The Andy Story

    Once upon a time, in another dimension that can only be reached by traveling by scrunchies, there lived two best friends.   The first was named Emilia and she had back length brown hair and green eyes. The other was Calamine who had shoulder length red hair and blue eyes. Emilia also had a dragon named Azelmyth.
    In the evenings in the clearing of the forest where they lived they would build a fire and sit and sew scrunches and tell stories. Now one day Emilia met Edmund, a boy her age with a a dragon of his own named Iyingflay. The two fell deeply in love and so Edmund came to travel with them and share their fire at night and tell stories of his own around the fire. Calamine tried hard to like Edmund but try as she might she was always exceedingly jealous of both of the others. At Emilia for she had someone to love her, something that Calamine did not have. And at Edmund for taking her best friend away because, the way she saw it, Emilia had never been the same since she had met Edmund.
    So one day she decided to take a walk in the forest to try to think things out.  On her walk she ran into Andy.  Andy had attended magic school with her and though they had never been close friends, they knew each other and had been known to stop and talk when they saw each other. But today Calamine was busy fuming over her situation and didn't even notice Andy when he landed as an eagle in front of her.
    Quickly changing to a human Andy walked beside her.  After a little bit he tapped her on the shoulder and said, "Hello? Are you awake? "
    Calamine turned, startled, "Oh, it's only you.  Hey, Andy could I yell at you?  It's not your fault but I need to vent my troubled emotions."
    "Oh, sure.  I just wanted to say hi, and you want to yell at me.  Sure yell at me, but there is a surcharge of $.50 or uno scrunchio."
    "YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!! IT'S ALL NOT YOUR FAULT!!!  HOW DARE
YOU NOT DO THAT!!! IT'S ALL EDMUND'S FAULT!!!    HOW DARE
YOU NOT BE THE CAUSE OF ALL MY PROBLEMS!!!! HOW COU--"
    "Thank you for coming to yelling at Andy enterprises." Andy interrupted. "After the first twenty-one exclamation marks there is an additional charge of another scrunchie. Thank you, and please continue."
    Calamine stood flabbergasted for about a minute.  Then picking up where she had left off, she continued her yelling. "--COULD YOU NOT BE THE CAUSE OF ALL MY PROBLEMS!!!! HOW COULD YOU NOT SAVE ME!!!!"  Calamine stopped suddenly, and collapsed into tears on Andy's shoulder.
    Through all of this Andy had been wondering just what Calamine's problem was. Who was Edmund and why was it all his fault?  Why does she need to yell?  Why is she covering my shoulder with tears?And if it's Edmund's fault why is she yelling at me and not at him? He wondered.
    After a little while Calamine calmed down.  Pulling out her scrunchy chain, Calamine asked,  "How many scrunchies do I owe you anyway?  Two for yelling, and how many for crying on your shoulder?"  She was trying not to burst into tears again.
    Andy, realizing she was holding back tears, said,  "Well, for one scrunchy you still have five minutes crying time.  And, if you promise to answer my questions about your yelling, you get two more extra."
    Calamine repressed a smile and said, "You drive a hard bargain Andy, but OK.  I promise."
    She immediately turned and burst into tears on his shoulder.  Andy didn't actually keep track of how long she cried on his shoulder, while he wished that he could do something, anything besides sit there and silently promising her that she could cry on his shoulder anytime.
    Calamine finally calmed down.  She gave Andy three scrunchies, a blue star scrunchy, a bubble scrunchy, and a Black Watch Plaid scrunchy.  Andy decided it was time to ask what had been running through his head.
    "So why is it all Edmund's fault? And who is Edmund?"
    Calamine decided to start at the beginning, because starting from the middle would be confusing.  So she began to tell her tale, but was interrupted when suddenly they heard a huge voice from the sky shouting "vbrim-the newest hat brim, instead of your ordinary hat brim its shaped like a v!!! yeah!!!! "
    " What the heck was THAT' Calamine asked flabbergasted.
    " A commercial apparently," Replied Andy. " so Edmund and Emilia fell in love... then what?"
    " You mean you're just going to ignore it?" Calamine had heard many strange things in her life but commercials being shouted from the sky was something all together new.
    " Well I don't know..."
    "Exactly, there's nothing I can do about it so why worry about it?" Calamine looked baffled for a moment and then decided that what he had said made a certain amount of sense and decided to continue on with her tale.
    Finally, two hours later, Calamine, slightly calmer but 5 scrunchies poorer and Andy whose shirt was stained with her tears but happy to be able to help Calamine feel better, went their separate ways.
    Just before she left, Calamine asked Andy " Why do you want scrunchies anyway?  Your hair is too short to put them in."
    Andy was surprised someone had actually  thought to ask him that question.  "I can't tell you."  he replied
    " Why not?" She countered.
    " 'Cause..." He couldn't think of a good reason for why he could not tell her but he just couldn't.  "'Cause I can't. Good-bye." He said finally, he turned back into an eagle and flew off leaving a very confused Calamine standing in the clearing.
    Soon he was standing back on his front porch. He walked very quietly into the house and removed the Bubble scrunchy Calamine had given him. He stared at it for a moment and suddenly began to use his magic on it. Suddenly he was standing on a beach, the sand was blue and the sky a shade of light green. He looked around at the deep purple and the bubbling blue-purple ocean.
    Wonderful craftsmanship, lots of imagination. He thought. Hearing footsteps behind him he spun around and saw an old man standing in front of the rocks.
    "If you're done admiring the scenery, would you mind if we got down to work?"

    That evening, Emilia was surprised, Calamine wasn't yelling at her or trying to find a reason for Edmund to go away. For once she wasn't rolling her eyes every time she saw the
couple looking at each other. Then again, she had been in deep thought ever since she had returned from the forest that afternoon.
    Calamine spent most of her time that evening thinking about Andy. How nice he had been.  He didn't have to let me cry on his shoulder anymore if all he had wanted was my scrunchies but he didn't seem to care that much. In fact he seemed more than eager to let me cry it out.., She thought, In fact, If I didn't know any better I'd say he actually cared.   No wait, that's impossible. Why would he care about me? There are such prettier girls in the forest, lots more are more powerful than I am. I'm no one, why would he want me? Calamine wished that it was true though. She loved Andy, very much, but knew he would never return her feelings.

    Somehow, over the next few days Andy and Calamine started spending more and more time with one another. Soon he had begun sharing their fire with them and telling stories of
his own. Each night before he left he would ask Calamine for a scrunchy and each night she would give him one but ask why he wanted them.
    "I can't tell you, not yet at least." he always replied
mysteriously.

    One day, after wandering around in the wood for a while, Andy found himself at Emilia's (and Edmund's) and Calamine's clearing. It was a Saturday and so, as usual they were
busily cleaning up the site. Unnoticed, Andy sat at the edge for the clearing for some time watching Calamine as she shoveled ashes from the fire circle, picked up dead branches and hung her wash out to dry.
    All right, that's it, I'm going to do it this time. No chickening out. He thought to himself, took three deep breaths and strode out towards Calamine.
    It was cleaning day and so Calamine was doing her chores and thinking about nothing in particular when Andy suddenly strode into the clearing and right up to her. He stood there for a moment as if he wanted to say something and couldn't phrase it right. Finally he said:
    "Calamine, can I borrow the scrunchy you're wearing?"
    Calamine was quite confused, that wasn't exactly the kind of thing she had expected him to say, but since she had no reason not to, she pulled her brown witch scrunchy from her hair and handed it to him. He picked it up and stared at it for a second before his eyes rolled back in his head and he fell into a trance.
    Inside the scrunchy, the back cats and crescent moons that littered the cloth the scrunchy was made of floated all around. Suddenly one of the cats spoke:
    "What are you waiting for, just tell her why don't you?", the cat asked.
    "She would laugh at me." Andy said.
    "How do you know, why don't you just show her then?" said the cat pragmatically.
    "Are you sure she won't think I'm a fool?",  worried Andy.
    "Just do it. Now get out of my scrunchy before I bite you!", the cat said and Andy cut off his magic.
    Suddenly he was back in the clearing with a very worried looking Calamine watching him very intently
    " Are you okay?" She asked.
    "Yes, I'm fine. Would you come with me somewhere?" Andy asked suddenly.
    "Yeah, but can it wait till I'm done my chores?" said Calamine.
    " No, it will only take a second. Here, take my hand." Andy said as Calamine took his hand and with his free hand he pulled out a plain brown scrunchy with little brown- orange dots all over it. He began to work his scrunchy magic on it and soon they both were in the world of the scrunchy.

    All around them bouncing-basketball-heads bounced around. As they bounced they mumbled:
"it's her, it's her, it's her"
    Andy helped Calamine pick her way though the mess to a large gray building that resembled an ancient Greek temple. On the top, inscribed in big capital letters it said:

CALAMINE

    She saw the inscription and then looked at Andy. He answered her unspoken questions without hesitation:
    "Yes, I have scrunchy magic. I can teach you to use yours too. I've been studying with Fizban for years now. This was my first scrunchy. I though this would show you how I felt with out me actually having to say it." Calamine stood there flabbergasted.  Finally when she could finally talk she said;
    " Oh my gosh. I had no idea. I've always loved you but I always thought you never cared."
    " You mean you don't think I'm a Fool?" Andy asked worriedly.
    " Of course not, why would I?" Replied Calamine.
    Suddenly Andy brought them out of the scrunchy and took Calamine in his arms. She turned to look at him and they kissed.

    Meanwhile through all of this, a flabbergasted Emilia and Edmund had been watching. They hoped someone would explain what had happened, someday.

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