Author's Note: I own nothing except for the storyline, and the new characters.

The sun shone brightly down on Berry Bitty City. The birds sang in the trees and squirrels chased each other around for nuts.

At a certain café in town, a red haired girl opened the oven door. "Hmm…..it was supposed to rise, Pupcake! And I added a kilo of baking soda," she asked a green patched dog. Pupcake whined at rubbed himself against the girl's foot. "What – oh, fine! But this is your seventh and LAST treat, silly!" the girl giggled as she dropped another treat to him.

The café bell tinkled, and four girls came in. "Hey, Strawberry Shortcake!" a purple haired girl cried.

"Hey, Plum! You need anything?" Strawberry smiled. It was clear these were her friends.

A latina clad in orange piped up. "That's alright, Strawberry. We're just here for, you know, Blueberry's 'Extra Book Club'." Every girl sighed. Their super-smart friend Blueberry Muffin had been acting really weird lately. Their book club meetings usually were every once a week, at night, but the genius had insisted that they have an extra meeting this week at the café.

Strawberry, usually the optimist, sighed as well. "Well, I'll just do the register then," she suggested. When nobody objected, she picked up a list of names from her counter. "Raspberry Torte?" A fashionable girl with hot pink hair raised her hand. "What did you read this week?" "Oh, um, I think I forgot," Raspberry said in a high pitched voice. "Lemon Meringue?" The girl wasn't called Lemon Meringue for nothing – she had a lemon shaped hair clip. "I read 1000 Ways to Tie Your Hair. I don't need to describe that, do I?" Lemon fretted as she saw her friends facepalm. "Straw – oh no, that's me," they all laughed as Strawberry ticked her name off.

Soon they got to the last person on the list. "Blueberry Muffin?" The girl wasn't there yet.

Plum groaned. "She told us to come here, but SHE'S late. Would somebody –"

She was interrupted as the café door was flung open. Everybody stared. Azure hair, aqua eyes, the lilac-stitched headband on her head.

"Sorry I'm late," Blueberry Muffin panted as Strawberry ticked her name off. Strawberry started," Did you read – " but stopped when she saw Blueberry holding a giant book. "Never mind."

"You won't believe what I've found out from The History of Berry Bitty City," Blueberry said excitedly.

"That Pupcake's family were caterpillars or something?" Orange said skeptically. Blueberry had had many of these false cases.

"There's another town like Berry Bitty City, and we used to be one big town, but for an unknown reason we split up and became two cities far away from each other." Blueberry concluded.

At first there was a shocked silence from the five others. Then they started hurling questions at her. "What are the people like there?" "What do they wear?" "Do they dance?"

Finally Blueberry yelled, "I DON'T KNOW!" When they had quieted down she continued in her normal voice," All I know is that over there, only five are human."

"That's a relief," sighed Orange.

"But they're all boys."