Francis' jaw dropped at the sight before him. His poor, poor kitchen. She didn't deserve such a fate. Maple syrup, Vegemite, Fish, Honey, Whipped Cream, Ice cream, Soy Sauce, Questionable Substance, Tomato Sauce, and many other strange things covered the walls.
"Alfred!" The Frenchman called out.
Alfred came running into the room followed by Steve, both covered in the same mess as the walls. It looked as though they'd covered themselves in it then rolled around the kitchen, or maybe it was the other way around?
"Boys," Francis said sternly.
"Yeeeesss" They both drew out their yes, knowing they were in trouble.
"What did you do?"
"I don't know. What did we do Steve?" Alfred lied trying to act innocent.
"Hmm, I dunno either" Steve rubbed his chin pretending to think.
"Why is the kitchen covered in," Francis paused turning to look at the kitchen "Questionable Substances?"
"What does substamancis mean, papa?" The 7 year old asked, trying to pick out the bits of toast from his hair.
"Substances, Alfred."
Just then a high pitched squeal came from the direction of the bathroom and Matthew called out to Alfred and the three of them ran to the bathroom.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Matthew repeated holding down a struggling Peter, attempting to wash shampoo from his little brother's eyes.
"What is going on here?" Francis asked from the doorway.
"Ah, papa you're home!" Matthew exclaimed turning around. "Well I was trying to clean up Angelique and Peter but I accidently got shampoo in Peter's eye and now he won't stop crying and I don't know what to do and we blew up the toaster and you're home and we haven't cleaned the kitchen and Steve and Alfred aren't helping and Angel won't stop splashing and-" Francis cut Matthew from his quick rambling
"Wait, what?"
"Well we were hungry and-"
"Non, non ma petit. What did you say about the toaster?"
"We blew it-" and once again Matthew was cut off but this time by both Steve and Alfred tackling him and covering up his mouth. Francis ran out of the room and back into his 'looks like a food bombs hit it' kitchen. He looked around quickly searching for the toaster, when he heard some clinking in the corner. He found Jing in the corner tinkering with the toaster. At this point Francis had just given up on his precious kitchen for the moment and went back into the bathroom, where he found a sobbing Matthew and Peter and Angelique having a splashing war. Alfred and Steve were nowhere to be seen, and come to think of it he hadn't seen Chris or Xuân yet either…
Two hours later all of the children were clean, the kitchen was back to its usual state, and after much debate with Jing he had also been able to fix the toaster. Chris had turned out to be rolling around outside covered in grass, while Xuân was looking for something to cut off her hair with because apparently she'd decided that it would just be easier to cut off her hair rather than attempt to wash out all the cream, soy sauce and fish. Thankfully he was able to save her beautiful hair.
Now all he wanted to do was pass out on the couch. And that is exactly what he did.
Later that night he and Arthur had a fight about how Francis never does anything.
La la la la laaaaaaaa~~
Steve = Australia
Chris = New Zealand
Jing = Hong Kong
Xuan = Vietnam
Angelique = Seychelles
Steve named after Steve Irwin
Chris named after... I googled New Zealand important people or something and saw the name Chris XDD And it's a unisex name! But he's stil a guy!
Jing... I googled Chinese boy names
same with Xuan
And I always call Angelique Angelique.
