Doing An Imagination

They have all watched the video.

Are we to assume there are two endings? asks David.

Choose your own ending, says Vello. Original!

And two beginnings, says Lauren. 

Yeah, says Sweezus. That's what I had to work with.

What did you think of it, Gaius? asks Belle.

It does clarify my own notes on the subject, says Gaius. 

You need a video to clarify your notes? asks Vello.

I'm hoping to publish them online, says Gaius.

You should get Vello to do it, says Lauren. He has a magazine, what's it called, Bilosophy?

Velosophy says Vello. Thank you, Lauren. Unfortunately the video, and no doubt the notes, lack one essential ingredient.

Belle comes in with a plate of sardines, and little toothpicks.

Sardine anyone? asks Belle.

A bicycle, says Vello, spearing a sardine with a toothpick.

Would you publish the notes if a bicycle were to be mentioned? asks David.

Certainly, says Vello. After all, I owe Gaius a favour.

You do? asks Gaius. May I ask you what for?

The penguin pie episode, says Vello. You relented, and gave Camus your consent and the story was published.

I don't recall, says Gaius. But I suppose I must have. Was there a bicycle in it?

He framed the story with an amusing anecdote which included a bicycle, says Vello. 

I could add a bike to the video, says Sweezus. 

Why don't you? says Vello, taking another sardine, and washing it down with his third glass of bubbly.

How would it fit in? asks Lauren.

Ask Arthur, says Sweezus. He's the one with the imagination.

Where is Arthur?

He is coughing up bits of shiny red ( not real) apple into the icebox.

Yuck! says Terence. You shouldn't have ate that. Come on.

What's the hurry? coughs Arthur, grabbing hold of a beer, and straightening up.

You have to do an imagination, says Terence.

Arthur is not one to knock back doing an imagination.

He follows Terence back to the others.