Kris and Tay sat in the room, thumbing through all sorts of old comics.
"Aw, cool! I found the Pheonix Saga!" Kris cried. She madly flipped through the ancient copies, and sighed. "I love comics, don't you?"
Taylor nodded. He was busy reading the Iron Man series. "Where'd you get all these?" he asked, reaching for another comic.
"Well, Mr. Browning used to collect these when he was a boy. I'm the only one he got hooked on these. Jess and Jam think I'm weird for reading these. They always shove those crappy girly magazines in my face. 'Dolly' and 'Girlfriend' and 'Cleo' and 'Vogue' and so on. Eeeuk." she made a face.
Taylor grinned. "I take it you're a tomboy in and out, eh?"
Kris nodded. "Full blooded."
"I'll have to take you up on that. You got rollerblades?" he asked.
Kris grinned. "Yeah, but I haven't used them for ages. I probably suck."
"Well next time, we'll have a competition, okay?"
"No!" she cried in mock horror.
Jamie heard the keys turn in the front door, and sighed. "Block your ears, you guys." she told Zac and Ike.
The door flung open to reveal a livid Jessica. "What you did me for leave?!" she yelled.
Zac, Ike, and Jam merely giggled.
"I mean, what did you leave me for?!" Jess restated, just as loudly.
"Well, dear sister, do you remember a certain band and family member you left behind this morning?" Jamie asked casually.
"Oh, well, duh! So what about her?!" Jess cried, flinging her arms up.
"Serves you right." Jamie replied.
"Grr!" Jessica growled. She pushed by, and yelled up the stairs. "Get down here right this instant, Kris Harmont!"
Kris and Taylor heard Jess yell up the stairs, and Kris grinned.
"The beast arrives." she said. She got up. Taylor followed suit, and looked at the mess they created.
"Don't worry. I'll clean it up later." and with that, she walked out the room.
"NOW!" Jessica cried.
Kris stood at the top of the landing, looking down at Jess as if she were the lady of the house, and Jess a mere vagrant off the streets.
"Hm, what if I don't wanna?" Kris smirked. The others felt as if dejavous hit them as they realised that Kris was re-enacting the same scene with Jess as she had done with Reagent over the messy bed matter.
"Get down here now!" Jess said through clenched teeth.
"Um, nup. I'll decline." Kristen told her.
Suddenly, Jessica leapt up the stairs, and Kris turned tail and ran. Taylor stood stunned as he watched the two run across the house.
Kris reached the bedroom, and barely managed to shut the door. As she struggled to keep the door shut with Jess tugging it on the other side, she wanted to slap herself. Why did I have to choose a room with no lock? she thought. Ah! But I chose a room with an escape route! she remembered.
She reached out with a foot, and snagged a chair, and jammed it under the door handle. Wasting no time, Kris headed for the closet. She opened it up, and climbed up the shelves to an opening into the attic.
Up there, she heard all sorts of creatures skittering around, and tried to ignore them. Carefully, she crawled out into the center of the attic, and over to another hole in the floor. This one led to a storage closet in another room. Kris gingerly lowered herself down into the hole, and into the room.
She quietly padded to the door, and opened it softly. Jess was still trying the door, but any minute, the chair would give way.
Finding her chance, she flung open the door, and ran over to the stair case. As she flung herself down it, she could hear Jess cry out. Push that up your bum, Jess! she thought happily.
She literally fell off the last step, and ran past Zac and Ike, who were staring. She grinned.
All of the sudden, a missile attacked her from behind, and she fell with an OOF!
