“MOM!!!! I swear we were going to be here on time. Early evening!”
Shelly’s mother stared a hole in her.
“Look, I know it’s hard to believe but I swear it’s true. It’s not fair! We left the movie early and everything. I missed the ending just to make you happy and now I’m gonna get grounded.”
Head shaking.
“I wish I could prove it but how do you prove something like that? It’s not like we can interview him.”
Her mother reached for the phone.
“Yes. Call him! You will see. Our story will be exactly the same.”
While her mother spoke to Johnny’s father, she glared at her little sister who was watching from the kitchen, giggling and clearly enjoying the show. “You shut up or I’ll pop you good once mom is gone.” Her sister stuck out her tongue.
“Oh nothing momma. I was just speaking to Tammy.” Tammy snorted from the kitchen. More glaring.
Her mother hung up the phone.
“See! Our stories are exactly the same right? What? How can you not believe us if we had the same story? I swear it was a racoon!” Tammy was howling in the kitchen. “I’ll knock your block off I swear to god!”
“No…Not you momma! It’s Tammy she’s being a little jerk.”
Her mother pointed to her room and held out her hand for her car keys…a sure sign of a long grounding.
“It’s not fair…wait! What do you mean he said it was a skunk? That IDIOT it was supposed to be a rac…oops.” Tammy was making raspberry noises from the kitchen now.
She started up the stairs…defeated, to a chorus of ‘liar liar pants on fire’ from Tammy. “You’re gonna get it.” she hissed at her sister.
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