Chapter 5

Willow's POV

I watched at first as Dina walked away. Oh the joy of friendship. Eventually I got sick of watching and chased after her.

Once I had caught up to where she had sat down at the edge of the woods, not in the willow tree I would have preferred but I was friends with dryad of this tree too, I remembered that I had put my Polly Pocket girl and one of her more hideous dresses into my pocket. See, I do have some resemblance of a fashion sense. I put the yellow dress with brown spots and a gold belt onto Polly and then had a brilliant idea. It was based upon a show I had seen last night.

"Twilla," I said, picking up an oak twig and wrapping a leaf around it, "your rendition of the Walmart commercial was fabulous and that photo shoot? You totally pulled of the "au natural" look. You are still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model." I jumped "Twilla" up and down a few times before dropping her to the ground. Next I rounded on Polly.

"Polly, I must say that I am very disappointed in you this week. You stumbled through your commercial and when it was time for your photo? Can I remind you that "Au Natural" does not include about a foot of make up. You are no longer in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model." I made Polly drop her head.

"Pull yourself together girl!!" I screamed at her. "This is another reason you are no longer a part of this show! You are incredibly over dramatic and cry at the slightest thing! See? You're doing it now!" I "slapped" her across the face with one finger for effect.

"Now," I said to Polly, a little more calmly, "Please hand in your stand. Now get out of here!" I yelled. I shoved Polly to the side. Then I beckoned to the still pouting Dina.

She scooted over and I put my hand around the ear closest to me and whispered, "I just fired Polly Pocket from America's Next Top Model." Then I scooted away.

I beckoned again, "I told her to return her stand." I slid away.

I beckoned a third time, "She cried so I slapped her." I whispered. "America's Next Top Model cannot be a wussy! Alright?" I all but yelled into Dina's ear.

I noticed Arty looking at us from about 20 feet away. Apparently he had seen the whole thing. Good, maybe now he would accept my madness. I saw Dina was looking at him to and in the split second we looked at each other, I knew we were thinking the same thing. '1.....2….. 3!' I counted in my head.

After realizing what we had done he got a shocked, funny look on his face. Then he turned around and ran back towards the school. A couple minutes later Clarke came over and asked us to come up to her classroom.

She walked behind her desk, looked at the pair of us, and said in a slightly skeptical, annoyed tone, "The new student Artemis told me that outside at recess you two flipped him off. In unison. Now that doesn't sound like you two but I wanted to check."

"Stupid newbie tattle tale." I heard Dina mutter under her breath. I realized I was going to have to be the mouth of this operation.

"No, that wasn't us. Maybe he suffers from hallucinations." I said with a completely straight, innocent face. "Maybe you should tell his parents to have him checked."

Clarke could tell that I wasn't telling the truth and I was pretty sure she heard Dina so I was relieved when she said "Alright you two. Just go outside."

We dashed outside and sank to the grass in relief. I noticed Artemis looking at me strangely again and I yelled over to him, "Do you suffer from hallucinations?"

"No," he answered, "Do you? I saw you talking to that thing earlier."

"It's not a thing, its Polly Pocket," Dina replied snappily. "And though they are a little childish, they're better than the things you must play with."

"And while I do sometimes get lost in the world around me, I do not have certifiable hallucinations." I said a little dreamily. There, how's that for smart talk?

The look on his face was hilarious, a mix between annoyance and skepticism. But before he could reply the teachers called "Yoo Hoo!," our version on a bell ringing to signal the end of recess.

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