Why in Busch Gardens?
"If it wasn't for that stupid Tanga-kanga whatever ride, none of this would have ever happened," she said, obviously distressed…
A/N: I defiantly won't update with long chapters like this constantly. Enjoy it while it lasts. This chapter changes POV.
Chapter 3 – Tigers on leashes
Miley's POV
"Has everyone charged everything they need?" I asked, "Phones, mp3 players, DVD players?" Yes to that too. "Okay we can leave now."
Everyone was assigned a car. My step-brother drove with me, as to his choosing because he thinks I'm the sanest out of all of us (he didn't know us very well in our high school and college days I guess). For kids I got Tabby (everyone else is too afraid of her, I guess), Riley, Nick, Rachel, and Grace. In retrospect, we probably should have just brought our own kids in our own cars so we would have to do all that car seat swapping, but we did anyway.
Lilly and Oliver got Carter, Rhia, Aly, Lola, step-brother's wife (Emily) and Jackson and Kristen got Elijah, Ryan, Chloe and my dad.
"Are we going to Long Beach or LA airport?" Riley, who was sitting in the third row of the mini-van with Nick and Tabby, asked.
"LA," I replied.
"Ouch! What was that for?"
"For being a perv," Tabby told Nick, after she slapped him.
"What are you talking about?" Nick asked.
"You won't stop staring at her."
"WHO?"
"Your mom," Rachel answered, sitting in the seat in front of Tabby.
"His mom's not even here, Rachel," Gracie said matter-of-factly.
"Riley, dumb ass," Tabby swore.
"Tabby, how many times to I have to tell you…" I reprimanded her.
"I was looking out the window," Nick said.
Tabby argued, "There's nothing out there except for road."
I blocked out the rest of that fight.
"Is she always like that?" Michael asked me, "Tabby, I mean? I'm not around her much anymore to know."
"Yeah… she is," I said solemnly.
"She seems so mad, and not just at Nick."
"She is mad."
"At who?"
"Me, mostly I guess, herself… her dad."
Jackson's POV
"Pass the popcorn!" I shouted. Elijah handed it up to dad who gave it to me.
"I don't think Miley wants you eating popcorn right now," Dad told me.
"Who cares about Miley? Why does she have to know?"
"Miley and Lilly planned this whole trip and paid for most of it."
"Ha," Jackson fake laughed, "she used mostly 'Hannah' money anyway."
"Yea, Paps, she's loaded, and you know that," Elijah commented.
"Oh, oh, come on! Shoot! Ugh, bounced off the backboard… He shoots… he scores! Whoo!" Ryan cheered.
"Are you guys watching a baseball game back there?" Chloe asked.
Elijah and Ryan started cracking up. Through his giggles Elijah managed to get out, "No, basketball. On my portable DVD player."
"Laker's game?" Jackson asked.
"No, the middle school's student/faculty game from this March."
"Are you at the part where the faculty gets 6 points for Miley's lay-up?" Dad asked.
"Just past." Elijah said, "Man, I forgot how mean the announcers are to the kids making foul shots."
Chloe, who didn't go to that game said, "Like how?"
"Well, since Miley works at the school and was playing, they kept telling Tabby that her mom needed her," Ryan explained.
"And they made fun of Riley's hair. Just to distract her," said Elijah.
"I didn't know that Riley and Tabby played basketball," Chloe said.
"Riley was a captain this year. Tabby was a cheerleader in 6th grade, and play b-ball this year," Jackson informed.
They were quite for a while.
"Can I have a slice of the pizza?" Ryan asked.
Lilly's POV
"That was defiantly not a tiger, Oliver."
"I swear it was! Someone was walking it on a leash," Oliver argued with his wife.
"On the side of the highway?"
"I know it sounds crazy, but-"
"Oliver, ferrets, gerbils, and hedgehogs are illegal in California, don't you think tigers would be too?"
"I know what I saw, Lilly, the only reason you didn't see it is because you're too focused on the road."
"Did any of you see a tiger?" I asked the kids and Emily.
"No," they all said.
"I highly doubt there was a tiger out there, Oliver," Emily, Miley's step-sister in law said.
Lilly glared at Oliver.
"I had a gerbil when I was a kid. His name was-" Oliver started, going off topic.
"Mr. Fuzzy Tail," I said, "I remember him."
"What kind of name is Mr. Fuzzy Tail?" Emily laughed.
"They have fur on their tails, duh," Oliver said.
Lola randomly questioned, "If you get illegal gerbils and they escape and you get an illegal ferret to hunt the gerbil, would they cancel; each other out and be legal again?"
"But then you'd have to get a lynx or something to hunt the ferret, and then you'd have to bring in a rhino or an elephant to squish the lynx," Oliver said, his serious voice made it humorous, "And really, how are you going to hide an elephant?"
"Dress it up and pretend it's an obese man who walks on all fours and has a really long nose?" I offered (and so what if I was being serious).
"Actually, that would probably work," Rhia said.
"I just saw the tiger again!" Oliver shouted.
"That was a car, daddy," Lola giggled.
"I totally knew that," Oliver lied, "But the first time it was defiantly a tiger."
Miley's POV again
"Remember the time that you-" Nick was going to start another story about when he did something stupid to Riley.
"Nick! Just because you like her, doesn't mean you have to be obsessed with her," Rachel said.
"I don't like her."
"Sure you don't," Tabitha rolled her eyes.
"Oooh, Nicky likes Riley," Grace taunted.
"Nicky and Riley sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first come love, then comes-" Rachel sang.
Riley kicked Rachel's seat.
"That didn't hurt," Rachel laughed.
Riley kicked again, just missing her body this time.
"Speaking of kissing," Grace said, "who's your boyfriend this week, Tabby? Me and Riley didn't know."
"Chris Hak," Tabby told her.
"Have you made out with him yet?"
"Since when do you use the term 'make-out'," I asked. Grace shrugged.
"No, I haven't. I've kissed him though."
"How long have you been together?" Michael asked.
"A week."
"Can't get rid of him?" I asked, sarcastically.
"Nope." Serious.
"Wouldn't you hate having hack as a last name?" Rachel asked.
Riley said, "Remember how everyone made fun of it?"
All of the kids, besides Grace, looked at Tabby, who did it the most, "Hey, I like him now don't I?"
"Do you?" I asked.
"Kinda."
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Luvs-Mitchel-Musso – I don't want to give too much away, but you'll find out who the father is eventually. The summery (not the just quote, the other part too) might help a little.