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[*Gem*]

The phone rang.

It rang several times before Flic bounced across the room to answer it. The computer game she'd been playing momentarily abandoned.

"Hello, maggies home! My names Flizerilla and I like icecream and singing and I was playing band game- can I help you?"

The answer didn't interest Flic at all, it just sounded like crying and sad people didn't make her happy. So she hung up and went back to her computer game.

The phone rang again moments later and with an over dramatic sigh and a lesser bounce in her step she answered it.

"Hello. Maggie moos house. I'm playing a computer game, what do you want now?"

The was a cough, like the sound of someone clearinf their throat then a man answered. "Can I speak to Mrs Douglas?"

"I dunno who that is?" Flic complained and hung up.

She went back to her game as Maggies mobile rung, the caller ID picturing Jean. The mother in law. Flic didn't answer it, she never answered Maggie's cell, it was personibubble.

[Maggie Douglas]

Maggie came into the living room from where she'd been in her and Tex's joint office. They'd taken the largest living room and converted it into a viable work space. Really they didn't need two living rooms- They were rarely home and, when they were, it was only Flic who used it.

"Who was on the phone, doll?" Maggie asked, setting Bella down and watched as the puppy gave her best friend kisses. Sitting on the sofa, she picked up her phone and scrolled through several missed BBMs, a couple texts and an email. When she noticed the missed call, she checked it quickly. "Flic, baby, did Jean call me?"

[Tex Douglas]

"I dont know." She said, eyes in the game, and not really paying much attention. "I didnt touch your phone maggie, Tex always tells me no. The house phone went but it was sales people."

[Bails]

"And you listen?" She teased, "Wow, good for you." Opening, her phone, she dialed Jean's number, going through her daytimer and making a few notes. Her and Tex and a few things to go to next week and they had a sonogram tomorrow. He was so excited about the baby and she tried to take on some of it. "Come on, Jean, pick uuu-uup-" She sang to her self to the tune of whatever song Flic was playing.

[Tex Douglas]

Flic giggled and laughed, watching Maggie on the phone. Then the screen booed suggesting she wasn't paying enough attention and hereyes flitted back to that.

The phone went to answer phone, to Jean's voicemail.

In a moment of strange and unplanned coinsidence the house phone rang.

"I'm not getting it this time." Flic grumbled.

[Bails]

"Oh course you aren't. I'm never hiring you as a PA." Getting up, she went to answer the phone. "Hello?"

[Tex Douglas]

"Good after noon." Came a mans voice. "May I speak to Mrs Doughlas?"

[Maggie Douglas]

She nodded, even though the man couldn't see. "That's me."