The COVID pandemic still lingered, but cafes and wineries started opening, and friends slowly began to come out of their hideaways in search of friends they had neglected. Happily, Squirrel Girl’s friend Hyacinth asked to see Squirrel Girl at a winery. Since the seating was outside, they both agreed that it was considered safe.

It was obvious that Hyacinth was planning to get plastered. She asked Squirrel Girl to retrieve her. It wasn’t clear how Squirrel Girl became the personal Uber driver to her friends, but it was she who picked up her friends. Did Squirrel Girl mind? Not in the least. Being Squirrel Girl, she possessed a supernatural sensor to locate parking in a flash, so she felt it only right that she should be the one to drive. Dragon fruit was especially impressed as Squirrel Girl zipped into an only empty parking when they went to an event.

“Oh my! Squirrel Girl! How do you find parking so well?” asked Dragon fruit.

Smiling her famous Mona Lisa’s smile, Squirrel Girl said, “I have a built-in sensor.”

 As to her driving, it was rather risqué sometimes and caused her friend like Lucky Ducky to scream out. 

“Lucky Ducky, what’s the problem? We didn’t get killed?” asked Squirrel Girl.

“What! I am not riding with you ever!” exclaimed Lucky Ducky.

However, Lucky Ducky didn’t keep her promise. After all, life is short and would have been dull if you didn’t get a chance to have your adrenaline kicking up a notch. Life was meant to be lived after all. Certainly, Lucky Ducky’s adrenaline was active when she thought that Squirrel Girl almost got them into a car accident. In truth, Squirrel Girl had everything under control. After barely getting hit by a car, she simply waved and smiled at the other driver and went on her way. It was not every day that you got to see Squirrel Girl driving. The other driver was too dazed to be angry.

“Lucky Ducky take a chill pill … don’t be so uptight,” said Squirrel Girl for she believed in recommending medicine for all things in life.

Needless to say, Lucky Ducky glared at her. She looked rather cute when she got angry. Yet, she worried for naught. It was not necessary. The day was lovely and no one became hurt, or will they become hurt. The Wind shielded all incidents from happening to Squirrel Girl because she trusted Wind, and their car glided forward just as time goes on in one direction. Squirrel Girl had troubles aplenty, but Wind didn’t allow any of them to hurt Squirrel Girl. Nothing was broken; time did not need to be turned around to fix anything.

Now, after the distraction of Squirrel Girl’s driving style, let us get back to the winery. Both Hyacinth and Squirrel Girl safely reached the winery. Squirrel Girl behaved and drove appropriately because she was so happy to see Hyacinth again, who wore a fancy hat to shield her lovely complexion while Squirrel Girl wore a fedora in a tilted manner that she favored. And after a bottle of wine and food were ordered, they drank wine as they enjoyed the vista. Soon, they were laughing away as the bottle began to empty.

They started to vent out their frustrations that occurred during the COVID lockdown. Life was grand when wine was shared between two friends. They tried catching up, but as single women are prone to do when drunk and happy from meeting after a long separation, the conversation turned into a strange direction. They began to talk of “100 shades of pink,” which was more than 50. Soon, they were laughing away with abandon, which caused the onlookers to stare at them. Gone was Mona’s smile. Squirrel Girl’s smile was as radiant as the brilliant sky. Soon, Squirrel Girl found herself ordering another bottle of wine. It was the “100 shades of pink” that did it. She was in the mood to celebrate. Squirrel Girl had excuses for everything, and Wind swirled around Hyacinth and Squirrel Girl to cool their laughing faces.