Vinny smiled as she gathered the things she needed. The talking brick, it still freaked her when she heard her boys' voices coming from it. Ah, her boys, I was their tenth birthday today. She rarely saw them, perhaps once a month. She knew her location was a difficult for them, so she had moved to a small house by the edge of the forest, and had modernised her lifestyle for them. She even had a steady job. She grabbed the three gifts she had for them.
She had gotten Alvin a game console, he was going to buy it himself, but he'd used the money to buy Simon a new pair of glasses. She'd bought Simon a new box thing with a glass pane at the front, and for Theodore she'd bought a machine that made long, stringy food from a place called Italy.
She wanted to see them more, and to prove to Dave that she was a parent who could provide for her children. She was going to give Dave fifty pieces of that odd cabbage that humans used to get things. She didn't know why, it was useless, it just was seemed to like the cabbage a lot.
She was about to leave when the brick vibrated. She picked it up and heard Dave's voice
"Oh hello Dave, I'm just about to pop round to see the boys. I've got their presents right here." Dave hesitated before he spoke in a broken voice.
"Vinny, don't come to the house, we're at the hospital." Vinny face fell.
"What happened?!" she cried.
"I went to the store for half an hour, I always do, someone broke in, a-and the boys have been in an accident. A serious accident." Vinny dropped the brick, which shattered on the floor and screamed.
Why wasn't Dave with them? Why wasn't she with them?