Chapter 54

• Beth shot her a serious look, but it was ignored as Sarah and Danni, both still laughing, stood and began to circle around her. They all pounced on her at once, dragging her to the floor and turned their tickle attack on her. Beth's raucous laughter bounced and reverberated off the walls, and she snorted each time she tried to inhale, drawing great peals of laughter from the four of her siblings scattered throughout the room.
• "Mike, help!" she managed to gasp through her laughter.
• Smiling, Mike stood and ran over to Beth. Leaning down he grabbed Emma by the waist and Sarah by the arm. He easily tossed Emma up and over his shoulder and wrapped an arm around Sarah who was pounding on his arm trying to free herself. Lifting her over his other shoulder he stood and steadied himself, the two girls laughing and giggling inside each of their screams of, "No, put me down," over and over.