Author's Note: This story here was originally suppose to be released last year to pay dedication to my nephew turning 2-years-old on 10/10/15, but as you can see, it got pushed back another year because my hectic school schedule at this time last year made it nearly impossible for me to find time to sit down and write and release this story. Now, he's 3-years-old as of 10/10/16, but again, due to everything going on, and taking forever to get my last multi-chapter story released, that being, Bedtime Banishment, once again, this story got delayed again. Well say no more! I don't care what the world tries to do, I'm not stopping at anything now to finally getting this story released, no matter what I have to do! Of course, I originally wrote this roughly twenty days ago, but seems between not feeling well on top of a case of writer's block, people I've known for ten years taking forever to answer me back on Twitter with regards to an audio post I put up, only to make me feel even more miserable in the end, making it nearly impossible for me to stay focused on writing anything for that matter, and then, my cruddy family and their cruddy problems, seems whenever I've tried to sit down and work on this story, it's like the world doesn't want me to release it by the way everybody left and right has been treating me and standing in my way. I mean, g willickers! Honestly, it's a bunch of bologna, and I wish everybody who didn't have anything nice to say would just, leave me alone and let me do my favorite activities in peace. Anyway, that's where I'm going to end the rant, but still, it's just, really annoying, and I wish it would stop already! You'd think not being in school anymore would give me all of the time in the world to do nothing but write Fan Fiction, but as you can see, that sadly, isn't true, and I'm terribly sorry about that. Anyway, this is also the last story I have scheduled for release at this time, where much of it is inspired by my nephew, and or things I've observed and witnessed when spending time with my nephew, as all other stories listed on my profile at this time are either based off of life experiences for me only, various Rugrats episodes, or episodes of other TV shows I've come to enjoy, like Fuller House, or heck, even if it was thanks to my nephew introducing me to them, like Curious George for example, or they're ideas thought up by other Fan Fiction users who gave them to me, or they came up while having conversations with other Fan Fiction users and authors over time. So until time spent with my nephew inspires anything new, enjoy what will be the last and final story at this time, that is way overdue for release.
Zack's Birthday Surprise
Summary: It's Zack's first birthday, and a surprise party is being planned for him, but when Kimi spoils the surprise, can she find something special to make it up to him? Meanwhile, Zack attends Golden Apple Daycare for the very first time, and Dil has his first dentist appointment with Dr. Homer, much to Tommy's dismay.
Disclaimer: I do not own the original Rugrats characters, they're the property of their original creaters. I do own Zack Wehrenberg and his Aunty Celeste, as well as Bookworm and Logan, though the name of Logan was thought up by Boris Yeltsin. Also, not sure if they'll appear, but just to cover myself, the OC of Peter belongs to TCKing12, Jesse belongs to Jesse Barrow Stories DEAD, and the OC's of Kai and Kya belong to Vinzgirl.
Chapter 1, Spoiling the Surprise
It was a bright, sunny afternoon in Yucaipa, California. The bulk of the gang was outside in Tommy and Dil's backyard, mostly the kids and their mom's, or in Zack's case, his aunt, as Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Kimi all sat in the grass, putting together a huge puzzle with various shapes on it, playing quietly, while Betty, Didi, Kira, and Celeste sat off to the side at the picnic table, discussing Zack's upcoming first birthday party. Zack and Dil were still inside, taking their naps on blankets and pillows laid out on the floor of the playpen, as the other toddlers had awakened shortly before they were ready to, and all of the fathers were either off at work, or in Stu's case, he had headed off to Home Depot to pick up some more materials for future inventions he hoped to build. Jesse Barrow was sadly home with the Chickenpox, and wouldn't be able to make it to Zack's birthday party the following day, but little did everybody know that Jesse's absence, would be the least of their worries.
"So, how goes getting things ready for Zack's big birthday party tomorrow?" Betty asked Celeste, who was sipping on an Arnold Palmer, while Betty was sipping on an ice coffee, and everybody else at the picnic table had glasses of ice tea in front of them.
"It's going great! I spoke with Peter earlier, and while he's not usually one for dressing up in funny costumes except at Halloween, he's agreed to dress up as Super Why for Zack's party tomorrow. Gosh! Zack is going to be so surprised!" Celeste cried.
Tommy overheard the entire conversation between the adults, as a minute later, he noticed his mommy and Celeste get up from the picnic table to go wake up Dil and Zack from their naps in the living room, and decided to take this quick opportunity to turn to his friends, remembering that Zack's first birthday wasn't too far away. And while they hadn't known him in their little circle of friends for very long at this point, they wanted to help make his first birthday very special.
"Did you hear that you guys? Zack's firstest birpday is tomorrow!" Tommy said.
"I know! Me and Lillian are going to the Reptar store tomorrow morning to pick out a present for him, mommy toldid us on the way over to play earlier." Phil said.
"No she didn't, Phillip." Lil argued.
"Yes she did, Lillian." Phil argued back.
"No she didn't." Lil argued.
"Yes she did." Phil argued.
"Didn't!" Lil screamed.
"Did!" Phil screamed back, just as Kimi interrupted them.
"You guys, what do you think of Peter dressing up as Zack's favoritest stuper hero, Super Why. He's gonna be so happy!" Kimi cried.
"Yeah, but I think the growed ups want it to be a surprise, so whatever we do, we can't say nothing to him about Super Why, whoever that is. Got it?" Tommy said to the others.
"Got it." Chuckie, Kimi, Phil and Lil all said in unison, before everybody returned to building their puzzle in the grass, trying to not look too obvious when Celeste and Didi returned to the yard with Dil and Zack.
Luckily upon waking them up from their naps, both boys needed diaper changes, giving the toddlers outside more time to hold their conversation before the birthday boy himself came out there. Little did they know that one of the toddlers would find keeping a secret easier said than done. A few minutes later, Celeste and Didi returned to the yard with Zack and Dil, and placed them down in the grass, where they crawled over to the other toddlers, playing with their giant shapes puzzle.
"Hi Tommy." Dil cried, sitting in the grass next to his big brother, who looked up from the puzzle to stare over in his direction.
"Hi Dilly, have a nice nappy?" Tommy asked.
"Uh huh." Dil replied.
Zack looked around and saw there were still several more pieces of the puzzle needing to be put together.
"I see you guys are still working on that puzzle. I toldid you it was a pretty big puzzle." Zack commented.
"Yeah, it is, lots of pieces to share with us." Chuckie said.
"It was nice of your grandma and grandpa on your mommy's side of the family to send this puzzle to you as an early birpday present." Lil commented.
"Thanks Lil, I thought so too." Zack replied, picking up a yellow triangle shaped piece in the grass and placing it into the dark purple board with the other yellow, blue, and red shape pieces.
"I bet you can't wait til tomorrow when it's your real birpday." Phil said.
"Nope, I sure can't." Zack said.
"Yeah! Cuz tomorrow, Super Why is coming to your party!" Kimi cried.
Just then, she realized what she said, covering her mouth, her face red with embarrassment.
"Ooops." Kimi cried behind her hand.
"Super Why is coming to my party? Oh boy! This is the bestest surprise ever!" Zack cried.
But as Kimi looked around the circle of toddlers in the grass, she saw that Zack was the only one with a smile on his face. Dil looked a bit confused, seeing he hadn't been there for the original conversation, not to mention, he was much younger than the rest of the group, so he didn't quite understand how surprises actually worked, but Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil all looked less than amused, glaring at Kimi with disappointment written all over their faces.
"Kimi how could you?" Chuckie cried.
"How could I what?" Kimi asked.
"Spoil the surprise." Chuckie snapped, crossing his arms and looking away from his sister.
"I didn't mean to, I was just, really excited that's all." Kimi replied, tears starting to fall down her face.
Before anybody else could speak up though, an all-too familiar voice called for them from inside the kitchen.
"It's snack time kids." Didi called from the kitchen door out on to the patio.
Completely forgetting about their puzzle in the grass, all of the toddlers got up and ran into the kitchen for snack time, which consisted of Reptar cookies and apple juice. However, while everybody enjoyed their snack, there was one little girl at that table who felt just awful.
"I just ruined Zack's firstest birpday." Kimi thought to herself, as she slowly nibbled on her Reptar cookie, staring down at her place at the table, unsure of what to do at this point.
The toddlers all ate their snack in silence, then went off to the living room, where they all sat down on the floor of the playpen.
"Hey, where did our puzzle we were playing with go?" Phil asked, looking around the playpen.
Tommy looked out the large sliding glass doors that made up the back of the playpen that looked out into the backyard, and saw that they had left the puzzle out in the grass.
"I think we lefted it outside. I'll go get it and be right back you guys." Tommy said, standing up from his spot on the carpet, unlatching the playpen with his screwdriver and heading into the kitchen where all of the moms and Aunty Celeste were sitting around the kitchen table resuming their conversation, as Tommy saw to heading out the open back door into the backyard to gather up the puzzle and bring it inside for him and his brother and friends to finish putting together before everybody had to go home.
However, when he returned to the kitchen, he overheard something that nearly made him drop the puzzle he was carrying to the floor.
"You know, the new Reptar store has opened up here in town. I hear it's the only store of its kind in the entire United States. I'm planning to take the pups there tomorrow to pick out birthday presents for Zack, assuming things aren't overly busy at the Java Lava." Betty said.
"I'm planning to take Chuckie and Kimi, so if you can't take Phil and Lil, just give me however much money you were planning on spending on presents, and I'd gladly let them come along with us to pick out presents tomorrow." Kira suggested.
"I still need to pick out a few things too. However, I'm working overtime tomorrow morning so I can take off early tomorrow afternoon for the birthday party. In fact, that's why I'll be taking Zack to Golden Apple Daycare. This way, we can not only make Zack's party as much of a surprise as possible, but it will help me get Zack prepared for preschool in a few years, as I hear this daycare offers a preschool type program for kids ages three to five." Celeste said.
"That's nice and all, but I should warn you that daycare is not preschool. Though I have no trouble with you doing this tomorrow, as in the morning, we have Dil's first appointment with the dent, uh, tooth fairy." Didi replied.
It was Didi's comment about Dil's first appointment with the tooth fairy that made Tommy nearly freeze at the door back into the kitchen from outside, like he had seen a ghost. Sure he had witnessed a lot of firsts throughout both, his own life and in Dil's. While it did get overlooked, he was technically the first one to give Dil his first bite of solid food when they were missing in the forest right after his birth. However, it wasn't all that much of a celebratory moment, between Dil being an irritating little brat, and becoming more so covered in the bananas than eating them, becoming a treat for the circus monkeys, it only made it one of those overlooked things, that nobody much looked back on. In fact, Dil's first really celebratory moment was when he stuck his foot in his mouth sometime post that venture, seeing their folks had taken forever to start keeping his baby book, proving that Dil was smart enough to stay with the family. But this first was very different. Sure, Tommy had several firsts since his first birthday, prior to getting his one and only little brother, like his first cut at the park when he pricked his finger on a thorn bush post rescuing a baby bird from the middle of the sidewalk, but he had Angelica to thank for making that first ten times worse than it really was in the end. Even the first time somebody slept over at his house wasn't all that pleasant, and again, it's all because Angelica was the first one to do this. But this was one first that Angelica didn't have anything to do with it. This first was made unpleasant by the creepy looking tooth fairy and his decision to get his mommy and daddy to take his bottle away. And while this terrible ordeal only lasted a day, it was still an unpleasant day at that, and he knew how much Dil still liked, both his bottle and his binkie. Little did he even think that it would eventually, happen to him, and now, here it was.
"I hope you're not taking Dil to that Doctor Homer quack or whatever his name is. I remember when you took Tommy there. He tried to convince you to start weaning after he had barely turned a year old, and that was the last time I let Phil and Lil have their morning bottles of hot milk over at your place, after your son tried to take one of them from him." Betty said loudly.
"Really? This man believes in weaning at barely a year old? Remind me to not take Zack to him once his teeth start appearing." Celeste commented.
"I take the pups to a nice lady in town named Joice Griff. She hasn't mentioned much about weaning, she's more concerned that I get their teeth brushed every night." Betty said.
"Chas and I take Chuckie and Kimi to Doctor Hallister, who's quite a lovely pediatric dentist, and swears by what's said in the Lipschitz books. Only start to grow worried if the child is still wanting bottles and sucking on their thumb by ages four and five." Kira said.
"Well don't you worry. After how miserable Tommy was that one day I tried to wean him way back when, I don't plan to pressure Dil into doing the same." Didi said.
"Just, promise me that if that quack does anything you don't feel comfortable with, you'll walk out of his office without finishing the appointment." Betty said.
Didi put a finger up to her lips and thought about it for a few minutes, not sure what to do, as not only was Doctor Homer Tommy's dentist, and soon to be Dil's dentist, but he was a family dentist for the entire family. She wasn't sure if she really wanted to go through the headache of finding someone new, but when mentioning the appointment to Stu the day before when making it, he asked to not go this time, as ever since he made that comment about braces at Tommy's first visit, he's refused to go back except for his own appointments, and even then he's still unhappy about the constant complaints he'd get from him about needing to get braces. He was just, too lazy to go find someone new that would respect his decision. Didi told him that he wouldn't have to come along, as long as he saw to decorating for Zack's party, since they'd be holding it at their place, and while he didn't really want to do this, he decided to go along with party decorating, if it meant not having to get passed up in front of both of his boys at the dentist's office.
Back in the playpen, the gang started to notice that Tommy had been gone a really long time.
"You guys, I wonder what's taking Tommy so long." Chuckie commented worriedly.
"I don't know." Zack replied.
"Well I'd better go find him." Chuckie said, standing up and leaving the playpen which Tommy had left open upon going to get the puzzle.
The three-year-old redhead approached the kitchen, where he found Tommy standing in the doorway from the kitchen to the backyard, looking like he had just seen a ghost.
"Are you okay Tommy?" Chuckie asked.
This startled Tommy out of his thoughts, as he glared straight into Chuckie's face, which was inches away from his.
"Uh, yeah Chuckie I'm fine. Come on, let's go back and finish our puzzle." Tommy said, walking towards the living room, with Chuckie closely following behind him.
Though the redhead could tell by the look in his best friend's eyes that something was troubling him, he just, wasn't sure if he should ask him about it, for fear that it would only frighten him, seeing he was after all, the biggest fraidy cat he knew of for the most part. The dynamic duo returned to the living room to the playpen, where Tommy sat the puzzle and its remaining pieces on the floor, while Chuckie sat down where he was previously sitting, and everybody saw to finishing the puzzle together. Zack couldn't help that Kimi still looked upset.
"Come on Kimi, I'm not mad that you spoiled the surprise for my firstest birpday, why are you still upset?" Zack asked.
"Cuz, I wanted your firstest birpday to be extra special! I member my firstest birpday with my friends, Taffy sang a special birpday song for me, and we had melted birpday cake." Kimi said.
"Wow really? I wonder if Taffy will be at my party too." Zack wondered out loud.
"I can honestly say, I don't know." Kimi said, looking away from Zack with a frown.
"Wait a minute you guys, I heard our mommies and Zack's Aunty talking, and I think you guys, uh, without Zack, are going to the new Reptar store to pick out presents. Maybe you can get something special for Zack to make up for ruining the surprise." Tommy suggested.
"Wow really? I've always wanted to go to the Reptar store. Thanks for the idea Tommy. I'll definitely do just that." Kimi said.
"And I look forward to seeing whatever special present you end up getting me." Zack said with a smile.
This helped Kimi to feel better, as she smiled and blushed in Zack's direction, but deep down, she only hoped she found something special, not just because you only turn one once, but for an entirely different reason that she couldn't bring herself to share with him, not yet anyway. Then, realizing how Tommy was so good at finding things, she turned her attention to him, as he was placing a blue hectagon into the puzzle.
"Hey Tommy, do you think you could help us find good presents for Zack tomorrow at the Reptar store?" Kimi asked.
Tommy frowned and looked away.
"I'm sorry you guys, but I can't help." Tommy replied, looking disappointed, that look of worry in his face again.
"How come Tommy?" Phil asked.
"Tomorrow is Dilly's firstest trip to the tooth fairy according to what I heard my mommy saying in the kitchen." Tommy replied.
"A tooth fairy? Oh cool! Maybe it's not just a tooth fairy, but a alium tooth fairy." Dil cried excitedly.
"No Dil, it's not." Tommy replied in a very serious tone.
The other toddlers just looked at him with confused looks, as none of them had ever thought any type of fairy could be bad, except for that time when the fairy bob mother came and turned Dil into a doll, but they all decided for both, Tommy and Dil's sake, to not bring that up.
Before anybody could say anything else, all of the adults walked into the living room to get their kids ready to go.
"Come on you two, time to head home for dinner." Betty said, picking up Phil and Lil out of the playpen, while Kira came up to grab up Chuckie and Kimi.
"Come on Chuckie and Kimi, time to go." Kira said, taking each of her kid's hands and leading them out of the playpen.
Following closely behind Kira was Celeste, who reached in and grabbed up her nephew.
"Come on Zachary, we need to be going too, but you'll see all of your little friends tomorrow afternoon after finishing up your first day at daycare." Celeste said.
This got Zack really excited, as he had never been to daycare before, but sadly, he'd have to learn about such a place on his own, since he was heading home away from all of his little friends, but if going to daycare was something you did once you reached a-whole-year-old, then this really made the blond toddler feel really grown up.
The rest of that night throughout supper and getting ready for bed was more or less, uneventful for the bulk of the toddlers, as Zack thought about what daycare might be like, with all of the new friends he might make, and new toys he'd get to play with. Did it take place outdoors at a setting similar to the park? With lots of playground equipment? Was it indoors like when he'd come over to play at Tommy and Dil's house in their playpen? Would all of the kids be nice? Or would there be any there who were like Angelica who he'd have to try to avoid at all cost, or better yet, stand up to and show them that being mean wasn't right.
Kimi, as she saw to drifting off to sleep, thought more about presents she could get for Zack at the Reptar store. Maybe she could get him a Reptar doll, but then she remembered, he already had one of those. Or maybe she could get him some new Reptar sheets for his Reptar bed. Again, he already had those too. Poor Kimi was at a loss of what to get who she thought to be her best friend, and she only hoped her trip to the Reptar store the following day would be a huge success.
However, while the bulk of the gang was having fairly decent thoughts, Dil was somewhat confused by this whole, tooth fairy business, while Tommy, fell asleep that night, feeling worried about the following day, as he had a nightmare. In the nightmare, they were now in Doctor Homer's office, and it was just as he remembered it that first time, with one slight difference. This time, his one-year-old brother Dil was sitting in the dental chair, while Tommy stood off to the side with his mommy, and Dil was sucking on a pacifier. Doctor Homer approached the small toddler, looking less than amused.
"Now let's, remove this from our mouth, so we can have a look." Doctor Homer said, his evil smile making the situation all the more nauciating, as he pulled the pacifier out from Dil's mouth, making the poor child cry and scream.
"Now now little man, don't cry." Doctor Homer said, but this didn't get Dil to be quiet.
At this point, Tommy couldn't take it anymore, and ran up to Doctor Homer, snatching the pacifier out of his hand, placing it back into Dil's mouth.
"There you go Dilly." Tommy said, happy he got his brother to quiet down, but in the end, only making things worse.
Doctor Homer then turned to their mom.
"Hmmm, I see you let your youngest still suck on pacifiers, even after he's started getting teeth, just as I'm guessing you never started weaning Tommy here, after I specifically suggested you start doing so, back when you brought him here for the first time last year." Doctor Homer said.
"Well, uh…" Didi started to stammer, just as Doctor Homer went to the chart on the wall and pulled it down.
"Must we go over this again. This child, his parents let him drink from bottles and suck on pacifiers forever, while this child…" Doctor Homer said, pointing to the two faces in the picture, one of them with crooked spaced out creepy looking teeth, while the other child had a perfect smile.
But it was then that Tommy realized that it was indeed a dream, as he noticed something about the picture that he had never noticed before. The two-year-old toddler saw the heads move in the picture, as it came to life, and the two little boys, sprang out of the picture and into the room, laughing evilly.
"Don't think your baby brother will ever look like me." The boy with the perfect smile said, running over to where Tommy and Dil were standing.
"Oh no no no, he's gonna look like me." The boy with the creepy crooked teeth said, grabbing up Dil from the dentist chair and dragging him over to a whole in the wall, which led into the air conditioning vents.
"Dil!" Tommy cried, but it was too late.
"Sorry kid, looks like your little brother is mine now." The crooked teethed kid said, shoving Dil into the air conditioner vents, as he crawled in after him, stuffing up the whole with several layers of styrephome, making it nearly impossible for anybody to follow them in there.
An angry looking Tommy turned towards the child that remained, the one with the perfect smile.
"Oh no worries, you'll see your brother again, in a bazillion years, when he's turned into a vampire and comes back to suck your blood! Ha ha ha ha ha!" The perfectly smiling kid cackled evily.
"No! That can't be true." Tommy cried.
"You wanna bet kid?" The smiling kid asked.
"No! I want Dil back." Tommy demanded.
"Then follow me." The smiling kid said, as he climbed through the whole in the wall that once was the picture of him and the crooked toothed child, Tommy crawling close behind him.
However, upon climbing through the whole in the wall, they found themselves at a massive train track layout, and a large train coming down the track in their direction. It stopped in front of the two boys, and they climbed inside, where the train took them past endless stretches of grass and trees, little towns where the people looked slightly older in each town they passed, and soon, nighttime fell on the land, and the train came to a complete stop.
"Everybody off the train, this is the last stop." The conductor announced, sounding very much like Doctor Homer, but Tommy didn't think much of it, at this point, he wanted to find his brother, and he only hoped he was still in one piece.
"Where's Dil?" Tommy asked angrily, as he and the smiling straight teethed kid stepped off the train into a large forest.
"Follow me." The perfect smiling kid said, as Tommy followed him deep into the forest, where a large boy sat with strawberry red hair, and just as the crooked teethed child said, he had a smile that looked all too similar.
"That's not Dilly, he's too big to be him, unless, we traveled to the foocher." Tommy thought to himself, as the courageous toddler stepped in front of the large boy, who had just finished slerping some blood out of the leg of a monkey.
"Dil? Is that you?" Tommy asked.
"My name's Dil, that's right, I'm Dil, the alien vampire, and now, I shall suck your blood!" Dil screamed.
"But you can't drink my blood, you're my brother!" Tommy cried, but it was too late.
The next thing he knew, Dil had stuck a straw into Tommy's neck, and started sucking his blood, causing the poor toddler to deflate like a balloon losing its air, until there was nothing left, and he was flat on the ground. At that point, Tommy awoke from the dream, shaking in fear, as he stared across the dimly lit room over at Dil's crib, where he was peacefully sleeping and sucking on a pacifier. The two-year-old managed not to scream, as he took some deep breaths, trying to calm down and think about his first trip to the tooth fairy, versus Dil's upcoming trip, and what he could have done differently to have made that trip not so horrible. It then hit him what he did wrong. No sooner had the appointment finished, when he felt really thirsty, after having Doctor Homer's hands in his mouth. So likewise, he pulled a bottle to drink out of his diaper bag, and dropped it on the floor. The doctor saw it and suggested to his mommy that she begin taking it away, or as they called it, weaning. Realizing this fact, he knew exactly what to do. He got out of bed and tip-towed over to Dil's crib, where he started tapping lightly on the bars.
"Dil, are you awake? Can we talk?" Tommy asked.
Dil opened one eye and stared sleepily at his older brother who was staring in at him. He removed the pacifier from his mouth and sat up.
"What do you want? I'm trying to sleep." Dil said sleepily, somewhat annoyed.
"It's about that tooth fairy." Tommy said.
"Why are you so worried? Did Yucky tell you something I should know, that you and I both know isn't true?" Dil asked.
"I wish." Tommy thought to himself, clearing his throat before giving his real answer to Dil's question.
"Dil, if you don't want to see the bad side of this tooth fairy, just, promise me you won't drink any bottles or suck on your binkie from the time we leave to go see him, until we get home." Tommy said.
Dil just glared at his brother in shock. Never in the hair over a year that he had been alive had his brother recommended him to not have a bottle or suck on his pacifier. He even vaguely recalled this one time at the park when Tommy stood up to him when Chuckie took his bottle because he was drinking it too fast, and Chuckie was trying to be a safety officer or something, and Tommy was mad cuz Chuckie had made him cry.
"What do you mean, don't suck on my binkie?" Dil asked.
"Just, don't! I don't know, hide it in your diapie or something till we finish with the tooth fairy, all right?" Tommy snapped.
"Are you sure about this?" Dil asked, looking confused.
"Just, trust me okay?" Tommy said.
Dil let out a reluctant sigh, as he stuffed his pacifier into his diaper and tried to go back to sleep, still a bit confused by this whole thing, while Tommy, on-the-other-hand, went and got back into bed at this point.
While he had given Dil a plan that would hopefully help him get through this first appointment without any tears, he knew his brother to be quite stubborn and having his own way of doing things at points. As he lay there awake, unsure of what the next day would bring, he only hoped that his younger brother would trust him and take his word for it, but just in case, he would see that the only one who would give up his bottle and pacifier when he was ready to, was Dil himself.
And this, ends chapter 1. So what will happen at the dentist? How will Zack's first day at Golden Apple Daycare go? And will Kimi find the perfect birthday gift for Zack at the Reptar store? Find out next time.