The Cosmos, The Arrivals, Book 1, Chapter 7, Steph Encounters Babs & Janet & Robyn, also Tiffany, Day 1, Section 4, Steph: Arrives Front Door into an Empty Cosmos House Steph turns from the sidewalk and strides up the walkway towards the Front Door of the Cosmos House. {I anticipate that I will leave the paparazzi behind me.} ¶ Steph pauses and balances on her delicate bare feet at the bottom of the front steps where the walkway branches off around the Porch toward the Back Door. Steph does know the Rules. ¶ {So? I have never done Babs any wrong. Or Janet. I need to find out where Janet ended up. And I do need to establish my own privilege, right away.} ¶ Steph’s long legs mount the front steps. She ignores the Front Door Cam, which officially collects her dirty, unkempt, overexposed, and bedraggled appearance in the deepening dusk. Steph turns a shoulder, knowing that it’s too dark for the Front Door Cam to collect color details. “Too bad, Automatron,” Steph mocks. She doesn’t ring the chime and disappears inside. ¶ Steph breezes through the dusky Parlor and heads down the hallway toward the Kitchen. She sidetracks into the small Washroom under the front stairs, easily slides the remains of her minidress up and lowers her sitter and bare thighs onto the toilet seat. She watches her uri.ne release, dabs herself dry, flushes, and looks at herself in the mirror as she washes her face. {I’m back home… although with one complication….} ¶ The door from the Parlor to the Kitchen is locked, so Steph retreats, swings back around into the Living Room, and sidles through the sliding door into the Dining Room. She stops short in front of the four Dining Room Photos. ¶ “My, my.” Steph admires the Bikini Babe and the Spiderweb. “So. You two won your Bikinis after all. And it’s so great to see you stuck on the wall. You’re both revealing more areolage and hairage than when I last saw you.” ¶ But it’s the naked and wet-holed Penny and Coco who present the most delight for Steph Sorostitute. Steph doesn’t need nametags to address the two naked pinkers, who were also her Pledge last Term. “Congratulations, Baseboard Strippers, maybe I’ll be visiting to watch you pee and pink at the Nugget!” ¶ Pledge should be careful what they wish for. ¶ Steph takes a step back and continues to talk down to the Strippers. “It wasn’t my hand that Opted you Down. You know who did it to you: the two on the top, Babs and Janet. So talk to them about it. I wasn’t there.” ¶ {Besides, I have my own beef. With the same Pledge whom I think refereed what should have been my call.} ¶ Robyn. A dispute no doubt stemming from something that happened near the end of last Term and contributed to Steph’s demotion… and her missing the Mudwrestling Contest. ¶ Steph assails the Kitchen. It’s empty. ¶ She heads upstairs, fully knowing her way. She appropriates the Makeup Case in what is now Babs’ Bedroom, extracts the razor, showers in the Bathroom, and shaves her underarms and legs, including the insides of her thighs. She borrows a towel she finds in Babs’ Bedroom to dry off, combs her long blonde hair, puts her soiled and hacked minidress back on, adds lipstick and rouge and mascara, and returns the Makeup Case to the drawer in BB’s desk. She touches the Desktop, but it fails to li.ght up for her. ¶ Steph retraces her steps downstairs to the Kitchen.She finds a bottle of w.ine chilling in the refrigerator, opens it, and pours herself a glass. The Calendar on the wall is a new addition, and although she recognizes “Tiffany Porn Star,” she fails to anticipate that the naked, gangbanging Whore is now one of her Pledge sisters. ¶ A glance out the Back Door reveals that the Backyard is empty. The Bell pull chain still hangs down almost to the ground, the Mudpit looks damp, the seven Posts stalwart the Henge, and the bushes down the side of the Backyard reach out prickly branches all the way down to the alley and fill in next to the Garage. ¶ {I made Pledge run circles around the Garage last Term. I made them hug Posts. I made them wallow in mud. Now I’m a Pledge, just like I was in my first Term. I should be a MomCap already.} ¶ The door from the Kitchen to the front hallway has a Skeleton Key in the lock, so Steph turns it, and, carrying her glass and the bottle, passes through the door, closing it behind her but leaving it unlocked. For a second time this evening she ducks into the Washroom underneath the front stairs and checks her face in the mirror. Much better now. She moves into the Parlor, sits in a big easy chair, crosses her legs,sips the wi.ne, and contemplates her future. ¶ {My next goal is to demand a clean and less-revealing minidress, and after that to acquire panties... if not also heels!} Steph furrows her brow. {The panties will rightfully advance me to Monitor rank, and the further addition of heels will give me a total of three pieces and accelerate me to a House Mom el Capitan rank. And catch me up to where I should be.