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It had been nearly a year since Dorothy's last visit to Oz, being turned into a statue was just a mere memory now. It was summer again and coming close to her birthday once more. Dorothy had taken to walking around the farm during the summer when she wasn't at the library, she had a relatively good school year, she had passed as one of the top students, she had gotten into a creative writing class, and she wrote about Oz as her subject. Her aunt and uncle had also gotten her a pair of flats that she wore on days that it wasn't raining, they were silver, just like the ones she had when she was in the emerald city.
"Dorothy!? Where are you?" came aunt em's voice from the farm house.
Dorothy looked and saw Toto running at her barking. She picked him up and he licked her on the face, causing her to giggle.
"Dorothy we have company coming, come on and wash up." Came aunt em's voice again.
This made Dorothy smile, aunt Em only told her that they had company when someone they all liked was coming to call. Dorothy ran to the house as quickly as her legs could carry her, when she got the farm house she met Dorothy with a rather soaked wash towel, she wiped off Dorothy's face till Dorothy sputtered and spit a few times.
"Auntie Em, I'm not a little kid anymore you don't have to do that." Dorothy said laughing.
"What kind of aunt would I be if I didn't treat my niece like a little kid every once?" Auntie Em said chuckling.
"So whose coming?" Dorothy asked walking into the farm house.
"It's a surprise." Aunt Em said.
"What's uncle henry up to today?" Dorothy said noticing his absence and trying to change the subject.
"He's getting a spare part for the tractor." She said sighing and looking at it through the window.
"It's broken down, again?" Dorothy asked looking at it frustrated
"Yep, busted again." Em replied.
Dorothy sighed and picked up Toto. She then walked to her bedroom, walking in she shut the door behind her and slid out of the flats. She then walked over to the mirror and looked at herself in it. She hadn't changed much in the last year. She had gotten about maybe an inch taller, but she still kept her child-like ways of tying her hair in pigtails, but she was still the same regardless. She then sat down on her bed and picked up a sketching pad. She looked through it, she had sketched several dresses, some of which she'd hope would get made for Ellie, other things she had sketched were her friends, the emerald city, and the Kansas scenery. She flipped to the first blank page and picked up a pencil, she began to sketch Toto who was sitting next to her at the time, she didn't get too far before she heard a knock on her window. She turned around and saw Donna, she smiled and got up opening the window.
"Donna, what are you doing here?" Dorothy asked.
"My uncle is here trying to help your uncle fix your tractor so it won't break again, I just tagged along." Donna replied looking over towards where the tractor was.
"Mr. Alistair knows stuff about tractors?" Dorothy asked leaning out the window and looking at her uncle and her principal trying to fix the tractor, Dorothy's aunt Em then walked over and joined them.
"Yea, you'd think a school principal wouldn't know anything about farm business would you? Well neither did I, turns out he has a summer job." Donna replied as a large bang came from the tractor.
"Should we help them?" Dorothy asked leaning out the window again to see a ball of black smoke coming out of the tractor.
"I think it's funny, let's just watch." She replied chuckling.
"So, how's your little sister?" Dorothy asked trying to change the subject.
"She's good, she can't wait to hear your next story." Donna said looking at her.
"Yea, I've got a bunch, if I tried to write down my adventures in Oz, well who knows how many books I'd need." Dorothy said, "Anyways hopefully they finish soon, my aunt says we have company coming over tonight." She added.
"Did she say who?" Donna asked curiously.
"No, but Auntie Em only tells me we have company coming when it's someone I get along with coming over." Dorothy said.
"Who don't you get along with?" Donna asked putting emphasis on the word don't.
They both laughed at this for a bit before they heard Mr. Alistair calling for Donna.
"You should go see what he wants." Dorothy said looking out the window and over to the tractor.
"Yea, he must be done, either that or he need to come back tomorrow." Donna said walking away.
Dorothy left the window open but walked back to the bed, she sat down on it facing the window and went back to sketching Toto. Aunt Em then showed up at the window.
"Dorothy, Mr. Alistair wanted us to say hi to you for him, he'll be leaving soon, I told him that we were having company and he said he didn't want to intrude for too long." She said before walking away.
This made Dorothy smile, her aunt was always in a rush whenever they were to have company or whenever they needed to get something fixed. In this case it was both, she began to wonder who the company was. Toto barked at her a few times before she turned her attention back to him and continued sketching him. She smiled at her dog and eventually finished drawing his face, the sun had begun to set before she got up and shut the window again. That's when a knock came on her door.
"Dorothy, our company will be here in a few minutes, would you mind going out to the barn and get your uncle?" came aunt em's voice from outside the door.
"Sure auntie Em." Dorothy said sliding on her flats.
She then left her room and walked out of the farm house. Walking over to the barn she found her Uncle brushing one of the horses.
"Uncle Henry, Auntie Em told me to get you, our company will be here soon." Dorothy said looking at her uncle.
"Oh, wow, Dorothy, can you go to the back of the barn a get a bucket of water to clean out the feeding trough then? Because I need to get cleaned up." he said getting off the step stool and placing the brush down on it.
"Sure thing Uncle Henry, Tell auntie Em I'll be a few minutes." she said running around to the back of the barn.
She picked up one of the buckets from the ground and filled it up from the rain barrel. She then walked back to the front of the barn and tipped the buckets contents in the feeding trough. She watched as the water picked up the unfinished food from the trough, she then tipped the trough out and dropped the bucket. She heard Toto barking from the farm house. Dorothy smiled and ran back towards the farm house. When she got to the farm house she stood there for a minute to catch her breath. Toto barked and walked back into the house. Dorothy followed and walked over to the dining room she sat down at the table and was about to ask her aunt and uncle who was coming to call, but she felt a pair of hands go over her eyes.
"So, this game again?" Dorothy asked smiling.
"We thought it would be fun." Uncle Henry said chuckling.
"Um, let's see, who would come to call without you telling me who it was?" Dorothy asked.
Dorothy was asking herself this question over and over again in her mind, she was stumped, and no one would play this game with her with the exception of her aunt and uncle. She giggled a bit, and turned her attention back to her thoughts.
"Any ideas?" Auntie Em asked.
"Not really, I'm clueless, you're the only ones who I can think would do this." Dorothy said.
"Are you sure? Think about it." Uncle Henry said.
Dorothy then heard Toto bark with delight, she smiled at this, and she knew that if Toto was content with their visitors then Dorothy should be able to guess. But she couldn't, she honestly had no idea.
"Well, while you're trying to guess I'm going to go get the plates from the kitchen." Auntie Em said getting up.
"What's for dinner?" Dorothy asked curiously hoping she could get the person behind her to speak.
"Meatloaf." Aunt Em shouted from the kitchen.
"Dorothy, are you stumped?" uncle Henry asked as Auntie Em came back into the room and set down the plates.
Dorothy listened to how many plates were being set down, not four plates, but six. Three people had come to call for dinner, but who.
"I'm stumped, I have however noticed that auntie Em set down three extra plates, so who's the extra company?" Dorothy asked smiling.
"Okay then, that was amusing, but we'll give you one hint, Em is the water boiling?" Henry asked.
"Yep, I'll set it up." she said walking to the kitchen.
They all sat there for a few minutes in silence, after those few minutes the house was filled with the smell of peppermint. Dorothy took a deep breath and sighed.
"Peppermint tea?" Dorothy asked smiling.
"Yes, according to our guests, its goes great with most foods." Em said coming out and setting down a teapot.
Dorothy was still pretty stumped. Her aunt and uncle didn't have tea in the house that often. Only when they were having good company or a neighbor recommends it to help with recovering from illness. Dorothy then smiled, though she still couldn't guess, she began to wonder. Who was behind her? Who was covering her eyes?
"Give up?" Uncle Henry asked.
"Yes, who is it." Dorothy said smiling.
The hands were lifted from her eyes and Dorothy turned around. She gasped in surprise when she was who was standing behind her.
