Operation Get Rid of Mom's New Boyfriend (15 page)

“
Right,” Kennedy
answered.

“
Then what do you say,
Kennedy?”

A huge grin appeared on
Kennedy’s face. “I say the game must go on.” On that note, Kennedy
stood up.

“
Folks, we’ve got a
substitute player,” the gym teacher shouted though the mic. “The
tournament will go on as planned.”

The crowd cheered as
Kennedy hurried to the locker-room to go get changed. After getting
on her gym clothes, she sat down on a locker room bench and
tightened her shoelaces. Just as she stood up, Hennessey came
limping into the locker room.

“
What’s wrong?” Kennedy
asked her out of curiosity.

“
Like they said out there,
I got hurt. I can’t play,” Hennessey explained.

“
I see,” Kennedy said in a
suspicious tone. “So you asked if I could take your
place?”

“
This isn’t about you. It’s
about my Dad,” she snapped, then lowered her tone. “He hates
losing. I don’t want to disappoint him. So if he’s going to win,
then he has to play with the best.” Hennessey looked down. “And as
much as it pains me to say it…I guess you’re the best.”

Kennedy smiled. “Thanks…for
the compliment and all.”

“
Like I said, it’s not
about you. Anyway, I gotta get changed.” Hennessey walked away and
headed to her locker.

Kennedy headed out of the
locker room but decided to turn around and thank Hennessey one last
time. When she turned around she saw Hennessey walking to her
locker. She noticed something very peculiar. This time, Hennessey
wasn’t limping. Kennedy just shook her head, grinned, then headed
back out to the gym to kick some Father and Kid butt!

Chapter
Nineteen

Back to Normal

“
Congratulations!” Sammi
shouted above all the cheers and roaring of the crowd as Kennedy
and Hennessey’s father held the first place trophy. A frowned up
Lilac and her father held the second place trophy.

“
We’ll, get ‘em next year,”
Kennedy heard Lilac’s father say to her.

“
Yeah, right,” Lilac
groaned. “Maybe next time if your former ball player of a friend
isn’t also an alcoholic and doesn’t show up to practice drunk all
the time we might have a chance in the world.”

“
I’m sorry, baby,” Lilac’s
father tried to apologize.

“
You bet you are.” Lilac
stomped and rolled her eyes at her father.

“
Hey, listen, what do you
say I still take you out and get you that new cell phone that not
only takes pictures, but records videos and lets you order anything
you want online in a matter of seconds just by giving it a voice
command?”

A smile showing all of
Lilac’s teeth appeared on her face. “Oh, Daddy, you’re the best.”
She threw the second place trophy down and gave her father a great
big hug.

“
I know, puddin’, I know,”
her father said as father and daughter headed out of the
gym.

Camera’s flashed as
pictures for the yearbook were taken, as well as pictures by
students, family, friends and staff. Sammi was amongst them, taking
pictures of her own.

“
Say cheese,” Sammi ordered
Kennedy.

“
Mommmm,” Kennedy
whined.

“
Come on, just one last
picture.”

Kennedy obliged her mother
with a huge grin, then Sammi snapped the picture.

“
Congrats, big sis,” Joy
said.

“
Yeah, congrats,” Daryn
congratulated.

“
Thanks, guys,” Kennedy
said and then looked up at Hennessey’s father. “And thank you, Mr.
Ryan.”

“
Oh, don’t mention it,” Mr.
Ryan replied. “I just thank you for being able to fill in for my
daughter.”

“
No problem,” Kennedy said,
and then looked at the trophy. “Here, you can keep this.” She
handed the trophy to Mr. Ryan.

“
Oh, no, you keep it. You
earned it with that nasty jumper of yours.”

Kennedy smiled. “Thank you,
but really, you keep it.”

“
Don’t you want to have it
to remember this day by?” Mr. Ryan asked.

Kennedy looked up at her
mother then back to Mr. Ryan. “Nahh,” she said. “Trust me, Mr.
Ryan; I’ll remember this day forever.”

Mr. Ryan accepted the
trophy then walked away.

“
I’m so proud of you,
Kennedy,” Sammi said as she put her hands on each of Kennedy’s
shoulders.”

“
Thanks, Mom.” In an
attempt to avoid a mushy moment, Kennedy changed the subject. “So,
can we have pizza tonight to celebrate my win?”

“
Sure,” Sammi agreed. “I
think there are a couple of frozen ones in the freezer at home. You
can cook them up tonight for you and the girls because I have
plans.”

There was dead silence as
horrified looks appeared on the Soul Sister’s faces. Before either
girl could protest or begin to question their mother, Sammi smiled,
snapped her finger, pointed and yelled out, “Gotcha!”

“
Oh, Mom,” the girls said
in unison as they each exhaled a sigh of relief.

“
See, you three aren’t the
only ones who know how to play tricks on people,” Sammi said as she
pat herself on the back.

“
Yeah, that was a good one,
Mom,” Kennedy admitted.

“
I knooowwww,” Daryn
said.

“
Yeah, that was a good
one,” Joy repeated as the three girls burst out
laughing.

“
Did I miss something?”
Sammi wasn’t familiar with the Triplets and therefore had no idea
that her daughters were imitating them.

“
No, Mom, you didn’t miss a
thing,” Kennedy said. “How about we go out for that
pizza?”

“
Lead the way, champ,”
Sammi said as Kennedy led her family out of the gym. “So where are
we having pizza?” she said once they were in the parking
lot.

“
Dominoes,” Kennedy
shouted.

“
No, Pizza Hut,” Daryn
said.

“
I want Donatos,” Joy
pouted.

The girls began to bicker
and argue all the way to the car. Ordinarily Sammi would have been
frustrated and upset with the girls’ back and forth, but today she
just walked and smiled, glad that things really were back to
normal.

THE END

Be sure to be on the look
out for another installment of the Soul Sisters in

Operation Get Mom and Her
Boyfriend Back Together

Once again, the girls find
something else to agree upon, that Skylar, their mother’s
ex-boyfriend’s son, is absolutely groovy. With each of the sisters
digging him, they once again manage to agree on one thing; that as
long as Bo is in the picture, then so will Skylar. Now it seems as
though their plan has changed from operation get rid of Mom’s new
boyfriend, to operation get Mom and her boyfriend back together.
The girls will have to do back flips in order to convince Bo to
give the ready made family another chance. But even that might not
work.