Margaret, very enthused that she finally gets to go to California,
wants to go shopping, to make up for the time when she didn't get to
go to California. She was successful in recruiting Donna, and Ginger
in coming with her. At the last minute, CJ decided that she would go
too. "Now we have to shop fast, the mall closes at 10:00 p.m.," CJ
said, looking at her watch, "and it's already 8:00."

"So where should we go? You guys two have already been here,"
Margaret questioned Donna and CJ.

Donna was the first to respond, "We didn't come to this part of the
state, we went to LA, so we don't know what stores are best around
here."

CJ responded with, "I already said the mall, there you have lots of
stores, and can spend all the money you don't have."

"I thought no one was to mention that word around you ever again, for
as long as you live."

"So I forgot Ginger, maybe I'm just starting to get over what
happened."

"You said that would never happen," Donna reminded CJ.

"Okay, I'm really starting to remember what started my hatred for all
things Mall like, can we change the subject?"

"I want to get some special souvenirs and such, things made by local
people, things that help describe the area's attitude. I wonder if
there is a market downtown that we can go to, like the last place I
got to go to," exclaimed Margaret, happy to change the subject back
to shopping.

"Maybe we should call Roni, she's from this area," a very wise Ginger
suggested.

"But we don't know where she is, and she probably has her ringer off
on her phone again, just like with the word-we-aren't-going-to-use
-again thing." CJ said, remembering the last PR fiasco that Roni was
involved in, with little amusement.

Donna, in defense of Roni, said, "You know, she already apologized,
and we said we'd forgive her."

"I lied. If she ever does that to me again," CJ cuts herself off as
she hears her pager go off. Looking at the message, she read it
aloud, so as to inform her friends, "Roni, movie theatre, press mess,
come to hotel quick, Leo. I'm gonna kill her, I am going to kill
her. This better be a practical joke on Leo's part, cause if it's
not, I'm going to kill her. We just barely got to the car, and I
already have to go back. In fact, we've only been in this state for
two hours. I'm gonna kill her."

"You think Leo is going to need me for anything?" Margaret asks.

"He didn't page you, so he doesn't need you, let's go to the mall,"
Ginger says, as the three secretaries step into a waiting taxi. CJ
turns around back to the hotel.

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Josh, looking around his hotel room, with absolutely nothing to do,
decides to go bug Sam for a while. Upon reaching Sam's open hotel
room door, he knocks on the door, asking "Sam, you here?"

Sam steps out of the opened bathroom door, yeah, just fixing my hair,
I hate when the front twirls up and sticks out, it always reminds me
of Elvis. Come on in."

"Ok, too much info, anyway, I'm really bored, wanna go do something?
We can go downstairs, to the game room, and play pool."

"Sounds like fun, I was just headed your way to ask if you wanted to
do something, so I'm game for whatever."

"Make sure to grab some change, cause the pool tables cost like .75
cents a game." Josh said, and quickly asked, "you think we should
find Toby and invite him?"

"Yeah, it's not like he's gonna say yes, cause spending time with us,
it's not on his top five list." Sam said, as they walked down to
Toby's room and knocked on the door with the 'please do not disturb'
sign on the door.

Toby, for reasons unknown to him, got up and answered the door.
Before looking to see who it was, he started, "What the hell do you
want, and why can't you read?" Then, he looked up and saw who it
was. "Well now I know why you can't read, but what the hell do you
want?

"We came to ask if you wanted to come play pool with us."

"Why would I want to do something like that?"

"Cause it'd be fun."

"Maybe for you Josh, but that's not in my list of top five things I
want to do most."

"See, Josh, what'd I tell you. I even got the number right."

"Toby, if you don't come, then Sam will be right about you, and will
boast that he knows you too well, we can't have that happen, so you
are coming."

"I'll do anything if it means Sam is wrong. So who's gonna play the
first game?

"You and I can."

"Okay, Josh, but you're in for a run for your money. We are placing
a friendly wager on the game, right?"

"Well, we hadn't thought of that, but that's what you're for. Just
remember that we are White House Employees, and therefore have no
money." Sam said, as his pager started to go off the same time
Josh's and Toby's went off.

"Okay, who did what? We've been here two hours, and we are already
getting paged, on our personal time too. Someone must have done
something big." Toby started off, as he looked at his pager, 'Roni,
movie theatre, press mess, come to hotel quick, Leo.''

"Roni, uh oh, CJ's gonna be mad. Remember that time at the mall,
with Zoey and the ice?" Sam said, as he disappeared into space for a
few seconds remembering what had happened.

"You know, that probably wouldn't have been so bad, had the ice not
melted so quickly, and all the people on the other end of Roni had
not slipped and fallen down the way they did. We better go see Leo."

Josh says, as CJ storms up behind them.

"I'm gonna kill her. You three want to help me kill her, cause I'm
gonna do it, I'm gonna kill her," CJ said in a very upset tone.

"There will be no killing of anyone," Jed said as he and Abbey
quietly walked up behind Toby, Josh, Sam, and CJ. "So who did what
to get in trouble this time? Was it Donna? Or maybe Margaret?"

"It was neither Donna, nor Margaret, sir. It was your daughter."

"What did Roni do this time, she didn't go to the mall here, did she?"

"No sir," Toby started, as he waved his pager around, "it has
something to do with a movie theatre, now why can't we kill your
daughter? She has caused nothing but a PR nightmare from hell, with
all of her stunts, and she's not even in college yet, so we can't
chalk it up to sorority pranks."

"I bet she was throwing popcorn at people, that sounds right up her
alley," Josh said, trying to calm down CJ, with a failed attempt.

"Why does she keep doing this to me, I thought I was her favorite."

"She's 17 years old CJ, she's having fun being a teen, didn't you
ever do stuff like that back then?" Sam started to stick up for an
absent Roni.

"I never caused as much trouble as she does, I can't think of anyone
who has ever caused this much trouble, except for maybe Hitler."

"CJ," the once silent first lady began, "are you comparing my
daughter to Hitler?"

"I…..uh…..no…..yes….um…..I didn't mean to if I
did."

"So I wasn't paged, so me and my wife are going to go into our room
and we are going to continue what was started on our almost moon-lit
drive. So, if Leo decides he wants to page me, tell him I already
know what happened, have no power over the situation, trust you guys
will figure out what to do, and give you permission to yell at, not
kill, my daughter. Later." Jed and Abbey headed into their hotel
room, while the three senior staff members go to Leo's door and knock.

"Enter," a muffled reply comes from Leo, behind the door that is
shut, but is still open because the deadbolt lock was locked before
shutting the door.

"Can I kill her Leo?" asked CJ as she entered the room.

"I'm not sure the President would like that very much, but I don't
care if you do."

"We just talked to the President," Sam informed Leo. "He said to say
that if you decide you need him, he knows what happened, he has no
power over the situation, trusts we will figure out what to do, and
he gave us permission to yell at her, but said we were not allowed to
kill her."

"How does he know what happened?" a ruffled Leo asked.

"We told him," Josh said.

"Leo, did you call her? Is she on her way here?" CJ asked.

"Yes, I called her, but I have no clue if she is on her way here, she
wouldn't answer her phone, probably has the volume down."

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