I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Summer is back again. Time for some more shenanigans. It all started with a
knock on Lewis’ door.
“Hold your damn horses!” she shouted. “I’m coming.” The old biddy grumbled to
herself. Who the hell was knocking on her door this early in the morning? Lewis
opened the door. Her face dropped when she saw who it was.
“Kat?” she asked. Her niece looked like she had been crying. It didn’t take the
farmer long to figure out what happened.
“Come in,” Lewis said. She nudged her niece inside. Kat nodded as she sobbed.
Lewis sighed and rolled her eyes as she closed the door behind her.
“What happened now?” she asked by the time they got to the couch. “Who did you
break up with now?” Kat let out a huge sob.
“Hang on, I’m putting the kettle on,” Lewis said. She got up and walked over to
the kitchen. This was going to be a long morning, wasn’t it?
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Aisha, Muriel, and Clyde walked up to Lewis’ door. The leader knocked. Muriel
and Clyde looked at each other. They already knew the drill.
“Coming!” Lewis shouted from inside. Aisha took a step back.
“Why are we ‘ere again?” Clyde whispered. Muriel just shrugged. Aisha glanced
over her shoulder, frowning. Clyde stuck out her tongue. The trio looked up when
the door opened. Lewis poked her head outside.
“Oh, it’s you,” she said. Aisha broke into a polite smile. Lewis put up her
hand.
“Listen,” she said. “I don’t have time to deal with you time. Come back later.”
She tried to shut the door, but Aisha grabbed the door.
“What do you want?” Lewis asked.
“Is something wrong?” the leader asked. The farmer sighed and rolled her eyes.
“My niece is here,” she whispered. The other two women looked up.
“She get dumped again?” Clyde asked.
“Yeah,” the farmer said. Aisha raised her eyebrow.
“We have to go and talk to her,” she said. Her friends stared at her.
“Could you not?” the farmer asked. Aisha didn’t listen. She was already in the
house. Muriel and Clyde shrugged as they followed her inside. Lewis sighed and
rolled her eyes as she closed the door behind them.
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The Sunny Plum was open for business.
“Tucker!” Annie shouted. “Tucker get out here!” Her husband poked out his head
from the kitchen.
“Come look at this!” she said. He rolled his eyes and walked over to the
counter. He could already guess where this was heading.
“What?” Tucker asked. Annie shoved the menu into his face.
“Look at this!” she shouted. The man blinked for a moment.
“Uh… what am I looking at?” he asked. His wife frowned.
“You put fish with the greens,” she said. Tucker raised his eyebrow.
“So?” he asked. Annie clicked her tongue.
“Fish doesn’t go with greens!” she shouted. Tucker shot her a cold look. This
again? He turned and walked back into the kitchen.
“Where do you think you’re going?!” Annie screamed. Tucker waved her off. He
wasn’t going to do this today.
“Come back here!” his wife yelled. Annie stormed off after him. Just another day
at the Sunny Plum. Marital bliss as usual.
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The old biddies all sat in the kitchen. Kat sat in the living room.
“How long is she going to stay here now?” Muriel whispered. Lewis shrugged and
shook her head. The farmer couldn’t keep doing this.
“Isn’t there something you can do for her?” Aisha asked. Lewis shrugged and
shook her head. Muriel looked at Kat looking at them from the couch.
“Now what?” she asked.
“What else?” Aisha asked. Lewis about to speak when she heard a knock on the
door. The farmer tilted her head.
“Who is that?” she asked. Lewis got up and walked over to the front door. When
she opened, a confused look came over her face.
“Liz?” she asked. “What are you doing here?” The young woman stood at her door
with tears in her eyes.
“He left me!” she wailed. Lewis’ face dropped.
“Seriously?” she asked. “Another girl who got dumped? You’ve got to be bloody
joking!” Lewis looked around outside.
“Where are Clover and Will?” she asked. Liz broke down sobbing. The farmer
sighed aloud.
“Fine, come in,” she said. Lewis nudged Liz inside and closed the door behind
her.
End