Lucy wanted to show Andrew that she doesn't just sit around at home and she was always out with friends(not only with boys, she never had a real date), and knew Andrew was jealous and her family always said, that isn't the way to show her love for him. And Lucy knew they were right.
"I have it!" she jumped up and ran to the kitchen repeating. "I have it! I have it!"
"What do you have?" Ruthie asked her sister sitting at the table and helping her mom to make the steaks ready for the oven.
"An idea. The idea! The way I can spend the summer with Andrew!!"
"You should go to Europe if you want to see him" Annie said without looking up from the steak. Lucy always had "the idea" in the last days, but they were more and more crazy.
"Yes! That's it!" Lucy was so excited about her idea, that she didn't realize that she was still in her pyjamas. Mary and Wilson just came in from the garden.
"Good morning!" Wilson said.
"Good morning Wilson, nice to see you!" Annie smiled up at him.
"Mom, can we go and visit Wilson's aunt in L.A. on the weekend?" Mary asked Annie.
"She has something, and we want to help her" Wilson said.
Annie looked up.
"L.A. for the weekend. That's a two days trip. Where are you gonna sleep?" Annie asked thinking about her daughter having sex with Wilson.
"Not in the same room" Wilson said in a hurry. "My aunt has a big house, because she has 6 kids. But they are in Europe now. And they can only arrive next week"
"And you want to be there until they come? Wilson you know what I think about it!..."Annie said and wanted to continue but Mary started to shout.
"I knew that you would say no, and think we just want to go to bed! But don't you think we still could do it?" she asked.
"Why are you shouting at your mother?" Eric came in.
"Mary and Wilson want to go to L.A for the weekend" Annie said.
"You are only a week back together and now you wanna have a two days trip?" Eric asked looking at his daughter then at Wilson.
Lucy seeing that none cares for her ran upstairs got dressed and taking the keys she left the house without saying anything to anyone.
"My aunt doesn't feel very well after her operation, she had breast cancer and was operated last week. Her daughters are in Europe now and they can come back only next week. And she asked me to visit her. And Mary wanted to help me too. I told her that I don't think that you would like the idea..."Wilson said.
Annie looked at Eric and nodded, they thought the same. Mary is 18. She finished High School, she is old enough to go on a trip with her boyfriend. They trusted in her. Well, not really but Wilson showed them that they could trust at least in him.
"Well, I think Mary can go, if your aunt has enough rooms for you" Eric said.
Mary opened her mouth but she couldn't say anything first. Then she jumped in her father's arms and hugged him.
"I knew you would trust in me!" she said.
"Well we trust in Wilson, but in that situation that's the same" Annie smiled.
"Thank you, Mom! And sorry for shouting at you!" Mary hugged her mother too.
The phone rang and Ruthie went to answer it.
"Hey Ruthie! It is Andrew! Can I talk to Lucy? Is she at home?"
Ruthie looked at the others. Her mouth formed Andrew's name.
"No, Lucy isn't here!" Ruthie said and everyone looked around and realized that she was really away.
"Is she out in her pyjamas?" Mary grinned but Annie shook her head looking at her.
"I don't know where she is, or when she comes home" Ruthie continued.
"Thanks Ruthie, I'll try it later!" Andrew's voice was really disappointed and sad.
"If I were Lucy I won't let him go!" Ruthie said.
"She doesn't want it too" Annie said. "She said that she has THE IDEA again. I wonder what is it now."
Lucy was back after an hour. She was excited.
"Mom, Dad!" she said when she saw her parents sitting in the kitchen talking about Mary and Wilson.
"Lucy, where have you been? Andrew called you twice. He asked you to call him back"
"I have no time!" she said and held one hand over the other. "I am flying to Europe!" she said waiting for their reaction.
"What?" Eric and Annie asked at the same time getting shocked.
"Listen! I know you don't like the idea, but I have to do that before I get in panic and do something stupid and loose him. I really love him, you know! And I don't wanna loose him."
"How did you get the money?" Eric asked." I mean for the ticket."
"I took the savings for college.." she said.
"What?" Annie got more shocked.
"Don't worry, I'll work next summer to earn the money for this fly. And I'll choose the college in GlenOak so I can stay at home and save more money."
Annie after the shock became a bit proud of her daughter. It was a big thing to take the savings for college, and she knew it was hard for Lucy too. She was a clever girl, a little woman, who is going to be a clever and pride woman. And this is the first step. But Annie was a mother and she had to be strict.
"Lucy.." Eric started.
"We'll talk about it when you are back" Annie said. Lucy screamed and hugged her.
"I love you Mom!"
"But don't think that it was all!" Annie said.
Eric just looked after her daughter running upstairs.
"What was that?" he asked her wife.
"She really needs it."
"She is seventeen and you let her go to the other side of the world?"
"Well, we let Mary go with Wilson too!" Annie said.
"But to L.A. it's in the state, in America.. But Paris is France, Europe!" Eric said starting to go crazy about the fact that Lucy should go to Europe.
"Don't you think, that we can more trust in Lucy and Andrew in Europe, than Mary and Wilson in L.A. Remember Wilson has a 5 year-old son.. And I think Mary would be ready to sleep with him.." Annie said.
"But you let her go" Eric said.
"No, you let her go. I let Lucy go!" Annie smiled, kissed Eric and went to the oven to take a look at the steak.