Chapter 2, Scheduling the Sleepovers

It had been roughly a month since the Generics had moved to Yucaipa, California, and Bobby had made friends with the Rugrats. For the most part, things were going pretty well for the Generics, but there was one thing that wasn't going so well. The fact that Bobby and Derek had to share a room, wasn't exactly, working out. It was a Friday night in late October of 2013, when the family had had enough of the boys bickering.

"That was my pillow Bobby, now give it back!" Derek demanded at the top of his lungs, as Bobby proceeded to stand on his bed, tossing his and Derek's pillows in the air, like he was a juggler in a circus.

"No Derek, I'm the juggler in the circus, and you are my audience!" Bobby replied.

"Did sticky fingers and your group of toddler friends teach you this game? It's not time for us to be playing Bobby, it's time for us to be sleeping! Now give me back my pillow dork, before I call for mom and dad." Derek demanded again, this time, sounding really mad.

"Ok, here." Bobby said, as he threw both pillows at Derek, hitting him in the face.

"Ow! What just hit me in the eye?" Derek griped, as he removed the pillow case from Bobby's pillow, to find as well as Bobby's pillow, a collection of marbles was in there as well.

"Oh, sorry, guess my marble collection was in there." Said Bobby.

"Grrr, Bobby, you are going to pay for this." Derek shouted, as he turned the pillow case upside down, dumping the marbles on to the floor.

"Cool! Now we can play marbles!" Bobby said excitedly, as he got on the floor, and started playing with the marbles.

"Mom! Dad! Get in here now!" Derek shreaked, as Martha and Howie came running, their heads now peering in the door of Bobby and Derek's room.

"What in the g golly world is going on here?" Martha asked.

"Mom, Bobby won't let me go to sleep. He insists on playing games all night." Derek snapped.

"Bobby? Is this true?" Howie asked.

"Maybe?" Bobby replied.

"Now Bobby, there is a time for playing and there is a time for sleeping. And if your brother is ready to go to sleep, then you need to go to sleep too, understand?" Howie asked.

"We've been going through this every single night Howard. Really, I don't think just, talking to the boys is helping them ya know." Said Martha with a sigh, as she leaned up against the bed post of Bobby's bed.

"Well what are we gonna do then?" Howie asked.

"How about we send Bobby off to live in the zoo. The little twirp could use a few days in the wild, and then, I'd have this room, all to myself!" Said Derek with a grin.

"That's not a bad idea now then." Said Martha.

"Martha, have you lost your mind? We are not putting our son in the zoo." Said Howie.

"No, I mean, giving Bobby and Derek some space, to work this out. But I think I have the perfect solution for Bobby. His little friends, Tommy and Chuckie, also share rooms with their siblings don't ya know. I think over the weekend, we should have Bobby go spend a night at the Pickles, and another night at the Finsters, and get a good lesson in being a good roommate now." Suggested Martha.

"That's a great idea honey. You hear that Bobby? You're gonna get to go have a sleepover with your new friends!" Said Howie with a grin.

"Oh boy that sounds like fun!" Said Bobby excitedly, as he started jumping up and down on the bed.

"Now Bobby." Howie started to say, before Martha chimed in.

"No jumping on the bed!" Howie and Martha said together.

"Oh, sorry." Said Bobby apologetically, as Derek threw Bobby his pillow, and the boys went to sleep, as soon as Martha and Howie turned out the lights and left the room.

"Goodnight, dork." Derek muttered under his breath, as he yawned and went to sleep.

"Goodnight, cheese head." Bobby muttered, as he too rolled over and went to sleep.

The next morning, Martha didn't waste any time. She got on the phone with Didi, and then on the phone with Kira, to make the sleepover arrangements. It then hit Howie that he was having uncle Ted come up that weekend to help him fix the water heater, since Little Willy's Plumber Service had no interest in coming out to fix it, once they heard the Generics owned a dog, so Martha had no problem getting Bobby out of the house for the weekend, as she was worried he'd be in the way. She was pleased to learn that both families were fine with Bobby sleeping over, so once she had finished her phone conversation with Kira, she found Bobby in the living room, watching Captain Squash on TV and eating his Captain Squash cerial for breakfast.

"Good news my little manzy." Said Martha, as she walked up behind her son.

"What? What?" Bobby asked excitedly.

"Well, I just got off the phone with Tommy and Chuckie's moms, and you're all set to sleep over this weekend don't ya know. I'll have uncle Ted take you over there later on today when he gets here to help Howie fix the water heater." Said Martha.

"Yay!" Said Bobby excitedly.

A couple of hours later, Howie needed Martha to run out and pick up a few things, and Derek was trying to work on his homework, as he was way behind in one of his classes at school. So Martha took Bobby with her on her Aarons, and on the way back, they stopped off at the Java Lava for some lunch, where Bobby ran into Chuckie and Kimi.

"Hey, guess what? Guess what? Guess what?" Bobby asked excitedly, as he approached Chuckie and Kimi in the play area in the back of the coffee shop.

"What?" Kimi said.

"I'm sleeping over at Tommy's tonight!" Bobby said excitedly.

"Oh boy." Said Chuckie.

"What's wrong? I thought you and Tommy had fun at your sleepovers." Said Bobby.

"Well, lately, Tommy hasn't been, well, uh, himself lately. He's been really quiet and refused to eat anything that wasn't cold or frozen. I think his teeth are bothering him. Besides, sometimes when I've slept over, we've had to deal with scary stuff." Said Chuckie.

Bobby gulped.

"Scary stuff?" Bobby asked.

"Uh huh? I remember the firstest time I slept over at Tommy's. He thought his daddy was a robot, and I kept trying to tell him that his daddy wasn't a robot, but he kept insisting he was, and then, his daddy started acting all strange. He walked funny, talked to this invisible girl named Romona, and tossed eggs all over the kitchen floor." Said Chuckie nervously.

"Oh wow! That sounds like fun!" Said Bobby excitedly.

"It wasn't a lot of fun for me. And another time, all of the lights went out, and the monsters came out of the closet, so then we had to go downstairs and get the light out of the refridgerater. Good thing we got it out in time, before something really bad happened." Said Chuckie.

"Oh boy!" Said Bobby, getting really excited for this sleepover.

"And then, I guess the bestest time of all was when my daddy saved me and Tommy from the sandy man." Said Chuckie.

"The sand man? The one that comes when you go to sleep?" Bobby asked.

"Uh huh? He came into Tommy's basement, and he almost got us, but my daddy came and saved us, and we had the bestest time ever!" Said Chuckie.

"Oh boy! I don't think those adventures sound scary at all, they sound like fun! And if Tommy's dad is a robot, who knows what his mom is. Hey, maybe she's a four eyed moon monster, and my dad can come rescue us." Said Bobby, as Martha came up behind him, carrying their lunches.

"Time to eat now." Said Martha, as she grabbed Bobby's hand and took him over to a table, where they ate their lunch.

"Mommy! Mommy! I can't wait to sleep over at Tommy's house. I hear his dad's a robot, and the light hides in their fridge, and the sandman comes for visits!" Said Bobby excitedly, as he started munching on his sandwich.

"Oh now come on now Bobby, you've got quite an imagination there son. Now let's finish up your uncle Ted ought to be here any minute now, and you still need to get packed for your two nights of sleepovers now." Said Martha, as she and Bobby went on to eat their lunch.

Bobby couldn't control himself. He was too excited for his sleepover at Tommy's, and couldn't wait to have a boat load of fun. After lunch, he and his mom headed home, where she helped Bobby get his bag packed for the next two nights of sleepovers.

"So, you're gonna be sleeping over with sticky fingers and four eyes?" Derek asked Bobby, as Bobby zipped up his overnight bag.

"Yeah? So?" Bobby asked.

"Well, you do realize they're younger than you. Chances are they'll wet the bed and you'll have to sleep on wet sheets all night. Then they'll be crying and screaming, and you'll be begging to come home." Said Derek.

"No I won't. I hear at Tommy's house, they go on adventures during the night. And Tommy's dad's a robot!" Said Bobby.

"Who told you that story?" Derek asked.

"Chuckie." Bobby replied.

"Four eyes is a nerd, and doesn't know what he's talking about. I have a feeling you won't last past supper time at either of their houses." Said Derek.

"Oh don't listen to your brother now bobbo, you're gonna have a great time." Said uncle Ted, now standing in the doorway of Bobby and Derek's room, a huge grin on his face.

"Uncle Ted! Yay! You're here! And that means, it's time for noogies!" Said Bobby.

"Yep, time for noogies!" Said uncle Ted, as he gave Bobby a noogie, and they grabbed up his overnight bag, at which time, they headed back downstairs, where Bobby told his parents goodbye, and Ted walked him across the street over to Tommy's house.

"Well Bobbo, I'll see ya later." Said Ted, as he approached the front steps of Tommy's house.

"See ya uncle Ted." Said Bobby, as he rang the doorbell, and footsteps came to the door.

And this, ends chapter 2. So, how will the sleepover go at Tommy's house? Will it be anything like what Chuckie told Bobby about? Or will it be something totally unexpected? You'll have to wait until the next chapter, to find out!