ADVENTURES OF LILLIAN: MOMMY’S ANGRY

BY ABC-T

[ part 2 ]

I was still eating cookies on daddy’s lap when mommy came in the door. She was home early and it scared me, because my jeans were still in the wash. She saw me and immediately asked me where my pants were. I was scared and told her I spilt milk on them.

“How did you spill milk on them?” She asked me in a loud voice.

Daddy picked me up off his lap and patted my bottom as he told me to run upstairs.

I did so and I could hear mommy and daddy yelling about something. Mommy yelled louder than daddy and she seemed really mad.

“Why did you do that to her, I told you not to.” She said, “She’s too young; I told you I would be the first to do it.”

“You said that months ago,” My daddy yelled back “I got tired of waiting. You were the one who wanted her to join so why is what I did wrong?” But what did my daddy do and to whom did he do something? It occurred to me that they were talking about me but I still wasn’t sure what daddy did to me.

Their yelling was coming closer to my bedroom and I got scared, mommy was still mad at me about my pants, but then the screams were in the other direction toward their room. I was scared they would be getting a divorce, they never yelled this much.

Then I heard their door slam hard and the screams stopped. I was too scared to leave my room so I just stayed there and played with my dollies.

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At school the next day Jana was again my friend. I was so happy that I had a good day the rest of the day.

When I got off the bus, daddy was waiting for me on the doorsteps. I gave him a hug and told him all about how Jana was my friend again.

“So daddy, what are we going to do today?” I asked, somewhat hoping we could play ‘escape from the dungeon.’ The game daddy had come up with yesterday.

“I’ve got it all set up honey, let’s go play.” He said as he grabbed me and picked me up.

We went into the garage and he had me get down in front of his workbench again. He put me in the handcuffs the same as the day before. I was once again in the same position and he tossed me the keys.

They landed at my feet and I used the same method I used the day before to get them. I bent forward with my hands still handcuffed to the table leg. I got one of the keys between my teeth and picked them up. Moving my hands out to my side as far as I could I turned my head and dropped them. Today they dropped right into the palm of my hand.

I looked up and smiled at daddy who was watching me from a lawn chair. “Daddy, show me the key.” I told him but he didn’t move.

“You find the key yourself honey. You need to remember it, if we are going to keep playing this.”

“But I don’t remember it; please show me, this will be the last time.” I whined but he still didn’t move.

“Try to find it first honey. Then if you still can’t find it I will show it to you.” He bargained with me. I did suppose that was fair; I hadn’t even tried before I gave up.

I remembered where the hole in the handcuffs was from the day before so I quickly found the hole and started trying the keys. I must have tried every key at least twice before I finally gave up and whined to daddy again. “Please daddy I can’t find it.”

He got up and said, “Fine I will show you the key, but first I have to go get something. Keep trying them till I come back.”

He got up and walked out of the garage. I didn’t want to keep trying but I did. He was gone a real long time so I had a lot of time to find the key, and I did.

I found the key and the handcuffs opened. I let both wrists free and then ran out of the garage to go find dad.

He was in his room and he was pulling out his video equipment. I didn’t understand why he was pulling it out but he was. He had his tri-pod put together and was trying to fit his video camera onto it.

“You got free.” He said and stopped what he was doing. “You weren’t supposed to get free yet. I guess we have to make the game harder.” I could see he looked sort of disappointed about something, I wasn’t sure what though.

He left his video camera set up in his room and we went down to have a snack. I had ‘escaped from the dungeon’ so I could now have a snack. We had vanilla pudding for a snack and then went to watch TV.

When mommy arrived home she wasn’t angry with me, instead she looked very happy to see me. She gave me a big hug. Then she helped daddy off the couch and they went upstairs to their room.

“What do you mean ‘you didn’t get the tape’? And here I was all excited over nothing.” I heard mommy yell at daddy. I didn’t like them yelling and now they were yelling at each other two days in a row. I wondered what tape my mommy was talking about. I wondered if daddy forgot to rent a movie or something.