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Chapter Quote: "She's your daughter too."

Chapter Three

Off to See Narnia

Eventually it was Friday and Mom delighted the Campbell children by letting them have a snow day. It wasn't a bad snow...but all the schools were off so Mom figured she'd let her own children off as well. The children spent most of the day outside, trying to make forts and snowballs unsuccessfully in snow that was much too powdery for that sort of thing (Excellent snow balls are made from mushy, wet snow). Elora was baking Christmas Cookies and Alysia was talking on the phone (she really liked to do thaT), and Michelle and Elizabeth were exercising in the guest room upstairs.

Alysia paused as she heard Elizabeth squeal and shook her head as she realized that another game of 'Nip and Tuck' was being played. Nip and Tuck, invented by Michelle, consisted of pinching her older sisters' boobs. Elizabeth was all fair game but the two never bothered Alysia or Elora unless severely provoked. Mainly because Alysia would whale out and smack you if you ever touched her and Elora—well---- she was just so much bigger then either of them that a nip and tuck coming for her usually consisted of a well aimed punch to you know where.

Anyway, exercise was a large part of Campbell life. "I don't care how my children look." Mom would always say. "I just want them to be healthy."

Of course, doing crunches leaves one's front rather unprotected and thus soon squeals could be heard once again from the guest room. Grace was drawing elves from one of Elora's many fanfictions, (a task which Elora was paying her for) and Maria was curled up on a couch reading a Captain Underpants book which was really disguising, The Works of William Shakespeare: Guide to Prose. Uwey was staring out one of the front windows and barking at cars that passed by every so often.

Mom walked downstairs from her room (which was on the third and very top floor of the Campbell house and which the children referred to as, the Tower) with a rather pleasant look on her face and a cup of steaming coffee in her hand. All the Campbell children knew that it was going to be a really good day as long as Mom got her tribute of coffee every morning before anyone bothered her.

The look on her face was so pleasant in fact that none of them wanted to tell her that Anthony had broken one of her favorite lamps. It was simply easier to allow her to find out later then to dampent their mother's high spirits. Anthony seemed to be breaking things more often as of late and usually by the time Mom was done reaming him out, she had slid into a foul mood. Needless to say, snowy days were one of the Campbell children's mother's favorite kinds of days. "We're snowed in." She'd say, "We can't go anywhere and nobody can bother us."

Mom walked into the kitchen and Elora tried to hurriedly gulp some cookie dough down that she'd been eating. Mom cast her a warning look and Elora tried to look as innocent as possible.

"Where are the kids?"

Elora, having successfully finished her finals the day before, was looking considerably happier and had once again resumed the art of talking. "Around and about...what's up?"

"When your father flies in from Dallas tonight, we're going out for a surprise."

Elora's face brightened and she wiped her hands on her pants, her blue Eyore pajamas gliding across the floor as she neared her mother. "Where are we going?"

Mom smiled at her, sat down, and sipped her coffee. "We're going to see The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."

"Narnia?" Elora breathed in awe.

"Yes...go tell your brothers and sisters."

Elora grinned, ripped off her blue apron and ran from the kitchen, screaming: "NARNIA! WE'RE GOING TO SEE NARNIA!"

Anthony, Cecilia, and Tyler were all excited. So were the rest of the kids in their own ways. They had all recently finished reading the novel by C.S. Lewis and were very excited to see it brought to the big screen after the previous disasters by BBC. (Which Elora considered an insult to Lewis' memory) and were all shifting excitedly in their seats as they hopped into their large, white, fifteen passenger van and drove to the theater.

Elora was staring dreamily out the window in the back seat while Alysia mouthed the words to songs as she listened to her MP3 player. Michelle and Elizabeth were giggling over some random joke while Maria did funny voices as she said all of the children's names. Grace was listening to 'The Fellowship of the Ring' soundtrack and was sighing as the elves began to sing. The brat pack was seated just behind Mom and Dad and were comparing their Yu-Gi-Oh cards to see whose were the best. Then Grace and Maria started talking aimlessly about how Narnia and Middle-earth were similar.

"Either way," Dad added as they spoke. "Both are fantasy worlds."

Elora snapped from her revere and glanced sadly at Dad. "Dad, I've told you a thousand times, of course Middle-earth is real." Her voice was slightly patronizing, as if she were explaining something to a two-year old. "And Narnia was discovered by Diggory Kirke, Maria, not Jadis." She said, turning to her younger sister.

Mom and Dad exchanged looks as Elora turned back to the window and Mom mouthed something that looked suspiciously like "She's your daughter too."

And then, as they pulled into the theater parking lot, Alysia muttered as she shoved her music into her bag, "There had better be some cute guys in this movie."

While Elora, so excited that she was losing the ability to speak, merely squealed in delight.

"That was so good! It was like...the best movie ever! I loved it! And Peter was so cute! And Mr. Tumnus was the best faun in Narnia! And I just loved-"

"We know Elora." Alysia complained grumpily. This was the tenth proclamation of adoration since they had left the theater ten minutes ago from her sister. Elora looked earnestly at Alysia, her brown eyes wide.

"But I really did love it!"

"You love every movie you see, Elora." Mom said teasingly.

"Do not!" Elora retorted hotly, blushing, and then falling into a (blessed in Alysia's opinion) sulky silence. The brat pack sniggered.

"Did anyone else cry?" Asked Grace, her eyes shining as she searched the faces in the car.

"I did." Said Mom. "My eyes were running rivers."

"Peter was really cute." Michelle added, she glanced at Elizabeth to see if she agreed- but Elizabeth who had a star-struck expression on her face and was only drooling over Mr. Tumnus. "Do you think fauns could get married to humans?" She asked. "Lucy and Mr. Tumnus would make an excellent pair."

Elora looked horrified. She started rattling off the laws of faun marriage set down by the head faun at the beginning of Narnia and after fifteen minutes of this, Elizabeth snapped at her irritably and muttered, "It was only a suggestion." under her breath.

Then Maria started to talk about Peter again and Elora drifted off into a daze and stared out the window once more. "I should like to see it again." She said dreamily, the lights from the passing cars making her eyes shine.

"But you just saw it!" Michelle exclaimed in surprise.

"I know." She replied, still staring out the window. "But I'm in love."

The brat pack sniggered, Grace and Maria giggled, and Michelle, Elizabeth, and Alysia just exchanged glances. Well...no one said that Narnia hadn't been a good movie...but they all agreed that Elora was just a tad bit strange.

A/N: By the way, Nip and Tuck is a real game that my sisters play. They are strange and unusual are they not:) Anyway, I don't have much to say, only that I do plan on updating my other fics soon, its just that this one is so easy to write that I felt like whipping our chapters while I stumble through some complicated plot lines.

TO BE CONTINUED...