Chapter 21 - A Somewhat Strange Return

The nights after the nightly ritual were some of the best of Logan’s life.
“I LOVE THE NIGHTLY RITUALS!” Logan cried.
However, most of the vacation was spent anticipating the nightly rituals, and soon the vacation was over.
“NOOOO!” Logan screamed, collapsing.
“Boqay,” Maria said.
The next Monday morning was some kind of ugly.
“WAKE!” Freckles demanded, banging 2 pots together an inch from Maria’s face.
Everyone bolted out of their moldy sleeping bags.
“Wait!” Conrad groaned sleepily. “time, please?”
Maria checked her phone. “Um… 8 haha.”
“Oh. So the giant mother-cat wakes us up half an hour after we were supposed to be at school!” Shanaynay said.
“NO!” Lukas screamed. “My hair needs STRAIGHTENING!”
28 minutes later, Maria’s airplane, the giant hair straightene r, and the Gagabot came in for a landing.
“Move move move!” Conrad cried. The 5 hustled across the parking lot, and made it inside the school just as the bell rang.
In a second, Lukas and Shanaynay were going, off to marvel at Gubgub Naynay.
Maria, Logan, and Conrad reached a crossroad to their dorms.
“Umm… see you in science,” Logan said.
They left.
Logan arrived in the dorm just in time to see Ashley throttling Alex to death.
“NO!” Logan cried, throwing his binder at Ashley. “BAD!”
Ashley dropped a purple Alex to the floor. He gasped for breath.
“But he told this crazy old witch lady that I called her a ‘fungus-like pile of fart’, and then gave her my full name, age, address, phone, and social security number!” Ashley whined.
Alex scrambled off the ground.
“Yeah! Well, she called me useless!” Alex cried.
Logan paused.
“Boqay. May I ask - “
“NO TIME!” Alex screamed. “Just save me - AHHH!”
Ashley lifted him up into the air again, opened her mouth, and slowly started to lower him.
“DROP HIM!” Logan demanded. “NO EAT!”
Ashley sighed impatiently.
“Can I at least feed him to Berna?” Ashley asked, pulling her baby pig out of her pocket.
“Come on, Ash. You’re better than that,” Logan said.
“UGH! Fine,” Ashley gave in.
She set a trembling Alex on the ground, and tidied his hair.
“you… Look… beautiful,” she breathed.
[The following events were either too unethical or awkward to recount in this novel].