• Present Day •
This is Meena Beard and Kei Hutchins. Meena is the girl on the left with the backwards cap and AC/DC t-shirt. Kei is the one on the right with the bob cut and the funny looking chinese shirt. Remember that now.
"Hey, Kei," Meena asked as they entered the school hallway, "You've been wearing those funny-looking shirts for a while now. What's with that?"
"Well," Kei explained, "Even though my adopted dads are white, I still want to embrace my culture. I've been wanting Owen to do it, too, but boys are just too darn stubborn, aren't they? And FYI, this is called a cheongsam."
"Hmm, good to know," said Meena, "Hey, at lunch I need to show you something that you're gonna wanna see." A smile appeared on Meena's face as the bell rang and kids of all ages started flooding into the hallway.
"Oh no," Kei whisper-shouted, then yelled to her best friend, "RUN!"
Meena and Kei went to a K-12 school in Columbus, Ohio. In that school, there's an entrance lobby, from which all these kids from ages 5 to 18 came from. There's a main hallway, which the two girls snuck through the teacher's lounge to get to, that separates into a hallway for each grade and ends with the gym and the cafeteria.
The two girls dashed down the 5th grade hallway and parted ways at their classrooms. "See ya at lunch time, Meena!" Kei called to her best friend.
"See ya then!"
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"Okay, so," Meena started as her and Kei got seated at their normal lunch table with their food, "My dad grounded me for a few days for not cleaning my room and took my skateboard away, so I snuck into his office to see if I could find it, and..."
"Did you find it?" Kei interrupted, excited to know what the real answer was.
"No, I found something better!" answered Meena, pulling a box out of her backpack, "I found these!"
She opened the box to reveal a stack of colorful paperback books, most having a bald, half naked, bald man on the cover along with a bunch of other different potty humor themed creatures.
"And look," said Meena, pointing to the names of the author and illustrator. Kei gasped. By George Beard and Harold Hutchins. One of Kei's dads, Harold, had told her that he makes and sells comic books with Meena's father, George, but she didn't know they made this many. Hundreds of comics. Too many to count. The box could barely contain them all. Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants; Captain Underpants and the Stinky Sensation of Sir Stinks-A-Lot; Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, etc. There were also comics that didn't involve Captain Underpants, like Sad Worm, which Kei thought was just depressing, Super Diaper Baby, and-
"Hey, look!" Meena exclaimed, holding up one of the comics, "One of the early drafts of the Dog Man comics our dads are famous for!"
Then the bell rang. The girls realized they had spent the entire period reading comics and began to scarf down their food. Kei was chugging down her milk while trying to eat her chicken sandwich and Meena was eating an apple and shoving the comics back into the box and the box in her backpack.
But, as soon as they got finished dumping their trays and were about to start their afternoon classes, an announcement appeared on the intercom
"Could Meena Beard and Kei Hutchins please report to principal Krupp's office IMMEDIATELY!!!"
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