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in
there.” She nodded toward the bathroom door and then pushed it
opened and entered. Daryn and Joy followed on her heels.
    “ My goodness,” a startled
Sammi said as her daughters, one by one, came galloping through the
bathroom doorway like an army on a mission.
    “ Sorry if we scared you,
Mother,” Daryn apologized.
    “ That’s okay,” Sammi said
as she relaxed back down in the water and tried to get her fast
beating heart rate back to normal. She closed her eyes. Silence
filled the room as the girls each stood over the bath with arms
folded, staring down at their mother.
    Slowly, Sammi opened up one
eye, noticing her daughters’ stance. She then opened the other eye.
“Uh, did you girls need something?”
    Joy and Daryn looked to
Kennedy to be their mouthpiece. After all, she was the one who had
barged all up in there like Billy Bad. And secondly, it was safe to
say that since she was the biggest, she had the biggest mouth. She
might as well put it to good use and speak on their
behalf.
    “ Uhh, well, uhh,” Kennedy
stammered.
    Daryn sighed and uncrossed
her arms, allowing them to flop down to her side while she gave her
oldest sister a what-are-you-waiting-for look.
    Joy shook her head at
Kennedy. She thought that not only was her oldest sister’s bark
worse than her bite, but Joy was starting to think that Kennedy
didn’t have any choppers at all to even bite with in the first
place.
    “ Mother, we came to see if
you wanted pepperoni pizza or plain cheese pizza,” Daryn interceded
with a phony smile after realizing that the cat had the so-called
big dog’s tongue.
    “ But we already cooked the
peppero-” Joy started before Daryn cut her off and Kennedy poked
her in the back. “Ouch!”
    “ What’s the mat-” Sammi
started, reaching out to Joy.
    “ We already put the
pepperoni one in the oven,” Daryn shot in, “but we can make the
cheese one too…if you’d like.” Daryn continued smiling. She was all
teeth.
    “ Well, actually,” Sammi
said, putting both her arm and her head down. Her body then began
sinking down into the water as if she wished she could disappear
into the water altogether. Before she could submerge herself into
the lilac bubbles, she managed to ramble off the words,
“Iwon’tbehavingdinnerwithyougirls,” purposely slurring them
together.
    “ Excuse me.” Kennedy put
her hand to her ear.
    “ Well, uh, I said Iwon’t
behaving dinner withyougirls.” This time Sammi said it a little bit
more clearly, but by the look on her daughters’ faces, not clear
enough. She decided to repeat herself one last time. This time she
said each word clearly. “Girls, I won’t be having dinner with you
tonight. Like I said earlier, I have plans.” She couldn’t even look
her daughters in the face as she began to pretend to be concerned
with the bubbles that surrounded her.
    “ Oh, but surely you’ll be
hungry after your…plans.” Daryn batted her eyes, trying to get her
mother just where she wanted her; in a position where she would be
forced to tell the truth. Not just some of the truth, but the whole
truth.
    “ Well, uh, no, I don’t
think I will be,” Sammi said. “So you girls make what ever kind of
pizza you want and don’t worry about saving me any.” Sammi hoped
that would take care of the girls’ concerns. So she picked up her
sponge that was floating in the water and poured her new bath gel
onto the sponge.
    “ So, you’re gonna go all
evening without eating, huh?” Kennedy said, after finally finding
her voice. She was determined to dig deeper in order to get to the
bottom of things.
    “ Going to?” Sammi corrected
Kennedy’s grammar. “Going to go all evening without eating.” By
now, Sammi just wanted her daughters to scram so that she could get
washed up. “Look, girls, you all just eat dinner; enjoy your pizza,
okay?” She let out an irritated sigh. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I
need to get washed up so that I can get dressed. I don’t want to