A Funeral and a Wedding
“Tina, have you seen my black jacket?” asked Dad
‘’No, dear, but I know that it was in your closet yesterday,” answered Mom.
‘’Sorry to say that, but your answer doesn’t help me a lot. Oh, where for heaven sake is my black jacket for the funeral! We will be late because of that jacket that seems to have disappeared from the earth’s surface.”
‘’Maybe you should take another look in the closet. You are so messy, you never find anything. Today, on such an important day, you also can’t find anything. If Uncle George were still alive, than he would be very mad at you. Everybody will wonder why we are so late, because my dear husband is so unorganized. I think I’ll have a heart attack because of you,‘’ answered Mom. She always worries about everything.
“Sorry honey, but what can I do?” said Tina’s husband.
“Just look for it and stay quiet, understand? Now, now, Lilli, are you done yet? Lilly?” mom raced up the stairs and ran into Lilli’s room. What she sees there really shocks her.
‘’Lilli, stop playing with the P.S.P.”
‘’I just started playing something , because you and Dad where talking on and on so I got bored so chose something to play that I can stop and start very quickly.”
‘’So do the first thing that you said.”
“What?” asked Lilli.
“Turn it off when you said that you can do it so fast.’’
A good half hour later they arrived at the graveyard where Uncle George Apple would get burried. Almost everyone who was there cried and cried. But, one person was happy and that was Lilly’s mother because nobody noticed that she and her family and were late. She was also very sad because Uncle George was her favorite uncle. So, she also cried aloud, and it was a very sad funeral. Three kids were not sad: Mimi, Lilly and Leo.
“Hi Mimi,” shouted Lilli from one end of the graveyard to the other.
“Lilli, please behave yourself. This is a funeral, not a birthday party.”
“All right, it’s…… I just missed Mimi because I didn’t see her since last summer. Now It`s been one whole year, mom.”
“Okay, okay. Just don’t shout all over the graveyard, promise?”
”Mimi.” Nobody comes.
“Mimi Wildcat”. Still, nobody comes.
“Cousin Mimi Wildcat.’’
“Oh Lilli, I’m coming. Wait just one minute,” answered Mimi.
“Okay I’ll wait for you.”
Two minutes later Mimi, with her twin brother stood in front of the excited Lilli. Lilli didn’t know what to say at first. She was so happy to see her that she forgot about Leo. The twins where so different from each other. Mimi had long chocolate brown hair, while Leo had ordinary blond hair. Mimi always wanted to go on adventures, but Leo always wanted to destroy everything. Like today:
“Hi, Mimi. Oh how are you? I missed you so much. Are you…?” She couldn’t say anything else because Mimi interrupted her.
“Yeah, yeah. Stop now. Let’s rather play something. Like tag.”
“Oh tag, come on that’s something for babies,” said Leo.
“No it’s not. Let’s go Lil.”
“I’m only going to come if you stop saying Lil to me. I hate that name.”
“All right, all right” answered Mimi with a sigh.
“Nothing is all right. We’ll do something different.Oh, I know. It’s story time,” said Leo without anyone asking him for his opinion.
“Oh no, don’t listen to him Lilli. He tells terrible ghost stories. He is horrible – please believe me, please, “said Mimi, hoping Lilli would listen to her.
“Leo, Leo! We are going home. The funeral is over.” Shouted Leo’s mom.
“B…but….”mumbled Leo.
“No “but” young man. We are going home - remember the wedding?”
“Nina, the funeral isn’t over yet. There is a reception with food,’’ a person told Leo’s mom.
“Oh okay. Leo and Mimi we are staying a half hour more. Please behave yourself. Understand children?”
“Yes mom.”The twins said with a sigh of relief. Leo wanted to continue to scare the girls and Mimi because she wanted to continue playing with Lilli.
“Hey Lil. Let’s tell him scary stories so that he will get so frightened that he will run to my mother, okay?’’ Mimi whispered into Lilli’s ear.
“Of course I will help you. He always plays so many tricks on us, so why not on him too?’’ Lilli whispered back.
“So let’s play story time. We get to tell the stories, okay?’’ Mimi asked him, then they both told so many scary stories that Leo really began to think they were real.
After a while the funeral was over and everyone went home. Most of them went home with a bad feeling, but otherwise everything was okay. Half of them where excited because there would be a marriage in two hours.
After two hours, Lilli and her parents were not late and that made them very happy. When Lilli arrive there she went to her cousin straight away. They wanted to play something until the wedding started, but someone didn’t want that. Who was it? Leo of course.
“Oh, who is that? Lilli of course. You want to play something? I won’t have time to tell you scary stories.” Said Leo with mean voice.
“What will you do then? All you ever had in mind was scaring us with your crazy old stories,” said Mimi with a critical look.
“What I mean is that I’m going to ruin the wedding of course. You scared me to death, so why shouldn’t I ruin the party? I actually never liked Aunt Sissy.”
“But the wedding does not have a single thing to do with us.”
“Yes it does. This is your favorite aunt,” and with that Leo raced off.
‘’What should we do” asked Mimi with fear.
“I have no idea. I just still don’t get what the wedding has to do with us,” answered Lilli.
“If someone would understand Leo, the world would be much easier.”
“We should just keep an eye on him.”
“That’s the best thing that we can do I think.”
“Yeah.”
They were right. They really should have kept an eye on him . A few minutes after their conversation, Leo went to work. He put insects made out of rubber in salads so that women who to tasted it screamed.
“Oh my god this cake looks too yummy.” I think Dr. Leo needs to fix it. All right, the doctor is in the house……!” said Leo with a horrible laugh. He took the salt from the table and sprinkled it all over the cake.” Now it must taste really horrible. Oh no it’s them.’’
“Stop that Leo. You are horrible. Lilli get your mother we need to tell her or somebody else,” exclaimed Mimi.
“Okay, I’ll go as fast as I can,” shouted Lilli already walking to her mother.
“Honey, don’t run around. Did you forget all of your manners?” said Lilli’s mother while being worried that someone noticed her daughter.
“Mom, it’s important. Leo put salt on the cake, and insect made out of rubber in the salad. You have to come and stop him. He will only stop if an adult will tell him to stop. Oh, just please come and hurry!’’ said Lilli, already running back to Leo.
‘’ I’m not his mother.”
“Okay. I will tell her, but why can’t you come?” mumbled Lilli and raced to the mother of the twins. She told her the whole story. Leo’s mother was shocked when she heard it, and walked quickly to Mimi still holding Leo.
“Young man what are you doing! You are ruining the wedding of my sister. How can you do this to her? This should be the happiest day in her life,” exclaimed Leo’s mother with anger. Thanks for telling me that, Lilli. If not the wedding would be a disaster. Thanks girls, I’m proud of you.” She said loudly because the music from the background was very loud. “Oh my, the wedding starts, children go to your seats’’ and with that she went away.
The priest went in front of all the people. The bride and the groom were also already standing there. The priest talked and talked, until he finally said, “You may now kiss your wife.”
“Aaaaahhhhhh!”Everybody said with a sigh.
“Eeeeeehhh! That’s disgusting. Let’s go outside and play.” Said Lilli.
“Yeah anything is better than watching this.” They played outside for the rest of the wedding.
by:Ann-Sophie