Please review!
Elliot walked into his house and froze when he saw his wife and kids. Olivia was yelling as their three young kids were banging the table with their silverware. "I will take away your dessert!" She yelled.
"No!" Their six year old twin boys, Joey and Eric, screamed. Their two year old daughter just covered her ears and screamed at the top of her lungs, sounding like a fire truck siren.
"Layla, stop that please!" Olivia said before picking up her daughter and calming her down enough to stop the screaming. She saw Elliot standing in the doorway. "Help me!" Elliot turned to go back outside. "Elliot!" She snapped.
Elliot turned back in and closed the door. "Fine!" He groaned before putting his stuff down and taking off his jacket. The boys were still banging their spoons and forks against the table. "Boys, that's enough!" They continued to do what they wanted. "Guys, I'm serious! Stop that right now." They just grinned at him. "That's it! HALLOWEEN IS CANCELLED!"
The boys froze as they stared up at their father. "What?" Eric asked with raised eyebrows.
"El-" Olivia started, but stopped when he shouted.
"You told me to do something. They didn't listen! So, they don't get Halloween!" Elliot crossed his arms over his chest. He didn't see Joey pick up a handful of spaghetti and throw it at him. The sauce splattered on his face and dress shirt. Olivia pressed her lips in a firm line to keep from giggling. The kids chuckled as Elliot slowly let the spaghetti drop from his face onto the table. "Thanksgiving isn't coming either! Don't let me get to Santa."
The boys hurried out of the room and stumbled up the stairs. Olivia handed Elliot a toweling to wipe off his face. "Welcome home. Are you sure there's nobody that will buy the twins?"
Elliot shrugged. "There probably is, but we'd probably miss the boys in five to ten years." Olivia nodded in agreement. He looked at Layla and smiled at her, making her grin at him. She reached for him and wrapped her arms around his neck when Olivia let her go. "Why didn't we just have her first and then stop."
"I wasn't in control of that department. That was yours." Olivia smiled lightly before kissing him softly. "How was work?"
"I beat my record of how many marshmallows I could fit inside my mouth before selling the house I had an open house for." Elliot smirked slowly swaying from side to side.
Olivia chuckled. "Nice to hear you had a productive day. That's like your fifth house this month."
Elliot nodded. "I know. My boss said that I am up for the new position in the firm. I'd be making almost double what I am right now and I'd have a bigger client list. Liv, this could help me start my own firm."
"That's great, baby!" Olivia grinned before Cragen and Sonya, Elliot's parents, walked in. "It was great."
"Elliot, didn't Olivia do the laundry?" Sonya asked looking at Elliot's spaghetti sauce. Olivia glared at Sonya before picking up a basket of laundry from the floor and placing it on one of the few clean spots on the table. "Seriously, Olivia, my son cannot go to work dressed like this."
Olivia groaned. "He doesn't, Sonya! The boys threw spaghetti at him when he took away Halloween!" She said pointing at Elliot.
Cragen grinned. "More candy for grandpa!" He headed for the living room to find whatever game he could find on the TV. They all stared after him before returning back to the topic at hand.
"Why did you take away their Halloween?" Sonya asked Elliot, glancing between him and Olivia.
"I came home and the kids were screaming about something. I'm guessing it has something to do with the dentist appointments they have tomorrow." Elliot shrugged before kissing Layla's head. He set her down and patted her butt before she walked into the living room to play with her toys. Taking off his shirt, Olivia threw him a clean t-shirt from the laundry basket.
"Dentist? The boys love going to the dentist!" Sonya stated confused as to why they would be screaming about it.
Olivia pulled her hair up into a ponytail. "The dentist we took them to before sold his practice and moved down to Florida. The new one doesn't have any toys for them to play with while their teeth are being cleaned." She pointed at Elliot. "Also, the boys have math homework tonight. You can either help them or bathe Layla."
Elliot pointed upstairs. "I'll help the boys tonight." He picked up Eric's plate of spaghetti and started eating it. "It's first grade math; how hard could that be?"
"Your father always had trouble helping you boys with your homework." Sonya sighed shaking her head.
"Yeah, but that's Dad. He still thinks negative numbers were invented by the Chinese to trick us." Elliot said furrowing his eyebrows. He saw the look Olivia gave and and shrugged. "I didn't volunteer to be his son."
Olivia rolled her eyes as she started clearing off the table, wiping off the food splattered on the table as she went along. "Elliot is a little more resourceful than Don, Sonya. Besides, I thought you said Don never helped the boys with their homework."
"He tried in the beginning, but once he told them they would never need reading in the real world, I knew I had step in." Sonya said nodding her head before looking in on her husband, stomping towards him when she saw him lounging in the chair. "Don, get your hand out of your pants!"
"That's probably why I know the plot to Little Women better than I know the details of our wedding day." Elliot mumbled before helping his wife clear off the table.
Olivia chuckled softly before leaning against the table, looking up at Elliot with a smirk. "Have you noticed that they are dropping by five to six times a day now?" She saw Elliot grimace before adding sarcasm to her tone. "Charming, isn't it?"
Elliot sighed before putting the last of the dishes in the sink. "You know they come to see the kids, babe." He smiled at the jaw drop she gave him. "Okay, they come by a lot. I know! But, what am I going to tell them? They live right across the street. I can't just tell them that they need to save gas or anything. It's the only exercise my father gets."
"That and catching Cheetos with his mouth." Olivia said looking in on the bickering grandparents. Layla walked in with her blanket, rubbing her eyes with her fists. "Hey sweetie, are you tired?"
Layla nodded her head. "Loud!" She said pointing towards the living room.
"I agree with you." Olivia nodded before lifting up her daughter, situating her on her hip. "Get rid of them so we can focus on our kids. The boys really need help with their homework. If you get rid of them, you just might get me tonight."
Elliot's eyes widened before he sprinted into the living room. "Okay, Mom. Dad, I think it's time that you guys head home. We really need to help the kids. I just got home. Why don't you two go home and... have fun?"
Don furrowed his eyebrows. "What's fun about going home with her?" He asked pointing at Sonya. "I already have to sleep with her. Now, you want me to have fun with her? What do you want from me?"
"Dad!" Elliot groaned before opening the front door, revealing his older brother, David, standing at the door. "Oh no!" He groaned. "There's got to be a way to change the locks on this house without you guys knowing. David, I was just sending Mom and Dad over."
"It's fine!" David said, strutting into the house with a frown on his face. "They're proud of you and want the best for you. Yadda yadda! Never ends for you Elliot. It must be such a burden."
Elliot nodded his head. "It is when you are trying to get to bed faster!" He grumbled before grabbing the remote from his father, turning off the TV. "C'mon, you guys seriously need to go home. Olivia and I have had a long day. We will talk to you tomorrow."
Don stood up as David and Sonya filed out the front door. "Turning off football like that... I didn't raise you like that!" He shouted before storming out of the house.
"Yeah, you raised me to put my hands down my pants and belch in front of company. Good parenting skills, Dad." Elliot called before closing and locking the doors. He turned off the lights before heading upstairs to his boys' room."
Please review! Hope you guys like this!