| Snow Waz & the 7 Dweebs (by E. H. Maze) Starring Wicked Queen Squippache, Snow Waz, and the 7 Dweebs. And, introducing for the first time in decades, the return of Mirror! Mirror! On the Wall (as himself). Featuring Sleazy, Slumpy, Dumb (as a rock) Doc, Dumber, Gumpy (who loves shrimp), Bonehead, and Dumpy - also known as the Seven Dweebs. ================================================================= CHAPTER SEVEN
When morning had broken, the 7 Dweebs Inn was active with scurrying dweebs. Sleazy & Slumpy were cleaning like never before. Well, they never actually cleaned. Since there were no women around to check under the rugs, that's where they hid most of what they did clean. I think it would be best described in a song, so......................... Sleazy and Slumpy Sing a Song: "We run this house but this house is not a home it's a business and we run it that way - so, there Clean & scrub and make it nice - we may want to eat off the floor Go ahead and hide that dirty stuff, don't want it to be seen Take those dirty dishes out of the sink and hide them in the cupboard"
The camera fades away from the dweebs, through the kitchen and into the reception area - there, in the lobby, stand two men dressed in royal uniform. You can't hear what they are saying to Bonehead who is standing behind the front desk counter because the music from Sleazy & Slumpy's song didn't fade. Someone please tell the soundman to fade the music. But, it's too late, the men turn and head toward the east wing of the Inn. The sound of Sleazy & Slumpy's song starts to sound garbled and is soon replaced with a more distinct rhythm of a pounding bass drum in cadence with the marching guardsmen. You guessed it, something tragic is about to happen. Meanwhile, back in Snow Waz's bedroom the morning light glares in her eyes, awakening her to a welcomed yawn and stretch. She pulled the sheet back over herself and rolled over to put the sun at her back and she started to doze off again. Doc, picked himself up (after tripping over the tulips outside Snow's window) and scurried away. Snow opened her eyes. She noticed someone standing inside her room and it, of course, startled her. But, she quickly realized that is was only the clothes rack that the dweebs had in each room for guests to hang their clothes on - only the queen had a closet - everyone else had clothes racks. Snow saw her old blue jeans had been laid across the rack and hanging from one end of the rack was a new shirt - at least she thought it was a shirt. It looked pretty small. Snow decided to get up. She still hadn't decided what she was going to do about what she heard the Dweebs talking about last night. Maybe, she thought, the clothes are their way of telling me that everything is alright. Ha! Not in this fairy tale! Snow reached for the blue jeans. She noticed they still had all the rips and tears in them, but that they had been freshly laundered. She was thankful for that. Pulling them up her legs, one leg at a time until she got them up to her knees, then she pulled them up her calves. Wow, they seemed to be tighter than before. Although, she noticed they snapped okay. The dweebs had managed to "fit" the jeans. The blue jeans hugged her hips, but her stomach was so thin that the jeans snapped easily. They fit a little lower on her hips than before. Snow looked down and noticed that she could see to her hip bones above the belt line. Hmmm! I think I like this look. She ran both hands down and then up her side and noticed that the jeans hugged her quite nicely - tight enough to show off her thin, but shapely hips and thighs, but not so tightly to be uncomfortable. The ragged edges of the pants legs had been hemmed, bringing the bottoms farther above her ankles than she was use to. But, as it would be with all fashions that Snow would be introduced to, she liked the new look. Of course, she couldn't wait to put on the shirt. It was a sleeveless, tight fitting, collarless, cotton t-shirt that finished its trip over her head and down her top to end a good 3 inches above her belly button. She had never gone out in public with so much of herself showing. She was slightly aflush with how she felt about how much she liked how she thought she looked - and what she would look like to others. But, she loved it! That's when she decided to decide what she was going to do. Although she was quite thankful to the dweebs (and intended to tell them so) for all they had done for her, she was going to keep heading as far away from the Squippache Kingdom as possible. She was going to start a new life, with a new look, in a new place. Yep, that's what she decided. Snow sat at the edge of the bed and began to comb her hair. She had one of those moments. You know what I'm talking about? One of those moments when you suddenly think of something from a long time ago, but you don't really know what exactly triggered the memory. It just jumps out from the back of your brain and you see it like it was happening "right now." Snow had one of those. It was, of course, a song she had heard. She could still see the Kingdom Idol winner performing the song on stage at the Paladium. Snow was only fourteen at the time. She had won tickets to the concert by being the first to appear before the Town Cryer with the answer to the daily trivia question. She won four tickets and she and her three best friends in all the world had been escorted down to the front row. Bo Jester was singing "Some People" and he noticed Snow, of course, and, Oh my, she couldn't believe it, she was going to faint, he leaned over and grabbed her outstretched hand and pulled her up on stage and she and he danced while he serenaded her, forgetting all about his band and his fans, mesmerized by how wonderfully beautiful this young girl was. Here's the song. I felt I should print it for you because, although it was a great hit, he became a one-hit wonder (we won't go into that right now) and the song has faded from most people's memories. That's why Snow thought it weird that it came back to her at this specific moment. The song was called: Some People - Tiffany's Song (apparently it was about a girl named Tiffany) Some people like to sit where
they are at and complain about their lot in life. Some people like to blame other
people for their lot in life Some people like to blame
themselves for their lot in
life (and never do anything about it) I admire the person who takes ahold of her lot in life, who shakes out all of the complaining and blaming I, especially, admire the one who takes her "lot in life" and turns into "a lot in life" - May you always have a lot in life
She was still humming the tune, brushing her hair and thinking about what adventures might lie ahead of her, when the door flew open with a great thud as it slammed against the wall. Two soldiers stood there, swords drawn. Snow stopped brushing her hair, of course, and stood up. One soldier took a step inside the bedroom. The other soldier stayed in the hallway. "Miss Waz," said the soldier who had stepped inside the room, "by order of the King, the Great Theodore Squippache, You must come with us to be returned to the Squippache Kingdom." "Okay." Snow responded. A shadow crossed the floor, coming from the window and the brave Dumb Doc ran head first into the soldier's groin, knocking him backward into his comrade. The two collapsed back into the corridor as Dumb Doc grabbed Snow's hand and pleaded with her to go with him. "My Snow," he declared, "Come and I will hide you safely until this passes. Quickly now." "Oh, you silly, dweeb," Snow answered, "I think you have hurt them." Doc was immediately frustrated. He had dreamed of this day. The dream had not included one as beautiful as Snow, of course. It usually was some tramp hobo female down at the mission that he planned to rescue one day. Now, here he was, rescuing the most beautiful, the fairest of them all. She was not wanting to cooperate and he feared the worst. The worst being the soldiers getting up quickly, retrieving their swords and slashing his neck from ear to ear. Which they almost did, except for the slashing part. Before he could drag Snow to the window, the guards were upon him. One soldier grabbed the back of Doc's hairy neck and tossed him away like a sack of dirty clothes, slamming him face first into the clothes rack on the opposite side of the room. The other soldier had wrestled Snow onto the bed. He didn't have to do that, because she was already ready to cooperate fully. There was something rather vile about the way he rough-housed her. So much so that the other soldier had to pull his comrade off of Snow. The whole scene was quite unnecessary, but that's the way it goes in the Squippache kingdom - so many things seem unnecessary. The soldiers escorted Snow Waz down the corridor, past the other six dweebs (five who seemed quite shocked, one who was playing with the new silver in his pockets and whose head was so far down he couldn't have looked at Snow as she passed even if he wanted to), and out into the waiting horse-drawn carriage.
-----to be continued-----
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