When Mom's Away....

Lisa decided to pick up the slack and make some Goopy Carbonara for dinner since Mom was on her working vacation in Al Simhara.

Parker Langerack came over after school with Ethan.  After playing a couple of hours of video games, they decided to head over to the local dive bar to have a drink or two.

 While playing simsball, Parker dropped  little bit of a bomb on Ethan; he's eager to get married immediately after high school.  Marriage isn't even on Ethan's radar and thought this best friend was in the same boat....obviously not.

While at the bar, Ethan received a call from Bebe Hart; she wanted to know if he could meet her at the Bistro.  He happily ditched Parker!

They talked for a while and Ethan ended up inviting Bebe out for a movie on Saturday night.  A date, awesome!

Meanwhile, back at the house, Arlo was working hard on his homework while Darlene finished up a report that was due tomorrow. She had just finished the spell check when the doorbell rang.

Darlene answered the door to find Bella Bachelor.  She invited Bella in; they were in the same grade at school but weren't really close friends.

Darlene was a little puzzled because all Bella wanted to talk about was Arlo!  She wanted to know what his favorite color was, did he have a favorite food, blah blah blah.

Darlene was a little put out by Bella's questioning and told her that if she really wanted to know, she should ask Arlo.  Bella left right after that.....

Darlene was really upset after Bella left and after her bath when to talk to her dad.  He told her not to let her conversation with Bella get her down.  He told Darlene that he was sure once Bella got to know her that she would like her for herself, not for who her brother was.  Darlene thanked him but deep down just wanted her mommy to come home!

After making dinner and cleaning up, Lisa went upstairs to check her FaceSheet account.  As usual, Michael Bachelor had posted  a picture of his latest catch from one of the small ponds at the park.  River McIrish was bragging about the A+ she received in Algebra. Whatever!  Lisa's boyfriend VJ was on too so they messaged back and forth for a while.

VJ was trying to talk Lisa into breaking curfew with him and meeting down at the pier but Lisa just didn't feel like it.  Cooking and cleaning had tired her out and she decided to to have a good soak in the tub.

After her nice, long soak in the bubble bath Lisa felt rejuvenated! She decided to practice her presentation for speech class out of the way while she was feeling so great.

 

But Lisa got kind of carried away and ended up not getting into bed until after midnight!  She set her alarm to wake up extra early the next day to get her homework done before school.  Of course her dad was up when she came down to the kitchen; he was always up at the crack of dawn.

 Lisa finished her homework just as everyone else started to wander downstairs for breakfast.  Today it was cold cereal all around.  Even though dad was up early, you really didn't want to take the chance on eating his cooking on a school day unless you wanted to stay home sick.

Lisa wondered aloud if mom had seen any llamas in Al Simhara.  She had promised to take lots of pictures but hadn't texted any yet.  Knowing mom, she was probably using an old fashioned film-type camera...

As usual, Arlo was the last one done and out the door to school.  He had a habit of doing things on his own schedule and usually didn't let clocks or school bells get in his way.