Chapter 18

Take Back Your Mink

In her dressing room Ginny had her head in her hands. The only reason she wasn't crying was because she didn't want to mess up her makeup. She didn't know what went wrong. She thought that Harry liked her, but he hasn't said anything to her since the kiss.

"Places!"

She through on her fake mink coat and looked at the mirror. Her pink dress was long and she had on a ton of pearls. She left her dressing room feeling slightly depressed. She went to her place on stage, and got ready to sing.

"And now, for the featured number of the evening The Hot Box proudly presents" said the anouncer
"Miss Adelaide and her debutantes."

The curtain opened on Ginny and her hot box dancers

"He bought me the fur thing five winters ago,
And the gown the following fall.
Then the necklace, the bag, the gloves, and the hat,
That was late 'forty-eight, I recall.
Then last night in his apartment,
He tried to remove them all,
And I said as I ran down the hall...
Take back your mink,
Take back your pearls-
What made you think,
That I was one of those girls?
Take back the gown, the gloves and the hat,
I may be down, but I'm not flat as all that.
I thot that each expensive gift you'd arrange
Was a token of your esteem,
But when I think of what you want in exchange,
It all seems a horrible dream;
So, take back your mink to from whence it came,
And tell 'em to Hollanderize it, for some other dame!" During this Ginny took off the mink the pearls the gloves and the long skirt of her dress revealing a shorter version of the dress.

The girls then sang doing what Ginny did.

"Take back your mink, take back your pearls,
What made you think, that I was one of those girls?
(I'm screamin')
Take back the gown, take back the hat,
I may be down, but I'm not flat as all that.
I thought that each expensive gift you'd arrange
Was a token of your esteem,
Now when I think of what you want in exchange,
It all seems a horrible dream, eek!
So...take back your mink those old worn-out pelts,
And go shorten the sleeves for somebody else!"

The girls and Ginny start to leave but then they run back and grab the stuff they diregarded earlier.

"Well! Wouldn't you!"

"miss Adelaide!" Ron said after the preformance.

"Mr. Johnson do you know where Nathan is. We're gonna elope!"

"Um, Nathan told me to give this to you." He said handing her a note. He left and she read the note and sneezed.

"In other words
Just for sittin' alone
At a table reserved for two
A person can develop the flu,
You can bundle 'er up in the woolies
And I mean the warmest brand
You can wrap 'er in sweaters and coats
'Til it's more than her frame can stand
If she still gets the feelin' she's naked
From lookin' at her left hand
A person can develop the flu,
The flu, a hundred and three point two,
So much virus inside,
Then 'er microscope slide
Looks like a day in the zoo
Jus' from mourning her mem'ries an' writin'
An' the stories her folks can be told
A person can develop a cold
Atchum!"