Once Upon A Naomi

Naomi awoke in her cheerful little cottage smiling and humming along to the birds singing and flowers blooming. She made her perfect, Ethan Allen bed with designer sheets and put on her beautiful-but-ordinary dress before started chores, which she loved to do first thing in the morning. As she fried tofu eggs and baked yeast-free bread, a happy little finch flittered down to the window sill, where it chirped happily, lifted it's wings to take off, and exploded in mid-air.

"Oh no!", Naomi thought, "this looks like the work of Becky!" She was about to run out of the house, fleeing for her very life when all the sudden, She burst in through the door.

"Becky!" Naomi screamed in alarm. "You didn't tell me you were coming over I would have made coffee!" (Naomi then remembered her tofu eggs, which were burned to the state of uneatable. but it would go well with her flaming load of bread.)

"Coffee? Who thinks about coffee when there are so many other fish to fry?"

"Fish?" Naomi said in a puzzled tone. "Becky, did you implode that finch?"

"YES!" Becky shouted, causing Naomi to drop her perfectly-ironed apron onto the perfectly-waxed floor. "YES, I did, and I'll tell you why! He dumped me!"

"The bird?"

"Of course not! My lover!"

"How does that involve the bird?" Said Naomi in her perfectly-perfect way.

"When I asked Jake about why he wanted to leave me", (Becky was now sitting on one of Naomi's hand-made wicker chairs), "he said... he said... he knew about me and...."

"Oh no!" Naomi said fretfully. "Jake knows about you two?"

"Yes! And when I asked him how, he said... a little bird told me!"

Naomi rolled her eyes. She never thought Becky to be that gullible. But it was better than Becky knowing that it had, in fact, been Kathleen that told Jake. She would surely implode Kathleen too.

"Well, dear Becky, as they say... you can't have your cake and eat it too..." Naomi sighed and sat down in the chair across from Becky.

The sun beamed through the windows, and Naomi winced as the sun went in her eyes. She heard the quick pants coming from Becky, who was still catching her breath.

"So, what are you going to do now?" Naomi asked.

"About what? What is there to do?"

"About Jake..."

Becky slumped off the arm of the wicker chair into the seat of it, tearing her pants along the way.

"Oh, that'll never do!" she exclaimed, jumping up.

"Here, I'll get you a dress." Naomi got up and returned soon with a long, flowery, bright yellow dress with blue birds all over it. "I finished it just yesterday!"

Becky winced, and reluctantly took it.

KNOCK! KNOCK! BANG! ...Naomi heard outside her front door. She ran to open the door, but the door exploded before she could get there. Victor ran into the hall.

"WHERE IS SHE!?" he demanded.

"Who?" Naomi asked, wiping dust off of her face.

"BECKY! SHE KNOWS WHAT I WANT!" Victor yelled. and Just Then, Becky emerged from the bathroom wearing the dress which was a bit too small. Victor's eyes widened. Becky rolled her eyes, and pulled a key out of the dress pocket.

"I believe, Victor, you are seeking this?"

Victor gasped. He could not believe what was before him... the one thing he wanted... the one thing he needed...

"Well, Vic, you ain't gettin' it." Becky put it back in her pocket just as Victor leaped, trying to tackle Becky. "You think you can tackle me!?" Becky laughed as she poked him and he fell over.

He cluctched his chest. "Give... Me... The... Key..." He coughed, sputtered, and passed out.

Naomi raised an eyebrow. "Just poking him, eh?"

Becky shrugged. "Yea, some people are just weaker than others. Let's go, we haven't got any time to lose." Becky led the way out of the door, and Naomi followed close behind, not forgetting to grab her coat on the way out.

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