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“Don’t use that now,” Brittani said. “You’ll get eye herpes.”
“Boy, I hate eye herpes,” Tiara agreed. Beside her, Nicole pretended to write something on imaginary paper, which she tore off and handed to Tiara. “What are you doing, Nicole?”
“Writing you a prescription to come talk to me.”
“Can you do that if you’re not a real doctor?”
“Sure,” Miss Ohio said. “I found a guy on the Internet to write me a prescription for horse diet pills.”
“Horse diet pills?” Nicole repeated.
“Yeah. They worked great, but my mom made me stop when I grew an extra set of teeth inside my large intestine.”
Petra stuck her fingers in her ears. “La-la-la-la-la.”
“What’s she wearing?” Sosie signed.
Around her dress, Taylor had constructed a makeshift bandolier out of airplane seat belts, a pink unicorn wallet, and a tampon carrying case.
“That girl is serious about her feminine hygiene,” Shanti said.
“Should we tackle her, bring her back?” Jennifer asked.
Shanti shook her head. “No way. She’ll cut a bitch. Even hopped up on crazy juice.”
“I don’t understand — you guys ate those berries and you’re fine,” Adina said. “It wore off in a few hours. I wonder how come it’s not wearing off for Taylor.”
“Her bitch cells are binding to the proteins,” Petra murmured.
“Shh, she’s coming closer,” Shanti whispered.
Out of sticks, palm fronds, salvaged shoes, glittery jewelry, two suitcase wheels, and evening gown scraps, Taylor had built a found-object beauty queen sculpture upon which she placed a scrawled sign for a sash. The sash read Miss Miss, making it seem as if the sculpture were just off. Taylor talked to the figure. She called it Ladybird and seemed to be waiting for its approval.
“What is that thing? It looks like the most busted beauty queen ever,” Nicole whispered, and no one was sure which one she meant.
“I thought it was a g*y bunny,” Tiara said.
“Ladybird, watch this!” Taylor executed three backflips, ending in a machine-gun stance.
“Okay, that’s not disturbing at all,” Shanti said.
“She could probably sell that at MOMA for a fortune,” Petra said appreciatively.
Taylor tilted her head to one side and smiled. “Yes, Ladybird. You have to put your heart, soul, and sparkle into it. It is a total commitment to the sparkle.”
“She really has lost it,” Adina murmured.
Taylor stopped, suddenly alert. She scrambled up the tree and disappeared.
“O-kaaay,” Nicole said. “What’s next?”
“Do you hear something?”
The girls listened, but in the constant burble of jungle noises, it was hard to hear anything unusual. It was only when the enormous snake dropped down from the tree that they realized the sound was a hiss.
“What is that?” Mary Lou whispered.
“Big snake thingy?” Tiara offered.
