It is the following day and everyone was just fistening up their breakfeast.
"It's your turn to do the dishes Natalie." Tootie smiled over at her best friend.
"Wanna help Toot." Natalie asked with an smile and hope in her eyes.
"Oh if must I must. What I do for my friends." Tootie said in an highly pitched voice and brought her hand to her forehead.
"Forget that I asked. Sheesh don't do me any favors if you don't want to." Natalie got up angrily and started clearing the table.
"Natalie I was just acting. Of course I'll help I love to help you." Tootie got up in an hurry.
Natalie kept her head down for an moment and than brought it up with an grin to her face. "And you said I couldn't act."
"You got me there." Tootie laughed.
They laughed and joked their way into the kicten leaving Blair and Jo at the breakfeast table.
"Come on Warner let's clear the rest of the tables and than we can have the morning to ourselves." Jo got up and started to work the job that Natalie and Tootie begun.
"Sure no problem." Blair said. She also got up and started to hum as she cleared the breakfeast dishes.
"You sure are in an good mood this morning. Better than yesterday." Jo looked sideways at her friend.
"Of course I'm in an good mood, why shouldn't I be?" Blair asked going to the next table.
"I don't know any reason why you shouldn't be. Just as I don't know any reason why you should have been in an weird mood yesterday." Jo said.
"I don't know what you are talking about Jo." With that Blair went to the kicten to deliver her full bucket of dishes to the girls in the kicten.
"Hello Jo how's it going?" Jerri asked as she walked into the dining room.
"Hey Jerri how's it going with you? Going great for me. Although your cousin is acting very weird." Jo said as she went and hugged Jerri before continuing to clear the tables.
"Oh how so?" Jerri took an seat from the table that Blair had just cleaned being careful not to put an arm on the sticky table cloth.
"Oh being in an very weird mood yesterday and not telling us why. Than being back to normal today but not as normal as it seems." Jo said as she saw that her bucket was full.
Blair came out of the kicten and smiled happily at the sight of her cousin. "Jerri!" She ran to her cousin and waited for Jerri to stand up once more and gave Jerri an bear hug.
"Well I'll be in the kicten for an moment you two." Jo said as she headed to the kicten to deliver her full bucket to the girls.
"So how have you been." Blair asked as she walked with Jerri into the lounge.
"Blair don't you have to finished with your duties?" Jerri asked looking backward at the unfinished tables.
"Jo can fishened for me she won't mind." Blair waved her hand backward and sat down on the couch and patted the spot next to her for her cousin to join her.
"Blair please go and fishened your work." Mrs. Garret frowned as she walked into the lounge. "Oh hello Jerri." She smiled at Jerri.
"Mrs. Garret Jerri is here." Blair said with and smile expecting that to be the excuse enough to get out of the dirty work.
"Blair fishened your job than you can visit with Jerri." Mrs. Garret said in an no none - sense voice.
"All right have it your way." Blair frowned and got up and went back to the dinning room and started to bang the dishes in her anger at having to still do the dirty work even through she had an visitor. *After yesterday I thought Mrs. G. would cut me some slack. I have pegged her all wrong. * She suddenly felt tears come to her eyes and she broke the glass she was holding and ran out of the dinning room and up the girls room slamming the door behind her. She feel onto her bed sobbing.
"Blair!" Mrs. Garret and Jerri both said when they heard the glass break. They got up and rushed to the door way in time to see Blair ran out of the dinning room.
"What's wrong with Blair Mrs. Garret? Jo said she was acting weird yesterday." Jerri looked at Mrs. Garret with concern.
"I don't know Jerri ... I just don't know." Mrs. Garret thought back to the previous day when she found Blair sobbing in the woods and not telling her what was troubling her.
"What was that noise?" Tootie asked from the kicten double door where she was standing with Jo and Natalie looking at Mrs. Garret and Jerri.
"Blair accidently broke the glass." Mrs. Garret said.
"So where is miss High and Mighty? Why isn't she cleaning her mess up?" Jo asked with an snort.
"She's in your room; she need to be alone right now." Mrs. Garret said. "Jo please fishened cleaning the dining room." With that Mrs. Garret made her way to the hallway that led to the bedrooms.
"This is just like Blair. Making an mountain out of an mole hole. She gets out of everything." Jo grumbled and walked into the dining room with an broom and dust panned.
"Jo that is not very nice." Jerri frowned at her friend.
~ Too be Continued .......
