Note: I wrote this last night, but I reread it this morning and saw it was a repeat from the last update. I thought it was different. I just took the stuff I repeated and kept the rest. Sorry about the late update. Been enjoying original stories lately.
Before they left for supper that evening, George and Louise showed up so they could meet Claudia and her friends and decide who would stay with who, which made sense.
"Hello, George and Louise. Why don't you come on in?"
"Thank you, Archie," Louise said and walked in.
"So these must be the contest winners," George greeted the girls.
"Yes, we are, Mr. Jefferson. I'm Claudia. I was the one who saw the advertisement."
"Glad you could come, girls. Why did you want us here, Edith?" Louise asked.
"Well, Louise, we have all five girls over and we don't have much room for all of them. Do you mind letting a couple of them stay at your place while they're here for the weekend?"
"Be glad to, Edith. Is that why George and I are here?"
"Yes, Louise."
"You can just call us George and Louise instead of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson," George told the girls.
"Now, who should take who, Daddy?"
Dawn was standing next to Gloria.
"You haven't yet introduced you yourselves to us," Louise told them.
"Claudia, Stacey, Mary Anne, Dawn and Kristy," Mary Anne answered.
"Louise, one of these girls is a diabetic. That's so sad. We can take you, Stacey."
"Thank you, Mrs. Bunker."
"Mind if I stay with Stacey, Mrs. Bunker?" Claudia asked.
"That's just fine. Do you want to be with us as well, Dawn?"
"No, thanks, Claudia. I'm going to stay with the Jeffersons."
"Lionel would like to meet you girls. George told him about it."
"Who's Lionel?" Stacey asked.
"He's our son. You girls will make friends with him. He likes meeting new people. He's friendly to strangers."
"I'll go with you, Dawn."
"Okay, Kristy. Who knows, maybe he likes sports also."
"I never really thought about it. He sounds interesting."
Claudia and Stacey are boy – crazy, but they didn't want to use the word 'cute' in front of a few of them. They'll talk about it later, but now wasn't the time to do so. The others agreed to go with Dawn and the Jeffersons.
"I told these girls we were going out to eat since we don't know what they like, Ma."
"We will do that. Do you girls want to unpack now or wait until later?"
"We'll do it later, Mrs. Bunker," Kristy answered.
"We'll just take our suitcases with us, Claudia."
"Okay. Let's go out to eat now."
"That's a good idea."
They did just that.
