Nancy tried to explain why she had awoken her friends in the middle of the night, but as they stood at the foot of the stairs she found herself in a strange place. Well the place was strange in the first place but the other strange place was the fact that she was at a loss for words.
"I'll show you." She said as she threw her hands up, in a sign of how flustered she was.
She led them into the living room and they gathered around the TV.
"I came down to see the repeat of Countdown." Nancy explained. Jean raised an eyebrow. "Sometimes there is a mistake or two and its interesting to see if its fixed by the time the reair...uh...airs." She pointed to the tv which had a Smiling Bob commercial on.
"I agree, that guy is scary." Desy said. "He looks like he tucked into some botox too."
"Who is Smiling Bob?" Harley asked. "We don't get the same commercials on the telly that you guys do." Tippy gestured to her friend to get closer and she did some whispering into her ear. Her eyes bugged out slightly. "Why, that's most inappropriate for a commercial? Oh my."
"That’s not what I wanted you to see." Nancy said as Tucker Carlsons show came back on. Tucker was on it with what appeared to be two guests. One of them Nancy recognized, her name was Rachel, but the other guest was more than familiar to the gang.
"Rose!" They cried out in unison.
"Ow, that was my ear!" Harley cried out.
"Sorry." Desy said. She leaned next to the tv. She touched it. "Oh is it ever so filthy."
"I'll clean it later." Nancy said. The music that played the show back from commercial stopped and the host started to talk.
"Hi welcome back to the Situation...." Tucker started to say.
"Help!" Rose called out. “Nancys stupid haunted house did something to the tv and I got sucked into it!"
"Are we all caught up?" Rachel asked.
"No, I want to go home." Rose said getting off a seat. She went over to Tucker and stared him in the eye. "I want to go home."
"I don't know if I want you to go home, I think I love you." Tucker confessed.
"Ok I did not hear that, not at all, and you're married!" Rose pointed out his wedding ring. "And since I'm here what’s with the tie?" Tucker touched his bow tie and looked visibly hurt. "Its like ugly gas station bathroom wallpaper!"
"Ahwwww." Jean said. "Rosies got a boyfriend."
"He's married, she's safe." Tippy nodded. "And what is with that tie?"
"I kinda like it." Harley opined. The girls looked at her. "What?"
"This must be the TVs doing, somehow, they never have that girl on this late in the show." Nancy got the remote and changed the channel. There was a rock concert on. Rose was caught amongst a throng of Linkin Park fans.
"This is so not helping!" Rose yelled. She could barely be heard.
"okay." Nancy changed the channel again and it was on an movie "The Poseidon Adventure". The boat began to flip and Rose flipped along with everyone else.
"Oh I feel sick!" Rose moaned. "If I liked this movie, I don't like it anymore!"
"See if you can do better? It seems like every other good station is on the fritz." Nancy said giving the remote to Jean. She switched it onto a Spanish station that happened to be showing the bull run in Pamplona. "Oops." Just when it looked like Rose was going to get the pointy end of a horn, the channel changed back onto MSNBC. For reasons unknown Tucker gave her a kiss on the lips. Rose backed up several feet with a stunned bunny look on her face. The channel changed again onto a rerun of "SportsCenter". It stayed there two seconds until the channel changed into a purple and black swirly tunnel. Roses hand suddenly came out of it. Nancy grabbed Roses hand but something seemed to be holding her friend back.
"A little help?" Nancy called out as she tried to hold out. Jean grabbed onto Nancy, Desy grabbed onto Jean, Tippy grabbed Desy and Harley grabbed Desy.
"Are we ready?" Nancy asked. "Okay backing up, pull, pull pull."
The girls pulled as hard as they could. At first it was going nowhere and it seemed like the tv would suck them all in, but then Nancy felt a second wind grab onto her. She pulled back with a hard jerk and Rose came out of the tv. She fell to the group with a whump noise.
"Are you all right?" Jean asked as Rose lay prone on the ground for a second.
"As well as I could be." Rose said as she rolled over. She sat up and ran her hand through her hair. It was soaked with sweat. "Wha happened?"
"The TV must have sucked you in." Nancy said. "I don't know why."
"I don't know about you but I'm in favor of turning it off." Jean sighed.
"Me too." Rose sighed. She got up.
"I will." Nancy said as Desy and Tippy made their way upstairs. "After the reair." She said. "That kind of stuff never happens to me. But then again I would never leave and have to deal with Don Imus in the morning." Nancy looked at Rose with a smirk. "So how was it?"
"Tucker? He wasn't bad." She touched her face. "I can't feel my lips."
"The tv did that." Jean nodded.
"Yeah, right." Rose said. "Bed now?"
"Bed now?" Jean said. "Nance?" Jean said as Harley walked Rose up the stairs.
"I'll unplug it when I get done." Nancy said. "It's not so bad, I mean we are doing better than Amityville."
"Amityville had more dead people." Jean pointed out.
"Right." Nancy said. "See you later."
