The Life of Corinne P. : Chapter 2

Corinne was bored. She was sitting on the couch with her legs propped up against the armrests.
"I don't know what to do," she moaned to Jesse.
"Play trucks with me?" Jesse suggested. Since a few days ago, Jesse had been going through what Lora referred to as a "transportation phase." Cars, trucks, airplanes, boats, even his Transformer toys had started to fascinate him more than ever. When they saw a bus passing one day, he'd delightfully asked, "How does it work?" When the members of the family had failed to give an explanation, he'd stomped his foot in frustration.
"Sorry, Jesse. Not right now, " apologized Corinne. And really, she was sorry, even though she didn't like the game of trucks. Jesse would be sad. He'd always said that trucks was a two person game: "So we can race the trucks!"
"I have an idea," offered Lora, coming into the room holding a bowl full of blueberries in one hand and one of Jesse's Transformer toys in the other. "Jesse, you need to clean this up, " she said, addressing Jesse. "And Corinne, it would be a good opportunity for you to visit your friends."
Corinne groaned. Lora, though always insisting she'd visited her friends in her childhood, couldn't seem to understand that Samantha was in Australia, or Mia was in Mendocino, or Kiren was at summer camp.
"Mom, all my friends are away!" whined Corinne. "Why can't we go somewhere too?"
Suddenly Kenna appeared in the room, standing next to Corinne as if she was attending to Corinne. "I have an idea," she breathed in Corinne's ear, eyes glowing green. "At night, you'll see."

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The Life of Corinne P. : Chapter 1

Corinne Packel was in the living room of her house, trying to recruit more people for a game of Musical Chairs.
It was late afternoon. The morning had been filled with thunder and lightning, so no one dared to go outside. Now, even though it had stopped raining, her previous attempts to persuade her mom to go to the bowling alley had failed. Corinne sighed, and dragged over a chair: Both herself and her cousin, Nory, were playing already. Nory didn't seem to be helping, though: She was listening to Robin's music, coming from a laptop computer.
Since her mom had politely refused a minute before, Corinne began to work on her dad. "Can you play Musical Chairs with me?" she pleaded.
Andy, her dad, shrugged his shoulders.
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase?" Corinne begged. Her comment made beautiful harmony with the music.
Just then, Kenna, Nory's little sister, burst in, with Jesse, Corinne's little brother, trailing behind her. "Can we play?" Jesse asked.
Corinne sighed. "Kenna, get some more chairs."
Soon, a game of Musical Chairs was in progress. Robin's music played while Corinne, Jesse, Nory,
and Kenna walked around and around the set of chairs.
Robin's hand slid across the keyboard. The music stopped. Everyone scrambled for a seat. Corinne found that she had no trouble getting a seat. This round, Jesse was out...
Then Nory...
Until Kenna got out. It took a minute for Corinne to realize what had happened. Then she cheered, along with everyone else.