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Prunella and Chastity! P and C had been friends for many years already, and had moved within days of each other to the pretty market town where Daisy had lived her entire life. Daisy had been a forumer for well over a year, and had enjoyed organising the bi-monthly supper clubs, walks and had started a small but rivetting book club. And then several months ago P and C joined the forum....
Daisy would never forget the morning she opened a PM from Prunella.... she and her friend, Chastity would LOVE to join the supper club.... make friends.... they were new to the area.... Daisy ignored the tiny alarm bell ringing suddenly at the back of her mind..... it was such a puny wee sound, and the barking of the dogs, as the front door bell was rung, drowned it out altogether.
Within a week she had welcomed the twosome to the supper club, and PM'd them teh details of the lunch to be held at the charming tearooms on the market place. There would be now 5 of them, and Daisy had reserved the cosy round table overlooking the tearoom's lushious cottage garden.
Friday was market day, and also the day of the lunch. Daisy spent over an hour enthousiastically wandering around the market, and at noon she entered the olde worlde charm of the tearoom. Clare and Jane had already arrived and were excited about some market bargains. Daisy eagerly joined the conversation and showed them the lovely scarf she had found.
The minutes flew past and became a quarter of an hour, and still there was no sign of P and C.... It became half and hour and the 3 ladies decided to order, and just enjoy each other's friendship and company as usual. And decided to forget about P and C..... strange..... very strange....
The cosy, friendly, summery atmosphere of the tearoom was suddenly shattered as two dark clad women entered, and casting narrowed eyes about, honed in on the trio at teh round table overlooking the garden.
"I am Prunella!" a bobbed, raven haired, strangely yellowish honey eyed, smallish, and extremely round woman declared. "And this is Chastity!" upon which she pointed to a tallish, very skeletal, mulipluous braided raven haired, and odd eyed woman. In the midst of the warmth of the summery sun filled day, and the friendly pastel coloured cheerfulness of the flowers filled tearoom, their very presence exuded an atmosphere of doom..... of gloom......
Daisy and her friends, swallowed hard, and did not know what to do with their hands.... for neither P nor C had extended a hand.....
"Nice to meet you...." shocked mumbled murmers rippled across the table with the rose centre piece, towards the strange duo. P and C looked at the trio, a hint of a smile, more of a sneer, passed across their pale faces, and then they cast their glances around the tearoom, and the sneer deepened.
The tearoom had grown dark and dismal to Daisy's eyes, and the pretty fresh roses, which she had admired only minutes earlier, looked wilted, faded and now hung scentless in their vases.
"OMG!!!!" Daisy breathed as she felt shivers shatter her body. "OMG!!!!!" In shock she cast a sidelong glance at Clare and Jane, and saw that they too were in a state of shock. "OMG!!!" Daisy thought, "what is going on here??? WHO are they???? WHAT are they????"
"I am so glad we joined the forum Isn't that right, sister?" Prunella stated in her raspy, smokey voice, upon which the skeletal woman answered hollowly "Yes!" A grimace, pretending to be a smile, wafted across the troll like fat, yowled countenance of Prunella, and Daisy felt herself getting physically sick.
"Excuse me, I am going to wash my hands before lunch arrives....." she mumbled and fled from the table clutching her bag. But she had not headed for the ladies room..... she had fled out of the tearoom, and into the market.... towards her car.... "OMG!!! what was that???" she gasped as she reached her car and quickly got in. Then she remembered her friends, and felt deeply guilty. Hopefully they had followed suit....?? Guiltily and shakely she reached for her mobile phone and phoned Clare.... no answer! With panic rising she tried Jane.... no answer!! Without thinking she started the car, and slowly but determinedly drove towards the market square..... then she caught a glance of her two friends running along to the parking lot, and she felt relieved.
But her relief was short lived, as the nightmare was only beginning........

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Edited by Chatelaine (12/09/2008 12:05)