(A/N: This chapter is based on the episode "Junior Prom". Enjoy!)
Could It Be?
Ch. 24
At the Carmichael household, the toddlers plus Angelica and Susie Carmichael were hanging out in the living room while Didi and Lucy were preparing a dress for Susie's big sister, 15-year-old Alisa Carmichael, who was chatting on her cell phone. "So Tad asked me first, but then Casey asked me, so I just had to, y'know, be fair and flip a coin."
The family pet cat, Chowder, was sitting with the babies as they played with a red ball. Angelica and Susie were sitting a distance away, looking in one of Lucy and Randy's yearbooks. "Why is Alisa wearing her nighty gown in the daytime?" Lil wondered aloud, as she threw the ball to Phil.
"I dunno. Guess she forgot to get dressed."
"Alisa, honey, could you stand still?" Lucy requested.
"Mom! This is kinda important," Alisa went back to her call, "Sorry, back. And we're going in a limo! Isn't that cool?"
Meanwhile, Susie was showing Angelica one of the photos in the album. One showed a teenage Lucy talking on her phone as her mother prepared her dress. "See? There's my mom, and there's my grand-mama." She then turned the page to some other photos.
"Wow! Nice party!"
"It wasn't a party; It was a prom. See? They drink punch, and eated, and danced under the shiny ball. And, Mommy and Daddy was the prom king and queen."
The last part caught Angelica's attention, but she was skeptical. "Prom queen? I never heard of a prom queen. I think you're making that up."
"I am not!" Susie glared. "Here's their picture to prove it!" She showed her a photo of Lucy and Randy in their teenage years, each sitting on a throne, and wearing crowns. "See? All the kids in their school voted for them to be king and queen."
"Whoa!" Angelica was intrigued at the idea of being chosen to be queen. She held onto the book as a smile grew on her face.
Meanwhile, Didi and Lucy were trying to pull the dress down on Alisa, but she was still on the phone. "And my dress is baby blue, to match the "harvesting the sea" theme." She stepped down from the stool and walked away.
"We had a bicentennial theme," Didi conversed with Lucy, "The boys were quite dashing in their 3-cornered hats and knickers."
"Alisa, watch the kids a minute, okay?" Lucy headed to the kitchen with Didi.
"Sure, Mom," She then went back to her conversation. "And I told him he can bring me any kind of flowers for my corsage." She headed out of the room. "As long as they're roses and baby's-breath."
"I betcha Alisa's gonna be the prom queen, 'cause she is really popular," Susie remarked to Angelica.
"Ezzactly! That's why when I'm grown up, I'm gonna be the prom queen!" Angelica bragged.
"Me too!"
"You? I don't think so! I mean, no offense Susie, but nobody's gonna vote for you, on account of they're all gonna be voting for me."
"But I'm nice! They'd vote for me!"
"No they wouldn't!"
"They would so!" They looked to the toddlers sitting in a circle.
"Doggy, doggy!" Dil cooed at Chowder as he walked away.
"Well, why don't we just settle this right now, Susie?" Angelica stood up, and walked to the babies with Susie following. "Oh, hello, babies. Guess what you get to do? You babies are gonna vote for one of us to be queen. And you better think real hard about it first!"
"Angelica, that's not how it works," Susie informed her, "If we're gonna vote on who gets to be prom queen, we have to have a prom."
"Oh, alright. First, you boys have to pick a girl to go with you to the prom."
"Why do we gotta ask?" Chuckie asked her. "It's your idea."
"Just pick a girl, and ask her! Now!" She commanded.
"You wanna go to the prom?" Phil asked Lil.
"'Kay," She shrugged.
"Next!"
Chuckie turned to his best girl friend. "Um, uh Shenzi?" She looked at him. "Um, would you, wi-..."
"Sure Chuckie," She agreed with a giggle, "I'll go to the prom with you." He laid his hand over his heart with a bashful grin, and a slight blush on his cheeks.
The blonde turned to Tommy, and cleared her throat, gaining his attention. "Um, you wanna go to the prom, Angelica?"
"Mmm, let me think about it."
"Yucky! Yucky!" Dil waved to her.
"Wow! Two boys wanna take me to the prom! I must be pretty popular! Hmmm, what should I do?"
"Well, if you don't wanna go, I guess I can take Reptar," Tommy grabbed onto his Reptar doll.
"I guess you're taking Dil, Angelica," Susie snickered.
"Forget it!" She refused. "He'll drool all over my dress! I'll go with Tommy!"
"But who'll go with Dil?" Tommy wondered aloud.
"Don't worry, Tommy; I'll go with him," Susie offered.
"That's great! Thanks, Susie!"
"Yeah, yeah, happy, happy. Now, get us some flowers!" Angelica commanded. "And they'd better be roses and baby's breath! Come on, Susie! We got work to do!" She headed outside with Susie, and the toddlers shrugged in confusion.
"And I wore a red, white and blue ruffle gown," Didi said to Lucy, "Some people said I was the spitting image of Betsy Ross."
Outside, the boys plus Lil were looking for flowers to give Angelica, Susie, and Shenzi, who were inside the house. Dil was sitting in the Reptar wagon. "Hey, there's a pretty one," Phil grabbed a snail, and held it to Lil, "You want this instead of flowers?" The snail stared at her with its blinking eyes.
"Okay," She agreed, and put the snail on her dress.
"You think these are roses, Tommy?" Chuckie asked him.
"Hmm, I dunno, Chuckie. There's no ring around them." They were actually purple clematis flowers. "But there's no other flowers here, so these gots to be roses. Let's pick 'em." They each pulled a flower out of the dirt. "Now, alls we need is baby's breath." Tommy and Chuckie exhaled onto the flowers for that.
"I sure hope Shenzi likes this flower," Chuckie remarked, "'Cause it's making me dizzy." He flopped on his back in the grass.
"F'ower, f'ower," Dil cooed and giggled, as Chuckie walked away after recovering.
"Okay Dilly, you can help," Tommy held his flower up in Dil's reach, but Dil sneezed on it, leaving only 3 petals covered in drool.
Just then, Angelica and Susie came walking out in the yard. "Sorry there wasn't a better dress for you, Shenzi," Susie glanced back, "Alisa's old witch dress was all I could find."
"It's fine!" Shenzi came following them in a black dress with draped sleeves that dragged on the ground. Her sneakers peeked out from under the skirt. She had sneaked into the master bedroom, and stole Randy's bow tie from his wedding suit, wearing it like a necklace.
Susie came up to Lil, holding an orange dress with yellow polka dots. "Here, Lil. This can be your prom dress."
"Ooh, prettyful!" Lil spun around while holding the straps.
"Oh, Tommy!" Angelica gushed. "You got me a limbo!" She walked up to the Reptar Wagon, where Tommy was standing in the grass. "You shouldn't have!"
"Shouldn't have what?" He shrugged in confusion. Angelica put a checkerboard-printed newsboy cap on Dil's head as he cooed, and it covered his face.
"Here Chuckie," Susie walked up to him, holding a black bow tie, with Shenzi following, "This is my daddy's."
Chuckie took it, then after trying to figure out how to wear it, he put it on his head like a headband. "Uh, Chuckie?" Phil turned to him. "I think it's upside down." He turned it around, then was satisfied.
"You boys can get dressed later. It's time to vote for prom queen!"
"No, Angelica!" Susie protested. "First we have to decorate the yard, and take our prom pictures!"
Tommy dumped some hats and scarves out of one bag, as Angelica grabbed a jar of glitter, then shook it everywhere she could reach from the picnic table. "Okay, I decorated. Let's take the pictures." She jumped down on the ground. "Wait! Where's my flowers? A queen's s'posed to have flowers!"
Tommy, who now wore a striped necktie and a fedora hat, reached into his diaper, and took out the flower. "I got you roses, and baby's breath. Um, and Dil breathed on it too." He gave it to her.
Angelica noticed the drool on it, and tossed it behind her back. "Yuck!"
Chuckie came to his "date" with a flower, his shy stammering catching her attention. He now had a pink scarf with blue flowers around his waist. "Here's your flower, Shenzi."
"Thank you, Chuckie." She admired it as he blushed bashfully.
Angelica grabbed a toy camera, and walked up to Phil, who wore a red baseball cap and a pink bead necklace. "Alright Phil, take my picture, and it better be good!" She gave him the camera. "I wanna 'member this day 'til I'm 5." As she posed, Phil snapped pictures and they fell out of a slot in the camera, although she was in none of them. "Oh, Phil! What kind of stinky, picture taker are you? I'm not in any of these pictures!"
Lil picked up one of the pictures off the ground. "There's a teeny weeny eeny bit of you, Angelica." She gave it to the older girl.
"Oh, gimme that!" She snatched it away, and had a look. There was just one of her pigtails in the picture. "Yep, that's me. Okay, let's go to the prom and get this whole thing over with."
"Hey, that's not fair!" Shenzi came up to her. "Me and Chuckie don't gots nothing to 'member this day."
"Hmm," Angelica picked something up from the sidewalk, "Here."
Shenzi skeptically took it. "A leaf?" She frowned in disappointment, dropping the leaf on the ground.
As Angelica walked away pridefully, Chuckie came up to his "date", and twiddle his foot on the ground timidly. "Uh, I'll 'member this day anyhow, Shenzi." A shy blush and smile grew on her face.
Phil grabbed a picture he took of Lil's snail, and held it out to her. "You want this for a prom picture?"
"Okay," She shrugged and accepted it. She now had a blue belt around her stomach.
The group headed for the wagon, as Angelica made it first. "Time for my limbo ride," She announced to Dil. She went to climb in, but Tommy caught her attention.
"Angelica, why don't we just walk to the prom?" He suggested. "It's right over there." He pointed to the picnic table.
"We was just there, anyhow," Shenzi added.
Angelica was quiet for a moment, but then protested. "Walk? Queens don't walk."
"You're not queen yet, Angelica," Susie hopped in the wagon, "I might be the queen, y'know."
"Me too!" Shenzi hopped in next to her, as Angelica climbed in the front with Dil.
"Move over!" She tried to make herself comfortable in the seat. Tommy and Chuckie shrugged, then went to board the wagon. "Uh-uh-uh!" Angelica stopped them. "You two push."
"What about me and Lil?" Phil walked up to them with his twin sister.
But at this time, the wagon started moving. "Who am I, the fairy bobmother? Get your own limbo!"
He turned to her. "Wanna walk to the prom?"
"'Kay," She shrugged, and they walked back to the picnic table.
Meanwhile, Chuckie and Tommy were pushing the wagon up a hill, until they stopped at the peak. Angelica jumped out, then started singing for her entrance. "Here comes the queen! Dum dum du-dum!"
"Yeah, here she comes!" Susie ran after her.
"M-me too!" Shenzi followed them, and they stopped at the table, where the twins were eating cookies.
Angelica turned to Susie when she saw her glaring. "Oh, Susie! If you really wanna know how more popular I am than you and Tuck, we'll vote." Shenzi glared at her surname mention. Angelica grabbed Tommy's arm, and pulled him over. "Okay Tommy, time to vote, and it'd better be for me!"
"Um, I guess you can be queen if you wanna be."
"That's one for me," She gloated to Susie and Shenzi, "And now, I get to vote." Phil and Lil watched silently from the table. "Hmm... I vote for- me! That's 6 for me." She then turned to the redhead. "Chuckie?"
"Uh, are you sure you wanna be queen, Angelica?" He hesitated. "Queens have to sit on a throne all day, 'til their bottoms are sore, and they..."
"Just vote, Finster!" She cut him off.
"I think the queen should be...!" He looked back and forth at the 3 girls, Angelica glaring, Susie smiling, and Shenzi looking hopeful. Dil was playing with the steering wheel, when he accidentally turned the brake off. Chuckie was about to make his decision, when he saw the wagon heading right for Angelica! He gasped in shock, and spoke up. "Angelica!" He screamed in warning.
But the girls had the wrong idea. "Hear that?" She turned to the disappointed girls. "Even your date voted for me, Tuck." Shenzi slumped in disappointment.
"No, no! I mean Angelica, look out!" He pointed behind their backs, and they saw the wagon treading through the flowers.
"Hey Dil, watch out!" Angelica tried to stop him, but he played with the horn as he kept going. She jumped out of the way after Tommy, Chuckie and the girls ran away, but she ended up spilling the bowl of grape juice on all of them. They all except her started laughing with one another. The twins were still watching, as Dil finally stopped at the table. "Yuck! I got punch all over my sparkly, haren dress! Queens have to be clean!"
"Well, I'm all dirty too," Susie pointed out.
"Me too," Shenzi added.
"So how about we just forget about being queen?" Susie suggested humbly.
Naturally, Angelica refused. "Oh, you just wait! We're gonna have another prom at my house, and then we'll see who gets to be queen!" She stomped away in anger.
Shenzi then turned to her "date". "Come on, Chuckie! Let's dance!" She walked in the grass with him, hand-in-hand, as Tommy took Dil's hat off, and gave him a cookie.
"Lillian, you wanna be the prom queen?" Phil asked her with his mouth full.
"Okay," She agreed, and went back to eating, "You wanna be the king?"
"'Kay, Your Majesty," He put a paper cup on her head for a crown, and they shared a laugh.
"Your Majesty!" She giggled.
Angelica watched scornfully from another part of the yard with the picture of her pigtail. "Yeah, I'm gonna be prom queen next year, and next year, and the nextest year after that," She vowed.
"Hey uh, Shenzi?" Chuckie timidly addressed her, as Susie started dancing with Dil.
"Uh huh?"
"If the wagon hadn't rolled up to us... I would've chosen you."
"Really?" Her cheeks blushed.
"Yeah. I think you're the bestest choice for prom queen."
"Thanks, Chuckie!" She suddenly hugged him, and planted a kiss on his cheek, making his face flush red, almost matching his hair.
(A/N: Well, there you have it! Sorry if it wasn't very exciting. You know the disclaimer.)