Tea Time at Ashworth

It had been a very busy day in the lives of the Ashworth women. Each had their own crazy schedule that consisted of grocery shopping, working at the hospital, doing schoolwork, attending poetry classes, and driving around the crazy city of Charlesville. They had finally all landed at home and were settling into a calm evening of schoolwork, drinking tea, listening to Christmas music, and enjoying the company of one another.

Ella leaned across the peninsula that separated the room into the living area and the kitchen area. She looked at Sammy Sue with wide chocolate brown eyes and paused thoughtfully before answering Sammy Sue's question, "Welllll, I've got ginger peach?"

Anna spooned a teaspoon of sugar into her own tea and glanced up with a slight smile, "For her lovely ginger friend." Sammy Sue was also a redheaded Islander, like Anna, but she wasn't as much of a fan of her auburn locks so she shot Anna a mock teasing look.

She nodded and said with a touch of her O'Bryanton accent, "Peach ginger would be good."

Sammy Sue came from the little town of O'Bryanton in the western part of Prince Edward Island and was very much your typical fun-loving country girl. Anna, on the other hand came from "Down East" in the small community of Bellview and was more reserved than her Islander companion.

Ella finished filling everyone's tea cup with their preferred tea and brought them to her housemates. She carefully walked over to Leah who was sitting cross-legged on the floor with a screw driver in one hand and a part of a chair in another. She was calmly assembling a computer chair as she sang along with the Christmas music that was once again floating around the kitchen.

Ella handed her her mug, "There you go, Miss Swan."

"Why thank you." Leah smiled and sat her warm tea beside her on the floor.

Sammy Sue came back into the room with her schoolbooks and glasses on ready to work. She settled herself at the table and before starting her studying, she told the girls about her love: her big orange pick up truck. She had driven it all the way across the country the summer before and was quite proud of it.

Anna sipped at her tea as she listened and observed the ladies around the room doing their thing with Silent Night serving as the background to this November night at 47 Ashworth Drive. Ella typing away at her laptop, desperately trying to finish her second paper whose due date was coming up; Leah was switching the song to a more chill Christmas mix; Sammy Sue was scribbling away notes for her upcoming exam; and Anna was contentedly writing away into the night.