8 A Transformed Franny

CHAPTER EIGHT A TRANSFORMED FRANNY Before school Franny met some of the girls from her class. Franny had a modified Chompolina with her. Now Chompolina played happy music and squirted perfume and glitter and came with her own nail polish and a rainbow-colored unicorn with a long tail you could braid. The other girls loved Chompolina and crowded around her. Franny thought it was fun playing with the girls, but deep down she missed the old Chompolina.

At lunchtime Franny pulled out her PBJ sandwich. The peanut butter had been artfully smoothed, and the jelly had been applied equally from one corner to the other. The bread was so blazingly white that Franny needed sunglasses to look at it. Her mom had even trimmed the crusts, and the other kids, noticing this, smiled with approval. Franny took a bite and found it to be totally, completely, and incredibly... average, uninteresting, and no big deal. She had expected so much more. But her experiment seemed to be working, so she finished the mushy sandwich. At recess Franny suggested they play softball. She consulted her notes quickly and added, "I think it best we use a ball instead of a skull, or giant squid eyeball, or something gruesome like that."

Franny had fun playing with them, but deep down she knew the game would have been much more fun with a skull or giant squid eyeball.

The other kids were a bit puzzled, but they agreed. After school the kids all said good-bye and a few even asked her to come over to their houses and play. It was great to be asked, but Franny had to hurry straight home and analyze her day. She was happy. The other kids liked her, even if it was only a transformed her.

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