Chapter 7: The Moon and the Wedding

Cleo finished dressing Aggie, Ashley, and Alex as Ash came in with Katrina, Kristina, and Claudia. They too were dressed for the wedding. Ash was holding Claudia's hand and keeping a close eye on Katrina and Kristina. Kim, Ally, Annie, and Angela were in the other room getting in there dresses. Cleo and Ash were already in there outfits. The moon had risen about two minutes ago.

"Great more identical people," Cleo said lifting Aggie off her lap. "Where is Annie?"

"She's with my mom, getting her instructions for singing." Ash explained.

Cleo nodded in understandment.

"Look, I need to get the rings. Can you just watch the kids for five secants?" Ash asked letting go of Claudia's hand. "Claudia is blind, as you should know, and the twins can be quite uncontrollable."

"I can handle the girls you get the rings," Cleo told him.

As soon as he left, Kim came out of the dressing room. She was not in her dress yet and looked mad. She was holding the tree dresses. She tossed them in front of Cleo and said, "My dress ripped, Ally's is the wrong size, and Angela refuses to wear hers."

As Kim said this Alex and Ashley were getting into the meat snacks that were set out. Katrina and Kristina were starting to run around chasing each other. Cleo was oblivious to anything that not going on inside her and Kim's conversation about the dresses until there was a crash behind her. She spun around to see Alex in the middle of a circle of broken glass and ham rowels. She was down on the floor with in the next secant.

Ash reentered the room to see Cleo sitting with Alex on her lap Aggie and Ashley close by. Kim, Angela, and Ally were still not in there dresses and the other three were sitting quietly on the other side of the room. There was still a mess of glass and ham next to the snack table. Ash set the rings down and went straight to Cleo and Alex. He was so caught up trying to get the triplets and the dress situation sorted out that he had turned his back on the twins and Claudia.

As Ash's back was turned Kristina and Katrina got up form the corner of the room and went to look at the wedding rings. Kristina pulled the very small bride's ring from the case and put it on her chubby finger. Ash turned just in time to see what she was doing and dropped the dress situation.

"Kristina, what on earth are you doing?" Ash said lifting the five-year-old girl up in the air and looked at the ring on her finger.

Cleo sat Alex on the floor with a paper towel around her cut finger and ran over to where Ash was inspecting the ring that was now stuck on the little girl's finger. Aggie stayed close to her as Ashley sat next to Alex. Aggie pulled on the end of Cleo's dress and said, "My tummy hurts."

Cleo got down to the three-year-old's level. She put her hand on Aggie's head. Then she called Ash down. He too felt her head. He looked up at Cleo.

"Um… Ash," Claudia spoke up from the back of the room. "Can I have something to drink?"

"Sure, I'll get you something," Ash said jumping up from in front of Aggie.

He picked Kristina back up and went to the snack table to get some juice. He then went to the back of the room to give it to Claudia. He helped her take the cup in her hand. Then he said, "Be carful It's red and will dye your dress."

Just then his phone rang. This in turn made Claudia jump and spill her juice all over her light pink dress. Ash sighed and answered his phone with Kristina still in his arms. It was Lewis.

"So, dude is everything ok there?" Lewis asked.

"Yeah, everything is fine… with Cleo," Ash told Lewis.

"What's not fine?" Lewis asked.

"Everything else," Ash answered still looking at the ring on Kristina's finger and Aggie next to Cleo. "Look, man, I have to go. Things are not perfect around here." Ash hung up his phone.

Just then Ashley, who was now standing next to Katrina, started to wale. Katrina had pinched her arm after Ashley made a comment about how Kristina was overreacting. Cleo lifted Aggie and went right to the crying three-year-old. Things were getting quite hard to handle around there. Between the two teens, they now had to deal with a ripped dress, a too small dress, a girl who won't wear her dress, a girl with a stained dress, a girl with the wedding ring stuck to her finger, a girl who is messing with her sister, a girl who was in tears, a girl with a cut finger, and a girl who was sick.

Ash looked around at all that was going on then asked, "Thing can't get much worse, can they?"

"With all that is going on, I don't think anything else could go wrong," Cleo told him setting Aggie on the couch and turned around.

With all that was going on the teens forgot to cover all the windows. There was one window that didn't get covered completely. Un to the teens' luck it was a great window to have moonlight come though.

Right after Cleo set Aggie down; she spun around and stopped in her tracks. The moon came in through the window, and Cleo caught a glimpse of it.

"Cleo… oh no," Ash said looking at Cleo. "That is how it could get worse."

Emma and Zane

Emma smiled as she watched Zane from behind his door. Zane had not seen her yet. She giggled and froze the water on the ends of Zane's wet hair. He started to shiver at the sudden drop in tempter. Zane jumped up to find Emma in a gaze sitting on the floor in front of his room.

"You are going to be the most annoying roommate ever," Zane said taking Emma by the arm and taking her back to her room.

Just as he escorted her onto her bed, her phone rang. Zane picked it up off her desk and looked at the caller id. It was Lewis, checking in. He put the phone on silent and placed it back on her desk. That is when he noticed the English paper on her desk. He picked it up and read the title. It was "The Sun on a Hot Day." It was one of the most boring stories Zane had ever read, not that he's read many stories. Then He saw the one under it. Other then the mention of mermaids at the end, it was great. To his surprise, it looked like Emma was going to turn in the bad one. So he quickly switched the papers and put the story about diving into the ocean in Emma's English folder to turn in. Em will thank me for this. He thought.