Chapter 2: A Night Out

Nice to meet you Myra, I hope to become good friends with you.” “ And with you too Anastasia, I was thinking maybe we can go get some ice cream or go eat somewhere before they all call lights out.” Her joyful expression and the thought of me eating ice cream was very convincing. Plus I hadn’t had ice cream in a long time, so why not? “ Sure that would be great, just hold on a sec, I need to wait for my stuff to arrive so I can unpack and choose which dress I am wearing tonight.” “ Ah, of course it will be coming soon and we’ll do a little fashion show to see which one suits you the best.”

“ Ooh exciting, I can’t wait to be a model!” We both giggle and laugh and talk about how we are going to plan this wonderful night. “ Ooh we can then talk and make horror stories,and-“ “ No thanks i'm not that into horror but we can make stories about princes and princesses.” “ I guess we could do that too but I think horror stories are more exciting.”

As soon as Myra finishes her sentence, my baggage is pushed into our room by a tall bearded man in a tux. And black pants and black shoes. “ Oh hello Mister Humbert,here to deliver Anastasia’s clothes and other accessories?” The man bows an says,” Yes, Miss Nolcase, I’m here to deliver your friends things, I’ll set it here for now.” “ Ok thank you Mr. Humbert.” I say as I start taking the delicate dresses out of the pink laced suitcase. “ Ok so what should we wear?” Myra starts laying the dresses on the bed to see them at a more angular view to imagine what it would look like on me. The first dress she smooths out is a white and blue dress where it looks like a white dress with a long blue sweater but attached together. Pink ribbons were crossed 4 times under the chest, The bottom of the dress is more blue and at the waist line a scrunchy white fabrics is outlying were the top of the dress ended and the bottom part of the dress started. I look at it and think. Eh good enough. I slide my slender body into the breathable fabric and Myra braids part of my hair on top of my head and let the rest of the hair fall down in a lady hair do. My shoes are glass heeled and are mostly blue leather, with a pink bow on top. I adjust my dress and then grin and say, “ All good. I like this, now let’s go and eat.”

“ Ok, just one sec, i need to go get my purse first.”Myra says as she opens the closet door and takes out a velvet handbag with a gold Pom Pom attached to the button that closes the handbag. I didn't really have time to look around the room. There are two 1 person beds that are pink and green the colors you would see on a mythical fairy and one big purple couch. There is also a washroom and a sink right below my chest. A heart shaped mirror is in front of it and I saw myself. I smile and I head back into the colorful bedroom. “ Ok got it let’s go” “ Let’s go,” I tease as I repeat her motions and try to copy her face. She looks at me and adds,” Hey are you trying to make fun of me you copy cat.” We both giggle and then head out into the fresh air. It is starting to get dark, and there are no clouds overhead. It is silent and the only sound I hear is the sound of the click clack of Myra’s red high heels.

We enter a restaurant apparently called Tiago’s Tacos and it smells good until I smell spinach.Blurgh. Spinach. I don’t like spinach and judging Myra’s expression she doesn’t like the smell or taste either. A rather short man with a goat lower half and a human upper half and horns on his bald head, comes near us and asks, “ Oh hello girls , would you lovely ladies want to take a seat near the balcony outside on the terrace.” Myra’s eyes meet mine and I nod to tell her that it would be ok to be on the terrace. She smiles and says , “ Yes, sir that would be lovely.” The stubby man leds us out onto the balcony where many different creatures are talking amongst themselves. I sit down on a wooden chair and in front of me is a wooden table with a red picnic tablecloth and only 2 glasses of water. I am confused. “ Where are the utensils and the plates?” “ Haha it shows that you are a princess Anastasia , here we eat tacos and we eat tacos with our hands therefore there aren’t utensils involved.” “ Oh cool but what is a taco?” “ A taco is a crispy giant chip where meat vegetables and sauces are mixed together in the giant chip.” “ Well that is certainly very interesting.”

Another waiter stands right next to us and says , “ Mademoiselles, here is a menu for tonight’s special and other exciting foods and tacos that Chef Tiago is happy to make for his lovely customers.” He babbles in some kind of Spanish Mexican voice that I could barely understand even though I had taken a Spanish class last year right before the King of Spain arrived. I respond, “ Gracias”, and I take the menu in my hands and open it. Several delicious recipes of so called tacos are mouthwatering even reading what’s in it. The pictures make me drool even harder and I spot a nice taco that I would like to eat. It is called The traditional Avalon Taco. Hmm I wonder what it is? I look at the description underneath the name of the plate. It says, “ This crispy taco is shaped like a crown and since Here in Avalon castle is the headquarters or the brain of Avalon, we have combined and shaped delicious meat and salad into a delicious replica of a brain. Maybe Eating will make you smarter?” I make a face in disgust. Myra looks at me and says. “ What’s wrong?”

“I say, I’ll tell you what’s wrong, they are expecting us to eat a replica of a brain that looks like a brain and maybe almost smells like a brain. Do they think we are zombies or what?” “ So you know what a zombie is and not a taco? Girl, you got a problem.” “ Yes I do know what zombies are my stupid sister always tell me horror stories when I was little.” “ Really, you have a sister what she like?” “ I’m not a big fan of my sister, ever since I was betrothed to this Jeremy guy/ prince, my sister has been playing and flirting with him way too much.” “ So you’re jealous? “ “ No, I’m not jealous she just lies to me all the time and says it’s no big deal. I’m fine with her and Jeremy together, dear Lord please get away from that guy, he’s hideous, selfish, mean, annoying, and is super bossy. If I could get rid of him I would trust me. He is dumber than a pigeon that just got smashed by a car because the pigeon wasn’t aware of a noisy car. I tell you he is that dumb.” “Oof, girl,okay I will ask you one question. Do you see him around?” “No?”

“ Then it’s settled, let’s go graft on some boys.” “ Wait let’s order first.” “ Oh right good idea.” She sits back down and gestures to the waiter that we are ready. “ Wait, but I don’t know what to order.” “ Don’t worry Darling I know what’s good and what’s not, and what I see right now is a hella cute boy that is standing at the bar right now, I call dibs!” “ Oh boy Myra, just order.” “ Oh right, okay, so, my friend here will take a Goblin Taco and I’ll take the Vamps lambs.” The waiter bows and takes our menus and heads to the Chef to tell him of our requests. “ So about the school, I forgot to tell you,” she hands me a schedule of the breaks and classes during the day. I take a look and I see:

1st period: Manner with Mermaids

2nd period: Dancing with a Dragon

3rd period: Math with Minotaur

4th period: Geography with Griffins

5th period : science with succubus

6th period: English with Elves

7th period: Unity with Unicorns

8th period: P.E. on a Pegasus

Wow that’s a lot of classes. I wonder how I’m going to dance with a dragon. You know the saying you are on fire well I will certainly be on fire on the dance floor if I’m dancing with this scaley creature. “ Science with Succubus, what even is a succubus?” “ A succubus is a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men.” “ Umm ok, what kind of science is she teaching, sexual reproduction?” “ I don’t know, never went to her class.” “ Great now I am stuck with a teacher who will be talking about things that I barely understand.” “ It will be fine, now quickly put it away the waiter is coming.”

I put away my schedule and I look up to see the waiter placing the Goblin taco on the table. It looks… rather good. The Goblin Taco looks like a circle but folded and somehow stopped in the middle of the folding making it a crispy empty space. In the empty space was what looked like salad, tomato, meat, cucumbers, and some sort of ranch dressing on top. “ Wow, this actually looks good. BON APPÉTIT” “Bon appétit!” She says as she wolfs down the delicious taco. Once I finish the crispy recipe I wipe my mouth with the white and red napkin that was put on the table right before we were given the meals. Myra looks rather happy and satisfied with her meal and smiles from ear to ear. She looks at me and says,” Should we have dessert?” I think about it for a moment and say, “ I rather just have ice cream, it’s refreshing and I haven’t eaten it for a long time.” “ Okay I’ll ask the waiter to bring us the bill, so we can get the hell out of here.”

She motions the waiter to come near and the waiter nods and pauses in front of our table waiting for instruction. Myra smiles warmly and says, “ May you please bring us the bill, thank you.” The waiter nods again and goes to bring the bill. He comes back and with a pen to sign the signature of the payment. I suddenly realize Myra was going to pay for the meal and I suddenly felt bad and exclaimed, “ Wait Myra please let me pay I don’t want you to pay for all of it. I want to spoil you.” Myra smiles grimly and hands the waiter her money. I frown and say , “ I am paying for the ice cream.” “ Ok fine,”she teases. We walk down an alley that leads to several food courts including the ice cream place we want to go to. We stop in front of a blue and white ice cream shop that has a heading that prints, “ Ice cream in an Igloo.” That seems interesting and rather chilly but why not give it try.

We enter the shop and In came the freezing sensation down my body. I shiver as I grip to my light blue and white blouse. The blouse is a rather puffy and does not look good on a dress but this very blouse keeps me warm while we are in the cold room. The shop has 5 doors that honestly I have no idea where it would lead to but I glance over at Myra and tell her, “ Hey Myra, which door should we open?” She tilts her head to the left and searches for the right door that would lead us to a sweet delicious snack. She then grins and points at the 3rd door to the left. We open the door and in that door is of a somewhat looking mini Antarctica, the white sparkly snow shining through the scene. I step forward and realize I am wearing rather not equipped shoes for the snow and I pull my foot out of the snow to reveal a wet snowy shoe that my foot who was before tranquil in the slipper is now freezing in the wet ice muck.

I turn to look at Myra and see that she is freezing and has also not the best shoes for this environment. “Myra? Are you alright, I know I am freezing but you don’t even have a jacket.” Myra looks at me and says “ This ice-cream place is actually some sort of escape room, if you solve the puzzles and clues, and get out, then you don’t have to pay for the ice cream.” “ That sounds like fun.” “It is, we used to do this with my little brother who is now 12 years old.” “ That’s exciting.” “ Not really, he is a real pain in the behind. Always throwing snow. That petty rascal.” I saw that my questions made her quite pissed about her brother. I laugh and I say to her,” Don’t worry about your brother, girl let’s just go have fun.” She smiles at me and says. “Alright then let the winter wonderland begin! Let’s get this frosty party going, Yah!” I laugh and I sigh. I feel we are going to be real good friends. Myra. I have a feeling you won’t let me down.

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