Amelia sang to her music on her MP3 player. 'Sticks And Stones' by AJ and Aly made her get up and dance. Whenever she listened to music, nothing made her stop. Unless her little adopted 4 year-old brother, Andy, began making a bunch of noise in the kitchen. She sighed and took out her earphones and looked to see what her little brother was up to.

She found him sitting on the floor and beating on the pots and pans with a serving metal spoon. The metal spoon made the room echo and defining, along with his excited squeals.

"Bobo!" she cried as she covered her ears, "Stop that, it's hurting my ears! And isn't Abraham suppose to watch you?"

Andy smiled and shrugged. The Jones family called Andy 'Bobo' often because he loved messing up everything. He began to hitting the pots and pans with the spoon again, but Amelia took the spoon from him.

"No, Andy! If you want to play drums, you'll have to be more quiet." Andy began to whine a bit and Amelia picked him up. "Come on, let's go see what big brother is doing."

Amelia walked out of the kitchen and past the family room before turning to the left and down the hall to her older brother's room. His music was very load and Amelia wasn't sure is he would hear her. But she knocked anyway, except loader so her brother would hear. The music didn't die down, but the door opened a moment later.

"What do you want?"

"You're suppose to be watching Bobo," she said, nodding to their little brother in her arms. "Luckily, he wasn't doing anything dangerous."

"I thought you were going to watch him?"

"No, aren't you the one in charge here?"

"Yeah, but...Bobo doesn't like me much."

"Dad put you in charge around here while he's gone, Abraham. You know that! Shouldn't you be a bit more responsible?" Amelia sighed and mumbled, "Although I'm old enough to take care of myself."

"Put him in front of the TV and put on Frozen, he likes that."

"Why do I always have to watch him?" Amelia complained. "Besides, I'm sick of Frozen." But she knew her brother was just going to make more excuses and left his room.

She sat her brother down on the couch and turned on the TV. She the turned on the DVD player and then looked at her brother.

"So what do you want to watch?"

"Snowman!" Andy squealed with delight.

"But don't you want to watch Honey Bear?" She asked as she showed him 'Winnie the Pooh'. "Or maybe Princess with the magical hair?" She held up 'Tangled".

"No! Snowman!" Andy said again. Amelia smiled and picked up 'Cars'.

"I know you can't resist this movie!"

"Yay! Cars. Watch that!" Andy squealed and Amelia thought to herself, "Got'cha!" She put in the DVD and pressed the play button. As the movie played and Andy sat on the couch cuddling the sofa pillows, Amelia went to the kitchen and put up the pots and pans that Andy took out back in the covert.

Then came an excited bark and in rushed Hero from the doggie door. The Golden Retriever ran up to Amelia and pushed her down and began to wag his tail in excitement.

"Hey!" Amelia said as she began to laugh when the dog began lick her face. "Where have you been, mister?" She took out a doggie treat from her pocket and tossed it away from her. Hero made a mad dash to the snack and scarfed it down almost instantly. This gave Amelia enough time to stand up before getting 'attacked' again. Hero looked really excited and shaking his behind in the air, inviting her to play. Amelia grabbed Hero's ball and tossed it across the room, with the dog quickly giving chase. Amelia joined Andy on the couch and watched the movie with him. She didn't care for the movie, but she needed to keep an eye on her little brother.

Hero then ran into the family room and jumped on Amelia, the ball still in his drooling mouth. Amelia and Andy laughed and Amelia let Andy throw the ball this time. Again, Hero chased after it and came back, waging his blond tail. He settled down after a few minutes and climbed onto the couch, laying his head on Amelia's lap. Amelia and Andy stroked his soft, fluffy fur and Andy gave him a hug.

Amelia smiled and began to think of her seven friends she met recently. She wondered how they were, since they have not seen or spoken to each other since Yao's. Already she missed them and wanted to spend time with them. She knew that everyone was probably having their own problems to deal with, especially Ivan during this time. His family was going through a lot and she knew it was hard on her Russian friend. She had visited his country recently when her father was on business there. Even though Russia had told America that the war was between him and his sister, America still wanted to help both of them. But this could only lead to bad news and then America would be in huge trouble with other nations, and Amelia hoped it wouldn't come to that. Then she looked at the time and realized that her father was late coming home.

"That's weird, Dad should be home by now," she said to herself. She looked down at Andy and noticed that he was asleep and so was Hero.

"Great, now I can't get up because they're both asleep," she sighed at the sleeping dog's head over her lap. She then took out her phone and text her brother about their father being late.

"I think I know where he could be," Abraham replied quietly as he entered the room.