AFTERWARD It had only been three days since Roo's big mail order bride fiasco, but it had felt like three decades. Kanga had called the parents of all of Roo's pals and told them that they were not to have contact with Roo for two months. His computer was gone so there was no web to surf or Sveta to write to. Roo spent his lunch hours alone with his cold moldy tofu tuna sandwich, and his organic lactose free soy based yogurt. After school he immediately had to run off to Presbyterian Bible Study where he had to sit for two hours while the preacher went around and around inside and out all over the Bible. Then he had loads of homework. Not so much for school but for Bible study. It was pretty intense.

One evening Roo was up in his bedchamber copying psalms for his class. He had been at it for a couple of hours already. There was a knock on the door.

"Come in," Roo said. He expected it was his parents again. They were always checking on him in his room since the mail order thing got out. It was like they no longer trusted him to be by himself. Roo didn't understand why. It wasn't like a new computer was going to pop out of the heat register. But this time it was Tigger.

"Hiya Roo," he greeted.

"Tigger you're not supposed to see me," Roo said. "I'm grounded and banned from all human life."

"Yeah I know but I have some wonderful news to share with you," Tigger replied. "I got it when I went to the library to use the inter net service. It's from Oksanna."

Tigger still had contact with his mail order bride. He was becoming a permanent fixture at the public library, he was there every afternoon, but not for the books, for the boobs.

"She emailed me today," said Tigger. "In three days she's coming to the Hundred Acre Wood!"

THE END