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Mischief

"Here, let me help." Nick said as he grabbed a couple bags of groceries from Jackie.

"Thanks hon." Jackie said.

After all the groceries had been put away Jackie checked on the kids who were all busily coloring at the kitchen table and then grabbed Nick's hand.

"Come here, I have a confession to make." She told him sheepishly as she led him outside and over to her van. There was a small yellow scratch on it.

"You ok?" He asked.

"Yeah I'm fine." She replied.

"What did ya hit?" He asked.

"You know those big yellow poles in the parking lot at the grocery store?"

"Yeah."

"I scraped that." She confessed.

"How'd you manage?" He asked as he tried not to grin.

"Don't ask." She mumbled.

"What'd you do?" He asked anyway.

"There was a spider in the car and I freaked out and I jerked the wheel, and the van scraped the pole." She said sheepishly.

He burst out laughing, that story sounded so absurd but also so Jackie and he believed her 100%.

"Oh shut up." She said as she gently smacked his arm.

"Oh honey I love you." He told her.

"No you don't." She argued. "Yes I do." He insisted.

"Do I have to remind you that you recently scraped the van with Houston's wagon?" She asked with a grin of her own.

Nick laughed again.

"I forgot about that." He confessed.

About two weeks prior he was pulling Houston around in his toy wagon and he was looking at Houston instead of where he was going and he hit the van with the side of wagon, luckily Houston was fine but the van had a shiny new scratch in it. The couple didn't care though, all they cared about was whether Houston was alright and he was, in fact the child found the incident quite funny.

"We better go back in the house, who knows what the kids are getting into." Jackie told him.

When Nick and Jackie walked back into the house and into the kitchen they were in for a surprise.

"Guys those were for after dinner." Jackie scolded all five of the kids who sat at the kitchen table, they had managed to get the container of donut holes that Jackie had just bought, they had gotten them open and were now helping themselves to the donuts.

"How'd you get those open?" Jackie asked.

"Me cut them with scissors." Jasmine replied.

Jackie's eyes got wide.

"Jasmine never do that when mommy or daddy isn't watching you, that is dangerous, you could get a really big owie."

"Me can do it mommy, me a big girl, me in school." Jasmine argued.

"I know you are a big girl but it is still dangerous, and another thing, I don't like you guys eating anything when someone isn't watching you, you could choke." Jackie told all of them.

"We no choke mama, and dem yummy." Houston said.

Jackie looked over at Nick and to her amazement he reached over and grabbed a donut hole, grinned at her and popped it in his mouth.

Oh what the hell Jackie thought to herself as she herself reached over and took a donut hole.

She then noticed the big girl had completely destroyed the container with the scissors so she went and grabbed a baggie and put the remaining donut holes in it.

Later that night after the kids had been put to bed Nick and Jackie crawled into bed themselves.

"Can you believe the kids, those little stinkers, they were out of our sight for less than two minutes and look at the mischief they get in to." She said.

Nick laughed

"Yeah they are something else." He agreed.

Things were never boring at the Stokes house, that is for sure.

The End!