by ToGard
Chapter 9
August 18th, 2010
“How did that happen? Will you let me see!”
“Jason, stop! Get off! What’s wrong with you?”
“Hey, Sarra, it’s not every day that your best friend becomes a liquid creature, and I haven’t seen you since before it happened. Let me see! I could try to put Meta Corps in court for you for a toxic tort or something.”
“Will you just—“
Jason pushed Sarra over. Sarra lost her shape and splashed into EnWol silver on the pavement. Jason frowned and hesitantly bent down to poke at Sarra, thinking her dead ‘or something’ in his obtuseness.
Across the lawn, super suited Lora and Cindy were carrying the very last of the boxes out to the We-All-Haul truck. It was six in the morning and dawn had just broken. Unless Lora and Sarra wished to fly, the estimated time of arrival by towing the truck was around three in the afternoon if there was good traffic all the way up.
Lora and Sarra were adjusting nicely to being EnWol, Lora was still sketchy about hurting people, regardless of their morality, but she was keeping a note to shrug it off. Sarra could hide her elasticity with little effort, but she was still put off by it. She figured that she was a better person than to sit around and mope about it though.
“I just, like, still can’t believe this is happening.” Cindy said. She stretched up to place a final box on top of the stack. Lora was floating alongside to help it up; the enclosed space trapped her energy and it made their hair burst up like fiery billows of hay.
“Oh, I know. I wish I didn’t have to go, Cindy. You really helped me get used to these new powers. You’ve been doing it for so long and I just started, I really appreciate that.”
Cindy smiled.
“Aw Bubbles, it was my pleasure.”
Lora got down from her floating perch and gave Cindy a hug, both unable to help but shed tears.
“Hey you turkeys, get a room!” Jason yelled from outside.
Lora and Cindy broke off as Sarra’s red headed friend smiled, looking to Sarra for a high five. Sarra, having resumed her normal shape, just glared at him and left him hanging. Jason frowned.
“You’re a bitch, Sarra.”
“Well, you’re an idiot.”
Jason shouted at Sarra.
“You’re a freak!”
“You’re a psycho!” Sarra retorted.
“I’ll miss you.”
Sarra bit her lip and nodded.
“Yeah, me too.”
Both Lora and Cindy giggled.
Serena came out of the house with Louie trailing behind her.
“Alright ladies,” she said while projecting her voice. “The house is cleared out, the glass and the hole in the wall are fixed,” she turned to Louie, who just shrugged and avoided her eyes, “and the new tenants want in, so we need to head out.”
Lora and Cindy looked at each other, the thought that both that none of them would see each other for a long time sinking in. They started to cry. They gave each other a last hug and wept on each other’s shoulder.
They broke off and Cindy started down the trucks ramp. Lora watched her jump onto the sidewalk and fly away. She held her hand out, hoping that Cindy would have seen her off. Lora watched her friend fly away until she disappeared.
Sarra and Jason looked at the house; it looked familiar yet there was something terribly wrong. It was hollow.
“We’re going to get a Count Sucirlada on the block, I just know it. That would be awful.” Sarra said, avoiding a pun pertaining to the word ‘suck.’
Jason scoffed.
“What is it about you girls and vampires? They must feel like sandpaper.”
Sarra sighed and rolled her eyes. Louie came up and slapped Sarra’s back.
“We’ll go north young one, for the witches here will make us blind.”
Sarra scoffed and glanced at Jason.
“No kidding.”
Louie nodded.
“Yep. Let’s go. Are you going to fly or carpool?”
Sarra shrugged.
“Let’s see how tired I get.”
“If you even get tired.” Jason said.
With Sarra flying above and Lora below, the Summers family took one last good bye before they left; the streets of Lake Forest California already looking alien to them.
