Disclaimers: A girl can dream...can't she?

Notes: This is my next Roni story. Not Abbey and the cancer thing. It is a
cliffhanger, so if you are like Dallas and are about to have a heart attack
because of me, then don't read.

Spoilers: It is Roni and Zoey's last day of the Spring semester of college,
but what will happen to Roni before she gets to go home?

Roni Bartlet walked into her dorm room, after returning from lunch, with her
roommate, a short 5'3" Mexican girl named Faith. The room looked very pale,
very dim. For it was the last day of classes, or rather exams. Both sides
of the room were totally pale, except for a few big items that were to be
removed after their last exams. After plopping down on her bare bed, Roni
turned her attention to her roomie, and said, "I can't believe it's already
over."

"Yeah, I know, it came way too fast. But I sure won't be missing the work
part of college."

"That makes two of us. So what do you have planned for your summer?" Roni
curiously asked.

"Not much. I was planning on working and stuff. Nothing exciting. What
about you? What do you have planned? Are you spending any down time with
Brad?" asked Faith, pumping Roni for information.

"Brad and I have plans, yes, but for the most part, I think I'll be working
too."

"You know, I never did get that."

"Get what?" asked a confused Roni.

"Why you work. I mean, it's not like you need the money or anything, you're
the President's daughter after all."

"No, I guess I don't really need the money. Nor do I keep much of it. Most
of my paychecks go out to different programs, ones for little kids who are
abused."

"Really? I didn't know that. That's pretty cool," said Faith, taking a real
interest into where the conversation was headed.

"Hey, what time is it?" asked Roni with a touch of panic in her voice.

"I don't know, like 12:45 p.m. Why?"

"I gotta go. I have my last exam at 1:00 p.m. Later!" Roni screamed as she
grabbed her bag and ran out of the door.

*************************************************

"Is that it?" the President asked as he stood up from the chair he had been
sitting in during the senior staff meeting.

"Yes, sir," echoed all of the senior staff members.

"Good. Now, as you guys are probably aware, today is the last day of classes
at Georgetown. A university that just so happens to educate two of my
daughters. And what with the First Lady a few thousand miles away, I was
thinking that this would be a fun time to have another little get together.
I've already sent Charlie out to get all the ingredients for the chili. I've
planned it for tonight, beginning at 6:30 p.m. And I have taken the liberty
of checking with all of your secretaries to make sure you had nothing on your
schedules to interfere with this, so I'm expecting all of you to show up.
And before you respond, just remember what that seal in the carpet stands
for." the President said gleaming with a devilish grin.

Much to his liking, all of his staff enthusiastically agreed to show up at
the meeting. Even if their hearts weren't in it, they knew there was no way
they could get out of it. But once out of the Oval Office, all they could do
was complain. One of few things that helped ease all of the staffers' pain,
was the hope for a repeat episode of the last chili night that the President
had. It seems the First Lady had returned early from her trip, just because.
And upon doing so, she walked in on the chili party, over hearing Jed
speaking with Josh and Sam.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Josh, the First Lady isn't here," While Jed was speaking, he looked at his
two staffers who were frantically pointing behind the President, and
attempting to get him to stop speaking. "She doesn't come back for another
two days, so I can have as much chili as I want." Once he finally realized
what Sam and Josh were doing, he said, "She's standing right behind me isn't
she?"

"Yes, sir." Both Josh and Sam said as they disappeared.

"Hi honey. What are you doing back so early?" Jed said hopeful that his wife
didn't hear what he had said.

"Don't hi honey me. What do you think you're doing eating chili?" Abbey
began to tear into him.

"I…uh…" Jed tried to explain, but Abbey continued.

"Do you do this every time I go away?" After a little bit of silence, she
persisted, "Well, do you?!"

"Not every time."

"So you've done this before?" Abbey said as she took Jed's bowl of chili away
from him.

*************************************************

At a very fast pace, Roni strolled through the interlocking pathways that led
to her last class, with the Secret Service struggling to keep up. As she
walked, she came across many people that she knew, but didn't have any time
to say anything more than "Hey, what's up?" With just minutes to spare, Roni
finally made it to her destination. As she took her normal seat in the very
large lecture hall, she finally had a second to catch her breath. A few
seconds later, she had company.

"Hey Roni. Running late again?" Brad jokingly said as he took a seat right
next to his girlfriend.

"Like always. I don't know what it is about this class, but I'm always
caught off guard, and end up almost being late."

"Good thing this is the last time we actually have to show up here." Brad
said as the professor walked into the front of the room.

"Full house! I'm surprised," Professor Tillman said as she put her briefcase
down on the desk. Almost simultaneously, a loud bang was heard, and it took
Roni a long time to realize it wasn't from the briefcase hitting the desk.

*******************