Zing 2! : Family Problems

Chapter 8: A Phone Call

Mavis and Lis stood in an indoor Frisbee golf course looking at Elisabeth's phone. What is taking so long? Finally Dracula picked up the phone.

Mavis looked at the phone. "Dad! What took so long?"

Dracula held the phone close so that Lis couldn't see anything but his face.

"What? Nothing! We're all great here. How are you?"

"Um, everything's fine but it's still daylight for another half hour." Lis was suspicious. "Is Martha okay?"

"Of course! You want to talk to her?"

"Yes! Yes I do!"

Dracula hands the phone to Martha. Martha is wearing a large sun hat and sun glasses.

"Hi Baby! How are you?" Martha won't lie to me about what's going on.

"Mommy! I'm having so much fun with daddy!"

"That's great! I miss you all! Why are you wearing Sun glasses?"

Lizzy and Jack, both also in sun glasses and large straw sun hats, took the phone from Martha. "Hey mom," said Lizzy. "For my next birthday I want grandma and grandpa to come."

Lis was confused. "Sweetie they can't come to your fourteenth birthday... they couldn't even come to your first birthday because they already crossed over."

"Yeah well Murry can bring the dead back," said Jack.

"Wait! What? He brought my parents back!" How dare he! Now they have to go through the crossover process again! "Give the phone back to your dad." They handed the phone to Dracula. "What the-" little ears. "What the heck did you guys do? I thought you were going to your old camp!"

"We were on our way and we got side tracked." Dracula started shaking the phone. "Chhhhh... the signal is bad."

He's really faking a bad signal! "Okay, guys, remember to eat all your mice or no desserts!"

Dracula continued to shake the phone. "Chhhh...chhhhhh...Lis are you there? Static...static..."

"Yeah, I'm still..."

Dracula disappeared from the screen.

"Alright, I guess their having fun."

Mavis put her hand on Elisabeth's shoulder. "Of course they are."

Lis sighed. "I can't believe they did that. We should go home and yell at them for this... but I won't allow this new problem to ruin our vacation." With that they barrowed some Frisbees and went to play.