Like You Did Last Summer (When I Was on Vacation): shallowness
Warren Peace walks up to the rest of the gang. Layla and Magenta immediately notice that he's uncharacteristically pale. Magenta waves her hands in front of his dazed eyes.
"Are you okay?" Layla asks. "Have you been in the Mad Science lab recently?"
Even the other boys start looking worried as Warren is slow to respond to the girls. Has he been the accidental victim of some horrible experiment?
He opens his mouth and they all freeze, waiting for any word to emerge. If he's capable of talk, that's good, right?
"Principal Powers sent me to the staff room," he croaks. Everyone exchanges a glance, Warren sounds so unlike himself. What's traumatized him? "With a message for Coach Boomer."
He falls silent.
"What happened?" Will asks.
"Yeah, what happened, man?" Zack echoes.
"They were—" Warren pauses and takes a deep breath. None of them have ever seen the pyrokinetic show so much weakness before. It must be monumentally bad. "Nurse Spex, Mr. Medulla, Coach Boomer – they were playing Twister together."
All five teenagers shudder at the disturbing mental image.
Meanwhile, Principal Powers gets impatient, and decides to turn into a comet and make her way to the staff room…
Author's Note: Written for the prompt 'Any, any, adults playing children's games (with or without actual children)'.
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