(alarm clock rings)
🧡Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen🧡
🧡Pour myself a cup of ambition🧡
🧡And yawn and stretch and try to come to life🧡
🧡Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumping🧡
🧡Out on the street the traffic starts jumping🧡
🧡And folks like me on the job from 9 to 5🧡
🧡Working 9 to 5🧡
(Crimp pulls out a steam iron and Veneer is seem wearing a white dressing shirt)
Veneer: Ow! You just burned me.
Crimp: Oh, my gawd! I'm sorry! Um, maybe it would be easier if you took your shirt off?
Veneer: [groans] Don't be lazy.
Crimp: [throws away the steam iron and goes to Velvet] Oh, by the way, you know that thing you asked me for?
Velvet: Space from you.
Crimp: [laughs] Oh, no. Yeah, no... Uh, what? Anyways, you said you needed a way to make your smoothies even fruitier on stage.
Crimp: You did?
Velvet: Shh. Yes. That is what I want. Go on.
Crimp: Well, I had an idea. [chuckles] Tada!
(Crimp reveals the shoulder pads)
Veneer: Crimp, honey, that's not an idea. Those are shoulder pads.
Crimp: I beg to differ. It's a high-powered vacuum. I finally put that master's degree in engineering to good use. See? [pulls out a few pieces pf fruit] You just pop the grape or strawberry or blueberry or guava slice, right in here. [closes the diamond-faceted lid] And it releases the fruit's essence through here. Once you're on stage, lightly tap this button, just delicately, you know, like, once. [presses the button, the fruits essence is about to start]
(Velvet snatches the shoulder pads, puts Floyd in it and then puts it on herself...)
Crimp: Oh! Oh, my gawd. Wait. Wait.
(...and presses the button repeatedly)
Floyd: [groans]
💜 Hey, yeah! 💜
Crimp: [chuckles] You said that it was for smoothies.
Velvet: It's called lying, Primp. Deal with me.
Crimp: If you use too much, you'll kill him. The plum that I tested turned into a prune!
Veneer: Well, I don't wanna kill the little guy. They're kinda cute when they're up and about, banging on the walls, yelling to go home.
Velvet: [grabs her twin brother's face] Do you wanna lose all this and go back to the dark place where we had nothing?
(...What?)
Young Veneer: Please, sir, I want some more.
Veneer: Girl, we grew up in the suburbs. Our parents were dentists.
(...Uh, what?)
Parent: So, how was school today?
Young Velvet: Stop attacking me! [flips the table]
(...I'm sorry, but what just happened?)
Velvet: Our parents were nobodies, and we were nobodies. And when I met you, you were literally sucking your thumb and pooping all over the place.
Veneer: You met me when I was a baby, so—
Velvet: All over the place. It was nuts! You don't wanna give up all the yachts and the bling and your illegal pet monkey, do you?
Veneer: [titters] Okay. I've made my peace with it. [to Crimp] Great job, Cringe.
Velvet: [sashays to Crimp] You're smarter than I thought. Now I don't trust you.
Crimp: That's maybe not a rational response. I don't—
(Velvet picks up Crimp and tosses her in the closet)
Crimp: Please don't put me in the closet.
(...Too late)
Velvet: Now come on. [gives her twin brother the perfume bottle and heads out of the dressing room and to the door] We're about to go from stars to megastars.
(Velvet leaves and the doors slid shut)
Floyd: Please, Veneer.
Veneer: It's nothing personal. I just love my sister. And all my fame.
(A picture reveals the twins' fame)
Veneer: And money.
(Then the next picture shows a unit amount of money the twins owned)
Veneer: And things I bought.
(...What? That's a waste of money)
(elephant trumpets)
Floyd: Yeah, sure, dying sucks, but at least it's for some sweet "bling-a-ding" and some boho-chic home furnishings.
Veneer: [chuckles] You get it. [squeezes the bulb from the perfume bottle and sprays it twice on himself]
Floyd: [strains]
(Veneer tosses the perfume bottle over his shoulder, and then he leaves to follow his twin sister)
Floyd: [grunts] Ow! Ooh!
(Now Floyd is losing color from his hands and the white ombré on his hair)
Crimp: My Wi-Fi doesn't work great in the closet.
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Trolls Band Together
FanfictionPoppy discovers that Branch and his four brothers were once part of her favorite boy band. When one of his siblings, Floyd, gets kidnapped by a pair of nefarious villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the o...
