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Not too bright.

Both you and Fred jump as suddenly the phone rings. Fred has a land line, so it's loud tone takes you by surprise. Fred lets our a breath to calm himself down before going and picking it up. "Hello?" He says, then listens. You here some muffled words, before he says, "Rick? Ok, yeah, he's here." He turns his attention to you. "Ricks on the line, he says he was supposed to call you?"

"Oh yeah." you say, having forgotten about that with the surprises his morning. You take the phone and put the receiver to your ear. "Hey Rick, how are things going?"

"You got to get down here." says Rick in an excited tone. My address is..." he tells you quickly, his tone still excited. "Wait, what's going on?" you ask, "Did the photo..."

"You just gotta get here!" he says, then hangs up.

"Um... he want's me to go see him." you say a little confused.

"That's fine," says Fred, "You can take my car, just... take that with you," he says, pointing at the camera bag.

***

You arrive at Ricks address, a house comparable to Fred's in size (how come everyone seems loaded but you?). You get to the door and knock on it, and hear heavy footsteps, then Rick opens the door, and he pulls you in. "180 lbs! I've put on 180 lbs since yesterday!" he says, gripping you in an embrace. After a moment he realizes somethings off. "Weren't you a frog yesterday?" he says, confused. You pry yourself loose, "Yeah, something changed," you say, "I'm not a demon anymore."

"Well, that's great for you, but I've put on so much weight!" he says, bouncing and jiggling about. He doesn't look any bigger then yesterday. "Um... Rick. Is that 180 pounds since the picture was taken, or after you went on your huge candy binge?"

Rick stops. Then smacks himself in the face. "Argh, so stupid!" he says, more to himself then to you.

"Rick, it's fine, I'm kinda glad this thing didn't curse you," you say.

Rick looks at your bag. "Oh, you have it here?" he says, "Well, let me try it again!" he says, reaching for it. You pull it back, afraid to mess around with it. "Um.. I don't think that's a great idea." you say, but Rick grabs the bag anyway.

"We already took one and it went fine," he says, reaching to open the bag, but you pull back, "Yeah, but now the camera is acting weird," you say.

Your just being paranoid, you cursed it," he says, and pulls back. suddenly there is a tearing sound, and the bottom of the bag tears open. The camera falls to the ground, and you hear a click, and there is a flash as it hits the ground and tumbles away.

"Oops," says Rick, when he realizes what just happened. You didn't see where the camera was facing when it went off, but you see a new photo side out of it.

"Oh crap." you say, running over and picking the photo up.

"Seriously, it's fine," says Rick, "I hope it got me again. I mean, it didn't work last time, but..."

You try to ignore Rick, focusing on the photo and hoping it missed you both. The photo starts to develop and you hold your breath...


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