The Taco Bell

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It was a normal day in Seattle, Washington. Well, as normal as Seattle gets, anyways. Atticus Lincoln, also known as Link was reading his book, and Kai, his crush, was wondering what he was doing.
"Link, are you gonna keep your nose buired in that strange book of yours all summer? You gotta go out, have an adventure!" Kai exclaimed.
"Not now," Link said quietly. "I'm trying to decode this."
He was looking at a cryptogram that said, "XSLFA QBE QXZL YBII". Link was offically stumped. He could not figure out what it meant. And it seemd very mysterious to him.
"Amelia is gonna take us to the diner for lunch, Link!" Kai exclaims.
Link, however, was not in the mood for the diner. He was publicy humiliated the last time he went, and he thougt the food wasn't very good anyway.
"Kai, I don't want to go to the diner," Link said solemmly. "I want to go somewhere else."
"But there is really nothing else in town, ulness you count the Taco Bell near the forest." Kai replied.
"Taco Bell?" Link's ears perked up. He had never eaten at Taco Bell before, and ever since last week, he had a craving for mexican food for some reason.
"Why don't we go to Taco Bell today?" Link asked.
"Taco Bell?" Amelia questioned. "Why d'you wanna go THERE? It smells like the bathroom when it gets clogged."
"I had my heart set on pancakes, Kai moaned."
"Listen, you can go to Taco Bell if you want to, but don't come crying to me when you smell like expired onions."
"Fine, I Will." Link said harshly.
"Don't let the door hit you on the way out," Amelia said. But as he was exiting the Mystery Shack, the door hit him on the way out.
"AH HA HA HA HA HA!" said Amelia. He was laughing.
So anyways, Kai and Amelia went to the diner, while Link tried to find the Taco Bell. He had brought with him his book and a couple bucks. But finding the Taco Bell was harder than he had previously thought. He had been looking around town for what seemed like days. The Mysteru Book wasn't helping him either. Until he saw a flicker of a sign in the forest. He went into the forest.
"Why would there be a Taco Bell in the forest?" Link asked himself.
After hiking for about an hour, Link finally got to the Taco Bell. But it sure didn't look like any Taco Bell he'd ever seen. It was surrounded by a barrage of giant Oak trees, in an open field, completely different from the rugged terrain of the Oregon forest. The open field was covered with at least three layers of pine needles, which got the attention of Link. He stuck his hand into the pine needles.
"OW!" Link shouted. A pine needle poked him. It hurts.
The resturant, Taco Bell, looked like a silo, sort of. Well, it was very cylindrical. The outside had rusty picnic tables, and looked like no one used them at all. Link walked up to the resturant's door.
"Should I go in there?" Link asked himself. "I'm starting to have second thoughts. Why is there a small, desolate, Taco Bell in this forest, miles from the nearest road? But I guess it's my only option. Kai and Amelia are probably done with lunch right now."
And they were. Kai wondered why Link hadn't come back yet, but Amelia didn't give a damn.
So Link entered the resturant. But he was relieved to see that the interior was normal, except for its high celing. There were also no customers inside, but Link thought that was normal, considering how the franchise was so isolated.
He went up to the counter. There was only one cashier working the registers. A very old, slightly deaf, bored out of his skull cashier.
Link decided what he wanted to order, than approached the register.
"Excuse me, I'll hav—"
"WE ONLY GOT TACOS!" the cashier interrupted.
"Ok, I guess I'll have a taco, then." Link said.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" the cashier yelled.
"I SAID I WANT A TACO." Link yelled back.
"Ok, then." The cahier said, then went in the back for a few minutes. When he came out, he was carrying dippers taco.
"That'll one dolla," the cashier said. Link gave him the money, and went to sit down at the least grimiest table.
He bit into the hot, spicy, juicy taco, filled with thick, pure, meat, mild, tantalizing black beans, and sour, fluffy, sour cream. He enjoyed the single bite of that perfectly cooked taco, and still tasted it in his mouth after he swallowed it.
But as he was about to bite into it a second time, he felt a churning movement inside his body, something that he had felt often.
"Uh oh." Link said, than rushed to find the lavatory.

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⏰ Last updated: Apr 18, 2022 ⏰

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