I was going to update a lot sooner but I got super busy. Anyway here's the next lil one. Thanks for all the reviews and comments. I love reading them. Seriously do not hesitate to write whatever it is you want. And to the people who hated a certain character before, just wait til you read this one. Should I put the prompts in for every chapter? And if so, should I put them at the top and spoil it a bit or bottom? What do you guys think?
Chapter 14
Lily didn't exactly expect everybody who saw her to drop everything and focus on the new haircut she was sporting, but she wasn't exactly prepared for this level of apathy either. She thought that Emily might be approving but she was too busy trying to talk Spencer down off the edge. Emily guiltily avoided eye contact and Spencer looked at her accusingly every other minute. Something was definitely off. And Alison for her part mostly stayed in the kitchen and binged on snacks. She leafed through magazines and baked sweets and ate and waved her off to go play with her sister in the living room. At least Grace was impressed. She reached up and ran her hand over the bald patch in the center of her head and it tickled a little bit.
Mommily was the more perceptive of the two parents, but Mommily was nowhere to be seen, having left for work early and spent the entire afternoon next door with her friend. Momison was fuming and calling her every few minutes, shouting obscenities at the other end of the line and then hanging up. Grandma was their only hope, so, they both reached for the landline in the living room and started pressing random numbers to no avail.
Alison heard the noise from the kitchen and it only made her angrier. She stormed into the living room, snatched the phone out of their hands and slammed it down before shouting at the girls to go upstairs to sleep if they're not gonna behave. The girls nodded as they blinked away their tears and sat down quietly on the couch, staring at the other side of the living room, doing nothing, like living dolls. When Alison left the room they let the tears run down and Grace reached out and held Lily's hand. Momison was awful.
Alison stormed back into the kitchen and continued talking on the phone. She was threatening Spencer that if she didn't get her shit together and send her Emily back home immediately, that she was going to go down there and drag her back. Something smelled weird so she checked the oven and sure enough the cake she made was ready. Not just ready but in fact burnt! She reached in and grabbed it without a glove, burning her hand in the process and recoiling in pain, her arm shooting back in the process. Only thing is that Grace was standing right behind her, wanting to apologize but not really sure over what, she just stood behind Alison and waited for her attention, only instead, she ended up getting smacked by Alison's arm as she jerked it back, recoiling from the burn.
"FUCK! WHY WON'T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING YOU LITTLE SHIT?" Alison screeched.
Grace stood in the doorway taking it all in. Lilly, on the floor, sobbing, while Alison stood over her, cradling her own arm and shouting at her. She walked over her to get herself some ice for her hand and waltzed back, pulled the tray out of the oven, threw it on the counter, slammed the oven door shut and walked away, leaving Lilly sobbing in her shadow. Grace closed in as soon as the danger was gone and she grabbed Lilly and pulled her to her feet before taking her hand in her and leading her to their bedroom. Lilly wriggled into her bed and cried into her pillow as Grace protected her by crafting a tiny fortress out of stuffed animals at the foot of her bed. She climbed onto the bed behind her and hugged her from the back as she cried. This was the position she found them in when Emily came home a couple of hours later.