Friendly Banter
"Will you two cut it out!" Andrea ducked as Jan and Tauna tossed Nerf balls at her.
"We will when you quit messing with Jan's life."
"I did nothing with her life, I just borrowed her name. Sheesh." Andrea picked up a Nerf ball and threw it back at Jan. "And what are you griping for, the story fizzled out anyway."
"I know." Jan pouted as she flopped onto the couch, flipping her flaming red hair to the side as she did so; it was quite the contrast to Tauna's pitch-black hair and Andrea's dark auburn. "And I would have made such a lovely duchess. By the way..." She pointed a finger at Andrea. "Did that story line have to die out during the ball at Pemberly? I was just getting ready to not only dance with the duke but to give Lady Catherine a piece of my mind."
"About that ball..." Andrea ducked as two Nerf balls crossed each other; one from Tauna and one from Jan. "You have to get your facts correct; Tauna is not available for Colonel Fitzwilliam...her husband is not dead; he is just gone a lot because of his own military obligations. It is why she screamed when that Madden fellow came thinking she was available for a date."
"Oops, sorry, blame your neighbor on that one; he told me you were widowed." Jan apologized to Tauna.
"Nope, that is Andrea. Her husband's been gone for five years. Fell down a mountain side when Abiah was three at the time." Tauna then grinned wide. "While you were at those places called Longbourn, Netherfield, or Pemberly I don't suppose you were the one who dropped her name to Thomas. If you were, tell him not to give up; she is just a tad bullheaded; her father was a Scotsman."
"TAUNA!" Andrea snapped loudly. "Zip it. Your father was just as stubborn, or so our mother says."
"Fierce fighter too, ran in his Comanche blood. As to the you yelling my name..." Tauna folded her arms. "The other day when I asked you were going you said, and I quote..." Tauna grinned wide and looked at Jan. "Apparently to Longbourn and the eighteen hundreds because my mind sure was not here."
"Next time I go, I will be sure to mention it to him."
"I do not know who's crazier; Tauna, you, or I." Andrea gave up, she tossed the Nerf balls one more time at her sister, and neighbor, and then took Abiah and used her daughter's dance lessons as a reason to escape those two plotting against her.
1 NOTE: Anyone reading these things if you have an idea you want me to see if I can work with, I am open to it -no promises, but I consider them. They MUST have P&P characters involved even if others come in too.
2 NOTE: Deleted Mary's visit because of now putting all stories under Andrea's kitchen and 'feeling' out Andrea's character; her daughter was way too old in that story.