Chapter 32: Knock 'Em Dead, Kid
We are going off the rails, aren't we? Oh goodness...
Anyways, Marie and May enter their trailer, and as a large surprise from them, Lee isn't in the living room. Where then could she be? Well, she actually is nowhere on the first floor of the trailer, she is actually in the bedroom of the sisters, currently talking a nap. Now, as to her mood? That is up to you to think or decide, as it seems that she didn't even feel her sisters come in, and in general... she's just not awake really.
Since this is the case, and Marie sees that Lee isn't going to be obnoxious, she tells May, "Come here."
The two sisters decide to sit down, and make their own plans, because yeah, they both have confidence in what they made with the lads... but they want to be secure, JUST IN CASE, ya know?
"Are you sure tomorrow won't go crazy?" Asked a concerned May.
Marie simply says, "Yes, relax. Lee isn't going to win anyways, she should know that. I can hope that she isn't so stupid. Look, Lee just needs to quit that crap and LISTEN for once! I wanted to try and talk, but nope! She did that stupid stuff!"
"Don't call Lee that!" May backfired at Marie, before cooling down and saying, "I guess you have a point, but how exactly can the boys help us?"
Marie responds, "They'll vouch for Double D. After all..."
Marie doesn't even continue her sentence, as she enter a... trance, per say, at the sound of his name. May looks confused, then she snaps her fingers in front of Marie, which snaps the latter back to reality. That was easy.
"Right, as I said, they will vouch for him. I can only hope that none of them do anything that makes this worse."
May nods her head in approval, and they both share the feeling that maybe it's not too late to learn how to love, and forget how to hate. Yes, that means what you think it means. Anyways, the two sisters simply discuss other things. Such as... well...
"What should I do for him?" May asks Marie.
"Whatcha mean?"
"Ed." May asks. "I think we can go for a date!"
"Shhh!!!" Marie says, not wanting to be loud, in case Lee woke up. But then she says, "What makes you say that? Or are you just saying that just to say it?"
"Hey!" May said. "Well... he and I now talk most, if not all the time."
"Just make sure he doesn't spoil your relationship..." Marie said, obviously annoyed at Ed's stunt.
Yeah, everyone was not exactly very glad at Ed for what he did, but for the record... it's Ed. It would be a LOT more different if say, Eddy did it, but Ed is just an innocent young lad. I think it's reasonable enough to let him go. After all, at least there's a plan to fix this anyways. Regardless, back to the original topic at hand, May says, "Yeah... but what should I do?"
Marie then gets an idea, saying, "First off, ask him out on a date, or wait until he does, then... I know just what will make him go crazy! In a good way, don't worry."
May then raises an eyebrow, stating, "You aren't trying to pull a prank, right?"
"No!" Marie responded, while chuckling, "I'm serious. I'll getcha all ready, but we have to get this crap done first."
The sisters spend some more time speaking together about some more things, as really, time to talk about their lives, to the sisters really, seemed really rare and not very common among them. They both actually enjoyed talking to each other, of course there's still the "making fun of each other", aspect, but it's not all just ridiculous and over-the-top.
Speaking of which, oh ho boy! Let's see how this goes. Lee actually wakes up and notices her sisters in the kitchen, just making their lunches that they usually make after school, and... says nothing. Not even anything... just emptiness. She simply decides to turn on the TV and watch the sequel to Fish-Bowl 2 again, Fish-Bowl 3. What? Did you expect a fancy name for the third installment?
Marie and May notice this, and, luckily they just finished up their lunches, so they go upstairs in order to continue their conversation, as they both knew that Lee was 110% going to be eavesdropping. But neither of them are having none of that stuff.
The tensions for the sisters only stayed for the rest of the day really, as... good lord man, they either remained silent near each other, or... maybe a one or two was said, but let's be honest, compared to normal, this just isn't how they normally are with each other. It's basically like walking into a calm beach after a hard wave just washed over it, and the wave is now calm. Terrible analogies aside, the girls managed to stay through the whole day with each other, even with basically 0 speaking.
Although, once it's 9:30 PM, two things occur. One, Lee actually ends up being the first one to go to sleep, most likely due to the fact of not having anything else to do really. Two, Marie and May decide to talk to each other about a certain topic or two some more.
"How did it actually go?" May asked Marie.
"What?"
"Your date with Double D."
Marie realizes that... that's what May meant, and responds, "Awesome. He's a gentleman, I'll tell ya."
The two sisters share a laugh, and Marie proceeded to tell all the details about the date, such as, the dinner they shared, the stories they shared, the movies they watched... and the "moment" they shared too, which, Marie also shared the, "embarrassing", moment that occurred, which is more on Double D's part. May laughed out loud at that, as she simply thought it was hilarious.
"At least he asked you if you were okay with it!" May stated.
"True." Marie said. "That's what I like about him, he made sure that I was fine with it, and lemme tell ya May... that's rare."
May chuckles a little, before asking, "Did his friends really help him a bit though?"
"Yeah." Marie said in response. "It was mostly Chris though, as he admitted. He set the table up and everything. I wonder where he learns that from..."
May laughs a little beneath her breath, which makes Marie ask, "What's up?"
"I wonder how long he's gonna take to do it." May stated.
"Oh yeah... him and Skylar. At this point, she should just do it!" Marie said while laughing a little.
May then says, "I gotta say, Skylar looked great with her new look, although did she really look that different to Ed? I got slightly confused at first, but then the voice and everything else said it."
"I mean," Marie said, "I know it's Ed, but jeez! It's not like Skylar had changed her face or somethin! Listen, Ed has always been like that, I know, but how does he think he met a new person based on their hair?!"
May simply raises her shoulders as to say, "I don't know."
Marie then says, "Actually, oh my... remember that time when Eddy supposedly tried to be a whole new person or something?"
"Yeah!" May said. "Carl, was it?"
"Seriously! Everyone was fooled, except Double D!" Marie said in annoyance. "How he managed to fool them, I'll never know. It's so obvious it's him, like it's not even funny."
May and Marie share a chuckle, as yeah, you can only wonder how Eddy even got away with it initially. Marie then mentions, "The worse part was that, he kept changing his appearance after he saw the 'No Neck Chump' insult, and he only got worse."
May then just burst out laughing, "How did people not notice?"
Marie laughs a little too, stating, "You read my mind well."
The two sisters genuinely have a good time making fun of Eddy for that situation, now, HOLD THE PHONE! They are only mocking the thing that he did, not Eddy himself. Besides, in Marie's mind, it was more unbelievable that SOMEHOW, the kids just bought that very poor disguise that Eddy made, as she saw through it like a knife through butter, basically. Either way, May then asks Marie, "Whatcha think of Skylar?"
"Hmm?" Marie said. "Oh. She's actually cool. Honestly, she's just the same as Chris, just some differences and all. Like the whole martial arts stuff."
May then mentions, "Plus, didn't he mention that Skylar invited him to talk outside and stuff when we were at his house?"
"Yeah!" Marie ended up laughing once May brought that up. "I guess I can respect how he wants to take it slowly, but hopefully he doesn't delay this forever! Plus, did you really believe him when he said that it wasn't a... 'romantic escapade'?"
May thinks for a second and says, "I mean... he did sound serious?"
"True, true." Marie responded. "I just hope that whatever he decides to do, it's not stupid. Because he won't be liking his decision if he harms Skylar."
"Marie!" May said. "He doesn't seem like he will do that, so I wouldn't say that. Why would you even say that?"
Marie thinks for a second... and she just says, "Actually... you're right. Nevermind. I'm sure he'll be fine, it's just I wanna make sure that he doesn't harm Skylar."
"I getcha now." May responded.
"Speaking of Skylar," Marie said. "I find it funny that she and Chris are actually in similar situations with school."
May stated at Marie with a face that is clearly asking for an explanation, so Marie begins to explain, "They both are newcomers to the school, and it's their first year and stuff. You know?"
"Oh yeah!" May said. "That's true. I know Chris lives in the cul-de-sac, but where the heck does Skylar live? She must be a bit more far than any of us."
"Most likely." Marie states. "I mean, I'm surprised she isn't late to class, or... I think she isn't late to class. Then again, in the classes we have with her, she is always on time, along with Chris and Eddy."
May nods her head, before saying, "Do you think we should invite Skylar over one day?"
"Yeah." Marie responds. "I'm up to it, but first, let's resolve this issue we have first, then we will think about it. At least she hasn't done anything that would it impossible to invite her over, because I would hate trying to do it."
May simply hums as to say yes, before she says, "I wanna go sleep, it's been fun, but yeah."
"Me too." Marie says. "Hey May?"
"Hmm?"
"Thanks for talking sister." Marie said with a hint of compassion.
May smiles, and both of the sisters share a nice 15 second hug between each other. They both clearly enjoyed having a conversation about things that they were both either involved in, interested in, found funny, or a mix of those things, among others.
"Let's do this again, when we can." Marie says.
"Heck yeah!"
And so, the sisters go upstairs and get ready for sleep. Luckily, Lee was actually DEEP asleep, so whatever they were doing meant very little, or just flat out nothing to her really, as her sleep kept her busy, so to say. After around 20 or so minutes, the remaining two sisters go to sleep.
Well, this is promising! I think... right?