Chapter 8

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The door slides open revealing the large room full of machines and gadgets, beakers and test tubes filled with liquid candy and hard candy.

You haven't been in this room for a while and it looks different.

"Now this is the most important room in the entire factory" Your husband turns around and explains "Now, everyone enjoy themselves, but just don't touch anything, okay?" Everyone excitedly disperses.

Whilst Mike and Violet rush over to the gobstopper pool you show Charlie and his grandfather some of the more safer inventions.

Willy would have a seizure if he saw you near any dangerous inventions...

"Hey Mr Wonka, what's this?" Violets annoying voice asks

"Oh! Let me show you" Willy excitedly walks over to the pool, taking the gobstopper which was handed to him "Thank you!"

You quickly walk back to the group, standing beside Charlie with a hand over your stomach.

The bean is certainly being quite the kicker today...

"These, are everlasting gobstoppers, they're for children who are given very little allowance money, you can suck on it all year, and it'll never get any smaller, ain't that neat?" Willy seems like a child when explaining his most recent invention and it unknowingly puts a smile on your face

"It's like gum" Violet shrugs

"No." Willy shakes his head "Gum is for chewing and if you try chewing one of these gobstoppers you'd break all your little teeth off, they sure do taste terrific" Willy gives her a stern look before throwing it back in the pool.

Willy walks over to another invention

"And this is hair toffee, you suck down one of these little boogers and in exactly half an hour a brand new crop of hair will start growing out all over the top of your little noggin'. A moustache and a beard!" He picks up a dark yellow piece of candy

"Who wants a beard?" Mike scoffs

"Well, beatniks for one, folk singers and motorbike riders, you know, all those hip, jazzy, super cool, neat keen and groovy cats, it's in the fridge daddyo...." You zone out feeling yet another strong kick.

You were only a week away from delivering so it made sense.

"-Soul brother" Willy extends a hand for Mike to take and instead he looks at it confusedly "Unfortunately the mixture isn't quite right yet cause an Oompa Loompa tried some yesterday, well he-" Willy looks down to see said Oompa Loompa coming in the direction of the group.

His hair and extended all the way to the floor, covering his entire body.

"How are you today?" Willy asks, the Oompa Loompa gives him two thumbs up "Ya look great"

Willy quickly guides the group to another invention.

"Watch this!" He beams, pulling down on a lever

You jump slightly at the sudden noises being made.

The machine hisses out smoke as the candy gets made right in front of our eyes.

Eventually it ejects a strip of something and Violet takes it, giving it a strange look.

"You mean that's it?" Mike asks incredulously 

"Do you even know what it is?" Willy fires back 

"It's gum" Violet says

"Yeah" Willy replies "It's a stick of the most amazing and sensational gum in the whole universe, know why? know why? Cause this gum is a full three course dinner all by itself." Willy explains

"Why would anyone want that?" Mr Salt asks disgusted

Willy squirms for a second before pulling out his cards and flipping them "It will be the end of all kitchens and all cooking just a little strip of Wonkas magic chewing gum and that is all you will even need at breakfast, lunch and dinner. This piece of happens to be, tomato soup, roast beef and blueberry pie"

"It sounds great!" Grandpa Joe says excitedly

"It sounds weird" Veruca exclaims 

"Sounds like my kinda gum" Violet takes the gum she'd been chewing and puts it behind her ear

"I'd rather that you didn't theres still one or two things that are a little-" Willy tries to say

"I'm the junior world record holder in chewing gum, I'm not afraid of anything" Violet sneers and shoves the gum in her mouth, you watch Willy's expression go slightly worried

"How is it honey?" Mrs Beauregarde asks

"It's amazing, tomato soup I can feel it running down my throat!" Violet replies

"Yeah, spit it out" Willy remarks

"Young lady I think you better-" Grandpa Joe gets cut off

"It's changing, roast beef and baked potato, crispy skin in butter!" Violet continues

"Keep chewing kiddo, my little girls going to be the first person in the world to have a chewing gum meal" Mrs Beauregarde says with a smug expression

"Yeah I'm just a little concerned about the-"

"Blueberry pie and ice-cream!" Violet squeals

"-That part"

"What's happening to her nose?" Veruca points out

"What the..." You exclaim

"It's turning blue!" Mr Salt comments

"Your whole nose has gone purple"

"What do you mean?" Violet asks, continuing on chewing

"Violet? Your turning Violet...What's happening?!" Mrs Beauregarde grabs Violets shoulder with a sudden worried expression

"Well I told you it wasn't quite right because it goes a little funny when it gets to the dessert, it's the blueberry pie that does it...I'm terribly sorry" Willy quickly ducks down and you gently take Charlies shoulders, pulling him back with you.

"Mother? What's happening to me?" Violet asks, watching as everyone starts to back away

Slowly Violets bright blue pantsuit turns a violet colour, matching her now changing skin tone and you let out an audible gasp when Violets middle starts expanding.

Like a blueberry.

"She's swelling up!" Grandpa Joe gasps

"Like a blueberry" Charlie whispers

Willy stands up slowly, watching everything unfold before sinking back down.

"I've tried it on like twenty Oompa Loompas and each one ended up as a blueberry, it's so weird" Willy finally speaks making Mrs Beauregarde jumps slightly

"But I can't have a blueberry as a daughter" She shakes her head "How is she supposed to compete?"

"You could put her in a county fair" Veruca shrugs

The Oompa Loompas slowly push Violet over to the entrance

"I want you to take them to the juicing room at once" Willy says to one of the Oompa Loompas

"The juicing room? What are they going to do to her there"

"They're going to squeeze her, like a little pimple" Willy smiles "We gotta squeeze all that juice out of her immediately" 

"Mother help me, please!" Violet begs

You watch with a smirk on your face as the mother and daughter exit out onto the boat

"Come on" Willy says "Lets boogie"

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