🍬Wendy's P.O.V🍬

We had arrived in the inventing room with all the machines popping and hissing.

"Now this is the most important room in the whole factory" said Daddy "Now, everyone enjoy themselves, but just don't touch anything...okay?" He shooed them off.

I stayed close to Daddy.

"Did you make any friends yet?" He asked me.

"No, I don't think any of them like me very much" I pouted.

"Well, what about Charlie?" He said "he seems nice."

I shrugged.

Hey, Mr. Wonka!" Yelled Violet "What's this?"

"Oh!" Daddy rushed off "let me show you."

An oompa loompa gave him a candy ball from the tank. He thanked him.

"These are everlasting gobstoppers, they're for children who are given very little allowence money" he said

"Yeah, you suck on it all year and it never gets any smaller" I said joining him "neat, huh?"

"It's like gum" said Violet.

"Uh, no!" I said "Gum is gross and for chewing and if you chewed a gobstopper you would lose all your teeth...which wouldn't be much of a loss."

Violet glared at me and I glared back.

Daddy gave an uncomfortable laugh and led us over to another table.

"And this is hair toffee" he said "You suck down one of these little boogers and in exactly half an hour, a brand new crop of hair will start growing up out the top of your little noggin and a mustache and a beard."

"Who wants a beard?" Mike snapped.

"Well beatniks for one, folksingers and motorbike rider. You know, all those hip, jazzy, super-cool, neat, keen and groovy cats? It's in the fridge, daddy-o, are you heap to the jive? Can you dig what I'm laying down? I knew that you could, slide me some skin, soul brother?"

I giggled "Daddy!"

He smiled at me before turning back to the group.

"Unfortunately the mixture isn't quite right yet because an oompa loompa tried some yesterday and well..." Daddy looked at our hairiest oompa loompa.

"How are you doing today!" I asked him loudly because his ear hair had grown too.

He gave me a thumbs up.

"Looking good!" I told him.

Daddy and I led them over to our brand new gum machine.

"Watch this" said Daddy grinning.

He pulled a lever and we watched as the machine rumbled to life and finally it spit out a piece of our new and improved gum.Violet snatched it up and stared at it like it was gold.

"You mean that's it?" Mike asked rudely.

"Do you even know what it is?" I put my hands on my hips.

"It's gum" answered Violet.

"It's not just a regular piece of gum" I explained "It's a stick of the most fantastic and amazing gum in the whole wide world! Know why?"

"Because this gum is a full three course dinner all by itself!" Said Daddy.

"Why would anyone want that?" Asked Mr. Salt.

Daddy and I looked at each other then pulled out our cue cards.

"It'll be the end of all kitchens and all cooking" Daddy read off his "just a little strip of Wonka' s magic chewing gum and that is all you will ever need at breakfast, lunch and dinner."

"This peice of gum just so happens to be tomato soup, roast beef and blueberry pie!" I read off mine.

"It sounds great!" Said Charlie's grandpa.

"It sounds weird" said Veruca.

"Sounds like my kind of gum!" Violet said, taking her gum out of her mouth and sticking it behind her ear.

I shuddered. "That's disgusting!" I said "and that is an experiment and we don't eat experiment until they are deemed safe."

"I'm the world record holder in chewing gum" she said proudly "I'm not afraid of anything!" She put the stick of gum in her mouth.

I shrugged.

I knew Violet wasn't going to listen and that's why I didn't try that hard to stop her. I knew she wouldn't care what I told her.

"How is it, honey?" Ms. Beauregarde asked her.

"It's amazing! Tomato soup I can feel it running down my throat!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah, spit it out!" Daddy said nervously.

"Young lady, I think you better-" said Charlie"s grandpa.

"It's changing" Violet interrupted "roast beef with baked potatoe! Crispy skin and butter!"

Ms. Beauregarde beamed proudly "keep chewing kiddo! My little girl's going to be the first person in the world to have a chewing gum meal!"

"Yeah, I'm just a little concerned about the-" Daddy started.

"Blueberry pie and ice cream!" Said Violet cutting him off.

"That part" Daddy said quietly.

"What's happening to her nose?" Asked Veruca.

"It's turning blue!" Mr. Salt' s eyes narrowed.

"Your whole nose has gone purple" said Violet's mother.

"What do you mean?" Asked Violet, touching her nose.

"Violet your turning Violet!" Said Ms.  Beauregarde.

I giggled.

"What's happening?" Ms. Beauregarde panicked.

"Well it goes a little funny when you get to the dessert" said Daddy "It's the blueberry pie that does it, I'm terribly sorry!"

He grabbed me and we hid behind a machine.

"Mother, what's happening to me?" Violet asked scared.

"She's swelling up!" Gasped Charlie's grandpa.

"Like a blueberry" said Charlie.

Daddy snuck up behind Violet' s horrified mother.

"I've tried it on like twenty oompa loompas and each one ended up like a blueberry!" Said Daddy "It's just weird!"

"But I can't have a blueberry as a daughter!" Said Ms. Beauregarde "How is she supposed to compete?"

"You could put her in a county fair" said Veruca.

I laughed. That's the smartest thing she's said all day! I thought.

The oompa loompas started another song. It was very catchy, Daddy and I even danced a little.

As the song ended I noticed Ms. Beauregarde was glaring at us, I nudged Daddy who was still dancing, he looked at Ms.Beauregarde and frowned awkwardly.

An oompa loompa came up to us.

"Can you take Violet into the boat and bring her to the juicing room quickly please?" I asked him.

"The juicing room?" Asked Ms. Beauregarde "What are they going to do to her there?"

"Their gonna squeeze her like a little pimple" Daddy said.

"We have to get all that juice out of her, immediately" I said "or she could explode and blueberry juice will be everywhere!"

Ms. Beauregarde gasped and ran to help her roll her daughter out of the room.

"C'mon, let's boogie!" Said Daddy taking my hand and leading us out of the inventing room.