Meanwhile back to Sorath.

Sorath is running around her house trying to decorate. It's the day before Christmas eve and Sorath has put it off until then. She's fretting to get all the decorations up.
Someone knocks on her door.

Sorath: coming!

Sorath drops what she's doing and goes to the door. She opens the door to see Jin standing there.

Sorath: oh, hello? Uh. how are you?
Jin: fine. Can I come in for a second?
Sorath: no, but you can come in and help me.
Jin: um, okay.

Jin steps in the door and Sorath closes it. They stand there for a second in the awkward silence until a crash alerts Sorath that she dropped what she had been doing. They both look into the other room to see that one of her decorations has fallen over. Sorath walks over and picks it up. She continues to decorate.

Sorath: so what did you want?
Jin: I was, uh, just wondering why you were doin this?
Sorath: why? I don't know, I just figured it would be fun for me to plan and fun for other people.
Jin: oh, okay. I just wanted to know.
Sorath: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

The ladder that Sorath was standing on fell over with her on it. Sorath grabbed the tinsel she had been stringing up around the entire room in a vain attempt to stop her. She just pulled a section of the tinsel off. Jin ran forward and grabbed Sorath before she fell on the floor. Sorath opens her eyes to see Jin holding her.

Sorath: he he, thanks a lot.
Jin: no problem. You should be more careful when you're on a ladder.
Sorath: I should be more careful period.

They stood there for another moment before Sorath cleared her throat and Jin realized he was still holding her.

Jin: oh.

Jin put her back on her feet and she just stood there for a moment. Then she realized that she was holding a piece of tinsel in her hands. She looked to the wall to see a large chunk of tinsel missing in the chain.

Sorath: whoops.

The two stood there for another minute. Then Sorath turned and started to pick up the ladder.

Jin: here, lemme help ya.

Jin helped Sorath get the heavy ladder back up.

Sorath: thanks.
Jin: that's okay. Anyway I should really get goin'.
Sorath: okay. Bye then.

Jin walked out the door. Sorath stood there for another minute.

Sorath: that was. . . odd.

Sorath finally finished the decorations for her party. She stood there for a minute. Then her eye was drawn to the one spot on the wall with a thick layer of tape on it. She had attempted to tape the bit of tinsel that she had torn off earlier but had failed.
She sat down with a bottle of root beer. She drank the bottle slowly over about twenty minutes. After that she continued to lounge around on the couch and admired her work. She began to suck on the bottle and get it all de-pressurized. All of the sudden one of the decorations fell and startled her. She let go of the bottle in her hand and stood up. She then looked and saw it on the floor. She sighed then felt her tongue hurt. She then looked down to see her tongue stuck in the bottle. She pulled slightly on the bottle to see if she could get it off, but it was painful and very stuck.

Sorath: oh thit. This is gong thoo thuck. (translation: oh shit. This is going to suck.)