When the weekend had rolled in, Noah and his friends, Liam, Benjamin, and Jason had decided that going to the mall would be fun, because apparently that's definitely what teenage boys do in their free time. As a woman author, I would know. So at the moment they were walking to said mall.

As they walked, they talked about various things.

"A walrus could definitely kick a giraffe's ass!" Exclaimed Noah.

"No way! Giraffes could stomp the life out of a walrus!" argued Liam.

"Do giraffes even stomp things?" Benjamin was confused why the chapter started this way. didn't Noah fall into a puddle in the last chapter. Why is no one questioning this? Why is the writing style different? These questions clouded his mind. But Benjamin didn't let the thoughts bother him for long.

"I think they do." Liam didn't really know, to be honest.

Jason remained quiet, since he didn't know exactly what was going on or why his friends were talking about giraffes and walruses.

As they walked Noah noticed something different. He'd only been in this town for a week, but even he'd notice that the abandoned parking lot was a lot less abandoned.

It was a new store. But it was strange because despite the fact that it looked new, he never saw anyone doing construction on it.

"Hey guys?" He said "when did that store get here? There was no construction. At least not that I've seen."

The others turned to see what he was talking about. The store was small and a pleasant green and red color. The name on top reads Food Mart.

"Uh, I've never seen that store before." Said Jason, who finally decided to say something.

"Neither have I." Said Liam.

"Same." Said Benjamin.

"Okay, first of all you all don't have to answer my question in succession of each other." Noah said.

"Huh?" Liam said.

"What do you mean?" Benjamin said.

"See, right there. Not everyone needs to respond." Noah said in an irritated manner.

"Okay." Liam said.

"Alright." Benjamin said.

"Oh my god." Noah sighed. "Anyways, should we go in?"

"I guess that's fine. It looks completely empty though." Jason said, feeling a bit like he was the only one concerned that an entire store appeared out of nowhere.

They all decided to walk into the strange store.

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When they opened the door everything seemed normal, and At first glance it was a normal store, with normal food and items. As they looked around they could tell something about the feeling of this store was off. It sounded like a hundred tiny breaths, and felt like a hundred eyes watching them. It also seemed that no one was currently working at the counter.

"Woah! What a cute store!" Exclaimed Noah, completely ignoring the unpleasant atmosphere of the place.

"What the hell is so cute about it?" Jason asked, the store looked normal enough to him. "Besides, weren't we going to the mall?"

"Wait, Jason! look closely! At the apples!" Noah giggled. Noah pulled Jason close to him. He pointed to a stack of apples.

"What?" Jason was super confused why Noah was laughing at a stack of apples.

"Look closer!"

Jason looked even closer. His face was inches away from the apples. Then he saw an indescribable horror. The apple opened its eyes.

Jason jumped back from the stack. He didn't believe what he just saw. Noah picked up the apple. "Isn't it cute jason!" Noah said happily. The apple let out a small, cute cheer.

"Wh…what the hell is that?!" Exclaimed jason.

"Uh, an apple. Duh!" Noah said mockingly.

"I know what an apple is, you jerk! Why does it have eyes?!" Jason said a bit louder than he meant to.

Then Noah decided to do one of the most terrifying things Jason had ever seen. Noah brought the apple close to his face and took a bite out of the apple.

The apple let out a violent scream. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU! WHY?! JUST WHY?!" The apple wailed in agony. Its breath was painfully heavy.

At this point Jason was scared for his own life. He couldn't even talk.

"It's juicy! You want some?" Said Noah, as he shoved the crying apple into his face.

"I'm leaving!" Jason was about to walk out the store. He couldn't deal with whatever was happening right now.

"Wait come back!" Noah said as Jason had almost reached the door.

"What?!" Jason turned back around.

"Oh uh, I didn't actually think you'd wait." Noah stood awkwardly.

Suddenly there was a different voice.

"Brother? Why are you screaming?" It was a small apple walking on the floor. She was a cute bright red and had pretty eyelashes. She had eyelashes so you know it's a girl apple and not a boy apple.

She looked up at Jason and Noah. Jason and Noah looked at her. Then Jason looked at Noah. Then the apple looked at the apple that Noah was holding. Then she screamed.

"Oh my god. Noah put the apple down!" Jason was even more terrified than before.

"Wait what's going on?" For some odd reason, Noah was confused. He took another bite of the apple.

"Stop eating my brother!" The apple yelled.

"But I'm almost done. It'd be a shame if I wasted it." Noah said, eyeing the apple carefully in his hands. "Besides, I think he's already dead."

"Noah!" Jason scorned. His face was stressed.

"You're evil! I just lost my father and mother to illness. My brother was supposed to be heir to the throne." The apple sobbed.

"Hah. What illnesses can apples get?" Noah asked.

"chlamydia!"

"Oh. That sucks. But Hey, think of it this way: now you can be the queen!" Noah said. The apple stopped crying.

"Queen? Well, yeah I guess you're right..." the apple looked away nervously.

"That's the spirit, my Queen. What's your name, your highness?"

"It's Candy..."

Noah held out his hand so that the new queen could step onto it.

"Queen Candy! Let me bring you to your throne."

Candy stepped onto Noah's hand. He lifted her onto the cash register.

"Here stands the new queen!" Noah said, bowing to her.

"What's going on?" Benjamin said, as he and Liam walked up to them.

"Oh just in time. Queen Candy, meet your new jester, Liam! And your personal knight, Benjamin!"

"Wait, why am I the jester?" Liam asked.

"Because look at Benji. He's obviously a knight."

"Well what are you and Jason?"

"I'm her private secretary and advisor, and Jason is a butler."

"Why a butler?" Jason unenthusiastically chimed in.

"Oh my god, will you all stop complaining about your roles?"

Noah grabbed a metal pan from behind the cash register and hit it with a pair of tongs.

"Listen up everyone! Your queen wishes to speak to you!" Noah yelled.

All of a sudden all the food in the store woke up. They jumped down from their shelves and started walking towards the cash register in herds.

"Wait but what am I supposed to say? I know nothing about being a queen." Candy whispered to Noah.

"Just speak from the heart." Noah whispered back. He gave her a warm smile.

Candy nodded and cleared her throat.

"KILL THE HUMANS! THEY MURDERED MY BROTHER SO WE SHALL KILL THEM!" Candy yelled from the top of her lungs. Her face was evil and contorted.

"Wait what?" Jason whipped his head towards Noah.

"Well shit." Noah said.

"BRING ME THEIR HEADS!"

The food surrounded them. Some of them had forks and plastic knives, and used them to stab at Noah and his friends' feet. But in hindsight, a bunch of food against humans isn't really a fair fight for the food. The food was simply too small. Noah started stomping the food under his shoe until they turned into mounds of mush.

"Noah! You can't just kill them!" Jason said. As he was distracted Candy jumped on Jason's neck and started clawing him.

Jason freaked out and swatted her off him. Then there was a splat.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stood around the pile of mashed apple. The queen has fallen.

"Wow. You murdered her, Jason." Noah said, patting him on the shoulder.

Jason turned his wide eyes slowly to Noah.

"Me?! You started this whole thing! You're the reason she attacked in the first place." Jason argued

"Yeah no."

"No?!"

"Let's just go home. And uh, try not to murder anyone else Jason." Noah gave him a sitcom worthy smile. A laugh track played in the background.

Jason stared at Noah for a good

minute. Then just walked out of the store. He walked all the way home, feeling disgruntled and cold.

"Weren't we supposed to go to the mall?" Liam asked.

"Yeah." Noah replied.