Inside their humble home early in the morning, the interior is half decorated with Christmas pictures the children drew and hung up all over the walls. To add on to their little "surprise", the kids ran about the place throwing tinsel at each other while some were in the kitchen attempting to bake the correct batch of cookies for Santa Claus. In other words, the house is in a complete mess.
One of the young children is in the kitchen mixing the batter, singing off key as she did. "You take a cup of flour, you take a cup of flour, you take a cup of flour and you dump it in the mixing bowl. Oh ohhh, oh ohh, baaaking coooookieees! Yeeeeah!" the small child sung aloud, using the wooden spoon as her pretend microphone.
Upstairs Symphony opened her room door and yelled. "Shut up Amor! Your singing is so terrible, deaf people cover their ears and cringe in agony."she yelled.
"Your just jealous because I can sing better than you, right Tacito?" Amor asked her younger brother standing next to her. He shyly nods his head. "See? Tacito agrees with me!"
Symphony slams her door in response and mumbled 'She wish she could sing like me'. She took off her night shirt and pulled on a snake print halter top corset over her head. She then seats herself on the small chair in front of the mirror and brushed her messy hair, singing softly as she straightened each hair that is out of place. Eventually she thought about the time and saw that it is a half an hour after seven. "Crap, I'm late. MOM! DRIVE ME TO SCHOOL!"she called out.
In the other room, Molly opened up her eyes and yawned. She sat up and stared at the digital clock. Seeing how early is was, she groaned. "No! Why are you waking me up at seven in the morning when you could take the bus? You know I have work all day."
"I missed the bus, duh! When I finish getting dressed you better be outside, with the car running and ready to leave." Symphony demanded.
Molly furrowed her eyebrows at the tone she was giving her. "I'm not getting out of my bed, sorry. Ask Dad to drop you off."
Symphony opened their room door, already dressed for school. "I don't want to bother him. He has work all day, so get up and get dressed we don't have all day. I'll be waiting for you in the car."she slammed the door and her footsteps departed down the stairs.
"Ugh..." Molly laid back in the bed. She noticed Gil moved to a different position after she made a sound so she purposely growled repeatedly until she woke him up. "Ugghh... ugggghhhh... AAUUUGGHHHH!"
"Hmm?" he finally murmured.
"Oh good your awake. Drive Symphony to school, I need extra sleep. I was up with the babies all night. Please." Molly pleaded.
Gil groaned. "Why can't she take the bus?"
"She missed it."
"Oh. Okay..." Gil yawned then fell back asleep.
"Gil? Gil!" Molly said tapping his shoulder, but he was already snoring. When he didn't wake up she pushed herself to get out of bed and prepared for a long day ahead of her. In the mirror before she left she practiced putting a smile on her face then walked downstairs with false confidence. The children who greeted her at the bottom of the steps ran up to her asking a million questions all at the same time.
"Mommy! Can you turn the t.v on for us?"
"Moooom! I can't find my favorite toy. Can you help me find it?"
"Mama I'm hungry. Can you please make your famous blueberry waffles?"
"WAFFLES! WAFFLES! WAFFLES!" the four children chanted while circling around her, giggling.
Molly looked at her watch, 'Waffles, huh? I won't have time to make that, bring Symphony to school and make it to work on time. Sorry about this Gil, but you don't have work until nine o'clock.'
"Um, Mommy have to go to work now. Why don't you ask Daddy? I'm sure he'll be more than happy to help out." The giggling children dashed up the stairs to wake Gil giving Molly a chance to quickly leave the house and into the car.
Symphony kicked the back of the driver's seat and asked, "Your so slow! What took you so long? I probably missed, like, three periods already."
"Sorry." Molly apologized before driving off the driveway. "So uh, I've been thinking about starting a choir group for caroling, would you be interested?"
"Are you seriously asking me that? Caroling is for losers."
"Don't give me that young lady. For three years you've been begging me to take you to go out caroling with other young singers. Sounded like you were really into that you loser." Molly jeered playfully.
Symphony tried so hard to not laugh but it came out anyways, just as melodic and cheery as her mother's own. "I'll ponder on my answer for a bit, okay?"
The car finally stops in front of the huge school. Molly got out the car and opens the door for Symphony. She exits the car and went up the concrete stairs. "Have a nice day, I love you my little songbird." Symphony salutes to her then walked into the school.
"Late again are we?" The woman at the main office said as she signed a pass for her. "You know you need math to get into college, right?"
"My generation should be thankful that I, as a student who hates school, come back here everyday. What period is this?"she asked.
"This is first period. The bell should ring in a couple of minutes."
"Great. I'll just wander the halls until it does. Later Missus Sarah." Symphony said, walking down the Chorale Hall. The sound she recognized was the piano followed by her brother's voice. "Ooh is that Alto? I gotta see this."she says to herself. She peeked through the window, smiling as she heard her brother singing with lots of heart and soul in front of the class with two other students. One of them being the girl from yesterday. When they finished the class stood up and applauded.
The teacher wrote Tenor's name on the board under the word 'Solo'. "Excellent job Tenor. You hit every right note in all the right places. Kids like you, who are dedicated to music, makes my job worthwhile. I think we have our soloist for the-"
"NO!" One of the students shouted.
Symphony instantly searched for who spoke until her eyes landed on a female who has a bright orange Hibiscus in her long tropical red hair. She stood up and traveled to the center of the classroom.
"He cannot sing all by himself at the concert, it's not fair! Why should he have the lead part?"
"Because he volunteered Nani. Would you like to try out for the solo so it can be considered fair?"
"Actually that wouldn't be a bad idea. Jolly Carolers, we're up." Nani shouted while snapping her fingers. Five teenagers got off their seats to stand behind her and awaited for a signal. "Let's show this kid up."she said before opening her mouth to sing.
Symphony pushed the doors out of her way and went in Nani's face. "You're not showing no one up! Don't you treat my brother like that."
Nani gave Symphony an odd look. Even though she's use to her breaking every rule possible in school, it still feels weird to her that she's skipping class in the middle of the period. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in class?"
"Don't take the focus off of the main subject!" Symphony snapped. "If I ever, and I mean EVER see you try to make a fool out my brother by upstaging him again, I will-" Symphony demonstrated by punching her hand indicating that it's Nani's face. "Got it?"
Nani turned her back on Symphony and crossed the room to sit in her assigned seat. The others who were standing returned to their chairs as well. Nani clasps her hands together and smiled. "I'm going to ignore you because your not suppose to be here. Yoohoo! Teacher!"she called out in an almost singsong voice. "Would it be okay if we extend the solo audition? I'd like to see which caroling group would get the part-"
"You don't need a whole group for a solo part." Tenor informed her.
"Duh, that's why it's called a "solo" part." Symphony added.
"I just thought since it is the holiday season, it would make sense if we add a carol choir."
The teacher nods his head. "That's a good idea, Nani. May the best group win. See you all tomorrow."he announced excitedly as the bell rings. The students collected their things, got out of their seat and left the Chorus Room.
"May the best group win indeed. I hope you would find enough singers before the time comes. Having only two people just won't cut it, ha ha." Nani tittered then leaves the classroom.
Symphony facepalmed herself while shaking her head. "Yo, your teacher and classmates are idiots. I gotta phone Mom."she said as she dialed the number on her smartphone.
"Why? We don't need to bring Mom in this-"
"Mom, I made up my mind. Let's start a caroling group. We're gonna need it." Symphony said, smiling at her brother who began to smile back.
Fun Fact: Alto's real name is Tenor. A Hibiscus is a beautiful Hawaiian flower! :3
[Princess: I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas and got everything you wanted! ^_^ Have a great day and smile :) ]
P.S, sorry about putting "eight children" in the summary because I was rushing to update. I fixed it and they actually have thirteen beautiful, bouncy, babies(children, teens).