Totally Busted
After some curiosities and thoughts of Esther, and contemplations of when they will return to Narnia, the five friends decided to go out for ice cream. Dawn went home to leave Bingo to her mother. "There you go, Bingo." She said as she gently laid her puppy on his bed. "Have a nice rest while I'm gone, alright?" Bingo just looked at her. "Mum, can you watch Bingo while I go out please?" Dawn asked her mother.
"Oh yes, sweetie." Penelope said with a smile. Dawn smiled back as she headed to the door. "Sweetie where are you going?" Her mother asked.
"Oh, uh, just...going for a walk." Dawn replied, trying to cover the truth. Her mother nodded. "Alright." She said. "Don't be too long." Dawn nodded and opened the front door of her house and closed it behind her. She crossed the patio and to the sidewalk where the Pevensie siblings were waiting. They walked across their neighborhood and out to the public area not far from their place. And the friends entered the local ice cream store. Peter bought mint chocolate, Dawn bought herself strawberry flavored, Susan got blueberry while Edmund bought vanilla ice cream. Lucy got cotton candy ice cream. "Mmm, this is good." Dawn said as she ate her first spoonful of ice cream. Peter nodded. "Mmmhmm."
"Yummy." Lucy said as she charmingly licked her lips with her tongue. Susan ate her ice cream. "I love it." She smiled.
"Esther would've loved this dessert." Edmund said. Lucy nodded.
"I wish Esther also come to our world and experience it with us." Dawn said. Edmund sighed sadly. Dawn gently placed her hand on his shoulder and rubbed it. He gave her a sad smile. "We'll see her again, Ed." Dawn comforted her friend. "Whenever Aslan calls us back hopefully." Edmund sighed. "Yeah."
As they headed out of the ice cream store, they happened to run into Timmy, his mother and father. "Oh, hello." Dawn waved to the little boy. Timmy smiled. "Dawn!"
"Hi, Tim." The other four children greeted Timmy. His mother looked down to him. "Do you know them, Timmy?" His mother asked him. Timmy nodded and smiled.
"We met him in the train when we were evacuated and back." Susan explained.
"Oh." His mother smiled. Timmy and the others nodded.
"Are you going for ice cream with your mummy and daddy, too?" Edmund asked.
"Yep!" Timmy answered with a smile. The five friends smiled back. "Have fun, Timmy." Edmund replied.
"I will!" Timmy squeaked and went into the ice cream store with his parents. They started walking back to the neighborhood while eating their ice cream.
"Uh..Ed.." Susan hesitated. "I hate to bring this up but...do you remember your pre-kindergarten crush, Chloe by any chance?" Edmund frowned. "Yes?"
"I heard she likes you." Susan told her brother. Edmund eyes widen. "Well I don't anymore." He scoffed.
"Chloe..." Lucy raised one of her eyebrows. "You mean that queen bee in our school?" Susan nodded. "Yeah, her." She simply answered. "What does she do that's so queen bee-ish?" Dawn asked.
"She's mean, she acts like the school is hers, she a popular girl." Edmund named off. "And she used to like Peter in the past." He added. Dawn raised a brow at this. "Yeah, it's true." Peter said. "I don't even like her. She's not my type." Susan nodded. "Now she wants you Ed and will do anything to get you." She told her brother. Edmund felt very nervous. "Oh God..." He said shaking a little. "What will we do?"
"There's nothing we can do..." Lucy said sadly.
"She sounds like she could be the White Witch's daughter." Peter said. "The mean one at that."
"So like a mean version of Esther." Dawn asked, quite worried. Edmund and Lucy giggled uncomfortably.
"That would be awful." Peter said.
"Maybe we should figure something out to protect Edmund from Chloe." Susan suggested. Edmund nodded. "Maybe." He sighed. As the five friends continued walking down the sidewalk home, they heard a loud honk of a car. It was Dawn's father and her brother. He was on his way home from picking Daniel up from his soccer class.
"HA!" Daniel, who was inside the car yelled, pointing. "BUSTED!" The five friends jumped in fear.
"Dawn Isabella Jameson! What on earth are you doing?!" Samuel yelled angrily from his car, shooting his daughter a death glare.
"DAD?!" Dawn gasped. Peter blushed. "Uh-oh.." was all he could say.
"H-hello, Mr. Jameson.." Edmund waved nervously. "Hi, Daniel." Daniel grinned evilly at Edmund and the other four. Edmund gulped and put his waving hand down. Lucy was shaken and Susan put her arm around her sister's shoulder.
"Dad, we're just hanging around." Dawn tried to reason with her father. "We're not causing trouble. We swear!"
"Get in the car!" Samuel yelled. "NOW!" Dawn sighed. "I got to go home." She told her friends. "I'm sorry."
Peter sighed. "It's fine." He said. "Maybe later." Dawn nodded weakly.
"RIGHT NOW!" Samuel yelled as he furiously honked his car. Dawn quickly got in the car and the car drove away from where it stopped with Samuel angrily reprimanding Dawn on their way home. The Pevensie children decided to head home. Dawn, her father and brother arrived at home where her mother, sister and pet puppy were waiting. "Back so soon?" Her mother asked. Dawn didn't answer.
"Dawn was with the Pevensie children." Samuel said angrily. Penelope sighed in annoyance. "Sweetheart, you know you're not supposed to be around them!" She reprimanded her daughter. Dawn sighed. "I know, but—" her father angrily cut her off. "I don't want you to be hanging around with those kids." Samuel warned. "Up to your room, young lady!"
"You NEVER liked them!" Dawn half shouted, pointing her finger at her father. Samuel frowned. "There is a reason for that!" He shouted back.
"Grandpa Paul and Grandma Anne would never let you do such thing to me!" Dawn shouted and was almost close to tears. This made her father even more angrier. "Go to your room, Dawn!" Her father warned. Dawn burst into tears and went up to her bedroom. She laid in her bed, pulled the blanket over her and cried her eyes out. A little bit later, Jane came upstairs. "Dawn?" She knocked on her sister's door. "You there?"
Dawn wiped her eyes and sniffled. "Go away." She answered. Jane sighed. "Please let me." She begged.
"Fine..." Dawn groaned and opened the door for her sister. "What do you want?" She asked. Jane sat at the end of the bed. "Are you alright?" Dawn bit her lip and shook her head. "Do I look alright to you?" She asked.
Jane sighed and gave her some tissues. "Dad didn't mean it..." she comforted her sister.
"He did so!" Dawn wept. "Dad used to be humble, loving and kind hearted before he went to war. And now, I feel like he's some kind of stranger." Jane hugged her. "When will dad ever change back?" Dawn sniffled.
Jane sighed. "We just have to pray." She suggested. Dawn rolled her eyes and pulled her blanket over her face and groaned. Jane sighed and didn't know what else to say. Instead, she just left her sister alone to give her a little time. "Aslan, please..." Dawn whispered. "What can I do to make dad allow me to love Peter? Please help us...and please help our family get our life back...help my father to change back to normal...please...!"
Meanwhile, the Pevensie children walked back to their house, where their parents were waiting for them. "Mum, dad." Peter called out as he and his siblings entered inside their house. "We're home!" Helen was on the phone and only waved to her kids. Their father, Henry walked up to them. "You kids were supposed to be here earlier." He told them. "Where have you been?"
"We went for a walk in the neighbourhood." Susan answered. "and also had ice cream with Dawn—" that was when she clamped her hand over her mouth. "Oops.." Peter's face grew red and gave Susan a look.
Henry made a face. "That Jameson girl?!" He almost raised his voice.
"No, she meant the other Dawn." Peter lied to his father. Henry raised an eyebrow and then gave his four children a very strict, firm look. "Tell us the truth, kids." He warned them. Lucy bit her lip. "Yes, father." She answered. "Dawn Jameson."
Peter sighed in defeat. "How many times did I tell you, not to mess that girl?!" Henry reprimanded them.
"W-we're s-sorry, Father." Lucy said.
"Why can't we?" Peter asked.
"You don't need to know." Henry replied. Just then, Helen appeared in front of her husband and children. "What's going on here?" She asked as she intervened.
"Dad won't tell us!" Lucy pouted.
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