It is with great pleasure, that I bring you the first ever fully scripted episode of The World Of Oakdale. Enjoy it while you can. I won't be doing thse often, for the simple fact that I don't have the time. I would also like to thank you, the readers, for your continued support. Without you, none of this would be possible.

Scene 1- Mike and Katie's Cottage/Bob & Kim's House

[Katie makes a call on her cell phone]

KATIE: Nancy? Hey, it's Katie.

NANCY: Well hello, Katie. I was just about to call you. I found some of those barstools you were talking about the other day for your kitchen.

KATIE: Aw, thanks Nancy. Listen. I was wondering if I could maybe meet you at Java.

NANCY: Is everything alright?

KATIE: Oh, yeah. I was just wanting to talk to you about some stuff and then maybe I can even get some info on those barstools?

NANCY: Okay.

KATIE: Alright, I'll se you in about...15?

NANCY: Sounds like a winner. Okay. Katie. See you then.

SCENE 2-Insteenct Offices

[barbara is looking over some designs and calls Will's cell phone which goes to voice mail]

BARBARA: Hey, Will. It's Mom. Honey, I know you're still upset and I was just checking up on you. I'm at work right now, but if you need me, just call me or come by or...

OPERATOR VOICE: I'm sorry. Your message is too long. If you would like to re-reco...[barbara closes the phone and slightly chuckles]

BARBARA: Hal always did say I try too hard with the kids.

[Knock at the door. Barbara motions for Roxie to come in.]

ROXIE: I'm not interrupting anything am I?

BARBARA: Oh no. Just a little mom stuff. I've been trying to keep an eye out for Will.

ROXIE: Oh, about the whole accident thing? Yeah. I bet he's having a tough time.

BARBARA: He is. But enough about my life. Is there anything I can do for you?

ROXIE: As a matter of fact, no. I think you've done quite enough.

Scene 3-The Oakdale Mini-Mall

[Dusty and Meg walk along Oakdale's infamous mini-mall and run into Lucinda]

DUSTY: Well hello there, Ms. Walsh.

LUCINDA: Dusty, please. I think I get a little older everytime someone calls me that. So, how are you two doing?

MEG: Well, after a relaxing trip to the spa...

[LUCINDA shutters.]

LUCINDA: Sorry. Bad memories, dahling. Go on.

[They all chuckle.]

MEG: We're doing okay. We had a little romantic getaway. Just waiting on the baby to get here and...planning the wedding. We still haven't mailed out invitations and it's almost two weeks away.

LUCINDA: So it is. Well, Holden and Lily should be back in town Tuesday. They're flying in from San Juan. Holden said the cruise ship was making them all seasick. The captain had some health problems a while back and the assistant captain hasn't had much experience. [chuckles] But they should be back in time for the wedding.

DUSTY: That's great.

MEG: Oh, and you'll never guess who else is coming...

Scene 4-The Lakeview: Suite 45B: Grant Hamilton's Suite

[Emma wheels Grant into his suite at the Lakeview. While Emma helps Grant into his bed, they lock eyes.]

EMMA: Well, we're home sweet home at last. [Emma takes the wheelchair into the living room and returns.]

GRANT: Oh, good. I've been craving some non-hospital air for quite some time.

EMMA: You sure are in good spirits for someone who just narrowly escape death in an automobile accident.

GRANT: Automobile? Emma, this is the 21st century. I think they call them "cars" now.

EMMA: Well, none the less, it's the best comfort you can receive. I'm sorry I wasn't able to accomodate you at the Wagon Wheel.

GRANT: Well, I think this will do...until we can get your farm back.

EMMA: Grant, don't start. You're bed-ridden. Don't make promises you can't keep just yet.

Scene 5-Insteenct Offices

BARBARA: I've done enough? Pardon me?

ROXIE: Oh, no. I didn't mean it like that. I just meant that I don't know how I'll ever repay you.

BARBARA: For what?

ROXIE: For standing up to Gwen about trying to steal my designs.

BARBARA: Well, if you've been in this business long enough like I have, you know that some people will stop at nothng. Although, I really don't see why Gwen would steal your designs. She handed in some pretty good ones at the beginning. I was anxious to see the rest of her ideas for Insteenct, but she said she lost them and by then, the deadline had passed.

ROXIE: Well, I didn't know how to handle Gwen. And you did. That's the important thing.

Scene 6-Java Cafe

[Nancy sits at a table at Java. Katie walks in and the two friends hug.]

NANCY: Oh here, honey..before I forget...[Hands Katie some papers.] I found them online.

KATIE: Wow. These are so awesome. Thanks, Nancy.

NANCY: I guess I've gotten into the internet craze finally. Took me a good two months to learn how to turn the computer on. [They both laugh] Now, what did you need to talk to me about? It sounded pretty important over the phone.

KATIE: Well, it kind of is. But it might be nothing.

NANCY: Well, spill it.

KATIE: I think Mike is up to something.

Scene 7-Oakdale Mini-Mall

LUCINDA: Well, I talked with Iva and she has a buisness conforence in Minnesota to attend that she can't get out of. I don't know. Who else is there?

MEG: Aaron and Alison.

DUSTY: I didn't even know they were coming.

LUCINDA: But what about Julie?

MEG: Well, the doctor gave her a clean bill of health about three weeks ago and Alison said that ever since then, she's unstoppable. They say she might even be re-decorating the house soon.

LUCINDA: Oh dear.

MEG: [laughs] Aaron won't get off work until 5:00 on the 9th, so they should be here somewhere around October 10th. I wish Caleb could come, but a friend of his died and the funeral is the day before the wedding, so there's no way for him to come. And I think Julie's going with Caleb.

LUCINDA: Well, dahlings...I have some work to get done, so I must be off.

DUSTY: Yeah, when is that meeting with the new clients?

LUCINDA: Hopefully soon. They're driving me insane.

[Lucinda walks off]

Scene 8-Insteenct Offices

BARBARA: Roxie, I said it was no prob...

ROXIE: Okay. Okay. I know you have a lot of work to do.

BARBARA: Unfortunately, I do. I have to go over the numbers for our first day of Insteenct being out on the market.

ROXIE: Well, call me if you need something.

BARBARA: I doubt I will.

[Roxie walks into the receptionist's area and out the door. Venus, the receptionist, walks into Barbara's office.]

VENUS: Ms. Ryan? May I talk with you for a moment? It's about Roxie Miller.

Scene 9-Grant's Suite

GRANT: Make promises I can't keep?

EMMA: You've been promising me that you'd help me get my farm back and nothing has even been done to further your venture.

GRANT: Well, you haven't been the most accepting..compared to my past clients.

EMMA: Oh, and I guess they were okay with you hovering their homes and farms above them all day long?

GRANT: Is that seriosuly whhat you feel like I've been doing?

EMMA: Well, what would YOU call it?

GRANT: I call it helping a friend in need.

EMMA: How can you lay there and say that I'm your friend when I've known you for almost a month?

[Grant winces in pain and moans]

Scene 10-Java Cafe

NANCY: So you think Mike is up to something. How so?

KATIE: Well, a few days ago, I was going to go get groceries and Mike refused to let me go. He said that food could wait and we needed to focus on us. Then, he fed me some line about me having a broken tail-light and not wanting me to get pulled over.

NANCY: Katie, I'm sure you're just making a big thing out of nothing. I don't why he would forbid you from going shopping, though.

KATIE: He's just been acting very strangely lately. And a tail-light? I mean, when I last checked my car about two days ago, it was fine. I just don't know why he's been acting like such an a...

NANCY: He's probably just nervous about the wedding. [Katie looks at Nancy and Nancy look off]

Scene 11-Dusty and Meg's House

[Meg and Dusty arrive back home and find their living room has been filled to the ceiling with flowers.]

DUSTY: What the...

MEG: Oh man! I told the florist we had moved the date. I guess she didn't remember or something.

DUSTY: Great. Just great. What are we going to do with all these flowers?

MEG: I'll call the florist and you go find a best man.

DUSTY: Oh yeah. I forgot about that. [laughs] I'm just picking. Gah. Take a joke.

MEG: Dusty, is that what this all is to you? Just some big joke? Our wedding is two weeks away and all you can think about is what one liner you're going to pitch my way next?

DUSTY: Hush. I didn't mean anything. You really have a bad case of the nerves, don't you?

MEG: Well, I'm exactly 7 months pregnant. I have a wedding to plan. I just got back together with my fiancee after nearly calling off the wedding thanks to a one night stand my finacee had with his 23 year old fomer girlfriend that resulted in a baby and subsequently, a miscarriage. Why wouldn't I be just a tad touchy?! [sighs] I'm sorry.

DUSTY: No, no. It's okay. I deserve it.

MEG: No, you don't. You've been truly great this last week and I don't know what just got into me.

DUSTY: Meg, quit making excuses for me. I've a sleaze ball and I deserve every bit of anger, frustration, hatred...whatever you want to give me. But for now, I have to go find a best man. [They kiss, Meg apologizes one more time, and Dusty leaves.]

Scene 12-Grant's Suite

[Emma gives Grant some medicine]

EMMA: Grant, you can't be scaring an old lady like myself like that. Not anymore.

GRANT: I'm sorry. I just get myself worked up, I suppose.

EMMA: I apologize. I shouldn't have gone off on you like that. As a matter of fact, I think it's time I told you the reason I called you to the Wagon Wheel the night you had your accident. I had a long talk with Susan Stewart and she finally made me realize that you and the whole rest of my family..[choking back tears]...You're all just trying to help me get my life back.

GRANT: It took you long enough.

EMMA: Pardon?

GRANT: I was just about to leave town when I got your call.

EMMA: That's a lie. And you know it.

Scene 13-Java Cafe/Java Cafe Parking Lot

KATIE: Wedding? What wedding?

NANCY: [trying to cover it up] Well, you and Mike ARE getting married aren't you?

KATIE: Well, yes, but not anytime soon, I suppose. Mike has had alot of trouble with the bills lately since this summer was a dead period as far as construction.

NANCY: Well, he could be worried about that. All the bills he has to pay. The slump in business. He could be nervous about starting a new life with you as soon as you two get married. For all you know, he could be nervous about a potted plant that seems to be dying.

KATIE: [laughs] The only shrubbery Mike's interested in is trees...that have been cut down, processed, cut, and all that. The only good he sees in trees is in 2x4 form.

NANCY: Well, like I said, give him some time. He'll come around. I'm almost certain you're over-reacting, dear. I admit, as much as I like you, you DO have a knack for it at times.

KATIE: Okay, I guess I deserved that. Well, I better get going. You can go on ahead. I have to use the bathroom.

[Katie goes to the bathroom, Nancy grabs a tire tool out of her car and jams it in Katie's tail-light, breaking it. In a comical scene, she gets a dustpan and brrom out of her car and sweeps up all the debris from the broken tail-light. Then, Nancy slighty chuckles and drives off. Katie comes out and notices her tail-light.]

KATIE: What the..? When did THAT get there? Hmm...maybe Mike isn't acting so weird after all.

Scene 14-John Dixon's House

[Dusty walks up to John's house and rings the doorbell. John answers the door.]

JOHN: Well hello there, Dusty. What can I do for you?

DUSTY: You always answer the door in such a demanding voice?

JOHN: Demanding? Oh no. I'm just reading. Hate to leave a good book. Well, what are you standing out there for? Come in. [Dusty walks in.]

DUSTY: I won't be long. I just had to ask you a quick question.

JOHN: As long as you're not selling Girl Scout cookies.

DUSTY: You know, you never have been good at the whole jokes routine. [They laugh] Anyways, the reason I'm here...It's about mine and Meg's wedding. You know, it's the 18th of October at Luthers Corners Church.

JOHN: Well, I haven't gotten an invitation.

DUSTY: [laughs] We haven't gotten that far yet.

JOHN: Oh?

DUSTY: Yeah. So, John...tell me. What would you think about being my best man?

Scene 15-Grant's Suite

EMMA: I heard from Jack that you were over there pelading your case and telling him not to lose faith in me.

GRANT: Okay, you caught me. I wasn't leaving town. But I hope you know. I have been very seriosuly thinking about it.

EMMA: Well, I hope you know that you're not able to do that now.

GRANT: [examining himself] I guess not. I AM paralyzed, even if it's temporary.

EMMA: That's what you keep saying, but when we left, Ben told you that your spinal cord and nerves weren't hurt as bad as they thought they were. He said you'd have trouble gaining sensation at first, but you should be fine in a week or so.

GRANT: Sensation, eh? Why don't you check my lips. They seem a little tingly.

EMMA: I declare!

GRANT: [chuckles] Listen. Sooner or later, we going to have to talk about...

EMMA: I know. I've been pondering that mistake in my head ever since that night.

GRANT: So you think our love making that night was all a big mistake?

EMMA: Grant, I've been alone for quite some time now. Not even the mailman has shown me the slighest hint of affection. When you kissed me, it was a flood of emotions. I was overwhlemed. I couldn't think clearly.

GRANT: Well, I for one, enjoyed every second of it. And there's nothing you could do to change that.

Scene 16-Insteenct Offices

BARBARA: Come in, Venus. What's troubling you about Roxie?

VENUS: [shuts door behind her] Well, I just think you should know that she's not all she makes herself out to be.

BARBARA: You're being very vague, Venus. Is there something I should know?

VENUS: Well, I was told that I should keep my mouth shut but it's been killing me lately.

BARBARA: Who told you to keep quiet? And what about?

VENUS: I really shouldn't say, Ms. Ryan. I don't want my friend to be even more hurt than she already is.

BARBARA: Well, if you're going to talk, then do so. If you're not, then quit wasting my tim...

VENUS: Gwen. Gwen Norbeck. She's been my best friend since...practically birth. She told me that Roxie did her wrong.

BARBARA: How so?

VENUS: Okay. I'll tell you. You know those designs that Roxie gave you some time back..for the very first line of Insteenct?

BARBARA: Yes.

VENUS: You didn't hear it from me, but...those designs were Gwen's. Roxie stole Gwen's designs.

[Freeze on Barbara's shocked, yet confused expression]

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