Chapter 17.6 – November 2023: part II – Storslagent! Nei, legendarisk er ordet! (Continued)

This a continuation of Chapter 17.6 - November 2023: part II - Storslagent! Nei, legendarisk er ordet! (Click the link to go back and read the first half of this chapter).

 

So after a bit of waiting for everyone to decide on what to eat and for the chefs inside to finish their food, out they came and were ready find a seat.. Margrethe had gone for a simple sandwish, but Kristina and Lise Veronice had chosen a little more expensive meals for themselves..

 

Of course that didn't go by unnoticed and Margrethe was quick to tell them they would not be splitting that bill! ;) They should learn to be a little more frugal, she thought.. It wasn't always necessary to buy the most expensive thing they could find on the menu...

 

After they had finished eating and everyones belly was full, Lise Veronica wanted to check out something.. She had heard that the area near the back entrance of the restaurant might have something interesting to find..

        "What now?" Margrethe wondered "It's just a back entrance.. what are you expecting to find? More food..? I don't like spending to much money, but I'm not going dumspter diving if that's what you think.. I thought we just ate!"
        "No no, we're not going dumpster diving, I promise.. I think there's something else there I want to check out.."

"Look at it! Isn't it cute!" Lise Veronica said, bending over a small rodent that scurried around on the grass right next to the back entrance of the restaurant..

    "Ew, no! It's a rat! That's disgusting!" Margrethe said, not really liking this very much..."I can almost feel it crawling on me, this is gross!"

 

"No, come look at him! He's so cute! I want to take him home!" Lise Veronica said, bending down to pick up the rat and put it in her pocket.

    "If you say so... I know my parents would kill me if I came home with a rat! Especially my mom, she would probably want me to desanitize the entire house afterwards just for even considering it..." Margrethe said, thinking about how her mom always brings home those bottles of hand disinfection from the hospital and places them all over the house...

Kristina doesn't mind though, she finds it charming how Lise Veronica has such a love for the animals. If she can be that fond of animals, she might also be the perfect partner to raise a big family one day...

Margrethe is getting a little impatient with the turtle doves now though, and wants to head over to the arcade to prove that she can beat them there too..

"I'm going to the arcade" she says as she begins to walk away from them "..are you coming or not?"

 

At the arcade Kristina got some second thoughts about the rat too. She heard the rats squeaks and chirps coming from Lise Veronicas pocket right behind to her in the taxi, and started to feel like it could jump out and start crawling all over her any minute..

Even the taxi driver had wondered what the sound was, to which Lise Veronica was quick to state that it was just an injured bird she had found and that she wanted to take home to care for.. The taxi driver wasn't to happy about having animals in her taxi, but accepted it as it was an injured bird after all..

She did find it a little strange though that she wanted her to drive them to the arcade and not to a house, to which Lise Veronica had replied that she lived just down the road from the arcade and that they walk to the house from there, since her parents didn't give her all that much for her weekly allowance..

Her living down the road from the arcade was true, but the allowance thing was not.. how else would they be able to compete over who could get the best score on the arcade machines? :P

 

Well, it turns out Margrethe wasn't as good at playing arcade games as she was at bowling, seeing as how she had to accept being beaten by both Kristina and Lise Veronica. Then the arcade games all of a sudden weren't really all that funny anymore and she excused herself saying she had to go to work.. I don't know what her after school job is, but work at this hour on a saturday night? She did tell them she had a lot of fun though, and that they could call her anytime if they wanted to do something fun or crazy...

She makes sure to give Kristina a good hug before taking off, to make it clear that she is leaving on good terms. Kristina and Lise Veronica stay behind to spend more simoleons on the arcade games, since they had so much fun doing it, regardless of who got the most points. They weren't as competitive against each other after Margrethe had left..

 

However, it was getting pretty late eventually and Monica sent a message to her daughter to remind her that she should probably be getting home soon.. Keeping the incident at the Blitzkrieg house in her memory – where Lise Veronica had lied to her about being over at her cousins house – she didn't want her daughter to be out and about somewhere on a saturday night..

 

"Oh.. I got a message from mom. I think I have to go home, or she will come pick me up..."

 

"I have to hurry... are you coming?" Lise Veronica had wanted to ask Kristina to come over to her house to sleep over , but this happened a little to abruptly. They had so much fun playing the arcade games, they hadn't at all noticed how much time had passed, and now she was worried her mom would come pick her up and give her a scolding like last time, so she didn't find the time to ask properly..

        "No, I think I have to go home to my own mom.. I didn't know it was this late!" Kristina replied, feeling a little sad already that she had disappointed her parents.. "I'll uh.. I'll see you tomorrow, right?"

When Lise Veronica came in through the door at home (walking carefully with the rat in the pocket, hoping it would keep quiet..), her parents were still up playing video games. Monica was really happy her daughter was so quick to come home for a change...

Lise Veronica carefully sat down on the couch, with the rat still in the pocket, and began to talk abouter mom's job.. specifically, talking about how interesting she thought some of the scientific experiments she did there was... and if she could join her at work one day to see the rats..

 

"Rats?" Monica wondered "We're not doing experiments on rats... Our current project is on plants, you know? Like I told you earlier... why do you think we're doing experiments on rats?"

"Because I just found one that looks like it escaped!" Lise Veronica said, fetching the rat out of her pocket.

 

"You did what!?" Monica said in disbelief, before looking at the rat Lise Veronica held in her hand.. "That's not ours, we don't have rats at the lab. Where did you find that one?"

        "It was just behind the Corsican Bistro, mom! It's so cute so I had to take it with me! Can I keep it? Can I!?"

 

"Well I don't know.. " Monica sighed "...alright, I guess you can keep it for now, but if I see it running around the house chewing on stuff, you're setting it free immediately! Is that understood? Rats should really be outside..."

"Thanks alot mom! I promise I'll take good care of it, and that it won't be running around anywhere!"

        "Well, we'll see about that.. now go to bed before I change my mind!" Monica said with a stern voice. Lise Veronica was just excited she got to keep the rat, so this time she was more than happy to listen to her mom and go upstairs..

 

..and put the rat in its cage and feed it, because of course she had one ready for it already!

 

..now let's hope Monica won't regret allowing a rodent into the house and that everything will work out alright...and that's how the night ended, with the teenagers thinking it was a magnificent day! Only magnificent? No, legenday is the word!

            Good night. ;)

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