"I said we shouldn't drink that stuff," said Jack, his voice comically mournful, like the cartoon dog Droopy.
"Well, that didn't stop you from drinking it, so you've got no one to blame but yourself," said Emma; personally she thought it fitting that Jack with his insecurities and usual pessimism now looked like a hobo clown.
"What are we going to do?" wailed Lily. Water came from her eyes, not in teardrops but a stream that fell down a couple of inches from her face. "I don't want to be a clown!"
"At least all of you still got hair!" Matt's voice now sounded like somewhere between Goofy and Bullwinkle. He took of his little hat and rubbed his bare scalp. "I'm only sixteen and I'm BALD!"
"You're father's bald, both your grandfathers are bald, and so are your two older cousins, it was bound to happen to you," Emma told her boyfriend. "Now hold yourselves together. I'm going to try to examine the stuff we drank, to see if there's some way we can reverse it."
"Might as well just stand and wait," sighed Jack. "Here," he told Lily as he pulled out a small wooden chair, "sit in the chair."
"No."
"Sit in the chair."
"NO!"
"SIT IN THE CHAIR!"
"Oh all right." Lily planted her seat down on the chair-which all of a sudden collapsed under her.
Jack and Matt burst into guffaws; Emma giggled then looked down at the test tubes Lily previously had poured into the beaker they drank from. They were all empty and none of the tubes were marked. She'd have to examine the stuff in the beaker through a microscope.
Lily sprang to her feat. "That's not funny!" she screamed in her goofy alto voice, then grabbed a spray bottle full of water that happened to be laying on the lab counter. Lily sprayed water into the two boys' faces and laughed aloud.
"STOP!" The three turned to look at Emma. "Don't you realize whats happening to us? This stuff doesn't just make us look like clowns; you three are starting to act like them too."
"Oh yes," said Lily, "that is rather serious." She brought the spray bottle up to her mouth, pulled the lever, and water squirted out of her ears into the faces of the boys on either side of her.