A/N Happy reading.
Emil looked up at the ceiling. While it was only his second week in the house, he felt his time winding down faster than usual. He hadn't found work, and he didn't know when he would find work. It was nerve-wracking really, he needed a plan by the end of the month. He needed money by the end of the month and definitely needed somewhere to stay by the end of the month.
There was a knock at his door, and he stood to answer it. He pulled it open, smiling when he saw Lili. "Hey Lili, do you need anything?"
She smiled at him politely. "Um, I was just wondering if you wanted to come to sit on the deck with Sophia and I? It's such a nice day, and I'm off today, so I just wanted to enjoy the nice day lounging on the back porch."
Emil raised an eyebrow. "You're off today and you're going to spend it sitting outside?"
"Mhmm. It's very peaceful. I don't know why, but I just love relaxing and watching the world pass. Sophia likes to call me a stop-and-smell-the-roses kind of person." She said with a giggle.
He thought for a minute. That was the difference, he saw it. If Emil had a day off, he damn sure wouldn't be spending it sitting on a back porch. However, Lili was a different person, and he wanted to see what her life was like as Lili. "Let's have a relaxing day on the back porch."
Lili grinned. "Thank you so much. Honestly, I didn't think you'd say yes. You don't seem like the relaxing type, but it'll be nice, I swear. Sophie is already outside, so if you have to get ready or anything, I'll be outside, okay?"
Emil laughed. "Lili it's just outside I don't have to get ready."
"Great! Well, let's go." She said and grabbed his hand pulling him along.
Emil felt a shock run through his body. He was surprised he remembered to close his door behind him. He was holding the hand of an angel.
Lili led him downstairs and out the back door where Sophia was sitting in a lounging chair, and Elizabeta, Roderich, Natalya, and Gilbert were already sitting at the table, smoking cigarettes. "Hi everyone, look who I brought." Lili greeted.
Emil waved at everyone. "Hey, here to enjoy the day." He said and sat on the porch swing.
"Here to stop and smell the roses?" Sophia asked with a smirk.
"Yes, I'm here to stop and smell the roses. Is it a problem?" He asked with a quirked eyebrow.
"Nope. No problem at all."
Lili sat next to Emil on the swing and sat back with a sigh. "Sometimes, I wish I had more days like this."
"Only sometimes?" Emil questioned.
"Only sometimes, because the more days you have like this, the less you appreciate them."
"Hmm," Emil said in thought. He didn't think of it like that. To him, outside was just..outside.
"You're in luck Emil, you'll get to meet my not-as-awesome-as-me brother this weekend," Gilbert said as he took a drag from his cigarette.
"Ludwig's coming this weekend? Wait until Feliciano hears." Elizabeta said.
"You have a brother Gilbert?" Emil asked.
"Yep, I'm the proud owner of a little brother."
Roderich passed his cigarette to his wife. "Though in height comparison you'd think the opposite."
"He didn't have to know that detail, but he's coming to visit for the weekend. I'm sure at this point he only comes to visit to see Feli, but as long as he tells me his visit is for me then I have no reason to complain."
"So are Feliciano and your brother dating?"
"Eh, kinda? They always go on a date when he's here, and spend time with each other when he's not spending time with me."
"Interesting." He said nodding. "So, are you and Natalya dating?"
"It's complicated." He and Natalya spoke in unison.
"That's what you call it?" Elizabeta asked with a raised brow.
"Okay, it's on and off dating. And currently, we are—"
"Off. Fucking off." Natalya answered for both of them.
"Emphasis on the fucking."
"I will burn you with my cigarette. Do you want to be burned with my cigarette?"
"And also, why do you smoke cigarettes if you dance?" Emil asked.
Natalya looked over at him. "It curbs my appetite. Plenty of girls do it for that reason."
"Really?"
"It's either that or you turn to anorexia and bulimia to keep your figure. Dancing is not as beautiful a sport as one may think."
Emil never knew that. That was actually pretty...interesting to him. "How long have you guys been married?" He asked, finding a sudden interest in everyone else's life.
"Almost 10 years, we met in college," Elizabeta replied with a smile.
"So I imagine that you weren't working together in a cafe before moving here?"
"Together, yes, but not in a cafe. Before this I was an orchestra musician, and she worked in the sound and light booth." Roderich explained.
"But then you have faulty wiring in your house and end up with a devastating house fire that forces you to basically start your life over." Elizabeta added.
Emil frowned some. "No home insurance?"
Elizabeta put the cigarette out. "It was supposed to be a starter home. We weren't even going to live there for more than 2 years."
"You'd think we'd be able to babysit a house well enough. I couldn't imagine what we'd do with a child." Roderich spoke with a shake of his head.
"It wasn't our fault, and you know that. We were set up in a shit house because they knew we weren't staying long enough to care about the wiring, knowing it should have been fixed in the first place."
Emil frowned at that. "Aw, what? You didn't want to sue? You should definitely sue."
"I wanted to sue, but Roderich thought it was just another one of my conspiracy theories," Elizabeta said with a roll of her eyes.
"Because it is just a conspiracy. No one sabotaged us into getting a terrible starter home, we just invested with the wrong people."
"Which is why we should sue, Roderich," Elizabeta said in an exasperated voice.
"Elizabeta, we are not talking about this anymore. I'd rather not lose more money go through the process of suing just to lose. We're saving our money for a house we're sure is up to par, along with home insurance so this doesn't happen again."
Sighing, Elizabeta stood and stretched. "Fine. Don't come crying to me when that shitty realtor goes to jail for selling shitty houses."She smiled and waved at the younger tenants. "I'm going back inside, figured a nap is in order. Enjoy the day relaxing everyone."
Roderich shook his head. "I'm heading back inside as well, spend the day writing sheet music." He said standing up.
Gilbert put his cigarette out. "Yeah it's a nice day and all, but I probably shouldn't be out in the sun too long; being albino and whatnot."
Natalya stood up after him. "And I'm not rubbing that Aloe Vera lotion all over you again. So get inside."
"Yes ma'am."
After they all shuffled back inside, Emil stood and went over to the lounge chair and sat back in the chair, closing his eyes. "Hm, this whole relaxing and letting the world pass idea isn't half bad." He said. The sun was warm, and the breeze was short and cool. It was pretty great. Not as great as spending it at the beach per se, but still pretty great.
Lili continued to swing on the porch swing. "See? You're enjoying the day after all."
Then not far off from the deck, there was rustling in the bushes. Sophia sat up in her chair slightly. "What was that noise?"
"Ignore it. We're leisure-ing today." Emil said, not opening his eyes.
The rustling sound came from the bush again.
"There it is again," Lili said next.
"Sounds like someone wants adventure, rather leisure."
"But aren't you curious about what it is?"
"Nope. It's probably a squirrel and you guys are making a big deal out of nothing."
The rustling sound now turned into mewling.
Instantly Lili and Sophia got up from their spots and went down to the bush.
"What do you think it is?" Sophia asked.
Lili started to search the bush, gasping at what she saw. After a moment of untangling twigs, she ended up pulling out an orange tabby cat.
"Aww, it was a kitty." She said stroking behind its ear.
Lili cradled the cat in her arms. "Yeah, he was stuck between the twigs." She stroked his fur and held him out to look at him. He didn't have a collar. "Hey, what were you doing tangled up in that bush?" She asked the cat, but of course, there was no response. Lili held him close and took him back up on the deck. "Emil look, it was a kitten in the bushes."
Emil opened his eyes looking at the kitten in Lili's hand. "So much for a day of leisure." He said, shaking his head.
"We can still have a nice relaxing day with a cat Emil." Lili spoke as she set the cat down on the ground. The cat mulled around for a little before finding its way onto Emil's lap and laying there.
"See? He likes you." Sophia said next.
"What should we name him?" Lili asked.
"I was thinking of something like Columbo."
"That's a dumb name." Emil chimed in as he stroked the cat.
"Oh yeah? Well, you got a better one, genius?"
"How about 'Cat' since we aren't keeping him so he doesn't need a name?"
Lili looked uneasy. "I don't like the name, nor the notion it goes with."
"And also, don't speak so negatively around the cat, he has ears too you know," Sophia said picking him up.
Emil scoffed. "Are you two serious? We can't keep this cat. We don't know where it's been if it's ever had shots, not to mention the fact that Feliciano will definitely say no to having a cat in the house."
"Well, we can't just leave him out here Emil."
"So we'll take him to a pound, problem solved."
Lili and Sophia both gasped, stepping away from him. "So they can just kill poor little Charlie?!" Lili exclaimed.
"Ew, no. I don't like Charlie, that's my cousin's name." Sophia said to her.
"Okay maybe not Charlie, but we have to keep...whatever his name is. How about we take the day to train him, and then by the time family time comes around, he will be fully trained and ready to move in. No one can say no to a trained cat." Lili said.
"I like the way you think Lili," Sophia said with a smile. "But first, a name because seriously, what are we gonna call him?"
"Well he's orange, maybe we can call him something orange related like...Carrot, or Cheeto."
"Or Clementine." Sophia offered.
"Oh that's a good one, but it sounds kind of feminine. We need one notch down from Clementine."
"Clemson."
The two looked over at Emil. "What did you say, Emil?"
"Clemson. You know, 'Go tigers!'" He said pumping his fist in the air. Lili and Sophia stared at him blankly. Emil dropped his hand in defeat. "Nothing? Okay, that's fine—"
"Okay we may not know what it's in reference to, but we've got our name, and it's Clemson," Lili said stroking behind his ear, making him purr.
"Alright, so we need obstacles, treats, a litter box, and cat litter," Sophia said.
"Right, but what do we need obstacles for?"
"So we can teach him to jump through hoops. Surely he'd be more likable if we can teach him a party trick like that."
"Oh, you're right. Emil, are you coming?"
Emil looked over at the two. "Do I have a choice?"
"Seems like you made your choice when you named him Clemson, obviously you're interested," Sophia said.
He sat up sighing. "This better not be a waste of a Wednesday."
"Come on Clemson!" Lili called as she tried to beckon him to jump through the hoop she was holding up.
"You're not doing it right," Sophia spoke, taking the hoop from her.
Lili scoffed. "Well, how do you know I'm doing it wrong?"
"Because I just looked up 'how to train a cat' on WikiHow, and what you were doing was not in the instructions." She moved the hoop closer to Clemson and grabbed the snacks. "Okay Clemson, for being a good cat, you get a treat." She said handing him a snack.
Then she grabbed another snack and placed it on the opposite side of the hoop. Clemson walked through the hoop and ate the snack he was being offered.
"See? Better results already." She said looking back at Lili.
"Wow you're like a cat whisperer Sophie," Lili said watching her friend.
"Alright, the cat box thingy is set up." Emil said coming over to them.
"You mean the cat litter?" Sophia corrected looking back at him.
"Whatever." He spoke and picked up the cat. "Come on Clemson, check out your new cat box thingy." He said and brought him up to the deck and next to the cat litter. Clemson walked over to the cat litter and walked around in the litter before using the bathroom in it. Emil couldn't help but smile. "Good job, you did it, Clemmy." He said picking him up.
"Did you just call him 'Clemmy?'" Sophia asked.
"I was trying it on for size as a nickname." He said stroking under Clemson's chin which made him purr delightedly.
"That's kind of a cute nickname," Lili said walking over to also pet Clemson.
"He's doing so good already. We'll have a house cat in no time." Sophia said and took Clemson out of his hands to put him back on the ground to continue training him.
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Alfred pushed the front door open and Matthew closed it behind them.
"I'm going to study Al, let me know when dinner's ready." Matthew said walking back to the study.
"Sure thing. Let me know if you need a snack, I'll tell you what we have."
Matthew paused. "You wouldn't just get me a snack?"
"Listen I'm doing half the job already. I'm not some Butler, Mattie." Alfred said before heading to the kitchen.
Matthew shook his head before heading through the house.
Alfred pulled open the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. He looked out on the deck, seeing Sophia on the deck drawing at the table.
He went to the back sliding the door open and walking out. "Hey Soph." He greeted.
Sophia looked up. "Oh hey Alfred. You and Mattie are home already?"
"Yeah, we didn't have to work today."
"Wow, neither one of you? No one had to work today honestly." She said before snorting. "Except Feliks." She stated and went back to drawing in her sketch pad.
"What are you drawing?"
Her pencil pointed towards the sleeping Clemson on the other side of the table.
Alfred gasped softly. "Kitty." He whispered.
"You can pet him, he sleeps pretty good."
Alfred reached out and softly rubbed him behind his ear. "Where did you find him?"
"He was stuck between the bushes, so Lili, Emil, and I took it on ourselves to train and adopt him to convince Feliciano to keep him as the house cat."
"Aw that's such a good idea." He said in awe. "What did you name him?"
"Clemson."
"Really? That's cool. Go tigers." He said with a nod.
"Thank you Alfred, I'm glad someone knows about the Clemson Tigers." Emil said from the porch swing with Lili.
"Are they a band?" Lili asked curiously.
"No actually, they are a football team."
Lili looked puzzled. "I've never heard of them as a football team."
"American football." Emil explained.
"Oh, gotcha."
"Yeah, and college American football at that." He said before looking back at Clemson. "So how are you gonna get Feli to say 'yes' to our new mascot?"
"We thought about presenting him during family time for the night's activity, and do a democratic vote on if he stays or goes."
"Okay, I'm up for that." He said with a nod. "I'm gonna spread the word of your presentation for family night."
"You don't have to really do that Alfred." Sophia said looking up at him.
"Oh but I have to Sophie. Promotion is the most important thing in presentations. You talk it up, and spread the word, more people will come and be interested. I'm going to go get started on the flyers." He said and stood from the table to go back inside.
Feliks pushed the door open and pulled his beauty trunk in with him. Long day, but it wasn't 12 bridesmaids before close long. Also, a pretty good day for tips, so he definitely couldn't complain. He'd pull his trunk up later, but for now, he had to relax. He had been greeted with the smell of food after a long day and soft chatter in the dining room. Times like this make him glad he had a place to call home.
He walked toward the dining room, stopping when he noticed a paper taped onto the wall. He pulled it off and read it.
Alfred F. Jones Presents:
A Special Debut
During Family Time
Presentation by Lili, Sophia & Emil
Feliks took the paper and in the dining room where he was greeted warmly by those that dwelled in the house.
"Well if it isn't the working woman," Gilbert spoke with a grin.
"Yes, our breadwinner for the day." Sophia said next.
Feliks smiled wryly. "Hey kids." He said slumping in a seat between Alfred and Kiku. "Was I the only one that worked today?"
"Basically. Everyone spent the day lounging, and you spent the day doing hair." Natalya said in mock disappointment.
Feliks shrugged. "That's fine. A day of work means for another day of tips. So in other words, I'm rich bitches."
"Like wiping your ass with 50s rich?" Gilbert asked.
"No, more like blowing my nose with 20s though." He said but waved his hand. "But don't worry it's coming, wait until next week." He said with a wink. "But in other news, what is this?" Feliks asked, holding up the flyer.
"Oh we're doing a presentation after dinner for family time," Alfred explained.
"Oh no. We're doing a presentation after dinner, you made flyers." Emil corrected.
"Well after doing these flyers, I decided to take it upon myself to be the manager of your group. Thus, my name goes on the event, as well as diligent promotion that you can pay me back later for when the event is a success from the turnout."
"Does the event cost?" Feliks asked.
"No, but money was definitely spent in the making of promotion. The ink cartridge in the printer isn't going to replace itself."
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"Well if no one else is going to say it, I'm excited for tonight's presentation from our 3rd-floor tenants," Elizabeta said walking into the parlor with the other tenants.
Natalya looked at her. "Do you know who we live with? I'd be surprised if this was actually a presentation."
"It's going to be great, I'm the manager so I would know." Alfred chimed in.
"Either if it's a bust or not, I'm just glad someone's doing something in place of what we were actually going to do tonight," Feliciano said next.
"What was the original family night activity?" Matthew asked curiously.
"The Guessing Game."
Instantly, sounds of relief came from everyone.
Kiku looked up from his Nintendo DS. "I actually like The Guessing Game"
"Well I would too if I won it every time, Kiku." Feliks said, rolling his eyes.
Kiku shrugged. "Not hard guessing how many jellybeans are in a jar." He muttered, looking back down at his game.
Emil poked his head into the parlor. "Okay everyone, please take your seats, we are about to start."
With that, people started to take their seats around the room.
Lili came in, and placed the hoop on the floor, as well as two incline boxes and placed them back to back. Once they were in their place, Lili looked up and smiled at everyone. "Good evening everyone. Um, welcome to our family night presentation. Tonight, we will be debuting a possible new family member to the house, but it will be up to you all to vote and decide on the new house guest. Currently, Emil is passing around a sheet of paper to all of you, and later during the intermission, or after the presentation, you will go to the voting booth, which is that tissue box with the marker over there, write your vote down, and put it in the box. At the end of intermission, we will then tally up the scores to see the final verdict of our new probable house guest."
"Now, I know what you all are thinking, 'who is this house guest they're referring to?'" Emil said next. "This house guest, ladies and gentlemen, is the one and final guest that's been missing from this house. The guest that makes you feel complete with a house as big as this one. A house guest that everyone enjoys, and you all will be the people our new house guest enjoys the most."
"So without further adieu, we would like to present to you our potential new house guest," Lili spoke next, and they stepped aside, allowing Sophia to walk in with Clemson, holding him above her head for everyone to see.
"This is Clemson. We found him tangled up in the bushes in the backyard and took it upon ourselves to take care of him. He's very smart for his kitten age and extremely friendly." Lili explained.
"We also bought all of his starter things, such as food, treats, food bowls, and the…"
"Cat litter." Lili and Sophia answered together.
"Right, that too."
"He's also potty trained and knows simple commands such as sit and stay. And if we haven't convinced you enough already, we will now take this time to go into our second part of our presentation to further convince you of his future residence." Emil and Lili stepped to the side and Sophia came forward with Clemson still above her head, only putting him in her arms when she began to speak.
"Good evening everyone, I certainly hope you're enjoying our presentation so far. All-day we've worked to train Clemson to make it more realistic of seeing him here. We also decided to teach him some nice party tricks because who can really say no to a nice little party trick?" She placed Clemson on the ground in front of the incline boxes. Sophia pulled a treat out of her pocket and held it out to Clemson. "Okay, come on Clemmy." She said dangling the treat in front of him. Clemson climbed up the incline, stopping at the top of it. Sophia held the treat above him, and he jumped in the air, catching it in his mouth and landing back down on the top of the incline.
"Good job Clemson." She said petting under his chin. "Now come on down." She said getting another treat out of her pocket and offering it to him. Clemson trotted his way down the narrow incline and Sophia kneeled in front of him. "You're doing so good. Can I get a shake?" She asked, holding her hand out to him.
Clemson looked at her hand and put his paw into it.
Sophia shook his paw and gave him his treat. "Superb Clemson." She said and stood up grabbing the hoop. "Alright, you've got it, Clemson. Through the hoop, you go." She said and offered him a treat on the other side of the hoop. The hoop was off the ground, high enough that Clemson had to jump pretty high to do it. Clemson gracefully leaped through the hoop, landing on his feet.
Sophia squealed with delight. "That was so good, you're such a good kitty." She said giving him the treat and petting the top of his head. "This will conclude our presentation, the floor is open for questioning."
The presentation received a few claps from people in the room.
"Does anyone have any questions?" Lili asked.
Natalya raised her hand.
"Yes Nat?"
"I can't believe you all just made us sit through that God awful presentation when there are better things to do in this house."
"Okay not a question, moving on to the next person," Emil said and pointed to Gilbert who had his hand up.
"Okay, what I think Natalya is trying to say is, what did having a cat in the house have to do with us?"
"Well, we wanted everyone's opinion on the cat before just having him here. We all live here together, so having a pet in the house is something we felt like was a group decision." Lili explained.
"Kids as much as I loved the presentation, and love cats myself, there's no telling when we'll have a tenant moving in that's allergic to cats, and it's not right to turn someone away all because of a pet allergy," Feliciano said.
"True, but if the information of a pet being in the house is disclosed in contracts, we can't do anything if they're the ones no longer interested in living here." Sophia said.
Kiku raised his hand next.
"Yes Kiku?"
"May I pet him now?"
"As long as there aren't more questions, we will be passing him around for petting during voting and intermission," Emil said and took Clemson to hand him to Kiku.
"Alright, that's it. Please enjoy petting him, and please make your vote. We will be in intermission for about 10 minutes. This will give everyone time to vote and pet Clemson." Emil spoke.
After that, everyone mulled around the room, voting, talking, and petting Clemson.
"Alright that was a really good presentation, team," Alfred said walking up to Sophia and Emil.
"Yeah, I liked your part the most Alfred, where you didn't do anything," Emil stressed.
"Because the manager doesn't do anything, Emil. Don't you know what a manager is?"
"You are not our manager, Alfred. You will never be our manager, we don't even need a manager." Sophia spoke next.
"Well if I'm not your manager, then why do I already have your next presentation booked?"
Before they could say anything else, Lili brought the ballot box over. "Voting is over." She spoke with a small smile.
"Ah, thank you Lili." Alfred said taking the box before Emil or Sophia could. "As your manager, I will count the votes." He said grinning and went off to count the votes.
Rolling his eyes, Emil turned back to Lili. "So, how did intermission go?"
"I think it went pretty well. I mean, I'm no peeker, but if I were to guess what everyone voted, I'm sure it would be a unanimous 'yes.'"
"Well let's hope so for Clemson's sake," Sophia said looking around the room, finding Clemson in Kiku's lap.
Alfred came back a few minutes later, with the ballots in his hands. "Hello everyone, I am Alfred F. Jones, and I am the manager of this lovely trio here, and I have the final tally of the vote. Due to the popular vote, it is decided that Clemson...will be our new member of the house."
The three hall mates cheered excitedly for their new tenant, while few gave cheers of delight. Kiku had been bouncing Clemson happily in his lap.
"Not going to lie, I did think this was a waste of a Wednesday," Emil spoke to the two girls, "but at the same time, seemed to be worth it."
Lili grinned. "Definitely worth it."
"He's not a puppy, but I'll take him." Sophia said next glancing over at Clemson.
Suddenly, there was a loud knock at the door, which made everyone look in the direction.
"I'll get it." Emil spoke leaving out the parlor and to the foyer to answer the door. He pulled it open, and was greeted with a man with long blond hair, and a little girl with brown skin and brown hair in pigtails with red ribbons.
"Bon soir. Sorry to disturb you sir." The little girl said.
"I'm Francis, this is my daughter Michelle. We live about a block over, but we've had a bit of an incident with our cat."
"A cat?"
"Oui, mon Bisoux." Michelle gave Emil a picture of her with an orange tabby cat that was strikingly similar to Clemson.
"He escaped the garden earlier today. I found his collar hanging on a branch next to the hole in the fence that I will definitely have to patch up." He spoke with a small laugh.
"Will you call if you've seen mon Bisoux? He knows English and French. And he's really obéissant."
Emil paused for a moment and beckoned them inside. "I think I found your Bisoux."
"Vraiment?" Michelle asked excitedly as she pulled her father in the house.
Emil led them back to the parlor, and Michelle gasped when she saw Clemson. "Bisoux! Venez ici! "
Instantly the cat hopped out of Kiku's lap and into Michelle's arms, purring softly.
Everyone looked on in confusion, and Feliciano stood to greet the other guests. "Good evening to you all, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Turns out Clemson is actually Bisoux. Got out of their garden this morning, and went on a trip around the neighborhood."
Michelle put Bisoux on the floor and pulled out his dark green collar with his gold plated Bisoux pet tag. "Would you like the collar you gave him back?" She asked Emil.
He shook his head. "No, we won't be needing it. We got him a couple of things too if you'd like them. I'm sure they're things he already has, but if you'd like to keep them for future travel, feel free to take them."
"We wouldn't mind taking them off your hands. Seems he's found his way to a big family." Francis spoke.
"May we have one last goodbye with our new friend?" Lili asked.
"Un ami de Bisoux est un de mes amis."
"Pas de Français." Francis reminded his daughter.
Michelle smiled bashfully, stepping away for the tenants to say their goodbyes. "Ah, sorry. A friend of Bisoux is my friend too! Thank you for taking care of him today, you can visit whenever you want." She spoke sweetly.
"Au revoir, Bisoux. Sorry for renaming you Clemson." Sophia said, stroking his fur.
"Thank you for coming over Bisoux." Lili spoke next to the cat.
Kiku came over and scratched under Bisoux's chin. "We will meet again kitty." He spoke quietly before going back to his seat.
Emil gathered the things they bought for the feline and gave them to Francis. "This is all we've got. I'm sure you'll have better use for them."
Francis took the items, and Michelle picked up Bisoux. "Thank you all for everything, have a good night."
"Merci beaucoup!" Michelle said waving at everyone before heading out with her father.
Felicano walked them out the parlor and to the door.
Lili sighed. "Well that was fun while it lasted. To think we were so close to having a pet in this house."
"I hope this means we'll have more leeway for a puppy." Sophia followed up.
Emil shook his head. "Waste of a goddamn Wednesday."
A/N Until next chapter.