WEEKEND GUEST

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"Who wants to see something awesome?" Phoebe asks. 

"I love awesome things!" Billy says. 

"I love them more!" Nora says. 

"It's a very rare and exotic plant." Phoebe says. 

"And that's awesome how?" I ask. 

"Phoebe doesn't know what awesome means." Max says. 

"It's a Limpopo fly trap. My science teacher chose me to take care of it for the weekend. It's a huge honor." she says. 

"Why do they call it a fly trap?" Billy asks and I roll my eyes and use my telekinesis to make a fly fly into its mouth and it eats it. 

"That's why." Phoebe says. 

"Cool!" Billy and Nora say. 

"I bet I could eat anything." Nora says. 

"Yeah, it's like the plant version of dad." Billy says. 

"That is pretty awesome. I wonder what else it can scarf down. Lets try some pudding." Max says. 

"No. and please don't touch it. It's on a special diet of flies and rationed water, and it's my responsibility. If anything happens to it, I'll be-- hey, where's the plant?" Phoebe asks and uses her telekinesis to take it from Max. 

"Come on, Phoebe, it's been my lifelong dream to see a plant eat weird stuff." Max says. 

"Since when?" she asks. "Since I found out there was a plant that could eat weird stuff." Max says. 

"Well, no one is touching this except me... and a few unsuspecting flies." Phoebe says. 

"So you guys want to see the plant eat stuff?" Max asks. 

"No way, Phoebe said we can't touch it." Nora says. 

"All right, she can't hear you. What's your real answer?" Max asks. 

"I want to see it chow down on Billy." Nora says. 

"Yeah! Wait. okay!" Billy says and I roll my eyes and they look at me asking with their eyes and I read their minds. 

"Yeah, count me out. Phoebe wouldn't do that to us so I'm not gonna do it to her." I say.


"Who died?" I hear Max ask. 

"Mom's old uncle, Wilfred." I say. 

"Awkward." Max says. 

"Remember we're going to Metroburg for his reading?" mom asks. 

"After a long life fighting crime as the all American blob, he's leaving your mother his 'greatest treasure,' and we have to see what it is." dad says and places his hand on Billy's shoulder. 

"I mean, not that it matters." I say. 

"No amount of money could replace him." mom says. 

"Unless it's his ginormous yacht!" dad says. 

"Dad, that's insensitive." I say and mom smacks him. 

"We want the enormous mansion!" mom says. 

"Mom! really?" I ask. 

"And which stage of grief is this?" Phoebe asks.

 "the non existent one called greed." I say.

"We'll only be gone one night, so there's no reason for your children to miss us much.'' Mom says and hugs Billy. 

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