Chapter Forty-Four
Delicious & Vicious
Bowie: You guys, we have the most wonderful person as our friend. We really do.
Isley: What’s going on?
Ziggy: Bowie, please don’t.
Wilder: Bowie, what are you talking about?
Bowie: Ziggy, god, he was absolutely amazing today. So brave.
Ziggy: Pleaseeee…
Bowie: It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. You saved Frey.
Hollis: What are you talking about? Saved Frey from what?
Lennon: This all sounds very dramatic. What did we miss on a Saturday outing while I was away working, only to find myself left behind because Booker hightailed it home! Is this because of what happened with Ziggy?
Wilder: I feel like I’m in the middle of a TV drama. What’s going on? Spill Bowie.
Ziggy: You guys… it was nothing.
Bowie: It was everything. You chased off that nasty bear who was attacking Frey. Don’t say it was nothing. You ended up naked and showing all your bits to everyone at the lake. And we didn’t get the brownies.
Wilder: Ziggy, you dark horse…
Bowie: No, he’s an enormous snake, not a horse, Wilder. So beautiful and his scales were warm!
Lennon: Bowie, did you touch Ziggy’s snake?
Bowie: With his permission.
Lennon: I wasn’t being funny. I bet it was so cool. I love snakes. Ziggy, will you show me your snake?
Hollis: Lennon, read back what you wrote… Ziggy, did you attack someone?
Ziggy: Bowie! No, I didn’t attack anyone. I chased off a bear who was manhandling Frey, shouting at him about having a divergent child. I got the impression he was some relative of Booker’s with how he looked and what he was spewing. Awful creature!
Hollis: Dear gods, is Frey alright?
Bowie: Sorry Ziggy. You were so amazing for defending him and Emmy from that monster. Why wouldn’t you want the guys to know what a wonderful person you are? Frey went to the hospital with the police.
Frey: I’m fine, a little battered and bruised. Ziggy, you were epic, and I’ll be eternally grateful for what you did for me today. I’m sorry I never got the chance to say it before I left. I hope you didn’t get into trouble with the police.
Ziggy: They were cool, and I got a date with one of them… so it was a win for being naked in pu blic lol…
Bowie: You did? Was it the cute, dark-haired one?
Ziggy: Yep and you’re right, he is cute.
Monty: Ziggy, it seems a good deed will reap rewards. I’m not sure my otter would have gotten the same outcome.
Bowie: Your otter side is gorgeous and so playful.
Monty: Why thank you… when are we going to have another play date?
Lennon: Play date? When do you get play dates and why wasn’t I invited?
Bowie: Erm… would you like to join us?
Lennon: Heck yeah. Do we get cake?
Hollis: How do we always end up back to cake?
Ziggy: Cause cake rules!