A/N: Ahh, establishment.
Lola stirred in her bed restlessly. She never was a morning person, and now dreaded greeting the day even more, having had little to no sleep the previous night. Her mind had been racing all night on the previous week's events.
The phone next to her bed began to ring and she groaned as she reached for it.
"Yeah?"
"Lola!"
She groaned again when she realized who it was.
"How could you do this to me?!"
She let out an aggravated sigh and rolled over to her back. "How could I do what, Lil?"
"Don't act dumb with me. You, of all people should know better!"
"I don't know what you're talking about. Hey, what time is it?" Lola sat up and attempted to look at her alarm clock through her clouded over eyes, with little luck.
"Don't change the subject on me! The movie, Lola. Why didn't you tell me?!"
Lola fell back on her pillow with the phone's receiver on her face.
"How did you find out, Lil?"
"Gloria told me!"
"Gloria? What were you doing talking to Gloria?" She looked at her phone slightly perturbed.
"I called your work, and they said you hadn't been there in weeks and I got worried. So I called Gloria to see what was happening and she told me the whole thing. Shame on you! You had me worried that you were dead in a gutter, but instead you're out gallivanting with Bugs Bunny! You know how big of a fan I am Lola! Why wouldn't you tell me?! It makes no sense I mean, what were you thinking?!"
Lola held the phone away from her head to shield her ears from her sister's ranting.
"Wait wait, how do you know Gloria's number?"
"Lola!! Answer me!"
"Alright alright, I'm sorry, okay?" Lola sat up and rubbed her eyes to wake herself up more.
"No, that's not "okay", why didn't you tell me?"
"I dunno, 'cause I knew you'd go psycho on me?"
"How could you say that? I don't go psycho!"
Lola scoffed. "Yeah, ok."
"So when can I meet him?"
"Who?"
"You know who! Gosh Lola, you can be such an airhead."
"Coming from you, I guess I should be really insulted."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
There was a pause.
"I rest my case." Lola yawned and stood up to stretch.
"Lola…"
"I don't know! I barely know the guy! I can't go up and be like, "hey, wanna meet my crazy sister?" She lied, she knew she probably could, but just didn't want to.
"Sure you can! Just, without the crazy part."
"You're such a pain." Lola smirked and continued stretching.
"Me?! You kept this from me for this long, you're the pain!"
"You've always been a pain. I mean, look how early it is. It's only…" Lola looked at her alarm clock again and shrieked. "10am?! Holy shit, I gotta go!"
"You can't just leave! When can I meet—"
"Gotta go!" Lola hung up the phone and ran into her closet.
Lola burst through the doors to the locker room set, and stopped to catch her breath. She looked up to find that everyone in the room was staring at her. Looney Tunes and crew alike.
She looked around nervously, then straightened up and acted as if all was normal. She strolled over to a bench and sat down to listen to the meeting that was already in progress.
Someone tapped her from behind and she looked over her shoulder and saw Bugs.
"By the way, one of your scenes is today." He whispered.
"Pfft, yeah thanks." Lola shook her head and continued listening to, who she now discovered was the director.
She paled before turning back to Bugs.
"Shit, I was ranting to him about how horribly organized this whole set up was the other day. I didn't realize he was the director. I must've made a complete ass of myself."
Bugs chuckled under his breath. "He mentioned somethin' about that to me the other day. He thought it was kinda funny."
She let out an exasperated sigh and turned back around to find that the director was now gone, and the toons were beginning to disperse and go about their own business.
"Damn it, he's done! What'd he say? I missed it!"
"It was just a rehearsal pep-talk for next week when Mike comes in. Or might, anyway. Things keep changin'." Bugs continued sitting.
"We're not going to Chicago now?"
"No no we're still goin', he's just comin' here first I guess." Bugs shrugged. "You're right, this is a stupid set up."
"See?" She threw her hands up in frustration and shook her head.
Bugs laughed.
Daffy walked up and sat between them and turned to Lola.
"Niceth entrance."
Lola played along. "Yeah, I was going for the, 'I-just-got-out-of-bed' look with a hint of 'L.A. traffic-pisses-me-off' motif."
Daffy gestured to her with his thumb and turned to Bugs. "Get a load of her."
Bugs laughed again and leaned around Daffy. "So that's it huh? Traffic and what-not?"
"Actually my sister called me this morning."
"Boriiiing." Daffy got up and swatted Bugs in the head playfully before heading off with the others. Bugs pushed him away and turned to Lola again.
"Yeah? She find out?"
"Oh yeah…"
"And?"
"She wants me to introduce you to her…and marry you…and have your children."
Bugs laughed. "I'm scared."
"I'd be too. But don't worry, nothing's official yet. I kinda hung up on her this morning. I know she'll be on my ass tonight though. She lives in San Francisco, so luckily she can't get here so quickly."
Bugs nodded. "So I can roam the streets freely tonight?"
Lola laughed. "Yeah. I was thinking about taking her to Chicago when we go. That way there's a lot to keep her busy and out of my hair."
"You can definitely find something to distract her in that city."
"I heard there's a lot of shopping there, she's a total mall girl."
"There's a big mall in a small town called Schaumburg just on the outskirts of Chicago. She could get lost in that for a few days."
She smiled at his helpfulness. "Good. I'll bring her then. You won't mind meeting her then will you?"
"Nah. Just check her for rope and chlorophyll before I'm left alone with her."
Lola walked through her front door and dropped her purse in the middle of her living room. She walked into her kitchen and pulled out a carton of orange juice and drank from it as she went to her answering machine, which was blinking at an alarming rate.
She pressed a button on it. "You have…36…new messages."
Lola rolled her eyes. "All Lily I'll bet." She hit the erase button and made her way to her bedroom, carton still in hand.
Not a second after she sat down at the foot of her bed, her phone rang. She let out a sigh and got up to answer it.
"Yes Lily?"
"Where have you been?!"
"At work…"
"So when can I meet him?"
"Get right to the point why don't ya? No, how was your day Lola, or nice weather we've been having?"
"LOLA!"
"Listen, in two weeks we're going to Chicago to shoot some scenes there. You can tag along, but you have to PROMISE not to embarrass me. And you can't be on the set while we're working. You can shop and do whatever you want while we're there, but when I tell you to leave me alone, you have to either go back to the hotel, or find something else to do at least 5 miles away. Alright?"
"But I get to meet him though, right?"
"YES! Now shut up!" Lola slammed the phone down then reached for her TV remote and turned her TV on. Her phone rang again and she answered it in a huff.
"What!?"
"Lola?"
Lola smacked her forehead when she realized it wasn't her sister. It was Daphne.
"Hey, sorry."
"Rough day?" Daphne chuckled.
"No, I just got off the phone with my sister. I thought you were her calling me back. Again."
"I see. Found out huh?"
"Yeah and I'm paying for it." Lola rubbed her forehead.
"Hmmm. So I heard you got some scenes in today? How'd that go?"
Lola laid back on her bed and flipped through the channels. "It was alright. Of course, all I said was "oh my" but…you know. It was something. Better than what I've been doing the past month and a half!"
Daphne giggled. "Hey, I was wondering. If you were up to it, you wanna hit a club tonight with me and some of the other girls?"
Lola shot up. "Really?!"
"Yeah, it'll be fun."
"I'd love to!"
"Great! I'll come by to pick you up around 7, 'kay?"
"Sure thing!"
"Alright. See ya!"
"Bye!" Lola beamed. She shot up and ran to her closet. Clothes and shoes came flying from it and landed all over her floor.
Her phone rang again.
"What now?!" Lola yelled from her closet before running for her phone, leaving a trail of clothes behind her. "Geez, I'm popular tonight!" She picked up the phone and sighed.
"Hello?"
"Hey, it's Gloria."
"Oh. Hey, what's goin' on?"
"Not much, just wondering how you were doing. We haven't seen you for a while, I was wondering if you wanted to get together tonight to catch up. I've been calling you off and on all day, did you get any of my messages?"
Lola's heart sank. She pulled a blouse off from the top of her head and sat down on her bed. She felt a little bad that she assumed all the messages were from her sister and didn't check them.
"Actually, I sort of have plans tonight."
"Oh."
"Yeah." Lola trailed off and tried to piece together a solution in her head.
"Like what?"
"Well my friend Daphne asked me to go to a club with her and some of her friends and…"
"Oh. I see." Lola could tell from Gloria's tone that she was hurt.
"It's not like that Gloria. You're still my friend. Hey, maybe you can come with us?"
"No, that's alright. I'll see you some other time."
"But Gloria…"
The other line went dead and Lola stared at the receiver. She sighed and hung up the phone, feeling bad knowing that had she heard one of her messages, she would've made plans with her before Daphne called. But there wasn't much she could do about it, and got up to continue looking for something to wear.
There was a knock at Lola's door and she ran to get it. She straightened herself out and took a deep breath before opening the door.
"Ding dong!" Daphne chimed.
"Hey! Come in!"
Daphne walked past her followed by two cats Lola didn't know.
Lola stared at one of them and searched her memory.
"You look…familiar. You're uhm…"
The cat smiled sweetly and held her hand out to shake Lola's hand. "Penelope."
"Oh, yeah! Right! Nice to meet you!"
Penelope giggled and nodded her head.
Lola then turned to the other cat.
"Ok, now I have no idea who you are."
The cat laughed and shook Lola's hand too. "I'm Sylvia."
Lola gave a questioning look to Daphne who leaned towards her and whispered.
"That's Sylvester's wife."
"Oh! I didn't know he was married. Neat!"
Daphne laughed and quoted Lola. "Neat…"
"Do all of you have matching names or something?"
They all exchanged confused glances before looking back at Lola.
"What do you mean?" Penelope tilted her head.
"Uh, never mind. Say, isn't there some pig girl in the group of Looney gals?" Lola pondered.
"Petunia?" Sylvia said with a hint of sarcasm.
Penelope leaned towards Lola shyly. "We don't…really…"
"She's a bitch." Daphne stated bluntly and crossed her arms.
"Oh. Alright?"
Daphne clapped her hands together. "So! Everyone ready to party?"
Everyone nodded and they all set out for Daphne's car.
"Look who made it on time today." Daffy teased as Lola stumbled past him.
"Can it…you…you…" She burped and continued walking past him.
"Who doesth that remind me of?" He cast a wry smile to Bugs who was once again, not paying attention.
"Huh?"
Daffy pointed at the stumbling Lola.
"Whoa, what happened to ya?" Bugs stood, ready to catch her if she were to topple over.
Lola turned to Bugs and he could tell she was hung over. She opened her mouth to speak but she ended up yawning instead.
"Daph took her out to an "initiation" party last night at sthome night club." Daffy chuckled. "They didn't get back til around 4am."
"Ohhh…" Bugs approached Lola and talked to her as if she no longer spoke English. "Lo-la? Do you need cof-fee? Cof-fee good. Yais?"
She shooed him away. "I ain't dumb! You don't need to (hic) talk to me like I'm a baby."
Bugs and Daffy laughed and watched her stumble away.
Daffy turned to Bugs and smirked to which Bugs cocked an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Remindsth me of sthome of your late nightsh."
"What are you sayin', that I'm always drunk and late for things?"
"Well there'sth that. But I mean she'sth like…your twin. Only, you look nothing alike. What'sth the word for that?" Daffy looked skyward as if deep in thought.
Bugs' eyes lowered into a bored expression. "You're retarded."
"No, that'sth not it. Fraternal, that'sth it!" Daffy paused for a second before Bugs' insult made it to his brain and he pushed him. "Hey!"
"Hey yourself!" Bugs pushed him back.
"No YOU hey!"
"Hey! Stop sayin' hey!"
Lola's aching head was not yet prepared to handle their childish stupidity and yelled at them from across the court. "Both of you shut up!"
A/N: I've been to that mall in Schaumburg. Twice. No wait…3 times. Maybe 4. It's friggin' huge! I haven't even seen all of it! And don't ask me about my reasoning behind Petunia being a bitch. She just is…
