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white sack, inside of which the perturbed reporter grunted loudly.
“You can still save yourself, Lulu. Give me the goods on your teacher and I won’t run any of your secrets—not even the one about you shoplifting at the country club.”
“I wasn’t shoplifting! They sold me damaged merchandise then refused to give me my money back! I was merely righting a wrong!”
“I doubt your parents will see it in that light,” Sylvie said as she inhaled loudly through her snout.
“Hey, guys,” Lulu called out to the nearby baggage handlers. “This is trash. Just toss it in the Dumpster!”
After the encounter with Sylvie, Lulu was so angry and preoccupied that she was able to board the plane without incident. Only once the door closed behind her did she begin to hyperventilate from the low ceiling and narrow breadth of the space. After Lulu made a quick escape attempt, Theo and Garrison literally pinned her to her seat while the plane left the ground. Her lungs tightened and her body convulsed with fear. She was trapped. Short of jumping to her death, there was no way out.
After almost ten minutes of straining against both Theo and Garrison, she relaxed. Just as a doctor had once told her, the human body can sustain panic foronly so long. Though she was still frightened and shaky, the urge to throw herself out the door had subsided.
Once Theo was free of focusing on Lulu, his own anxiety over the journey returned ferociously. His eyes literally bulged at the sight of exposed wires crawling dangerously along the plane’s walls.
“I really hope these chutes were packed properly. As it is, Mac’s going to have trouble pulling the string without an opposable thumb,” Theo babbled anxiously.
“I wouldn’t worry; the flight is going to be over in a flash,” Madeleine said calmly. “And on the bright side, Mrs. Wellington just informed me that all spiders and insects die above ten thousand feet. Isn’t that spectacular?”
Lulu and Garrison immediately turned to Mrs. Wellington, both recognizing that she had lied to Madeleine about elevation killing insects. The old woman merely winked in response.
“Are they going to pass out peanuts soon?” Theo asked while nervously tapping his fingers on his armrest. “I’m starving, and so is Mac!”
“Celery and I are deathly allergic to peanuts, so wewould appreciate it if, as a bestie, you would refrain from consuming all peanut products. After all, you wouldn’t want to accidentally kill us.”
“No, we certainly wouldn’t want it to be an
accident,
” Lulu remarked with a smirk.
“Don’t worry, Hyacinth, Lulu’s been threatening to kill me since I met her, and I’m still alive,” Theo said. “Although who knows for how long, since I’m currently on a plane held together by Scotch tape.”
“Hey there, passengers,” said Maggie, the saucy brunette flight attendant, upon exiting the cockpit in a snug navy uniform. “I don’t want to alarm anyone, but—”
“Then don’t,” Theo interrupted forcefully. “I can’t handle much more! I just saw a piece of the wing break off!”
“Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that. Wings are the tonsils of aviation; no one really needs them,” Maggie explained. “But there is something else…”
However, as fate would have it, before Maggie could inform the passengers of the problem, the plane abruptly descended in a nosedive. So steep and sudden was the drop that all the passengers experienced momentary whiplash, including Macaroni and Celery. As the planeplummeted toward the ground, panic-stricken screams filled the chamber. Yet, even amid the rampant shrieking, one voice set itself apart.
“I don’t want to die!” Abernathy wailed. “My life is just beginning! I finally have friends who aren’t insects!”
Much like a roller coaster, the plane suddenly leveled out before beginning an almost vertical ascent. As the passengers caught their breath, Maggie stood up and attempted to regain her
“You can still save yourself, Lulu. Give me the goods on your teacher and I won’t run any of your secrets—not even the one about you shoplifting at the country club.”
“I wasn’t shoplifting! They sold me damaged merchandise then refused to give me my money back! I was merely righting a wrong!”
“I doubt your parents will see it in that light,” Sylvie said as she inhaled loudly through her snout.
“Hey, guys,” Lulu called out to the nearby baggage handlers. “This is trash. Just toss it in the Dumpster!”
After the encounter with Sylvie, Lulu was so angry and preoccupied that she was able to board the plane without incident. Only once the door closed behind her did she begin to hyperventilate from the low ceiling and narrow breadth of the space. After Lulu made a quick escape attempt, Theo and Garrison literally pinned her to her seat while the plane left the ground. Her lungs tightened and her body convulsed with fear. She was trapped. Short of jumping to her death, there was no way out.
After almost ten minutes of straining against both Theo and Garrison, she relaxed. Just as a doctor had once told her, the human body can sustain panic foronly so long. Though she was still frightened and shaky, the urge to throw herself out the door had subsided.
Once Theo was free of focusing on Lulu, his own anxiety over the journey returned ferociously. His eyes literally bulged at the sight of exposed wires crawling dangerously along the plane’s walls.
“I really hope these chutes were packed properly. As it is, Mac’s going to have trouble pulling the string without an opposable thumb,” Theo babbled anxiously.
“I wouldn’t worry; the flight is going to be over in a flash,” Madeleine said calmly. “And on the bright side, Mrs. Wellington just informed me that all spiders and insects die above ten thousand feet. Isn’t that spectacular?”
Lulu and Garrison immediately turned to Mrs. Wellington, both recognizing that she had lied to Madeleine about elevation killing insects. The old woman merely winked in response.
“Are they going to pass out peanuts soon?” Theo asked while nervously tapping his fingers on his armrest. “I’m starving, and so is Mac!”
“Celery and I are deathly allergic to peanuts, so wewould appreciate it if, as a bestie, you would refrain from consuming all peanut products. After all, you wouldn’t want to accidentally kill us.”
“No, we certainly wouldn’t want it to be an
accident,
” Lulu remarked with a smirk.
“Don’t worry, Hyacinth, Lulu’s been threatening to kill me since I met her, and I’m still alive,” Theo said. “Although who knows for how long, since I’m currently on a plane held together by Scotch tape.”
“Hey there, passengers,” said Maggie, the saucy brunette flight attendant, upon exiting the cockpit in a snug navy uniform. “I don’t want to alarm anyone, but—”
“Then don’t,” Theo interrupted forcefully. “I can’t handle much more! I just saw a piece of the wing break off!”
“Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that. Wings are the tonsils of aviation; no one really needs them,” Maggie explained. “But there is something else…”
However, as fate would have it, before Maggie could inform the passengers of the problem, the plane abruptly descended in a nosedive. So steep and sudden was the drop that all the passengers experienced momentary whiplash, including Macaroni and Celery. As the planeplummeted toward the ground, panic-stricken screams filled the chamber. Yet, even amid the rampant shrieking, one voice set itself apart.
“I don’t want to die!” Abernathy wailed. “My life is just beginning! I finally have friends who aren’t insects!”
Much like a roller coaster, the plane suddenly leveled out before beginning an almost vertical ascent. As the passengers caught their breath, Maggie stood up and attempted to regain her
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