[Sorry about not updating. I don't have an excuse this week. You can hit me if you want. ducks]
Later that evening, while Stanley was taking a shower, I put everyone to sleep and lay down in our bed. I stared at the ceiling and tried to think of who would've taken the girls.
"What are you thinking about?" I looked up at Stanley who was standing in the bathroom doorway. He was smiling and had a towel in his hand.
"I was wondering if you were ever going to grow your hair back out." He gave me a "don't try me" look and ruffled up his short hair with the towel. "You look so much cuter with it long." He walked over to the bed and sat in front of me.
"I'll make you a deal. You grow out your hair, and I'll grow out mine. Deal?" I laughed.
"Deal." He slapped my hand and pulled me to him with it. He hungrily kissed me and pushed me down onto my pillow.
"Don't worry about the girls, Deyna. They'll be back. I promise." He kissed me again and dumped all of his weight onto me.
I shoved him off. "Yo! Pregnant! Remember?"
"Oh, sorry." He got comfortable next to me and we both drifted off to sleep.
In the middle of the night, I got a weird craving for green beans with strawberry syrup. I shook Stanley awake.
"Sweetheart."
He opened his eyes and rubbed them. "What."
"I'm hungry."
He groaned. "Okay, come on." He put on a shirt that had been tossed on the floor and blindly followed me down the stairs. He walked over to the fridge and opened it. "What are you hungry for?"
I blinked. "I forgot." Stanley banged his head on the fridge shelf.
"Okay, let's go back to bed." We turned around to see Stanley V with a bag of food in his hands, which he promptly dropped. I woke up in an instant.
"Stanley David Yelnats the Fifth, just what do you think that you are doing?" His mouth flopped open and he stuttered before a noise outside interrupted him. We looked towards the back door and Stanley V took the opportunity. He raced out of the house, throwing out a small note as he went. It fluttered and landed on the couch. We caught the shapes of seven figures leave the backyard. The boys.
"Well, they sure don't leave you a postcard," Stanley said as he picked up the note and read it. He handed it to me.
"Dear Mom and Dad, we are going to rescue the girls. Don't worry about us. We will be back soon."
A light turned on in one of the guest rooms. Squid and Christina walked out.
"Where's Peter?"
Squid scratched his stomach, which was covered with octopus pajamas, and yawned. "He just HAD to get lost at three in the morning."
Everyone else walked out of their rooms and Armpit had blue bunny slippers, X-Ray had a night cap, Zigzag had curlers in his hair, Twitch had a face mask, Magnet had footy pajamas and Zero was wearing his orange suit.
Needless to say, this was the funniest picture that I had ever seen. I fell down onto the couch and started laughing. I hadn't laughed harder since Pendanski died 12 years ago. Everyone sat down on the couches as I tried to slow my breathing. It worked until X-Ray flipped his hat to the other side of his head. I burst out laughing again and fell against Stanley.
"I wouldn't be laughing if I were you, Deyna." I stopped to look at Zig-Zag and wiped the tears from my eyes.
"Why not?"
"Because you and Stanley are wearing each other's shirts." I gasped, looked down at my shirt and sure enough, it was Stanley's Rangers shirt and he was wearing my pink nightshirt. My face turned red and I didn't speak a word while everyone discussed what to do about the boys.
We decided that since Stanley V and Summer had cell phones, we would let the boys go, but would go after them if needed to. We didn't even know how the boys knew where to go to find the girls. We had no fear of for the boys safety, considering we didn't know who had taken the girls. I know. The plan sounds stupid, but plans made at 3 in the morning are like that.
We all went back to sleep and Stanley and I switched shirts. [lol] We all anticipated the next morning when we would hopefully get the first word from the boys. Or so we thought...