A/N: Over the phone. Phone background noise. Normal speech.
Chapter Six: If a Family isn't crazy... they belong in a storybook!
Barbie glanced around the suit that the king... her grandfather, was giving to her. Everything was white marble with silver accents, and the canopy bed, which was on a raised dais, appeared to be bigger than the king sized bed that was back home in the master bedroom. Walking over, she sank into the soft cream colored sofa that was in the sitting area of the room. Sequin jumped up, quickly curling up into a ball next to her. A maid walked in, carrying a silver tray with the latest phone model right smack in the middle of it. "Here is the phone you requested, princess." She curtsied deeply, offering the aforementioned phone to Barbie.
Barbie profusely thanked her as she accepted the phone. Turning back to face the large fireplace in front of her, she turned on the phone to find it already unlocked. Quickly, she dialed in a number that she had memorized years ago. "Come on... please pick up..."
"Hello, this is the Roberts household. This is Skipper speaking. How can I help you?"
Barbie burst out laughing, relief flooding her upon hearing her one younger sister's voice over the line. "Skip... it's me. Your favorite big sister, Barbie."
"You are my only big sister, all the others are younger than me... and do you know how late are with checking in!? We're getting worried over here!"
"Sorry Skip... how have things been for you?" Barbie shifted slightly, spotting the maid, watching her rather intently, a perplexed look on her face for some reason.
"It's been good. I interviewed a new band for my blog, and was in the middle of uploading their song to it when you called..." "Is that Barbie on the phone Skip?" "Hold on... I'm going to hand you over to Kelly, she's has some very exciting news for you."
Barbie grinned at that, curious about what her four year old sister possibly could be excited to tell her. "Go right ahead..."
"Hi Barbie! Guess what? My gymnastics team won first place at our meet yesterday!"
"Wow! That's really good Kelly!" Barbie perked up at that, even though guilt stabbed through her over the fact that she couldn't be there to cheer her sister on herself. "Everyone quick! Barbie's on the phone!" Barbie braced herself, half suspecting that the phone was about to be passed around between all of her siblings.
"Barbie! I scrapped my knee this morning while playing baseball! You should have seen it!" Tutti's voice came over the phone, gushing over the injury in near perfect description as she continued to talk.
"I hope you had Grandma clean it up good and put a clean bandage on it Tutti." Barbie fought a grin, something telling her that she knew precisely who was next...
"I did...Todd!" "Barbie! Guess what! I won first place at my soccer tournament yesterday!"
Barbie snorted, lifting a hand to stifle it as she struggled to hide her amusement. She was right, Todd stole the phone from Tuttie. "That's amazing Todd... I hope you were a good sport about it."
"Oh I was... Hold on a sec... What do you want Chelsea?" "I want to talk to Barbie! And I have a good thing to tell her too! See?" "I wish that I could talk some more but... Chelsea has some very exciting news to tell you."
"Okay... you best put her on then Todd." Barbie felt curiosity kick in, puzzled on what it was that Chelsea wanted to tell her. She had no competitions or dance classes during the short duration that they haven't been together, that was for sure.
"Barbie guess what! The tooth fairy is coming over tonight! I lost my wiggly tooth finally!" That would indeed be very exciting news for the six year old girl.
"That's wonderful Chelsea... listen, can you place..." "Chelsea! I want to talk to Barbie too you know!" Barbie groaned, wondering if she was ever going to learn that when talking to her siblings... she had to go through all of them before she could talk to the adults in their lives.
"Hey Barbie! You would never believe what happened today while I was at tennis practice!" Stacie blurted out the second she had wrestled the phone away from her younger sister.
"What happened at practice Stacie?" Barbie rolled her eyes skyward, even as she vaguely picked up what sounded like Krissy crying in the background.
"I broke my own record! How amazing is that!?"
"Very amazing... can you please hand the phone over to Grandma. I need to talk to her about a couple of things." Barbie figured that since they all by now had a turn with speaking to her, that she could finally speak with their grandmother.
"Sure! Grandma! Barbie wants to talk to you!" "Hello? Barbie... is that you?"
"Hi Grandma. Listen, Mom and Dad keep the tooth fairy money in a plain white envelope in Dad's sock drawer." Barbie shifted slightly, causing Sequin to raise her head questioningly. "Oh! And another thing, Chelsea will be wanting to go to the froyo shop across the skate park to spend it. They have a special there for kids that have been visited by the tooth fairy. Don't ask why... it gets them a lot of business with children though."
"That sounds wonderful Barbie... thank you. Oh! Another thing, Krissy just started teething, any chance that you had kept any of Kelly's old teething toys, and if so where can I find them?"
"Krissy's teething? Oh dear... I'm afraid that after Kelly, Mom and Dad thought they were done with having babies. I mean, you have to understand that I was twelve at the time. I'm afraid that you will have to run to the store to buy her those. Sorry."
"Oh its no problem dearie... I knew that Margaret thought she was done after Kelly... but I was kinda hoping that you had saved some for sentimental reasons." A heavy sigh escaped the elderly woman, before she continued. "Where are you anyways? I haven't been able to get a hold of you through your cell, and this is definitely not your number!"
Barbie laughed nervously at that, suddenly worried about how her grandmother would react to this news. "Yeah... about that... I may have... gotten mugged...and been unconscious in the Hospital for a while now... and um... apparently Dad's dad, my paternal grandfather... is alive, not dead, and he lives here in Gardania... and he found out about me and now I am at his house. And I may have mentioned the others to him... so he might try contacting you about getting a hold of them..."
"Oh dear... Stacie! No! Do not put the pickles there! Sorry Barbie, but I have got to go oversee dinner... Stacie is trying to put pickles into the banana smoothies."
"Yeah... you better go deal with that. Bye Grandma, tell everyone that I love them and miss them so so so much." Barbie smiled warmly, already feeling as if her heart would break. She hadn't realized how much she was going to miss her siblings until she had heard their voices over the line.
"Bye sweetie." The phone clicked off as her grandmother hung up.
Barbie sighed as she turned the phone off, handing it back to the maid. "Thank you again for letting me use this."
"Of course ma'am... uh, not to be nosy... but who all were you talking to right then?" She drew her eyebrows together, clearly puzzled about the various people that she had just chatted with.
Barbie beamed, excitement flaring up in her eyes. "My siblings... and my grandmother."
"Oh! I didn't realize that you had any siblings." Surprise danced in her eyes as she blinked rapidly.
Barbie chuckled, before deciding to tell her who was who in her family. "There's eight of us. In order, it goes Me, then Skipper, she's fourteen and the family DJ and blogger, then there's the family sport maniacs, Stacie is twelve, and then the twins, Todd and Tutti, they're ten... after that its Chelsea, she's only six but loves to dance and is in a dance club already, then there's Kelly. She's four and mainly just does whatever it is that Chelsea does. After her, we have Kristine, but we just call her Krissy. She's only a few months old and not much of a personality yet...we'll see once she gets a little bigger. Oh! We also have DJ, Rookie, Taffy, and Honey."
The maid started to nod in understanding, before realizing something off about that count. "Hold up, you only said that the prince had eight kids... that's twelve that you just listed."
Barbie gave a wry smile as she lifted a finger up to her lips. "Shh... the last four are puppies that we adopted... just don't tell them that!" She laughed at that statement, presuming that the maid would catch the joke.
"I see... I best get back to work. Dinner is at six." The maid turned and left, leaving Barbie alone with Sequin.
A/N: Done! Phew... only basically a week late... oops. Writer's block. On what the room is supposed to look like... Barbie is supposed to not like it on principle. Um...yeah...
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