardly horrible than you could ever imagine."

"HEY!" Hayley said punching her friend slightly in the shoulder, "You know it was epic, don't lie."

"Fine, the only thing that sucked about it was Sterling attempt at a british accent."

His jaw dropped slightly, "Hey, sorry, I'm from America… it happens." He folded his arms and pout, turning towards Hayley, "Cori is being mean."

Hayley Shrugged, "It happens, the only reason why I'm still her friend is because when we start to fight she always dangles a chocolate bar in front of me… and who could deny chocolate?"

Cori cocked her head to the side slightly, "That is a lie." She said simply, "It's actually sour gummy worms."

Sterling looked between the two, glancing back and forth at each other, noticing they were now having a slight stare down.

Just then, Hayley said, with the best deep southern accent she had, "Sookie." And just by saying that, Cori broke into laughter. He was amused by their inside jokes.

"So, where we headed now? We've explored all we could of exploration place." Sterling asked as he leaned again the faux castle wall.

"Well, first off, we need to get out of these silly costumes before anyone sees us." Hayley said as the popped the hat off her head and tossed it back into the room, followed by her costume.

"What would you do if I actually walked out in public like this?" he imputed with a small smirk.

"Well," Cori put her arm around his shoulders, "I would actually have to kill you."

Hayley giggled lightly to herself as she watched Sterling take off the costume. "Okay guys, are we ready to go?"

"Fine." Sterling breathed as he followed the pair back through everything and back out to the car.

"How 'bout we go hangout at the park?" Cori suggested.

Yes, I know, it was another short chapter, but it was one of those I just had to get out, I promise that chapter 17 will be longer, because there's another base of the story I HAVE to get out of this brain of mine. So I hope you liked this one… NOW, on to the next