by Peggy McFarland
Jessica's latest pop-star obsession was Eddie Rabbit. She hummed "I Love a Rainy Night" to herself while she sipped her half pint of chocolate milk, pushed aside her aqua polystyrene tray (containing untouched, soggy green beans along with coagulated brown gravy and a melted pastel puddle of today's frozen treat) to make room for her Diff'rent Strokes notebook. Rather than review her notes on the first female justice (she hated current events), she rifled to a blank page to draw a large heart with the red ink of her six-colored pen. With the black ink, she drew the feathered arrow piercing the heart's center with a perfect equilateral triangle point emerging from the top right, and then inside the heart, she added in violet block letters, "Eddie loves Jessica, Forever." Below this declaration of undying devotion, she practiced with her best cursive script (in hot pink ink), "Mrs. Jessica Rabbit." So intent was she on her imagined pop-star nuptials, she missed the food fight battle cry, only aware of the raging cafeteria war when her red heart hemorrhaged orange sherbet.
6S - C2
Peggy McFarland, author of other 6S stories, now loses sleep trying to compose six sentences. It's all good.
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