Toby Curtis and Nick
Toby is so happy, Nick is living with him for one week and they are getting along really well. The doctor took a week off work to bond with the kid and it has been awesome. Today they're going to meet with Cabe and Walter to eat. It'll be the first meet between his friends and the little boy. The problem is that Toby and the kid got distracted searching on the internet about the animals they will see in the zoo next saturday and now they are late.
"Buddy, come on! We need to go. Walter already texted me five times. He doesn't like to wait at all." Toby says while putting his wallet in his pocket.
"I'm ready! Do you think your friend is mad at us?" Nick was a little scared because he had lived in an orphanage with a director that hated lateness, so she punished he and his brother everytime they were late to go to school.
Toby sees that fear is all over Nick's face and gets down to be in the boy height.
"Don't worry. Walter is ...how can I say... an impatient person, who likes that the things happens in the way he planned and searchs always for efficiency. But despite that, he is a very nice guy! Now come on because I'm getting really hungry. Are you hungry for a hamburger, Nick?"
"Yes." The boy says a little shy.
"I'm not hearing you! Are you ready for a hamburger, Nick? Answer louder or I'll have to make tickle on you!" Toby says with a playful voice.
The boy says "yes" a little louder, but not loud enough.
"Ok! I'll have to tickle you!" The doctor starts to tickle the kid, who laughs really hard.
"So I'll try again! Are you ready for a hamburger?"
"YES!" Nick screams between the laughs.
"Oh, now we have a proper answer! Let's go to In - N - Out!" Toby says and then they left the apartment.
When Toby and Nick arrive in the In - N - Out, Walter and Cabe are already seat in a table.
"You're late, Toby! I told you that we should be here before six PM!" Walter says a little nervous.
"Walt, calm down. Why are you so crazy about this? We're only 30 minutes late!" Toby doesn't get why his friend is so obsessed about the hour.
"I studied the line pattern of this place and six PM is one of the worst hour! There is a college near here and classes end 5:45 PM, so the students come here and the line time is twice slower." After hear Walter's analysis, Cabe and Toby start laughing. Nick, who was hiding behing Toby's leg, looks for the first time to Cabe and Walter. That's when the two men realize he is there.
"Hey, little man! I'm so glad to finally meet you!" Cabe says " How're you?"
Nick looks at Toby who balance his head as a signal for the kid go ahead and answer. So he says "I'm fine. Thanks."
"Oh, I see you're polite! That's a very good quality!" Walter is lost, he isn't good in first meetings , not even with kids. So he says the first thing that crosses his mind.
Toby realizing the discomfort of his friend suggests they getting in the line. After they ate, Walter says:
"It's already almost eight PM. Took that long to get our hamburger because we didn't follow my planning."
"Kid, you should get yourself a girlfriend. That neurosciences books of yours are make you bat poop crazy! Maybe a good time with a nice lady will make you relax." Cabe says.
Toby starts to hit the table and laughs really hard.
"Why are you laughing so hard?" Cabe is definitely curious.
"Do you really think Walter can get a girlfriend?! After all this years you didn't realize he scares all the girls?" Toby remember all Walter's tries to approach a girl and all of them were terrible.
"I'm not that bad with the ladies!" Walter got really offended. "I dated Anna for 3 months."
"3 months isn't a long time! Besides that, she was always traveling because of work! That's why you guys didn't break up earlier!"
"Toby, at least I broke up with her! Unlike you, who got dumped by your girlfriend! " The doctor who was laughing till this moment, stops, looks Walter in the eye and throw a challenge:
" Well, let's see who can get a girl's phone number faster!"
"Ok!" Walter says and starts looking for a single woman.
After 30 minutes, they still didn't get a number. Cabe, who is tired of seeing the two men embarrassing themself, decides to go to the line to get an ice cream to him and Nick.
"Nick, what is your favorite flavour?" Cabe asks but doesn't hear an answer, so he looks back and for his surprise Nick isn't behind him. He starts to get desperate, but then he sees the little boy talking with a beautiful lady.
"Hey, buddy! I was searching for you. Is everything okay?" Cabe asks.
"Yes! I just got lost in the line, but this lady said she'd help me find you." Nick answers and then the woman introduces herself.
"Hi! I'm Helen! I saw this little boy lost and went to help him. Are you two related?"
Cabe, who is mesmerized by her beauty, can't find the words to answer.
"Cabe, are you ok?" Nick gets worried and asks him.
"I'm fine, kid." Cabe gets out of his trance and says. " Hi, Helen! I'm Cabe and yes, we're related. I'm his uncle." Cabe sees Walter and Toby as a family, so he does consider Nick his nephew.
"Oh! That's nice! I really enjoyed talk with this little boy! I have a nephew of his age, maybe they can play sometime."
"Yes, definitely!" Cabe says a really too excited. So he coughs and collects himself to start talk again " Can you give me your number?"
"Sure." After the lady says her number and Cabe put it in his cell phone. They exchange a goodbye.
Toby and Walter observed the whole scene and go to Cabe's direction totally shocked.
"I can't believe you got a woman's phone number" Toby says.
"How did you do that?" Walter can't believe he isn't the one who succeed.
" Well, let's say Nick helped me!" Cabe tells them everything .
"Nick, there's a park close to my house. We should go there sometime." Walter says.
"Oh My God, Walter! You won't use my kid to find a girlfriend!" Toby says laughing " Not even him can help you. You're a lost case!"
"Shut up!" Walter says, but he is laughing too.
"Hey,guys! Are we still getting an ice cream?" Nick is waiting forever for a chocolate ice cream.
"Sure! I'm going to the line with him" Cabe says in a hurry.
"You're so smart! You already have a woman's phone number! I'm the one going this time" Toby decides.
"No! You're with him everyday, let me going!" Walter says and grab Nick's hand.
Nick was getting a little impatient so he says "Why are you talk about a phone number? Let's all go to the line and eat a chocolate ice cream! It's the best thing in the world!"
All three man look to the boy and Toby says:
"You know what? The kid is right! There's nothing better in life than a chocolate ice cream! Let's all get one"
"Lets go!" Cabe and Walter say together.
Nick grabs Toby hands as they go to the line. While eating their ice cream, the men start tell jokes to the boy. He observes the men talking and remember about the adults he met from the orphanage and school. Toby and his friends are definitely cooler than the adults he used to know.
When Nick and Toby get home, the doctor lets the kid play in his notebook for thirty minutes before sleep. The boy knows this is his chance to contact Alex. So he does exactly how the teacher from his ex school had teach him and writes an email to Alex.
" Hi,brother! How're you?
You can't believe what happened to me! I was adopted by an amazing man! You need to meet him! I know you think no one would adopt two kids, but he is so nice! I think he'd adopt you too!
Saturday we're going to the zoo and Toby (the man who adopted me) said we will see a bird exibition that will happen at 2 PM. I don't know if you can find a way to go to the zoo, but I hope to see you there! I miss you so much, Alex!
Take care, brother! I love you! Bye!"
Nick sends the message and starts to pray. He asks to God that his brother read the e-mail and find a way to go to the zoo. It's the only chance they have to meet again.
Happy Quinn and Alex
The inspector of the orphanage advised Happy to took a week off work to help bond with Alex, so she did it. In this period, they got to know each other better and it has been amazing. Today, Happy is taking the boy to meet Sly, Paige and Ralph for the first time. They're preparing a barbecue in the garage rooftop.
"Oh, look who is here! The newest addition of the team! Welcome, Alex! We're very happy to finally meet you! How're you doing?" Paige says with an excited voice.
"I'm fine." Alex answers looking to the floor.
"Hey, buddy! You don't need to be shy. We're a little weird, but we're nice! Right, Ralph?" Sly says.
"Yes! I'm so glad you're here. Finally I have someone that isn't too old to play." Ralph says with a smile.
"Oh My God, Ralph! We're not old! I thought you liked to play paintball with me!" Happy can't believe Ralph called her old.
"I do! But now I'll finally have a friend of my age!"
That's when the three adults understand what Ralph is saying. Paige's son is a smart boy, but he is also very introspective and doesn't make friends so easy. However, now he has Alex and sees in him a chance to be close from someone with a similar age.
"You're right! You and Alex are going to have a lot of fun! Why you guys don't go play while we start the barbecue?" Happy decides to give the kids a time alone for them to get to know each other better.
"Ok! Do you wanna play an online game, Alex?" Ralph loves computer games and thinks that the new boy would like too.
"I do! But I never played an online game before." Alex loves to learn new things, but suddenly get scared when he sees the look on Ralph's face.
"You never played an online game?! How did you survive all those years?! It's the best thing in the world!" Ralph says like he had just hear the most absurd statement.
"Well, let's play now! I'll learn asap!" Alex has always been the smartest kid in the orphanage, so his lack of knowledge of the computer game is making him a little mad.
Ralph shows him the game and teaches all the rules, they start to play and after 30 minutes the boys are laughing and screaming to the computer screen and giving hints about the game to each other.
Paige is with tears in her eyes and Happy goes talk to her.
"Hey, Paige! What's up? Is everything okay?"
"Oh, Happy! I'm so glad you adopted Alex! Look how him and Ralph are already best friends. Finally my son found a nice kid to play with him."
"They're amazing! I knew they'd get along!" Happy is so grateful for the fact that her boy already has an incredible friend. But suddenly she remembered something.
"Oh, I just remembered Alex told me his favorite dessert is chocolate cake. I think I'm going to baked one for the kids!"
"What?! You in the kitchen?!" Sly widens his eyes and says very scared.
Happy makes an angry face, crosses her arms and then says "Yeah! What's the problem?!"
"Well, I think I'll already search for the fireman phone number." Paige says laughing really hard.
"You two can make fun, but the cake will be delicious!" Happy walks till the boys and asks if they want to help.
"Yes! I love chocolate cake! Do you wanna come Ralph?" Alex hopes his new friend agrees to help.
"Let's go!" Ralph answers and they go to the kitchen.
"All right, boys! Let's make the best chocolate cake in the world! Read the recipe I found on the internet, please."
After Happy requested, the boys read the recipe and help her separate the ingredients. They follow every step and then put the cake in the oven.
"Ok, guys! Now we have to wait 25 minutes! While we're wait, I was thinking we could take a look in my motorcycle. Do you wanna know how to fix a motorcycle motor?" Happy hoped Alex would like mechanical stuffs because it's what she knows better, and for her luck the little boy loves learn new things and gets interested everytime she offer to teach him about engineering.
"That's super cool! When I grow up I'll have a motorcycle! Can you teach me how to ride?" Alex already imagine him riding a big motorcycle.
"Yeah! That's for sure, boy! But like you said, only when you're older! For now, let's learn how to fix the motor. Shall we?!"
Happy and the boys went into a rabbit hole. They are so concentrated in fix the motorcycle that they totally forgot the cake. After a while they felt a burnt smell and Ralph screamed:
"The cake!"
The three of them run till the oven, but it is too late. The cake is ruined. Happy gets so sad, she really wanted to make Alex's favorite dessert.
"I can't believe it! The cake was supposed to be delicious, not burnt! Sorry, guys."
"It's okay, Happy! We can make the cake again another day" Alex says just like he were an adult consoling a kid.
"Yeah and we can always eat Kovalskys's cake" Ralph says as it wasn't a big deal.
"That's it! Let's go to Kovalskys and buy their chocolate cake! I'll send Paige and Sly a message saying we're going out." Happy is determined to get a chocolate cake to the boys.
After 15 minutes, the three of them got into the garage rooftop with a delicious chocolate cake.
"Where did you guys go? The hamburgers are ready!" Sly screams to the trio.
Paige looks suspicious to the chocolate cake and after prove it , she says:
"You went to Kovalskys to buy this cake, didn't you?"
"Yes, now shut up! Let it go." Happy gets very frustrated when she fails in something.
"Okay, Elsa! As you wish!" Paige knows how to get in Happy's nerve and isn't surprised when the mechanical answer:
"Call me that again and I'll kill you."
"I love you too, my friend." Paige says and laughs. Then she takes another bite of the cake.
Happy smiles and observes Sly giving a hamburger to the two boys and thinks how this day is wonderful, although the failure of the cake had happened.
When Happy and Alex get home from the barbecue, Alex asks her if he can play the game that Ralph taught him. Happy lets him play just while she takes a shower. However, the kid doesn't really want to play the game , he wants to write an e-mail for his brother.
When he enter the e-mail box he sees there's message from Nick. Alex can't belive it! While he read the e-mail, his heart starts to beat really fast! He has to ask Happy to go to the zoo! Just when he was about to aswer his brother, Happy gets out of her bedroom and says:
"It's time to sleep, boy!"
Alex turns off the computer really fast and asks:
"Happy, can we go to the zoo next saturday, please?" The kid does a very cute face and Happy can only agree with his request.
"Yes, sure! But I didn't know you liked zoo, buddy."
"I do! Lions are my favorite animals. I love The Lion King movie!" Alex is so glad, he will finally meet his brother again and also see his favorite animal.
"That's really nice! We can see The Lion King tomorrow, like a preparation to our zoo trip. What do you think?" When Happy was a kid, she went to an orphanage trip to see a Disney movie in the cinema. There she saw a lot of kids with their mothers and got very sad because she knew this would be something she would never experience in her life. But in the present, although Happy still can't watch a movie with their parents, she can watch with Alex, the boy who now is her family.
"Yeah! That'd be awesome!" Alex can't believe how cool Happy is! She is the best! He always thought no one would want adopt two kids and that's why he still didn't tell her about Nick. But he is starting to think Happy would adopt his brother too and they could former a family.