015 - DUCHESS, PART ONE

Echo  
...And extra cheese on one of them.
And a Dr. Pepper.
   
Easton Blok, Fooksburgh's Ambassador to the United Nations
Why, good afternoon, Your Highness!
I didn't expect to see you at a place like this.
   
Echo  
I beg your eternal pardon?
   
Easton Blok, Fooksburgh's Ambassador to the United Nations
Well, I certainly wouldn't expect to see a Duchess here, at a fast-food establishment.
   
Echo  
I'm not a ---
   
Echo  
Duchess, you say.
   
Easton Blok, Fooksburgh's Ambassador to the United Nations
I'm very much looking forward to seeing you at the charity ball this evening.
   
Echo  
Why, I wouldn't think of being anyhwere else tonight.
It is such a worthy cause, you know, uh...for...uh...
   
Easton Blok, Fooksburgh's Ambassador to the United Nations
For orphaned ---
   
Echo  
Orphans, yes! Make sure they get their orange juice, loots of good books to read...
   
Easton Blok, Fooksburgh's Ambassador to the United Nations
Orange juice and books for orphaned baby seals?
   
Echo  
...Hey, evolution of the species doesn't just happen on it's own.
   
 
 

LATER.

   
Echo  
...And the guy still believed I was this Duchess!
   
The Edge  
Look at the picture in today's paper. She does bear a striking resemblance.
   
Echo  
I am totally, totally going to this charity ball. Score some free grub, mingle with some famous people that I'm not sick of yet.
   
Bruuuuuce!  
*single tear*
   
The Edge  
*reads from paper*
"Perhaps the most anticipated event of the evening is Duchess Alexandria Zwiffenhoffer's performance of Ave Maria...on the trombone."
   
Echo  
Uh oh. I can't play the trombone.
   
Echo  
...But Caylean played it in school.
Hey, Caylean! Can you still play the trombone?
   
Caylean  
I don't know. I gave it up years ago to chase rock stars.
   
Echo  
A common dilemma. Do you think your memory could be refreshed if it meant attending a swank party on behalf of baby seals?
   
Caylean  
...
   
Echo  
I'm sorry, did I say baby seals? I meant the guy from Flogging Molly.
The hot one.
   
Caylean  
Where do I sign?
   
Echo  
Well, you and I share enough genetic material that you could probably pass for the Duchess as well. But we'll need to put you in a wig. The Duchess is a brunette.
   
Caylean  
I think I used to be a brunette. Hey, what color was my hair before it was black?
   
Larry Mullen, Jnr.
Purple.
   
Caylean  
Before that?
   
Larry Mullen, Jnr.
Fire-engine Red.
   
Caylean  
Before that?
   
Larry Mullen, Jnr.
Blonde.
   
Caylean  
...
   
Caylean  
No kidding?
   
 
 

TO BE CONTINUED...

   
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