Anywhere But Burbank

Chapter 38: Serafima and Little Lucy

((Serafima and Little Lucy in: Willard Walnut Mayhem. This is them in their toon forms))

Serafima was getting off of work and putting her hat on the hat rack. After a little bit, Lucille comes in through the door with her report card. "Hey momma! Report cards came in." Serafima takes the report card into her hands and looked at it. "Wow. You're doing really good." She takes out a couple of Smarties for her and handed them over. "You deserve it sweetie." Serafima then went to the kitchen and got out a recipe book. She opens it up and flips to the desserts section. "Ooh. Tennessee Black Walnut Cake." Serafima goes to the cupboard to get the walnut bag, but sees that it was all empty. "Oh shoot. We're out of walnuts.."

Lucille was working on her homework for school when her mother approaches her. "Hey sweet champ. When you're done with your work, why don't we go over to Old Man Willards and get some walnuts from his old walnut tree?" "Old Man Willards? But he hates you momma, he's been trying to get at you for years!" Lucille spoke with a worried tone in her voice, but Serafima smirks a bit. "Well thank you Mrs. Exposition." Lucille huffed some hair out of her face. "I don't know Mom, don't you think we can go to the store and buy a bag of Walnuts?" "Oh yeah, the press would have a field day with that bit. '6 minutes in the good old checkout line.' Oh please, I am laughing."

"Mom, Old Man Willards is mean." She pouts and Serafima looks down at her. "Not always. You he adores. Look, you've seen all my casework, correct?" "About a trillion times!" Lucille chirps and gave a big smile. "Yeah. I have tackled down many bad goonies, crooks, and bootleggers. Come on, Old Man Willards ain't nothing." Lucille sighs, knowing she was sort of right. "Yeah, I guess so." She continues her homework until she finished with the last line. Then she throws on her favorite dress and coat. "Come on sweetheart."

(Later)

After some walking, the two arrive at the backyard of his house. They peek their heads over his picket fence and sees him leave for a play that was going on near him. "Alright, the coast is clear mom." Lucille hides her face out of embarrassment, feeling as if this was a bad idea. Serafima gets over the fence and sees his walnut tree square in the middle. "Who in the world puts a tree in the middle of their backyard?" She grabs some walnuts off of the tree and puts them into the walnut bag. Lucille kept an eye out. Then her finger slips a bit and she gets a little splinter in her finger. "Ow." she squeaked a bit and then looked to the doghouse. His dog wakes up at her chirp and looks at the two.

"N-nice doggy?" Lucille gave a small little grin and then the dog began barking, trying to get free from it's restraint. "Oi, stop it, you'll choke yourself if you keep doing that." Serafima cleared her throat and looks at the golden lab. "Sit." She commanded and the dog did just that. "Shake." Serafima held out a hand and the dog placed his paw in it. "Good boy. Now play dead." The dog dramatically did some acting poses before laying on his back. "Alright, let's go. Let's go."

The two immediately went back to their house and Serafima began to mix in all of the ingredients. About 45 minutes had passed, and Serafima finishes the walnut cake. "And it's all iced and done." She sets it down on the table. "I decided to go Bundt style this time." Lucille licked her lips as her mouth watered over the delectable goodness. "Oh this is so delicious." Then a loud bang comes to the door with a loud. "SERAAA!!!" "Oh dear, it's old man Willards." Lucille trembles while eating her slice pretty quickly. Serafima got up to the door, still thinking about something. "Alright, I have learned Shake, Sit, play dead.. what am I missing..? AHA!"

Serafima opens the door and looks to meet an angry old man with an plaid shirt and green pants with suspenders. "Sera, did you go through-?" But before he could finish, Lucille pulled a string and the carpet caved in and she watches him fall. "Roll over. six feet under." She smirks and looked at her mother. "There you go. Learning from Ol' Roger." Serafima ruffles her head and they go back inside as the screen fades to black before Serafima came in from a hole and points to the audience. "Take it home with ya!"