Chapter 71: WWJD

Kathy skittered back up the stairs with Daddy's seed still swirling in her mouth. She wondered what he meant when he asked her to "keep it their little secret," but it didn't matter because he seemed a lot more relaxed than when she'd hopped on his lap.

She tiptoed into her bedroom and back into bed. Then -- ick!!! -- she realized that someone had put that big old neutered Teddy Bear under the covers, again!!! Where was Christi?

She got another shock the moment she clicked on the lamp on her night table. The pretty pictures of the family acting out the Karma Sutra were gone and her walls were plastered with posters of three overdressed blonde boys playing musical instruments. Something was definitely wrong here!

What to do? She wrung her hands together and noticed a little cloth bracelet around her left wrist. It bore the letters "WWJD." Kathy wondered what that stood for as she pulled it off and tossed it aside.

She had to find Christi. Now where could she be?

Kathy snapped her fingers. She must be in Billy's room getting an extra wake-up call! How silly of her, of course that's where she was!

"Billy?" Kathy whisper echoed her disappointment as she bounced onto the bed where her brother slept alone. "Have you seen Christi?"

"Christi?" The sleepy boy mumbled. "Kathy," he woke with a start, "what are you doing here? Mommy said you weren't supposed to come in here anymore!"

"What are you talking about 'dear' brother? Do you know where Christi is?"

"Mommy!" The boy shouted. "Kathy's naked and she's bothering me again!"

"I am not naked, silly," Kathy giggled and raised a long lanky leg for Billy's inspection. "I'm wearing socks, see."

"Mommy!"

The light came on. "What's going on here?" Mommy screamed in horror as Kathy wiggled her toes in Billy's face. "Kathy, stop that this instant!"

"But I was just looking for Christi," Kathy protested.

"Young lady," Mommy demanded, "where are your clothes?"

"Clothes? Why does everyone keep asking me about clothes?"

"Say," Daddy's voice soothed from the hall, "what's the problem here?"

"She attacked Billy again," Mommy sputtered. "It's the Internet I tell you, the Internet!"

"Better go to your room, Kathy, and get dressed," Daddy sounded firm, but kind of nervous. "Looks like you've been, uh, sleepwalking again."

"But I can't find Christi! Daddy," she implored, "I can't find Christi!"

"That's that girl the principal said she touched at school," Mommy explained. "It gave her an anxiety attack and the school nurse sent her home. Her mother's threatening to sue if Kathy bothers her again."

"But, Daddy, Christi's my fiancee. We're going to get married! You know that."

"You're sleepwalking, sweetheart," Daddy took her softly by the hand and led her back to her bedroom. "Now you just get some rest and we'll go see the doctor in the morning."

Kathy could hear their worried voices through the wall, again, as she lay in the dark. She tried to make out what they were saying, but couldn't, so she cuddled the Teddy Bear and let the sleepy dust overtake her. Maybe she was just sleepwalking. Maybe it was all just a big bad dream after all.