Our story opens today as we see Garfield watching Jon staring at his phone all day long.
"Boy Odie," Garfield looked at Jon "Jon's been waiting for a call back from Ellen all day long. Jon Arbuckle is a man of the three words; predictable, pathetic, and practically hopeless."
"Ruff." Odie barked.
Just then, Jon's phone rang.
"Oh boy!" He said "Ellen is finally calling back."
Jon picked up the phone and answered it.
"Hello Ellen." He spoke into the phone "Oh, cousin Judy. Great to hear from you. You're coming into town? Sure, we'll be home cuz. Come on over. Sure, bring the kids too. Bye."
Jon hung up the phone.
"Hey Jon, who was that?" asked Lyman.
"That was my cousin Judy, Lyman." Jon told his roommate "She's gonna be staying with us for the weekend, and she's bringing her kids."
"Boy, that's great Jon." Lyman said "When are they supposed to come?"
"About in an hour." Jon said.
"What should we do to get ready?" Lyman asked Jon.
"Try hiding your valuables." Jon said "It's really no picnic. Last time they were here, they messed up the whole place in the blink of an eye."
Just then, Lyman came back with a box of valuables.
"Help me get these somewhere safe." He said.
Garfield walked right out the doggy door and lied down on the porch.
"Boy," He sighed "If there's one thing I hate more than Mondays and rasins, it's Jon's disgusting relatives. I'd better hide all my valuables away from her kids."
Garfield went to his bed and put his teddy bear in his mouth and walked to the closet.
"Don't worry Pooky." He climbed up to the top shelf of Jon's closet "You'll be safe away from those brats up here in Jon's closet."
About an hour later, Jon's cousin arrived at the door. She was with her daughter.
"Hey Judy!" Jon hugged his cousin "Great to see you!"
"Hi Jon!" Judy hugged back. "Great to be here."
Lyman came walking to the front door.
"So this your cousin, Judy." Lyman looked at Judy "Well it's great to see ya."
"Judy, this is my best buddy Lyman." Jon introduced Lyman.
"Nice to meet ya." Judy shook Lyman's hand.
"Nice to meet you missy." Lyman shook Judy's hand.
"And this must be Tammy." Jon pointed at the little girl "She's so cute."
"It smells like cat and dog in here!" She rudley said.
Meanwhile, Garfield was in his box. He could tell what was going on.
"Smells like kid in here." He sniffed the air "That can only mean that a stupid kid is here."
Meanwhile, Jon and Lyman were getting Judy and Tammy settled in. Judy was carrying a baby in here hands.
"So, this is the new baby." Jon looked at Judy's son.
"Sure." Tammy said "This here's Stevie. He's only 14 months old."
"He's as cute as a button." Lyman poked Stevie in the belly.
Stevie giggled.
"I know," Jon snapped his fingers "Why don't we introduce the girls to my cat, Garfield?"
"Sure." said Judy "I'm sure they'd love to meet him."
"Garfield!" Jon called out to his cat "Come meet Judy's kids."
Garfield went out of his bed and climbed up to the countertop, where he saw Jon, Lyman, Judy and the kids.
"Garfield," Jon showed Tammy and Stevie "I want you to meet Judy's kids, Tammy and Stevie."
"Ball! Ball!" Stevie pointed at Garfield.
"Aww how cute." Judy said "Stevie's first words."
Garfield glared at Stevie "And his last too."
Garfield decided to get away from the kids and walked to the backyard where he would be away from those kids. He found Odie in his doghouse, chewing on a stick.
"A dog in his doghouse." Garfield saw Odie "Much better than having to deal with dumb kids."
"Ruff!" Odie barked.
"You know Odie," he looked at the puppy "There's a reason I hate kids. I'll give you four guesses."
Just then, Stevie crawled to Garfield and stretched his face.
"And the first three don't count." He looked down.
Stevie giggled and crawled back into the house to meet his big sister.
"Hey Stevie!" Tammy looked down at her brother "Why don't we go play with Jon's cute little kitty?"
"Ball! Ball!" Stevie clapped.
"Let's go find that cute little kitty." Tammy sinisterly grinned. "Here kitty kitty!"
Meanwhile outside, Garfield's sensitive ears could hear them from a miles a minute.
"I'd better hide Odie." He ran back into the house "Judy's cousins are far from little angels."
Garfield ran into the living room and crawled behind a couch to hide from the kids.
"Here kitty kitty!" Tammy called out to Garfield.
Garfield lept from the couch and showed his sharp claws right at the kids.
"Didn't your parents ever teach you never to go near sharp objects?" He hissed at them.
Tammy and Stevie back away from Garfield.
"That got rid of them." Garfield walked back to his bed and lied down "Lucky me. Jon's cousin, Judy comes to visit and she brings her two yard apes, Tammy and Stevie. They're good kids...for werewolves that is."
In about an hour, Garfield woke up and walked to the kitchen. Stevie was in his high chair and sloppily eating his food. Garfield saw this and got a sneaky idea, as usual.
"I like being around babies at mealtime." He looked at the readers "They drop all kinds of tasty stuff."
Garfield grabbed the leg of the chair with his front paws and shook the entire high chair, which caused the food to fall onto the floor.
"But sometimes, they need some encouragement." He ate the table scraps.
While Garfield was eating table scraps, Jon, Judy and Lyman were watching TV on the couch with Odie lying in Lyman's lap. Just then, Tammy came stomping into the living room.
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" Tammy shouted.
"What is it dear?" Judy groaned.
"I'm hungry! I'm hungry! I'm hungry! I'm hunrgy! I'm hungry!" She screamed.
Jon, Judy, Lyman, and Odie all sighed. Garfield was too annoyed by all the screaming to even finish the table scraps.
"I have some friends who can see to it she's never heard from again." Garfield looked at Jon.
"Come on Tammy." Judy took Tammy's hand "I'll go get you one of them BK Kids Meal. Jon, can you and Lyman look after Stevie until we get back?"
"Sure Judy." said Jon.
"You can count on us." Lyman added.
As soon as Judy and Tammy left, Lyman went to take care of Stevie and Jon went to fix lunch for Garfield.
Garfield saw a green bag on the countertop and leaped right up to the bag.
"Hello, what's this?" He peeked into the bag. "AAAHHHHH!"
Garfield ran as far away from the bag as possible. He didn't like what he saw in that bag.
"Ready for lunch Garfield?" Jon saw Garfield hiding under the couch.
"I'll need to see something really good." Garfield started shaking and shivering "I think I just had an encounter with a diaper bag."
After Garfield kept trying to forget everything he saw, Judy and Tammy came back from getting Tammy's food.
"So Judy, how was your trip to BK?" Jon asked his cousin.
"I'd rather not talk about it." Judy held onto Tammy's arm.
"I'm bored." Tammy said "I wanna play!"
Tammy ran upstairs to Jon's room and started jumping on Jon's bed. Garfield saw this and headed downstairs to Jon.
Jon, Lyman and Judy were having conversation, when Garfield pulled onto Jon's leg.
"What is it Garfield?" Jon asked his cat.
Garfield ran upstairs and Jon followed him to his room.
"Tammy stop jumping on the bed." Jon sighed and left.
Tammy got off the bed and started pouting. Then, Garfield jumped on the bed as well.
"MOMMY!" Tammy shouted.
An hour later, it was time for Judy and her kids to go home. Much to Garfield's relief and joy.
"It was great seeing you Judy." Jon held Garfield "Please come again soon."
"Yeah." Garfield smiled "Let's have lunch."
Judy and the kids left to go home and Jon carried Garfield back inside.
"...millions of years from now." Garfield frowned again.
THE END
Author's Note:
Well, so ends another Garfield story! But be with us for a next Garfield story coming pretty soon! Stay tuned folks!
