American Snapshot

Somethin' Bad

Summary- Alexis thought her days of visiting the principal's office were long gone since Molly was the only Scorpio left in school. She thought that Molly was the good one, she should have known better.

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"Mrs. Scorpio, I am so glad that you could join us." Mrs. Jones, the principal greeted as she opened the door to her office and allowed the lawyer to enter. Felicia Jones had gone to school with Alexis and was well acquainted with the Scorpio children during their high school years; in fact the day that Maxie had graduated there was a celebration among the staff of Willow Creek High School. The blonde had been somewhat of a nightmare during her four years at the school. Felicia had a new found respect for her old friend, not knowing how she survived her six children.

"Molly, I am shocked that I had to get a call for you. If it was your…." Alexis trailed off as she turned to the bench against the wall, where she expected Molly to be waiting but was shocked to see all five of her daughters on the bench dressed in black, "How the hell did the four of you get in trouble? You graduated."

"Well if anyone could pull it off it would be us." Maxie grinned as she crossed her arms, "In fact I don't even know why you are surprised."

"It seems your daughters locked themselves in the school and the security guard found them this morning." The principal explained as she sat behind her desk.

"I am suspecting there is a good reason for breaking and entering." Alexis offered with her eyebrow raised.

"Technically it's not breaking and entering if you have a key." Kristina added and then quickly shut her mouth.

"Krissy is right, as a lawyer I would think you would be happy we're not charged with breaking and entering. All because I was smart enough to have a key." Maxie beamed.

"A key that someone threw away because she was having a hissy fit." Robin added as she glared at Maxie.

"I'm waiting." Alexis demanded.

"I will tell the story and I don't want any interruptions or questions till the end." The blonde stated as she looked around the room, "It all started yesterday when I picked up Molly from school." Maxie explained

-Flashback-

"Sam!" Maxie bellowed as she through open the door to Sam's house with Kristina and Molly trailing behind her.

"In the kitchen." Sam answered as she looked up from the books that Robin and she had been looking over.

"The duffle bag is not in your Jeep." Maxie frowned as she came to a stop in the doorway.

"What are you talking about?" Robin asked as she put her highlighter down and looked at her middle sister in confusion.

"The duffle bag that Sam always had in the back of her truck in case of emergency ."

"And by emergency, she means revenge." Kristina added.

"We aren't being taped if that is why you are speaking in code. Patrick took all his cameras back, once Dad locked him out of the YouTube channel." Robin answered as she rolled her eyes at the feud between her father and boyfriend.

"The bag that has our cameo gear and black hoodies in it." Maxie explained with a sigh as she pulled out a chair and took a seat.

"Jason made me get rid of it after our little police escapade. He thought that it might tone down my crazy a little bit." Sam answered as she stood up and pulled out the foot ladder that was between the fridge and counter.

"Like taking some clothes is going to stop us." Maxie laughed.

"We do all own black clothes, we could just go to our closet and get some." Kristina reasoned as she watched Sam climb on top of the ladder and reach into the cabinet that was above the fridge.

"We had everything packed in the to go bag for easy access and there was other stuff in there." Maxie disagreed.

"I think we are all on different pages here." Robin stated as she tried to catch on to what was happening.

"Molly needs our help to take down a bully."

"She isn't a bully and I don't need help. I was venting and then you took over." Molly scowled, "A girl at school keeps taking down all my posters for class president."

"She also happens to be related to Elizabeth." Kristina added as Sam jumped down with a black duffle bag in hand and set it on the table.

"Is this the backup bag?" Maxie asked as she dug through the duffle.

"Yes. I even have all the keys." Sam smiled as she pulled out a lock box and handed it to Maxie.

"All the keys? I really don't like the sound of that." Robin frowned as she watched the blonde unlock the box, to show a bunch of keys, all with colored key chains and labeled.

"Why do you have a key to my car?" Kristina asked.

"You never know when you are going to need a different car; it makes the chances for a better getaway." Maxie advised.

"You have keys to a bunch of places in town." Robin remarked as she pulled out more keys.

"I also have the keys to the school." She beamed, "I make a copy from the ones that Sam borrowed from the janitor for her senior prank."

"Honestly, it sometimes scares me how you think. You could be the leader of a cult or something if you actually put effort in."

"That would be too much work; I think I would rather be in a cult, then a leader." Maxie smiled, "We need to get dressed and get this show on the road."

"I am going to sit this one out." Robin volunteered as she took a seat back at the table, "You know baby on board and all that."

"Really, this could be your last adventure for a while." Maxie prodded, "Some mothers give birth right in the middle of a field and keep on working."

"I am sorry that I don't want to have my baby in a high school."

"You're not that close to your due date." Sam added.

"Really? You are on board with this plan."

"I want my sister to win this campaign and you being there would turn the crazy down a little. I mean the last time we made a plan without you, we ended up in jail." Sam reasoned as she began to change into her black outfit.

"I need to work on telling people no." Robin sighed as she grabbed the clothes that Kristina handed to her.

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"We are breaking into a school. So, the question I am going to ask is why we are playing music." Robin whispered in a hushed voice as Somethin' Bad by Miranda Lambert blared from Maxie's phone.

"It's our theme song and no one is every here. The cameras are not even hooked up to anything." Maxie dismissed as she met Sam, Kristina and Molly by the front doors, "If they were I would have been suspended a million of times."

"What is our plan of attack here?" Sam asked as she set down the large box filled with I-Pads down on the floor.

"You and Kristina are going to put all the I-Pads in the lockers of all the people that we know voted for Molly." Maxie directed, "Make sure to add the notes so they know who they are from." The blonde added as she handed Kristina a bunch of sticky notes that already had notes written on them.

"Why are we stuffing I-Pads into lockers?"

"We are bribing the student body to vote for our sister, they will not get the codes to unlock the IPads until they prove they voted for Molly."

"This is a student body election." Robin pointed out as she crossed her arms, "They are also voting tomorrow."

"One that our sister is going to win. There is nothing in the rules that say giving gifts is wrong."

"I think the word you are looking for is bribe."

"Why did you even come if you are going to be a stick in the mud?" Maxie demanded as she stomped her foot.

"You are right I am just going to leave." Robin agreed as she move towards the double doors. Maxie quickly darted after her sister and gently pulled Robin from the door and blocked her from being able to open it.

"I am sorry, I can't let you leave because you've seen too much and I can't risk you ratting us out." Maxie warned as she locked the doors and ran into the nearby restroom and was soon followed by a flushing sound before Maxie reappeared with a triumphant smile, "Let's see you leave now, we are locked in."

"Another plan that you did not think through." Robin muttered as she watched Maxie make her way towards the front office, "We are breaking so many laws right now." Robin sighed in defeat as she followed Maxie.

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Twenty minutes later Robin walked out of the main office with a frown on her face, "I don't see why we had to fill out a bunch of ballots with Molly's name on them." The oldest to the two shook her head as she sat on the bench the rested across from the door, "The whole plan was to bribe the student body with I-Pods."

"Have you learned nothing from our family? We always need a backup plan because we can't control every variable and need to be ready for anything." Maxie answered as she sat down next to Robin.

"You do scare me sometimes." Robin muttered as she watched Sam and the two youngest sisters walked down the hallway, "Now that all this is done, can we please go home?" She begged as she looked at Sam in hope that she would be the more reasonable one.

"Our plan is done and I say we celebrate with Kelly's." Kristina agreed as she walked past the bench and towards the main door. She went to pull the door open, only for her arm to jerk and for the door to not budge, "Who has the keys?" She questioned as she turned to Maxie.

"I think a better question is where are the keys?"

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"It means that Maxie overreacted like she always does and she flushed the keys down the toilet because I told her that I wanted to leave." Robin explained with a laugh, "I also think that is the reason that it looks like a river is coming out of the girl's bathroom."

"What?" Maxie yelled as she jumped from the bed and rushed to the bathroom door, where there was a puddle of what forming. She pushed the door open to see that the whole floor was covered with water and more was coming from the toilet, "Well this is not going to end well."

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"I am still waiting to hear what plausible excuse you have for not just trespassing, but also for breaking and entering." Alexis insisted as she started down each of her daughters.

"Again it's not breaking and entering if you have a key." Maxie interrupted.

"MAXIE!"

"Molly needed to put her finishing touching on a project that was due today and she needed notes that were in her locker. This project is work half of her grade for this semester and couldn't use any sources expect from the information that was used in class. This information was on notes that Molly had so generously leant to a friend that was absent from class that day. Molly texted her friend for the notes back and her friend had slipped them into Molly's locker and that is why we had to break into the school." Maxie rambled in one long breath.

"The school has no intentions to press charges because I know how well; you are at your job Alexis." Felicia replied in a calm tone in an attempt to redirect the conversation, "To be frank, it's almost summer. Which means that I only have three months left before my school is a Scorpio free zone and as long as Molly keeps out of trouble, we can look the other way on this issue." The principal added with a thin smile.

"Thank you." Alexis sighed as she turned her attention to her daughters, "We're going to get out of your fair and I have to have a conversation about thinking for yourself with my daughters." The lawyer added as she stood up and waved for the five to follow her out of the room.

"You better win because if I have to hear another two hour lecture from our Mother, I know that I am going to kill someone." Kristina kissed to her younger sister as they slowly followed Alexis out of the office.