Chapter 2 - Pigsties
When Kim and Ann opened up the door to the Tweebs' room and entered in, they were shocked beyond belief.
Their room was even messier than that of Kim's. Not only were there clothes on the floor but also the sugary food they brought in attracted roaches. School papers were scattered all across the floor.
The Tweebs were standing there on their beds, smirking as long as they could. Tim, whom was sitting next his brother Jim, even snickered at both Kim and Ann wearing overalls.
Kim was tapping her foot impatiently while putting her hands in her overalls pockets.
Ann walked up to them as her left overalls strap, even though it has been tightened only slightly, continue to slide on her shoulder.
"You better have a good explanation for this!!" she exclaimed as she leaned forward and wagged her accusing finger at them. This action caused the left overalls strap to slide onto her arm, causing the bib to curl a little bit but Ann ignored it. She had more important things to tend to than a loose overalls strap.
Jim started by gave a half-lie to her, "We've been inventing stuff………"
"…….and we've messed up our clothes in the process!" Tim finished his brother's sentence.
"Well," Ann browbeaten her eyebrows at the Tweebs, her left overalls strap now sitting on her elbow and the overalls bib continuing to curl, "it seems that you're going to clean up this room as well as we are gpomg tp."The Tweebs snickered, knowing that they have a mischievous card up their sleeve!
Kim took her hands out of her overalls pockets and walked towards the Tweebs with a raised brow leaning toward her head, "What are you Tweebs up to now?" "You are going to clean up this room…." Tim began to announce.
"…for us!!!" Jim finished up the shocking announcement to them.
Kim and Ann were taken back at this!!!
Their sister gave an angry and staring look toward them, "You are so not going to think that I will clean up you room and you not lifting a finger!"Jim chuckled, "Oh, yeah? Wait until we read your private video diary on the internet!!!!" "…..and we have the password!!!" Tim teased her.
Kim growled with fury at them, "You are so going to pay………"Tim cut her off and added in the final dagger, "You either clean up our room or we will read your internet diary and send it as a text message throughout Middleton."Kim sneered and growled hard through her teeth but Ann held her hand, indicating to her daughter to hold her temper. The red-haired cheerleader felt the denim of her mom's overalls strap on her elblow. "Don't worry, Kimberly, we're gonna get through this!"
Then turning back her attention to the Tweebs, Anne demanded "Once we're done with this room, you are going to be grounded with no inventions or gadgets when your father returns from his business trip!"
"Awww!!!!" the Tweebs both groaned "but we'll enjoy the humiliation while it lasts!" They then reclined on their filthy beds with sheets that had not been changed in four weeks.
Kim clenched her teeth hard "This is so unfair!" Yet she had no other choice.
Ann went out of their room to get a black garbage can, finally pulling the left strap back up .
Kim then went onto the ground, her overall clasps clicking on the buttons of her bib as she began to pick up the stuff from the Tweebs' floor. She never felt this humiliated before in front of her brothers.
Grrrrr…..stupid Tweebs wanted me to pick up their stupid stuff, Kim thought to herself. She felt this sitch was going to become worse and worse for her.
Ann came back with the garbage bag. "Here, Kimberly. Hopefully I can think of a good hiding place for the twins' gadgets." "Okay, Mom!" Kim called back as Ann came in to help her daughter.
To ensure that the left strap would not fall down again, Ann decided to do a more simplistic method of solving that sitch. She took the buckle on the left strap and clicked on it. The strap came loose from the button and the bib curled. Ann then threw the unhooked left strap behind her back and it dangled right behind her, leaving her right strap still up.
Kim put her hands in her face, knowing it was going to be a long week for her.
Three hours later.
As the day continued to trudge along, Kim and Ann were picking up trash as hard as she could on the Tweebs' floor.
But she was still in an angry mood at the Tweebs for forcing her to do this. Kim's overall clasps on her bib continued to click with her buttons, but her attention was turned to the unclasped left strap of her mother's overalls, dragging over and over again to create a sound on the wooden floor, the international symbol for the stereotypical Southern hillbilly whom often occupied the boondocks of the country.
Kimberly Ann gave another long gulp as the lump traveled down her throat.
She could only imagine what wearing only overalls all week would do to her hard-earned prestige at school.
I don't wanna see the reaction to Ron when he finds out that I'm wearing overalls, Kim feared in her mind, and then, there's Bonnie!!! Uhh!!!!! She is going to so bury me with her comments that I'm a hick, a farmer, or a redneck!!!!!!!
By this time the room was about three-quarters of the way clean, both mother and daughter needed their break.
The Tweebs were pleased with the success of their schemes and wish to push them even further. They knew their sister like the back of their hands.
Kim, then looked at the time on the Tweebs' clock. It was time for "Agony County" and she wanted to watch it with her mom.
Ann was still on the floor with her dragging unhooked overalls strap and curled up bib, cleaning up the Tweebs shoes and putting them in the closet with that unhooked strap swinging to and fro.
Kim herself was dusting off their metallic gadgets and coughed a little bit. Her overalls had rubbed up her midriff for quite a while now.
"Uhh…..Tweebs?" Kim asked her annoying brothers, whom were playing on their handheld gaming consoles. Both Jim and Tim's faces looked up at their sister and mom. "Yeah, what is it?" Jim unenthusiastically asked.
"We're going to take a break from cleaning your room," Ann answered, standing up with her overalls bib flapping on one side, "but remember, once it is done, you two are grounded for a week!" Tim gave a long yawn and sighed, "Whatever!!"
Both Ann and Kim were free from the Tweebs' torment… for now.
Ann then walked into the hallway with Kim following her. Her undone strap was not letting go of its sight of Kim.
They couldn't wait to see the newest Agony County episode.
Kim then looked down at the belt loops that she hasked "Hey, Mom, could I borrow one of your belts? My overalls are really bothering my stomach hard. I needed to pull down my straps without my overalls falling to the floor."
"Mmm….sure thing, Kimberly!" Ann agreed as she entered the Possible family den and sat on the recliner with the one unhooked strap resting on the cushions.
Kim, meanwhile entered into her parents bedroom and spotted one of her mother's old belts that was the perfect size for her. "Bingo!!!" Once she treaded the belt through the loops and that she connected it, Kim slid the left strap of her overalls off her shoulder followed by the right strap. The bib of her overalls flapped in front of her as her straps, though still hooked together on the claps, now hanged on both sides of her thighs and the back part, where the straps met, on her rear end.
Her stomach was now able relax from all the hard work being covered up by denim all day long.
The clicking of her overall claps on her downed bib became a bit more frequent as she walked back to the living room.
"Works fine, Mom!" Kim gave the thumbs up before lying down and reclining on the sofa. She stared at her downed overalls bib and then at the TV.
"Thanks, honey, now for some Agony County!" She then took a nearby Tissue box because the episodes tended to get … upsetting.
In the middle of the episode, Kim decided to do another different trick with her overalls. She took the left overalls clasp, still hooked onto her downed bib, and unhooked it and did the same with the right. Her overall buckles now were both unhooked and dangling on the side of the couch, clinking together on the floor. Her now-unhooked overalls bib flapped in front of her without the straps supporting it.
Once the episode of Agony County was over, Ann stood up and the unhooked strap resumed its dangling. "I'm gonna go outside the backyard, Kimberly, and water my plants."
Kim yawned, "Okay, Mom, see ya later." She tossed and turned with the undone overall clasps still clinking wildly and closed her eyes for a little sleep. Ann closed the sliding glass door to the patio right behind her.
Tim and Jim, in the room, was thinking of a plan to humiliate their sister.
Little did Kim and Ann realize that the Tweebs were making a video of portraying Kim as a hillbilly, but they weren't finished with it.
"How are we going to finish it up?" Jim asked his younger brother in a whisper.
"Simple, Jim!! I've got the tools!!!" Tim quietly replied by taking out a farmer's hat, a straw weed, false teeth and a brown marker.
He then concluded, "It's time to put Operation Redneck into action!"