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"Does anyone have anything they want to say?" Rebecca asked, her hands on her hips and her foot tapping the ground, the ears of her bunny slippers bouncing up and down. All of her guests were lined up in her backyard standing near her pool except for Billy who was reclining on one of the pool chairs, obviously amused by the whole situation. Almost everyone was still in their pajamas with the exception of Jill who had gone for a morning jog before everyone else had gotten up.
Nobody spoke up right away and Rebecca sighed heavily. "I invited you all here for the weekend and I wake up to Jill informing me that my pool is full of rubber duckies!? How are we supposed to have a pool party now!?"
"It looks like they're enjoying themselves. Surely we can join them." Leon started to say before Rebecca stared daggers at him.
This is too funny, Claire thought as she started to giggle before Rebecca glared at her too. Oops. Better calm down-
"You two are my biggest suspects," Rebecca said as she folded her arms.
"What!?" Claire exclaimed in surprise. "Why us?"
"You two are such pranksters. I'm very willing to bet you did this early this morning," Rebecca replied.
But... we didn't. We were sleeping-
"I don't know," Jill said. "I woke up pretty early and I didn't see either of them out there. By the time I had my workout outfit on, those duckies were already in there."
Chris shrugged next to her. "I disagree. I know those two. This seems like something they would do."
Oh WOW, ok Chris! she thought as her eyes narrowed. Unless...
"How do we know you didn't do it, big brother?" Claire countered. "I had to learn it from somebody, didn't I?" She quickly looked at Rebecca. "Not that I did this particular prank. Just others."
Rebecca eyed her closely before turning to Chris. "Chris. Did you do this?"
"Nope."
Rebecca looked back at Leon Claire. "He didn't do it. I trust him."
"What!?" Claire shouted. "You trust him just like that!?"
"Yes," she said. "You know Chris has no poker face."
"Ok... that's fair..." Claire murmured.
But I know it wasn't me or Leon... and if it wasn't Chris...
"Hey so..." Leon interrupted seemingly reading her thoughts. "I don't want to be that guy that blames the messenger but..." He waved his hand at Jill. "How do we know it wasn't her?"
Jill glared at him and based at how Leon winced, Claire was sure he practically felt it in his soul.
"Are you kidding me?" Jill said. "You guys know I always get up at 5 am to jog. It wasn't that long after that that I found the duckies and alerted Rebecca."
Rebecca was nodding. "Yes. Just enough time to get dressed and go outside. That was all."
Ugh this is looking bad...
Jill was nodding now too. "But I doubt this was done early morning. More likely it was late at night." She looked at Leon and Claire. "And who are the two night owls?"
The two looked at each other.
Well... we definitely have an alibi for that... but...
"Uh... we definitely didn't do it last night..." Leon said quietly, his eyes shooting over to Chris.
"Yeah," Claire said while looking away from Rebecca. "We were... busy." She winced knowing that they were about to be exposed.
"Busy?" Rebecca asked, her eyebrow raising. "Busy with what-" her eyes widened. "WERE YOU TWO HAVING SEX!?"
Claire and Leon hung their heads in shame.
Well... here we go...
"...yes." Claire whispered as Chris gagged nearby.
"...YOU TWO WERE SLEEPING ON MY COUCH!" Rebecca shouted as she threw her hands into the air.
"Sorry..." Claire said quietly, her cheeks a deep red.
I wanna hide under a rock-
"We'll get you a new one," Leon ashamedly whispered while avoiding all eye contact from Chris. "Not that we messed it up or anything. Much. I mean-"
Claire put her hand on his arm. "Stop. Stop talking," she whispered.
Please don't dig us a deeper hole.
Rebecca slapped her hand over her face. "Ugh... gross," she said as she looked over at Chris and Jill. "At least I can trust you two to respect my house."
The two of them looked at Rebecca then at each other before looking down at the ground, also ashamed.
"...IN MY GUEST ROOM!?" Rebecca shouted as Claire took her turn to gag.
"Oh go easy on them Becky," Billy said as he stretched on the pool chair. "We were having sex too-"
"Hey! Shush!" Rebecca said. "This is our house! We can do that-" She looked back at her guests. "Nevermind him! Just... please just tell me who did this!"
"Rebecca? Love?" Billy said behind her.
"What?"
"Think about how many rubber duckies are in the pool."
Rebecca looked to her right at the incredibly full pool.
Wait a minute... Claire thought.
"Do you really think our guests would have been able to hide that many ducks in their luggage?" he continued.
Rebecca stared at the ducks for a long moment before narrowing her eyes.
"Billy..."
"I've had those boxes full of them sitting in the garage all week."
Claire covered her mouth to keep from laughing.
Rebecca sighed heavily. "...the betrayal," she whispered before facing Leon and Claire again. "I apologize for how I acted."
Claire lowered her hands and smiled at her. "Apology accepted-"
"But you three are cleaning it up."
"What!? Why us too?" she asked.
"YOU FUCKED ON MY COUCH!" Rebecca shouted.
"Oh, right. Fair," Leon whispered.
Well, Claire thought. This weekend sure has gotten off on a rocky start...
"I'll go get some nets," Jill said as she quickly left the area.
Take me with you... Claire thought wistfully as she prepared to spend the morning fishing ducks out of the pool.
Billy stood and walked over to Rebecca, putting his arm around her shoulders. "So... how about we get breakfast first-"
His sentence was cut off as Rebecca shoved him into the rubber ducky filled pool.