Julia came back, handing Nick a drink and looking curious at Kat before
taking her silent instruction and opening the box, at the same time looking
at and teasing Philip that he needed to save some for the surprise desert.
She had the lid opened and then turned to look inside, only to give a kind
of yelp laugh before opening the box all the way and peering at the cartoon
versions of the snails and choking back laughter at the prank just pulled on
her and picking one up to show Nick and the others.
Derek had looked up sharply at her small yelp, not really alarmed but not
having been prepared for the sound either, before lifting an curious brow.
Then, seeing what it was, started to snicker and then outright laughed at
it.
He had been at the dinner with the French cook having 'replaced' the
meatballs in what they thought was a spaghetti dinner with snails -- and the
one Julia had found still crawling. The expression on her face was
priceless then and, whether it was the medicine or just having her back now,
it was the same again.
"Who's idea was this?" Julia asked with her own grin, looking at the others
for the culprit before seeing Kat's expression and just knowing it had been
hers. She grinned then and chuckled "Good one, Kat. Definitely a good
one."
Alex couldn't help laughing herself. Julia's reaction was everything she
had expected. Only managing to stop when Kat replied, "Alex helped."
"Me," Alex said, "no I didn't I just knew about it."
"Yeah, but you kept the secret," kat pointed out.
"Well..that was the easy part. They came out pretty cute," she added as she
picked one out and took it to Derek.
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