As she pondered what to do rocking backwards and forwards on the swing-set, Jessica would peek guiltily over her shoulder to glimpse the women standing inside the front room with the picture-window, still in animated discussion; though whether it was even about her, she couldn’t tell. Finally, she glimpsed they were gone! Daring another quick glance on her next backward swing, she saw that the mean women were now seated around a large dining table in a room down a long hall from the front door.
Now’s my chance!, thought Jessica. If they don’t notice, I should be able to sneak off fast enough to make it back to my house, even if I am dressed-up in these ridiculous children’s togs. Damn it. If only I’d had a chance to make a spare key for the door! I’m pretty sure I left the kitchen window open, though. Maybe I can get the screen off and get back inside. I’ll still have to confront these crazy biddies about my things, but at least I can peel out of these silly children’s clothes.
Jessica waited for the swing she was seated to slow down enough for her to make the leap off, then she sprang for it. Unfortunately, she still managed to land so that she skinned up her knee, like any child playing in the yard might do. Unlike true kids, Jessica knew she needed to suck it up and not cry out at the reddened kneecap, or she’d arouse the already angry neighbors.
It was now or never, and Jessica made for the front gate out of the yard and onto the sidewalk as fast as her Keds would take her. Her heart was pounding at the thought of the women realizing she was again disobeying them, and what they might do to her if they caught her making her bid for escape from them and their misunderstanding her for a young girl.
Not daring to look behind her, Jessica desperately listened for any noises coming from Mrs. Bradley’s house as she rounded the corner to her property and hurriedly tried the front door, knowing she had made a point of locking it when she left to visit next door. Cursing her luck, Jessica ran towards the first window, tried it, and discovered it too was tightly screened and likely locked, too.
Almost in tears, afraid she’d hear them running after her to drag her back for more of their horrid misunderstandings, Jessica tried her bedroom window to find that it also was tightly locked. She ran next to the kitchen window, a smaller, higher window than the others, but sure enough, if she could find a way past the screen, she could get back inside her new house and change out of the child’s clothes!
Looking around desperately, Jess found a plastic bucket to stand on while she stretched her hands high overhead and desperately tried to yank off a corner of the screen. It was frustrating work as she was so petite anyway, and didn’t have any leverage. Still, she was mortified to be so indisposed and outside like this and having just arrived in town! Jess yanked and pulled and managed to ruin the recent paint job on her nails, but she got a cornet of the screen up, and then pulled with all her might upward, her slim belly now exposed in the too tight pink top as she got the screen far enough out of her way to attempt to make her way inside her own kitchen.
It takes several tries, but Jessica finally hoists herself halfway into the window and the peeled back screen. Her head, arms, and torso were indeed inside her place, though she was right above her kitchen sink. Her bottom half was still outside, legs thrashing about trying to make her way over the window sill and inside. She had accidentally kicked the bucket over and away from her own feet. For anyone walking up on her, the sight of her slender legs kicking around in the air in her tight Muppets shorts and socks and sneakers would give the appearance of a young girl trying to break into or out of the place.
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