Legally Brunette (Ace Attorney style GameLit)

"So," Mina began, reading off the script. "Flannery, can you do a very bubbly and pink positive catchphrase like I do?"

Flan, without even taking a breath, held out a peace sign, closed her eyes and tilted her head. Her voice was shockingly familiar when she exclaimed: "Hi! My name's Mina Hawkins! I've got a hot date with justice and it's courting time!"

"What the huh?!" Mina squeaked. "That actually sounds like me!"

Artie was even more taken by her performance. "That was fantabulous, baby! Perfectly perky!"

Flan gave a giggle. Without her retainer, even her laughs sounded exactly like her idol. "I did great right?!"

Mina narrowed her eyes. She was slightly perturbed from being called a fake by this faker. She figured she'd make this Flannery jump through a few hoops. "Peh, that one was easy-peasy. The next one is much difficult-er! How about pretending to be overly caffeinated like I am before every case!"

Flan did not flinch or break a sweat in fear. She reached into the front of her lawyer outfit and removed a Styrofoam cup with a Star-Cents logo. "You're lucky I stopped at a coffee shop for my morning Josephine…even if I haven't drank it all day!"

"What?" Mina asked. "Why?"

Flan winked. Because meeting my idol charges me up faster than any Expresso.

Mina had to admit it, but that was a good answer for her ego.

Pretending to take a sip of her latte, Flan started to bounce up and down like her shoes with spring loaded and she was about to bounce to the moon.

"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh lawd! Oh lawd! Oh lawd! OMG! OMG OMG!"

Without even a sip of coffee, Flan truly resembled a female attorney that was ready to run on the walls. "So how is that?" she asked Mina.

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Even Mina had to admit something: "Lawdy…usually it takes five soy lattes for me to get like that."

Flan winked again. "I just needed to meet you, Mina Hawkins!"

"She's good…" Mina whispered to herself. "And a little creepy…"

The lawyer turned casting director stood up boldly. "Now it's time for the true tryout! Tryout number three! You can be bubbly and bouncy, but can you be geeky and gawky when you run into…Blind Justice!"

Flan smirked and rubbed her hands like she was about to feast on the handsomeness of the man sitting next to Mina. "I just need a Blind Justice to help me!"

She pointed straight at Blind. "And he will do. He'll be my perfect man-prop!"

Blind chuckled and shrugged his shoulders. "This isn't the first time I've been OBJECT-ified by someone, but this time it's literal."

Mina squeezed his hand right as he stood up to meet his fangirls of doom.

The manically giggling Mina impersonator eyed him as he stoically approached her, looking like her pupils could transform into hearts at any second.

With a grimace at Mina like 'haven't you put me through enough' Blind stood frozen as Flan clasped her chest and exclaimed the following pickup line:

"My my, they say love is Blind and darling you actually are!!!!"

Mina had to admit. That line was pretty dang good as an impersonation of her. In fact, maybe she had used that one at some point. She wasn't sure.

At this point (and to save Blind) Mina clapped her hands. "Cut," she said, her fists clenched. "I've seen enough! That will be it!"

"Wowie Zowie!" Flan exclaimed, perfectly mimicking her idol yet again. "Did I do good…or did I do amazi-balls!"

Mina nodded. "Indeed, you have done really really amazi-balls, in fact I'm surprised you don't watch me while I sleep. But what I'm trying to say is…"

"Excuse me," a perky voice said, interrupting Mina. "Arthur, am I too late for this audition?"

Mina's eyes widened in surprise. The voice was familiar. Very familiar. Not someone Mina personally knew, but someone who had been in a million movies she watched.

Standing in a fashionable blazer, with a leather hand back and perfectly cut trousers, was a legendary starlit. But her outfit wasn't what stole the scene, it was her full length brunette hair and a dainty and full face. It was the star of the Queen's Journal and the Angel Wears Gucci, Gollywood's most famous brainy brunette, Anne Pathaway.

Mina's mouth dropped and suddenly, she became the mouth breathing fangirl. "Oh my galoshes. I'm seeing stars literally! No one said anything about a special guest appearance in this bonus chapter!!"