Monday
A bright new morning arrived with Lori being the first person awake. She glanced quickly at her alarm clock and noticed fifteen minutes remained before it was supposed to ring.
Fully rested Lori thought, "Wow I better take the opportunity to take a bath."
She avoided turning the water on heavily so her siblings wouldn't be disturbed by the sound of the water. While Lori made her breakfast after getting dressed, the four alarm clocks in the other sister's rooms started ringing.
Meanwhile Rita was shaking Lola's left shoulder to wake her up
"Lola it's time to get up," the mother insisted before leaving to get Lily.
By the time Lola got upstairs all the other sisters except Leni and Lily were in the bathroom line. Suddenly remembering some of her sisters confronting her yesterday Lola said in the most cheerful tone she could muster, "Good morning everyone." She was met with a stony silence except from Luan.
"Good morning sis," Luan answered.
Meanwhile Lynn Sr. was cooking everyone's favorite breakfasts while Rita was feeding Lily after giving her a bath in the kitchen sink.
Whitney's car horn interrupted the silence while Lori drank the last of her coffee.
"See you later everyone," she chirped. Lori grabbed her handbag from the coffee table in the living room then rushed outside.
Once the after-breakfast rituals were done by the others, they climbed into Vanzilla. Rita was heading to the restaurant first to drop Lynn Sr. off before going to the community center with the girls.
It was ten-fifteen when Lincoln finally opened his eyes form his slumber. He realized how silent it was throughout the house. Tomorrow Lincoln would start attending computer fun classes at the library running during the summer Tuesdays to Thursdays from 1-3 p.m. Liam was attending the classes and talked about how enjoyable the classes which made Lincoln decide to join.
Realizing how hungry he was, Lincoln jumped out of bed and washed his hands and face then prepared two eggs and three breakfast sausages by frying them and warmed leftover baked beans in the microwave then poured some Nesquik cocoa into a mug with warm milk.
He casually took his time eating then washed what he used, dried them, then set upon the task of feeding Lana's pets. Lana decided to keep them housed in the basement for a while. Once the job was completed, Lincoln went upstairs with one intention in mind.
"Now I'll start calling those numbers," he thought.
Last night he spent a considerable amount of time on his laptop finding stores in Royal Woods and surrounding neighborhoods that sold toys and wrote the phone numbers in a notebook he used in school.
Lincoln scowled then muttered bitterly, "If it wasn't for that little beast the plane would be in one piece and I could invite Liam over to see it."
Instantly his cell phone rang and Stella's name popped up.
"Oh Hi Stella, it's so nice to hear from you," he answered happily.
"Hi Lincoln, just wanted to give you a call. We returned from Thailand a few days ago actually we spent some extra days there," she replied.
"Did you enjoy yourself?" he asked.
"I sure had a wonderful time thanks for asking. By the way I mailed some postcards on Saturday so look out for yours," Stella replied.
"I will," he simply responded.
"How are you and your family?" she asked next.
Lincoln pondered, "Well I can't mention anything bad that's happened."
"Everybody's fine, there was a Fourth of July block party on our street and my family and I went and enjoyed ourselves," he responded.
Five seconds of awkward silence passed then Lincoln inquired, "So what are your plans for the rest of the summer?"
Stella replied, "Well I'm staying home today relaxing and watching television and tomorrow I'm starting gymnastic classes at the RWYC. I'll be there every day except Mondays and Fridays. I can meet you and the others at Gus on Fridays."
"That's great Stella," he answered enthusiastically then thought, "I better wrap up this call."
"Thanks for calling Stella, it was great hearing from you, have a nice day," he merely told his friend.
"Bye Lincoln," Stella chirped before ending the call.
"Now to start calling these numbers," Lincoln muttered then dialed the first one.
This is Mr. Delgado the Manager speaking how can I assist you?" he heard.
"Hello this is Lincoln, I'd like to find out if you still have a model fighter Magno EX plane from the toy company ToyMagik available in your store?" he inquired.
"Give us a moment while I check on that for you," Mr. Delgado said.
Lincoln waited only four minutes until Mr. Delgado returned
"I'm sorry they've been sold out since yesterday and we aren't receiving any more," the Manager replied.
Lincoln released a sigh, "Thanks for your help Mr. Delgado have a nice day."
After hanging up he dialed the next number.
Meanwhile at the community center day camp, the younger girls and kids in their age group were finishing their swimming session of the day. Kids ages eleven to sixteen would begin their swim sessions thirty minutes later. During the time the sisters attended summer school, Rita had signed the girls up for the swim sessions and art and craft, cooking and for Lucy creative writing classes. Lynn Jr. had objected at first to Rita not signing her up for other sports but Rita was determined that the no sports rule for her athletic daughter should remain. The girls wore bathing suits they bought on vacation.
While changing into her regular clothes after drying off, Lola began to recall the spanking she received from Rita.
It was really painful she thought miserably, then suddenly Lincoln's face with the furious expression he wore flashed before Lola making her shudder a little which didn't go unnoticed by Lisa.
Forty minutes later, Lincoln was now finished calling every Royal Woods store on the list with no results.
He sighed dejectedly, "Well I'll have to call the stores outside of Royal Woods."
Sometime later still no success. Lincoln decided to take a breather and call the other numbers later.
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"Where does the time go?" Rita wondered upon glancing at the oval clock on the office wall beside her. It was 1:20 pm.
The day was creeping by rather slowly for Rita. Today she managed to secure only two appointments, her first patient arrived at 10:40 am to get two cavities filled and the other was arriving at two p.m for a root canal. Rita's flex schedule allowed her to receive appointments based around the day camp activities ending at 4:00 pm. She was just finished looking over the paperwork of a patient coming in tomorrow.
Rita entered the small kitchen and removed a beef burrito from the refrigerator and placed it in the microwave for two minutes. While waiting for it to warm, Rita leaned against the counter and started thinking, "I should call dad and tell him that Lola destroyed Lincoln's plane and that I spanked her."
Instantly she became a little frightened about what his reaction would be.
"But he has to know," she thought.
The two minutes up, she removed the burrito with a paper napkin and ate in the kitchen then returned to her office after lunch. Rita placed the call to her dad's cell phone immediately. She knew Albert relaxed in his room at this time of day.
"Hi dad, Rita calling," she greeted once he answered.
"Afternoon Rita so nice to hear you," Albert replied, "I hope my grandkids are behaving themselves?"
"That's what I'm calling about, yesterday Lola wanted to have a pretend tea party and invited Lincoln but because he was heading out to see his friends he said no," Rita began, then released a deep breath.
"Well she got into a rage and destroyed that plane he worked on," she continued.
On the other end, Albert could feel his blood pressure rise slightly.
"What! I can't believe it," he said in disbelief.
"I rushed inside Lola's room when I heard Lincoln shouting at her, when he told me that she smashed the plane, I picked up her hairbrush and spanked her," Rita added.
Albert pinched the bridge of his nose then shook his head.
"I'm so disappointed in Lola right now, something must be done about that temper of hers," Albert continued.
I know dad, I just don't want her ending up like Aunt Sylvia Rita told him
"Well so glad you called," Albert replied, "I'll talk to you another time."
"Bye Dad," Rita said then smiled after hanging up.
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Rita arrived at the community center at 4:00 pm. Thankful to be going home the girls hopped into Vanzilla as quickly as possible.
"How was your day girls?" Rita asked pleasantly.
"It was okay," Luna replied nonchalantly
"I made a necklace today," Lana piped up, then showed Rita a blue and green one.
That's very pretty Lana Rita replied then smiled at her
Upon reaching home, they entered the house. Lola was the first person to step in and noticed Lincoln playing video games on the couch. He just returned twenty minutes ago from walking the family dog Charles.
"Hi everyone," he greeted, then uttered frostily, "except Lola."
Lola became somewhat scared by his bitter tone and sped upstairs
"Oh my god I think she's afraid of Lincoln," Lisa thought.
RWYC means Royal Woods Youth Center
