Disclaimer: I only own Skye, Allen, Lionel, Mike, Gary and Kelsey.
Author's Note: Hee hee, I have returned from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. I am not tired, I swear. Today I spent seven hours reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." This will be a long chapter.
To 2001!
My breath caught in my throat.
"Please, please let the cake be all right," I wished out loud. For one, if the cake was a messy, chocolaty pulp, I'd have to clean it up and no one would get any to eat! I ran down the hall as fast as I could, and what I saw shocked me.
"ALLEN!!!" I roared. He stopped dead in his tracks. Slowly, he turned to face me. His hands were smeared with cake.
"Skye, I can explain everything," Allen said slowly.
"You better, before I get angry beyond all reason."
"You see, I was only trying to help you out," he began. I raised an eyebrow. "I thought the cake was finished, so I was going to carry it over to the dining room table. I was walking toward it, but Rafe didn't know I was carrying a cake. He shoved, ya know, like a joke, but I smashed into the wall, and so did the cake! I tried to scoop it off, but I couldn't!"
I gasped. "You did that?" I asked unbelievingly. He nodded.
"But Rafe was swearing," He added. I couldn't help but laugh. I walked into the dining room and saw my cake splatted onto the wall, like a fly smashed on a windshield. I sighed, taking a pair of sponges and a bucket.
"RAFE!!" I shouted. He ran into the room a few seconds later.
"Why, hello there, ma'am!" he said enthusiastically. I rolled my eyes.
"No time for that. I understand you were part of this little 'cake fiasco,' were you not?" I said hastily.
"Well ma'am, I suppose-," he started.
"You are going to clean this off, and so are you, Allen." And so, they did. I walked into the living room where Evelyn was still watching a stupid children's show that Allen loved. Flopping onto the couch, I sighed and picked up the remote. I changed the channel. Besides, I'd rather watch "Boy Meets World" than "Ninja Fighter Turtle." Evelyn jumped a foot into the air.
"What happened?!" she shrieked.
"I changed the channel."
"Wow!" I know, I know, this was all new to them, but all of the modern things my family had gotten so used to using really didn't amaze me. Their enthusiasm was really starting to get on my nerves. I continued to watch TV until the doorbell rang yet again. I groaned and stood up. But before I could get there, Danny opened the door. It was Mike, the other neighbor who admired Allen deeply.
"Can Allen come out?" Mike asked Danny, his eyes wide. "WAIT! Who are you?"
"I'm a hug. No, a relative! Relative, uh huh, that's who I am," Danny said, watching us perform another round of charades. "But sorry, Allen can't come out now." And with that, he hastily shut the door.
"We have got to get them to stop coming over here!" Allen said from the dining room, proceeding to go into planning an elaborate trap to catch the neighbors when they ring the bell, which involved a bowling ball and a strainer. I sighed as I turned the air conditioner on full blast.
"It is too hot. 111 degrees is a bit much," I said to no one in particular. Danny nodded, sitting down on the floor to watch television.
"But what can we do?" he said slowly.
"Well, we could challenge Lionel, Gary and Mike to a water gun fight," I suggested. But seeing Danny's expression quickly blew away that idea. But fortunately, the doorbell rang. I looked out the window, and seeing it was my friend Kelsey, who was also Mike's sister, I ran to answer the door.
"Hey. Come on in," I said, opening the door.
"Can you and Allen come to the pool with Mike and I?" she asked. I nodded.
"I suppose," I said, picking up our pool passes. "But what about-,"
I didn't have time to finish. Allen ran down the stairs and jumped on my back.
"Hi Kelsey! We get to go to the pool?!" he shrieked.
"Only if you get off of me and get Mom and Dad's pool passes for me," I said crossly.
"Why do you need your parent's pool passes?" Kelsey asked.
"Because of my... aunt and uncles," I explained in reference to Danny, Rafe and Evelyn. Kelsey nodded.
"But that means you only have 4 passes. You need 5." I scrambled up the stairs and took a twenty-dollar bill.
"Money can fix that," I said, holding the money up.
"Get dressed and let's go!" Kelsey said happily. Uh oh, I thought, bathing suits. Quickly changing into my own and putting on some shorts also, I scrambled down the hall.
"Small dilemma," I said. Kelsey raised an eyebrow. "Bathing suits."
"Oh yeah," she said.
"Do you have money?" I asked Danny, who was now standing next to us, listening to our conversation. He nodded, holding up a fifty-dollar bill. I snatched it away. "Listen, do you want to cool off?"
"More than anything!" he shrieked. I rolled my eyes.
"Then buy Evelyn, Rafe and yourself a bathing suit," I said. "Please?" He reluctantly agreed after I described the blistering sunlight, followed by the cold water of the pool. We headed to the garage. Bikes were another problem, but not after I decided Evelyn on my mom's bike, Danny on my father's bike and Rafe on Dad's old bike.
We all got onto our bikes. I had the bag filled with towels, sunscreen and such. Just then, Kelsey and Mike rode up on their bikes.
"Bad news," Mike said. We all gave him a questioning look, pressuring him to explain. "Lionel asked me to play, and I told him where we were going. Now he's begging his mom to take HIM."
"Let's go! When we get there, he'll be there!" I said.
"But you said I had to spend money!" Danny said. I nodded.
"That's why he'll be there when we get there. We have to go to K-Mart!" I said, getting on my bike. "Now lets go!" We all rode out of the driveway and down the sidewalk.
When we got to the store, Allen, Kelsey, Mike and I tried to get the trio back to the clothing department, but they stopped constantly as we passed the electronic department. Danny knocked over a display of Kodak film on the way, but nothing else major happened. But within an hour, everyone had a bathing suit; that was the important thing.
On the way to the pool, we passed behind the McDonald's. This usually did not present a problem, but Rafe insisted upon stopping and seeing what the electronic menu did. When the voice asked him what he wanted to eat, he shouted and made a huge commotion. I was sure my face was red and on fire as we rode away, people watching us strangely. When we finally got to the pool, I noted that it was an hour and a half since we had left.
Rafe was supposedly my dad, Evelyn my mom, and we paid for Danny with cash. When we got into the pool, the water was freezing, which surprised Danny beyond belief. He thought that if the pool was cold, it had to be cold outside. But anyway, we swam for a good twenty minutes, a Lionel-free twenty minutes. But suddenly, with a splash, he jumped in the water and ambushed Mike and Allen.
Kelsey and I exchanged a look and swam away as fast as we could. If Mike and Allen ignored him, he'd move on to pestering us.
"No, no, no!" Kelsey hissed. "Allen and Mike are coming over here, and Lionel is following them, and Gary is following him!" I gasped.
"Swim for your life!" I whispered dramatically. We dove under the water and swam as fast as we could to the deepest area we could find, knowing Lionel could not follow us here. A few minutes later, Rafe showed up.
"Lionel is looking for you girls! I told him you're over here. See, there he is now!" he said happily, pointing. Apparently, Lionel could swim out here. With that, I grabbed Rafe's arm and pulled him into the pool.
"Never-do-that-again!" I said, dunking him with each word. "Now he'll come over here!"
"Sorry," Rafe said guiltily. I frowned and accepted his apology. Lionel was not a fast swimmer, so we had plenty of time to get away. Kelsey and I made a dash for the girl's bathroom to hideout there for a minute. Unfortunately, something else had to happen. Rafe followed us in.
Girls screamed. I shoved him out the door.
"What?" he asked, not understanding what he had done.
"This is the GIRLS bathroom!" I shouted. "Go away!" He murmured an apology. But in the middle of this horrible day at the pool, something good happened. Lionel had to go home. Allen and Mike cheered. We swam for hours, and it was only when we all started getting headaches from swimming so long that we changed clothes and rode our bikes home.
"That was fun," Evelyn said. I agreed. Maybe having them around wasn't so bad, I thought as I made dinner. At least it's more interesting.
Author's Note: Hee hee, I have returned from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. I am not tired, I swear. Today I spent seven hours reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." This will be a long chapter.
To 2001!
My breath caught in my throat.
"Please, please let the cake be all right," I wished out loud. For one, if the cake was a messy, chocolaty pulp, I'd have to clean it up and no one would get any to eat! I ran down the hall as fast as I could, and what I saw shocked me.
"ALLEN!!!" I roared. He stopped dead in his tracks. Slowly, he turned to face me. His hands were smeared with cake.
"Skye, I can explain everything," Allen said slowly.
"You better, before I get angry beyond all reason."
"You see, I was only trying to help you out," he began. I raised an eyebrow. "I thought the cake was finished, so I was going to carry it over to the dining room table. I was walking toward it, but Rafe didn't know I was carrying a cake. He shoved, ya know, like a joke, but I smashed into the wall, and so did the cake! I tried to scoop it off, but I couldn't!"
I gasped. "You did that?" I asked unbelievingly. He nodded.
"But Rafe was swearing," He added. I couldn't help but laugh. I walked into the dining room and saw my cake splatted onto the wall, like a fly smashed on a windshield. I sighed, taking a pair of sponges and a bucket.
"RAFE!!" I shouted. He ran into the room a few seconds later.
"Why, hello there, ma'am!" he said enthusiastically. I rolled my eyes.
"No time for that. I understand you were part of this little 'cake fiasco,' were you not?" I said hastily.
"Well ma'am, I suppose-," he started.
"You are going to clean this off, and so are you, Allen." And so, they did. I walked into the living room where Evelyn was still watching a stupid children's show that Allen loved. Flopping onto the couch, I sighed and picked up the remote. I changed the channel. Besides, I'd rather watch "Boy Meets World" than "Ninja Fighter Turtle." Evelyn jumped a foot into the air.
"What happened?!" she shrieked.
"I changed the channel."
"Wow!" I know, I know, this was all new to them, but all of the modern things my family had gotten so used to using really didn't amaze me. Their enthusiasm was really starting to get on my nerves. I continued to watch TV until the doorbell rang yet again. I groaned and stood up. But before I could get there, Danny opened the door. It was Mike, the other neighbor who admired Allen deeply.
"Can Allen come out?" Mike asked Danny, his eyes wide. "WAIT! Who are you?"
"I'm a hug. No, a relative! Relative, uh huh, that's who I am," Danny said, watching us perform another round of charades. "But sorry, Allen can't come out now." And with that, he hastily shut the door.
"We have got to get them to stop coming over here!" Allen said from the dining room, proceeding to go into planning an elaborate trap to catch the neighbors when they ring the bell, which involved a bowling ball and a strainer. I sighed as I turned the air conditioner on full blast.
"It is too hot. 111 degrees is a bit much," I said to no one in particular. Danny nodded, sitting down on the floor to watch television.
"But what can we do?" he said slowly.
"Well, we could challenge Lionel, Gary and Mike to a water gun fight," I suggested. But seeing Danny's expression quickly blew away that idea. But fortunately, the doorbell rang. I looked out the window, and seeing it was my friend Kelsey, who was also Mike's sister, I ran to answer the door.
"Hey. Come on in," I said, opening the door.
"Can you and Allen come to the pool with Mike and I?" she asked. I nodded.
"I suppose," I said, picking up our pool passes. "But what about-,"
I didn't have time to finish. Allen ran down the stairs and jumped on my back.
"Hi Kelsey! We get to go to the pool?!" he shrieked.
"Only if you get off of me and get Mom and Dad's pool passes for me," I said crossly.
"Why do you need your parent's pool passes?" Kelsey asked.
"Because of my... aunt and uncles," I explained in reference to Danny, Rafe and Evelyn. Kelsey nodded.
"But that means you only have 4 passes. You need 5." I scrambled up the stairs and took a twenty-dollar bill.
"Money can fix that," I said, holding the money up.
"Get dressed and let's go!" Kelsey said happily. Uh oh, I thought, bathing suits. Quickly changing into my own and putting on some shorts also, I scrambled down the hall.
"Small dilemma," I said. Kelsey raised an eyebrow. "Bathing suits."
"Oh yeah," she said.
"Do you have money?" I asked Danny, who was now standing next to us, listening to our conversation. He nodded, holding up a fifty-dollar bill. I snatched it away. "Listen, do you want to cool off?"
"More than anything!" he shrieked. I rolled my eyes.
"Then buy Evelyn, Rafe and yourself a bathing suit," I said. "Please?" He reluctantly agreed after I described the blistering sunlight, followed by the cold water of the pool. We headed to the garage. Bikes were another problem, but not after I decided Evelyn on my mom's bike, Danny on my father's bike and Rafe on Dad's old bike.
We all got onto our bikes. I had the bag filled with towels, sunscreen and such. Just then, Kelsey and Mike rode up on their bikes.
"Bad news," Mike said. We all gave him a questioning look, pressuring him to explain. "Lionel asked me to play, and I told him where we were going. Now he's begging his mom to take HIM."
"Let's go! When we get there, he'll be there!" I said.
"But you said I had to spend money!" Danny said. I nodded.
"That's why he'll be there when we get there. We have to go to K-Mart!" I said, getting on my bike. "Now lets go!" We all rode out of the driveway and down the sidewalk.
When we got to the store, Allen, Kelsey, Mike and I tried to get the trio back to the clothing department, but they stopped constantly as we passed the electronic department. Danny knocked over a display of Kodak film on the way, but nothing else major happened. But within an hour, everyone had a bathing suit; that was the important thing.
On the way to the pool, we passed behind the McDonald's. This usually did not present a problem, but Rafe insisted upon stopping and seeing what the electronic menu did. When the voice asked him what he wanted to eat, he shouted and made a huge commotion. I was sure my face was red and on fire as we rode away, people watching us strangely. When we finally got to the pool, I noted that it was an hour and a half since we had left.
Rafe was supposedly my dad, Evelyn my mom, and we paid for Danny with cash. When we got into the pool, the water was freezing, which surprised Danny beyond belief. He thought that if the pool was cold, it had to be cold outside. But anyway, we swam for a good twenty minutes, a Lionel-free twenty minutes. But suddenly, with a splash, he jumped in the water and ambushed Mike and Allen.
Kelsey and I exchanged a look and swam away as fast as we could. If Mike and Allen ignored him, he'd move on to pestering us.
"No, no, no!" Kelsey hissed. "Allen and Mike are coming over here, and Lionel is following them, and Gary is following him!" I gasped.
"Swim for your life!" I whispered dramatically. We dove under the water and swam as fast as we could to the deepest area we could find, knowing Lionel could not follow us here. A few minutes later, Rafe showed up.
"Lionel is looking for you girls! I told him you're over here. See, there he is now!" he said happily, pointing. Apparently, Lionel could swim out here. With that, I grabbed Rafe's arm and pulled him into the pool.
"Never-do-that-again!" I said, dunking him with each word. "Now he'll come over here!"
"Sorry," Rafe said guiltily. I frowned and accepted his apology. Lionel was not a fast swimmer, so we had plenty of time to get away. Kelsey and I made a dash for the girl's bathroom to hideout there for a minute. Unfortunately, something else had to happen. Rafe followed us in.
Girls screamed. I shoved him out the door.
"What?" he asked, not understanding what he had done.
"This is the GIRLS bathroom!" I shouted. "Go away!" He murmured an apology. But in the middle of this horrible day at the pool, something good happened. Lionel had to go home. Allen and Mike cheered. We swam for hours, and it was only when we all started getting headaches from swimming so long that we changed clothes and rode our bikes home.
"That was fun," Evelyn said. I agreed. Maybe having them around wasn't so bad, I thought as I made dinner. At least it's more interesting.