After swallowing her bite, she faces the Milbourne family, "This is delicious!" She declares. And she means it.
"I'm glad you like it," Louis says graciously, "You can thank our chef Hank for that."
Dinner continues without a hitch; with Lola enjoying every bite of her spinach lasagna. Before anyone knew it, dinner was finished. Lola wiped her mouth with her napkin and gently pat her stomach in satisfaction.
"It looks like it's time for dessert," Olivia announces.
As soon as she said that, the same maids that brought the family their dinner was also bringing them dessert. Much to Lola's delight, she and Winston got ice cream sundaes. Vanilla ice cream with chocolate and strawberry sauce dripped over it, chopped nuts, and a cherry on top.
"Oooooh yum, yum," Lola sighed as she licked her lips.
Instead of ice cream, Louis and Olivia are instead served some pie. They each have one slice on their plate while the rest of the pie is placed in front of them, just in case they wanted more slices. While Lola glances at the red pie that Winston's parents are eating, she initially thinks it's cherry, but her assumption was removed when they mention what kind of pie it really is.
"Splendid, rhubarb pie. One of my favorites," Louis replied as he grabbed his fork and knife.
As Winston's parents indulge in their rhubarb pie, Lola was suddenly reminded of Lana; which was really strange because Lana is allergic to rhubarb. Maybe the name just reminded her of her twin?
About halfway through dessert, Winston had an announcement to make. In order to gain his parents' attention, he grabbed his spoon and lightly tapped it against his glass of water. Ding.
His parents and Lola look up at him now that he had their attention.
"I have something to say, if you don't mind," Winston announced, "This day has been very fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed having Lola here."
"With that said, I have a question for you," Winston pauses as he starts twiddling his thumbs, "Can Lola please spend the night?"
The parents and Lola's eyes widen for entirely different reasons. Louis and Olivia are quite surprised that their only son wants a girl to sleep over his house. Not that they disapprove of such a notion, it was just very unexpected.
Lola is absolutely ecstatic that Winston wants her to sleep over. When they were in his room a few hours ago, she saw that his bed was the only bed in there. And after the gentlemanly way he has treated her, there was no way he would make her sleep on the floor. Which meant that she would be sharing a bed with a boy. It was like a dream come true!
"Even though we are fine with it," Louis began, "Lola needs to ask her parents for their permission."
Without being summoned, a butler brings a telephone and places it next to Lola.
"Thank you," Lola picks up the receiver and starts to dial her home phone number.
It rings for a while until someone answers, who is Lincoln.
"Hello?" Lincoln answers.
"Lincoln? It's Lola. If Mom and Dad are home, can you put them on please?" Lola requests.
"Oh sure, hold on," Lincoln gets off the phone.
There is a slight pause as she waits for her parents to get on the line. There's muffled background noise until she finally hears her parents' voices.
"Lola honey, it's Mom," Rita says as she talks to her daughter.
"Hi Mom. Listen, I'm still at Winston's and he wants me to spend the night," Lola explains.
"Hold on a minute sweetie, you need to ask your father," Rita can be heard calling Lynn Sr's name in the background.
Finally Lynn Sr gets on, "Hey, your mother says you needed to talk to me?"
"Yeah. So Winston wants me to spend the night here," Lola repeats, "So can I, please?"
"You mean...sleep over?" Lynn Sr questions.
"Yeah. His parents already said yes but I needed to ask you guys," Lola pleads, "Pretty please? I'm having so much fun here."
She didn't want them to say no, so she continued to plea, "Come on, it's Friday. I can tell Winston to bring me home really early in the morning," She begs, "Please, please, please?! Just for tonight?"
There's a few seconds of silence, except for some muffled background noise of the rest of the Loud family. Lola tried to be patient, but the silence was killing her.
"You there?" She squeaks.
"Honey...you've never slept over someone's house before," Rita points out.
"You also don't have any of your stuff," Lynn Sr says.
They pause again before continuing, "But if you say that you enjoy being there…" Lynn Sr states.
"Then I suppose it would be Ok for you to spend the night," Rita accepts.
"(Gasp) Does that mean I can?!" Lola squeals.
"Yes you can!" Rita and Lynn Sr cry happily in unison.
"Eeeee! Thank you Mom and Dad, you're the best! I love you, I love you! I'll see you tomorrow." Lola hangs up the phone.
She's quite cute when she's excited, Winston thinks to himself.
"I'm glad that your parents let you stay over," Winston acknowledges aloud.
"Boy I am too," Lola sighs, "But where am I gonna sleep?"
"In my room of course. We'll have to share my bed if you don't mind," Winston points out.
Of course, I'd love to share your bed with you.
"Sure, that would be great," Lola replies.
"I might have a nightgown that you can borrow," Olivia states, "It might be a little big for you though."
"That's Ok, I don't mind," Lola grabs the tip of her hair and looks at it, "Excuse me Mrs. Milbourne, do you have any hair curlers I can borrow too?"
Winston raises an eyebrow and Lola smirks at him, "How do you think I keep my hair this beautiful?"
"Of course," Winston replies while smirking back.
"I do have hair curlers. I use them myself," Olivia says.