Many thanks to chaylyn for reviewing. I am happy you liked it, but I am afraid you have to wait a few chapters until it is explained, I think it chapter seven, sorry, I have already finished my storyline.
I hope you like the next chapter. It is much shorter then the first one.
Disclaimer: I do not own Cheaper by the dozen.
Everything is just fiction (Kate)
Nothing. A blank paper laying in front of me, with nothing on it.
I put my pen aside and sighed. I have tried it five times now, but it didn´t work once.
The first time I started to write my fictional story, Lilly Collins was like my sister had been before she died. The second time, she reminded me a lot after Nora, my eldest daughter. Another time, she totally behaved like my youngest daughters, the twins Jessica and Kim. Than I imagined a very nice person, I thought of she would be pretty new, when I recognized that she was much like Sarah an other daughter of mine. And now, in front of me laid a perfect copy of my second eldest girl Lorraine, formed from pen and paper.
I wasn´t able to talk not about my family, direct or indirect, when I wrote.
I sighed again. That could not be possible.
There was a knock at the door and I said "yes" to let the one in.
It was Jessica, she gave me a weak smile and I smiled back. "Hello darling", I said. "What´s the matter?"
She held the phone in her hands, I am afraid to say that she looked like a hurt pet. I didn´t recognized that the telephone rang, but I did not recognize anything that was going on in this house when I write.
"Lorraine is on the phone." Jessica came over to me and handed me the phone. "Thanks darling", I told her when she went out and then I answered the phone.
"Hello Lorraine." My voice sounded like crap, but I think, Lorraine did not notice.
"Hi Mum, you will not be able to believe what happened!" She was so happy and excited no one of my family has been for months.
"So, what darling?"
"Will asked me to marry him!"
For a moment, I forget to breath.
She was right, I really wasn´t able to believe. I knew Lorraine had this boyfriend Will, but I never met him, and Tom didn´t either. He was a complete stranger.
"Wow, that´s great darling", I said, also I thought it was horrible.
"Yes, isn´t it, and you know, it will be such a nice wedding. Wait till you meet Will, he´s the greatest."
"Sure he is", I said. I really wasn´t happy. I thought for all the boyfriend Lorraine had. There had been Duncan, the football player, who was to stupid for counting to twenty, then Ronnie, the rocker, who just lived for his motor bike, and I just wondered what jerk was it now.
"So, can Will and me visit you the coming week?"
I was totally shocked so first I nodded, when I noticed that I spoke on the phone, and said "Yes. Tuesday would be great."
"Fantastic, so we´ll be there. Ehm...how are ..."
"Yes?"
"Nothing, goodbye." And she went.
I knew she wanted to ask for the family, especially Charlie and Jake, and perhaps Henry, but she sounded so lucky, that we both knew that it was the best thing to forget about it for a moment.
Especially because Lorraine was so happy at this moment, no one should destroy this.
Another sigh escaped my lips and I shut my eyes, just for a short moment, in which I tried to get back the control of my body, which shook a little bit.
I could hear the kids playing outside, Nigel and Kyle played hide and seek and Mike was definitly trying some extreme sports. I could really imagine them.
I took a look on my paper, where Lilly Collins still watched me with green - brown eyes, like Lorraine´s and I decided to let her marry a jerk and after that meet a really nice man and start an affair with him.
I totally imagined her, as someone totally new, ´cause everything is just fiction, which means the whole life.
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