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A GRUELING HOUR AND a half later, Mr. Millwood released Danny and Kevin from a second conference room. Both were even more dazed and confused than their usual states of being. Shell-shocked, they made their way to their favorite restaurant, Casa Del Chili Pepper. After several minutes of uninterrupted eating, a burp followed by, “Do you think he bought it?” burst out of Danny.
A softer burp muffled behind several layers of napkins followed. Then Kevin said, “I think so. At least that’s the impression I got when we left. That steely eyed, I know you are lying gleam went out of Mr. Millwood’s eyes about 60 minutes into the interview. I think we wore him down by sticking to the story and blaming everything on Suzanne.”
“Well when I run into Mr. Millwood, I always tend to go dry-mouthed, and my thoughts get stuck up in my head, and a sort of traffic jam ensues with very little actually coming out of my mouth,” Danny said, inhaling another chimichanga.
Kevin was trying to visualize this metaphor, complete with little flagmen at the top of Danny’s brain and another at the back of his throat waving thoughts into words, and missed what Danny was saying through his mouthful of food.
“Hello, Kev, come back, come back to earth, Kev!” Danny sprayed more than said to Kevin.
“What? Oh, I’m sorry, I was just visualizing something. Oh gross, Danny! Keep your big mouth closed when you’re eating, you disgusting pig. Oh, are those canela bunuelos? Mmmmm. Where’s the syrup? What were you saying?” It was Kevin’s turn to spray Danny with the fried, funnel, cake like dessert.
“I was saying... hey, don’t hog all the syrup, man. I was saying that we should probably try to go internationally with this if possible since Teaberry has somehow beaten us to it. They couldn’t have gotten all the ingredients right, I mean they couldn’t have known the ingredients in that vial Maggie gave me. So we are still ahead of them regarding the super duper effects and most likely the long-term effects as well.”
“I agree. Let’s talk this over with Maggie since she is the one who is going to discover the formula.”