I was just jamming to "Are We There Yet" by Olivia Addams while writing this. XD helped me a lot.

Let me know if you guys want to be tagged in the chapters I post. I hate disturbing everyone like this and I could really use your permission to tag you.

Things may get unrealistic because this is the Cozy Council.

The Cozy Council:

LuckyBugBooks (Lucky) 🐞
chocoqueen29 (Cho) 🍫
Mello-Walker (Ash) ⛈️
Dee_Dee_Mclee (Dee) 🐕
RubyRed883 (Ruby) 💎
SageNinjaMorro (Sage) 👻
TheMagicalMang0 (Blossom) 🌸
And me (Jade) 👑

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The day found the Cozy Council stuffed into their beanie shaped car for a road trip and driving Jade up the wall instead of the road.

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"Are we there yet?"

"No, Blossom we are not."

"Oh, okay."

"Are we there yet?"

"No, Cho."

"Are we there yet?"

"Do I literally have to tell everyone 'no' separately?"

"Yes."

"It was a rhetorical question!"

"What's rhetorical?"

"What's a question?"

Jade repeatedly bumped her head on the steering wheel, trying not to lose the puny amount of sanity she had managed to preserve so far. With every "are we there yet?", the pink clad girl grew more and more impatient.

"Are we there yet?"

"NO, ASH! IF ANYONE ASKS ME THAT ONE MORE TIME I WILL SEE TO THEM PERSONALLY!"

Lucky, who was actually responsible enough to ride shotgun with Pudding on her lap, casually turned about and signalled the others to be quiet.

Sage loudly breathed out, sinking down in her seat between Ruby and Blossom at the very back. "We've been driving for hours!"

"Actually, it's only been twenty minutes," Dee informed the girl, glancing down at her watch.

Sage shot Dee an unimpressed look. "I was exaggerating."

"Can we stop for a snack?" Ash called out, incessantly poking Jade's shoulder since she was seated right behind her. "Jade, Jade, Jade, Jade, Jade, Jade, Jade–"

"What?"

"SNACK TIME!" Everyone cheered in unison followed by Pudding's excited barks. There was also an explosion of glitter along with the shouts but no one really questioned where it came from . . .

"We just had breakfast twenty minutes ago," Jade sighed, stopping at a red light. She knew the Council had very large appetites (and they were nothing compared to Pudding's) but this was just ridiculous.

"Actually, we had breakfast thirty minutes ago."

"Not now, Dee."

"Sorry."

Cho jumped forward till she was practically dangling in between Jade and Lucky and made puppy eyes at the former. "Pwease," she pouted, trying her best to sound innocent.

Jade shook her head so vigorously, her dark ponytail went flying in every direction including Cho's face. "The last time we made a snack stop, Ruby got stuck in a bathroom stall and we had to contact the motorway helpline just to get her out."

"I did offer to kick the door down," Blossom added, ignoring the sheepish grin on Ruby's face.

"We can't go around kicking down bathroom doors, Blossom. It's considered rude," Jade retorted, rolling her eyes.

"Especially when there's someone inside," Lucky muttered quietly, not really wanting to be heard.

"This time, it'll be uneventful," Ash reasoned, getting encouraging nods from the other girls. "I promise."

Jade didn't believe that for one bit but she did know that majority always won– even when the majority is composed of seven girls and a dog who are nothing but disastrous. The self-claimed princess let her head fall back against the leather of her seat.

"What does the boss say?"

Everyone in the car quickly turned towards Lucky, hoping for an answer that was in their favour. Even Pudding eyed her expectantly. The dark haired girl stayed expressionless for a second before breaking into a wide smile.

"I say huzzah!"

Everyone shrieked frenziedly, laughing and cheering. Jade couldn't help but grin in spite of herself. It was just an ordinary snack stop. It couldn't go that bad?

Right?

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"What in the beanie's name is going on?!" Jade screamed, scrambling out of the car after she saw Cho running about with her beanie on fire while Sage and Blossom followed close behind with a bucket of water.

The girl took in the chaos around the rest station by the highway. She had driven over to the nearest petrol pump to get a refill, leaving the girls and Pudding under Lucky's care.

But now the boss was nowhere to be seen while Cho got barbecue roasted and Sage and Blossom played firefighters. Dee and Pudding were trying to break into the closed general store through the left window and Ash was stumbling about with her head stuck in a traffic cone.

Jade witnessed this disaster with a horrified visage, her right eye twitching. Ruby emerged from somewhere around the closed store, her blonde hair flying from under her beanie. She halted to a stop in front of Jade and tried to catch her breath.

"Lucky's stuck in the bathroom stall," Ruby huffed, breathing a bit normally again.

Well, that sort of explained everything.

"Did you try breaking the door down?" Jade asked, half wanting to rush over and pull Dee out of the store before she got them all arrested.

Ruby made a face. "I thought you said it was considered rude?" 

Jade tried to reply but was stopped when Ash bumped into her from the side. She blindly felt about with her hands, trying to recognize the person.

"Jade, is that you?" came Ash's muffled yet frantic voice from under the cone. "Help me, my head is stuck!" she whined, trying to tug off the plastic herself but failing.

Jade lightly slapped her palm onto her face before pushing Ruby towards Ash. "You deal with this while I go– DEE, PUT THAT DOWN NOW!"

Everyone turned around to look at the store— except for Ash who just scrambled about in confusion — as Dee climbed out the violated window carrying chocolates, chip packets and juice boxes. Pudding followed close behind with a bag of sausages in her teeth's grasp.

The two stopped dead at Jade's shout and stared ahead at the other girls innocently. Dee shrugged her shoulders. "What? I thought we were here to get snacks."

"We were here to buy them. Not steal them."

"Chill out, Princess," Dee smirked walking towards the group. "I left the money on the counter."

Jade paused for a bit before realizing that despite breaking in, they didn't technically steal anything. So it was acceptable– sort of.

At that point, Blossom and Sage appeared on the scene, pulling after them a drenched Cho. A thin stream of smoke moved upwards from the burnt out tip of her beanie and she looked a bit shaken but Blossom kept rubbing her soaked back to calm her.

"I'm not even gonna ask how you got into that situation," Jade mumbled, folding her arms and glancing suspiciously at Cho. The girl only gave her a dazed, worn out look.

"I would hug you, Cho, but I've been temporarily blinded unfortunately," Ash managed to say, the traffic cone still claiming her head and face as its own.

"Where's Lucky?" Sage asked, looking around for the beanie boss.

"Oh, right," Jade sighed, massaging the bridge of her nose. "I forgot about her. This time she's stuck in the bathroom stall and we need to get her out."

"I'll go call the helpline," Ruby proposed, pulling out her cell phone. Dee reached over and grabbed the blonde girl by her shoulder to stop her.

"There won't be a need for that," Dee smirked, relieving herself of her junk food load and piling it into Sage's arms.

"I suppose you have a plan?" Blossom asked, sounding half hopeful, half doubtful.

"As a matter of fact, I do," said the beanie Mclee pompously, placing a hand on her chest.

"I don't like where this is going," was all Ash could mumble through the plastic cone.

. . .

"Alright, so let me get this straight," Jade huffed, walking fast to keep up with Dee as they went around the store to where the public bathrooms were, the rest of the Cozy Council following behind. "You brought along a baboon by stuffing it into the car boot and you didn't even tell us?"

"Yep," Dee replied shortly, smiling at the tame primate in her arms as she led the group of quizzical girls (and dog) to the back. "And he's not just a baboon. His name is Charles Dickens."

"Charles Dickens?"

"Mm-hm."

An uncertain cough from Blossom. "Right . . ."

"And how is Charles going to help us set Lucky free?" Ash questioned, continuously running her hands through her hair. They had been disarrayed and sticking out in every direction when the cone had finally been pulled off.

Dee let out a mischievous chuckle, caressing the monkey's fuzzy head. "Just wait and see."

Jade stopped and so did the other girls, letting Dee walk on with her baboon. They all glanced worryingly at one another before hesitantly entering the bathroom after their friend.

As soon as they stepped into the tiled room, the air of which was laced with the smell of cleaning products, the girls could hear their boss silently mumbling to herself in one of the stalls.

"This is it, Lucky," she muttered. "This is how your story ends. In a stinky ol' bathroom stall at the side of the highway. You are done for. Your dreams of vanquishing racial, religious and gender discrimination have been flushed down the toilet. No pun intended." 

"You didn't think you were getting rid of us that easily, did you, boss?" Dee called out through the stall door from where Lucky's voice was emanating.

A gasp sounded from the inside, before the door creaked a little as if Lucky was leaning against it. "You guys came at last! I thought I had been abandoned for sure."

Ruby wrinkled her nose at that. "Why would you think that? I said I was coming back with help."

"You were gone for hours!" exclaimed Lucky from the stall, sounding offended.

"Actually it's only been fifteen minutes."

"Not now, Dee!"

Cho folded her arms and directed her gaze at the girl holding the baboon. "So what's your plan?"

"You guys made an entire plan to get me out? Awww!"

Jade grimaced and eyed Charles the baboon disdainfully. "I wouldn't be too happy if I were you, Lucky," she replied, taking a cautious step back.

"Wait–" Lucky began but was cut off when Dee yelled out loud.

"Go do your thing, Charles!"

With that, Dee pushed the baboon over the top of the door and into the stall much to the girls' horror. The animal fell screeching into the tiny space followed by the panicked shrieks of the poor beanie boss.

"Dee, what the–" The girls rushed forward to pull on the door as Lucky pounded from the inside. Dee moved to pull the others away from the stall, assuring them that Lucky would come bursting out any minute.

In attempts to get away from the crazy primate, Lucky put all her strength on the door. She literally threw herself against it and, as expected, the door swung open and she stumbled out, screaming for her life.

The boss dashed over to the girls to hide behind them and they all instinctively put shielding arms all around her. Charles came running out of the stall and jumped up into Dee's hold, making a lot of noise.

Pudding was disturbed due to this sudden occurrence and so she kept barking her head off till Lucky calmed down enough to give the cockapoo a comforting hug.

"See, I told you it would work," Dee smiled, holding Charles close to her.

Lucky's breathing was still unstable so her voice came out in little breaths. "Dee . . . you're crazy . . . but thank you . . . anyway."

As everyone moved forward to help Lucky out of the bathroom, Jade gave Ash a sidelong glance. "Uneventful, huh?"

Ash could only giggle nervously in reply.

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"This was the first and last snack stop of this entire trip!" Jade raged as she slammed her foot on the accelerator. "Am I making myself clear?"

There was a chorus of disappointed "aw's" at this but no one was ready to further argue with the temperamental princess after what had just happened.

A few minutes passed in which everyone tried to make things even between them and Charles. They especially needed to break the ice between him and Pudding since the latter would always raise her hackles everytime the baboon would approach near.

Then came the gradually increasing sirens.

"What in the world . . ." Jade muttered, adjusting the rearview mirror to better see the car tailing them. Her senses went on full alert when she recognized the black and white body paint and lights flashing blue and red alternatively.

Everyone seemed to tense up at the look on Jade's face which transitioned to a more worried expression when the voice boomed over the speaker.

"This is the Beanie Town Police Department! We request you to pull over and come out with your hands in the air! Any opposition will be treated with a more severe protocol! I repeat, pull over and come out with your hands in the air!"

"What did he say?!" Cho panicked.

Blossom, however, took the matter differently. "He said, 'put yo' hands in the air!'" She began waving about her hands enthusiastically as if she were at a singer's concert. "They obviously want us to party!"

"They obviously want to arrest us!" Ruby scowled at the dark haired girl, making her drop her hands.

"But why?" Ash cried, embracing Pudding as means of some sort of emotional support. "We're not criminals!"

"Dee!" Jade screamed over the siren's noise. "You did pay for the snacks back at the store, right?"

Dee looked panic-stricken, trying to calm Charles down who had begun screeching as if his fur was on fire. "Of course I paid! I left the money on the counter."

The Council went quiet for a few seconds before Lucky gasped and pulled out her wallet. "Oh, so that is why our money was in that store. I wondered how it had gotten there."

"You took back the money?!" yelled the other girls in unison.

Lucky grinned shamefacedly, shrugging her shoulders. "Whoops . . ."

"Guess we're going to prison," concluded Sage rather calmly as the police drove up next to Jade's window and ordered her to pull over their beanie car.

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