Flashes of sunlight passing through the blinds on your window wake you earlier than you might have liked. Sleep always seems most precious just after waking up. You grab your pillow and bury your head under it. A few minutes later, you decide that it's finally time to get up. You feel stiff and lazy, but still manage to slowly drift into the bathroom. After the morning routine is complete, you head downstairs for breakfast. Mom is in the kitchen and greets you as you come in, she is just exiting with some toast and coffee as she typically eats breakfast in her room.
You land on one of the four seats around the kitchen table and think about what you're going to eat. You don't want to cook anything this early, especially if you're going to have to clean dishes afterward. You don't want something cold like cereal though. Waffles! The perfect food for a non-morning person. You pick yourself up and head for the freezer, ripping open a brand new box of waffles. After standing over the toaster to make sure that they meet your high standards, you place them on your plate and douse them with syrup. They don't last long, as you're always as hungry as you are tired in the morning.
With breakfast done, you head to your room to change. You don't even know what you're doing today, since you're on vacation you don't have to. Anything will do, and you just grab some stuff from your draws. Now changed and fully awake, you head back down to decide on your plans. You remember the new entertainment hall that opened a few weeks ago. It has everything, bowling, pool, basketball courts, an arcade, even a go kart track. It's decided, and you are halfway out the door when a nagging feeling comes over you, like you've forgotten something. You end up standing right in your open door way for a good while trying to remember. Usually you just brush off these feelings, but today you know it's something important.
A feeling of excitement over takes you as remember what it is, but then you remember what it is and are no longer excited. Rob is buried under some junk in your basement. Your face turns sour as you close the door and head back inside. You open the white door to your basement and switch on the lights. There's scattered stuff everywhere as your family typically just stuff things it has no room for down there. All the piles of stuff look the same, and you can't remember exactly where you hid Rob.
"Rob, where are you again?" You call out trying be loud enough to alert Rob without letting anyone else hear you.
"Hey, why aren't you answering?" The you remember what you told him yesterday after hiding him "I want you to stay right here and not make a sound."
"Rob, you can talk now." And surely enough.
"Mimi is here! Mimi is here!" You follow the voice around the stair case and open the built in closet.
"Mimi is uncomfortable, get Mimi out!"
"Quiet, don't let people here you!" You say as you dig him out. Everything that you move it taken quietly so you don't draw any attention. You put it all in a neat pile besides the closet so you can hide Mimi under it again when it's time for her to go back in. Finally, you see her compressed against the back wall and reach out with your arm. She looks at you for a second that grabs on, and you pull her up.
"You look a little dusty."
"Mimi had to sit on the dirty floor. You left Mimi in their after you left."
You remember that you were only seeing if you could fit Rob in their when you heard someone come in, so stuffed him in saying that you would come back but you never did.
"Oops." You say.
Rob then holds her stomach and leans on the wall. He doesn't look too great.
"Ohhh, Mimi is so hungry, Mimi hasn't eaten since breakfast yesterday. You left Mimi without food." She steps forward and pounds on your chest, but it carries no force.
"Yeah, you should probably get something to eat. Wait here." You quickly run upstairs and grab some cold biscuits from the fridge. You want to make sure no one sees you, so you only grab whatever doesn't need preparation. After raiding the kitchen, you fly back down to the basement and give everything Rob. He was expecting something different.
"What is this? It's so cold. Can't Mimi get a real breakfast?"
"Look, I can't have anyone know you're here. If you really want something else we can go get it, I was going out anyway."
You're about to walk off when you realize that Rob is already eating the cold biscuits.
"Mimi will go, after Mimi finishes eating. Mimi is dizzy from hunger."
His talking in 3rd person isn't a satisfactory form of revenge anymore, so you revoke it.
"You can stop talking in third person."
Rob doesn't respond, he's too busy engorging himself. In your haste, you had actually taken the whole case of biscuits down, you didn't think he could possibly eat them all. You can't figure out how he's fitting it all in that petite body.
When Rob finally gets to the last biscuit and scarfs it in two bites, he falls back on a covered plastic bin and puts down the tray that the biscuits were on.
"I think I ate too much, we don't have to go out now." he says while patting his stomach.
"Oh yes we do, I'm not losing out on my time off. And I can't leave you here because who knows what will happen."
Rob looks up at you but doesn't move. He must have stuffed himself good.
Then he puts his hand by his legs,"Can I at least go to the bathroom first?"
You realize that everyone is going to be up soon if they aren't already. It'll be too risky to let her use the bathroom and have someone waiting outside the door until the room is empty again.
"No, at least not in here. I'll sneak you out the back door. The place I was going to probably has a bathroom."
"OK."
After leaving a note for your parents telling them where you went, you drag Rob outside and head for the entertainment complex.
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
Send Email
Community Newsfeed
General Discussion
Sponsored Items
Book of Trinkets
Static Items
Books
Groups
Interactive Stories
Audio
Campfire Creatives
Community Notes
Crossword Puzzles
Documents
Folders
Images
In & Outs
Madlibs
Photo Albums
Polls
Product Reviews
Quizzes
Survey Forms
Web Pages
Word Searches
More by this author