The Destruction of Rathink Avenue – The Sequel

Chapter 1: The Trouble Begins

First, it was the Ship-In-A-Bottle, now it is much worse. The Kankers Sisters seem to have no end to their plight, even when it means stooping to depths the cul-de-sac just cannot withhold. If something as small as a simple, hand crafted diecast sailboat circumscribed within a transparent bottle can stimulate a huge Kanker reaction, then something even more prized would trigger an earth-shattering effect on the cul-de-sac.

On a warm Spring Break morning in March, the Kanker Sisters arose from their bed in the upstairs room of their trailer. Marie was the first to get up and pursue her morning chores and responsibilities. May was the last, and seemed to not stop yawning. Lee was the one who made up the bed for the three after she angrily forced May off the bed.

"Get movin', May!" Lee exclaimed, her temper already becoming an issue.

"Quit yellin' so early in the morning!" May complained. She stood up and left Lee to make up their bed. "I swear, one day, you will yell so loud, the whole trailer will fall apart."

"It don't help us now!" Marie replied, attempting to break up an argument. "I'm going downstairs to fix me some breakfast."

"I hope you're not planning on making bacon without me!" Lee yelled as Marie began to open the bedroom door.

"If you want some, make some yourself!" Marie responded. "Don't you know the story of the Little Red Hen?" Marie decided not to wait for a response, and strolled down the stairs to the kitchen.

While entering the kitchen, she looked up at the Ship-In-A-Bottle and smiled, recalling the time when they had to wreck the entire cul-de-sac to find where it was. In the kitchen, she opened the fridge door and pulled out the bacon.

Back upstairs, Lee finished making the bed, and began to run down the stairs.

"I'm coming, Marie!" Lee remarked. She raced into the kitchen and helped Marie fix the bacon. She soon turned her attention to May, who was wandering about upstairs. "May! Get down here!"

"Alright, Lee!" May retorted. She trotted downstairs to the kitchen. "Do we really need all three of us to make a few strips of bacon?"

"No we don't!" Lee growled. "I'm going to go see if this month's edition of Hubcaps Digest is on the front porch. It's got more pages than last edition, remember the preview?"

"Who says you get to be the first to read through it?!" Marie snapped back, in the middle of flipping over the crispy shards of bacon on the stove.

"Keep cookin', Marie." Lee muttered. "I'm going to go see if the mailman left it over there." Lee walked over into the living room and opened the front door. She lifted the hair over her eyes and eagerly looked around. Instead of happiness, there was horror, when she realized that it was not there. All that was there was the brown paper packaging that had been ripped apart, and left wadded up without the Hubcaps Digest magazine.

Lee gasped. "AHH! It's been stolen, girls!"

"What?!" Marie shouted, as she ran down May, abandoning the bacon, and scurried down to the entryway. "Stolen?"

"Look for yourself, Marie." Lee said.

"NO!" Marie yelled, immediately dropping to the floor in tears.

May followed, and stood over her in horror.

"That issue can't be replaced!" Marie sobbed. "We special ordered for that, and they aren't selling anymore of them now!"

"This is just like what happened with our Ship-In-A-Bottle last summer!" Lee recalled. "Why us?!"

The sisters eventually turned their mood from sullen and sorrowful to angry and enraged.

"Okay, girls, this has happened to us once, and it's not happening again!" Lee yelled. "We aren't calling cops, security, or anyone. We're going back to the cul-de-sac and find out whoever took it, and we'll do it the only way to get things done. Kanker style!" She started to laugh maniacally and May and Marie followed.

So, the Kanker sisters plotted their method on how to retrieve their most prized magazine, while letting their bacon strips burn up into a thick crisp.