Marian unlocked the door to the cabin and flicked on a light. She looked around the familiar room and smiled. It was sort of musty, there were cobwebs in the corners and everywhere else, but that was okay. They could go shopping for food the next day, and also maybe for clothes for her and Glyn. That would be a good idea.
"There are only three bedrooms." Marian stated. "Two with a double bed each and one with a queen."
"I'll sleep on the couch." Glyn offered. "Or do you have a table..?"
"Haha. You aren't sleeping under the table for two weeks, Glyndalyn." Marian commanded.
"Why?"
"Because that's barbaric and I won't let you. Besides, the floor is really hard." Marian said. "And it is kinda splintery too. So be careful when you walk."
"Okay." Glyn looked at the floor and hopped on one foot a few times experimentally. "Ow!"
"Glyn. You so didn't just kill your other foot, did you?" Marian sighed.
"NO!" Glyn sat on a couch and put her head on her knees. "Do you have ANY clothes at all that aren't wet or burnt? Please say you keep an extra stash here or something…"
"Umm…. I dunno. I'm going to search the bedrooms. Come with me? There might be …. Animals in them or something."
"Oh no! Not animals." Glyn smiled and followed Marian through a doorway. She was pulling things out from under a bed.
"I think these are mostly extra bed sheets and stuff like that. Hey wait! This is mine!!!" She held up a pair of drawstring pants then reached under the bed again and shrieked. "SPIDER!!!!!!!" She dropped everything she was holding and ran out of the room. Glyn started laughing and grabbed one of the bedsheets and started making herself a toga over her wet clothes. When she walked out of the bedroom, Marian was sitting on the couch with Brian next to her, and AJ was in a chair.
"What are you wearing?" Brian wondered.
"A toga, genius." Glyn smirked.
"You're Aphrodite." Marian stated.
"Haha, very funny Mari." Glyn rolled her eyes and looked up at something on the wall of the cathedral-kinda-style-ceiling. "What's that?" she pointed at it.
"What?" Marian turned to look at it as the bat decided it wanted to fly around the room for a bit.
"Oo a bat!"Glyn cried gleefully. "I love bats!"
"Glyn you're crazy!" AJ stated.
"Someone make it go outside!" Marian commanded.
"I'm not touching it." Brian said.
"Aww, is evewyone afwaid of a wittle bat?" Glyn said sarcastically. "It's not going to hurt anyone. It's just a bat for god's sake."
"It's going to get stuck in my hair!" AJ yelled. He saw a flyswatter on the wall and grabbed it.
"Put that DOWN, AJ. If you so much as touch the bat with that thing I'll-" Glyn tried to take it from him.
"It's trying to eat me!!" Brian jumped off the couch and covered his head. The bat had dive-bombed him and now he was scared.
"You people are so pathetic!! You let those little rat things run around your houses and now you're running away from a BAT. It's just a cute little bat with cute little ears and it flies and-" Glyn was disgusted.
"AND it sucks blood!" Brian said. Glyn laughed.
"That kind only lives in Mexico. Or something." Glyn replied. She watched the bat fly out an open window. "He's gone, poor little guy. Probably scared out of his mind."
"You're worried about the BAT?! It almost killed me!" Brian said indignantly.
"That's because GOD here was threatening it with a flyswatter, of all things!" Glyn SAID (ggdi). "I kind of doubt it would try to kill you anyway."
"There's a spider in there," Marian declared, thinking they needed a change of subject now that the bat was gone. She stood up and shut the window. "It's living under the bed."
"Oooh, a spider!! That's even scarier!" Glyn smirked.
"Well it is! Spiders are nasty." Marian walked into another bedroom to look for clothes. Brian got off the floor and sat on the couch again. AJ put the flyswatter back on a nail on the wall where he'd found it. Glyn glared at them.
"It's snowing a lot," AJ noticed.
"Maybe that damn bat's going to freeze to death," Brian muttered hopefully, looking sideways at Glyn.
"Maybe we should put you outside, Petri! Did you people bring anything with you? Besides that weird little car?"
"Um. We brought clothes and some food. And matches," AJ listed.
"Oooh! Matches." Glyn smiled. "Let's burn something. It's cold in here."
"Burn what?" AJ asked.
"Um. Wood. In the fireplace." Glyn pointed at a stack of wood in a corner, then a fireplace.
"That's a good idea."
"Clothes, Glynnie!" Marian came traipsing back into the living room with a stack of clothes. "We got this lovely flannel shirt kinda thing here, um, some really old jeans, drawstring night pants, a tank top, a long-sleeved thermal shirt.."
"Oh yay. Gimme the night pants. And the long sleeve whatever." Glyn commanded.
"Ask nicely!" Marian smiled fakely.
"Shut up." Glyn stood up and hopped over to Marian. Marian gave her a pair of pink drawstring pants with red hearts printed all over them and a pale blue thermal shirt with darker blue snowflakes all over it. "This is sickening."
"Yup!" Marian agreed. Glyn went to a bedroom to change. "I really hope neither of you need clothes.." Marian looked at Brian and AJ.
"Nah, we brought stuff." AJ said.
"So did we! It's not our fault the Pukemobile burned." Marian said indignantly.
"The Pukemobile the Pukemobile fleeing from freaks in the Pukemobile.." Glyn sang loudly. [NOTE! For those of you who never saw 'The Gnomemobile' as a child… umm.. TOUGH! For those of you who DID see.. remember the little SONG?!!?!??!] She came out of the bedroom and looked around disgustedly. Marian started laughing. "What? You people never saw the Gnomemobile? Oh that was a classic!"
"Umm.." Brian looked rather scared. So did AJ.
"You guys totally missed out on a big part of childhood! Sitting in front of the TV for hours at a time, watching that movie over and over and singing along…" Glyn sighed loudly.
"And who's fleeing from freaks?" AJ asked.
"Yeah! We're not freaks," Brian added.
"Right. You're Sharptooth and Petrie." Marian threw a pair of socks at them.
"I wanna be Spike!" AJ whined.
"Me too! Why do I have to be Petrie? Who decided that??" Brian demanded.
"Marian did," Glyn informed him.
"I did not! You did!" she retorted.
"Why do I have to be Sharptooth?" AJ wondered. "Since Marian already said why Brian's Petrie."
"You're Sharptooth because you want to be scary," Glyn explained. "We figured you'd be pretty happy with that. I mean, since you want to be a 'rebel' and everything…"
"Hey! Watch it. I AM a rebel," AJ said defensively. Glyn and Marian laughed.
"It's cold in here. I wanna burn something!" Glyn looked at the firewood in the corner of the room. "Someone go get matches from that nasty little black car."
"It's not little, Glynnie," Marian stated as she looked over the clothes she'd found. "It's big and ugly."
"It's a nice car!" Brian protested.
"No cars are nice when they've been following you down the road for a long time. That's when you want to grab your good old gun and shoot the gas tank-"
"Speaking of that, were there bullet holes in that old green thing?" AJ asked. He thought he'd seen them but it was hard to tell in the dark.
"Yes there were…." Glyn answered. "One of Owen's drunk friends was using it for target practice once."
"And he let you drive that thing?!" Brian exclaimed.
"You could have died!" AJ said paranoidly.
"I thought we were going to die when you were chasing us through the woods," Marian stated.
"We weren't chasing you! We were… following you," Brian protested.
"You were chasing us," Glyn insisted. "And because of YOU I ran into a creek."
"And then you threw a boulder on my foot!" Brian muttered.
"If I hadn't you would have run into the creek too. I saved you," Glyn informed him. "Go get matches!"
"Why didn't you tell us you were going to Vermont?" AJ whined.
"We forgot," Glyn lied.
"Um. Yeah. We forgot," Marian repeated.
"You forgot," AJ echoed spitefully.
"Bullshit," Brian said happily. "Well we're here now. You can't do anything about it and if you lock us outside we'll freeze and that's murder! So there."
"A friend is someone who will help you move," Glyn recited wistfully. "A good friend is someone who will help you move a body." Marian laughed quietly. AJ and Brian looked horrified.
"ONE of you get matches already!" She pointed at AJ and Brian.
"I'm not going," AJ proclaimed. "I'm God and I'm not going."
"I'm Satan and I'm not going," Brian retorted.
"I am the Goddess and I say both of you get your asses out there or I'll throw you out," Glyn threatened. They both got up and walked outside. "Mari, why didn't we tell them why we were going to Vermont?"
"Um. We didn't want to, remember?." Marian looked uncomfortable. "Don't forget that crap upstairs. The pictures and shit? And my mom would have fits if she knew I was bringing strange guys here.."
"I remember. I just don't remember why we decided that. Hmm….," Glyn assured her.
"Decided what?" AJ entered the cabin, grinning. Brian followed him, holding a box of matches proudly.
"That we're going to bury you in the graveyard outside." Marian said quickly. "So don't go to sleep tonight. That's when we're going to kill you."
"Is there really a graveyard outside?!" Brian asked.
"No, genius." Glyn replied.
"So what are you going to keep us away from?" AJ persisted.
"Nothing! Jeez you are so annoying!" Glyn rolled her eyes and sat on the couch. AJ looked at her pensively.
"Soo.. anyone know how to start a fire?" Marian asked hopefully.
"I do!" Brian went over to the fireplace and started putting wood in the fireplace carefully. In a few minutes, there was a rather nice fire going and the room started to get a little warmer.
"What should we do what should we do?" Marian asked cheerily.
"What's upstairs?" AJ started for the staircase.
"Upstairs? Just some old crap. Um, the other bedroom." Marian stated.
"Cool!" AJ got about halfway up before Glyn started screaming. He jumped back down the stairs and went over to Glyn.
"What?!"
"There was.. a mouse! Yeah! Over there!" Glyn pointed at the pile of firewood. "Yeah, there was a mouse over THERE."
"I didn't see-" Marian started. "Ohmygod! There's another one!" Marian was trying not to laugh at Glyn.
"A mouse? You don't mind bats and spiders but you're afraid of MICE?" AJ looked at her dumbfounded.
"Yes! I hate mice! They're so nasty! They're all .. furry and their tails are all scaly and ughh!" Glyn shuddered. She really hoped that AJ was buying all of this.
"Oookay.." AJ thought something seemed kind of weird about all of this, but forgot about going upstairs for the rest of the night.
"We need FOOD." Brian stated.
"FOOD." AJ repeated.
"You can go get food if you want." Marian told them.
"I think we will! Come on Brian, we're going to get FOOD." AJ pulled Brian outside into the snow. They shut the door and hovered by it evilly.
"You owe me! You so owe me!" Glyn said. "Now AJ's going to think I'm scared of MICE! Fucking mice! Why couldn't I think of something better than MICE?!"
"I owe you nothing! They're your pictures too." Marian retorted.
"Mice.." Glyn muttered darkly.
"MICE" AJ opened the door and looked at them curiously.
"Food?" Glyn glared at him.
"Oh yeah! Food!" He shut the door and he and Brian trudged to the car. The snow was knee-deep now, and it was falling so thickly it was hard to see.
"Damn him!" Glyn sighed and put her head on the arm of the couch. "Damn everyone! My ankle hurts!"
"Aren't you happy tonight Glynnie.." Marian bit her lip nervously.
"Shut up." Glyn mumbled despondantly.
"Fooood!" Brian called as he opened the door. His arms were full of bounty. AJ came in after him, carrying a cooler and a paper bag.
"God! It's another fucking mouse!" Glyn shrieked half-heartedly.
"Where?" Marian looked around the room. "I see it! Over by that chair?" There really was a mouse there this time.
"Haha, yeah, a mouse." AJ narrowed his eyes at them.
"No, seriously, there's a mouse over there." Marian pointed at the poor mouse, which was standing frozen.
"I don't see any… DAMNIT! A MOUSE!" Brian jumped onto a chair. "I hate mice!"
"Then why haven't you had that damn rat made into a taco already?" Glyn muttered.
"GLYN! Don't be savage!" Marian scolded.
"I'll be savage if I damn well want to." Glyn sighed and closed her eyes. "Sorry. I'm tired."
"It's okay, Glynnie." Marian smiled and watched the mouse run off to a dark corner. "Don't worry, Brian, the mouse is gone now."
"Good." Brian muttered and sat in the chair he had been standing on.
"Glyn are you asleep?" AJ asked. Glyn didn't answer, but she wasn't.
"No, she just smiled." Marian informed him.
"Glyn why are you mad?" AJ asked apologetically, then wondered what he was sorry for.
"I'm not." Glyn murmured.
"I want hot chocolate." Marian got up and went in search of mugs. No one said anything while she was gone, and she came back a little while later with a tray and four mugs and a coffee pot.
"Marian, you're too nice." Glyn said as Marian handed her a mug of hot chocolate.
"I know." Marian smiled. "We have six boxes of this crap in the kitchen."
"Wow." Brian said quietly. He didn't really understand what was going on. There was silence for a while, everyone drank their hot chocolate. "Hey, Marian.. is there a bathroom?"
"Yeah.. over there." Marian pointed to a doorway. Glyn got more hot chocolate and so did Marian, and they noticed that AJ was asleep on the opposite end of the couch from Glyn.
"When did he get there?" Glyn wondered.
"I dunno.." Marian frowned.
"Hey, it's the mouse." Glyn whispered and limped over to where it was hiding. She picked it up carefully and carried it outside. AJ watched her through one eye, puzzled.
"Poor mouse." Marian sighed. "I'll bet it was terrified."
"Yeah.." Glyn sank back onto the couch and tugged at a piece of her hair. "It's too short, Mari.."
"It looks nice." Marian tried to comfort her.
"I hate it! I want my hair back." Glyn whined. She was really tired and thinking about that damn box upstairs.
"What time is it?" Marian asked sleepily.
"Dunno.." Glyn pulled her feet onto the couch and lay her head on the arm. "Where's Brian?"
"Umm.. he was in the bathroom. I think." Marian shrugged.
"Hmm.." Glyn closed her eyes and fell asleep.
"Yeah…" Marian decided to go to sleep, too, and was just closing her eyes when Brian yelled and slammed the door of the bathroom loudly.
"A mouse!" he said as if that explained everything.
"You're afraid of a damnable mouse? It's a fucking mouse, Brian." Glyn muttered and covered her face with her arms.
"Um, okay." Brian was confused.
"G'night Glyn. G'night Brian. G'night AJ." Marian said peacefully.
"Night Mari.." Glyn replied quietly. She went back to sleep. Brian went to the couch that Marian was on and sat on the opposite side from her, going to sleep too. Marian and AJ exchanged knowing glances and followed suit.
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