The Last Call

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Melanie are you dressed?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Yes mom. I told him to put him down but he ain't listening.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>We can't leave him mom. We'll stop and get him a treat on our way back home okay?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Ken answered reluctantly hanging his head down sadly as he walked back down the hall to his room where Snoop's kennel was kept. He was going to ask his mom once she saw how much of a big boy he was. And without any prodding from his mom this Sunday morning.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Mom turned the corner in a frenzy mentally checking off her list.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Keys purse Bible... SH!#! She silently asked God for forgiveness for losing control of her language and hurried upstairs to retrieve her book.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As she chided herself for not telling Melanie to grab this week's lesson the phone rang.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Brring... Bbbrring... Bbrrriiinngg!!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>She figured she'd pick it up as she entered her room.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Just a minute! she shouted as if the inanimate object could hear or answer back.</span></p><p></p>