Hello. Yes, I'm back, though possibly only briefly. Life has been as hectic as I predicted, but I'm currently enjoying a short break over Christmas. Yay! Hope you like this offering – I feela little out of practice.
Disclaimer: I don't own Primeval or...
It was a lonely dark night and the rain was lashing down outside, beating against the window it a constant barrage of tapping. The wind howled down the street, moaning incessantly.
Abby drew the thick curtain on the scene and turned to Jess who was flipping through her DVDs. Connor was out, apparently sharing a drink with Matt and Becker, and wasn't due back until much later, so the girls had decided that tonight was a good night to be curled up on the sofa with ice-cream, sweets and a girly film.
"'Maid in Manhattan'," Jess suddenly giggled as she held the DVD.
Abby slumped down on the sofa. She was beginning to regret allowing Jess to sort through her films, all eight of them, to pick one; it was like having a film reviewer go through them, and Abby only had them for girly nights in with friends anyway. She generally disliked chick flicks, but watching with a friend made it better – you needed a soft film for it.
"'And Music and Lyrics'? Really Abby?"
"Please no. It was a gift." Jess smiled and continued flicking through.
"Oooo," she squealed in a pitch which made Abby wince. "'Love Actually'? Come on, let's try that." Abby nodded and settled herself down; she was bemused by what Jess defined as a decent film and a laughable one.
They opened a pot of chocolate ice-cream and ignored the start-up, so Abby was thoroughly shocked when the menu appeared to be red and black and the title at the top was not one 'Love Actually'.
"That's one of Connor's films," she cried. She climbed over and ejected the DVD. "What's that...?" A terrible thought struck her and she started opening her DVD cases. All of them held DVDs of sci-fis and cheap horrors. Abby groaned. "Connor's been at them."
Jess came forward. "Well, where would he have put your DVDs then?" Abby frowned and then looked to the shelf containing all of Connor's DVDs... 172 of them, as counted by Connor when Abby asked the previous week.
"Somewhere in that lot and I bet not the cases which matched these. He never puts things back in the box after watching them, just stuffs the back after the pile of them gets too high." She gestured to DVDs which were now strewn across her carpet. Jess breathed in deeply and huffed, smiling.
"Never mind. I'm pretty sure I have 'Love Actually'."
"Every girl should... at least, that's according the friend who gave me mine." Jess got up to go to her DVD shelf, before turning.
"Abby?"
"Hmm?"
"What was Connor doing watching chick flicks?"
...even any of the films mentioned in this piece. =-)
PLEASE REVIEW. I felt rusty writing so need to know how much I've lost the skill... given how much I started with, I'm probably in negative numbers now. ;-)