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March Madness II ~ Being Green~ A Backstory Holiday Tale
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Seventeen-year old Kit had had a dreamed about first date that Wednesday night with a 22-year old bass player. Wednesday was the housekeeper’s half day, so Kit was in charge of Bette from when she came home from school until Melvin returned from night rounds at the hospital. If Kit had her little sister ready for bed when Melvin came home, Kit had a much better chance of getting out of the house without a confrontation with her father. Lately, all of their confrontations had led to Kit being grounded, something that she had to avoid that night of all nights.
“Bette, time for your bath.” Kit had stated from the doorway to Bette’s room, where the younger girl was drawing at her desk.
“Ten more minutes?”
“No, now.”
“Five minutes?”
“No.”
“But, Kit…”
“Look, I’ll fill the tub, but you better get in as soon as it is ready.”
“OK.”
Kit had started the taps running in the tub, while she went back to her room to iron her clothes. She repeatedly checked the tub. On one of those checks, she had added Bette’s bubble bath into the stream. When the tub was filled with water and the water covered with bubbles, Kit yelled, “Bette, the tub is ready!”
When she heard Bette’s “OK,” Kit returned to her room to perfect the creases in the legs of her jeans. Her task completed, she headed to check that Bette’s school clothes were ready for the morning. When she passed the bathroom and heard no noise, she opened the door to find the room empty and the bubbles undisturbed. Enraged, she raced to her sister’s room, yelling as she approached, “You stupid runt, why aren’t you in the bathtub!!!”
Bette looked up guiltily. She had just wanted to get a part of the drawing right and hadn’t realized so much time had passed. “I’m sorry.”
“’You’re sorry’? Now what good does that do me?” Kit watched impatiently as Bette began to carefully place the colored pencils she had been using back into their box. “Stop doing that and get into the tub!”
“But they have to…”
“Why are you so worried about those stupid fat pencils that are for babies? You’re too old for that stupid art kit! At least get a new one.”
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Hi, dear sweet Spumoni! This was certainly a great treat on your behalf, before hitting the road, and go on vacation. Thanks for sharing with us the TRUE story of St. Patrick’s. We enjoyed it a LOT. We are in love with the wolfies, especially Angie’s cousins. They are SO cute! You left us with this HUGE grin on our faces. Thank you, again for this beautiful update. PPS Hugs & kisses on both your cheeks.- Lucero & Marsha (Proud Salsa Aunties to the ever loving JC and Eunichick)
Another great chapter! I loved the part where Angie was telling the pups that St. Partick’s Day was about fireworks and people hitting each other. Made me laugh!
another great update…Kit’s flashback almost made me cry, and Angie is so cute…i love this story and i’m glad you’re back
That was hilarious. Kids do have short attention spans (as well as some adults, ME for one). Kit’s flash back allowed the readers to see into Bette and Kit’s past and what made them who they are today.
Bette and Trouble’s relationship makes my heart melt.
Loved it! Vicious leprechauns and all. Also enjoyed Kit’s flashback. Thanks again!
i know i ought to read before i comment but i felt the need to mention the word “earworm” just because. THANKS for posting, btw. Don’t think anyone can ever get enough of your writing and humor, no matter what you say.
I laughed as soon as I saw your post. Here are so many wonderful stories on this side, some romantic, some tragic, some deeply sad, but this one is sooo …different. Even when the circumstances like in a fairytale the behaviour of Bette and Tina are believable. I hope to see more from you. :) Ps. I like the little pup Trouble. He is sweet.
Well, honestly, I don’t think it’s been established that Angie is Irish (although Jennifer Beals is), but her cousins are. But so what? Come March 17 everybody is. I’ll just note that pre-Patrick dogs and wolves appear to have been important clan totems in the Celtic system. So are they going to serve green beer to the wolves for St. Patrick’s? Dogs love beer, I’m sure wolves would, too. And they could all celebrate their heritage.
Wackadoodle?
i just read this “There were customers who did not realize that they made excuses to go to The Planet just so they could catch an installment of the Tina and Bette melodrama” and i had to comment really quick so i can continue reading…this phrase reminded me of me, my excuse to watch TLW that was unbearable sometimes, was to catch an installment of Tibette melodrama… :) brb
Great update… love the humour and loved Kit’s flashback. Great story you write so well and I can actually see Tina and Bette behaving just like that with their wolf relatives :)
I liked the story of St Patrick’s (I never knew it), and I liked the bit of backstory with Kit and Bette even more. I think Red is the least grateful houseguest ever. It’s maybe time for him to jog on. “Cranky” Hunter will have one less mouth to feed, at any rate. In-laws, eh? Tina’s father’s reaction to the story really is funny. Thanks for the post, Spumoni.
Love this story, Love Lit’Bit and so love Troubles. He loves Bette so much. I can see him in a chair with his head on Bettes lap. Maybe if the leave T&B house they can leave Him and tell everyone he is an Irishwolf Hound.