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Vivacious 25
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Vivacious ~ lively in temper, conduct, or spirit

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Veronica Greene
November 14th
2:14 am

"Katie, move your legs." I groaned.

I stayed the night with Katie at her moms house. Her legs are laying over my hips. My reopened wounds wouldn't allow much movement of my arm, I couldn't move her legs unless I roll flat. Which sounds like a bad Idea considering turning my head certain ways sparks pain.

I've been prone to injury's my whole life so I am not surprised that my wounds were reopened.

"Katie, move your legs." I was frantic now, suddenly I had to pee.

"Katie, seriously move your legs!" Her toes twitched.

"Katie, move your legs I have to pee." I was just above an inside voice. She still hadn't stirred.

"Justice, I need help." I shouted. To my surprise Katie still didn't wake up.

I could hear Justice's footsteps moving slowly towards the door. I felt bad for having to wake him up. I was desperate though.

"What is it Veronica."

"I need the bathroom and I'm kinda trapped."

"Just move her legs."

"I would if I could, that's why I called you." Realization dawned on him.

"Sorry." He walked over and picked Katie's dead weighted body up and spun her around where she was in the bed head to foot rather than left to right.

"Thank you." He simply smiled and walked out of her room.

I stood and walked out to the bathroom in the hallway. When I went back to bed Katie was doing her oh so famous star fish sleeping position where she takes up the whole bed.

I went back out into the hall way opened the linen closet and pulled out one of their extra pillows and reached for a blanket only to have the whole stack fall on me. The force knocked me down to a sitting position, causing a thud to resonate around the quiet hallway.

"Veronica?" Justice opened his door to find me sprawled on the floor in defeat.

"Justice."

"What are you doing?" 

"I'm done trying to sleep with her, I'm moving to the couch or I'm sleeping right here."

"You can sleep in my bed I'll sleep on the couch."

"I won't allow you to do that Justice. Go back to bed I'll clean this up and crash on the couch."

"It's not an offer veronica, it's an order." Justice crossed his arms.

"Okay. First one to the kitchen gets their way." I said, as I held my hand out to justice to pull me up.

"Fine."

"3... 2... 1... go." I whispered and we took off down the stairs and around the couch, through the dinning room and into the kitchen. Justice in his socks lost his balance when he hit the slick tile and began sliding until he smacked the refrigerator, landing on his rear end.

"I won!" He grinned.

"Okay, fine you won. But are you okay?" I asked him.

"Yes, I'm okay." He crossed his arms with a triumphant smile.

"Do y'all happen to have some kind of chocolate snack in here?" I walked towards the blue cabinets with the clouds painted on them.

"Uh yeah I think so, unless they didn't restock this morning. Look in the fourth cabinet to the right."