Olivia finished packing up her duffle bag for the long weekend home. "I'm ready Vi," she said lifting the bag up on to her bed. Turning around she saw Vi reclining on her bed, playing with her soccer ball. Each toss of the ball made it come even closer to whacking the ceiling, but Vi stopped when Olivia turned around.
"Alright, finally," Vi said rolling off the bed. "I was ready right after PE." Vi hefted her own bag and reached to grab Olivia's as well. But Olivia's bag was much heavier than Viola's.
"Whoa, what did you pack? You have enough stuff to go back home, you aren't dropping out are you?" Vi asked.
"No, I just have to pack enough to get through the weekend. Just clothes, some makeup, why what did you pack?" Olivia asked defensively. She didn't pack that much did she?
"All I packed was a little bit of dirty laundry to do at home and my soccer shoes. I left enough clothes at home, didn't you?" Vi asked. This time she picked up Olivia's bag and walked out the door. "Can you get the door," Viola asked walking out the door and waiting for Olivia.
Olivia grabbed her purse from the desk and followed Viola out the door, shutting it and locking it after herself. "Can I try guessing again? Or do you finally want to tell me?" Olivia asked following Viola down the hall.
"I don't think you should guess again, I'll be able to tell you tomorrow. Maybe," Vi said still walking. The two of them had gone through this same conversation with Olivia at least twice since yesterday. Olivia didn't stop asking; even if she had come nowhere near guessing what it was that Vi wouldn't tell her.
The pair had gotten to the parking lot before Olivia spoke again. "Are we going to do anything this weekend? My parents are going to a work cookout for my dad," Olivia said sliding in to Viola's car.
Vi chucked the bags in to the trunk before climbing in to the driver's seat. Starting the car Vi shrugged, "I don't know, tomorrow I'm having lunch with Yvonne and Kia, but after that I'm free all weekend. My parents are still on their honeymoon," Vi said with a snort, Olivia knew that Viola thought her parents were crazy.
"Well do you want to do something together on Friday? We could go to the movies?" Olivia suggested, she had a movie in mind but waited to see what Viola would say.
"Sure, we could go see Babylon A.D. because I wanted to see that. Vin Diesel is awesome. Or Disaster Movie, that looks fun!" Vi said, prattling on a little before looking over to her girlfriend. The small frown on Olivia's face clued her in. "Or we could go see House Bunny," she said.
"Sure, I'd like that Vi," Olivia said smiling. Olivia had wanted to see House Bunny when it came out two weeks ago but she needed to get ready for school. And Vi remembered, with a small hint.
"Cool we'll go on Friday," Vi said as they pulled up to Olivia's house. The drive was only about fifteen minutes from Illyria to Olivia's house. Olivia's house was really nice, a very big brick house, with white columns, and an immaculately kept yard that followed the drive way up to the house. Parking the car in front of the house Vi got out to grab Olivia's bag from the trunk.
Olivia was already heading toward the door when it opened. And there was her mother, perfectly immaculate, blonde, and intimidating standing in the door, "Hi mommy," Olivia said hugging her mother. And Viola walked up behind her girlfriend.
"Hi Mrs. Lennox. Nice to see you again." Viola didn't look Olivia's mother in the eyes, all three of them knew that Mrs. Lennox didn't approve and no one pretended that she did.
"Hello," Mrs. Lennox said simply, then she went back to ignoring the brunette's very existence, let alone presence in her house.. "Baby your cousin is here for the day, your Aunt needed to run errands."
"I'm going to take your bag upstairs Liv," Viola said sliding through the door and walking up the left side of the double set stairs.
Olivia watched her mother's nose wrinkle, but Mrs. Lennox didn't say a word. She did however wrinkle her nose as Viola reached the top of the stairs and made her way to Olivia's room. Her mother would never say anything to Viola's face, but that did not stop Mrs. Lennox from glaring at the disappearing back of Viola Hastings. According to Cheryl Lancaster 'When debutantes disagree they say it with their eyes,' and Olivia's mother had mastered that.
"Did you have to bring her with you? Your cousin is upstairs and he is an impressionable young child," Mrs. Lennox asked her daughter. This was a discussion they had every time Viola so much as called the house phone.
"Yes I did mommy, she is my girlfriend," Olivia said defending Vi. She knew the coming scene by heart. They had gone through it many times since Diana and Charles Lennox had found out about their only child having a girlfriend.
"You can't really call this fling a girlfriend darling. She is an experiment, nothing more nothing less. Besides what about Robby?" Diana asked, referring to the college guy Olivia had dated well over a year ago.
"Mom! Viola is my girlfriend, can't you accept that?" Olivia asked, getting tired of her mother's blatant dislike of Viola.
"Well this weekend daddy and I have a cookout to go to at Mr. Olsen's house. And on Saturday your grandma and grandpa are coming down for the day," Mrs. Lennox said, moving on to normal topics. She excelled in pretending thing were not what they were.
"Alright mom," Olivia said agreeing with her, it was easier to go with the flow than to fight it with her mom. "Is daddy home yet?"
"Yes, he is in his office, go see him," her mother said, ushering Olivia down the hall and in to the small study that was her father's territory. The room looked small, due in part to the walls covered in books, but it was not. The large desk sat next to the French doors that looked out on to a well manicured lawn. In the nice plump leather chair sat her father, where his wife was blonde Charles Lancaster was of dark hair and slightly darker complexion.
"Hello daddy," Olivia said, walking over to kiss her father's bearded cheek. Turning around Olivia saw that he mother had disappeared. That was another one of Diana Lennox's talents, she was extremely stealthy.
"Hello pumpkin, had a good week at school, we missed you," He said folding the newspaper and setting it down on the desk. He stood up from the desk and opened his arms to Olivia, "My Princess isn't too big for a hug is she?"
"Never daddy," Olivia said putting herself in to her father's arms. She was rewarded with a small kiss on her forehead. Her father was much more accepting of Viola than her mother was. He actually spoke to her and treated her like a human being. It was close enough to how boyfriends had been treated that it pacified Olivia for the time being. "Daddy I've only been gone for a week, how can you miss me already?"
"I always miss you cherry toes," her father said, chuckling as he used the nickname that embarrassed his daughter. It stemmed from tiny, perfectly round, little red toes that Olivia had as a baby.
"Daddy!" Olivia shrieked while laughing a little. No matter how embarrassing the name was Olivia still found it funny.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: So sorry about the long wait everyone. College is harder this semester with sixteen credits as opposed to last semester's fourteen. I'm hoping that I get more time to write from now on, now that things have settled down a bit. Hope this was worth the wait. *Announcer Voice* What is Olivia's cousin like? What will Mr. Lennox say to Viola? And will we finally see the out come of the Kia/Yvonne relationship? On the next electrifying installment of How The Chips Fell, you will find out.
And now its time for The Really Really Late Show With Timmy Kibble. (Yes I know it almost sounds like a mix of Jimmy Kimmel and The Late Show…..but its not!!!! Or maybe it would be except *cough* copyright infringement *cough*)