Ladies At Lunch.

It's time for (yet another) script from the life of Alice Collison, folks!

     Enjoy!

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.START.

(Scene is set; Alice and Kayleigh are enjoying a well deserved lunch in a family pub. Both have ordered the same sandwich: chicken, bacon and cheese melt. With hers, Alice has decided upon chips as her 'free side option'. Kayleigh, the more health conscious of the two, opts for salad. Having finished the sandwiches, the attention of both girls moves onto said side orders and Kayleigh picks up a bottle of salad cream and begins the usual pre-use shaking ritual, causing the following conversation to ensue...)

ALICE: (pointing at the bottle) doesn't that rather defeat the object?
KAYLIGH: (amused, still shaking bottle) no.
ALICE: (doubtfully) are you sure? I thought it was really fattening.
KAYLEIGH: (shakes head, then as Alice raises eyebrows, hesitates) ...well, at least...
ALICE: (shrugs)
KAYLEIGH: ...well... (turns bottle round)
ALICE: (laughs) oh don't read the ingredients for God's sake! Really, don't. Trust me; it never ends well.
KAYLEIGH: (ignores, carries on reading) 
ALICE: (shrugs again, carries on eating chips)
KAYLEIGH: (finishes reading, sighs, bangs bottle on table unused, begins eating salad)
ALICE: (laughs again) bad is it? I did warn you.
KAYLEIGH: (glowers, says nothing)
ALICE: (not-very-sincerely) sorry.
KAYLEIGH: (sighs once more before reverting to her usual, pleasant self) It's OK. Better safe than sorry. That sandwich was fattening enough on it's own, anyway.
ALICE: True. ...(grins as another thought strikes)... I bet you're glad I didn't bring up the salt, aren't you, before you'd added that too.
KAYLEIGH: (rolls eyes) salt isn't fattening.
ALICE: well, yeah, but it isn't all that good for you, either, is it? I mean...
KAYLEIGH: (grumpily interrupting) oh, shut up!

(Scene ends with Alice smiling serenely at Kayleigh as she eats her last chip and Kayleigh, after a moment of pursed lips, smiling - at first ruefully, then properly - in return before digging into her well salted but otherwise plain salad; harmony descending between the pair once more and the 'elephant-in-the-room' otherwise known as pudding remaining unspoken of...)

.END.

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Alice x