Getting There is Half the Battle
by Rhiannon and AJ
The next day, Abbey woke with a start. She had so much to do, and so little
time to do it in. Just one more day. Tomorrow morning at 9 am, she'd be
standing at the altar saying 'I do,' to Jed Bartlet. But she had to get
through this day first.
Abbey shook her head trying to figure out if the pounding was going on up
there, or on her door. She got the answer when the trio of terror filed in
and surrounded her on her bed.
"Mom, you're not up yet!"
"Ariel took the last of the milk, Mom."
"Mom, Dork boy stole my boxes."
"I did not."
"Mom, I'm hungry."
"Are you going to wake up Mom?"
Abbey put her hand up, "What am I about to say?"
"Stop talking." The trio answered.
"Very good. Now, I'm going to get out of bed now. I'm going to get ready
for the day. Then I'll go make some breakfast, I'll find you some more
boxes, and don't call each other names."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Yes."
"Yes what?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"Thank you. Now all of you... scoot."
~~~
After putting the paper plates they used for breakfast into the trashcan,
Abbey sighed and looked at her almost empty kitchen.
"MOM!"
"Ariel, lower your voice."
"Mom," Ariel ran into the kitchen, "Rodent is going through my stuff."
"Brennan Jacob!"
"What the crap? I'm the good one; I didn't do it. Jason did."
"What'd I do?" Jason asked, coming through the front door. "I didn't do
anything. I was loading some boxes into the moving van."
Abbey glared at Brennan, "Leave your sister's stuff alone."
"Yes, ma'am." Brennan said as he carefully studied the floor.
Right then, the phone rang, "What?" Abbey snapped into the receiver.
"I love you too, honey," came Jed's voice.
"Jed, unless you are calling to tell me that you are coming over to help
pack..."
"Actually... I hired Charlie to come over and help... he should be there any
minute now. I wanted to come myself, but CJ was yelling at me about
something. So what are you doing right now?"
"Trying to figure out how to keep from going insane." Abbey sighed. "It
isn't working, Jed. I miss you."
"I miss you too ... but there's only a few more hours until the rehearsal..."
"Damn, I almost forgot about that. Damn, I gotta go. I've got too much to
do before then, Jed."
"Abbey?"
"What?"
"Breathe."
"No time for that," Abbey hung the phone up and rounded her kids up. She had
way too much to do, and no time to do it in.
TBC...