AN: Bimby and Tama are unused characters that were in the art of book for the 2019 movie.
The next few days went by quickly up until Thursday when the girls were having their drama performance that evening at the school. They were already there along with Thing to do some last-minute rehearsal before they had to do the real show in front of their families and other students.
Lisa looked into the mirror in her bedroom as she cleaned her glasses and combed her hair; almost ready to head off with the Addamses to watch the drama club show case at the school. She smiled as she gave her reflection a thumbs up; telling herself she looked just right.
"Ms Lisa! You are ready?!"
Lisa head Gomez calling from the stairway outside. Guess everyone was ready to leave.
"Coming!" she called back as she quickly grabbed her phone and put it in the pocket of her jeans.
Lisa quickly ran out of the room and zoomed down the stairs to join the family; all of them ready to leave for the evening. When everyone was outside, Lurch started the car and Gomez said one more goodbye to Kitty before the front door practically locked itself. When everyone was in the family car, Lurch immediately took off; the front gate letting them out and closing itself straight after.
"Oh, I just can't wait to see Wednesday and her friends little production." Morticia spoke in quiet excitement before turning towards Lisa. "The Raven is her favourite Poe story."
"Yeah. She said she knows the whole thing off by heart." Lisa recalled Wednesday saying so.
"I still think they should've done the tell-tale heart. That one's a lot more suspenseful then a bird that won't shut up." Uncle Fester gave out his two cents.
"Yeah. They could use buckets of blood for the heart." Pugsley said with a mischievous grin.
Lisa blinked as she looked out the window of the backseat; trying to scoot away from Pugsley and his evil grin.
"Well, I'm looking forward to what the girls have to show tonight." Gomez said with a smile before it quickly turned into a look of thought. "It does make me wonder what the other children are doing though."
Grandmama made a noise of disgust at the thought of what those other children thought passed as entertainment.
"From what Wednesday said this morning, those kids have no idea what good entrainment is." The old witch spoke in an unimpressed tone before starting a mini rant. "When I was just a child, the best show my father took me too was a public execution. It also taught me how gravity works.
Lisa just stayed silent as she stared at the woman while the rest of the Addamses laughed. Lurch just kept his eyes on the road.
"Was it a hanging or guillotine execution?" Lisa asked out of morbid curiosity.
"Both. They hung the man five times and then they put him under the blade to finish the job." Grandmama spoke with a reminiscent smile on her face. "Now that was entertainment. Always got everyone's attention."
Lisa blinked with an uncertain nod as she wondered how old Grandma Addams actually was to remember hanging and guillotine executions. But she almost jumped when she realised her phone might still have the sound on. The young quickly dug into her pocket and took out the device; intending to put it on silent for the show.
But a look of blank worry appeared on her face when she remembered her blocked notifications. She slowly put her phone down as she remembered how distraught her mother was in that voice message she left last week. Lisa wanted to think that message she left might have calmed her down. But what if it did more harm than good and she was more worried about her daughter more than ever. Morticia turned her head to look at everyone in the back seat when she noticed Lisa's worried expression.
"Lisa? Are you alright?" Mrs Addams asked in slight concern.
Lisa looked up at the mention of her name before realising what Morticia just asked her.
"Oh I'm okay, Morticia." Lisa quickly reassured the woman as she adjusted her phone without looking. "Just turning the sound off on my phone. Don't want it to go off during the show, right?"
Morticia nodded in agreement before turning back to the front. Lisa quickly put her phone back into her pocket; thinking her phone was on silent. But she did not realise that she turned calls back on without looking.
Lisa crawled out of her seat of the car as she looked at the school Wednesday and her friends went to. It looked like any other school she had seen in her lifetime; Though she noticed Morticia and Gomez seemed a bit unnerved as they looked at it and all the people going inside.
"I just can't get my head around why they painted the banner with such a headache inducing colour." Morticia pointed at the banner hanging over the front entrance to the school.
Lisa blinked in confusion before she spotted the banner in question; seeing a Fluro yellow sign hanging over the doors with the words 'drama club showcases tonight' in bright orange lettering. Lisa could see very clearly why Morticia thought it was headache inducing. She had to turn away after looking at it for a few seconds.
"Least it's not pink." Gomez said with a shrug.
Before Mr Addams could even say another word, a woman quickly grabbed his arm from behind and twisted it behind him. Gomez barely had any time to react before he was flipped over onto his back on the grass. Lisa gasped in shock while everyone else smiled at the sight.
"Surprised to see you here, Ophelia." Gomez with a rather delighted smile despite his now sore head.
Lisa blinked in confusion before she got a better look at the woman that judo flipped Gomez. She was a rather pale lady with long straight blond hair with what looked like a ring of daisies on top of her head with a pair of eyes that could see into a person's soul if they stared. She wore a dark sepia tone coloured dress going down below her knees with black shoes that almost looked like ballerina slippers. Lisa continued to stare while Morticia and the rest of the family looked glad to see her.
"Ophelia, darling!" Morticia greeted the woman as she walked up and hugged her.
"Oh, it's been too long, Morticia!" Ophelia responded as she tightly hugged back. "Three weeks feels like an eternity!"
Everyone else seemed delighted to see this Ophelia lady. But Lisa just grew more confused by the second.
"Um... Hello?" The young lady greeted rather awkwardly.
Morticia and Ophelia looked up at Lisa before gently breaking away from each other.
"Lisa; This is my sister, Ophelia Frump." Mrs Addams introduced the young Lady to the flower headed individual.
Lisa watched as Ophelia stood in front of her and greeted her with a nod and curtsy.
"Delighted to meet you at last, Miss." The rather odd woman greeted kindly before standing up straight. "Morticia told me about you over the phone just the other night. You're just like she said you were."
Lisa listened to what Ophelia said to her as she observed the woman. She did not see much resemblance to Morticia straight away. Her facial features were slightly soft, roundish and bright compared to Morticias' sharpness and darkness. But she definitely had that charm that made her seem like Addams material; especially with that flower crown on her head.
"Nice to meet you too." Lisa greeted back.
"What brings you here, Ophelia?" Fester asked out of curiosity.
"Well, I was just looking after Uncle Floyd and Aunt Loris' children for the day while their parents are having a couples day and romantic dinner at the swamp just outside of town. They wanted to come and see Wednesday performing, so I decided to bring them here." Ophelia explained before looking around for said twins. "Where did those two get off to?"
Before anyone could say another word, Lisa felt someone little gently tugging her shirt. Lisa quickly looked down; thinking a child came up to her and wanted to ask her something or say hello. But her eyes widened when saw said child. Or to put it accurately, children.
Lisa found herself looking at a pair of children that were joined down the middle; looking completely different despite being stuck together. They were dressed in what like an old dark blue children's school uniform that almost looked crudely sawn together down the middle with differently styled sleeves on each side. The head on the left was a little girl with a short dark brunette bob cut and a big bow shaped like a cute vampire bat on top of her head, a nervous looking smile and a big set of eyes on her face with light freckles on her cheeks. The head on the right was a little boy with short, curly, dirty blond hair. His eyes were tired and sleepy looking while he smiled with a rather wide mouth. Lisa found herself lost for words even when Ophelia came up and hugged them.
"There you two are!" She greeted and hugged the conjoined children before looking back at Lisa. "These are Floyd and Loris' kids; Bimby and Tama."
Lisa watched as the conjoined twins came up to her; holding their hands to her with big smiles on their faces.
"It's lovely to meet you, Miss." The girl head greeted politely. "I'm Tama."
"I'm her brother, Bimby. We're twins." The boy head added with a wide smile.
Lisa nodded as she took the twins hands to shake and smiled back.
"You're really twins? I couldn't tell." She jokingly said to humour them.
Tama and Bimby both giggled in response as they let go of Lisa. Morticia looked up as one of teachers came out and called out to everyone who was still outside; getting ready to shut the doors for the performances.
"We should get inside, dear. They're going to start the show case soon." Morticia pointed out to her husband with mild urgency.
"Oh, yes; absolutely." Gomez quickly replied before turning to the rest of the family. "Make haste, everyone!"
Everyone quickly made their way towards the doors while Lisa quickly followed closely behind; hearing Pugsley ask uncle Fester if he brought the popcorn in his coat and hearing Pugsley saying he brought a video camera to record the show. But Lisa stopped halfway when she suddenly felt a vibration in the pocket of her pants.
Lisa looked down with wide eyes; realising it was her phone that was vibrating. That cannot be right. She knew she turned off all calls. Lisa quickly dug into her pocket and took out her phone to see who was calling. She gasped as she saw the word 'mom' on the screen with the options to answer or ignore. Panicking internally, Lisa quickly hit the ignore button; silencing the vibration and telling her the call was dismissed.
"Are you coming, Miss?"
Lisa looked down to see Tama and Bimby looking up at her with their heads tilted to the right. Lisa calmed down as she put her phone away and walked with them to the school.
"Yeah. Just got a little distracted." She reassured as she grabbed Bimbys' hand.
The twins giggled as they lead Lisa into the school; making her wander if they had to take turns walking or if they each controlled one like they seemed to do with their arms.
Lisa eventually put it aside as the family found their seats in the auditorium amongst all the other kids parents and family; getting settled in for the showcase to start. Lisa was sitting on the end of the aisle with Ophelia on her right and the walkway on her left. Ophelia was seated between Ophelia Bimby and Tama, and Lurch; looking up at the butler as he just watched the stage with crossed arms. Lisa turned her head towards the stage as a middle-aged man in a dark green suit, thick square glasses and a comb over on his head walked on with a microphone in his hand; clearing his throat before speaking into it.
"Good evening, ladies and germs." The man greeted with a rather outdated joke and a smile; getting a laugh out of a few people in the audience. "I hope you're all ready for an evening with our very talented drama club, cause they're pretty excited to show you their work."
Lisa watched as the man on stage continued to talk before she leaned to the right towards Morticia and Gomez sitting between Lurch and Pugsley while Fester and Grandmama sat next to each other as Fester waved to some blond haired woman in the audience.
"Who's that?" She quietly asked who the man on stage was; getting the couple's attention.
"That's principle Lloyd." Morticia explained. "He's quite a lovely man."
"Kitty took quite a liking to him when Wednesday took him to school for a presentation on African wildlife one time." Gomez almost laughed as he remembered that incident.
Lisa wondered how that day actually went; thinking animal control would've gotten involved somehow. Before she could ask something else, her phone went off again. Lisa looked down at her pocket with nervous grimace; trying to ignore it as she tried listening to the principle announcing who was on first. But her head was filing up with bad thoughts. Like it could be her mother or her brother trying to call her. Her mother could be crying her eyes out over Lisa's whereabouts and safety. Lisa swore under her breath as she stood up out of her seat.
"I need to use the restroom." Lisa said quite quickly before she ran towards the doors of the auditorium.
Everyone but Grandmama and Fester watched as Lisa ran out the doors; disappearing around a corner. Pugsley shrugged indifferently before saying something.
"Guess if you gotta go, you gotta go." The boy said before snacking on some popcorn.
Everyone else just brushed it off as Grandmama stole a handful of popcorn from Pugsley and principle Lloyd welcomed the first act onto the stage. But Lurch and Ophelia quickly noticed that Lisa had a rather distraught look on her face before she ran out; Both wondering if she was okay as the first act started.
Lisa caught her breath as she stopped in front of the girls restroom. She quickly dug her phone out of her pocket as it continued to ring and vibrate. Lisa almost stopped breathing when she saw the word 'Mom' on the screen with the answer and ignore buttons. A drop of nervous sweat fell of her forehead as her finger hovered over the ignore button. But Lisa knew she could not keep hiding from her family; knowing they were not the ones who want to hurt her. Thinking she was going to regret it; Lisa quickly moved her finger to the left of the screen and pressed the answer button; stopping the vibration and ringing as she slowly moved her phone to her ear.
"...Hello?..." She answered quietly as she heard shaky breathing on the other end.
"Sweetie, is that you?"
Lisa fell silent as she heard a feminine voice with a Brooklyn accent similar to her own. But her mother's voice was shaky and grief stricken; sounding like she was holding back tears. Lisa wanted to talk to her mother openly. But she needed to be sure of something before she knew she could talk freely.
"Mom? Before you say anything; I need to know." Lisa asked quietly before asking. "Is Jasper there in your apartment?"
Lisa could hear her mother making a slightly confused noise away from the phone; speaking to her again after a couple seconds.
"He's just using the bathroom." Her mother said before she continued with a question. "Do you want to speak with-"
"Don't put him on the phone!"
Lisa pulled herself together as she realised, she just yelled at her mother. She wiped away a small amount of sweat from her forehead as she calmed herself.
"Please don't let him know I'm talking to you right now. Please, move to another room." Lisa asked as her breath started shaking. "I can't let him know where I am."
Lurch tried to pay attention to the group of students re-enacting the final scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet. But his mind was elsewhere as Lisa continued to be absent. Surely going to the restroom did not take seven minutes. Maybe she was not Feeling well. That might have been why she was taking a while.
Lurch thought that checking if she was okay might be a good idea. She probably did not want to miss Wednesday and her friends doing their performance. The butler quietly excused himself as he moved out of his seat; Moving passed the twins as he did so. He kept himself quiet as he made his way outside the auditorium; listening as the kids on stage finished with goodnight sweet prince as he went through the door.
Lurch had only been inside the school a few times. He only went there to pick her up Wednesday when Thing was too busy to do so and then he would only stop and wait outside. From what he could remember, the restrooms were around the corner on the left. The butler quickly but calmly made his way down there; nearing the corner.
"I'm sorry."
But he stopped when he heard what sounded like Lisa's voice around the corner. She must have finished using the restroom. But something sounded wrong with her voice. Lurch slowly and quietly approached as he listened some more.
"I know I should've called you or Teddy sooner."
Lurch blinked worryingly when he noticed that Lisa sounded upset; like she was holding back tears. The butler quietly stopped at the corner as Lisa continued to speak; realising she must have been talking to someone on the phone.
"I was going to; but I'm afraid Jasper could be listening and figure out where I am." Lisa explained as her voice began to croak.
Lisa could hear her mother making a confused sound on the other line before she asked a question that made Lisa freeze and sweat.
"Lisa, why don't you want him to know where you are? What's wrong?"
Lurch peeked his head around the corner as Lisa had her back turned to him; grabbing her chest as her anxiety reach its peak. She tried so hard to held back her tears. But they fell down her face like waterfalls as she fell to her knees.
"I can't tell you. I want to but to tell, but I can't." She told her mother with a heavy sob.
Lurch blinked worryingly as he listened to Lisa's side of the conversation. What could she not do? What was making her so upset? He just stayed silent as he listened; even though he could not hear who Lisa was talking to.
"You don't have to tell me happened, sweetie." Lisa's mother said with a tone of defeat and worry. "but can't you just tell me where you are? So, I can tell your brother you're safe?"
Lurch could see Lisa shaking on her knees before she slowly went still. He could hear her let out an exhale before she spoke again.
"I'm in a town call Assimilation. That's all I can tell you." Lisa said as she wiped away her tears behind her glasses. "I'm... I'm sorry I made you worry, Mom. I love you."
Lisa could hear her mother sniffling and wiping away her tears before she spoke again.
"I love you too, sweetie. I promise I won't tell Jasper I talked to you." Lisa's mother promised as her voice calmed. "I don't know what he's done to you. But if you can't tell me, you don't have to."
"Thank you. I'll come back when it's safe; I promise." Lisa promised back as she wiped away more tears.
"I'll keep an eye on him for you and I'll tell if it's safe to come back. If I find out what he did to you, I'll stuff a whole steak down his throat and stick a hungry dog up his-!"
"Mom, no; you don't have to do that!" Lisa quickly interrupted her mother; quickly recognising the angry tone in her voice. "Tell Teddy I miss him, okay?"
Lisa thought her mother was going to say something. But she could faintly hear the sound of someone knocking on a door on her side of the phone; making her mother gasp suddenly.
"I love you, sweetie; I'll tell Teddy you're okay!" Lisa's mother whisper-shouted before hanging up.
Lisa slowly took the phone away from her ear and looked at her screen; reading the phrase "call ended". Lurch looked away from her as he tried to process what he heard. Or at least what he thought he heard. Lisa just quietly sighed as she slowly lifted herself off the ground; wondering if her mother was really okay. From the way she said that Jasper was there with her, she had a feeling that he was being two faced with her; being all wonderful and nice to her face but quickly turning into a horrible monster when her and Teddy's backs were turned. Lisa felt like the thought was giving her a mild headache as she turned around to go back to the auditorium with her head down. But she right walked into something that felt like a wall; making an oof sound before she took a step back and looked up. The young lady blinked as she spotted Lurch and his difficult to forget face; quite surprised he was here.
"Oh; it's you." She said in a rather quiet tone.
Lisa was expecting the butler to let out a zombie like groan like he usually responded with when someone talked to him. But strangely, he did not. He did not make a sound. He just stared with a mildly concerned look on his stone face. Lisa quickly realized why he was here. And he probably was not going to the men's room.
"We're you listening to me while I was on the phone?" Lisa asked rather suspiciously and quietly.
Lurch took a step back as his eyes widened slightly; looking away from her as he put his hands behind his back and shook his head no. Lisa tilted her head and crossed her arms in suspicion.
"You don't have to lie to me, Lurch. I can't really get mad about it now." She said with an indifferent shrug; her arms still crossed.
Lurch looked back at her as he glanced at the ground; remembering that even if he did not really talk a lot, he was a pretty bad liar.
"Yes..." He changed his answer with a slow nod.
Lisa stared at him as her expression softened into a slightly worried frown; her arms falling to her side's as she took a step towards him.
"How much of that did you actually hear?" She asked; raising her brow unintentionally.
Lurch looked down at the floor as he tried to think of how to say that did not hear much of it; even though he heard quite a bit. The butler brought his right hand from behind his back and put his index finger and thumb close together but slightly apart; silently saying he only heard a little of Lisa's phone conversation. Lisa's look softened again before she blinked and looked down at the floor with a sigh.
"I guess you probably know I wasn't actually going to the bathroom." Lisa confessed as she played with the ring on her left finger.
Lurch blinked as Lisa began to explain herself.
"It's just... I didn't tell my family that I was leaving New York and they've been trying contact me since I got here. I've been avoiding them because I don't want be found." She explained part of the reason why she was not home. "Things haven't really been good at home for the last couple of years. It doesn't have anything to do with my mom or brother through. It's for a different reason."
Lurch tilted his head to the left slightly as he wondered why Lisa became so quiet. Lisa looked up and quickly saw his confused look.
"Look; I can't really explain it. It's just really upsetting for me." She said as she looked away and rubbed her eyes with her sleeve. "Please understand."
Lurch was not very good with emotions. But he could see that Lisa was quite upset over that phone call with her mother. Lurch thought maybe it had something to do with this Jasper person that she mentioned. Lurch wanted to ask who they were. But he quickly realized that it really was not his business.
But the butler did not like seeing the young lady so sad and upset. It made him think of that time when Wednesday was very little and she read a book about a dragon that was killed by a knight in shining armour. She was so angry and sad over it, that Mr and Mrs Addams decided to rewrite the book with an alternate ending where the dragon threw the knight off a cliff with man eating lions at the bottom. Lurch could not really do something like that in this situation. But he thought of the next best thing.
Lisa made a slightly confused noise as Lurch took a step towards her and looked down at her. Lisa was about to say something; but Lurch quickly grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her into a tight and secure, yet gentle hug. Lisa just felt her eyes going wide as she felt the butler gently wrap his arms around her with one on hand on her back and the other on her shoulder; even lifting her a couple of inches off the ground. If Lurch was still a stranger to her, she would be horrified and try to push away from him for help. But somehow, she did not feel like she needed to push him away. Somehow, some strange way... She felt safe.
Lisa could feel a welcoming warmth as Lurch held her close to him. Her ear was right under his chest, so she could hear his oddly slow heartbeat. She would have been concerned over why it was slow; but it was probably normal for someone like Lurch.
Lurch looked down as Lisa began to loosen up and relax; wondering if what he was doing was working and helping.
"Feel better?" The butler asked; still holding onto her.
He could only see Lisa's dyed red hair as he looked down at her. But he could see her nodding.
"A little." She answered quietly before she quickly remembered something. "Have Wednesday and girls done their show yet?"
"Uh uh..." Lurch shook his head before he asked her a question. "Do, you want to, go back?..."
Lisa took a moment to think before she made up her mind.
"Yeah; sure." Lisa answered as the butler kept her in his arms.
Lurch nodded as he turned around back into the direction of the auditorium.
"Hey, Lurch?" Lisa asked; making him stop in his tracks.
Lurch looked down at her as he listened to what she had to say.
"You can put me down now." Lisa politely requested the butler to let her go.
Lurch briefly blinked in confusion before he realized he was still holding Lisa; quickly but gently letting her go and putting her back on her feet. Lisa found herself giving the butler a little smile of appreciation while Lurch was looking another way; trying to hide his incoming change of colour.
"Thanks for trying to cheer me up. You're a really sweet guy." Lisa commented as she held the butler's sleeve.
Lurch froze up as Lisa complimented him and held his arm; a rather uncomfortable throbbing feeling emerging in his chest as his face started turning red.
"...We, should go..." He said rather quickly as he started walking towards the auditorium; slightly faster than he usually walked but slow enough for Lisa to keep up.
"Prophet! Thing of evil! Prophet still!"
Everyone watched with anticipation and Pugsley recorded with his camera as Parker shouted her lines of resentment and denial while pointing a fireplace poker towards Thing in his little raven costume. Parker was dressed in an old looking red robe with old fashioned slippers. The stage was lightly decorated with a large cardboard background of an old library with a drawing of a fireplace on cardboard, a window that Thing went through when he appeared as the raven, an office chair covered in a black sheet so it looked like an old chair, a little shelve for Thing to sit on top of, and the portrait of Lenore that Lisa painted for them. At the back of the stage behind the curtain, Carrie and Sherrie were working behind the scenes; Carrie operating her laptop for the soundtrack while Carrie was guiding Thing with a fishing rod and line. Wednesday was on the far side of the stage with a large book in her grasp as she sat on a wooden stool; narrating in between Parkers lines. Everyone was on the edge of their seats as Parker continued her ill willed speech towards the Raven Thing.
"If bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore! Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
Wednesday almost did not need to read from the book in her hand; not even looking at its page as she spoke the famous line.
"Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
The audience watched as Parker let out an angered growl at Thing before she turned into a storm of rage; the soundtrack coming from the speakers intensifying, but not overlapping the voices of the performance.
"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" Parker yelled with a shout that echoed across the stage.
"I shrieked, upstarting!" Wednesday narrated in a similar tone.
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! Quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Morticia and Gomez held each other with anticipation as Wednesday again spoke the line. Lisa was on the edge of her seat while Lurch just stared with full focus and interest.
"Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." Wednesday spoke the line with a calm yet sinister tone.
With that as her cue, Parker did what she did with all the reversals the girls had up until now. She swung her iron poker in the air and charged at the raven with a shout of hatred and vengeance. Sherrie quickly reeled Thing in before Parker actually hit him and started running back and forth behind the stage making it look like Thing was flying around while Parker was struggling to attack him. Before it could go for too long, Parker ran towards the chair and jumped past it; making it look like she fell to the floor with the poker going through her chest. Everyone gasped at the teens acting as she pretended to be in near death and pain while Thing climbed back onto the shelve; making Wednesday begin the final narration.
"And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting." Wednesday stood up from her spot as Parker pretended to die from her fake injurie. "Still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; and his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming."
The audience watched as the light on the stage began to dim down; like how the life of Parkers character was quickly dimming at this very moment as Wednesday continues the final words.
"And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor..."
The light continued to dim and darken as Wednesday finishes with the final words; a single spot light on Parker as she pretends to lay lifeless on the floor.
"Shall be lifted... Nevermore."
Wednesday finishes by slamming the book shut; snuffing out the spotlights and leaving the stage in darkness as Parker disappears with it. After a few silent seconds, the audience erupted in cheering and applause at the performance they just witnessed; standing up and clapping as the lights came back on for the group to make their bow. Carrie and Sherrie came around from back stage as Thing climbed down from the shelve. Parker quickly got up from her spot on the floor as Wednesday made her way over from the side of the stage to join them for they bow.
"Bravo, children! Bravo!" Gomez cheered as he stood up out of his seat.
"Absolutely brilliant." Morticia stood up alongside her husband as she cheered.
The whole family stood up as the girls and Thing took a bow. Principal Lloyd came up on stage as he too applauded the group for their little performance while a small group of kids cleaned up the stage for the next group. As the principal gave the group a well-deserved applause for their performance, the Addamses and everyone in the audience sat back on their seats as the cheering quieted down and soon ceased. Lurch almost focused on what the man on the stage was saying. But a tap on his shoulder made him look to his left. The butler looked down and blinked when he saw Lisa looking up and smiling at him; quickly remembering that Bimby and Tama took his seat when he and the young lady came back in.
"That was so awesome!" Lisa whispered with undertones of excitement. "I think that was amazing. What do ya think, Lurch?"
Lurch took a moment to respond before he just nodded with a shrug and turned back. But he noticed rather childish giggling coming from right of him. He looked down at Bimby and Tama as they both covered their mouths; not trying very hard to stop giggling. Lurch just let out a confused grunt before the conjoined siblings smiled at him.
"Is she your girlfriend?" Tama asked with a giggly whisper.
Lurch suddenly felt like his insides had been dipped in ice water when the girl sibling said the word girlfriend. Lurch looked back Lisa briefly; seeing that she was paying attention to the stage and not the conversation next to her. Lurch quickly turned back and shook his head.
"No." He said with a nervous groan.
"Are you sure?" Bimby asked with a curious tone.
"She's really cute. You should ask here out." Tama added her two cents with wide smile.
Lurch was about to say something when Ophelia shushed the twins; telling them the next group was starting their piece.
Lurch wanted to focus on the stage. But his mind was racing with odd thoughts. He looked at Lisa as she watched the next group of students performing a scene from my fair lady; too focused on it to notice Lurch having an internal panic attack. The butler put his hand on his chest as that feeling came back like fleas on a dog. He just stared into space as one thought repeated in his mind.
"What is wrong with me?"
After that eventful evening, Wednesday said goodbye to her friends; telling them she would see them tomorrow at school. After dinner, everyone decided to call it a night and head off to bed; thinking an eventful evening like that would bring dreams of ravens and ghosts. But two people in the Addams household were having trouble getting to sleep.
Lisa looked up at the ceiling as she laid on her back against the mattress; seeing nothing but darkness as she stared at nothing. Lisa did not have any recent nightmares that were keeping her up. But she had a rather odd thought on her mind. She kept thinking about Lurch.
Lisa turned to her side and reached for lamp on the bedside table; grabbing her glasses after the faint light came on. She sat up as she put them on and her vision became clear. But her thoughts remained foggy and odd as she pondered. She kept repeated what happened at the school in her head. How the butler comforted her when she was upset by her conversation with her mother. Even after she said she felt better, he did not let go. Lisa thought it was strange. But it made her wander if he even wanted to let go when she said he could put her down. Lisa was not sure why. But when that strange stone-faced man comforted and hugged her to make her feel better... She felt something that she had not felt in a long time. She felt safe, and warm...
And loved...
Lisa blinked as that word came into her head. There was no way that could be right. She was utterly terrified of him when she first saw him. Even after a few days she was still scared. But after exchanging a few words and making music for a few minutes, she started warming up to him. She liked him. But she could not really say the other word. Maybe not right now.
Lisa crawled to the side of the bed and bent down to look down under it. She reached in and pulled out her sketchbook and the new markers she brought from the mall the other. Placing her pillow onto her lap, she opened up on the last page she drew on. The little portrait she asked Lurch to model for. Lisa looked at it with a little head tilt. She remembered how Lurch said she had room to improve; making a little smile appear on her face. Still smiling, she reached for her marker and picked out the yellow-orange marker; removing the cap and carefully coloured in the left eye. Lisa looked at portrait fondly before packing it away with one last thought.
"Maybe I should talk to Morticia about it tomorrow." She thought as she took off her glasses and turned the lamp off; going to bed with that idea in mind.
Lurch groaned in frustration as he tossed and turned in his bed; finding it impossible to sleep. The butler was usually a deep sleeper and did not take very long when he did so. But for some reason, he just could not. He was still awake after a whole two hours after going to bed and he could not sleep. He did everything he usually did when he was having a restless night. He tried reading a book, counting sheep, dusting around the house until he felt tired; nothing he did was working. Lurch knew why he could not sleep. It was that feeling he had in his chest; that throbbing feeling he had since this evening when he cheered Lisa up from her sad episode and when the twins asked if she was his girlfriend. Lurch just grabbed his pillow and held it against his face as he tried to think of why he was like this. He felt like two people were pushing on his back and chest at the same time. He almost felt sick.
Maybe he was sick.
Lurch quickly realised that he was burning up off and on the past few days. Maybe he was coming down with a fever. Maybe he needed to see a doctor. But the thought of seeing a doctor made Lurch want to punch a wall. He loathed doctors; especially the ones that worked in asylums and mental hospitals.
But he did think of one person he could talk to.
"Mr Addams." He thought; knowing the man had a knack for solving people's ailments.
Lurch nodded with a grunt. He would go talk to Mr Addams and hopefully fix whatever was making him like this. The butler reached for the bottom of the bed and took out a wooden mallet. The butler grunted as he swung it and smacked himself in the head; knocking himself out cold and snoring soundly a couple of seconds later.
AN: Well... This chapter took longer to write then i would have expected. Sorry for being absent for a month. Ive been a bit depressed and paranoid because this whole virus outbreak. But I'm doing okay. I'm not going to stop writing any time soon.
Anyways, It seems our favourite butler is having a bit of a hard processing what's going on while Lisa starts to enjoy his company. if you know what i mean. ;) So stay tuned, and stay safe.
