AS THE MOUSE

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Soap Opera "As The Mouse Moves" - Tuesday March 12th 2002
"Hi Tiffany.  I'm in here," Starlene called out from her bedroom of their apartment overlooking Washington Square Park.
"Okay," Tiffany said taking off her jacket and throwing it over the chair before slamming the front door.
"See what you think of this dress," Starlene called out from her bedroom.
"What dress?" Tiffany said walking down the hallway towards her younger sister's bedroom.  She stopped in the doorway of the bedroom to see Starlene in a short low cut white dress.
"What do you think?" Starlene asked smiling broadly.
"It looks nice," Tiffany said turning to walk away.
"What's the matter Tiffany?  You look like your best friend just died."
"Nothing,"
"Don't tell me it's nothing," Starlene said walking out of the bedroom and into the hallway as she followed Tiffany to the living room.  She watched as Tiffany sat down on the sofa and put her head into her hands.
"Tiffany what's wrong?" Starlene asked taking a seat on the sofa beside her sister.
"Skeeter wants to get the divorce."
"You aren't upset over that, are you?"
"No.  It's just the timing of everything."
"Did you have a bad day at work?" Starlene asked knowing that Tiffany was upset that Stanley's secretary had been transferred to work in the office with her and Clark.
"Yes. It was horrible."
"What happened?"
"Nicole came to work thirty minutes late and Clark never said a word about that."
"It was her first day. Maybe she didn't know any better."
"She knew better Starlene. That was only the beginning."
"What else happened?"
"She spent the entire morning in his office.   I could hear them laughing all morning."
"They're getting to know each other that's all."
"Starlene you know she's horrible.  Why on earth are you defending her now?" Tiffany whined hitting the sofa with her fist.
"I'm sorry.  What else happened?"
"He took her to lunch too."
"Gee…" Starlene said shaking her head.
"Not just any lunch either Starlene.  He took that little you know what to Tavern on the Green."
"Get out of here!" Starlene said genuinely shocked.
"Yeah.  And when they came back you should have seen her face.  She was so proud of herself."
"I hate her.  That's the way she was with my Stanley too."
"She's like that with every man she's around."
'"I know it," Starlene said shaking her head.
"She didn't do one bit of work all day while I had to do all of the billing."
"Where is her desk going to be?" Starlene asked.
"That's the worst part," Tiffany said wiping a tear from her cheek.
"What?"
"She's going to be working out of his office upstairs with him."
"No!"
"Yeah.  He told her she can go furniture shopping tomorrow for another desk."
"Oh God.  This is really something isn't it?"
"Yeah. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.  What's with the white dress?" Tiffany asked feeling a little better after unloading on her sister.
"I thought I'd start wearing more white. I want Stanley to see me in white a lot… you know?"
"Looks nice."
"I want to start talking to Stanley about setting a date for the wedding."
CONTINUED TOMORROW. MORE SOAP PHOTOS BELOW.