Hey guys - I've made a few alterations to the end of chapter 7 so if you haven't gone back and read that, go and do it now before you carry on. Oh, and also, my mind while writing this has gone VERY rampant and when I read it back I'm like, what the hell was I thinking hahaha but I'm just going to leave it as is and hope you don't hate me for writing such BS.
Thanks for reading (:
- R
Di showed up at Manor House a little while later. Honey had obviously called her too. "Sorry I'm late, guys. The girls' maid is ill so I helped out with getting them fed and clothed this morning." She was smiling, clearly very happy that she had had the opportunity to have time with her little sisters.
Honey and Trixie filled her in on what was happening with Jim and Annabel, and Trixie and Daniel.
"That bitch." Was all Di said afterwards. "I do not try too hard."
Trixie and Honey laughed, poking their friend in the side. "Is that all you care about, Di?"
"Of course not." She replied, giggling.
At around 11am, a car pulled into the driveway. "She's here!" Di called from where she had been peering out the window. They all gathered around and watching - inconspicuously - as the blonde girl got out of the car and was greeted by Jim. Annabel threw her arms around him and went in for a kiss, but Jim turned his head slightly so all she got was his cheek.
"Oh, God," Di whispered, trying not to laugh. "He just gave her the cheek!"
Annabel's face fell slightly but she regained composure a second later as Jim picked her suitcase up and they walked together to the veranda of Manor House, where the three girls watching could no longer see them.
Trixie mused. "We didn't think about this, did we? One, we don't know when he is actually going to break it off with her. We could be waiting all day! And two, how are we going to watch it all unfold if he's in the house. He's obviously going to want it to be private."
"Well, we'll just have to hope he takes her somewhere outside so we can hide behind a bush or something." Di said, only half-joking.
The three girls heard Annabel's shrill voice as she and Jim headed down the hallway and past Honey's room. Jim's area of the Manor House was near the left side of the building, past Honey's side which was on the right. It consisted of Jim's bedroom and bathroom, a separate library-slash-office and a small living area where he and his friends could hang out and just be boys. Honey had much the same set-up, but without the living area because the girls rarely spent much time indoors when they were together.
Trixie, Honey and Di rushed to the shut door and put their ears to it, hoping to hear some kind of conversation, but all they got was Annabel's rambling about her trip, Jim grunting to let her know he was listening, and her giggling - which sounded much like a chihuahua yapping, in Trixie's opinion.
When the had passed, the girls sat on the floor. "Well, now we wait." Trixie said.
"Is this a bad idea?" Honey said, more to herself than her friends. "What if Jim finds out we were spying on them and gets mad at us?"
"Are you kidding?" Trixie replied. "We've been in situations like this before. We just had to be quiet and unseen. This was your idea, Honey."
"Okay." Honey surrendered.
Jim and Annabel seemed to stay in Jim's room for an extremely long time. Trixie's mind kept wandering to what they were doing. Had Jim changed his mind? Was he even going to break it off with Annabel today? Would he wait another week? He might think it's rude to tell her it's over and to go home so soon after her getting back. I mean, she just made that trip here, would he actually send her packing immediately? Even Trixie thought that was ridiculous, she wouldn't do that.
"Did Jim you know... give you a time frame of when he was going to do this?" Trixie asked Honey.
"He seemed pretty confident he was going to get it over and done with." Honey replied. "Don't worry."
Just as Honey said that, the girls heard a crash down the hallway and Annabel's shrill voice. "I can't believe you're doing this to me! This is all her fault!"
They heard footsteps coming quickly towards Honey's bedroom door and the girls quickly jumped up and pretended to look busy, just as the door swung open and a red-faced Annabel storm into the room, right up to Trixie. "You!" She yelled in Trixie's face.
"Annabel-" Jim came in after her.
"Don't you dare come a step closer, Jim Frayne, or I swear you'll regret it." The blonde girl turned back to Trixie and almost snarled. "Jim is leaving me. Are you happy now?" She demanded.
"What are you talking about?" Trixie replied, shocked at how Annabel was reacting and taking her anger out on her.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about you little tramp!"
"Calm down," Di jumped in at that point. "Trixie hasn't done anything."
"And you," said Annabel, diverting her attention to Di. "I bet you cooked this up with your little boyfriend. All of you did!"
Honey stepped in front of Trixie, right in between her and Annabel then, and pointed her index finger in Annabel's face. "Back off, Annabel. None of us have done anything to ruin your relationship with Jim but be honest with him."
"What on Earth is going on up here?" Miss Trask hurried to Honey's doorway with her hands on her hips and a confused expression on her face.
Jim sighed. "I've asked Annabel to leave and she's not taking it very well."
Miss Trask did not look surprised, as Trixie had expected her to. "Well." She replied. "This is a situation now, isn't it? I'll go and get Mr Wheeler, perhaps he can sort this out."
