Date Posted:14:16:38 05/12/03 Mon Author: Kande's Sis Subject: Back at her Oregon retreat In reply to:
kande
's message, "The triumphant trio splits up in Portland" on 03:54:08 05/12/03 Mon
KS walks into the house. "I'm home!" Immediately, JD falls upon her sobbing. "What's wrong with you?" KS starts to ask and then jumps back.
JD is covered in spots. Hundreds of them. She looks past him at the lil' critters. Also covered in spots. Holding a handkerchief to her face, she begins to back up.
"Are you quarantined?" KS asks, looking around for something with which to seal the door. She backs into a towering stack of laundry, which promptly falls on top of her, completely covering her so that all one can see is the top of her newly blonde streaked head.
"It's just the chicken pox," JD tells her as he helps her out of the stack.
"Whew," KS sighs with relief. She's already had it. She glances gingerly around the house. So far, outside of what looks like 3 months of laundry, it doesn't look too bad. She sits in her easy chair to listen to Shawn and KM on the receiver.
"...damn fine!" she can hear Shawn muttering. "I knew getting involved with that bunch was going to cost me somehow." KS grins. Shawn is now one of them. Shippervillians, that is. Whether she wanted to be one or not.
KS leans back in the chair with a Canadian beer and then stops. She leans forward and looks beneath the couch. There are toys, socks, books, and miscellaneous pieces of paper stuffed beneath it. She looks under the rest of the furniture. Every piece is the same. "So that's how he cleaned house while I was gone," she mutters.
