A/N. 1: I want to start off by saying I absolutely love the movie Despicable Me. It is by far the best cartoon movie I have watched in years, and to me it beats Toy Story 3 out by a long shot. I can't wait for the sequel... Anyway I decided to start my own series of One Shots based on DM, and they will be random topics like an everyday look into the lives of Gru and the girls. I don't own anything involving Despicable Me.
Sorry for such a long author's note...
*Satourdays...*
Gritting his teeth he mentally willed the girls to be back in bed sound asleep, but that wasn't going to happen.
Morning tended to come faster and faster everyday. And to Gru, it was like blinking. Just as the sun reached it's peak, he could hear little feet pounding in the carpet as they made their journey to his room. Groaning and wiping the sleep from his eyes, he glanced at the clock.
6:00 am, on a Saturday.
He sighed and closed his eyes, deciding to pretend to still be asleep. He suppressed a smile as the three girls poured into the bedroom. The three stopped at the bedside and stared at him as he let out a long exaggerated snore. Edith smirked, a plan forming along with a smile.
"Watch this." She leaned closer towards Gru and poked the side of his nose. Margo, while against messing with people while they were asleep couldn't help but giggle. Gru cracked open his eye enough to where he could see them without them seeing him and smiled faintly. Agnes walked around to the other side of the bed and silently climbed up the side, unbeknown-st to Gru and landed right on top of him, knocking the wind right out of him.
'Oof!' Oh well.
"Good morning daddy! Wanna come watch morning cartoons with us?" She smiled as Gru sat up looking somewhat dazed.
"Good mourning Agnes, gurls." He wheezed nodding in Margo's and Edith's direction as he pulled Agnes into his lap.
"Sorry about that Dad! Agnes! What have I told you about jumping on people?" Margo scolded, but Gru couldn't help but smile at the way Agnes stuck her tongue out.
"It's alright, but I would like to be warned beefore I get pounced on again, alrigh'? And I don't appreciate someone poking my nose, no matter how tempting it seems." He smirked mischievously at Edith making her eyes widen at being caught. She blushed and looked down at her feet taking sudden interest in the floor. 'I could have sworn he was asleep...'
Margo stifled a giggle before quickly snapping back to her serious demeanor at a flash of Gru's eyes in her direction.
"Come on gurls, I weel come downstairs and make breakfast while you three watch your cartoons." Climbing out of bed he sat Agnes on his shoulder, not bothering to think about clothes. It was a Saturday, a day when the girls got to stay home, a day when he didn't have to work on something in the lab. He'd stay in his pajamas all day if he wanted to, and the girls didn't have to change either.
Edith and Margo were out the door before Gru got to his feet good and he quickly caught up with them.
Setting Agnes on the couch, he stretched feeling his back crack from Agnes' earlier attempt at being an alarm clock, none to pleasantly. Wincing he stood straight and looked down at the three girls.
"What do you gurls want for breakfast, anything at all." Gru smiled to himself at the possibilities these girls would likely come up with and sure enough...
"Can we have ice cream?" Edith asked balling her fists in excitement, making Agnes nod in agreement. Margo smiled before scowling at the fact they were still in bed wear.
"Um, don't we need to change? Dad, you're still in your pajamas." She looked over the rims of her glasses at Gru, a look she used when something was out of place.
"Nonsense, it's a satourday. I'm staying in my PJ's and you keetins can as well." He shrugged.
"Cool!" Edith said jumping around on the couch with Agnes in some sort of dance. Gru grinned and rolled his eyes at how cheerful and energetic these girls were. He grabbed the remote after a few minutes of pressing different buttons the enormous TV came on with the themes of cartoons playing.
"Now, seet here till I get breakfast rheady. No running and jumping, or I just might rethink dis ice cream thing." He placed his hands on his hips and the three girls exchanged looks, knowing their father meant business. They had been living there only a month, and Gru had his fair share of ups and downs in parenting the girls.
They could have their freedom, but he was after all their parent and lines were meant to be drawn, he just had to learn how, and everyday for him was an equal learning process. Margo was a very respectable young girl, and Gru took note of that every single day. She had practically raised Edith and Agnes during the beginning of their lives in Miss Hatties Home for Girls, and had developed a 'parenting intuition' for them of her own. She was still wary of him at times, but she had learned that he was there to care for her now and her sisters, and that he was someone who loved her.
Having settled his rambunctious daughters, he walked off in the direction of the kitchen nearly tripping over Kyle who had been snoozing in a sunbeam, almost like that of a cat. The furry creature looked up and growled, snapping his jaw in anger at being awakened.
"Get over it fourball, if I have to get up, you do as well." Gru said sliding the angered animal out of the way with his foot.
Whistling to himself he searched the cabinets for pancake mix. Of course the girls were not just going to eat ice cream, and ice cream with his specialty 'dead guy' pancakes didn't sound half bad.
After half an hour of flipping pancakes he set the warm plate on the table while the girls fought over the seats at the table. Apparently the best seat was the one who sat closest to Gru. He was honored to say the least, but he didn't like his little kittens fighting at all. Agnes, tired of the fight decided to end it right where it was by clutching her unicorn tight and plopping right where the targeted seating was.
She stuck her tongue out at Edith who glared at the little girl from underneath her hat. Gru walked over and patted Edith on the shoulder.
"I didn't know that eet was such a privilege to seet by me, but eet's nothing to be fighting over, keetins." He said somewhere between sounding stern and on the verge of laughing. He knelt down looking the blond in the eyes. She turned her gaze away from him realizing how silly a thing it was they were fighting over in the first place. Smiling to himself he quickly came up with an idea that would settle it all. He lifted her chin making her look at him.
"Tell you what Edith, how about I seet in the meedle and two seet on one side and one of you seet on the other? That way, we'll all be seeting together." He pulled her beanie back so it wasn't covering her eyes as much.
She smiled and hugged Gru around his neck catching him somewhat by surprise, nearly knocking him back. He stood up and picked her up helping her to the table. He fixed Edith 'dagger' style pancakes with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side, Margo had 'flower' style pancakes and a scoop of ice cream, while Agnes had 'unicorn' style pancakes. Sitting in the middle as promised, Gru helped Agnes pour syrup on her favorite pancakes.
"So Dad, since when did you want to start taking off Saturdays. You usually work the hardest during the weekend, that's why I didn't exactly want Edith and Agnes in your room this morning." Margo asked picking at her pancakes. Gru swallowed and searched his brain for an easy answer.
"Things have been kind of slow, and I just thought it would be nice if I just spent the whole day with you gurls seeing as de weekends are when you all are here without something to do. All douring the week there's de dance class and school..." He stopped knowing the girls were fully aware of their own weekly activities. They were always doing something and Gru was just recently beginning to notice that. If he wasn't busy the girls were. And when they weren't they hardly ever asked for him to play with them anymore, even little Agnes didn't ask him. He didn't think it would, but it hurt him deeply. He cleared his throat and looked down at the three.
"Ees dere anything special you gurls would like to do today?" He asked before stuffing another pancake into his mouth.
Edith and Margo exchanged looks before looking up at him, probably wondering where this had come from all of a sudden. Agnes looked up at him excitedly, "What about Super Silly Fun Land!" Gru visibly winced now wishing he'd thought of a better way of asking. Margo and Edith looked at each other again.
"Uh, are you sure there isn't somewhere else you'd like to go?" Gru glanced at the two oldest desperately hoping for them to come up with a better answer. Margo noticed this and shrugged and watched his face fall. He frowned momentarily and Margo realized he actually wanted her to deter Agnes' innocent yet annoying suggestion. Her eyes widened and she mouthed a silent 'sorry'. He covered his eyes and slumped back in the booth seat.
"Yeah, let's go there. You could blow up some more games!" Edith made her fingers in the shape of a gun. He glared at Edith through his fingers and sighed. "No, I can't do dat again. I don't even know if we're allowed back there after..." He stopped as Agnes looked back up at him with big pleading brown eyes.
"I'm serious, don't look at me like dat!" He looked away crossing his arms trying to ignore Agnes' 'secret' weapon. He kept his eyes away for as long as he could before caving and looking back at his youngest daughter. His shoulders slumped in defeat as he realized she was going to win this one.
"Fine, Super Silly fun Land it is."
As they drove to the both desired and despised destination the girls clamored excitedly in the back making Gru groan occasionally in frustration. "Were almost dere gurls, and I would appreciate if the next few minutes were in minimum silence. I'm probably going to have de worst headache after dis." Gru whispered the last part and tightened his grip on the steering wheel. He relaxed somewhat as the girls quieted and the humming of the motor could be heard. He would have never stepped foot at the vile abomination known as 'Super Silly Fun Land' had it not been for the girls in the first place. He found himself shuddering at his intentions their first trip there, but as usual, Agnes' and her ability to make a grown man go 'aww!' won out and he found that he actually cared for them.
She had him wrapped around her finger as did the other two, and he would do anything for them. As they neared closer to the theme park Gru could hear the roaring of the coasters and screaming people. He desperately wished to turn around but he had to remind himself of the real reason he was doing this. He was here to spend time with his daughters.
They entered the park and Gru looked around cautiously. He wanted to keep a low profile so they could have fun and not be apprehended by security. He felt around in his jacket pocket for the 'Freeze Ray' only to feel nothing. His eyes widened as he looked to where his daughters had run off to. He prayed they wouldn't mention anything about explosions to the venders as that had been the talk of the town for almost four months. He would have needed the Freeze Ray had such a thing happened.
Luckily all went without incident.
Edith had won lots of stuffed animals without any help from ray guns, and they had yet to see a game with a unicorn as the highest prize. Gru smirked to himself knowing full well the reason for that. Somehow Gru had been talked into getting back on the roller coaster he nearly got sick from before, by none other than Agnes and resented it the moment he got off, again. Needless to say he was most definitely having fun, and his daughters were too; having fun wasn't something he'd had in a long time.
When they'd arrived home it was nearly dark, and Gru had a armload of stuffed animals and cotton candy. The girls ran in ahead of him and he leaned up against the door and sighed. He was pretty sure he looked like crap as he walked towards the living room and collapsed tiredly on the couch with the miscellaneous colorful objects still in his arms. He didn't happen to notice Kyle resting on the other side of the couch and jumped as the ball of fur growled at him. He rolled his eyes and shot the 'animal' a look of 'don't mess with me' before closing his eyes. Kyle seemed to take the hint and curled back up into a ball.
Agnes ran into the room quietly and climbed up on the couch noticing her dad had his eyes closed. "Daddy, are you awake?" She pulled on his sleeve making him crack open an eye. "Yes Agnes, what's the matter?" He closed his eyes again before he felt something collide with his chest knocking all of the toys from his arms and the wind out of him again.
"Thank you daddy, we had lots of fun with you today. Let's do that more." He looked down at Agnes who was now hugging him. He blinked before he realized what he had set out to do was fulfilled. He embraced her tightly closing his teary eyes as the other two ran into the room.
"Yeah dad, that was the most fun we have had in like, years!" Edith hugged one side of his neck and Margo the other and before his knew it he had an armful of little girls. He smiled warmly and held them like that wondering how he ever managed his life without love like this.
"I'm so glad dat my gurls had fun. I'll try not to be so busy because I want you gurls to know that you are loved here and dat even if eet seems like I don't want anything to do with you, that isn't true. I don't want you three to think dat I'm too busy to play with you, because I will make time." He squeezed them tighter.
"Uh Dad, OK I don't think Edith can breathe." Margo murmured into the fabric of his shirt. Gru opened his eyes and quickly loosened his grip. Edith pulled back and sat beside him smiling.
"I wish I could hug that tight!" She laughed making Gru smile."Maybe one day my leetle keetin."
He embraced them once more knowing that Saturdays were going to be the best from now on.
A/N: Feel free to leave a review with a suggestion for a title and a theme for other chapters. I would really appreciate it. ;)