A/N: So I haven't updated in a while because...well,I really have no good excuse laziness I suppose and I lost my mojo .Anyway skip ahead two years.

Disclaimer: I don't claim ownership only to Patty.

Peter and Patty both wanted the pair of roller skates they saw in the toy store window ,the only problem was they cost twenty shillings and they didn't have twenty shillings,Daddy had told them that if they wanted the skates they would have to find a way to get the money by themselves .Mummy would have bought them the skates,but Daddy wanted them to learn the value of money and they were old enough to know that things didn't come free.

The problem was they weren't sure how to get the money,they lay on their beds trying to think of a good way to get the money,suddenly Patty sat up dropping her doll on the floor,she jumped on Peter's bed ,jolting him awake,for some reason he had fallen alseep even though it was only one in the afternoon.

"I've an idea!" she said her face flushed with bounced up and down her curly blond hair bouncing with her. "We could sell stuff like they do in the shops."

Peter sat up a frown marring his face,"But Patty,what would we sell." he asked .

"Doesn't matter,I'm sure there's lots of stuff around here we could sell,like old toys and stuff ." Patty said confidently.

"B-but what will Mummy and Daddy say."Peter asked a bit nervously

Patty shrugged,"Daddy said we have to raise the money ourselves and we they'll be so proud of us anyway."

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Helen wondered what the twins were up to they kept running in and out of the house and sending Susan on mysterious errands. Peter came through the kitchen for the fifth time,she reached out plucking his sleeve pulling him back and turning him around to face her.

"Peter,what are you and Patty up to ."she asked .

"Nothing,Mummy."Peter said ,"Could we have that pot the one you cook soup in."

Figuring they were playing some sort of game,she gave him the pot."Don't dirty it up too much." she warned.

"We won't."Peter promised running outside the pot clutched in his arms.

"She gave you the pot?"Patty asked a bit surprised,she looked at the wagon brimming with stuff from the house mostly from the parlour and den old toys from Susan,Edmund Lucy was too little to even care;they promised to let them ride the skates,well Patty promised .

By four o clock they had sold nearly everything in the wagon to several housewives on their street and had over two pounds.

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Helen wondered if she was imagining it or if there was really less stuff in the parlour and den that there had been that morning also there were less of the childrens' toys strewn about.

"George,have you noticed the parlour doesn't look so cluttered anymore,I really think we've been robbed,only I've been here all day and nothing amiss happened ." Helen said .coming into the study.

"Perhaps the children are playing a game and hiding them."George said folding over his paper.

Helen figured that's what it was and went to start was on a chair his hand in the cookie jar.

"Edmund,no biscuits." Helen said lifting him down,the three year old frowned .

"I wannit." he whined.

"No,it's almost supper." she said shooing him out of the kitchen.

Later while they were eating,Patty said happily,"We could buy the skates now cause we have two pounds and five shillings."

"They said we could use the skates too."Edmund and Susan piped up.

Helen and Geroge exchanged a glance wondering how they raised the money,Helen had a feeling she knew where her stuff went, but she had to make sure.

"How did you raise all the money." she asked.

"We sold stuff."Peter said simply.

"Loads of stuff."Patty added proudly.

"From where."Helen asked.

They told her and Helen tried to stay calm,she turned to her three younger children."You three go play,Daddy and I need to talk to the twins."

Susan lifted Lucy from her baby chair and Edmund scrambled down from his,they scampered out of the dinig room.

Helen turned to the twins ,"Why did you two sell anything without asking mine or Daddy's permission first."

"Cause you and Daddy said we'd have to get the money ourselves and we did."Patty spoke up.

"Mummy didn't mean for you to sell her stuff."George said.

"We sold toys too."Peter whispered ."All of our old toys ."

"Did you sell your sisters and brother's toys along with yours."Helen asked a disapproving look on her face.

The twins nodded miserably.

"You two have to get everything you sold back and return all the money." Helen said looking at her husband for confirmation,he nodded in approval.

Patty and Peter exchanged horror stricken glances ,they couldn't go tell everyone to give the stuff back.

"But Mummy."they protested,"We can't go ask for the stuff back,that's rude and you and Daddy always say we shouldn't be rude."Patty protested.

"You're going to,tomorrow after church you are going to go to every person and get everything back and if you or Peter ever do something like that again you will be in deep trouble."Helen said sternly looking from one twin to the other."Understand."

They nodded .

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"I told you Mummy would be upset."Peter whispered ,they had been sent to bed right after dinner as punishment.

Patty frowned ,"She and Daddy told us to raise our own money." she said .

Peter sat up,"But I don't think they wanted us to do that.I don't want to go to all the houses ,they might be really upset at us." he went over to Patty's bed and crawled in .

"It'll be all right,I'm sure Mummy or Daddy will go with us tomorrow ."Patty said ."You best get out of my bed or Mummy will be sore when she comes to check on us."

Peter scrambled out of her bed and ran to his own bed,pulling the covers up over his head.

Patty rolled over clutching her doll; they were never going to get the skates now.