welcome to the first chapter of my own version of '102 Dalmatians' in such a long time. this is labeled as the thirty-second chapter of the story. chronologically speaking, however, it's technically the twenty-nineth chapter of my story. it's a simple six-hundred-twenty-four words long, give or take the length of the author's note(s) hidden within the storyline of this chapter, along with this headnote right here and the (mandatory) disclaimer making up the next paragraph, none of which are an actual part of the story. OK, enough jawin' about. time for my obligatory disclaimer.
disclamation: I don't own '102 Dalmatians' in any way, shape, or form. I mean, I own it on DVD, but I was only seven when it first appeared in theaters, at all. so, it wouldn't even be natural for me to have owned '102 Dalmatians', at all. I also don't own either of the '101 Dalmatians' movies. I was but two or three years old when the live action remake came out, and when the original animated classic of '101 Dalmatians' came to theaters, I didn't even exist, yet. all these films are owned by the Walt Disney Movie Productions Company and by Dodie Smith.
Meanwhile on their date at the Chinese restaurant, Raymond had been staring at Kimberly for a while when the chocolate brunette waved her hand in front of the blond's face, signaling him to at least start up a conversation with her.
Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: So, anyway, where was I? Oh, right. Well, I started the shelter, and Brad and I were going down for the fifth time when Cruella stepped in to help us out of it.
Naturally as someone who did not even believe that Miss DeVil actually had changed for real, Kim was less than impressed by the very mention of Cruella.
Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: Her again.
Raymond suddenly noticed his chocolate brunette date's annoyance toward such a topic. The blond made his move to try and fix his obvious mistake in even mentioning the former devil woman who had tortured Kimberly's own dog, Patch, as a puppy, along with his brothers and sisters. Even her dog, Patch's, foster brothers and sisters, including his own marriage mate, Piper, were all brutally harassed by Cruella in the past.
Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Yes, but did you know that if she ever went back to dognapping, all her billions would go straight into the dogs' homes of the Westminster Borough?
Of course, such information was not exactly news to Kim. So, the chocolate brunette went and told her blond date for the night that she did, in fact, know such information about Miss DeVil and from where she learnt it first.
Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: Yes, I did. It was in her file.
Then, a waitress from the Chinese restaurant came to the blond and the chocolate brunette's shared table with their menus and a basket of wonton bread.
Raymond 'Ray' Millerson and Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: Thank you.
Ray made a grab for a roll of the wonton bread. The blond must have been quite hungry to actually want one of the wonton bread rolls enough to put his menu aside.
Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: How did you even know about that, at all?
Ray had a simple answer to Kim's surprisingly simple question about Cruella.
Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Well, she told me.
Then, just as Kim thought she had the former devil woman's whole situation with the blond's dog shelter figured out at the time, Ray surprised the chocolate brunette even further.
Raymond 'Ray' Millerson (continued): And did you know that 'Give a Dog Another Chance at a Home' is the only dog shelter in the Westminster Borough?
Of course, Kim was understandably doubtful and thought it nothing but a small tease from Ray as the two talked together on their date.
Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: You're joking.
Ray, however, shook his head about Kim's thought that the blond was joking around with the chocolate brunette, therefor hinting that he was serious.
Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Can you imagine what Slobberton and the rest of them at my dog shelter would do with £2 billion?
After such a revelation from Ray, he and Kim even chuckled for a bit at the thought.
After the two of them received their dinner at the table, Ray displayed some particularly dog-like tendencies with his own chopsticks at the Chinese restaurant. Of course, they were dog-like tendencies from the movie which his dogs, her dalmatians and Spixington were all viewing back at Kim's apartment. The blond even gave some of his own dinner, Peking Elk, to his chocolate brunette date for the evening at the Chinese restaurant, who had been eating Venison Chow Fun.
A/N: sorry about the names of those two dishes. I just kinda like the idea of venison and/or elk served at a Chinese restaurant, myself. I would single-handedly kill for a good Chinese restaurant that could do up a mean Venison Chow Fun in my neck of the woods, or even elk or venison served within a barbecue place, a Mexican restaurant, or even Italian restaurant would be a decent kind of place to have where I live. That's all I want. a restaurant in my home area with venison or even elk on the menu.
As Ray gave Kim some of his Peking Elk, the chocolate brunette sent the blond a confused look as though she barely even understood why he would have given away his last piece of sliced Peking Elk before she smiled grateful while thinking her date for the night funny due to her recipience of his last piece of elk meat.