<div class="floatright">(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et9ttl8zdzQ/TD_-vwBMOGI/AAAAAAAAN5E/eP7JumXuE2M/s1600/1a3f651e06434edab4aee510aaf9f5b6.jpg)</div><br/>Hearing Rei's question and having Tabby cover up helped Michelle force her attention back to the Asian girl.  "Well, I can be a matchmaker," she said, "and I have done, but it's more that I like to try to do pranks that people end up appreciating."  Her smile faltered a little at her next comment, "I've gotten too many people really mad in the past."<br/><br/>She took a deep breath, trying to get into the story, although she also wanted to help get the girls out with the rest of the people as well.  A good story would probably get everyone's spirits up, and so Michelle tried to lead the way a little to help folks get outside and all together.<br/><br/>"You see, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear were very upset at Br'er Rabbit after all the stuff that he'd pulled," she explained, her voice getting a little conspiratorial as she spoke.  Her father always told these stories the best, and she'd heard them on multiple occasions, allowing her to repeat them pretty much verbatim and even allow for a bit of inflection in her voice to show off a faint accent that wasn't her own.  "So they hatched a plan to get back at him.  They took tar, a bunch of old clothes, a corncob pipe and a few other things, and made this sort of baby out of the tar, leaving it in the middle of the road for Br'er Rabbit to come across."<br/><br/>She stood up, taking pains not to look at Tabby and lose her distraction, but letting herself show off a little bit in the process.  She wanted it to be as amazing as when her dad first told the story, even if she didn't know if she could.  "So Br'er Rabbit was hopping along down the road when he saw this person sitting on a stump, hollered, 'How do you do?' and continued on, but the strangest thing happened."  Her voice and demeanor took on confusion, as if she hadn't just explained about the tar baby.  "The other person didn't greet him back."