Little Flower Girl

Chapter 8

Lilly woke up, her head killing her from staring at the laptop screen so much the previous night. Lillian curled up in the blanket that had been wrapped around her, flipping and turning slightly before she began to get comfortable again. Lilly pulled her pillow closer to her and yawned before turning over a few more times. She could her hear brother's TV over in the other room, which caused her to flip and turn just like she had before, laying on her back and finally staring at the ceiling as he yelled at his TV and dropped his controller.

"Oh my god, shut up," Lillian muttered to herself as she turned over one more time and closed her eyes again. Minutes later, a light knock echoed on Lilly's door as her mother pushed opened her bedroom door.

"Honey?" her mother whispered as she walked into the room and closer to Lillian's bed. Lilly thrashed onto her other side and stared at her mother who stood feet away from her bed.

"Goodmorning," she growled, readjusting the pillow underneath her head.

"Did I wake you up? I'm sorry, do you want anything to eat?" her mother asked, walking closer to Lillian's bed and sitting down at the end of it.

"Can I please just have some eggs and toast please?" Lilly answered, sitting up on her bed and rubbing her eyes.

"Yes, anything else or?" Lillian's mother inquired, standing up from her bed and making her way over to the bedroom door.

"No thank you," Lilly responded, pushing herself to the end of the bed and getting up just as her mother left the room. Lillian made her way out of her bedroom and down the hallway, stopping just before her brother's room and listening to her brother freak out over whatever game he had been playing. Lilly sighed before walking further down the hallway and into the kitchen, kissing her the tops of her little brother's heads and making her way over to the fridge. Lillian bent over opening the fridge door and reaching in, pulling out the gallon of orange juice and shutting the fridge door behind her. Lilly placed it down on the kitchen table and searched the cabinets for a glass. Lillian glanced over at her mother who poured two bowls of cereal and attended to the eggs that she dropped onto the pan that sat on the stove. Lillian poured her orange juice and reopened the refrigerator putting away the orange juice and grabbing the milk, moving past her mother and pouring milk into both bowls before putting down the milk and carrying both bowls of cereal and putting them down in front of her little brothers.

"Thank you," her mother commented as she looked back at Lillian as she walked back to the counter, putting the cap back on the milk and shoving the milk back into the refrigerator. Lilly walked out of the kitchen and into the living room, sitting down on the couch and watching the cartoons that played on the TV screen.

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The minute that Oliver woke up he began getting ready for when Lillian was scheduled to come over. Oliver picked up the different clothes that lingered around his room, throwing them in the hamper and then dragging his hamper downstairs where the laundry was designated to go. Oliver glanced around his room just has he had finished, making sure his bed didn't have very many wrinkles before finally looking around his room once again and pushing his desk chair further into his desk. Ollie walked out of his room, closing the door behind him before making his way to the kitchen; Oliver began surfing through the leftovers that sat in the fridge, before pulling out the leftover pizza and heating the two pieces of pizza in the kitchen's microwave.

"Dad, my friend is coming over at like 1:30," Oliver mentioned as he walked past his dad, a plate of pizza in his hand before he sat down on the living room couch.

"Friend?" his dad asked, turning around and looking at Oliver just as he entered the kitchen.

"Yes, she's in a couple of my classes," Oliver responded as he began shoving a piece of pizza into his mouth.