ANTONY WILSON PICKED-UP HIS DAUGHTER after school. From the Mercedes-cabin, the father saw Jane was accompanied by her Chinese best-friend as they walked to the black-car. As the passenger-door opened, he heard Alicia whispering to Jane… ‘ask him’…

… Alicia then-greeted him through the open-door…

“G’day Mr Wilson…”

“Hi-hallo, Alicia…” Anthony responded… with-her CORRECT-NAME – as he was often confused-her with her-cousin Lily-Wang’s name…

“… oh-that’s my-name…hello…” Acting ‘surprised’ – Alicia joked and … the 3-of them laughed...

“… bye, Ali…” Jane sat and buckled her-seatbelt…

“Cheers…” The Chinese-girl waved-bye and walked to the bicycle-bay…

-O-

During the drive back to the-Hilton, the father noticed that Jane ‘seemed’ troubled and was quiet as she winced-emotionally in her-seat – Anthony ‘suspected’ it has something to-do with her-BFF ‘whispered’ earlier…

“What’s wrong, darl…?” He casually-asked…

“… nothing…” Was-Jane’s immediate response…

The father saw the blind-girl’s body-language was still-unsettled and he ASKED-AGAIN…

“Did something ‘happen’ in school, dear…?”

“… no, Daddy… nothing happened…”

“… you can-tell me… I’m your-Daddy… what IS IT…?”

… Jane took-a-deep breath and blabbered…

“Daddy, I’ve been ‘invited’ to Paul’s birthday this weekend… I ‘know’ I’m ‘not’ allowed to go to any of my friend’s birthday parties… even-Alicia’s… mummy will give-some medical excuse that candle-blown cakes ‘have’ germs that would-make me sick if I ate it… and I can’t go… ONLY-TO listen-to stories the next-day in school… hearing how they had so-much ‘fun’…

Anthony smiled to his-daughter’s gripes – and the blind-girl went-on rambling…

“… even on my-birthday… mummy won’t let my-friends come… and I had been having in-the-family birthdays all-of my-life… and I don’t like that… Alicia and Paul are my ‘only’ friends I have… and I would love to-go to their-birthday parties when-invited…”

It got Antony thinking ‘when’ she MENTIONED PAUL for-the 2nd-time…. the son-of-the Inspector-of-Perth WHO CAME for-lunch during the Walker’s zoo-apology… where…

… he-LATER SAW JANE ‘kissing’ Paul in the backyard…

… he didn’t know what to MAKE-OF-IT then – just as-a blind-girl and a quadriplegic students’ ADOLESCENT-CRUSH… will would-only ‘last’ when they graduate…?

“Sure, fair-enough… you’re ‘not’ a youngling-any more… and I reckon your body’s immune-system are stronger-now to eat birthday-cakes – yes-my-dear, you ‘CAN GO’ to Paul’s party…” The father chuckled…

“… huh-what? I CAN GO…? Ooo thank-you, Daddy… you’re THE-BEST…!!!” The startled Jane jumped-up from her-seat… wanting to HUG-HIM…

… the blind-girl’s hand knocked on the driving steering-wheel… that ‘almost’ made the Merc to go-off the road to a near-collision on-with the road rail-guard…

Jane’s head snuggled to the father’s side-arm… and kept-uttering ‘thank-you’…

“How are-you going…?”

“… Alicia would pick-me-up…”

Her-father was worried about her-safety…

“Go-on Uber – no public-busses, okay…”

“Ok, Daddy… I love-you…” She murmured…

… it got blind-Jane thinking ‘when’ her-father mentioned ‘public-buses’… where…

… in the ‘OTHER-PERTH’ – SHE WENT with SIMY on bus to-school…

She then heard Anthony’s gripes that ‘got’ him into trouble with the ‘doctor-wife’ – for permitting Jane-to take THE BUS…

“… she is taking her-frustrations of ME ON-YOU… ever-since you ‘had’ convinced-me that your-uncle’s technology ‘works’… and after seeing blind-people taking the public-transport… I reckoned ‘why-not’… my-girl can do-it-too – but your-mummy thought ‘not-so’ … and-she ‘feared’ for your safety…

“… and she then called-me an irresponsible father – and ‘not’ a good father to both-of my-children…” Anthony told with a heavy-heart…

“No, she’s wrong… you’re ‘BEST’ DADDY in-the-world… YOU ‘HELP’ ME grow-and-learn ‘new’ things… unlike Mummy who is a control-freak…”

Jane changed subject – as she doesn’t want to ‘badmouth’ her mother in front of her-father… which she ‘never’ did @home… and was a ‘silent-sufferer’ like-him… where…

… she ‘had’ heard their open-arguments – where the strong-willed doctor-mother insults were humiliating-and-degrading… and she ‘FELT’ THE HURT for her passivist-father – who ‘always’ lost in his quarrels…

‘… would Jaheem-too be-like mummy ‘when’ he’s older?’

“Daddy… I missed Samuel… and I called him yesterday…”

“… ‘how’ did you call him…?’ The father was curious…

“… through Lola’s phone – Samuel ‘spoke’ to me…”

“Is he okay…?”

“Yes-Daddy, HE-IS… he’s watch cartoons in Uncle Topher’s house… and HE ‘ASKED’ about-you…”

“Did he…?” Anthony smiled as his-heart melted…

Blind-Jane felt bad THAT SHE LIED – in fact, she DID ‘NOT’ SPEAK to him too… as her baby-brother ‘shooed’ her-off – and called her a B-girl …

… she changed the SUBJECT-AGAIN…

“… I spoke to Melisa too…?”

“… is it…? I thought you 2-cousins DON’T LIKE each-other…”

“I don’t ‘know,’ but she was super-nice to me…”

‘… typical…’ Anthony thought…

… now that Jane’s ‘was’ popular in the social media – ‘every’ long-forgotten rello would come-out from the-bush to be ‘SUPER-NICE’ to-her…

Anthony then-said…

“… by-the-way, in the next 2 days… our-house renovation would BE-DONE… and we’ll move-back… but your-mummy ‘coming-back’ is unlikely…

“… she does ‘not’ want to take my calls – and if I go-over to Christopher’s place to see your-mother… she would create a-scene and her-brother would throw-me out of his house…”

“… Daddy… please DON’T GO-there…”

… she ‘knew’ her-Uncle Topher who worked as stock-broker in the ASX… who a had a terrible temper like her doctor-mother…

… peas-of the ‘same’ pod…

… Melisa was like that… SO WOULD-Jaheem be-in the-future…

Jane sighed-and-said…

“When we go home… I’ll take care of you, Daddy….”

In-reveries, the blind-daughter casually said – even-though she doesn’t know ‘why’ she-said-it… but it was appropriate thing to-say for assurance…

…so that Anthony would ‘know’ that he can ‘count’ on-her… to-be on HIS-SIDE…

“You can take-care of me by ‘not’ getting into any-trouble – your mummy is ‘watching’ you, although SHE’S ‘NOT’ with-us…” Anthony said as the Merc’s engine was idle, waiting at the traffic-light…

“… okay-Daddy…”

Jane got his-hint… that the-B-girl’s popularity in the social-media was ‘growing’…

‘… does Daddy ‘follow’ the-silly Tarzan-and-Jane news online…? By-the-way I don’t…’

She heard Anthony sighing, before he spoke…

“I’m your mummy’s punching-bag… she’ll ‘BLAME’ ME IF anything goes ‘wrong’ with you…”

“… no worries, Daddy… I’ll be your Good-girl…” Jane said-and-touched his-arm… so that he would ‘not’ worry…

… she had ‘NOT’ TOLD HIM of the ‘incident’ where a senior-girl, Bella – ‘had’ attacked her-and-Alicia in the school’s bathroom the other-day…

They reached the Hilton-hotel… and before parting-ways to go to their-suites – Anthony reminded to ‘get-ready’ for the-evening dinner later…

-O-

The moment she reached her-bedroom – she called Alicia to tell her that her-father gave her permission TO ATTEND PAUL’S birthday party…

Both the tweens were rapt… and were next-discussing ‘what’ they would-be wearing for the ‘occasion’…

Soon, the girls were discussing ‘WHAT’ PRESENT to get for Paul… Alicia was buying a video-game …

… and Jane had no-idea ‘what’ to get for her-boyfriend tomorrow… with her-allowance saving of a-100-bucks…

… and, judging by-her-beacon’s colour-of his-COSMIC-GLOW – through her 3rd-eye…

… she decided to ‘get’ him a BLUE SHIRT…

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HE WOKE-UP FROM HIS-NAP feeling extremely-hungry – he was ‘still’ in 2-worlds from his-kip… and could ‘not’ even-levitate his-heavy body-up. But his wheelchair was in-arm reach…

… he huffed-and-puffed himself onto the chair – and left the windowless bedroom…

In the kitchen, he went straight to the-fridge… TO ‘EAT’ what was ‘leftover’ of his-yesterday’s birthday-cake…

… he cut a huge-portion-size of the chocolate-cheese cake to a paper-plate… and, to eat-it – so-to ‘drown’ his-sorrows of-that Jane DID ‘NOT’ COME for his 13th birthday yesterday-evening…

He sighed-and-scoffed in-thoughts as he forked-out chunk-of the cake to his mouth… and was eating it with a vengeance-of-regret…

‘… only the devil’s backbenchers-cobbers came… and Alicia-too… she ‘was’ with her-boyfriend…’

Then, he felt SHARP-PAINS IN BOTH of his legs – and he bent over from his-eating… to look as his-crooked legs with the ugly scars…

He was shocked that it was both-black from the shin-down…

… infected by GANGRENE…

Stunned-next by the excruciating hurting-agony, the paper-plate of cake flung-over and messed the floor. He held his thighs as the anguish-pain was creeping-up to his-upper body… in-tears, he cried-out aloud…

“MOM! Mom… where are-you…? Come here… now-pleaseee….!!!”

He-then heard his devil-twin’s voice… singing-from-upstairs – as he descended the stairs…

“… I’m a tin-man – I ‘never’ had a heart…

… I’m a tin-man – but you’ll make me a-star…”

He looked-up to the direction of the singing-voice – and, was ‘shocked’…

Lo’ and behold…

… the-devil was dressed-up in the Joker’s NURSE’S UNFORM… all in-white… with heeled-shoes and flaking clown-makeup…

… and held a donkey-jawbone in his-robotic arm, as he approached while saying…

“… Mom’s ‘not’ here… she left-me IN-CHARGE to look-after you… her-pathetic twin-son… I’M HERE-now…”

“Hey! Why you-dressed up like a fool!” In-pain he-cursed…

“… tsk-tsk… never speak-ill of the dead… I’m just ‘honouring’ my-countryman… a great Aussie-actor who sadly-passed ‘before’ his-prime, and ‘true’ recognition to even-more of-his-greatness…”

The pain was intense… and his twin was ‘annoying’ him with cosplay… and he shouted ‘again’…

“HEY! Where’s mom…? I NEED herrr – Arrggghh…”

“… you ‘know’ our-mom… she’s a root-rat – ‘not’ at-all faithful to ‘our’ late-dada… remember Perthland… where she was Mrs Dick-Dickson over-there, hahaha… she was a hoot, our-mom… and I can’t stand her and I moved to the Stamford-Hotel…

“… ‘now’ she’s back with her-tricks ‘again’ in this-Treeton realm… lusting after ‘our’ mediocre-principal… wanting to be a Mrs-Harris, it seems, hahaha!!!”

“… ARRGGGHH! Mommm…” He winced in agony… as the ‘evil’ clown approached…

… and pointing the donkey-jawbone at his-legs…

“… tsk-tsk-tsk… Eww, look at your legs… I ‘told’ you, right…? Sugar is ‘bad’ for you – over-eating is ‘bad’ for you… but you DIDN’T LISTEN to your-first-born elder-brother…

“… no-point crying now – the coke had ‘spilt’ and the black-ants are ‘coming’ – just like the-maggots from your-gangrene ‘would’ creep-up into-your arse to ‘feast-and-eat’ your-brain, hahaha…

“…well, here I-am in the nick-of-time – your-Saviour – to ‘perform’ your-surgery… by-myself on-you, hahaha…!!!”

“NO!!!” He cried-out…

… as he put-up his-arm… wanting to blast the-evil clown with his electro-powers from his-fingertips…

… but ‘nothing’ HAPPENED…

His-twin mocked with a-maniacal laughter…

“… why-you show-off… hahaha, YOUR POWERS are non-existence in my-realm – you-bloody ‘mediocre’ Defender-of-Perth…

“… come-come-come – let’s DO YOUR SURGERY – nooo, I don’t wanna do-it-here… you’ll bloody mess-up my father’s house… bleeding your-mediocre B-group tomato ketchup-blood all-over…

“… let’s DO-IT outside at the front-lawn as an open-surgery theatre… for the world to-see ‘when’ I bloody-maim their ‘Protector-of-Perth’… their-star-sensation – The-Gemini-Blue, hahaha!!!”

“NOOOO!!!”

The evil-clown pushed-and-ran with the-wheelchair with his helpless-twin struggling in the rough-ride…

“… wheee… hahaha – remember the time… you ‘modified’ your-chair… and you ‘got’ into-trouble, you loser…!!?”

“NOOOO…. Mom! Mom…!!!”

“Wheee… off-we-go…”

Paul saw the front-door ‘open’ ON-ITS OWN – with the afternoon scorching-weather…

Outside…

… he fell on the grass like soil emptied from a wheelbarrow when his-twin heaved the-chair – and was blinded by the sun as he-turned on-his back… hearing the neighbour’s voice nearby…

… it was Mr Kiperman from across-the-road… on his-porch nagging at his-wife – who was watering the lawn…

“MR KIPERMAN! HELP-ME!!!”

“… save your-breath – just ‘what’ you think that one-legged ol’ man would-do…? Nag-me to-death, hahaha… in fact, you ‘would-be’ his bosom-buddy, mate once I ‘CHOP-OFF’ YOUR legs… and you’ll ‘join’ his legless-club as his Vice-wheel chairman, hahaha…”

Paul was ‘suffering’ of both fear-of the amputation and-also the intense pain from the gangrene – seeing the-standing evil-clown wielding the donkey-jawbone at his-face…

Squatting, the twin brought the weapon closer to the-brother’s face…

“Do you know ‘what’ this-is, you-quad…? This is the very-donkey jawbone… where the world’s first ‘murderer’ CAIN USED AND ‘KILLED’ his ‘show-off’ brother, Abel… mind-you and-be warned, you-cripple – that I ‘bear’ the MARK-OF-CAIN on-me… therefore, you don’t ‘mess’ with me-and-my Plans or… I’ll bash your-brains-in, hahaha…”

The Joker in the nurses-garb stood-up…

“… ‘not’ today – I’M ‘SPARING’ your-mediocre life for-now – but today it’s YOUR-AMPUTATION-DAY, hahaha!!!”

He threw the weapon over-his-shoulder… just like Luke-Skywalker ‘DID’ WITH the-lightsabre…

“…hah! What an old-fashioned low-tech weapon of a biblical-crap proportion… I’m ‘NOT’ USING-this to ‘chop-off’ your-legs – as it would-be too-messy… when I ‘got’ my super-duper high-tech weapon to-do the ‘SAME’ JOB, hahaha!!!”

The fallen-brother saw the BLACK-ROBOTIC-ARM’S fingertips ‘MORPHED’ INTO a buzzing-loud chainsaw…

“… hereee-izzz Charlie-Chainsaw…!!!”

Blood-splatted on the white-nurse uniform – as the Joker sang:

“… I’m a tin-man – I ‘never’ had A HEART…

… I’m a tin-man – but you’ll make me A-STAR…”

-O-

Carol was in the kitchen boiling water for-tea – she heard hollering in the-windowless bedroom… the-mother rushed to HER-SON…

“… NO! You-devil – don’t cut-me up… NO! DON’T…!!!”

… when she-entered, to discover Paul with his-eyes closed, and-his spine arched from his-crippled-body… and violently-struggle in his bed as he was yelling-and-bellowing in his-nap…

“NOOOO! ARRGGG…!!!”

“POE! Poe, WAKE-UP – you’re having a bad dream!” Carol caught-hold of his-hands that were punching-the-air…

… Paul opened his-eyes to his mother’s voice… TO SEE the alarmed-Carol trying to comfort-him – he then hugged her-in-relief… and sobbed…

… Caroline embraced Paul who was shaking-a lot all-over in-fear…

“It’s okay, Poe… you’re ‘ONLY’ DREAMING…” Carol assured-him…

He was tongue-tied and was unable to response… of-the visceral-image of his-twin dressed-up as the Nurse-Joker with a chainsaw … STILL-HAUNTED him to-the-bones…

The kettle-whistled in the-kitchen, Carol left the room… saying…

“… it’s ‘not’ good to have long-nap in the afternoon – quick-go, take your-shower, Poe – you got a birthday to-celebrate…”

… dazed, sitting-up in-between HIS-DREAMWORLDS… he muttered…

“… huh… birthday…?”

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BOTH THE GIRLS WERE ON A SHOPPING-SPREE – Alicia came-by the Hilton to pick her BFF-up… Anthony had given Jane $200 to buy a dress – and the blind-daughter was excited…

… the last time she went shopping was in PERTHLAND – where she ‘spent’ less than a week as a 16-year-old teenager who had ‘her-sight’… and was dating Douglas Zimmerman as his-tennis mixed-double partner in that realm…

… IN-PERTHLAND-where, she followed her doctor-mother shopping – the ‘BEST’ VERSION-of-the Shelley-variants of the 3-Mothers-of-3-Perth realms where SHE ‘HAD’ been thrown-in…

… in PERTHLAND-where, the best-version of Shelley had bought her an expensive-dress and heeled-shoes so that she would go-to ball with Dougie at the 131th-Anniversary of the Stamford High School…

The Uber dropped them-off at the Perth’s shopping district. The Chinese-girl was in a-nice dress… and was holding-hands leading her BFF who-was in a casual-attire of tee-shirt-and-jeans…

… Jane did ‘not’ pack any nice-dresses in her-duffle bag during the 2nd-stay @the Hilton – and all her-dresses were in the bedroom-closet, at the now under-renovation Wilson-residence…

They shopped in a list-of-priority – the first being-Paul – and blind-Jane ‘let’ Alicia pick a ‘blue-shirt’ that Pauly-WOULD LIKE…

‘… she would ‘KNOW’ BEST…’

… Alicia was Paul’s girlfriend in the ‘OTHER-PERTH’ – and they were ‘deeply’ in-love…

… and when Alicia was attacked-and-hospitalized in a-coma – Paul was devastated and was visiting her every day… after-school with a-bouquet of flowers…

… when the comatose-Alicia was in a near-death-state, Paul went the-distance for ‘their-love’ as his-soul went to hell-an-back where he ‘confronted’ the grim-reapers to bring back Alicia into the world-of-the living…

‘… Paul ‘had’ said-so to-me…’

Alicia asked her something… and the blind-girl was unresponsive deep-into HER REVERIES…

“Oyy-Janey, let me touch-you, are you-here…?” She touched Jane’s-nose…

“… huh… what…?”

“I was saying… maybe Pauly has a lot of shirts – why ‘not’ get him a blue-jacket instead… if it’s okay, Ms-girlfriend of-Tarzan…?” Alicia chuckled…

“… ya-yes, great idea, Ali – Paul would ‘love’ it – do-it… CHOOSE IT…” Jane gave her seal-of-approval…

Alicia choose-one from the rack…

“… this is the best-one… costing $89…”

“… Ali… let me TOUCH IT…”

The blind-girl touched it… and liked-it – placing the material-on her-cheek…

“… soo-soft…”

“… it’s velvet, my-dear…”

“I love-it… GET IT!”

“… I think we get him a ‘plus-size’ – Pauly is a ‘growing’ boy…” Alicia chucked…

“… more of-him for me to-hold onto…” Blind-Jane joked-too…

The Chinese-girl laughed aloud at the joke in the small store – the customers and sales-girl turned to look-at them…

“Hahaha, you’re so ‘daring’ these days, girlfriend – I like-it…” Alicia hugged-her – and…

… teased her by singing a fast-song from the Swedish-supergroup, ABBA…

“Take-it easy… take it easy…

“Better slow-down, girl…

“That’s no-way to go…

“Does your-mother know…?

“Take-it easy… take-it easy…

“Try to cool-it, girl…

“Take-it nice-and-slow…

“Does your-mother know…?”

They were rapt… and-both holding the jacket’s 2-long-sleeves-ends as they ballroom danced with the imaginary-Paul in-the-middle…

… everyone in the store were amused by the 2-tweens’ ‘crazy-antics’ – someone took a phone-video of them…

… then someone voiced-out…

“IT’S JANE… that Tarzan’s Jane from-the-news… SHE’S HERE…!!!”

The blind-girl ‘realised’ that it was TIME-TO-GO with the-unwanted attention-lurking… they made their way to the cashier-counter with a dozen customers-still gawking…

… even the cashier gave them a complimentary 40% patronage-discount FOR A SELFIE…

Alicia exclaimed…

“Wah-lau-way! Sooo-cheappp… cos’ you’re ‘famous, Janey-gee! You ‘should’ follow-me when I shop the next-time…”

-O-

Next, the girls went to another store to buy a dress – Jane thought-of-PERTHLAND…

… where her mother bought-her a sexy-black dress – to ‘impress’ her Zimmerman boyfriend… hoping that the tennis mixed-double pair would hit-up to be ‘perfect-match’ after they graduate…

… even Mrs Zimmerman wanted the ‘same’… so that Jane would ‘marry’ her-son, Dougie – when Martha found-out that she-was-dating Paul in PERTHLAND… even badmouthed about Paul’s father, Solomon was a ‘playboy’ – and, Paul would-be the ‘SAME’ BAD-APPLE like his-father once graduated…

“What colour do you-want…? I’m wearing orange – so, do I go for your-favourite pink…?”

“No! My mummy-choses ‘pink’ always… Ali, you choose something-else…?”

“Hahaha, are you ‘sure’…? Your-mummy doesn’t like me cos’ I wear loud-colours… so-scared that I might influence’ her Barbie-doll to odd-fashion choices…” She chuckled…

Jane thought of her-3rd-eye – where she ‘saw’ herself ‘glowing’ in…

“…yellow… choose me ‘something’ in-yellow…”

“Excellent-choice – yellow ‘goes’ with your blonde-hair… you’ll ‘stick-out’ a golden-statue later @the Walkers, hahaha…” The Chinese-girl made a comparison…

“No, lighter-yellow, please… and, no short dresses – below-the-knees like our uniform…”

… her fashion-sense benchmark was the short-black dress from-PERTHLAND – where she was a busty-voluptuous teenager over there… unlike her tween-body had ‘not’ matured in POST-TREETON…

‘… wait for next-year, Pauly – you’ll get so-MUCH-MORE to ‘see’…’

“…oookay… hahaha, dressing-up appropriately for your-future mother-in-law, is-it…? Or the inspector-of-Perth would-give you a ‘ticket’ for dressing-up like Sailor-Moon, hahaha….” Alicia teased-her…

“…. huh … who is Sailor-Moon…?”

“Never-mind…”

Alicia did ‘not’ want-to-get into ‘explaining’ the manga-character to her blind-BFF who don’t read-comics… nor watch-telly…

They went to a couple of stores before entering MNG deciding-on for frill strapped-tier dress that looked grand-on Jane… she wore it and wanted to go wearing the yellow-dress-to Paul’s party… while using the empty-bag-pack to dump-in her tee-shirt-and-jeans…

They next-shopped for-shoes…

“No, high-heels for me…”

Jane said casually without-thinking – recalling the shoes-that-went with her black-sexy dress of-PERTHLAND…

“Hahaha, do you ‘think’ you can-walk in high-heel…?” Alicia laughed…

Jane just-smiled at her-own slip-of the-tongue… in fact she had used-heels before… and even danced in-heels too…

“Way-no-way… even-I don’t ‘like’ heels… as I don’t have the-ass to-jiggle when-walking in-it – with me-and-my-flat Asian-bums like a tomboy…” The laughing Alicia continued…

Jane giggled as she was led to a shoe-store… to buy brown-shoes to go with her yellow-dress – and, their shopping was done…

… until…

… they passed a cosmetic-store that had a display by Loreal – that OFFERED A ‘FREE’ facial-makeover… which got the Chinese-girl excited…

“… a make-over would-be perfect for your-yellow dress… trust-me, you would be arriving-over like a blonde-goddess. and with you-wearing dark-glasses – you’ll be like-a movie-star walking-on the red-carpet… Pauly would-be mesmerized by your-beauty… he then-would miraculously get-up from his-wheelchair and walk-over to kiss-you, hahaha…” Alicia guffawed…

“YOU’RE CRAZY! Hahaha… too-much of Korean-dramas, I guess…” Jane responded…

They both laughed…

“… how ‘about’ it, Janey-gee – are you game, OR-WHAT…?”

“… no, I don’t think-so… what-time is it…? We ‘got’ to GET-GOING…”

Alicia looked at her-swatch and-exclaimed…

“Hai-yah! We HAVE TIME! Let’s go to have your-first makeover, girlfriend… you won’t regret it…” Alicia said and dragged her-BFF to the makeup-counter…

… Jane too thought ‘WHY-NOT’…

… in-fact it was her 2nd facial makeover – her-first being in PERTHLAND, when her-mother took her-shopping… and the end-results were phenomenal when even the beautician mentioned that she ‘looked’ like a-model…

Anthony at home, even told that she looked beautiful like-Nicole Kidman Dougie Zimmerman said that she looked gorgeous when he pick-her-up for the dance Paul Walker complimented that she looked-lovely when he asked-her for a-dance

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AFTER HIS-SHOWER, PAUL LOCKED HIMSELF in the windowless-bedroom – his mother had bought him ‘new’ clothes for his birthday-party. Normally, he wore polo-collared t-shirts but Caroline had bought him a ‘printed’ round-neck tee-shirt this-year…

… it was a Mortal Combat-merch from the 2020-movie… that Caroline bought since seeing-him always playing videogames. He was glad it was a plus-sized 3XXX that fitted well with his grey-cargo pants slacks – which had waistband-gutters ‘not’ zipper-fly… unlike his-school uniform-pant that was ‘SUFFOCATING’ TO-wear-and ‘felt’ just-like – the Red-Guardian suiting-up from the Black-Widow movie…

After dressing-up, he sighed-alone… looking at the closet-mirror – he was ‘not’ in the-mood to celebrate his-13th birthday…

… because ‘when’ he invited Jane – she said that she would ask her-father’s permission – which was a DEFINTE NO to Paul because:

Her-father caught-them both kissing at the Wilsons’ backyard Her-mother doesn’t like him as he took-Jane to the zoo… behind her-parent’s back

He ‘knew’ what the menu was too… which was from the John-Blake Country-Club catering – where Tom Harris had asked during a Walkers’ Sunday-dinner invitation. Peter requested a-lot of pizzas for his friends – when Paul was asked…

… he said ‘meat-pies’ – and vegan-pies for his-mom…

His stomach-growled at the thought of the juicy-pies… hours before the-party began – so to counter-action, he distracted himself with YouTube – looking at some Brazilian dance-videos…

… despite reminding-his subconscious to ‘watch’ his-diet – especially his sugar-and-carb intake OR ELSE…

… Nurse-Joker WOULD COME… and chainsaw-off HIS-LEGS…

-O-

Moments later, he heard the caterers coming – then of Principal Harris’ voice talking to his-mom… followed-by Peter’s voice – insisting-of wanting to help in setting-up party’s deco…

… then Donald-Duck’s voice-followed… when Peter was ‘fooling’ with the helium-gas as they put-up the balloons – despite Caroline scolding-him that inhaling the-gas was harmful…

… but Peter ‘kept’ doing-it…

…which irritated Kitty @the-backyard… and she barked her-head-off – and that continued with an ‘abusive-insults’ between boy-and-dog…

-O-

The leader of the backbenchers, Terry Donovan and the 6-Irish boys were travelling-over in a 7-seater Toyota-Crysta Uber to go for the birthday-party. The tweens were drinks beers-and-smoking a joint in the car driven by the cousin of one-of-the boys…

Soon, Paul heard the loud-voices of the-backbenchers greeting his-twin in the living-room – Paul sighed that Peter’s friends-came, while…

‘… Jane wouldn’t be-here… ‘probably’ Alicia WOULD-COME… riding on her ‘new’ boyfriend’s superbike…’

And-minutes later, a raft-of Donald-and-Daffy ducks were NOISY-AT-PLAY in the house – that annoyed the dog-further at the backyard – which was barking-mad…

Paul had to go-out…

… to calm-down his-dog… before the neighbours complain…

-O-

When Paul opened the bedroom-door he saw the main-door was open. The caterers left but leaving the food-warmer – that looked-like an uptight metal-coffin on-wheel…

… reminding a recent’ nightmare – of his-twin ‘LOCKING’ HIM-UP in the hot-box while they ‘stole’ pies…

Principal Harris was ‘not’ there as he ‘left’ with the caterers – Caroline was at the front-gate…

While wheelchairing in the kitchen, he peeked at the IKEA table with Peter’s prezzies…

“Hey-Paul! Happy Birthday, mate!!!”

He turned to the voices of-the Irish boys greeting him in the-presence of his-inspector-mother… ‘PRETENDING’ THAT they were his-buddies in-school – Paul ‘too’ put-up with the charade…

… where he’s ‘not’ their-friend – as the backbenchers-were mean-verbal bullies in-class…

… Peter got the strayed-crowd’s attention by showing-off with tricks – that he could crush a can-of-coke into the size of a golf-ball with his-titanium robotic-leftie… that was recently ‘cured’ with hydrogen to make it stronger…

… soon his-cobbers were drinking-up their drinks – as his-twin was crushing aluminium-balls to-be taken home as-tokens…

Paul ignored-them and went to ‘calm’ Kitty-down – as the dog was ‘not’ used to the ‘many’ strangers in her-Master’s house…

… at the-backyard he was playing Dota in his iPhone – as the dog went-about smelling the-grass...

-O-

Jane-and-Alicia soon arrived @the Walker-house – and Caroline welcomed them at the door. All the Irish-boys felt a-diva ‘presence’ with the 2-tweens of their-class who-then looked ‘plain’ – but ‘now’…

… dolled-up in cosmetic-makeup and looked-attractive in their dresses like catwalk models…

… BUT ‘NOT’ Peter – he glared in-ire at his-blind-ex… who-had HURT HIM – by ‘burning’ his-groins in Garden-of-Eden in their-game of ‘HIDE-AND-SEEK’…

From afar, Alicia greeted Peter ‘happy-birthday’ – and he was taken-aback at the surprise-gesture of the enemies’ camp…

… giving the Chinese-classmate a tacit-nod…

… BUT ‘NOT’ Blind-Jane – she did ‘NOT’ ACKNOWLEDGE him at-all… ignoring-him like he ‘was’ an-invisible red-glow… as she followed Caroline to the dining-area…

Peter was ‘more’ annoyed-and-jealous that his twins’ girlfriend WAS HERE… but ‘not’ HIS…

‘… where is the Frenchie-b****!? Mediocre-girlfriend…’

When his-mother and the-girls went to the dining-area – Peter whispered racial-insults of the-visitors to his-cobbers…

“Poe might have ‘invited’ Chinatown along with his blind-school girlfriend… but I ‘invited’ her boyfriend, KC – he’s a cool-guy and a filthy-rich Asian…and I been to his-house and it was huge – it’s 3-times the size of this-house…”

The dark-haired Terry rejoindered…

“… what is-it with bloody Asians who dye-their hair to ‘look’ Caucasians… whoa… stop ‘staining’ with our-races’ identity and bloody robbing it – the end doesn’t justify the means does ‘not’ ‘apply’ to you-boat-people…”

The boys laughed to the class-clown’s derogating-remarks – an Irish-mate nicknamed-Churros then followed-up…

“… it’s the case of the shit-and-the-fly, you ‘know’ – the ‘free-food’ had attracted the hungry-Vietcong…”

-O-

They had half-hour wait before the birthday-party started – and the restless boys wanted to go upstairs to Peter’s bedroom to see his Boris Becker tennis racquet that Ken Chan presented to-him…

“… hey-Mom, I’m going upstairs with the boys – they want to see my-room…”

The moment the-tweens entered the closed-bedroom – the-mates had their ‘personal-party’… they drank beer snuck-in their backpacks and vaped lying in the-bed…

… it was Terry’s daring-challenge that he-and-the minor-aged cobbers would ‘drink-and-smoke’ under the-roof of house-of-the Inspector-of-Perth, that-evening.

-O-

Both Jane-and-Alicia did ‘not’ inform Paul that they were coming for the birthday-party as they want to surprise-him…

… Alicia at the kitchen’s backdoor peeked-at the backyard…

… Paul on his-wheelchair was playing videogames facing the backyard fronting the grass-lawn and his dog was rolling-over the grass…

The Chinese-girl led her-blind BFF as they ‘sneaked’ on him from his-rear – Jane too was ‘gamed-excited’ being led to the blue-glow…

Kitty saw the girls and barked to-warn her-Master – which annoyed-Paul and shouted…

“NO! Kitty, bad-girl – always-barking!”

The giggling Alicia pounced from his-back by covering Paul’s eyes with her-palms. The startled-quadriplegic classmate ‘nearly’ electrocuted-her in SELF-DEFENCE…

Paul was overjoyed TO SEE his-friends…

“YOU-CAME… the both OF-YOU!!!”

“Happy-Birthday-Pauly!!!” The girls-chorused…

Being the closest, Alicia hugged and-kissed his cheek – she then ‘freak-out’ excited when she saw the-tee-shirt Paul-wore…

“Mortal-Kombat! That is my favourite VG! Pauly, where did you buy it…!!?”

“… err, my-Mom bought it…”

“Did you ‘see’ the movie-remake…? It’s on Netflix…?”

“… err… no, I would ‘put-it’ on My-List and check it out…”

The Chinese-girl geeked and told of the characters in the movie like Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Kano and Raiden – while Paul listened to his talkative-friend…

… BUT DEEP-inside… he was looking-forward to his GIRLFRIEND’S KISS…

The eccentric-Alicia then ran-off after saying…

“I want to go-ask Mrs Walker ‘where’ she bought it-from – I want to-buy one for Ken – he would love-it…”

The lovebirds were finally-alone at the backyard – Paul looked at his doll-faced girlfriend in-makeup…

… look lovely like-in PERTHLAND – during their dance-night at the SHS gym-auditorium…

… Jane sheepishly-grinned as she-went to him – with a full-32-teeth wide-smile like Julia Roberts. Paul guided her-reaching hand as she came-down…

… to give his-birthday kiss – it was ‘only’ a brief-5 seconds-kiss… as they broke-up ‘when’ Belgian Malinois barked…

… Paul jolted at the-warning-bark and-jumped his buttocks on the wheelchair – fearing his-mom had SEEN-HIM kissing – just-like Anthony ‘CAUGHT’ HIM kissing his-daughter @the Wilsons’ backyard…

He released a nervous-laughter, saying…

“… my-dog wants my-attention, hahaha…”

Jane too laughed…

Paul licked his-lips and liked-her cherry-tasting lipstick of their brief-kiss – and, called-out…

“Come-here, Kitty – look ‘who’s’ here – IT’S JANE… who ‘rescued’ you…”

… but Kitty WAS AFRAID and remained on the-grass, whining…

… as it remembered the female-human with fiery-fingers of IMMORTAL-POWERS …which ‘melted’ the padlock of the cage that she was-in at the dog-pound, a couple of-months-ago…

Paul called-out several-times – but Kitty ‘refused’ to come – Jane then-said…

“… it’s okay, Pauly – ‘maybe’ Kitty is-shy…”

Blind-Jane ‘remembered’…

… OTHER-PERTH – ‘where’ Kitty was Piper substitute as the cursed-Piper became a lone-wolf – and Kitty gave birth to 4-puppies @the Wilsons’ backyard…

… Jane ‘spoke’ to the frightened-dog at a distance…

“… Piper loves-you… and MISSES-YOU – he’s ‘recovering’ fast from his-wounds… and would ‘come’ home-soon…”

-O-

The 8-boys rushed downstairs when they saw a white BMW-Uber at the front-gate – to welcome Bella at the door…

… she hugged-and-kissed her ‘birthday-boy’ IN-FRONT of everyone…

Caroline disliked the-behaviour and the flirtatious-reputation of the senior-student, Bella – who was ‘caught-and-suspended’ a few times from-school-for… having SEX WITH BOYS in the gym-bathroom…

… and with PETER-TOO…

The Irish-boys ‘asked’ the 14-year-old who came to the party empty-handed… of ‘where’ her PREZZIE FOR her-boyfriend ‘was’ – she replied-that she would give-it-to him-later…

… the inebriated-tweens laughed-aloud to her-double MEANING JOKES…

… by-then the annoyed inspector-mother left the deviant-and-pervert youngsters – where she would want Tom-Harris to deal with the senior-girl WHOSE ‘FLIRTING’ was a bad-influence to others…

… she would ‘hope’ it would lead to her ‘BREAKING-UP’ with her-son, Peter…

Terry-too misbehaved and poked-fun at Bell’s printed t-shirt with an-image of lorikeet-bird – with a raunchy-joke…

“… our-lorikeets are squawking in our pants-too…” Everyone laughed…

Soon, Kitty barking her-head off again – ‘after’ hearing-the ‘familiar’ Bella’s voice… and ‘wanted’ her to come-over to play…

The animal-lover Bella ‘left’ the-boys… and wanted to go and pet the dog…

Peter ‘was’ angry at Poe’s pet – the-dingo – who had DISTRACTED HIS-girlfriend ‘when’ he needed-her to be-around… to ‘SHOW-OFF’ TO his-mediocre-cobbers that he was the only-one among-them who ‘HAS’ A GIRLFRIEND’…

Alicia was helping Caroline by setting the food from-the-warmer to the kitchen marbled-counter – Jane-and-Paul were talking at the IKEA table…

… ‘when’ Bella entered…

… and was ‘surprised’ to-see the ‘presence’ of the 2 girls – whom she ‘fought’ at the Girls’ room last-week… but all-the 3-girls DID ‘NOT’ REACT in their animosity under the roof-of the Inspector-of-Perth – and would settle their-difference in-school…

“Happy Birthday, Paul…” The teenager shook his hands…

“Can I go-out and play with your dog…?” She asked and left-him to go-outside the-backdoor…

… Paul left Jane and followed the visitor and – ‘supervise’ his ferocious-breed dog in Bella’s presence…

The dog was friendly to Peter’s girlfriend… as she had been playing with the dog ‘before’ during Peter’s treasure-hunt visit…

She was recommending food-brands and supplements to Paul… as-a ‘new’ dog-owner…

-O-

The robotic one-armed Peter was fuming-in-humiliation as it had been 10-minutes Bella had left his group... to-go play with his-twin’s dog. The intoxicated-Terry irritated-him too by his crude-jokes…

… with remarks of Tarzan-Gone-Muslim by being-a ‘polygamist’ – and-having many-girlfriends… as the POPULAR-TWIN in his-Perth-fame with his viral-Tik-Tok videos.

It almost ended with a fist-fight – and 5 of the-Irish mates took-Terry out of the house… so-that Peter ‘might’ NOT-KILL-HIM with his robotic-arm. They went to the Walkers’ lawn-garden – walked-around to find a ‘safe-spot’ to-vape in the-compound of the Inspector-of-Perth’s house.

In the living-room, only Churros remained with Peter…

Churros’ real name was Jorge McFly – who was ‘not’ pure-Irish blood because his mother was Spanish… thus-the nickname…

… Peter got-along well with him – being ‘not’ a pure-Irish blood himself… because his-late father was English…

Churros gave Peter the idea-and-material where he could get ‘even’ with Paul… who ‘stole’ his girlfriend – with the KISSING VIDEO shot during the recent SHS’ Family Day outing @the South Beach recorded by Raymond Donovan…

… who was the ‘elder-twin’ of Terry… from the B-Class at school…

… where, 2-days prior to the beach-trip, Raymond and an-Irish-mate from his-class were injured in a downhill skateboard accident… where the boys were hurt considerably with wounds-and-bruises on their arms-and-legs – with-Raymond suffered the-most as he was hurt on his-groins too – when the hurled skateboard stuck-him during the-fall…

When the SHS’ Family Day came, Raymond’s parents did ‘not’ want their-son to follow his twin to the island-beach of Rotto – instead, he went with the other-group in the busses to Freemantle’s South Beach… where teachers can ‘keep-an-eye’ of their injured-son…

… it was in the inland-beach of the ‘OTHER’ GROUP – he and his fellow injured-cobber went hiking… and they-both chanced on Paul-kissing-Jane at a secluded beach-away from the main-crowd…

… and they ‘recorded’ the STEAMY-VIDEO from afar, in-secret…

… Peter was watching the video of his-twin kissing Jane rolling-over the sands like Hollywood stars of a romance-movie… and he was both jealous-and-angry as Paul – who ‘kept’ stealing his-girlfriends in EVERY REALM they-went…

This was A ‘NEW’ ARSENAL of the videos TO GET-BACK at his twin, where he ‘had’ the ANOTHER-VIDEO of…

… the CCTV-cam upstairs which ‘caught’ – the cripple-POE ‘FLYING’ UPSTAIRS to his-room…

… but that was HIS-EVIDENCE FOR his-inspector-mother… WHEN THE right-moment came TO REVEAL the superhero secret-identity of Poe, LIVING UNDER the-same-roof.

The plotting-twin was deciding of ‘HOW-TO’ use the kissing-video to destroy his-brother’s reputation online as ‘Tarzan,’ now-that…

… he’s famous by the Tik-Tok viral-videos of-the-zoo…

‘… WHAT-IF…

‘… hehehe… Janey’s parents found-out that you’ve been ‘FRENCH-KISSING’ their blind-daughter, hehehe… I ‘got’ you this-time with YOUR ‘PANTS-DOWN, Poe…’