Kookaburra
searching for The Hidden Country
jelly_bean said:"Okay, in that case," Geneva started, grabbing a brush and undoing her hair, "Wear your pink shirt, pink capris, white shoes, and paint your fingernails black. If Irving happens to see you, fan your fingers over your face and he won't know a thing." She finished, tossing aside the hairbrush and giving Kendracula a serious stare, which instantly wrinkled when she saw the old pink-coloured shirt. "Ew!" She said. "It is too bad about your ninja stuff though. Ninjas are cool." Jelly cried, clasping her hands together, and staring into nothingness in an Asian-pride moment.
"I can't believe Marcela is still interested in our love lives. It's so childish of her, JUST because we happened to blurt the truth about her father's ex-seventh wife, she's never left us alone since." Jelly cried overdramatically, tossing the dress aside.((who spotted the camera? not too clear...)) "I think I'll try wearing my green skirt, so for once he may notice my eyecolour." She announced to no one in particular, grabbing it and moving towards the bathroom to change. Which took approximately three and a half seconds. Hearing a dull thudding noise, she ran out, and then gave a huff as she realised it was Kendracula attacking the camera.
"Where did you get that from, K-chan? I didn't know you were a supermodel!" She said, the disappointment obvious in her voice. "Everyone is selling out and becoming a supermodel nowadays. Next thing you know, you'll dye your hair blonde. ...Oh wait, it already is blonde. Well, then you'll dye it hazelnut, then walnut, then coffeenut, and then decide you either want to be a redhead or a blonde again." Jelly said, now rummaging around for a shirt.
"No, Irving says spiking of hair is for posers, and he's too original to be a poser. No no, he's a brainy one. He may be too smart for me, which if he is, you're to come rescue me. He wears his hair normally... yes, he's kind of boring, but awfully cute. I mean, he's really cute." She corrected, getting out a three quarters sleeve black shirt which had a white and lime green panda on it. "I'm glad you aren't going to try marriage again for a bit. I mean, I was betting you and Hamburglar were really going to stick with each other!! But then that purple chick waved her little finger, and he went running. Such a shame, and such a waste of two days. Celebrate singleness? When there's that cute-- yeah, if he doesn't propose tomorrow, I'll propose to him. We'd have beautiful children(not that you two wouldn't) and we would live in noodley bliss happily ever after. Unless he's a coffee drinker, THEN you can have him." Geneva said dismissively. The whole she was speaking, she made outrageous faces at the small camera, and Kburra was doing the same.
"Oh, dear, I never thought of that. I was so certain he was a Jehovah's witness! I mean, he knocked on the counter quite a bit. But you always are better at guessing these things. As long as the wives don't hog noodles or coffee, does it concern us terribly?" She asked, her shirt now changed and was applying heaps of lipgloss.
By the time she had applied a full jar of lipgloss to her lips, Kendracula struck. "You look PERFECT! Like a dalmation who hit a firetruck! Gorgeous, dahling. You'll be so glamorous and spy-like, he won't know what hit him, unless you hit him." Geneva announced. "But now, we shall go and strike fear into the hearts of men. And supermodels. ONWARD!... Do you think he would notice if I brought some noodles with me?"
Kookaburra looked at the clock and pouted, partially for the benefit of Marcela, who was probably still watching via the hidden-camera-in-the-closet deal. "It looks like I won't have time to change again, pity ... yes, it would seem that it is time for us to be off!" She contemplated Jelly's noodle proposition. "He can't mind if he doesn't know ... here! Three of your favourite noodle flavours, all perfectly packaged in camoflauge." She held up what looked like a wallet, a make-up kit, and a pepper spray dispenser. "I've been working on these ever since that blow up with Kevin on your first date with him. And remember, the spoon is concealed in your jacket as an empty kleenex box." KBurra hurriedly shoved the items into Geneva's already brimming handbag, wrapped a fluoro pink scarf around her own head, and produced a shiny plastic sword from her top dresser drawer.
"Time to hit the town, me luverly!" She exclaimed in a mock pirate accent. "Oh, and for the record ... I'm not blonde. I have hair the colour of ashwood. Ash trees have beautiful green leaves, you know, like my eyes ... and yours ... so it's really quite an accurate metaphor if you think about it. Only my skin isn't rough like bark, so that puts the lie to that statement." Kendracula was busily running about the room on last-minute errends, and then shoo'd Jelly out of the room with repeated hand gestures reminiscent of the signals that bike riders are supposed to do when riding on main roads (although they never did, at least in Kendracula's experience). When they were both out, she locked the room with her fluffy orange key and muttered some elvish words of protection over the door before dragging Geneva away from the hall mirror.
"You look fine. I'm sure Irving will absolutely adore those red and black streaks you put in your hair this morning. I'm thinking of going purple, but the last time I checked, Feria didn't sell a mulberry purple enough to change my ashwood locks." She grinned impishly and opened the driver's side door of Geneva's VW bug for her friend before jumping into the back and covering herself with a blanket. "Shhh ... I'm not here. This will give me perfect access to all of the night's events. So tell me, does Irving have any doubtful parentage? Any vampyres in his ancestry? Any serial-killers in his employ, or mafia in his blood? Surely there was something interesting about him. I can't believe you're going on a date with a normal person." There was something akin to disgust in KBurra's muffled voice.
"Perhaps he already has a child from a previous relationship. Or maybe he found out his first wife was really a man with amnesia or ... or ... something. If there's nothing interesting about him, we'll have to invent something." Kendracula paused. "Perhaps he has an unnatural love for pink or shopping or rubber cement ... I bet he used to fry ants when he was a child, the sadistic bug-killer!" She mimicked punching him from under the blanket. "This disco movie night had better be good, because if Irving doesn't spike his hair there'll be nothing for me to laugh at but your horrible dancing ...."
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