The guys looked at Mike and Karen. They had just heard that Peter had refused to leave "Friends" world. Chea and Micky had sent the trio on a scavenger hunt. Friends was one of the TV shows that Chea had on a list of places for them to visit. But now Peter didn't want to
leave, and for one reason only; Phoebe Buffay.
"Excuse me." Brianna said. "But who's Phoebe?" She asked.
"That's right luv, you weren't here when the girls first arrived." Davy said.
"Yeah." Brianna said. "A recap would be nice."
"Micky volunteered us to be in a band contest, only we didn't find out till a little later than it was a mixed band competition." Davy said. "This was around the time when Karen first met Chandler Bing from Friends."
"Wow you knew Chandler?" Brianna asked. "Cool."
"Yeah." Karen nodded. "Chandler enlisted Phoebe to be a replacement for me after I burned my hand." She continued the story. She held up her hand. It was still a little pink, even after all this time.
"Unfortunately for us, Peter fell for Phoebe. And the feeling was mutual." Micky said. "Phoebe left with Chandler after the contest. Peter hasn’t been the same since."
"Ahh soo." Brianna said. "Now that we are all caught up, what can we do about it?"
"I dunno." Mike said.
"What about the scavenger hunt?" Chea asked.
"Forget it, its no longer important." Karen said. "We are talking about Peters heart here."
"Here is the stuff we have so far." Mike said dumping out the findings for the first two shows. "Johnny Bravos comb."
Davy grabbed it. "He uses the same kind I do." He said then brushed his hair with the same comb.
"Uh a central perk coffee mug and a creamer that looks like a cow." Mike said.
"An extra from Gunther." Karen smiled.
"Hey, a moo cow." Micky laughed. "but it kind of looks like its puking, doesn’t it? The milk?"
"I didn't need that image in my mind Mick." Chea said.
"Sorry." He said.
"Why don't we do it?" Brianna asked. "Davy and I have nothing better to do."
"What about the swimming lessons?" Davy asked.
"You said so yourself, we can do that anytime." Brianna said. "It'll be fun. I haven’t had chance to see these other worlds."
"All right." Davy said.
"How will we do this?" Karen asked. "We have the time gadget?"
Micky coughed loudly.
"Subtle Mick." Chea said.
"You can use the newer one." Micky said retreating to his room. "I brought this over from Cheas place earlier. I had a feeling that you would need this."
"I dunno." Mike said.
"It would be perfect for a test run." Brianna said. "We'll just punch in the Friends world then meet back there when we have the rest of the stuff. Hopefully Peter will have his mind made up by then."
"Great." Karen said. She gave her the folded up piece of paper with the names of the shows on them.
"I only know half of these." Brianna said.
"That will be the challenge then wouldn't it?" Chea said.
"Back to friends world we go." Mike said setting the gadget. Davy took the newer one from Micky and programmed the same coordinates. They were gone in a flash of light.
Friends
Mike and Karen stepped out of the alley.
"How long have we been gone?" Karen asked.
"Everyones asleep. Must have been two or three hours if you go by the time here." Mike said. "We oughta find a place to crash for the night."
"Do we have any money." Karen asked. She put her hand in her pocket. "Twenty bucks."
"Great. Let's find a cozier alley, and we'll be fine." Mike said taking her hand.
"Wait, where’s Davy and Brianna?" Karen asked.
They looked around for five minutes, Karen even looked under a rock and a newspaper.
"I don't get it. They should have landed here." Mike said studying the gadget. "They aren’t here."
"What?" Karen asked. "They put in the same things we did. Where did they end up?"
Outside a garage somewhere....
Davy and Brianna appeared on the back lawn of a house in suburbia.
"Huh, Friends is different looking than I imagined." Davy asked.
"This isn’t Friends." Brianna said. "I've seen enough of it to be able to tell."
"So where are we?" Davy asked.
"Uh, hmm 70's show. Partridge Family." Brianna said. "I think. Look at that bus." She pointed out the bus that was parked out in front of the house. "Nervous mother driving."
"Where are they then?" Davy asked. "We need the little girls tambourine."
They looked around. Then they heard the sound of music coming from the garage. Davy pointed and Brianna nodded. They snuck in through the backed door. The band inside was the partridges. They seemed to be warming up.
"Who’s this?" Davy asked.
"Keith, Danny, uh the mom I think is Shirley. The other little boy I don't recall but the little girl is Tracy I think. I can't remember the older sister."
"What’s the thing that looks like a lawn gnome?" Davy asked.
"A lawn gnome." Brianna laughed.
The band was singing one of their own songs. "I think I love you".
"I just remembered, I hate this song." Brianna gagged.
"I dunno. I think its ok." Davy said.
"Well you didn't hear it on the radio all the time at the hospital you worked at, so that’s understandable." Brianna stuck out her tongue.
The band abruptly stopped.
"What was that?" Danny looked up.
"Why’d you stop playing?" Shirley said.
"I heard something." Danny said.
Keith went over to the side where the two hid. "Hi."
Brianna and Davy stepped out from their hiding spot.
"I guess you found us." Brianna said. "Its your turn to hide."
Davy laughed uneasily.
"You must be the backup singers that Rueben wanted us to practice with today." Keith said.
"Yeah, that’s right." Davy said.
"Yeah." Brianna said.
Davy looked at her. All of a sudden she got this dreamy sparkly look in her eyes. He could have sworn he heard birds tweeting. Then he looked up into the rafters of the garage and saw a birds nest. He stepped aside really quickly to avoid being hit by bird doo. She still had that look in her eyes when she followed Keith over to where the band was set up.
"Do I look like that?" Davy wondered to himself.
"Hey guys, these are the backup singers that Reuben talked about." Keith said. "What are your names?"
"Brianna Lewis." Brianna said.
"Davy Bowie." Davy said stumbling over an amp. He couldn’t very well use his own name.
"I'm Keith." Keith smiled.
"I'm Laurie." Laurie said. "This is our little brother Danny."
"Hey." Danny said. "Why do we need back up singers Keith? I thought we were doing pretty good!"
"Its in case any of you are sick." Shirley said. "You guys know how to play instruments?"
"Sure, anything. Drums, guitar, bass, tambourine." He said putting the emphasis on tambourine. It was what they were there for. The object in question was being held by the little girl Tracy.
"And these are the youngest, Tracy and..." Laurie continued the intro.
"Enough chatter." Danny said. "Let's see what these guys can do."
"Ok." Keith said. "We're doing I think I love you."
"I've heard of it." Brianna said with the same look in her eyes.
"Groovy." Keith said with another smile. "For now you two will just sing. We'll give you something to play with later."
"Okay." Davy said. He sat down. Brianna went to sit next to Keith. Davy looked over at Brianna. "Oh man. I hope this bird guy isn’t gonna steal me girl!"
They started to play. Keith would look at Brianna once in a while. She mouthed the words along with him, especially on the part with "I think I love you."
"I think I'm starting to like this song." Brianna thought.
