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George Venturi was sick and tired… Yes, that is exactly how he felt. No other words in the unnecessarily long vocabulary could describe the way he felt at that moment. He scooted down lowered on the living room couch and held the newspaper closer to his face, hoping Derek and Casey would overlook him and not ask him to be their referee. Everyday was always the same thing for those two teenagers. They wake up, fight for the bathroom, go to school, fight at school, come home from school, yell about their unhappy day around each other, eat dinner, make nasty comments to each other during it, then finally go to bed. Of course, there were plenty of other terrible things that Derek and Casey would do in one day, but the list could go on for hours.

Suddenly there was a very loud sound of glass being shattered and the sound of Casey's voice screaming "Der-EK!" at the top of her lungs. The whole thing sounded like it was coming from upstairs.

"Ha! Nice going klutzilla!" Derek remarked. His voice was muffled and heard very faintly.

George let out a loud groan and before he could stop himself, he crumpled his newspaper, that he was so desperately trying to read, in his hands. He looked down at what he did and rolled his eyes. This was what Derek and Casey were doing to him. He couldn't function with them two around. He needed to get away! He needed to drive away from the house and come back the next morning, just so he could have some peace and quiet.

George thought that one over for a second and decided against it. He didn't want to worry Nora or any of his kids. Except the two older stepsiblings, maybe. He wouldn't mind worrying them. Hey, maybe a good scare out of the two would finally bring them closer together. Despite that one, he still wasn't going to just get up and leave the house.

While George was having his little pity party, Nora came running down the stairs, her footsteps loud and hard. He turned his head and saw that his wife was just as fed up with them as he was.

Putting her hands on her hips, She yelled "George, I can't take it anymore! Derek and Casey have been fighting for way too long! I thought maybe after two years they would finally learn how to except each other, but I guess I was wrong!"

When Nora was finished ranting on and on about how childish the two stepsiblings were, she came over to where George was sitting and sat down. She laid her head on his shoulder and looked up at him with tired eyes.

"George, what are we--" Nora was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a door slamming shut and the annoyingly all to familiar sound of Derek's evil laugh. "…. Going to do with them." She finished, sighing very quietly as she heard Derek's door shut.

George put his hand on his forehead and tried to get rid of his ever going tension headache. He thought about what Nora asked. What were they going to do? Send Derek off to military school so he couldn't bug Casey any longer? No, he couldn't afford that idea. There just had to be a way to finally get them to stop bickering at one another.

"We have got to think of something… And quick." Nora said, yawning afterwards. "I don't think I can handle another day of Derek and Casey fighting." She added.

George made a very weak smile and slowly put his arm around his wife's shoulders. Doing this made him remember a time when they were dating, before they got married. They were at the movie theatre and George was trying to put his arm around Nora without being to obvious. The whole thing ended in quiet the disaster, though. He ended up poking her in the eye with his elbow, causing her to drop her pop corn all over the place. Sadly right after that she involuntarily kicked the seat in front of her, making a man lose his grip with his own popcorn container. Strangely though, the whole incident actually made them fall in love with each other even more. They came home laughing super hard and finding the whole thing really hysterical. Who knew what a simple thing like going to the movies could actually bring to people together closer than they were before.

George could have sworn he heard actual bells going off in his head because right then and there… He had a plan. He knew exactly how he was going to stop Derek and Casey from bickering and yelling at each other.

"Nora! I got it! I know how to fix this mess!" George shouted out in a hoarse whisper.

His wife took her head off of his shoulders and looked up at him with wide eyes. "Really?! How?" She asked anxiously.

George smiled widely and could almost feel his own eyes twinkling from excitement. "Remember when we went on that date and had that incident with the popcorn flying everywhere?" He asked her, while putting his hands together tightly.

"Yes."

"Well, you know how much that brought us together, right?"

"Of course! We couldn't stop laughing afterwards." Nora smiled widely and let out a small giggle. "That was the day when I fell for you." She added, blushing as she spoke.

"Yes. We went to the movies and came back closer then ever before." George stated.

Nora's smile faded and her face became very confused. "Wait… What does all of this have to do with Derek and Casey?" She asked.

George looked around the room to make sure everyone was upstairs, before saying "What I am trying to say is that I think we should make Derek and Casey go to the movies together. Just the two them."

"Do you really think that would work?" Nora asked, more to herself than to him.

"Why wouldn't it? When was the last time we ever made them spend quality time together?" George asked.

Nora was silent for a long moment before saying, "Well… We never made them spend time together… Now that I think about it."

"Exactly! We tried everything but that!" George explained. "All those times when we were trying to find ways to keep them away from each other, we could have been finding ways to do the opposite!"

Nora smiled at him widely and hugged him tightly.

"George! I think that plan may actually work!" She said happily.

"I know. I wish I would have thought about that plan a long time ago!" George replied.

Nora pulled away from him gently, but kept her hands on both sides of his shoulders. "Could you actually imagine a life without Derek and Casey arguing?" She asked him, her eyes looking up at the ceiling as if she was in deep thought.

George looked up also and thought about what Nora said. A life with Derek and Casey getting along… It sounded almost impossible. He pictured them waking up in the morning and saying a simple "good morning" to one another. He thought about them doing the dishes together and laughing as they told each other jokes. It be like having a older version of Edwin and Lizzie in the house. It would be pleasant.

"… No." George admitted. "But you never know."

Nora looked at him and arched her eyebrows in a serious manner. "So when are we going to set them for the movies together?" She asked him.

George thought for a long moment… Tomorrow was Friday and Derek and Casey didn't have any plans that night. It would be perfect to do it then. "Tomorrow. We'll look up all the movie listening in the area before we go to bed and then by the afternoon…. We'll tell them to leave." He explained to his wife.

She nodded her head and kissed him on the cheek. "I sure hope everything goes well… Because Derek can be known to put up a fight when he's being forced to do something he doesn't want to do." She said, a hint of worry in her voice.

"Don't worry. I'll just tell him I'll raise his allowance if he goes." George lied. He would tell him that but he wasn't really going to do it. That kid didn't deserve it after all the hell he put everybody threw. It would be rude, but George hoped that everything would go so well that Derek forget about the whole promise…

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