Homework Later
Once they were in her bedroom Sarah kicked her Backpack containing the
hideous, homework under her bed.
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Carla knew
exactly what her best friend Sarah was doing
and pulled the pink, lacy, bed skirt over the spot where the
backpack tried to
peak out from under the bed.
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"Lets play Barbies!" the two shouted in joy and then
began to dig out all the Barbie stuff.
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Turning the once tidy, Princess Style bedroom into
Barbie World.
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The two girl's could hear their mother's carrying on and talking excitedly with each other in the living room.
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The girl's smiled at each other. They were both glad that their mother's were,
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still Best Friends even if they were no longer next door neighbors
in the small apartment building on the other side of town.
Then both girl's heard it. The smoke detector was going off like crazy.
"Oh no! My cookies, I forgot all about them!" Sarah and Carla
heard their mom's rushing to the kitchen. The girls followed behind them.
Black smoke was coming from the oven and the nasty smell
of burnt cookies filled the air.
Both mom's laughed, while Sarah's mother Ginger carefully
pulled the smoking batch of extra, burnt chocolate chip cookies
out of the oven.
Susan opened the sliding patio door so Ginger could take the
smoking pan of burnt cookies outside to cool off.
After examining the burnt cookies Sarah and Carla decided to head
out into the back
yard to play.
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Ginger and Susan could be heard laughing, opening the windows
in the kitchen and fanning the smoke detector into silence.
"Well, you
burnt the cookies," said Susan. "I guess that means
it is time for a glass of wine."
"That sounds great," agreed Ginger with a smile.
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Sarah's mother got out a nice bottle of blush wine and opened it with the cork screw. Then poured two glasses.
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The moms walked out into the backyard to relax, enjoy their wine,
and the warm sunshine.
They watched their daughter's play on the Monkey Bars for a few
minutes while lounging in the slightly used but comfortable lawn
furniture.
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"Sarah, Sarah honey, come on and get your homework,
we can do it outside today." Ginger called to her daughter who was
hanging upside down on the monkey bars while Carla tickled her mercilessly.
"Awwww mom," Sarah whined in between giggles.
"Do I have to do it right now? My best friend in the world is here and
I have not seen her in forever."
"Please Ginger," Carla dramatically plopped down on her
knees next to her
upside down best friend, and begged Ginger to
reconsider.
Well, with Sarah hanging upside down, shirt in her face, hands folded
in front of her begging. The two girls looked so silly as they begged,
that Ginger gave in.
"Alright, you win," her mother giggled. You can have twenty more minutes
to play, but then you have to get your homework done."
"Yup, you know the rule," Carla's mother Susan added.
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All four of them recited together.
"Get it done right away, and then it is out of the way."
They all laughed together like the good friends that all were.
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Twenty minutes turned into a half hour and a half hour into a hour, then two hours.
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The girls played tag, Mary Mack, Cops and Robbers but the Monkey Bars were by far the favorite.
Then it started to get dark and the mosquitoes started biting everyone.
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That is when Ginger noticed how late it was getting and that she
and her best friend Susan had polished off the entire bottle of wine.
"Good grief, look at the time. I forgot all about starting dinner." Ginger said.
"Mom, were hungry." the girls cried in unison to their slightly buzzed mother's.
"Lets order pizza! My treat," Susan suggested.
"Yay! Pizza!" the girls squealed in delight at the suggestion.
"That's a great idea," agreed Ginger. "What kind should we get?"
"Pepperoni! the girls shouted together.
"OK, but lets get two, I want to try the new chicken garlic pizza,"
suggested Susan.
"Mmm, that sounds good." agreed Ginger.
The early spring day had been warm and beautiful, but now it
was steadily growing dark and cold.
They all made their way into the house to order the pizza.
"Sarah," her mother said over her shoulder."It is time to get your
homework done, right now." Ginger said sternly. Good grades were
very important to her mother. And Sarah could tell by the tone in her
mother's voice that she would not be escaping from her homework again.
"Stupid homework! Sarah hissed under her breath, knowing
better than to sass her mom.
"Homework should be illegal," she whispered to her best friend
Carla while following their mother's into the house to order the pizza.
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Susan got busy on the phone right away and ordered the pizza.
"I have to go to the bathroom," complained Carla.
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"Then go and use it," Ginger told her.
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"I don't know where it is." Carla nearly cried to her
while doing the traditional
pee pee dance.
"Sarah, go and show Carla where the bathroom is and
don't
forget to bring your homework out.
"We need to get it done right
away so it will be out of the way." The girls chorused the well
known saying. They raced down the hall to the bathroom.
Ginger and Susan got busy talking with each other again after the pizza was ordered.
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It would be 45 minutes to a hour before the pizza would arrive.
Plenty of time to get a certain little girl's homework done.
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But as young girls in third grade sometimes do, especially those
that would rather play with a dear friend; Sarah forgot all about
it when her best friend Carla,
tip toed, back into her bedroom
after using the bathroom.
Carla closed the door
quietly, listening to their mom's
laugh as they rehashed old memories together. The two women
got along notoriously well.
"Lets play Barbies," Carla said quietly.
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And the two girls did exactly that.
Next thing you know the door bell rings. It's the pizza!
"Pizza!" the girls shouted and stampeded to the door and bounced around excitedly waiting for their moms.
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"I call the little table from the pepperoni pizza," Sarah claimed loudly.
"I call the other one," Carla also called out.
"You two, go and wash your hands and get up to the table."
Sarah's mother shooed them away from the door.
The girls obediently raced to the bathroom, washed their
hands and raced back to the table to claim their
little pizza box tables.
The tiny tables would be set up in the Barbie Dream house later,
as soon as the hungry girls were done eating.
They all said their prayers together before they ate dinner
and then pigged out on pizza and Pepsi.
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The moms had switched over to Pepsi long ago. Susan still had
to make the drive back home across town.
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When the girls were done eating and their mom's
once again were
distracted by talking to each other,
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the two little girls
snuck off to the bedroom to play with
the new tables from the pizza box's.
It was getting late, already past
10 pm.
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The girl's had both fallen asleep on the floor in the bedroom
surrounded by Barbies and just about everything else from
Sarah's toy box.
"Come on Carla, wake up honey," her mother gently shook her.
"It's late, you have school tomorrow, we need to get home."
The sleepy little girls woke up and hugged each other goodbye.
Sarah and her mother waved to their best friend's from the front
porch as they drove away into the night.
"I'm tired mom," Sarah said to her mother as she rubbed
her sleepy, little eyes.
"Yes, I bet you are tired, but now we have to get your homework done.
It is still not out of the way." her mother told her.
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"Awww mom, but I am too tired." Sarah complained.
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"Sorry sweety, you should of
gotten it done right away so it would be out of the way."
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Now go and get your homework. I will help you." said her mom.
"OK," Sarah said sounding sleepy and grumpy.
Sarah and her mother sat down at her homework desk.
They worked for the next half hour to get it all finished.
The homework was easy because Sarah was very smart
and she remembered most of the answers from class.
It really was not so bad with her mom helping her.
"There, all done, now it is out of the way. Now, go and brush
your teeth it is bed time." Ginger kissed her daughter on top
of her lovely forehead for a job well done.
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Sarah was happy when her mother Ginger came into her room
so they could say prayers and she finally climbed into her
princess bed. Her mother tucked her in and gave her a kiss good night.
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As her mom was leaving the room Sarah yawned loudly and told her mother. "Tomorrow, mom,
I will get my homework done right away,
so it is out of the way, then I can play."
"That's my good girl," said her mother with a happy smile.
"I love you mom."
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"I love you too sweet heart."
And she turned out the light.
"Good night."
The End.
"HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL YOU MOMS OUT THERE!"