This chapter is mostly dialogue – the complete opposite than the last chapter, but in the future I'll focus more on the thoughts of the characters.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything Disney related in this chapter. Including the High school Musical reference I put in.
Chapter 1
[Saturday, September 4, 2021
"Mommy, are you sure?" Shaela asked me from her carseat.
"Sorry hun, I don't think there's such thing as a cross between a cat and a rabbit," I told her, "I think that was just a really big rabbit."
"Oh. But could there be?"
"No, Shae. Mom just said," Taylor said.
We had just come back from the mall. My three oldest kids and I. We had only gone into a few stores, and the only thing we bought was shoes and food.
Christi desperately wanted to go into the Get-A-Pet store, and we saw a rabbit about the same size as the cage it was in.
"What about a dog and a rabbit?" Shaela asked me.
"Nope."
"Mummy, can you turn on the Disney station?" Christi said, motioning to the radio on the dashboard.
The song that played was a remake of "The Start of Something New" originally from High School Musical 1. Another movie had recently come out: "High School Musical: The Next Generation."
If I've learned one thing over the years it's that Disney never gives up.
They put all of the original stars in the movie, not as their old characters of course, because that would be obvious. I remember one interview with Zac Efron said that he was willing to come back as Troy Bolton, but nope. The character Troy Bolton wasn't even in the film.
Zac Efron was cast as the father of the female lead. Even though to have a 16 year old kid at 34, he'd have to be 18 when she was born, and he was older than that while making the original movies. The mother was of the female lead was Ashley Tisdale. I guess the Disney people just made it that way for the parents to laugh and remember at.
Shaela's questions about cross-bred species had seized, the three of them reverted to belting out the song that all kids across America knew by heart. Same words, but slightly different music to the song that kids knew by heart 15 years earlier.
'Gosh, I feel old,' I thought. Which was actually untrue, now that I think about it. I was only 29.
"THIS COULD BE THE START! OF SOMETHING NEW! IT FEELS SO RIGHT TO BE HERE WITH YOUU! OH OHHH!"
They song incredibly off pitch and too loud for their own good, which would be the musician in me talking, but no less, it was absolutely the most adorable thing I ever saw.
"OH! YEAA! NOW WHO'D OF EVER THOUGHT THAT. WE'D BOTH BE HERE TONIGHT. OOH, YEA. AND THE WORLD LOOKS SO MUCH BRIGHTER, BRIGHTER, BRIGHTER, WITH YOU BY MY SIDE. I KNOW, THAT SOMETHING HAS CHANGED, NEVER FELT THIS WAY, AND RIGHT HERE TONIGHT…"
I reminded myself to record all three of them singing it later.
I wish I ended up doing it.
[Sunday, September 5, 2021
I loved boys. Baby boys, that is, that's why I was so glad when Lilly and Oliver had two boys.
We were standing in the back yard of Lilly and Oliver's house. Their 7 month old was balanced on my hip. My favorite age for babies, about 7 – 10 months.
"I mean really, I've always wanted a boy," I said.
"You can have him," Oliver muttered. Lilly have him a look, "I was kidding," he said defensively.
Lilly smiled, "Maybe your next one."
Jake looked at me in shock, "I can promise you, there's not be a next one."
I laughed and looked at the infant in my arms, "I'm good with Logan here. And Austin."
Austin had turned 3 the month before, and was an absolutely gorgeous little boy. He had wavy blonde hair to die for and a smile that would light up a room. From the start I had called him a Hollister model in training.
Logan, even at such a young age, was exactly like Oliver. I could just tell that he was going to grow up like him. They were identical in looks, and even Logan being a baby, they still acted the same.
"Mommy come here!" I heard Shaela call me, I walked over.
She was standing under the trapeze bar on the swing set that was recently placed in the yard for Austin. It was high, higher than Austin would be able to reach for another 4 years or so.
The bar was up about 5 and a half feet in the air. The bottom of the handles were down another 8 inches. Shaela leaped up to try to reach the handles. She missed by a lot, as she was only about 3'2 or so at that point.
"Why is it up so high?" I questions Lilly or Oliver who were sitting over on the porch.
Lilly snorted, "He wanted to use it," she said pointing at her husband, "so he cut the chain."
"Mommy help!" Shaela called.
"I think your too short, honey."
"Just lift me up so I can grab the handles," she retorted.
"I'm holding the baby," I tell her.
"Put him in his swing."
I did just so. She struggled to do anything one she hung onto the handles.
"I can't do it mommy," she said as she dropped several inches to the ground.
"I can!" Christi shouted.
She walked in front of Shaela. She was at least 6 inches taller than her sister, if not more, and she only had to go up on her tiptoes and stretch to reach.
She swung back and forth with her arms and tucked her legs over the bar.
That's where she spent the rest of that afternoon.
[2 hours later
Jessi was half asleep in my arms.
It was 9pm, and Jake had already headed home with Shaela and Alyson. We lived down the street from them. It was a large hill, starting with Lilly's and ending with ours. It was a killer to get up walking, but easy on the way back down.
I told them that we had to go, and we headed down the road.
"Sorry, Jess, you're gonna have to walk the rest of the way. You're getting too heavy for me," I said, setting the small girl on the ground and grabbing her hand with the one I wasn't holding onto Christi with. She didn't seem to mind.
"My leg hurts," Christi complained.
"Just one? Or both?"
"Just this one," she stopped and wiggled her right leg in front of her.
"It's probably just from running around all day. You were on the swing set a whole lot," I told her.
"No," she said, looking up at me in the dark, "this is a different kind of hurt."
I'll try to update every day if I can. Maybe every other day. Until school starts any way. I've basically got the 3nd chapter, and I'll start the 4rd today, so maybe if I finish that I'll post the next.
Has any one else had trouble uploading documents? I've had to copy and paste into an old one for the last ones.
