Twenty minutes pass, I'm on the porch now waiting for Miss Pretty.

I hear the bang of my room door closing, and the thud-thud-thud of Becca coming down the stairs. I stay sitting on the porch steps, looking out at a tree across the road, intentionally not turning to look as Becca quickly slips on her shoes and opens the door.

"Sorry, I'm late. I was looking for my bag. I accidentally dropped it in my suitcase." Becca giggles, sounding genuinely sorry despite my arbitrary time limit.

"Okay whatever let's go. I don't want to be even more late." I say walking ahead of her, not really caring if she catches up or not. My conscience twinges a little at how rude I'm being, but my irritation overrules it.

Becca jogs a few steps to catch up to me, and then matches my brisk pace as we walk towards the bus stop, where the bus takes at least ten more minutes to arrive.

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We arrive at "The Muffin Shop", the chain muffin store that is now finally in our town; I get in line behind the 30 plus people who are already waiting to try the muffins.

"Oh cool, we had one of these back at home. My friends and I used to go here every Friday to hang out." Becca says standing beside me

I rolled my eyes. Great! Something I've been excited about has been ruined by this stranger again.

Becca looks around, staring like a tourist.  "Woah! Your town is way tinier than my city." She laughs to herself. "Do you have a mall? Where is the school from here? Where are your friends?"

My blood begins to boil. I don't want to start something, plus I might not be able to try the muffins if I make a scene. I need to keep my cool until I get a muffin.

Taking in deep breaths, I turn to her. "Oh really tell me more about your home and malls!" I say mockingly, annoyed by all the questions.

I turn away from her to block out her voice. And drift off thinking about the different muffins and Jennifer's citation. What am I going to do next? She hasn't been showing up.

After 20 mins of waiting in line and halfway listening to Becca talk, we finally make it to the door.

"I can't believe we are finally going to get one! I'm so ready to stuff my face!" I say, my heart races like crazy.

The wait makes the muffins seem more extra rare and we are about to experience the rareness. Makes my mouth water.

"Yeah, I'm pretty excited too. I was thinking I want a chocolate banana nut muffin." Becca says trying to take a peek in the shop, from the shop's window.

An employee who has been managing the door looks over at us and gestures it's our turn. A high pitch noise came out of me.

"Thank you!" I squeal.

Once we get in the shop, the mouth drooling aroma hits me. Looking around at the navy blue walls with different photos of people eating muffins. Glancing at the large glass rectangle boxes holding all kinds of muffins. My stomach starts talking, oh god! I know I am in heaven.

I hear a whisper around my ear. My heart sinks past my feet. I stop in my tracks right before one of the glass boxes, looking only at the ground.

"Hey, Buttercup!"

Why is she here?! I really don't want to look crazy in front of everyone. I try to ignore her. Pretending to look at the menus above the employees' heads, who are behind the glass boxes.

"Ginger, are you ready to order? I found what I want. What about you?" Becca says, standing next to me waiting for my answer.

"Hey! Look at me! Oh, wait look at these muffins. This is what you've been waiting for? Man, back when I was alive we had a baker who made normal muffins, not these wannabe muffins" Jennifer says float around everyone.

Trying to keep my eyes straightforward. Clutching my fist, I whisper harshly  "Leave me alone!"

Becca steps back a little "Um.. sorry?"

Crap! I point out the triple chocolate muffin "That's the one I want! Let's order and leave." I try saying cheerfully

The store clerk nods and picks out our choices. They then gave us the price, luckily mom gave me money before I left, to pay for Becca's muffin too.

Walking out the shop I realized I hadn't heard from Jennifer or seen her after purchasing our muffins. I quickly glance around just in case.

With my nervous trigger I forget about my muffin and the excitement of it disappears. I feel confused and hungry but the hunger doesn't win and I just stand there trying to figure out why Jennifer keeps popping up and leaving for a large amount of time at a time.

"Where to next?" Becca says chowing down her muffin.

Looking around, I see the library. I do need to do more research for Jennifer before school starts up. I stuff my muffin in my backpack to eat later. I want to enjoy it at a better time than now.

Determined for my muffin and getting rid of Jennifer, "Let's head to the library." I say, looking both ways before crossing the road.

"Cool, do you have something you need to do there? Or is that just a place you hang out?" Becca says trying to catch up to me.

"Well yeah, It's basically a mystery I need to solve." I say absentmindedly, then clap my hands over my mouth. Crap! I said too much.

"OOOOOHHHHH!!!! A MYSTERY! Can I help? That sounds fun. What kind of mystery? A cold case? Myths? What adventure in this small town are we going on?!" she says with her eyes watching my every move, "I love mysteries!"

I don't know if I made a mistake or if this is a blessing?