Nani made her way to the hula school to pick up the girls. "Lilo, Kahlia?" She asks, looking around.
No one answered, there was no one on the school's front porch.
Nani looked inside through the glass on the door. "Girls?" She asks, groaning as she got no reply.
Even the teacher was gone.
Nani sighed and headed back towards their house. "You girls better be home..." she threatens.
A blue car was starting to back out and almost hit the older girl, Nani.
Nani backed away a second then scowled at the car. She kicked the front of the car. "Watch where you're going... Stupid head!" She scolds before running to her house.
Inside there was a bald man in black suit with dooming sunglasses. He briefly scowled at the girl as she was running home.
Nani ran home and tried to open the door. "Lilo, Kahlia, open the door, girls..." she says both relieved and annoyed.
"Go away..." Kahlia drawls.
Lilo just continued to sulk and stare at the ceiling.
Nani manged to get her head and one arm through. "We don't have time for this, girls, the social worker is going to be here any minute." she informs.
Lilo blinked and glanced at her sister. "Leave us alone to die..." she droned.
Nani sighed and managed to get the lock undone, only to see the door was nailed shut too. She growled and started to threaten them about turning them into pies for the social worker. Kahlia merely turned over ignoring Nani. Lilo started to lip sync a bit to the Elvis song in the background. Kahlia was acting like this as she was depressed. She always was after anything mentioning 'Craziness' in a bullying or joking way. Lilo turned the music up a little, still depressed.
The social worker came and was revealed to be the man Nani insulted earlier. He saw her at her door, struggling to get in through the dog door and kicked her foot a little to get her attention.
Nani looked shocked as he pulled her out. "Love, and kindness." she finishes as she stood up. She hid the hammer quickly.
The social worker glanced at her as she held a hammer.
Nani dropped the hammer to the side. "You must be the..." she starts, before trailing off.
"The stupid head..." he answered for her.
"Oh. Ohhh..." Nani says, sheepishly. "I'm sorry, if I knew who you were, I'd never, uh, I can pay for that..." she flounders, ending in a defeated tone.
"It's a rental..." the man said sharply. "Are you the guardian in question?"
"Yes, I'm Nani... and you are..." Nani trails off to get to know the man's name.
"The stupid head." the man growled.
Nani looked sheepish again. "Once again, I'm sorry... but I meant your name... Anyway, shall we sit out here and talk?" She asks.
"Bubbles..." the man forced out his name, feeling slightly embarrassed by it. He then noticed the offer and glanced at her. "No, thank you..."
Nani bit her lip. "This way..." she says softly and jumped over her porch rails and headed towards the back door.
Bubbles followed her and saw a bit of a mess in the back door.
"You think she gave up?" Lilo whispered to Kahila as Nani seemed to have stopped trying to break into her own house.
Kahlia shrugged. "Doubt it..." she sighs.
Nani held a hand up to him. "One moment..." she says and ran to get through the window. She got in through the window and then headed to open the door, turning off the music on her way.
"Hey!" Lilo and Kahila complained.
Bubbles was curious of what was going on inside the house.
Nani came to the door and opened it. "Lemonade?" She asks, sounding breathless.
Bubbles came into the kitchen. "Do you often leave your sister home alone?" he questioned, looking around.
There was a crayon drawing of Lilo and Kahila drawn alone on the fridge.
Nani hid the drawing. "Well, not usually, except for just now..." she says.
Kahlia looked at Lilo.
Lilo looked back. "He doesn't look like a social worker." she whispered to her cousin.
Kahlia nodded, looking up at the man. She thought he looked cool.
Bubbles hummed at her, then heard high steaming from the oven. "You left the stove on when you went out?"
Lilo blinked.
"Just a simmer..." Nani says, smiling. "Mm... coming along great... Wah!" She cries out.
Kahlia looked at them "We found that this morning." she says.
Lilo came as well. Bubbles looked down to the two girls.
"Lilo, Kahlia... there you are, cupcakes..." Nani says with a smile. "This is Mr. Bubbles." she says.
Kahlia looked at him still.
"Nice to meet you..." Bubbles held out his giant hand which looked as big as Lilo's entire body mass.
The young girl tilted her head. "Your knuckles say 'Cobra'... Cobra Bubbles..."
Bubbles got on one knee to observe the little girls. He wasn't as rough with them as he was with Nani.
"You don't look like a social worker..." Kahlia says. She shook his hand though.
"I also work special in the government." Bubbles told them.
Lilo was taken aback by that. "Did you ever kill anyone?"
Bubbles noticeably smirked at that question. "We're getting off subject... Tell me about you, are you two happy?"
Kahlia gave a smile and then looked calm. "We're adjusted..." she starts.
Nani was guiding them behind him.
Lilo watched these and tried to follow Nani's gestures. "We eat big breakfasts, take long naps, look both ways before crossing the street...and get disciplined?" she saw that Nani was shaking a fist, though it was in victory and not in abuse.
"Disciplined?" Bubbles questioned.
Kahlia nodded "Yeah, sometimes five times a day." she says.
Nani was now trying to stop them and looked shocked.
"With bricks!" Lilo added.
"Bricks?" Bubbles glanced at them.
Kahlia looked down slightly. "Uh-huh, in a pillowcase" she says.
"Okay, that's enough sugar for you two," Nani says. She patted their heads. "Why don't you run along, you little cuties..." she says and pushed them towards the living room.
Lilo went in the living room with Kahila. Bubbles stared coldly at Nani. Kahlia passed Lilo the jar of pickle juice.
"Thirsty?" Nani asks nervously and looked into the fridge.
Lilo was looking through a book as she collected spoons and made grass skirts and faces on five spoons. She then threw them into the jar and shook them up. Bubbles was warning Nani about how the visit was going and glanced at the two girls using 'practical voo doo'.
"Our friends need to be punished..." Kahlia says sounding weird.
Lilo nodded in agreement as she stared at the jar. Nani merely looked down, groaning.
Bubbles handed his card for either one of them. "Call me next time you're left here alone."
Kahlia took it. "Yup." she agrees.
Nani looked at Cobra.
"In case you're wondering, this did not go well," Bubbles told the older girl and unbolted the door from the wall, making the nails drop instantly. "You have three days to change my mind." he nearly slammed the door.
Lilo got up with Kahila and looked at Nani. As soon as Cobra left Nani turned to face them angrily. Kahlia gulped and looked at Nani. She screamed as Nani started to chase them. Lilo screamed and ran with Kahila.
Nani started to chase them. "Lilo! Kahlia!" she shouts and lunged at them.
Kahlia dodged the catch. Lilo was caught, but she slobbered on her sister's gripping arm.
"Ew... girls!" Nani groans and shouts following them into the hall. She then listened to where they would hide.
Kahlia had pulled Lilo to the dryer to hide. Lilo shushed her and hid close. They were small enough to fit inside the dryer. Nani walked up and climbed onto the dryer, after laying down a towel. She opened the door and slammed it shut with her foot. Kahlia opened the dryer door and then climbed out, helping Lilo out too.
Lilo jumped out and landed on the towel, curious. Nani snuck down and scooped both up in the towel, carrying them like a sack. Kahlia growled and complained like an animal. Lilo growled too and even started to hiss like a vampire exposed to the sunlight.
Nani grabbed both their arms. "Why weren't you at the school, you were supposed to wait there!" She scolds.
Kahlia didn't looked at her, her eyes filling with tears.
"Do you want to be taken away?" Nani asks them then.
Lilo grunted and she was nearly crying at the thought of being taken away.
"Don't you understand?" Nani asks them.
"No!" Kahlia exclaims.
"No!" Lilo yelled too, wanting to go away right now.
"No, what?" Nani asks.
"No!" Kahlia repeats.
"NOOOO!" Lilo moaned and slammed her head against the floor, mumbling and nearly crying.
Kahlia copied.
Nani listened and sighed. She let them go and clenched her head. "You are such pains..." she sighs.
"Well, why don't you sell us for rabbit instead!?" Lilo sneered, climbing up the stairs to her bedroom.
"At least a rabbit would behave better than you" Nani retorts.
Kahlia followed Lilo. "You'll like it 'cuz it's smarter than us too!"
"And quieter!" Nani yells back.
"We don't like it, cuz it's stinky like YOU!" Lilo glared at Nani and as Kahila was inside her room, she slammed the door with a 'Keep Out' note attached to the front of it.
"Go to your room!" Nani shouts.
Kahlia hugged her toy rabbit.
"WE'RE ALREADY IN MY ROOM!" Lilo yelled, then slammed the door again.
Nani grabbed a pillow from the sofa and screamed into it. Kahlia cried silently. Lilo did the same of what Nani was doing and fell back against her bed.
A little while later Nani came up with two plates of Pizza. "Hey, I brought up some pizza, in case you are hungry..." she says softly.
Kahlia was brushing Lilo's hair.
Lilo looked at Nani and kept playing with Scrump a little. "We're a broken family, aren't we?"
Nani placed the pizza down and sat on the bed behind the girls. "Maybe a little, maybe a lot..." she sighs softly.
Kahlia looked down.
Lilo still stared at Scrump. "We beat up Myrtle Edmonds today..."
"What?" Nani asks.
"And we hit her." Kahlia admits softly.
"I bit her." Lilo put in.
"You hit and bit her?" Nani asks. "Oh, girls, you know you shouldn't do that." she tells them.
Kahlia hugged her rabbit tight.
Lilo got a grasp of Scrump. "It's just that people treat us differently..."
"They just don't understand." Nani soothes.
"I like you better as a sister than a mom..." Lilo nearly murmured.
"And I, a cousin." Kahlia sighs.
"How about I promise not to shout at you except on special occasions?" Nani asks.
"And you'd like two rabbits better than a cousin and a little sister, right?" Lilo almost sounded like she was about to cry then.
Nani decided to joke. "Yeah... I called the rabbit store... they said they'd give me 30 rabbits for you both." she says.
"What?" Kahlia asks shocked.
"We're worth 30 rabbits...?" Lilo whispered, then saw the joking expression on her older sister's face. "You didn't call the rabbit store!" she giggled a little, feeling a bit better than earlier today.
Nani smiled at them both.
"Oh, don't forget your camera." Kahlia says smiling.
"Oh, yeah!" Lilo piped up and handed the camera to Nani and looked at her photograph collection in admiration. "My camera's full again... Aren't they beautiful?"
As Kahila and Nani looked at the candid pictures of tourists, the lights went out suddenly and there came a green light.
Kahlia looked at it. "A shooting star!" She calls out.
Nani stood up to look.
Lilo looked to see something falling from the sky and it landed, bringing the power back on. "I CALLED IT!" she waved her hand up and started to push Nani out of the room. "Get out, get out, I have to make my wish!"
Kahlia looked at Nani and Lilo.
Nani smirked and suddenly put weight on Lilo. "Oh, no! Gravity is increasing on me." she gasps.
"No it's not!" Lilo yelled as she continued to try to push out Nani.
Kahlia was amused.
"It is too, the same thing happened yesterday..." Nani retorts before falling down on top of Lilo.
"Get OFF, sister, your butt is crushing me!" Lilo slithered off from under Nani and got back to the door. "Why do you have to act so weird!?" she slammed the door to privately make a wish to the shooting star.
Nani rubbed her head and sat up and listened through the door. Kahlia would wish for the same as Lilo. Lilo was quiet and on her knees beside her bed as she was making a silent prayer and wished for an angel. Someone, anyone, that could be her new friend and not run away. Nani overheard this and decided that maybe it would be a good idea for Lilo and Kahila to have a pet since she couldn't force the school girls to be nice to them. Nani nodded she would get them a dog.
"Thank you and amen." Lilo finished her wish and opened the door to see if Nani was still there.
Nani had gone to not be caught. Kahlia climbed into bed.
Lilo made her bed ready to climb in and cuddled with Scrump. "I hope I can make a friend, Kahila..."
"Either way you have me." she says quietly.
"That's true... School's hard when no one in class likes you, but I'm glad you're here." Lilo said softly.
Kahlia nodded softly. "Sweet dreams Li-Li..." she whispers.
Lilo nodded and yawned. "Good night."
Kahlia closed her eyes. She tried to block out the memories of why she came there. Lilo hugged Scrump and her pillow tight and was starting to slowly fall asleep.