Chapter 6, Dil's First Word and Finale
Tommy went off to preschool. After he got there, Miss Applebee explained the rules of the alphabet test.
"Now class, I'm going to have each of you come up to my desk one at a time, and show you each different letters. You simply tell me what the letter is on the card, and a word that starts with that letter. Remember this is a test, but don't fret. Just try your best." Said Miss Applebee, as she picked up a stack of cards with different alphabet letters on them, and had each child come up to her desk one by one, and had them name off the letters she was holding up.
When it was Tommy's turn, he went up to Miss Applebee's desk, and named off every letter he was given correctly, except for the letter u.
"T, that's for Tommy!" Said Tommy, upon seeing the letter T.
"Very good!" Said Miss Applebee.
Then she held up the letter R.
"And that's the letter R, and R, is for Reptar." Said Tommy.
"You're doing great Tommy." Said Miss Applebee, as she showed him another letter.
"And that's the letter C, C is for canceled." Said Tommy.
"Wow, in all my years of teaching preschool, I've never had any of my students come up with that one." Said Miss Applebee, as she showed him the final card.
The last card had the letter U on it.
"And this is, uh, um, uh, oh, I can't member." Said Tommy.
"It's the letter U, like in umbrella, and unicorn." Said Miss Applebee.
Tommy looked up at the teacher and frowned.
"Awe, don't worry Tommy, getting only one letter wrong is nothing to be ashamed of. You did great!" Said Miss Applebee.
Tommy smiled a little, as he left and took his seat at one of the little tables, and colored in a picture of an umbrella and some blocks on a piece of paper with the crayons he found sitting in the center..
Everybody else went up and took their tests, all doing really well except for Phil, who kept getting all of his letters mixed up. Lil got three letters correct, while Jesse got four out of the five letters he was presented with correct, and Zack, Kimi and Chuckie, got every single letter correct, though Chuckie was very nervous. After everybody had tested, Miss Applebee got the class's attention.
"Well boys and girls, you all did a beautiful job." Said Miss Applebee, as she sat up at the front of the circle and smiled.
After school, the toddlers got another surprise as they headed for home. Didi had the day off, so she and Stu came to pick all of the kids up. As they were pulling into the driveway, the adults were taken by surprise by what they heard.
"I love you." Said Dil.
"I love you too champ." Said Stu.
"Are you sure that was Tommy Stu?" Didi asked.
Stu sat there in the driveway, realizing what he heard. When Dil didn't receive a response from his parents, he said it again.
"I love you." Said Dil.
Noticing this, Stu and Didi looked in the reer view mirror to see that it wasn't Tommy talking after all.
"Dil! You said your first word!" Cried Stu.
"Not his first word Stu, but his first sentence! Oh Dil sweetie, mommy is so proud of you!" Said Didi excitedly, as she hopped out of the car, and gave her youngest son a hug.
"I love you." Dil said again, smiling up at his mommy.
"Way to go Dilly." Said Tommy, as he unbuckled himself from his booster car seat, got out of the car, and everybody stood in the driveway, giving Dil a hug.
Later that afternoon after lunch, to celebrate, the toddlers let Dil decide what to do, since he had made such an accomplishment of talking to the adults for the first time.
"So, what do you wanna do Dilly?" Tommy asked.
"Let's watch Super Why." Dil replied.
"Great idea Dil!" Said Tommy.
"But Tommy, you usually don't wanna watch Super Why." Said Chuckie.
"Yeah I thought you didn't like that show." Said Zack.
"Well, after having that dream yesterday night, I think I like Super Why now. If I hadn't gone and saved Storybrook Village from closing the lines of communication, Dilly would have never said his firstest word to the growed ups." Said Tommy.
"You mean my firstest sentence." Said Dil.
"Yeah." Said all of the toddlers in unison, as they giggled and Tommy put on one of Zack's Super Why DVD's that he brought over with him to watch.
The End
Author's Note: I hope everybody enjoyed that story. The idea for this story stemmed from an ongoing conversation Nairobi-harper and I had been having for quite a while about All Grown Up, and some of Nickelodeon's other rotton programming. The conversation got me to thinking, how might the different show's characters react to such ridiculousness? And how might they attempt to stop it? And well, you got this story I came up with. I know it might have been lame in parts, but I had a lot of fun writing it. And well, as usual, be looking for more stories from me, coming soon!