What We Want

Laura saw the name of her father, and she quickly looked up to tell Agnes, "Aunt Agnes, don't."

Agnes smiled at her. "Don't you worry, Laura; there's hardly anything he can do to me over the phone."

Laura watched as Agnes picked up the call and went into her room. Laura wanted to know exactly what was going on, but she was going to wait patiently until Agnes told her.

"Mom?" Lisa called, drawing Laura's attention back.

"Yes, dear," Laura said, looking back at them.

"I asked if we could go to Little Bobby's birthday party," Lisa repeated.

"Humm, what about you, Liam?" Laura asked.

"Can we go, Mom?" Liam also asked.

"Okay, if that is what you want, then yes," Laura told them.

"Yes!" Liam shouted, adding, "I'm going to play a lot of games. Little Bobby told me he has a lot of games at home."

"Oh, really, that would be fun for you then," Laura replied with a smile.

"Okay, now that we have that out of the way, your home teacher will soon be here, and Aunt Agnes will be around also, so I wi