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Chapter 4 - Ep 4-Naked Women

It was a regular Tuesday morning at Normalville Middle School. Which meant: fire in the bathroom, a janitor chasing a raccoon with a mop, and a girl crying in the hallway over a sandwich shaped like a celebrity.

Kylee was sitting on the steps outside, chewing stale gum and waiting for literally anyone to show up who wasn't brain-dead.

Kylee: If one more NPC walks past me and says "bro, it's Tuesday," I'm shoving this gum up their nose.

Trey appears, holding a book titled "How to Survive the Apocalypse (With Snacks)".

Trey: We're already living in the apocalypse. Just in slow motion.

Kord: (running up, excited) GUYS GUYS GUYS. NAKED. WOMEN.

Kylee: …Okay. Gonna need context before I kick you in the throat.

Trey: Is this another one of your fake "secret websites" where the computer gets 400 viruses and screams?

Kord: No! I SWEAR. It's real. The 8th graders found a stash of ancient magazines in the gym walls when they were knocking out the asbestos.

Kylee: That school has asbestos?

Trey: This school IS asbestos.

Kord: Anyway. They're like old, dusty, printed pictures. Real boobs. The kind your uncle goes to jail for.

Trey: Ew.

Kord: I saw a nipple and I haven't blinked since.

Kinni strolls up, completely fine, zero explanation for how he's alive. Hoodie back on, energy chaotic as ever.

Kinni: Mrrghh… did shomeone shay BOOBSH??

Kylee: Oh, look who's alive again.

Kord: Yeah, didn't you get flattened by a van?

Kinni:Shpeedbump life chose me.

Trey: Did the afterlife not want you either?

Kinni: They shent me back becaushe I shtarted a shtrip club for ghostsh.

Kylee: That checks out.

CUT TO: The Gym

The gang peeks into the cracked gym door. A group of 8th grade boys are huddled around a pile of dusty magazines from like, 1994.

Someone whispers:"Bro this one's got like… THREE pages stuck together."

Kylee: This is pathetic.

Trey: This is anthropology. The study of horny, stupid idiots.

Kord: I wanna read the articles!

Kinni:I wanna lick the staplesh.

Kylee: I'm gonna barf.

Suddenly, Coach Brenda walks in — the school's 65-year-old, permanently angry gym teacher with a mustache thicker than a broom handle.

Coach Brenda: WHO THE HELL BROKE MY WALL?

Everyone:SCATTER!

They all run, screaming, as Coach Brenda picks up a dodgeball and nails one of the 8th graders so hard he flips like a pancake.

CUT TO: The Library – Hiding Out

The crew is catching their breath behind a stack of encyclopedias no one's touched since 2002.

Trey: That was a war crime.

Kord: I think she popped his lung.

Kinni: Worth it.

Kylee: You didn't even see a magazine.

Kinni: I touched one.

Trey: Bro that's how curses start.

Kylee: I don't get it. Why are boys so obsessed with boobs?

Kord: Because we weren't hugged enough as babies.

Trey: Or maybe because every boy brain comes pre-installed with a virus called "dumb."

Kylee: You said it.

Kinni: Boobsh… are a gift from the universh…

Kylee: You can't even say it right.

Kinni: Boobshh.

Suddenly: The fire alarm goes off.

Trey: Not again.

Kord: What was it this time?

Kinni: I may have left a candle burning on a Playboy…

Kylee: DUDE.

Trey: YOU LIT PORN ON FIRE IN THE LIBRARY?!

Kinni: It wash romantic!!

FINAL SCENE:

They're sitting outside while the fire department hoses down the school again. Black smoke rises over the gym. An 8th grader gets carted into an ambulance still holding a single boob page.

Kylee: So what did we learn today?

Trey: That boys are hopeless.

Kord: That boobs are eternal.

Kinni: That fire cleanshes the shoul.

Kylee: I'm transferring schools.

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