Hello everyone! I hope you have been enjoying this story. Sorry we haven't updated in a while, we've been extremely busy. So, without further ado, here's six!
It's Thursday morning. I'm still annoyed at my ankle. I want to play soccer for crying out loud! I'm trying not to think about it too much though. I'm also not trying to think about the discovery I made. I'm using distractions. The beginning of the morning goes by pretty normally. Rosalind prepared breakfast again because Daddy and Iantha are still working. Breakfast was good, and after that Batty and Ben go outside, Jane goes up to her room to write, Rosalind cleans up, and Jeffrey and I go upstairs to his room. We're talking.
"So," I say. "How's your school?"
"Oh it's great. I love it so much."
"Cool." We sit in silence for a moment.
"Do you wanna watch a movie on my laptop?"
"Sure." I run downstairs and look for a movie. I find one and grin. Oh, this will be great. I go back to him.
"Okay!" I say cheerfully. "I have one!" I show the disc to him.
"Oh no," he says. "Oh no no no. Mean Girls?! No!" I give out a mirthless laugh.
"Yes! Ha! No, but seriously I love this movie. We're watching it."
"I would never have thought that you would like something like this!"
"Every girl likes Mean Girls! Please, can we watch it?" I give him my best puppy dog eyes. He sighs.
"Okay, fine." I clap my hands. He pops in the disc. The movie begins. We're watching and laughing. I suddenly remember what my friend Jen said.
"You know a guy likes you if he's willing to watch girl movies with you." I can't help but wonder if that pertains to this moment or not. Probably not. But then he puts his arm around me.
"What? He's a good kisser!" He quickly removes his arm, looking embarrassed. Darn you movie! Such awful timing! Whatever. I really don't want to care, but I can't help it. I do. The movie continues, but then Rosalind barges into the room. Jeffrey pauses it.
"Is Hound in here?" she asks frantically.
"No," Jeffrey says. "Why?"
""His girlfriend is having puppies and he needs to be there!" She runs out.
"Wait," I said to Jeffrey. "Did she just say Hound has a girlfriend?"
"I was more preoccupied with the fact that she's having puppies," he said. We discuss this for a minute, and then Rosalind comes in again.
"Skye, you're the OAP until I get back?"
"What?! But what about Iantha and Daddy?"
"They're at a meeting and won't be back 'till late. But don't worry, I'll be back in a couple hours."
"A couple hours?" But she's already out the door. I pinch the bridge of my nose.
"Oh no," I say. "I'm a terrible OAP!"
"No your not," he says. "If you hadn't been the OAP I probably would never have found out that Alec was my father, and although I didn't realise it at the time, that was probably one of the best things that's ever happened to me." I shake my head. I hear the door click. Rosalind and Hound are gone. I know for a fact that Jane went outside with Batty and Ben, so hopefully she's watching them. The phone rings downstairs. I run down to pick it up.
"Hello?" I say.
"Hello? Which one of you is this? Well, it doesn't matter. This is Jeffrey's mother." Oh great. I suddenly hear a scream. Jane's probably just tickling them.
"Hello. What do you want?" I say, a little more rudely than I intended to. But then Batty comes running in.
"Skye! Help! A skunk got into the house!"
"I'll call you back," I say, and hang up. "How did a skunk get in?"
"We had the door open, and then we saw a skunk. We hid in the bushes, and it walked into the house! I think it's in the bathroom now." Jane and Ben come in too. We all quietly walk over to the bathroom. The skunk is sitting on the closed lid of the toilet. It sees us and bolts. We all chase after it. We're making a lot of noise, and I guess Jeffrey could hear us from upstairs, so he comes down.
"What's going on?!" he asked.
"A skunk is running around the house!" Jane shrieks. We continue to chase it. We have it cornered in the kitchen.
"Okay," I whisper. "We need to act very calmly and slowly." Batty ignores me and runs forward. The skunk sprays her. It smells terrible!
"Yuck!" I say, and plug my nose. Jane and Jeffrey do the same. Baty looks like the smell has intoxicated her. Jeffrey takes this moment to grab a plate and edge the skunk out the door. He closes the door and the skunk is gone.
"Thanks," I say. "But now we have to deal with this problem." None of us know what to do get rid of the smell of skunk spray, so we just shove Batty in the shower. Jeffrey goes downstairs to see what we can do with her clothes, and Jane and I try to wash her. lt's not working. Then Jane looks out the window and shrieks.
"What?! What?!"
"Rosalind's coming back!" We know it'll look suspicious if Batty isn't there for the unveiling of the puppies. We quickly dress her in a sundress. She still smells though. I run into Rosalind's room and take all of her perfume. We spray everything we have on Batty. She now smells strongly of passion fruit, Rosalind's favorite scent, but at least not like skunk. I just hope Rosalind doesn't notice that the majority of her perfume is gone. Whatever, that's the least of our issues. We're in for a long day.
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