Mimi's Stay Outside All-Day Day - Chapter Two

The Plan

As dawn turned to daylight, Mimi opened her eyes to bright pink walls and soft satin drapes. Sitting up in bed, she gulped in a breath and then yawned it back out again.

Candie, who had resigned to her fluffy red rug during the night, jumped on the bed, and ferociously tickled Mimi's cheeks with her tongue. "No more!" laughed Mimi wiping morning breath saliva from her face. "…enough already!"

Mimi’s feet stepped into bunny slippers when she slid from bed. She moseyed to the window, pulled back a drape, and laid it across the shiny blue hook her mom had twisted into the wall. Sunbeams seeped through the windowpane, landed on her skin, and elevated her temperature as she peered outside.

It was a bright spring morning. Birds sang in treetops, leaves danced on branches, and dandelions speckled grass like polka dots.

Still widening her eyes to wakefulness, Mimi gazed at her mother's sunflower garden just below the window. She pored over pink petunias, golden marigolds, and purple lilies circling a eucalyptus tree in the center of the yard.

While enjoying the scenery, Mimi recalled the raucous noises that penetrated her window and caused her to shift and stir in bed last night. She reheard overzealous laughter, rolling skateboard wheels, as well as high-pitched whistles and screams about nothing.

Mimi also recalled the plan she made to stay outside from morning all the way until dusk. She felt certain she would be able to have just as much fun as those loud teenyboppers—even if darkness no longer surrounded the skies and regardless that the streets would no longer be void of cars, trucks, and buses of traffic.

"It's such a beautiful morning!" she shrieked lifting Candie and scratching her brown and white ears. "Just the kind of day we need for a Stay Outside All Day Day. It's going to be fantastic, girl! You just wait and see!"

With that, Mimi read the numbers on the clock. She figured out it was 7:30 a.m. "Time to get dressed," she caroled toward the bathroom.

Continue to Chapter Three...