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A little later, we see a black Chevy Suburban pull up to a small gray
house. As soon as her agents finally secure the premise, she gets the
go ahead to get out, and goes to the side door of the house and
enters, without knocking. "Hello, anyone home? Pipsqueak, you here?
You know you shouldn't leave your door unlocked. You could have
homeless White House bums come into your house." Roni said as she
walked through the kitchen and into the living room, sat down, and
turned the TV on, still waiting to hear from someone else in the
house.
Piper yelled out from a bedroom in the back of the house, "Guess I
should fire Kat for not locking the door, huh?"
"You can't fire your wife, and if you did, I'd have to sick my secret
service agents on you," explained Roni, who finding nothing to watch
on TV, turned it off, and now turned the radio on, as if she owned
the place.
Kat walks into the living room, saying "Plus I'd probably quit before
I was fired."
"Boy have I missed this way too much. This, right here, you, me,
him, us, here," Roni said with a sound of tears in her voice.
"I missed it too, probably more than you, cause while your off having
fun in D.C., I have to put up with this thing right here," said
Piper, coming into the living room.
"Hey Kat lady, I need your help with something," Roni informed.
"What is it?" asked Kat.
"I had this dream the last night, and it really got to me. You're a
psychologist, and you are a great dream interpreter, having taken
several courses at college in this specific subject, so you think you
could take a crack at mine?" pleaded Roni.
After telling her dream to her friend, Kat asked, "That's gonna take
me some time to interpret, how long are you here in California for?"
"A few days, 4 to be exact."
"Okay, tell you what, I'll have it interpreted by the end of your
trip. Wouldn't want you to go too long without a meaning."
"Cool. So are we going to do anything tonight, or are we just going
to sit here all night and talk? Personally, I'd much rather go do
something, cause you two bore the crap out of me," Roni said
extremely playfully.
"Oh, and like the feeling isn't mutual," Piper said equally playful.
"Okay you two, don't make me separate you, cause I will if I have to."
"Actually, my secret service detail would probably take care of that
for me. The only difference is that they wouldn't hurt me in the
process."
"Are you saying you think I, me of all people, that I would hurt you
Veronica?"
"No. Anyway, come on, let us go hit the town, like in the old days."
"Now what kind of picture would that paint in the morning news?"
mussed Piper. "'First daughter Roni Bartlet gets caught bladeing
through the 24 hour Wal-Mart, while her two friends run through the
store attempting to restore all order she disrupts.'"
"First, that only happened like once," Roni started, but upon looking
at Piper's look, said, "okay, okay, it happened twice. But I didn't
really knock that much stuff down, it was only when people were in my
way and I had to maneuver around them."
"Okay," Kat begun, "what about this for the headlines, 'First
daughter, Veronica Bartlet gets caught red handed adding her prints
to a local mural downtown.'"
"My hands were blue, I used blue paint, cause blue is my favorite
color. And the mural belongs on pipsqueak's office building, and he
gave me permission to do it, and once he explained this to the
police, they let me go."
"Perhaps if you didn't decide to add your prints to the building at
3:00 am, the police wouldn't have hastily acted the way they did,"
exclaimed Kat.
"Boy, we had some really good times, didn't we?" asked Roni.
"You bet we did. But I'm not sorry to see them go, if it means your
safety," Piper said very seriously.
"Hey, what time does Raging Waters close? We could go hang out
there," suggested Roni, as she realized the conversation was headed
down a path she didn't want to go.
"I think they close whenever it gets dark around here," Kat fired
back.
"Just what we need, tomorrow's headlines to read. Piper stated in a
news like tone, 'Yesterday at Raging Waters, the first daughter, Roni
Bartlet, decided to return to the scene of her crime. Just months
ago, she broke into the room at Raging Waters, where the
announcements are made, and started her career, in broadcasting, as
she decided to take over the announcements, because the current
person's voice was very high-pitched and annoying.'"
"You have to admit, that guy's voice was really high, and very
irritating. And it's not like they didn't offer me a job there,
doing just that."
"How about we just go to that dance club, you never did anything
there, of course there is always a first time," Kat said.
"Cool with me," Piper said.
"I suppose I can go, but I never have any fun there, which would
probably explain why I haven't done anything crazy."
"Okay, for your sake, lets just go to a movie." Piper said, trying to
please his friend, "but I swear Roni, if we end up getting kicked out
of the theatre, because you are throwing your popcorn at the people
in front of us, I am going to get really upset. You already have us
reduced to just two theatres in the surrounding area."
"I'm not allowed to do stuff like that anymore, CJ, the press
secretary would kill me, and I don't want to get you guys in any more
trouble with the theatres," Roni said, as the trio moved out the side
door. Roni then rounded up her secret service detail, and they were
on their way to the theatre.
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The trio that entered the theatre only an hour ago comes out of it,
two with a very upset, yet very amused look on their face, and Roni,
she was laughing so hard, she could hardly walk straight.
"I'm really sorry guys, but I just could not resist. I mean, there
was that couple, sitting right in front of us, making out. I just
had to throw the popcorn at them.
"Well we can cross that movie theatre off our list of theatre's that
we're not banned from," said Piper.
"I'm really sorry guys, I didn't mean to."
"You know, maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if the only thing you
did was throw popcorn, but you created quite a ruckus."
"I really am sorry."
"Sorry is not good enough, it's not going to be that easy to escape
from our wrath," Kat said.
"I really am sorry. If it is any consolation, I guess we can go to
that dance club now."
"No, cause we can't have you create more nightmares for us, and
dream-come trues for the press, I think not," Piper said. "Why don't
we just go back to the house, we can watch a video there, but we are
not giving you any popcorn."
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