"Okay connect piece AB to piece GH with bolt C… no no bolt C not bolt G… no here let me do it" Adrien said grabbing the piece
s of my new entertainment system from my lax grip. I just sighed deeply and went off in search of my absent friend, leaving
Adrien to his own devices… with my devices.
"Sarah! Your boyfriend is a controlling arsehole! I mean we went to Electronics King this morning and he literally thought he
was the Electronics KING… and now he's gone all commando on my stereo system.." I whined finding Sarah on my bed reading a
book, as per usual.
Sarah simply lowered the book and said "Not my boyfriend Jennifer. Adrien is a friend… a friend that happens to be a boy."
"That you just happen to snog on a regular basis!" I replied
"That still doesn't mean he's my boyfriend!" Sarah said smiling.
"Hey now… I thought we agreed that I was gonna be the whore of this duo!" I said giggling.
"So why don't you snog Adrien?" Sarah said resuming her reading
"Ew. Hey whatcha readin?" I said flopping on the bed next to her.
"Pride and Prejudice.." She said flipping a page.
"Again? That's gotta be the billionth time! Wait what am I saying…" I said resting my head on one of my soft goose down
pillows. "mmm I wanna rape Mr. Darcy….ooh and bingly… and Draco malfoy… but that's another book all together.." I said
wistfully turning to face Sarah.
Sarah however was caught up in her book and didn't seem to notice whether or not I was talking. I glanced around my
semi-assembled room. Boxes still littered the floor and everything had yet to be put into it's proper place, but it looked
and felt as if someone actually lived there. The walls were an eggshell white and covered in numerous posters.. remnants of
my childhood. Pinups and pictures of movies and musical groups who had long since broken up , but I had found that I was
unable to let them go. I counted the Backstreet boys posters on my wall that I had saved from both mom and Sarah's trash bag
happy rampages and smiled.
I rose from the bed to go check my hair in my new vanity that sat in the corner next to the fireplace. Yes ANOTHER fireplace.
. In the bedroom, I had definitely struck gold in this place! I sat down on the padded seat and started to fiddle with my
cosmetic brushes, Those two hours I spent with Adrien setting up and buying electronics hadn't done much good to my makeup.
I wiped at the excess mascara that I had under my blue green eyes, undoubtedly rubbed off during another one of Adrien's
"technical talks". My rosy complexion was lightly dusted with freckles, which only looked starker against my skin that day
due to my lack of time in the sun.
Depressed by my face I moved on to my hair, all mussed up from the activities of the day. I grabbed a comb and started trying
to put it to rights. My long blonde wavy hair was my one great beauty, because it always seemed to sparkle.
As I sat there combing my hair I felt a great big thud on my back. I turned sharply and was greeted with the sight of a pride
and prejudice book lying haphazardly on the floor. I quickly shifted my glare to a laughing Sarah.
"Would you stop playing with your hair for two seconds! I've been sitting here for close to 10 minutes watching you fiddle
with it!" She said giggling
"hey hey hey! I've got three words for you, sack… car…field" I said in mock seriousness.
Sarah was about to retort but just then a knock came on the door. All I saw was Adrien and a streaking flash of chestnut
brown hair. Before I was even aware of it I had an arm full of a cuddly little 5 year old.
"Aunt Geeeeeenie! I missed you! Look mommy got me a new dress!" My cute little niece Miranda said clutching at the white lace
of her little dress. "Sweet heart I just saw you yesterday" I said sweetly. She looked locked in thought for a moment before
replying with a tight hug, "I still missed you!"
"I missed you too darlin, where's your mommy?" I asked ruffling her hair. She simply pointed towards the living room and
resumed her study of her new dress. I looked over her shoulder and saw my half sister Melinda or sissy as I called her
leaning against the doorway. I stood up with Miranda still in my arms and went to hug my sister.
"Hey, what's up?" I said smiling to my sister and walking into the living room where Adrien was still fiddling with the
stereo. I sat down in a chair and Sissy and Sarah followed suit.
"Oh nothing much, we were just in the neighborhood and decided to see how you were doing!" Sissy replied and then added with
a smile, "hello Sarah, hello Adrien" Adrien just gave mumbled something quickly before diving back into the manual.
"I think he means he's happy to see you again, as am I" Sarah said giggling.
"OOOOHH TOYYSS!" Miranda screamed pointing up at my mantle.
"Huh?.. Oh yea Miranda those were toys that I played with when I was littler"
"You were little? Can I play with them??!" Miranda said brightly looking up at me with her big blue doll eyes.
"Miranda honey, those toys are a little old and are aren't meant to be played with." Sissy said to her pleading daughter.
"Aww mommy" Miranda said squirming from my lap to get into her mother's. "No sweetie." She replied hugging her daughter.
She looked over Miranda's shoulder and mouthed to me, "Can you lock it" all the while making the motion of turning a key.
I motioned to Sarah to grab the tarnished copper key that was still on the kitchen counter from the night before. Sarah
retrieved the key, closed the cabinet and locked it while Sissy and I sang Miranda the itsy bitsy spider.
Sissy checked her watch when we finished this song and said quickly, "Oh no we're gonna be late! I promised Sammy that she
could see her grand daughter today…" She continued sweeping Miranda up,
"Come on sweetie lets go visit great grandma! Say bye bye to Aunt Jenny and Sarah!" Miranda waved and Sissy gestured a "Call
Me" before stepping out into the hallway and into the elevator.
"Aha! Voila!" Adrien practically shouted as he rose from the floor littered with tools. He grabbed up the main remote to my
new stereo system, pushed a button and on popped the tv and surround sound. He turned and gave me a big grin. I shrieked in
excitement and took a running start to jump into his arms. He caught me easily and swung me around.
"Ah it sounds so good! You did such a good job Adrien! Oh thank thank thank you!" I said excitedly mashing random buttons
on the remote. Sarah hugged Adrien as well saying, " See I knew you weren't useless!" "Aw you are too sweet." he replied
sarcastically. "Well ladies seeing as I've spent.." He stopped to check his watch and continued, ".. eek about 3 hours here…
it's time for me to go home to my old lady"
"Aww but I wanted to go buy you dinner as thanks for setting this monster up" I said pointing to the now operational stereo.
"Can I rain check? My old lady gets surly if I don't come home for dinner. But thanks for the offer!" Adrien said packing up
his tools and putting his coat on.
"Your old lady? Is she your girlfriend?" Sarah said undoubtedly coming out more possesive then she intended. "No she's not my
girlfriend Sarah, she's my mom." Adrien said clearly amused. Sarah simply blushed.
"Well I soppose I should go too, I'm supposed to be meeting Claire for a movie tonight so I'll cya later!" Sarah said quickly
struggling to get her coat on as well. Adrien offered his arm to her, "May I offer my services as an escort home?" " You
may." Sarah said coyly. I winked at them both and watched them stroll down the hallway and enter the elevator.
I shut the door and began to clean up around the house, gathering all the empty boxes and stacks of newspaper that I had used
for packing. I popped some popcorn and sat on the couch in front of my new stereo system to watch some tv.
A few hours later I found myself nodding off so I decided to head for bed. I took a shower, slid between my sheets and
quickly fell into a deep peaceful sleep.
*scratch scratch*
"Masters Pippin and Merry, please refrain from movement" hissed a smooth tenor from inside the cabinet on the mantle.
"Aragorn…where are we?" a hushed cultured voice asked
"I know not friend elf, wait up there I see a streak of light!" exclaimed the figure named Aragorn.
"Legolas could you climb up and use your skilled Elvin eyes to try to discover our location?" he continued.
"I will return quickly" replied the Elvin owner of the cultured voice, Legolas.
The elf gracefully scaled the shelves located in the interior of the cabinet and peeked out of the keyhole that was half the
ength of a man and let in the streak of light. His bewilderment only grew when he peered out of the keyhole, discovering
what looked to be a home but seemingly on a massive scale.
He called back down to his companions, " I fear we have been taken captive by a giant"
"A giant, Legolas?" replied the dwarf in the company.
"Yes Gimli, a giant." replied the elf with amusement clear in his voice.
"Um I don't mean to interrupt your uh friendly banter but uh who is that breathing on my neck?" the small creature by the
name of Pippin said nervously in his Scottish brogue.
Everyone in the company whispered "Merry!". But from the opposite side of the cabinet came Merry's offended voice saying
"Hey it's not me!"
"Hobbits… Frodo, Sam, Merry… Pippin gather 'round" Aragorn said unsheathing his sword.
However as Pippin slowly made steps to Aragorn he was spun around quickly. Though it was dark and he could see nothing he
knew by the stench that he was in the grasp of an orc.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I woke up with a start upon hearing small scratching noises coming from my living room. I had dismissed the sounds as perhaps
a squirrel on the porch or perhaps it was just the building's foundation settling, but when I heard several men's voices
drifting into my room I bolted upright in bed. Perhaps I was hallucinating… or perhaps not. Whatever the answer was, I had to
find out. I silently creeped out of bed and over to the door. I pressed my ear to the cool surface of my door and found that
I there were indeed men's voices coming from my living room!
I gasped quickly and creeped over to my cordless phone. I picked it up and silently walked into my closet and shut the door,
all the while dialing Sarah's number.
"uh 'lo" I heard Sarah's sleepy voice say from the other end of the line. I instantly felt some of my fear subside, almost as
if hearing Sarah's voice made me think she was here with me.
"Sarah" I whispered into the receiver, "Sarah I'm in my closet"
"Ugg well good for you…. Now can I go back to sleep?" Sarah replied grumpily.
"No, no you don't understand…I hear men's voices coming from my living room!" I said hurriedly straining to hear something
that was being said in the living room to no avail.
"Jennifer, did you leave your tv on again?" Sarah said sounding more awake now.
"No!" I replied
"Because you called me saying the exact thing.. what was it..a couple months ago. Remember? You heard strange voices coming
from your living room, had the cops burst in and it was really just old reruns of nightrider on because you forgot to turn
your tv off…" Sarah said with a tone of amusement in her voice.
"I didn't leave the tv on! Well at least I don't think I left it on…" I said thoughtfully.
Sarah just sighed and told me, "Okay we'll settle this, go up to your door and try to find out what they're talking about,
If it's about the nightrider I was right…."
"And what if it's about my head on a platter?" I asked crawling out of the closet and to my door.
"Then I'm up one new stereo system" she replied sounding pleased with herself.
"Bitch"
s of my new entertainment system from my lax grip. I just sighed deeply and went off in search of my absent friend, leaving
Adrien to his own devices… with my devices.
"Sarah! Your boyfriend is a controlling arsehole! I mean we went to Electronics King this morning and he literally thought he
was the Electronics KING… and now he's gone all commando on my stereo system.." I whined finding Sarah on my bed reading a
book, as per usual.
Sarah simply lowered the book and said "Not my boyfriend Jennifer. Adrien is a friend… a friend that happens to be a boy."
"That you just happen to snog on a regular basis!" I replied
"That still doesn't mean he's my boyfriend!" Sarah said smiling.
"Hey now… I thought we agreed that I was gonna be the whore of this duo!" I said giggling.
"So why don't you snog Adrien?" Sarah said resuming her reading
"Ew. Hey whatcha readin?" I said flopping on the bed next to her.
"Pride and Prejudice.." She said flipping a page.
"Again? That's gotta be the billionth time! Wait what am I saying…" I said resting my head on one of my soft goose down
pillows. "mmm I wanna rape Mr. Darcy….ooh and bingly… and Draco malfoy… but that's another book all together.." I said
wistfully turning to face Sarah.
Sarah however was caught up in her book and didn't seem to notice whether or not I was talking. I glanced around my
semi-assembled room. Boxes still littered the floor and everything had yet to be put into it's proper place, but it looked
and felt as if someone actually lived there. The walls were an eggshell white and covered in numerous posters.. remnants of
my childhood. Pinups and pictures of movies and musical groups who had long since broken up , but I had found that I was
unable to let them go. I counted the Backstreet boys posters on my wall that I had saved from both mom and Sarah's trash bag
happy rampages and smiled.
I rose from the bed to go check my hair in my new vanity that sat in the corner next to the fireplace. Yes ANOTHER fireplace.
. In the bedroom, I had definitely struck gold in this place! I sat down on the padded seat and started to fiddle with my
cosmetic brushes, Those two hours I spent with Adrien setting up and buying electronics hadn't done much good to my makeup.
I wiped at the excess mascara that I had under my blue green eyes, undoubtedly rubbed off during another one of Adrien's
"technical talks". My rosy complexion was lightly dusted with freckles, which only looked starker against my skin that day
due to my lack of time in the sun.
Depressed by my face I moved on to my hair, all mussed up from the activities of the day. I grabbed a comb and started trying
to put it to rights. My long blonde wavy hair was my one great beauty, because it always seemed to sparkle.
As I sat there combing my hair I felt a great big thud on my back. I turned sharply and was greeted with the sight of a pride
and prejudice book lying haphazardly on the floor. I quickly shifted my glare to a laughing Sarah.
"Would you stop playing with your hair for two seconds! I've been sitting here for close to 10 minutes watching you fiddle
with it!" She said giggling
"hey hey hey! I've got three words for you, sack… car…field" I said in mock seriousness.
Sarah was about to retort but just then a knock came on the door. All I saw was Adrien and a streaking flash of chestnut
brown hair. Before I was even aware of it I had an arm full of a cuddly little 5 year old.
"Aunt Geeeeeenie! I missed you! Look mommy got me a new dress!" My cute little niece Miranda said clutching at the white lace
of her little dress. "Sweet heart I just saw you yesterday" I said sweetly. She looked locked in thought for a moment before
replying with a tight hug, "I still missed you!"
"I missed you too darlin, where's your mommy?" I asked ruffling her hair. She simply pointed towards the living room and
resumed her study of her new dress. I looked over her shoulder and saw my half sister Melinda or sissy as I called her
leaning against the doorway. I stood up with Miranda still in my arms and went to hug my sister.
"Hey, what's up?" I said smiling to my sister and walking into the living room where Adrien was still fiddling with the
stereo. I sat down in a chair and Sissy and Sarah followed suit.
"Oh nothing much, we were just in the neighborhood and decided to see how you were doing!" Sissy replied and then added with
a smile, "hello Sarah, hello Adrien" Adrien just gave mumbled something quickly before diving back into the manual.
"I think he means he's happy to see you again, as am I" Sarah said giggling.
"OOOOHH TOYYSS!" Miranda screamed pointing up at my mantle.
"Huh?.. Oh yea Miranda those were toys that I played with when I was littler"
"You were little? Can I play with them??!" Miranda said brightly looking up at me with her big blue doll eyes.
"Miranda honey, those toys are a little old and are aren't meant to be played with." Sissy said to her pleading daughter.
"Aww mommy" Miranda said squirming from my lap to get into her mother's. "No sweetie." She replied hugging her daughter.
She looked over Miranda's shoulder and mouthed to me, "Can you lock it" all the while making the motion of turning a key.
I motioned to Sarah to grab the tarnished copper key that was still on the kitchen counter from the night before. Sarah
retrieved the key, closed the cabinet and locked it while Sissy and I sang Miranda the itsy bitsy spider.
Sissy checked her watch when we finished this song and said quickly, "Oh no we're gonna be late! I promised Sammy that she
could see her grand daughter today…" She continued sweeping Miranda up,
"Come on sweetie lets go visit great grandma! Say bye bye to Aunt Jenny and Sarah!" Miranda waved and Sissy gestured a "Call
Me" before stepping out into the hallway and into the elevator.
"Aha! Voila!" Adrien practically shouted as he rose from the floor littered with tools. He grabbed up the main remote to my
new stereo system, pushed a button and on popped the tv and surround sound. He turned and gave me a big grin. I shrieked in
excitement and took a running start to jump into his arms. He caught me easily and swung me around.
"Ah it sounds so good! You did such a good job Adrien! Oh thank thank thank you!" I said excitedly mashing random buttons
on the remote. Sarah hugged Adrien as well saying, " See I knew you weren't useless!" "Aw you are too sweet." he replied
sarcastically. "Well ladies seeing as I've spent.." He stopped to check his watch and continued, ".. eek about 3 hours here…
it's time for me to go home to my old lady"
"Aww but I wanted to go buy you dinner as thanks for setting this monster up" I said pointing to the now operational stereo.
"Can I rain check? My old lady gets surly if I don't come home for dinner. But thanks for the offer!" Adrien said packing up
his tools and putting his coat on.
"Your old lady? Is she your girlfriend?" Sarah said undoubtedly coming out more possesive then she intended. "No she's not my
girlfriend Sarah, she's my mom." Adrien said clearly amused. Sarah simply blushed.
"Well I soppose I should go too, I'm supposed to be meeting Claire for a movie tonight so I'll cya later!" Sarah said quickly
struggling to get her coat on as well. Adrien offered his arm to her, "May I offer my services as an escort home?" " You
may." Sarah said coyly. I winked at them both and watched them stroll down the hallway and enter the elevator.
I shut the door and began to clean up around the house, gathering all the empty boxes and stacks of newspaper that I had used
for packing. I popped some popcorn and sat on the couch in front of my new stereo system to watch some tv.
A few hours later I found myself nodding off so I decided to head for bed. I took a shower, slid between my sheets and
quickly fell into a deep peaceful sleep.
*scratch scratch*
"Masters Pippin and Merry, please refrain from movement" hissed a smooth tenor from inside the cabinet on the mantle.
"Aragorn…where are we?" a hushed cultured voice asked
"I know not friend elf, wait up there I see a streak of light!" exclaimed the figure named Aragorn.
"Legolas could you climb up and use your skilled Elvin eyes to try to discover our location?" he continued.
"I will return quickly" replied the Elvin owner of the cultured voice, Legolas.
The elf gracefully scaled the shelves located in the interior of the cabinet and peeked out of the keyhole that was half the
ength of a man and let in the streak of light. His bewilderment only grew when he peered out of the keyhole, discovering
what looked to be a home but seemingly on a massive scale.
He called back down to his companions, " I fear we have been taken captive by a giant"
"A giant, Legolas?" replied the dwarf in the company.
"Yes Gimli, a giant." replied the elf with amusement clear in his voice.
"Um I don't mean to interrupt your uh friendly banter but uh who is that breathing on my neck?" the small creature by the
name of Pippin said nervously in his Scottish brogue.
Everyone in the company whispered "Merry!". But from the opposite side of the cabinet came Merry's offended voice saying
"Hey it's not me!"
"Hobbits… Frodo, Sam, Merry… Pippin gather 'round" Aragorn said unsheathing his sword.
However as Pippin slowly made steps to Aragorn he was spun around quickly. Though it was dark and he could see nothing he
knew by the stench that he was in the grasp of an orc.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I woke up with a start upon hearing small scratching noises coming from my living room. I had dismissed the sounds as perhaps
a squirrel on the porch or perhaps it was just the building's foundation settling, but when I heard several men's voices
drifting into my room I bolted upright in bed. Perhaps I was hallucinating… or perhaps not. Whatever the answer was, I had to
find out. I silently creeped out of bed and over to the door. I pressed my ear to the cool surface of my door and found that
I there were indeed men's voices coming from my living room!
I gasped quickly and creeped over to my cordless phone. I picked it up and silently walked into my closet and shut the door,
all the while dialing Sarah's number.
"uh 'lo" I heard Sarah's sleepy voice say from the other end of the line. I instantly felt some of my fear subside, almost as
if hearing Sarah's voice made me think she was here with me.
"Sarah" I whispered into the receiver, "Sarah I'm in my closet"
"Ugg well good for you…. Now can I go back to sleep?" Sarah replied grumpily.
"No, no you don't understand…I hear men's voices coming from my living room!" I said hurriedly straining to hear something
that was being said in the living room to no avail.
"Jennifer, did you leave your tv on again?" Sarah said sounding more awake now.
"No!" I replied
"Because you called me saying the exact thing.. what was it..a couple months ago. Remember? You heard strange voices coming
from your living room, had the cops burst in and it was really just old reruns of nightrider on because you forgot to turn
your tv off…" Sarah said with a tone of amusement in her voice.
"I didn't leave the tv on! Well at least I don't think I left it on…" I said thoughtfully.
Sarah just sighed and told me, "Okay we'll settle this, go up to your door and try to find out what they're talking about,
If it's about the nightrider I was right…."
"And what if it's about my head on a platter?" I asked crawling out of the closet and to my door.
"Then I'm up one new stereo system" she replied sounding pleased with herself.
"Bitch"
