Fillipa

Penny

I wake up to be greeted by Nikki, poking just above the small of my back where she knows I am really sensitive and I wake up easily, and I also realized that I slept in my normal cloths. But Mum said last night that I could have a day off today and just sleep. “GET UP SISSY!!!!!! GET UP NOW!!!!” Nikki shouts in my ear, painful. “Leave sissy alone, Nikki! Mummy said that she could have the day off school today!” Chloe grunted at Nikki, from under her bright pink Barbie Doona cover. Lucy doesn’t say anything, because she is still asleep. “Go wake Luce up....” I mumble, and Nikki and Chloe go off the wake her up.
     
I hide under the covers to see if I can fall asleep again as Chloe gets dressed ready to go to kindergarten. Lucy climbs down off the top bunk, wonders out of the room and into the bathroom and starts up the shower. My stomach gets hungry so I hop out of bed and go into the kitchen as Chloe runs around the bedroom half naked, looking for a clean pair of knickers and socks. I sit down on the kitchen table, which we have only recently started using. “Morning!” I hear Dad say. I don’t have much at all to do with Dad, because he is at work most of the time. “Hi” I just mumble, not feeling like talking to him this morning. He will go to work soon, anyways. Then I probably won’t see him until tomorrow morning or something.

I put two pop-tarts in the toaster and set it for two minutes. A pop-tart only needs about one or two minutes to cook. I’m staring at the toaster, waiting for it to pop up, when suddenly I get a tap on the shoulder. I look over, and it is Mum. “Whats wrong?” I say automatically. “Penny will be coming over shortly, I was chatting to her Mum over the phone while you were in bed!” she grinned at me. Oh, Penny, taking to day off school to see me? The toaster pops up and kind of interrupts my important thinking. I smile to myself.

Dad kisses me on the cheek and says, “Bye! See you early tomorrow morning, Fillipa!” and waves to me as I bite into one of my pop-tarts. I like American food like pop-tarts and hotdogs. I wave to Dad back. Chloe comes screaming out of the bedroom, fully dressed, and jumps on the couch next to mum, almost spilling her coffee. Mum knows what she wants, morning cartoons. “MORNING, MUMMY!!” she screams at her, obviously in a good mood. “Well, morning to you, too.....” Mum answers, turning to TV on and putting on the cartoon thingy or whatever it is called.

The boys all tumble out of there room all at once, mumbling about crappy boy stuff and complaining, obviously. I would not be surprised if boys are really aliens and spoke a different language completely. Scruffy, un-brushed hair and wrinkly pajamas, and Max is trying to grow a beard even though he’s only in grade eleven. He doesn’t even bother with girls. “BOYS! Hurry up or you’re going to be late for school!” Mum shouted at them. “Sorry, Mummy.....” Zeke said, putting on a guilty face. He is only in grade one, so hi school shouldn’t be that hard on him. Same with Logan, their only eleven months apart.  They both go run back up to the bedroom before they have breakfast, so Noah and max go put some bread in the toaster and pretty much ignore what Mum has said to them. Rude.

Once all the boys are dressed and had breakfast, Max runs off into his own car as soon as possible, and everyone else runs out the door and walks to school. I just sit on the couch while Mums in the kitchen doing something but I can’t see her. Penny will be here soon, I think to myself, won’t be long.  I hear a knock on the door, I must be Penny, and hopefully it is. I hear Mum walk out of the kitchen but just before she walks out I race to the door, still hoping its Penny.
It is Penny! “Hey, Fillipa! How are you?!” she says and give me a huge hug. I except the hug and say, “HEY!! How are you as well? cos I’m good!” “I’m awesome, thanks!” she replies. “Well girls, how about we all go inside?” Mum says, slightly poking me in the shoulder. We go inside, and Penny and I both run up to the bedroom to talk about the things that have happened at her school so far while I have been gone.