Under The Flaversham Rooftop Chapter 3: Sibling Rivalry, a great mouse detective fanfic

Sibling Rivalry

January 2nd, 1898

Arden was watching out the window of her bedroom in the Flaversham house. She was grounded for the obnoxious trick she pulled on Basil on New Year's Day. She was singing a mournful winter melody. She danced all around the room. Olivia was outside the room listening to her sing. She eavesdropped on her song voice. At first, it was just fine until a few minutes later it got annoyed. She started banging on the door.
"Arden! SHUT UP!" yelled Olivia. Arden opened the door and glared at her.
"If I were you I'd be quiet," replied Arden. Olivia glared and started to fight with her. Hiram couldn't stand the shouting. "Those girls are driving me crazy. Why have they been fighting for a while," he thought. As Hiram read the book he had in his hands, he heard a crash. His ears perked and he zoomed in to the hall way where he found Arden and Olivia running out. The two girls bumped in to the Scottish mouse. Everyone was trampled to the ground and when everyone got back to their feet.
"I'm okay," muttered Arden. Olivia glared at her.
"Not as okay as you're going to be!" she shouted as she attacked her. They rolled around the floor as they fought. Hiram tried to stop them.
"Girls! Girls!" he shouted. He broke the two up from their fighting. He grabbed each of the ears and pulled them to the toy shop area of the house. He sat them down on a bench.
"Alright now, I heard a crash. What was it?" asked Hiram. Arden and Olivia glared at each other and they folded their arms and then looked away.
"Let me tell you what happened," said Arden.

ARDEN'S STORY:

"It all started with gentle you grounded me because of my actions at the flat," informed Arden.

"Arden, I'm sorry but I have to ground you. Basil told me everything and as a parent I think this is the proper thing to do," explained Hiram. I sighed.
"Yes father," I replied. I went to the bed room and closed the door. I was kindly singing to my self like I do most of the time. But then came that bratty sister of mine just appearing out of nowhere.
"SHUT UP YOU ROTTEN SISTER!" demanded my dear sister. I nicely opened the door and she was there as mean as can be. She started touching me by grasping hand. I didn't know what was wrong with her. She harassed me by fighting with me. I tried to make peace with her.
"Uh…Olivia, would you like to stop now? This is not how children should act. Please, let us not fight," I said calming her down. I thought that Olivia was planning something.
"Of course, I'm sorry for my behavior. Let's go in to the kitchen and have an afternoon snack," replied Olivia. I smiled not knowing that this was a little trick. As we walked, she grabbed my arm and swung me around which made me break a little glass doll. Olivia gasped and blamed me.
"I'm going to blame it all on you," she said looking quite shocked.
"But my dear sister, I did no such thing. I believe you swung me around which made me break it," I said trying to reason with her, but she didn't listen to me. She just ran away and I tried to catch up to her and that's when we bumped in to you and that's how we got here in the first place.

END ARDEN'S STORY

Olivia looked at her with a mean glare. Hiram looked at Olivia.
"Olivia, explain," said Hiram. Olivia's arms folded tighter.
"Okay I'll tell you. Everything Arden said…WAS A LIE!" replied Olivia. Arden was shocked by her reply.
"What?! A lie?! It so was true!" complained Arden.
"Nuh-uh!" replied Olivia.
"Uh-huh!" returned Arden.
"No way! Don't you "nuh-uh" my "uh-huh," replied Olivia.
"I'LL tell you what really happened!" she offered.

OLIVIA'S STORY:

Dear Father was telling Arden that she was grounded.
"Arden, I'm sorry but I have to ground you. Basil told me everything and as a parent I think this is the proper thing to do," explained father. Arden was so angry; I saw darkness in her eyes. She stormed in to the bedroom and started cursing horribly. It was terrible. I didn't want to hear any more. I pleasantly knocked on the door and she opened it growling. It reminded me of Professor Ratigan.
"Excuse me, my sister," I said sweetly. She shot an evil look at me.
"WHAT!" she bellowed. I could have sworn I saw thunder booming outside. I took a few steps back.
"I'm sorry Arden. I was just going to ask to please calm down a little. I'm trying to work on something, but now all I'm asking of you is to please be quiet," I requested sweetly.
"Being……QUIET!" bellowed Arden. She took me by the hand and swung me around and I landed against the wall which made the glass doll fall. Arden walked up to me.
"This is all…………YOU'RE FAULT!" she yelled. She then showed fangs on her teeth which made me run away. She followed me. A few seconds later, we see you and we bump in to you and ,well, here we are.

END OLIVIA'S STORY

Hiram stood there surprised.
"I'm surprised at both of you," he said. Olivia looked at Arden.
"See what you did? You broke father's heart," she replied clenching her chest. Arden rolled her eyes.
"I'm surprised with BOTH of you," returned Hiram. "You're making up stories just to get each other in trouble. You two used to be good friends. What happened?" asked Hiram. Arden and Olivia looked away from each other. When Hiram was about to say something else, Basil and Dr. Dawson came in.
"Mr. Basil, Dr. Dawson," exclaimed Arden.
"I think we can help," offered Basil. "I am a detective. Now tell us what happened,"
"Well, I grounded Arden because of what she did to you and a few minutes later, a heard a crash and now Arden and Olivia are blaming each other," replied Hiram.
"It was Arden! I swear it!" shouted Olivia. "This is what happened:"

"That's not what happened! This is what happened:" exclaimed Arden.

"It all started with gentle father grounded me because of my actions at the flat," informed Arden.

Basil looked at everyone who was around him.
"Excuse me, Basil. Didn't we see what really happened on our way here?" asked Dr. Dawson. Basil looked directly at him.
"Dr. Dawson you genius!" exclaimed Basil. "Dawson and I know exactly what happened,"

BASIL'S STORY:

It all started when we saw Arden going to the bedroom. We heard her singing. Then we saw Olivia knocking on the door. She said:
"Arden! SHUT UP!"
Arden came out and said:
"If I were you I'd be quiet,"
Then, Olivia glared at Arden and they started fighting. There was fighting every where. There was thumping, banging, punching and then there was a crash. The doll broke because of fighting. Then, Arden said that she was going to blame it on Olivia. Then, Olivia said she was going to blame it on Arden. Lastly, they took off running.

END BASIL'S STORY

Hiram was now very upset.
"Arden and Olivia I'm surprised at you two. You're asking for the worse in each other and because of that, you're both grounded," he said.
"SEE WHAT YOU DID!" the two girls yelled. The two girls started to bicker and mess with each other.
"Okay now that is enough!" exclaimed Dr. Dawson. Hiram came towards them.
"I don't want you two to act like this. Alright?" asked Hiram.
"Alright," replied Arden and Olivia.
"You may go," said Hiram.
"Come on Olivia," replied Arden putting her hand on Olivia's shoulder as they left. Hiram looked back at Basil and Dawson.
"I'm glad you came while you did," he said.
"Anytime," replied Basil. Then, there was another crash in the other room. The three male came in and saw a broken vase on the floor.
"SHE DID IT!" yelled Arden and Olivia pointing at each other.