Forever

Chapter 27

One Hour Earlier...

Sophie's POV:

Keefe and I walked into Everglen, accompanied by Tam, Biana, Fitz, and Stina. I was glad Fitz and I could remain friends, after those weird months of a not-really-friendzoning but also a not-really-breakup and a not-really-fight. 

We headed into the huge family room as we sat down. We talked for some time, then played some Base Quest, girls versus boys.

 Stina can tackle really well! Half an hour had gone by, and we all got thirsty and hungry, so the six of us went back indoors, snacking on blitzenberry muffins (where Keefe had come up with my nickname, yet another one, on the list of Mysterious Miss F; Lady Fos-Boss; and more) and drinking some Youth. 

Once we were full, Stina and Biana announced that they wanted to play Truth or Dare.

Stina's POV:

Biana and I wanted to play Truth or Dare, it was a little fun thing. Even more fun when you're all in couples!

"Let's play Truth or Dare! Pleeeaaase?" I gave Pretty Boy my "pretty-pretty please with a panackes blossom on top" look.

"Fine..." Sophie and the boys begrudgingly mumbled.

"Yayyyy!" Princess Prettypants and I squealed in unison.

"Okay! Umm... Sophie! Truth or dare?" Biana inquired. Sophie flushed.

"Uh, truth?"

"Alrighty. No backsies! Your truth question is..." I gave a dramatic drumroll for Biana's gameshow effect. 

"Are there any human books that have incorrectly represented us? This includes dwarves, gnomes, trolls, goblins, and ogres!" Sophie nodded.

"Ohhhh yeah. SO. MANY!"

"Name one, and give examples how!" Keefe shoved another muffin into his mouth. He looked like the verminion that almost ate Iggy. 

Minus the dead animals, purple fur, and beady little eyes with that strange evil look.

"Hmm... well, there's Artemis Fowl. Dex has watched the movie, and I've read all eight books. It has dwarves, gnomes, trolls, and goblins, but they never mention ogres. They do have elves, too. And pixies, but those don't exist." Sophie counted off the species on her fingers.

"How were they wrong? How badly? Scale one to ten!" Fitz demanded.

"Well, dwarves are hairy lock-picking three-foot tall creatures, notorious for crime, and the main dwarf character usually farts his way out of any tough situation. They also have a huge appetite."

 The crew already looked shocked, but she continued. 

"Gnomes, in the books, are squat chubby humanoid creatures with rather large butts and terrible attitudes. They don't have any distinguishing powers, except for street magic, like removing a wart or speaking different languages. 

Trolls are ten-foot tall gorilla-minded things that had venomous tusks, shaggy hair, and sharp clubs. They occasionally eat their mothers. 

Goblins are dumber than trolls, and are lizard creatures that can walk, talk, and breathe fire. There's also a huge gang of them, and they caused havoc in Haven City in the second book. Elves are three feet tall on average, with varying features. 

It's mostly elves in their police, the LEP, and one of the main characters is an elf, the first female captain in the academy. Elves have great magic, they can pretty much bring people back to life, but they need to recharge or else they can get in serious trouble. 

It's pretty much how the series started. All of these creatures live underground, there are centaurs, too, and they all have pointed ears. There are also demons, one of which is so powerful he can move time itself." 

The others, all five, even Tam, burst out laughing. He ended up with tears streaming down his cheeks. Keefe almost choked on his tenth muffin, Stina fell off of her chair, and Biana lost a diamond or two from her hair when she was rolling around on the ground. 

"It's actually a good series when you don't know elves exist." Sophie protested, but she started to laugh herself.

"I'm so glad you were raised by humans," Keefe guffawed. "Otherwise you'd be Boring Miss F instead of Mysterious Miss F!"

"I love you too, Keefe." Sophie managed through her roars of laughter. Then she looked at the time. "Okay, um, Fitz! Truth or dare? Keefe, you can truth or dare him." 'We have ten minutes,' she transmitted.

"Uh, dare!"

Keefe rubbed his hands together. "Okay, Fitzy, I dare you to go to your Reception Hall and TP it!" Biana and Fitz shared a glance.

"No problem!" the middle Vacker gave a wicked grin, Sophie almost thought he stole Tam's style. They all got up and ran around to all of the bathrooms, grabbing so many rolls of toilet paper they had to get buckets. 

The crew practically cried with laughter when Della came in, just as Fitz finished. It was the second time this had happened. Laughter is common these days.

"FITZ!" she cried, "What have you done!?" she wasn't exaggerating, it looked like a winter wonderland, with toilet paper instead of snow! Sadly, the ten minutes were up.

"Wish us luck." Sophie said, grabbing Keefe's hand. He paled,

"Oh." And they glittered away.

A/N What's your favorite book that I've written?