Chapter 76: The Big Question of the Moment

When Jessie Harper saw Carrie Pearson sitting up eating a delicious looking piece of apple pie she had to use full restraint to stop herself from running over to the girl and smothering her to death with as many hugs and kisses as she could possibly give. Instead she just stood motionless at the doorway to Carrie’s hospital ward with tears forming in her eyes and saying loudly and excitedly, “Oh, Carrie, you’re alive, you’re alive, you’re alive! I thought you had dropped dead on me last Saturday night. But you’re not dead. You are alive, alive, alive. Oh, thankyou, God. My dear friend is still alive!”

Carrie smiled at Jessie and Kate as she scooped up the last of her apple pie then set the plate down on the little table beside her hospital bed. As soon as Jessie saw that Carrie’s hands were free she rushed over and flung her arms around the girl’s neck and smothered her cheeks with some very, wet and very, teary kisses.

Jessie had to be careful as she hugged and kissed her friend lying there on that hospital bed. Carrie Pearson was lying completely naked and completely shaved on top of her bed sheets but with a plethora of tubes and wires coming away from her body to various pieces of monitoring equipment around the bed. Even though Jessie was hugging her friend with full intensity she was also being very careful not to disturb any of these wires and tubes hanging about like a distorted spider’s web.

Eventually Jessie pulled away from Carrie until she was just standing by the bed next to Kate. The two girls then scanned up and down Carrie’s naked body ... a body with a completely shaved head and a completely shaved vaginal region down between her legs. Carrie’s legs were lying slightly apart giving a nice clear view of the girl’s smooth vulva with its smooth pussy lips lying slightly splayed out between those legs. It didn’t seem to be bothering Carrie in the least that she was completely naked and flashing her girly bits to anyone coming into the room. And despite the tubes and wires stuck to Carrie’s body both Jessie and Kate thought she still looked great with Kate being the first to say so.

“Oh, Carrie, you look just great. I was expecting to see you all skinny and bony like something out of a horror movie but you look great ... apart from the tubes and stuff.”

“Yer, I know. They do look sci-fi-ish but I do feel great. The food they serve in here is wonderful and nothing like all the stories you hear about the horrors of hospital catering.”

Carrie then looked from Kate and back to Jessie and asked, “So ... so ... so what’s all these rumours I’ve been hearing about the church burning down or getting all smashed up or something. What’s all that about?”

Jessie Harper didn’t respond immediately but just let her eyes sweep up and down Carrie’s naked body again. Eventually she looked into Carrie’s eyes and said, “Umm ... well ... it certainly hasn’t been burned down or anything as drastic as that but ... yer ... there has been a spot of bother that we are working through. I’ll tell you as much as I know in a minute but not before you tell me all about you and what happened and why you ‘dropped dead’ on me last week. What have the doctors been able to tell you and is it all related to you lying there in the nude?”

Before Carrie Pearson responded to that question she had one of her own. “Well, yep, but before I get into all that what is this other rumour I’m hearing about you pulling out of the Teen Beauty Pageant? Is that decision a result of all this?”