I was in the bathroom when I heard Mom yell. "Leo!!"

I peeked my head out the door. "What?!" Then I went to her.

"There you are," she said.

"What do you want?" I asked her.

No response.

"Hello?"

Then a mushroom came out.

The Mushroom hoped on one foot to me. "Hello, I'm Pixie!"

I stepped back twice. "It-you. . .can talk?!"

It frowned. "I'm not an it. I'm a girl, unlike you."

How do mushrooms have genders? That's impossible.

Pixie grabbed my leg and Mom screamed. "WHAT?! IS?! THAT?! THING?!" I covered my ears and she fainted. "Mom?"

Well, she's dead.

I picked Pixie up and threw her out the window.