AB: No, no, don't you see, Bettie? We can finally make our getaway! Yes! Ha ha! It's back to the bonny sea for this bonny Anne Bonney!
BP: Wow, um, okay. But we can't, 'cause we're not real, remember? We're 'dolls', so to speak. And even if I could don't wanna leave 'cause I'd miss everybody back at the Box, especially my darlin' Jay-Jay and (deep breath)...sure, even crusty ol' Innocent. But never, ever tell him that, Anne!
AB: Well, duh! Don't wanna make him happy! He's bad at being that anyway. But yeah, I'd miss my Blackie and...sure, the others too. Okay, Bettie, let's just do this. (to herself) Arrr!
BP: Good. But before we continue, Mr. Daniel, when you took our picture just now did you up and guillotine my pretty l'il head out of the frame?
AB: WHAT?!!
DB: You know I did, Bettie.
BP: Why, whatever for, pray tell.
DB: Uh...for comedy's sake?
BP: Are you askin' me or tellin' me?
DB: For comedy's sake, Bettie. Ma'am.
AB: Fix it, Daniel! NOW! Take another picture of her!
DB: It's as good as done, Anne! Smile big, Bettie!
BP: Always do!
DB: Oops, too close and too fuzzy.
AB: DAN-YELL!!!
BP: Ah, more comedy, big boy?
DB: Maybe. Yeah.
BP: Can you maybe get my boobies in the next hopefully unfuzzy shot? I love my boobies!
AB: Jeez!
DB: Sure, I'll try. Smile big again!
BP: Cheeese!
DB: And there you go, girl!
BP: Yay! Hey y'all out there! Like my boobies?
AB: No, they really actually like your smile more, Bettie! Jeez, now can we get on with this?!
DB: They like both, Bettie.
BP: Yep, don't I know it! Go ahead, Anne!
AB: Okay. Ahem! Hello out there, all of you joyless readers of underwhelming novice fiction and poetry who read this blog for some reason-
BP: Hey, be nice, Anne!
AB (chuckling): All three of you...no, two...one?...
BP: ANNE!
AB: Sorry. Sorry, Dan. Sorta. Yeah. Anyway you may or may not remember that Dan was going to write one of those sorely overdue dialogues with all the female 'dolls' (yecchh!) he's got discussing whatever's in our pretty little heads.
DB: Pretty, sure, but never empty.
BP: Well, our heads are solid plastic, so...
DB: True. My real point still stands, though. Continue, Anne.
AB: Long story short he made a valiant attempt last year with the four us, including Cleo and Marie. I commend him for that, at least! We were supposed to be talking about our backstories but it kind of got bogged down at the start with Cleo's so...yeah, Dan quit.
DB: It got a bit too complicated for me writing for four characters at once when it had been easier as a simple dialogue between two people, like with Blackbeard and Boz and Jay and Sig.
AB: Also you got lazy.
DB: Yeah, I got lazy. And just ran out of steam.
BP: Now laziness ain't so terrible of a sin as that. Dan had the most righteous of intentions to fulfill his promise to me, Anne and the queens with a dialogue for us gals, he really did...but yeah, he ran out of steam, like he said. Not gonna call him lazy, though, 'cause he ain't! At all!
DB: Aw, thanks, Bettie!
AB: Whatever. Anyway he plans on taking another stab at it soon, only this time with just me and Bettie. No Cleo or Marie. Not this time anyway.
BP: Just like my Jay-Jay and Siggy, only with us gals.
AB: And as a show of good faith he's gonna publish the dialogue he was workin' on and show you just how abysmal it was.
BP: Anne!
AB: Yeah, yeah, sor-ee. But, hey, Dan, all this talkin' we've been doing doesn't count as the official dialogue, right!
DB: Nope, and this time there won't be a special topic for you to discuss like I've done the past with the others, it'll just be straight up banter. Anything-well, almost anything goes for topics.
BP: Neat!
AB: So is that a new rule from now on?
DB: Mm, I'll consider it for the future, yeah. See what you all will say.
AB and BP: You mean what you'll say!
DB: Mm-hmm. And we're done here. For now. Say goodbye, ladies!
AB: Not before you promise to put us in a jacuzzi next time.
BP: Oo, oo, that would be so boss! Great idea, Anne!
AB: Don't thank me, Dan thought of it.
BP: Thanks, Dan! I'll ask Jay-Jay to send you a heap of blessings tonight!
DB: Ohh-kayy! Jacuzzi, huh?
AB and BP (severally): Bye, y'all! G'bye, you poor malnourished devourers of tripe!
DB: Yeesh! Now where can I get a doll-sized jacuzzi? Hmm. Did Barbie's Dream Home ever have a jacuzzi?
AB and BP (eagerly): Yep!
DB: Mmmm-nah, I'll think of something else.
AB and BP grumble.
To be continued...
DB/6.2021
AB: So'd you get it, Dan, you scurvy bastard?
BP: Is it a good picture?
DB: Yeah, Bettie, and hey, 'bastard' is hurtful, Anne! Also I'm not one. Pretty sure of that.
AB: Fine. Um, how's about Dan, you scurvy knave? Bit archaic but...
DB: Yeah, that'll do.
BP: I see ya done did awesome, Dan! Great pic!
AB: Yeah, looks okay.
DB: Thanks, ladies, I think so too! And now we out-
AB and BP (together, very rapidly): Don'tforgetthejacuzziDan!! (giggling)
DB: Arrr!!
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