The doorbell rang.
It was Thursday afternoon after school and Lexi and Emily were watching Youtube videos on the computer.
"Will you get that?" Lexi asked.
"No I'm not going to get it, I'm too lazy."
"It might be Kyle."
"Ok fine I'll get it."
Lexi laughed and Emily ran to get the door.
She didn't bother to look out the tiny rectangular windows in the door as usual and just flung the door open.
"Hello darlings."
Aww crap. It was all four of their parents.
Lexi hurried and turned off the computer monitor. Their parents completely disapproved of Youtube and it wouldn't be a good idea to start this out badly.
"Mom, Dad, what are you doing here?" Emily asked through gritted teeth as Lexi ran over.
"We are paying our yearly visit of course." Emily's mom said.
"But it's only been like four weeks." Lexi replied with kind of a wine in her voice.
"We decided to come early and surprise you."
"Well we're fine, we're doing great so yeah, bye." Emily said, trying to sound more cheerful than she felt.
The parents walked past Emily through the door.
"Or you could ignore me and come in, whatever's cool." Emily was starting to get pissed now.
They spent the whole rest of the day showing their parents around the house. When they were done the parents whispered to each other for a second.
"Girls, is there somewhere we may talk in private?" Lexi's mom asked.
'We just showed you the whole house, you tell us if there's somewhere you can talk' Lexi thought.
'Well, you can't use the bathroom since we will be busy puking in there.' Emily thought.
"You can use the guestroom." The girls said at the same time.
"Thank you." Emily's dad said and all the grown-ups went into the guestroom.
When they were gone Lexi and Emily looked at each other with squinty eyes and nodded. They crept over to the guestroom door and silently listened.
"The program is not working," They heard Emily's mom say. "they are not supposed to be having fun, they should be learning how to be mature, responsible, adults."
"What should we do about it?" That was Lexi's dad.
"…I think I finally figured it out. What is holding them back is each other—they encourage each other. If we took one away then our methods would work."
"Alright, who goes and who stays then?"
"Because I was the one who thought of this, we will take Emily. There's a very nice boarding school in New York…"
Lexi and Emily couldn't take it anymore. They slowly walked down the stairs and sat on the couch to watch cartoons in silence.
"They have to be kidding right? I can't just leave." Emily said.
Lexi didn't answer right away.
"Our parents don't kid Em'." She said quietly and they faded into silence again.
A/N: It's about f-ing time! Gawsh how long was that, like 2 months? Wow… sooooooo sorry I will try to update more often than that in the future.
Oh yeah this is the thing that you will all hate me for. EMILY LEAVES! Sorry, that's just the way things are.
