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Old 12-29-2013, 07:55 PM   #594 (permalink)
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Lex felt pretty confident in her kick. Those hardly ever failed thank you very much so when the first gumball rolled out she grinned. All in the foot work. Ahem. They needed to start hiring her for this job. She and the machine had an underst--

Uh-oh!

One behind another there was something like a burst of gumballs falling from the machine. Oh merlin! Sweet Circe! Holy Kneazle! JGSGFRDURDKFKRDFKI!! "Uhhhhh........" Lex leapt forward and tried grabbing as many of them as she could, saving the candy as it were, but it was no use as more and more kept bouncing to the floor and spreading out.

Every muscle in her froze at the voice of the shopkeeper.

.__.

Of all the questions he could possibly ask. "Er.....it...the gumballs....stealing money. These things happen sometimes." Her eyes trailed down to the floor again, now covered in gumballs. Guess it was time to try that friend of the niece card....?
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Hades all mighty! They've been caught.

Xavier was between hauling Alexa out of there (along with their loot) and make a mad run for the door, but the new shopkeeper recognized him.

Snitches!

"Mister Calverley," Xavier said, swirling around and giving him one of his best I-am-innocent-and-dashing smiles. Too bad Calverley wasn't a woman. Xavier totally melted the hearts of women with his winning smile. Too bad he was all Ursulla's. Ha!

Oh. The machine. Right.

"I forgot to tell you, this machine is old. Ancient, even. This young lady was just assisting me in retrieving my gumball..." Holly Bludger. They were surrounded by gumballs.

This looked bad.

"Oh, that dent...that one right there," Xavier pointed at it, "it's been there before. Pops in and out every once in a while." He jerked his head at Alexa: Get the loot and run!

"It was nice seeing you. I'm glad to have left the shop in great hands."

Move it chickidy!


The more he looked the more he realized how serious the situation was. GUMBALLS WERE ALL OVER THE FLOOR! Ones that should have only popped out by putting MONEY into the slot. So much money that was supposed to go into his pocket.

He shook his head snapping out of profits calculating and diverted his attention on trying to fix the problem at task. HE needed to fix it or the customers who were witnessing this wouldn't come back! He cleared his throat and pushed back his shoulder, "Everything's under control," he said reassuringly and intentionally quite LOUDLY to be heard. But he didn't reassure his self.

He looked at the teenage girl, "They do? " did she know MOAR about the machine than he did? Well, if she didn't, then he was certain someone else did.

Someone who was like standing with them.

Xavier!

Who was pointing out the dent. Now! Would have been helpful if he did when he handed over the shop, maybe?! Just thinking here. And waaait a sec, he was leaving. Oh, no, he wasn't. Someone had to help Silas! "How often did this happen?"he asked in a low tone as he pulled out his wand and tapped the machine murmuring the incantation.

Phew! he sighed in relief seeing that there was no more gumballs rolling out.

As for those on the floor, hmmm. Speaking of! Dashing down, Silas gathered a fistful and shoved them in the girl's hand. "We are going to have maintenance here very very soon." he said flashing a smile. "Please don't let this stop you from shopping at Sugarplums," he said commercially. He couldn't afford to lose costumers or having them spread the word about this. So bribing it was.

More gumballs into her hands.
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