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Date Posted: 06:34:57 03/08/06 Wed
Author: Kande's Sis
Subject: Happy Birthday to me and Rabid

KS is sitting alone at a table in the corner of the Klub. She is blowing up helium balloons, and every once in a while gives a hit of helium to Bubba. He loves it. She is singing softly to herself, her voice cracking on the high parts. The Mayor has gathered a small crowd around her at the bar to watch the small TV Kande had grudgingly installed. They are watching the Mayor's favorite show -- which airs new material only in Shipperville -- "The Facts of Life."

Kande wanders over to KS with a pitcher of rootbeer. "Just what do you think you're doing? I only allow balloons in here on birthda--" She pales. She rushes behind the bar and checks the calendar. The pitcher drops from her lifeless hand as she faints.

The Mayor stands up and peeks over the bar. "What's wrong with her?"

CW and IG join her in eyeballing Kande. "Someone refuse to pay?"

"Maybe she fainted from overworking, you know, with Bubba recovering from his flattening incident." All roll their eyeballs.

"I know why she fainted," a voice says from behind them. A familiar voice, one not heard for a long time. They turn in unison to say a black-cloaked figure, a hat pulled low over her face.

"Hi Cyber-Sis!" KS waves from the corner. "I'm blowing up the balloons for our big party!"

The Mayor's eyes widen and she puts a hand over her mouth. "OHMYGOD. Friday. KS and Rabid's birthdays. No presents! I have no presents! KS will kill me." She shrieks, gathers up her purse and other belongings, and hightails it out to the mall, the others close on her heels. All that is left behind are the two soon-to-be-birthday girls, clinking glasses in a toast, Bubba at the helium, and Kande stirring in the dust on the floor behind the bar.

Kande slowly stands up. "Where is everybody?" She turns around, looks at the calendar again, grabs her chest, and faints again.

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Exactly twenty-four hours later.... -- kenamom leads the townfolk back into the Klub, 10:15:52 03/11/06 Sat
- After the party broke up -- CW, 10:23:42 03/22/06 Wed
  - Rabid and KS stagger toward the library -- Rabid1st, 19:41:23 03/23/06 Thu
    - Kande joins the party, weeks late. -- kande, 14:43:28 04/17/06 Mon
      - For the 'Assassin o' Shipperville' eye's only. -- the Mayor reads aloud, 21:43:35 04/17/06 Mon
        KS licks the brick, then sniffs it. -- kande, 14:20:21 04/18/06 Tue
        KS holds forth about the subject of notes -- Kande's Sis, 20:14:50 04/26/06 Wed
        "Let's look at the note on the other brick," says KM. -- kande, 13:45:18 05/01/06 Mon
        A large chunk of the ceiling falls on the Mayor's head -- Kande's Sis, 06:33:43 05/04/06 Thu
        Kande wipes an avalanche of sweat from her forehead -- Kande's Sis, 19:08:58 05/10/06 Wed
        Just as Kande wheels around to confront her nemesis -- Kande's Sis, 13:38:50 05/14/06 Sun
        Not the laundry *basket* IG, it was the laundry. -- kenamom, cluing in, 13:38:05 05/22/06 Mon