Just a second too late...

By Mr. E

Max raised her hand... Just as she and the other four girls were coated from head to toe in a foul-smelling, yellow liquid.

Rachel and Chloe groaned in disgust as the spray made contact with their skin, the smell hitting them like a runaway train. Victoria shrieked as she began to dry heave from the smell. And Max simply coughed and opened her eyes as she saw the skunk waddling off, silently cursing herself for being a second too late on the draw.

"Oh my- UGH!" Victoria gagged, tears starting to form in her eyes. She then glared angrily at Max and sarcastically snapped, "Nice going, Max! I also thought my perfume needed more musk!"

"Hey!" Rachel snapped in defense of her friend, "This isn't her fault!"

"You're right. It's yours!" Victoria snarled back. She then donned a stupid sounding voice as she mockingly said, "Hey guys! I have a great idea! Let's take off all our clothes and run around butt freaking naked! Nothing bad will happen to us!"

"Hey, my idea was that we go streaking." Rachel said with a glare, "Not scare and get sprayed by a skunk!"

"Look, we can decide who's fault this is later." Max said as she picked up Rachel's phone and handed back to her, "Right now, we need to get back to the house and get cleaned up."

"Fine! I call the shower first!" Victoria stated, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Oh, no!" Chloe barked, "We are NOT bringing this smell into the house! If David or Joyce catch even a whiff of it, we're dead! We're going to have to get cleaned off in the backyard!"

"What...?" Victoria asked flatly.

"Not only that, but soap and water ain't gonna wash off this stink." Rachel commented, "We're going to have to use... Was it grape juice or carrot juice?"

"What?" Victoria asked again, her eyes widening.

"Actually, it's tomato juice that we have to bathe in." Max responded. She then donned a thoughtful expression as she asked, "Or was it tomato sauce?"

"WHAT?!" Victoria shrieked in disgust.

"Hey, you're the one who got us sprayed by a skunk!" Rachel stated with a frown as the four began their walk back to the truck.

As they got to where the truck was, however, they soon realized that there was another problem...

"Oh, you've got to be freaking kidding me!" Victoria growled in frustration as the other three stared in wide eyed shock.

There, in the bed of Chloe's truck and curled up on top of the girls' clothes fast asleep, was another skunk...