Bon Voyage!
"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."
~Don Williams, Jr.
Jeanette murmurs incoherent words as she tries to sleep the night before the tour. Her and her sisters were finally going to have their big break! The smarter chipette never particularly cared for the fame and fortune, but she knows how much it means to her sisters. Especially one in particular.
Jeanette rolls over and over in her light state of sleep. She pulls the pillow over her head to block out the light and groans as that same chipette mumbles to tune to her favorite music. "Fame!" she holds a hairbrush in her hands, flipping her auburn hair. "I'm gunna live forever!"
"BRITTANY!" a sharp yell rings through the small room. Jeanette sits up in bed rubbing her eyes as she looks around the room. Even though the curtains were drawn, she could have sworn that it wasn't morning for another few hours. Grabbing her glasses off of the nightstand and squinting slightly at the alarm clock, Jeanette groans at the time. Three A.M. "BRITTANY!" the yell comes again as Jeanette's auburn haired sister ignores her younger sister's call. Jeanette turns to the other side of the room where her baby sister is fuming. Her blond hair dangles loosely in front of her eyes and her teeth are bared, ready to bite Brittany's head off no doubt. "That's it!" Eleanor jumps from her bed, dragging her long green nightgown behind her as she marches across the room. Eleanor takes Brittany by the shoulder and spins her towards her so that the sisters are nose to nose. While Eleanor is fuming, Brittany looks at Eleanor with a relaxed expression, only making her angrier.
"Oh Ellie," Brittany looked into her sister's brown eyes as her voice dripped with sarcasm. "I didn't hear you."
"Like hell you didn't!" Eleanor screams back, causing Brittany to flinch. Usually her baby sister didn't use harsh language with anyone, not even as the Chipettes took on their teenage years. Then again, Eleanor wasn't usually kept up until dawn by her seemingly annoying older sister.
Eleanor takes a deep breath to compose herself as she looks at the carpet between her toes. Brittany, still a bit shaken, grips her hands into tight balls as she watches Eleanor. "Brittany," Eleanor says more calmly, looking at her sister again. "You need to go to sleep."
"I can't!" Brittany exclaims with a smile on her face. Eleanor rolls her eyes, knowing the speech that is to come. "Our very first tour is coming up and I'm just so excited! I mean, we've performed at restaurants and hotels and stuff… but nothing so… official!"
"I've heard," Eleanor crosses her arms. "And so has Jeanette," Eleanor gestures towards the other side of the room where a chipette was observing her sisters latest argument. The dumbfounded chipette jumps at the sound of her name and fumbles with words to say. But before Jeanette says anything coherent, Brittany breaks Jeanette's awkwardness.
"So what?" Brittany asks. "I know for a fact that you're excited too! In fact, I can't believe that you haven't been up twice as long as me, I mean, this is a tour we're talking about!"
"I'm not up all night because I happen to know that getting enough sleep improves my stage presence," Eleanor gives her beauty queen sister a knowing look. Brittany's eyes turn to saucers as she asks the predicable "Really?" "Yup," Eleanor nods, smiling at her creativity. Jeanette nodded as well, putting together the pieces for herself as Eleanor takes Brittany by the shoulders, nonchalantly kicking Brittany's stack of suitcases across the wooden floor and out of reach. "I mean, I wouldn't want to get up on stage with things like… worry lines and bags under my eyes. I mean, how embarrassing!"
"What does sleep got to do with it?" Brittany crosses her arms, suddenly not believing a word her little sister said.
"Well, without sleep you'll look ugly on stage. I mean, those stage lights practically illuminate every imperfection… bags, red eyes… the audience will see it all!"
Brittany's eyes dart around the room, feeling carefully under her eyes for bags and wrinkles of any sort, even on her fifteen year old features. Whatever Brittany felt of saw on her face must have done the trick because within seconds Brittany was burrowed deep into the pink pillows and sheets that were piled high on her bed and fast asleep.
Eleanor smirks at her sister and Jeanette giggles back.
"That was way too easy."
"Yeah," Jeanette agrees, nodding her head. "Well, we better go to bed or else we'll sleep right through breakfast," Jeanette smiles innocently at Eleanor who is staring back at her sister with her mouth agape.
"B-bre-breakfast?"
Jeanette nods.
Eleanor jumps from her position to her green bed and is asleep before Jeanette even has time to smile at herself in satisfaction. "That was way too easy," she mocks in a whisper.
~Sorry about the delay guys! I've been vacationing with my family in Alaska the last week and a half and had a lot of time to write but no internet! D:
Anyways, hope you forgive me! Hope you liked it!
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