Title: "Ice Cream, You Scream, Baby"
Author: Kat Lee, formerly known as Pirate Turner
Rating: PG
Summary: The girls go for ice cream.
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Author's Note: 244. That's the number of stories that were sitting on my hard drive collecting dust because I lack the energy and time to take care of them as I once did. My betaing pattern has always been to write, then type up if written on paper, the story, read it aloud to my beloved Jack and our children, editing as I go, and then finally format and post. Sadly, this part is simply taking too much of my time and energy, and my beloved Jack and I have too little time together in person these days to be able to keep up with my stories. So what to do? Give up writing? I actually considered it for a while, tried to make excuses to myself other than the large number of stories collecting cyber dust on my computer, as to why I lacked the energy and Muse to write new tales. And then, with the turn of the new year, I decided to stop running and face the problem. The problem is, quite frankly, that once one gets so bogged down in formatting and editing that writing is no longer a pleasure but the actual posting of those writings becomes a hassle and - egad! - work, it's time to cut something out, and that will never be the writing process. So, in short, yes, there will be mistakes in this tale. Yes, it's missing about half of the header information I usually include. But I wrote it for pleasure and am posting it in hopes of sharing that pleasure with others. Do with it as you will.
"I'll take a quadruple fudge banana split with extra everything," Kitty ordered, her brown eyes shining with delight. It had been too long since she'd been able to come out with her friends and just enjoy life's simple pleasures.
"Euuw." Standing beside her, Illyana made a disgusted face. "You and your ice cream!"
Kitty laughed. "Well, how do you like your ice cream?"
Kitty knew Illyana liked her ice cream flavors plain, but she wasn't ready for the answer the Russian gave without missing a beat. "On you."
"Illyana!" Kitty blushed red as the ice cream man nearly fell into the open counter.
Illyana grinned. "Hey, you get your ice cream this afternoon, but tonight, if the world's not in danger, we do what I want to do!"
Kitty lowered her face shyly. "I can't wait," she whispered to Illyana, "but don't you dare ever say that in public again!" Illyana laughed.
The End