The REAL Chapter 19

OOPS sorry I just posted Chapter 18 twice!!

Conrad met up with Maria, Logan, Lukas, and Shanaynay outside of the academy.
“Boqay. Looks like everyone is here,” Conrad said.
“We’ll ride my hair straightened,” Lukas said.
“No! Not ridin’ it. I need to take my plane, anyway,” Maria said.
“Kay. I’ll ride my Gagabot,” Conrad said.
Turns out that the Gagabot was functional. It sang Lady Gaga songs, AND had a hyper turbo engine.
- One strange flight later -
The Gagabot landed in front of a strange hole. Confused, the hair straightened and the airplane landed.
“Hello. Where’s your house?” Maria asked.
Conrad pointed to the hole.
“HOBO?” Shanaynay screamed.
“NO!” Conrad shouted, and shoved Shanaynay into the hole. Shortly afterward, he followed silently. Lukas jumped in too.
Maria and Logan shared a very special look.
Freckles looked up from her laundry to see Conrad walk in with 4 strangers. She dropped the shirt she was holding back in the basket.
“Nuh uh. No,” Freckles instantly said, folding her paws and pacing around them. “We ain’t no @!#@$ hotel!”
“Mother, please!” Conrad said quietly. “Maria and Logan tried to save my life, and these other 2 freaks have no other place to go. We mustn’t turn them out to the streets!”
Freckles sniffed.
“Boqay,” she gave in. “They may stay here for a week. However, they will only get one meal a day, and must perform the nightly ritual.”
With that, Freckles left, carrying the laundry with one hand.
Logan turned to face Conrad.
“What’s the nightly ritual?” he asked somewhat nervously.
Conrad didn’t reply.
After a dinner of dog biscuits, the 5 sat in Conrad’s room.
“So,” LUkas said. “Where do we sleep?”
“In this room,” Conrad said. “Freckles is inviting over some cat friends, and they do ‘feline things’ in the other room.”
“Oh do they like lick fur?” Maria asked.
“What is the nightly ritual?” Shanaynay demanded.
Conrad grew pale.
“Well, you were going to find out sooner or later,” he whispered.
“What??” Maria asked.
Suddenly, bubblegum pop dance music started blasting in the background. Conrad jumped into the air, spun around, and landed with his back to them.
“the nightly ritual,” he whispered, shoulder twitching to the rhythm, “is to… DANCE WITH ME!”
He jump-swiveled around to face them. Lights burst on, and the music started BLASTING all at the same exact second.
Instantly, Logan, Lukas, and Shanaynay gave in to the music, rotating their hips around melodically.
“Nope, not grooving’ it,” Maria said sternly.
Conrad whirled around, smacking the volume button.
“GAH!” Maria screamed, and a smile broke across her face. Squatting down slightly, she thrust her arms in front of her face, and started to wiggle them in a fluid motion.
Conrad pranced around, doing his dance from the ‘Poker Face’ video.
Logan wiped his nose in time to the music.
Lukas twirled around happily, doing the Single Ladies dance while straightening his hair, laughing crazily.
Shanaynay flowed around, imitating dancing fish Gubgub.
“Dance With Me
That’s the way you groove it.
Show me what you got
Stop the talking
DANCE WITH ME!”
On the final note, all 5 took a dramatic pose.
Silence. The neighbor’s light flickered on.
“So, same time tomorrow,” Conrad said, gathering his dancing equipment.
Everyone agreed eagerly.