Disclaimer: I only own the plot, nothing else. This is the first chapter of my Meet the Robinsons fanfiction. I decided to start this since i won't be able to post my other stories for a while. I have to find their files. I hope you enjoy this. By the way i've only labled this as a "T" rated story just to be safe.
Chapter One
A red haired woman who looks to be the age of eighteen is sitting on a wooden bench. She fingers her purple Empire State Building shaped hat in her lap.
"Amber that shirt looks too tight." A woman says, examining the teenager's choice in clothing.
"Mother," Amber says, flipping her long blonde hair over her shoulder. "It's supposed to look this way. You wouldn't know fashion if it bit you on the nose."
The red haired woman tunes out the mother and daughter's fight and turns her attention to a balding man with red hair and a younger red haired man, looking to be around her own age. The red haired man turns around to face her, with a French fry stuck in each nostril. He waves her over, ignoring the perplexed glances he's receiving.
"Come on Tallulah, these fries are amazing!" He calls.
Tallulah looks around nervously but all the same stands up and begins to walk very slowly over to them.
"Laszlo take those French fries out of your nose this instant!" The balding man exclaims in a shrill voice, shaking a puppet on his right hand.
"Now Petunia dear..." The man says to the puppet.
"Don't Petunia me, Fritz!" Petunia the puppet yells.
Laszlo pulls the French fries out of his nose, wishing that his parents would stop fighting. Tallulah walks up to him and puts her hat.
"Our family shopping is so...eventful." Tallulah eyes Laszlo's French fries.
Laszlo throws the French fries in a garbage can. "I was just trying to lighten the mood. Dad seemed to like it..." Laszlo sighs and shrugs. "Why can't he just get over mom? I mean, it's been 16 years!"
Tallulah puts her arm around his shoulders and squeezes him comfortingly. "Someday he will." Tallulah smiles up at Laszlo. "Someday." Tallulah's gaze travels over to Amber and her mother, who are now arguing over a very short mini skirt.
"She doesn't know how lucky she is," Tallulah thinks, "having a mom to help her with girl things." Tallulah sighs wistfully. "I wish my mom was here. Having her around would have made these last few years easier to deal with."
With her arm still around Laszlo's shoulders, Tallulah steers him away from the garbage can and into his favourite music story, 'The Yellow Door.'
"I wonder what it would be like to have a mom," Tallulah thinks as she and Laszlo walk through the entrance, "and not a puppet." She looks over her shoulder to look at the still fighting Fritz and Petunia. "I wonder what would have happened if mom had stayed with dad?"
Tallulah watches Laszlo wander over to a listening station and slip on a headset. The massive headset takes attention away from his bright goggles.
"Tallulah!" Laszlo says loudly, having trouble hearing himself talk over the music. "They have the Goo Goo Dolls! I can't believe they still have them!"
Tallulah hides her smile as Laszlo begins to dance, her arms waving wildly. The cord of the headset is stretched to its maximum length as his steps become wilder.
Tallulah gasps as his hand connects with a CD rack, sending the rack and the Cd's all over the floor. He self-consciously removes his headset.
"Laszlo!" Petunia shrieks. The whirlwind of remarks that Petunia shrieks are hard to understand, but the only thing that is understandable is that Fritz and Petunia are fighting again.
Tallulah takes a crestfallen Laszlo out of the store before the store manager arrives and down to their flying car which is also a time machine. They had to take two flying machines so that they could all fit comfortably. Tallulah watches the blue flying car that Fritz and Petunia will be taking home.
Tallulah suddenly has an idea. She hides the grin that slides on her face, behind a hand, as she watches the two time machines.
Please review! I would like to know what to fix and how to improve.
