PREVIOUSLY...
Eva Longoria, cursed as a child to spend her summers as a coach driving around the Algarve, met Loreen, Eurovision sensation, who agreed to help her to break the curse.
PART 2
Eva Longoria the coach sighed and scuffed her wheels against the tarmac. She hadn't heard from Loreen in several weeks and, though the summer season was drawing to a close and she would soon return to her beautiful human form, she knew in her heart that this could be her last chance to break the curse forever.
"Perhaps it's because I didn't know who she was? How was I as an American citizen supposed to know the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest?" she said to herself out loud, causing a passing Portuguese paralympian (how's that for alliteration?) to scream and run off down the road, breaking the 100m world record. A bloody talking coach!
It had been an odd Summer. Strangely enjoyable. The hope of finally breaking the curse had made her realise that she would miss carrying tourists around the Algarve in some bizarre way. Hope was fading fast though, and Eva wondered if she would ever see Loreen again...
~~~
Loreen sighed and scuffed her shoes against the tarmac of the playground. She had hoped to get away from it all after weeks of hard work following her Eurovision win. Instead, she found herself jetting around the globe trying to help Eva Longoria, the Hollywood actress, to break a curse that meant she spent her summers as a bus. You couldn't make it up!
However, though somewhat annoyed that her holiday had been disturbed, Loreen felt a deep sense of self-satisfaction in helping Eva. After all, was her mission in life not to bring euphoria to every man, woman, beast and mode of transport? Forever until the end of time taking them up, up, up, up, up...
Her quest had taken her to the four corners of the globe. Not that a globe has corners, of course. It's a globe. She had talked bigotry with Nick Clegg, spat on Mitt Romney, crossed the Australian outback in a kangaroo's pouch, admired Oscar Pistorius's transtibial prostheses in South Africa, campaigned for the release of Pussy Riot and walked the Great Wall of China whilst advising Apple on the design of the iPhone 5. Phew! All in two months!
All of her efforts had yielded no success though, and now she found herself in the playground of an American elementary school, hoping to get an audience with the school's pet guinea pig, terrapin and duckling. The bell marking the end of classes rang and she made her way inside for her meeting with the Wonderpets...
~~~
Eva had a strict 'no animals' policy, so when Linny, Tuck and Ming-Ming boarded her she was not impressed. When Loreen stepped onboard after them, however, the sheer sense of relief washed away all the bad feelings.
"Loreen!" she cried, wishing she could hug the Swedish singer but realising that would be somewhat impractical given that she was currently made of metal and her arms had been transformed into wheels.
"Eva," said Loreen, gazing into the rear-view mirror, "I have travelled the world to find a way to break your curse. It has been a long, hard journey but I think that I have found the answer in these three creatures... they go by the name of the Wonderpets and they are here to save you..."
"What's going to work?" squeaked a little voice.
"TEAMWORK!" sang two other little voices.
With that, Linny the guinea pig, Tuck the terrapin and Ming-Ming the duckling began to nibble away at Eva's soft and hard furnishings as if they were a large piece of tasty celery.
Seconds... minutes... hours passed... Loreen almost fell asleep but kept herself awake by giving an impromptu rendition of Euphoria to the passing Portuguese people. As she sang the final word she turned around to make sure Eva was all right.
But the coach had gone.
In its place lay a beautiful Latina woman, chomping on a stick of celery with three small animals.
The Wonderpets had broken the curse.
~~~
Eva Longoria looked at her watch and sighed. The flight would be leaving in less than an hour. She stood up and wandered over to the bookstore so she could stretch her legs before the long journey from Lisbon to New York. She had been making this journey at the end of every summer for as long as she could remember.
This journey, however, would be her last.
Thanks to the kindness of a Swedish Eurovision superstar and the bravery of three classroom pets the curse that had haunted her since she was a little girl had been broken. In the future she would be spending her summers as a real woman.
There was just one word to describe the state that she was in.
Euphoria.
~~~
At Faro Airport Loreen brushed her hair out of her face for what must have been the hundredth time that day. She looked into the mirror in the Ladies' toilets and smiled.
Although the summer had not been what she expected it to be, she felt fulfilled. With the help of the Wonderpets she had saved Eva Longoria from a lifelong curse.
There was just one word to describe the state that she was in.
Euphoria.
~~~
Toni, Christine and Tom were drinking their wine and celebrating. The events of the summer involving Eva Longoria, Loreen and the Wonderpets had inspired them to write Tochto's Eurovision entry together.
Teamwork.
There was just one word to describe the state that they were in.
Euphoria.
Watch out Eurovision 2013... they're going u-u-u-u-u-u-up!
THE END
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