Written for  Thursday_Prompt of *Aug 3, 2023*, prompt:
《Player》

♦️Thursday Prompt
🔷️The Player
✒️Story🔹️V2
✒️Style🔹️Curse》Vengeance
•*Dog*
•Painful
•Unclothed~Censored
🔵
New city, new chances.
These are the thoughts of a young Lady by the name of Sabrine. Driving her car down a country road with the radio playing a mix set of music she made on her phone, currently Lori Ruso's *Never gonna be the same again* plays.
She is eager to start a life out on her own in the big city, getting away from her old life as much as possible.
In the distance is her new home, a large city she visited once in passing during one vacation. It was a big & busy place, eazy to get lost in.
Perfect...

Driving through town she takes her time to try & learn what there is & where everything is. Restaurants, stores, where her job is, places to hang out. She wanted to know where everything important was before any potential friend asks her about a place or invites her out to someplace.
But after driving till the car was in need of a refreshment, she drives to her new home.

A nice 2 story house in the shadier side of town, as in, the greener, more big trees, shadier side of town. This was one thing she couldn't escape, her love of greenery & nature. The house has a garage ment for 2, but for now only 1 car will be in it.

The beautiful (mix bread of Human) young lady steps out of her car. Raven hair, bangs dangle in front over her right eye, & swirled in back & held by green beads. Loop earrings, left red, right blue. A onyx marble beaded necklace with a pearl Fox charm. White polo shirt under a sleeveless violet silk long top she made, it's made so that it can be altered countless time for pretty much any occasion. Blue jeans with a black cat themed belt. Low heels, belted, chestnut boots. Lastly is a set of silver bands on her arms with celtic designs & a jade ring on her right hand. Her bright blue eyes gleam at the house that is her own.

The neighbors take note of the new resident on the block.

Hours later, she has unloaded the boxes from her car & got them inside. Other than clothes, she didn't bring much, leaving her old life behind. Her bed room is really the only room that gets decorated. A few books & book ends. A clock shaped like a mountain with a howling Wolf. Wood carved Deer mom & Fawn bust. A sorted music. A few things for the kitchen. A throw blanket with pilow for the couch. & a few other doodads. She lights a few candles as she lays down to rest, lunch on the coffee table, TV silent.....knocking.

At the door is a coworker of hers. She was warned this one doesn't know boundaries. Rita is there to greet Sabrina & to drag her out to a party of fellow coworkers eager to meet her. But no matter how hard Sabrina trys to get out of it Rita just won't let her. Lamenting, Sabrina agrees to go to the restaurant bar they frequent.

As Sabrina follows Rita's car she wonders what the others will be like. She heard a few storys from her boss & read a few from a chat site they should be using more for work than for chatting. If the storys of Rita are true, how many others are going to be true as well? People love to gossip, so who knows just how true it'll all be.
Parking a little away from the place, Sabrina is subjected to Rita's ramblings. Compared to what she used to hear ramble at about the same speed, if not slower, Rita's storys of work & her Dog ain't so bad. Sabrine even stuns Rita silent by asking about Jethro, Rita's Dog, but it doesn't last long & Rita rambles on, focusing solely on her beloved pooch!

They arrive at the place & Rita lets every single person there know it. Rita is much, but Sabrina thinks she can get use to it. The group is composed of 1 more guy to ladys, a group of 7, before their arrival, now Sabrina tips the scale in the lady's direction. Their ages & heritage very, a rather nice mix group. Back home all Sabrina saw was 1 kind of people save for pictures of her father, so being around such a group makes her happy & eager to learn from them.
Samuel is 1st to welcome her, followed by the rest of the group. Samuel is tall & looks like he passes on too many meals. Next is Anna, who comments on Sabrina's choice in style. Anna is o'viously vain, the most noticeable person there with her golden hair & bright red clothes, her jewelry is also noisy & flashy. Last to make an impression is the hider. At the back of the group wearing muddy colored clothes that hides the wearer well in the low lighting & color scheme of the place, is Edgar. About her age, yet has salt & pepper hair. Average build. Quiet. She can't help look at his green eyes. Which he trys to look away each time he notices.

Anna trys to control the gathering, doing verbal battle with Rita, while Samuel trys to talk over them to the others seeming to of lost intrest in Sabrina who is just trying to keep up with the gargled noice called talking. Edgar slowly moves off from the group as it fractures into 3, Rita & Anna, Samuel & the other 4, with Sabrina & Edgar on opposite sides alone.

But as the war of control slowly brings Sabrina in & her life is questioned, the door opens & over comes 1 who takes over instantly with his presence alone. Johnathan has shown up, a frequent flyer of the place by the sound of it. Even when the crew isn't gathering here he's here, or at some other bar. The slightly taller than Sabrina man sways over to introduce himself to her, he's the 2nd tallest there, yet his appearance & attitude demands attention. The silver tongued man compliments the "exotic beauty" on her looks, doing his usual charm routine. Edgar looks both sad & afraid. Anna is annoyed & jealous, she grabs Johnathan & pulls at his tie to have his eyes to herself. The group further breaks apart as Samuel & his small group leave for a table, Edgar vanishes- leaving the place, leaving Anna locking lips with Johnathan as Rita pulls Sabrina aside.
However, Sabrina notices that Johnathan staring at her during the kiss Anna has her eyes closed for.

Rita quietly tells Sabrina that Johnathan isn't dating Anna seriously, it's more Anna is forcing him to date her. He's more interested in another that she doesn't know about.
Glancing back, Sabrina can see that regardless of Anna being right there, Johnathan continues to look her way, & she can't seem to deny his infectious charm wafting her way. A gentle smile is sent back to him & he smiles back, before being pulled away by Anna, she's hungry & wants to go to a place with better food.
One more waft of charm is sent Sabrina's way as he passes, both her & Rita watched go by.

Rita can't help but sigh. Sabrina giggles a bit, Rita brushes her off then both laugh. Sabrina looks around, spys the splinter group enjoying themselfs, but, no matter where she looks she can't find Edgar...


Following day, 1st day at work, she gets dressed in similar clothing, puts on her jewelry & fixes up her hair. She takes off & drives through town till she arrives. Greets those at the front door, getting a few odd looks, then walks off to go & sit at her desk, she arranges her things & readys for the day. Tapping a li'l carved cat on the nose.

Boom! Screams & crazed behavior as the children of her class, "file in calmly". She stands up & goes to the tiny horde of munchkins, kneels down & greets them with a bright face. They are loud & hyper, but soon calm & respectful as they greet the very kind lady. She has them take their seats & she begins the 1st lessons of the day.

When the kids go out for recess she finds Edgar trying to hide away while others gab away over near the tetherball they're monopolizing.

She sits by Edgar who shys away from looking at her. She trys to strike up a conversation but she gets figgity silence. She decides to just talk calmly to him, slowly, & little quietly. He seems to be enjoying her attention even though he remains silent. She comes to a pause, & he glances her way, he, readys to speak-
The jock shows up, Johnathan the P.E. teacher comes over, basketball in hand, & instantly begins to use his charm on Sabrina. Edgar becomes depressed as Johnathan continues to talk to Sabrina about her morning.

Edgar gets up & leaves, Sabrina gets up & trys to stop him, but Johnathan stops her & starts telling her about his morning & how his days typically go. Telling her that he just loves children & trys to inspre them. When it seems he's about to lose her he begins telling her of a story of 2 kids helping each other at the pull up bars. It holds her.

Time passes, & Sabrina enjoys spending all this time with the kids, doing all kinds of fun things together! Some times when she gets home the door would suddenly knock & it'd be Rita which made Sabrina wonder if Rita was stalking her, but seeing her with a Dog one day, Jethro, she realized she must live just down the road of her for she's seen the pampered & dressed up pooch outside a house near by.
Every now & then she is kidnapped to another gathering of staff at their favorite restaurant bar. The number of attendees change each time. Samuel is always the 1st there, he pays for it all, all that he's going to, drinks & 1 meal, beyond that is on the individual, he's a kind principle even if he's a bit weird.

Johnathan continues to use his charms on Sabrina while Anna continues to claim ownership of him.

A day comes when, both arriving early, Samuel has a word with Sabrina. He isn't blind, & is fully aware of Johnathan's actions. Samuel tells her she should be careful of Anna when she learns of his feelings for her. Sabrina tells him she'll be careful.

Not long after this is when Johnathan finally makes his move. He goes to Sabrina while alone in her classroom & asks her if she wanted to go out. Sabrina is concerned about Anna. Using his charm, he convinces her that Anna is alright if he dates others quietly, but he's with her out in the open. She reluctantly agrees to it, & a date is set for 2 days from now.

Towards the end of the 2nd day's school time, Sabrina is met with a surprise. Edgar appears in the door way & after almost walking off asks if she is really going out with Johnathan? After she tells him yes, he is quick to fall silent & walk away. But before she can go after him her class comes in & she has to tend to the final period. Sabrina couldn't stop thinking about Edgar. She doesn't intend to do more than to talk to Johnathan to learn from the popular guy, but she can't help but feel like any outing with Johnathan is a big betrayal to Edgar who she truly likes.

That night she didn't get too dressed up for their outing. She drives to his house & he lets her in. He, on the other hand, is dressed & smelling like the night will end One Way. Using tactics she got from her mother, Sabrina trys to guide the night from conversation to dinner & then to her departure. But even though it seemed o be going her way, it was only Johnathan letting her have her way so she'd let down her guard. He makes his move as he takes her plate from the table, trapping her with how he's positioned.

While a kiss is avoided, no lips on lips, but he still got her. As he pulls away from her, behind her, his smile turns dark. She turns to him to apologize & his smile returns like it never vanished. She was just being nice to his offer & didn't want to tell him no without seeming mean from all his kindness, she wanted to do the 1 date, but after that. Her gaze goes away, towards the wallflowers he has. He asks if its someone else? Knowing immediately who it is. She seys yes.

He takes her plate & goes to the kitchen without a word...She gets up to leave & calls out to him, thanking him for the nice night & meal. But before she can turn to leave he comes back out with a bottle of wine....

Next morning she lays there in her bed. She managed to talk her way to the door an left before he could stop her. She wonders how work is going to be like today...

She gets to work and trys to keep a brave face. But it wasn't till 2 little ones had a fight & quickly made up she started to feel better. Though knowing kids can be a bit more forgiving, she let her concerns go, aspecially when at recess Johnathan talks to her like the other night never happened. Anna stares from a distance, not pleased.

A bit more time passes with things going like they had before the date. Samuel seems to know it was a 1 time thing & tells her he most likely will try again, he ain't one to let go eazily, "Like a dog with a bone" he seys. But the only Dog & Bone situation she deals with is Jethro & a birthbay bone Rita talked her into getting.
Only a couple others at work got something, small, for Jethro. Edgar gets Jethro a new ball, knowing the last one was, pretty beaten up.

During this b-day party for a Dog Edgar & Sabrina got to see each other for the 1st time since he came to her & spoke 1st.
The Dog gone party is over quick since the party favors Rita set out were eat/drank up in minutes. This left just the 3 there, um well, 4, there. Sabrina, Edgar, Rita have quite the time together even if one is still rather shy.

More work, but a bit brighter still with the 3 of them now hanging out together more. But this happiness begins to dim when Johnathan starts to be a bit more flirtatious with Sabrina, touching her shoulders, her hands, making sure it is innocent yet noticed by certain partys...

A day comes when Rita pulls Sabrina aside to tell her something personal.
Rita confesses that she is in love with Johnathan & she is the other one he is dating, seriously. She knows he is a playboy & is trying to get somewhere with Sabrina, Rita just wants her to know she won't stop being Sabrina's friend.
Sabrina is surprised & wonders why Rita didn't say anything sooner. Rita didn't say anything because she didn't want to lose Sabrina as a friend if she really liked Johnathan, but now she can really see she loves Edgar & isn't wanting or liking the attention Johnathan is giving her. Sabrina tells Rita she should be careful, for the night she was at Johnathan's house, she couldn't help but feel creeped out at the end, & scared. Rita shrugs it off as just Sabrina wanting to be with Edgar & it felt like she was betraying him being there! Sabrina thinks to herself otherwise...

A day comes when it all comes to an end. Johnathan just keeps trying to get what just won't be his. This, causes Anna to take act.

Banging at the door, Sabrina answers it to her surprise of not just Anna being at her house, but the black eye she has.

🔴Anna:
"It's all your fault Sabrina! You've caused nothing but trouble for me! If you would just Johnny what he wants then he'd be finished with you and return to me! I'm tired of him flirting with you!"

🔴Sabrina:
"Anna, who did that to you?"

🔴Anna:
"Who Do You Think? I called him over to demand that he stopped paying attention to you and fixated on ME! I'M All he needs! I Want him to be serious with ME Again! And what did i get for asking for a little loyalty? This!"

🔴Sabrina:
"Loyalty? But i thought you two were ok with him dating others, that's why he's serious with Rita and not you?"

🔴Anna:
"WHAT! THAT- ERRRH! Now i get why she acts the way she does, she thinks she has him! I'll give that b-"

🔴Sabrina:
"Which makes me wonder. If he did this to you, what has he done to Rita?"

Sabrina runs off

🔴Anna:
"W-wait! I'm not done ranting yet!"

With Sabrina leading the way they walk over to Rita's house, only to find blood leading to the front door, left open.

🔴Anna:
"Is, that blood?"

🔴Sabrina:
"Yes."

🔴Anna:
"You could of lied you know!"

They cautiously enter.

🔴Sabrina:
"...Rita?...are you in here?"

🔴Anna:
"SHHH! Quiet!"

🔴Sabrina:
"?ah, mh...-! Rita?"

They find Rita holding a dead Jethro. Rita, inconsolable, crys.

🔴Rita:
"Johnathan let Jethro out...and, he was hit by a car...he's, he's...i-i couldn't leave him out there. I-i had to, i had to bring him, home."

🔴Anna:
"Auh, God."

Sabrina neals by her

🔴Sabrina:
"Rita."

🔴Rita:
"H-he, did this, be-be-because i-i loved, *the st-stupid-d DOG* m-more than h-h, HIM!"

Rita crys loudly!

🔴Anna:
"Looks like this is your fault too."

🔴Sabrina:
"Mph."

🔴Rita:
"S-sss-brin-na! Be careful, h-he'll do th-th...THIS! To You, Next!"

🔴Anna:
"Her dog, my looks. What do you cherish most?"

🔴Sabrina:
"!, Edgar."

🔴Anna:
"Him!? Hah!"

🔴Sabrina:
"Rita...Anna, where can Edgar be found right now? Do you know where he hangs out? You've worked wirh him longer, i haven't gotten him to open up that much to me yet!"

Rita looks worried.

🔴Anna:
"Oh you don't need to be in order to know he spenss almost all of his time in the science lab preparing for the kids' next project. Aspecially on weekends because- oh no!"

The 3 Ladys hop into a car, Sabrina drives as Rita can't let go of poor Jethro.

🔴Anna:
"Um, why did you bring tha-, Jethro, with us?"

🔴Rita:
"I want him to see what he did to me heart!" [Said quietly]

🔴Anna:
"Mph...i feel for you." [Whispers] "but that's a little sickening."

🔴Sabrina:
"Mh..." [looks into the rearview mirror at Rita] "...kh..."

They arrive.

🔴Anna:
"That's his car."

🔴Rita:
"And Edgar's!"

🔴Anna:
"They're both here!"

They enter the eerily quiet school & begin looking for Edgar.

🔴Anna:
"it's creepy how quiet it is in here. it's, not natural."

🔴Rita:
"this place should be full of life, noise of happy children...not silence, not death..."

They suddenly hear crashing sounds!

🔴Anna:
"W-w-w-what was that?"

More crashing followed by shouting!

🔴Rita:
"Johnathan." [said coldly]

🔴Sabrina:
"He's attacking Edgar."

🔴Anna:
"Mh, maybe we're too late?"

🔴Sabrina:
"no, not yet." [determined]

The 2 follow the rushing Sabrina & they find the 2 in the thrashed science lab.

🔴Sabrina:
"Edgar!"

🔴Anna & Rita:
"Johnathan!"

🔴Johnathan:
"Ladys! Welcome!"

They go to Edgar, badly hurt & bleeding.

🔴Johnathan:
"Yes, come on in! We were just starting to have, Fun!"

🔴Sabrina:
"Edgar, are you still with me?"

🔴Edgar:
"ye...yeah, i'm, still here."

🔴Johnathan:
"But not for much longer."

🔴Rita:
"You, monster!"

🔴Anna:
"It's bad enough that you hit me and got this dog killed, do you really plan to kill Edgar too?"

🔴Johnathan:
"Gotta keep what's mine away from other Tom Dick and Marks. Nothin, no guy, or animal..or woman, will keep me from whatever i desire!"

🔴Sabrina:
"That's, enough. You will stop."

Fed up with Johnathan & his actions, Sabrina gets up from the floor to confront him, only to be hit back down!

🔴Rita & Anna:
"Sabrina!"

🔴Johnathan:
"OH no, i'm not about to let you talk down to me. I'm the alpha here, and you will only speak when i want you to, got that?"

...it was a mistake...

🔴Sabrina:
"No more...No more running."

🔴Johnathan:
"No more running? Who's running? You're all down where you belong! And if you get up again, i'll make sure you don't get back up again. Got that?"

🔴Sabrina:
"I guess i have no choice, mommy, it's the only way now."

🔴Johnathan:
"What? Heah heah heah...huh?"

🔴Anna & Rita:
"Wind?"

🔴Edgar:
"...that, sound."

A mysterious wind begins to blow as crackling of electricity sounds. The 4 look around as Sabrina gets up, her jade ring sparking. In a forceful tone of determination, Sabrina calls out Johnathan's actions as she raises her right hand towards him, ring sparking greatly.

🔴Sabrina:
"You want to act like the top dog? Be the only one to, breed, with your female dogs? Have free reign of every female around? The Alpha Dog!?"

Flash of light & sparks and His clothing disintegrates into a shower of magical sparks!

🔴Anna, Rita, Edgar:
"Ahhhh!"

🔴Johnathan:
"What the hell!?"

🔴Sabrina:
"If you want to be a dog, THEN BE ONE!"

Everyone is in shock of what is happening when Jethro shines & turns into a ball of light, it flys at Johnathan & enters him!

All, calms......

🔴Johnathan:
"?...heh..." [laughs maniacally] "Ok, that was some show you just put on. I don't know which of these pieces of junk caused it but the parlor trick is over, nice, but over. And now, i'm really going to hurt you."

Sabrina just stands there with her arm at her side, steadfast in her resolve. He brings his fist up & back to hit her with everything he's got!

Pained! He stops, but only momentar- more pain!

He can't bring his right arm as far back as he use to! As it forces him to bring it back forward he reaches for it with his left hand, questioning what's going on, when he notices his left hand he stops & stares in shock!

White fur has covered a good portion of his hand & wrist! His nails dissolve away as black claws force their way out of each digit's end! He begins to panic a little as a sudden sharp pain hits his right side, as his right shoulder collapses so does the right side of his chest! He crys out in pain as half of his torso changes & his organs move about!

🔴Johnathan:
"Th-this can't be real! Ehk! You're, a witch! A Witch! Some One, Help Me!"

His left ear stretches out as the lobe moves up the lower side & shrinks a little, his ear is almost rabbit like. Inside remains bare & pink as the rest of it gets covered in black fur! Pain hits again as he holds open his mouth, his teeth in the front rows are moving & shrinking, 4 more teeth force their way out as his k9s sharpen! As this happened his tongue begins to stretched out.

He starts to back away, as he begins to shrink. He turns for the door & runs for it- it SLAMS SHUT!

🔴Johnathan:
"No! I got to get out of here!"

Grabs the bar doorknob & trys to turn it with all of his diminishing strength! But he loses his grip as his right hand becomes a complete paw! His thumb twists as so does his wrist. His thumb moves back as all 5 digits shrink, nails dissolve & black claws force out of their ends. His fingers shift position as they become toes & his palm rounds out, dark brown pads form on his palm & where his finger prints once were!

🔴Johnathan:
"Oh, sh- egh!"

His nose pushes out as his nostrils flare forward some, the texture of it changes as it turns black. As the next bit occurs his tongue gets a little longer, sticking further out of his mouth. White fur starts growing a top his nose as his nose raises some as it pulls his nostrils more forward, the column of the nose now curves outward instead of inward, the gap between the tip of the nose to lip, making it look like a Dog's nose was grafted onto his face!

Franticly he trys all so desperately to get the door open as his right arm begins to shrink faster than the rest of him is as black fur grows sporadically on it, covering his right arm & paw in moments, cept his 4 toes covered in white.

But he stops when he feels something & looks back, the pain of his spine growing & forcing its way out into a tail! Black fur grows down his spine to his tail. He places his hand & paw on the door/wall & stretches out-up the door as he leans his head back while the tail grows out & as his torso fully compresses into a quadruped's.

Standing on his toes now, his feet change! His big toes shrink away as their nails dissolve. His other toes lose their nails as black claws force out. Pads of dark brown form on his toes. Toes shift position as the ends of his feet round out into paws with pad forming at their center!

His body is still shrinking, hand/paw higher up on the wall to him & paws further apart than they were before the stretch.

The pain forcing him to stretch out lessons & he lowers down, trying to place his altered heels down flat has him fall backwards & onto his back where he flails about for a few seconds before falling over onto his left.

He leans right some & spreads his legs apart, their structure is changing as well as shrinking. As his legs reform into the back legs of a Dog his hips are also restructuring. The segment of leg between knee & foot shortens, upper legs thicken a little, & his *back legs* now want to sit more naturally at a different degree. White fur grows on his chest while black grows on his belly.

🔴Johnathan:
"-! Oh God No! No No No!"

But his attention is drawn to something that's more important to him! His loins are shrinking quite a bit! He trys to reach them with his right paw but can't reach. He rolls over to his right & reaches with his left hand, he now really flips out as the area continues to shrink, but at the rate his whole body's shrinking, they'll be proportional soon enough. His whole body is shrinking faster now.

His left arm starts to shrink causing him separation anxiety. White fur aims to cover this limb.
He looks up/back to Sabrina & lays more on his right as he reaches for her.
Black fur is covering pretty much his whole body now, the toes of his back left paw how ever is being covered in white fur.

🔴Johnathan:
"stop it. please. make it stop."

His words are distorted

🔴Johnathan:
"starp rit. rlrlease. makgr rit starlrlp-hh."

His Human words being replaced by a K9's dialect of barks, grawls, whimpers. The tone is also losing the suave silvery tone that could charm his way through anything.

His head is compressing during this, as it flattens it's pushing out his snout & mouth. His knightly gold hair becoming short black fur. His lips turn black as the rest of his teeth transition from a Human's to a Dog's. White fur goes between his eyes as black surrounds them.

He continues to speak, but they're less & less comprehensible. Censoring his now vulgar words as he takes these last moments to cut down Sabrina, who is unaffected by the yappy thing.

His left hand out stretched to grab her grows paw pads then hits the floor where it finishes its changes. Fingers shift position then shrink. Thumb rotates then moves back as it shrinks. Palm rounds out & a complete paw is made. White fur covers his left front leg and paw & his jugular.

He gets up on all 4s as he just barks angrily, his right ear along the left move up the sides of his head as the lobe of the right shifts & shrinks. His yappy mouth pushes forward & slowly lines up with his snout as white fur covers his forming muzzle cept a stretch of black from nose to mouth. Right ear stretches out, becoming almost identical to the left, but not only does a pizza slice get remove near the top, it flops over cutely. His muzzle finalizes as his irises go from piercing blue, to brown.

As the changes seem to flux, cementing themselfs in as minut details are made, fur fills in any gaps that were left, & he shrinks down to his new size. His angry bad behavior alters, becoming more & more playful! He wants to play with Sabrina as he hops up onto his hind legs & dances about, waving his front legs like he was swimming.

Johnathan, a once big & bad jock, is now a tiny, Boston Terrier. Jethro.

Everyone is shocked & stunned silent. But once Jethro spys Rita he drops down & runs over to her! He gets up on his hind legs again, right front leg held close while left reaches out for her, ears wiggle & tail almost looks to be spinning like a cone shaped fan.

🔴Rita:
"Is, this...Jethro? He, use to do that when ever he was happy to see me home."

🔴Sabrina:
"As much Jethro as i could make him. I used Jethro's body because of all the memories and feelings etched into them."

They stare at Rita & *Jethro* as she crys & slowly lowers to the floor. Jethro puts his paws on her legs & looks sad, making a cute li'l noise.

🔴Rita:
"jethro?....Oh, Jethro!"

She grabs & hugs the little Doggy, it snorts as he's held a little too tightly at 1st, but acts as the happiest little pooch alive!

🔴Anna:
"...whaowh..."

Walks off some as Sabrina comes over & sits by Edgar. She places her right hand on him & her ring glows with a heartening warm light. He begins to heal.

🔴Sabrina:
"Hey, Edgar, there's...something i need to tell you."

🔴Edgar:
"?...kh, why what is it?"

The 2 laugh...the door opens & they all look over...to the other door to the room.

🔴Samuel:
"While i missed some of that, i saw enough."

🔴Anna:
"One of Edgar's experiments back fired. Clutz."

🔴Edgar:
"Hey."

🔴Samuel:
"Miss Sabrina, i do hope this...accident, won't repeat itself?"

🔴Sabrina:
"Hm hm, i hope it won't again too."

🔴Samuel:
"Hhhh, now to find a way to explain Johnathan's, change in location."

🔴Anna:
"Yeeah, that won't be easy."

🔴Edgar:
"I heard he was planning to move to Florida."

🔴Sabrina:
"Ah?"

🔴Samuel:
"You did?"

🔴Anna:
"Come to think of it he did ask me to move with him there."

🔴Rita:
"Same here! But i turned him down."

🔴Anna:
"Same. Who in their right mind would move to hurricane Central."

🔴Samuel:
"At the start of the season too. Chances are we may never see him again."

🔴Edgar:
"With his attitude i'm sure he'll be like *i'm not going to run from no storm*, and then."

🔴Rita:
"Gets washed away! Right Jethro!?"

Jethro barks then head shake sneezes, licks snout. Everyone laughs but Sabrina who looks around to everyone...smiles, then laughs too!


A while later...

Tending to their garden, Sabrina & Edgar hear Anna rambling about a new boyfriend  to Rita & Jethro as the 3 walk down the road.

Sabrina & Edgar wave and the 2 wave back as Jethro barks & hops around playfully.

Johnathan > Jethro Art

The Player part 2