Chapter 11
The phone on the nightstand next to the girls' bed rang. Mary reached for the phone but Lucy beat her to it.
"Hello," Lucy said into the phone.
"Is Mary there?" the person on the other end asked.
"Phone's for you," Lucy told her sister, handing the phone to Mary.
"Hello," Mary said into the phone.
"Hey Mary," the person on the other end of the phone said.
"Hey Corey, what's up?" Mary asked her teammate. "Well," Corey started, before pausing.
"What, tell me," Mary urged.
"Well, WE'RE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP!" Corey told Mary excitedly.
"No way," Mary said, not believing what she was hearing.
"Yes way, we beat the Spartans, 34 to 25," Corey told Mary.
"THAT'S SO AWESOME!" Mary squealed.
"I know, I can't believe it," Corey told Mary.
"Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I mean, they are the best team in the league," Mary told Corey.
"You know, the team really needs you," Cory told her teammate.
"How are you anyway?" Corey asked Mary.
"I am fine, I just had to have my appendix removed," Mary told her.
"Practice is at 5:00 tonight," Corey told Mary.
"5:00 tonight?" Mary asked her teammate wearily.
"Yeah, you'll be there right?" Corey asked Mary in hesitation.
"Yeah, I'll be there," Mary told Corey.
"Okay, bye," Corey told Mary.
"Bye," Mary told Corey before hanging up.
"So what was all the excitement about?" Lucy asked Mary once she was off the phone.
"We're in the championship!" Mary told her sister excitedly.
"That'sawesome," Lucy said.
"So what's going on at 5:00 tonight?" Lucy asked her sister after a few moments.
"I have practice, and I was thinking that you could cover for me one last time," Mary said in a pleading voice.
"Oh no, I am not covering for you," Lucy told her sister.
"Please, I promise I'll never ask you to cover for me again," Mary begged her sister.
"But Mary, you can't go to practice, the doctor told you no strenuous physical activity for three weeks," Lucy told her sister in a pleading tone.
"But Luce, I have to, we made the championship, and I haven't practiced in three days. Can't you cover for me please?" Mary asked Lucy hopefully.
"The last time I covered for you, you got hurt and I got in trouble," Lucy said,
"I mean, what if you get hurt again? I can't let that happen," Lucy told her sister.
"Please Luce, come on, do this for me, I am your sister," Mary pleaded.
"Fine, but only because you're my sister and I love you," Lucy told Mary reluctantly.
"Thanks Luce, you're the best," Mary said, hugging her sister.
"You owe me you know," Lucy told Mary after a few moments.
"I know, I owe you everything," Mary told Lucy.
"Wait a minute, how are you going to get to practice without Mom and Dad knowing that you're actually going to practice?" Lucy asked Mary.
"I have a plan," Mary told Lucy with a mysterious grin.
"Great, another one of your wacky plans," Lucy said, rolling her eyes at her sister.
"I'll just get Matt to take me. It will be perfect," Mary told her sister.
"And how exactly are you going to do that?" Lucy asked.
"I'll just tell him that I have a team meeting, he'll take me," Mary told Lucy.
"And how are you getting home?" Lucy asked Mary a few moments later.
"Matt. And when I get home I'll just sneak quietly into the house like nothing happened," Lucy told her sister.
"What do I have to do?" Lucy asked; knowing that Mary would want her to do something. She always does when she has one of her "wacky" plans.
"You have to make sure that Mom and Dad don't suspect anything," Mary told Lucy.
Just then, Matt came into Lucy and Mary's room.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Matt asked his sisters.
"Nothing," Mary and Lucy both replied.
"Okay than, I just wanted to check and see how Mary was feeling," Matt said.
"I'm fine," Mary told her older brother as he started to leave.
"Matt," Mary said.
"Yeah," Matt said, turning around to face his sister.
"I have a team meeting at 5:00 tonight, can you take me?" Mary asked him.
"Sure, no problem," Matt told Mary.
"Thanks Matt," Mary told him. With that, Matt left the room.
"That was way too easy," Mary told Lucy after Matt was out of sight.
Just then, Mrs. Camden appeared in the doorway of the girls' room.
"Hi Mom," both Lucy and Mary greeted their mother.
"I thought I told you two no phone as part of your punishments," Mrs. Camden told her daughters sternly.
"But Mom…the call was important," Mary urged.
"And I was just answering the phone for Mary," Lucy told her mother.
"I don't care, no phone means no phone period. Lucy as you probably already guessed you are now ground for two months and Mary you are now grounded for a month," Mrs. Camden told them.
"But Mom, that's not fair," Lucy wined.
"I think it is plenty fair," Mrs. Camden said, as she left the room.