Bewildered

The friendly banter continues between siblings, Luke only helping to make matters worse. But no one realizes what Faith is up to.

Out of nowhere, Sparky gives a howl and shoots up from his seat. The movement is so severe that it jolts the whole table, sending silverware flying and glasses almost toppling over. Jim and Luke's eyes widen and they look at each other then up at Sparky who by now had a red face. Jim blinks. "What on earth..."

Sparky's gaze swings down to Faith, the laughter starting to build inside of him as his eyes begin to water.

Luke looks up at him skeptically. "You alright there, buddy?"

"No." Sparky chokes on a laugh. "I am not alright, sitting here with this lot!" He couldn't lay blame though... no one knew that Faith had just tickled him, and if that was exposed, they'd have to admit to having been teasing each other this whole time. At the moment, he did not want to go down that road.

Sinking down in his chair, he rests his elbows on the table so he can hide his face in his hands while his shoulders start to shake as he laughs.

Jim furrows his brow and look at Annie in bewilderment. "Did he lose his mind while he was sick or what?"

Sparky turns his head just enough that his eyes were visible only to Faith. Still laughing, he throws her a smirk, then reaches over to give her shoulder a playful shove. The glint in his eye said he was royally amused, but payback was coming.

Jeff leans back from the next table over. "Hey, everything alright over there?"

"Oh sure." Luke waves to him. "Other than Sparky losing his marbles and taking it out on guests for which reason we have.... no idea."

All that does is send Sparky laughing again, but he refuses to tell anyone what had really happened, leaving them all quite bewildered.


Scott nods, wandering to the desk to sit next to Dalton again. "Yeah... okay. I know Gunner wanted us out of the loop, but you and I both know we're not going to do that. I figure me going to the ranch is legit and no one should suspect a thing since I have to go there for TJY anyway. And taking Hope isn't all that odd since she's my girlfriend. I doubt this will draw attention from anyone. If it does... I guess we just deal with it then."

Staring blankly at his computer screen, his mind is far from his work. "You think if Hope writes up an official evaluation that says Bree's mentally stable that it will help the case? I mean... I don't know... I guess I'm worried about Gunner, too. Wrong or right, he and JT still broke in there and we helped out. We're gonna have to land a pretty lenient judge if we're going to make it out of this one."