Family Is Forever

12

The girls walked closely together all four of them laughing and talking animatedly as they walked to the park's exits. They talked about all the animals they had gotten to see and every funny thing any of them could remember. They had been there for basically all of the day and had made it around to do pretty much everything except for the roller coaster as only Charlotte was tall enough. Nonetheless, each of the girls had lots of fun, especially Bayley who was now hopped up on sugar thanks to Hunter, much to Stephanie's displeasure.

Sasha and Rebecca bonded over the sharks and the aquariums. While Bayley had went and touched every animal in their 'petting zoo' and managed to get all of her older sisters to touch some of the animals to, well all except for Sasha who refused. Charlotte had seemed content on watching her younger sisters have fun as Rebecca seemed to get along with everyone and all of the girls were having so much fun. Even Hunter was having fun as he had enjoyed the Shark section with Sasha and Rebecca. He even convinced them to take a family picture with and shark cut out.

"Okay girls everyone got everything?" Stephanie asked earning a group nod as the family headed back to the car.

Each girl had got to chose one item from the gift shop, Bayley had picked a stuffed dolphin toy which she named Willy like the movie, even though Charlotte corrected the girl saying that Willy was a whale and not a dolphin but that didn't stop the youngest. While Sasha had gotten one of those shark head grabbers so she could mess with whoever sat in the front seat and Charlotte had gotten a sea turtle snow globe for the desk in her room. Rebecca on the other hand had refused to get anything from the gift shop as she held onto a small shark tooth which was given to her by a scuba diver who was cleaning the tanks and saw her through the glass. The diver very kind to all of the girls and even took Rebecca to get the tooth wrapped in metal wiring to be put on a keychain at the gift shop. Once they reached the car Sasha and Rebecca hopped in the back seat while Charlotte and Bayley sat in the middle row with Hunter fastening Bayley into her booster seat.

"Where do you girl's want to eat?"

"Why don't we go to Pizza Hut?" Bayley suggested swinging her legs happily in her seat

"No gross" Charlotte said as Sasha sat behind her getting her Shark head ready to mess with her

"CiCi's?"

"No...why do you want pizza so bad?" Charlotte said as Bayley shrugged in response before stating

"I like pizza...everyone likes pizza"

"Yeah but I don't want pizza" behind the oldest was Sasha's shark head moving back and forth on the head rest as sasha was quietly singing the Jaws music from when the shark would come up on their prey, "Sasha stop that!"

"NEVER!" Sasha began quickly opening and closing the shark head on Charlotte's hair as she made loud chomping noises pretending to be the shark, "YOU'RE SHARK FOOD!"

This caused both Rebecca and Bayley to laugh at the girls while Charlotte merely began swatting at the shark head before Stephanie scolded both girls and began quieting the car, "Sasha stop attacking Charlotte before I take your toy and put it up with the rest of them"

This confused Rebecca but Sasha and the others knew exactly what they were talking about. Whenever Sasha or Bayley kept playing around too much with a toy it was put in a box on the top shelf of Stephanie and Hunter's closet. Never to be seen again. After this silence filled the car except for the light buzz of the radio, at least until Rebecca randomly spoke up.

"I would actually like IHOP" this caused the girls to giggle while Stephanie turned in the passenger's seat to look at the girls, "Charlotte was talkin' about it last night and I've never been"