Interlude II
The Nutcracker Gone Wrong
No no no no NO!” The scream pierced through the room, it's owner on the verge of throwing the book onto the floor.
“Why does she know the story?! She's not supposed to know the ending! She's not supposed to skip the whole story!”
He pulled at his hair, frustration clear as day on his face.
This had never happened before. He was not prepared for this at all. If they didn't follow the storyline, what would happen to the story?
He should have realized as soon as she recited the entire story to him that there was something very wrong.
He flipped the pages of the book back, trying to see where it had started to go wrong. Finding nothing, he flipped the pages forward to see if he could see what would happen. He'd always been able to read to the end of the story.
Confusion, then fear, crossed his face, when he flipped with pages to find them blank. Eyes wide, he desperately flipped until he reached the back cover. Everything was blank.
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