Precious To Him

Schitnzel was worried as he started working after leaving Gherkin at school. Mung noticed he was sad and wondered what was wrong. It had something to do with a letter he'd gotten the other day.

"Are you sure you're okay?

You haven't been yourself." Mung asked him.

"Radda." he answered but Mung wasn't so sure.

He then found the letter and read it but was sad for Schitnzel.

Gherkin's birth parents were coming to visit Marzipan City and naturally Schitnzel was worried because he thought they would take Gherkin away from him.

"I don't think it'll happen Schitnzel.

Maybe they just want to see how he's doing." Mung reassured him but Schitnzel wasn't sure.

"What if it's not to see how he's doing?

I can't let him be taken away from me.

He's the best thing that happened to me." he thought as he worked on chopping up vegetables.

Chowder wondered why Schitnzel was so sad.

Gherkin wondered why his Daddy was sad as he picked him up from school.

"Radda, Radda." Schitnzel answered as he returned to Mung's but was very nervous as he saw a rock monster couple but Gherkin was confused because they looked the same as him.

"Daddy what's going on?" he asked scared.

"Gherkin it's okay.

Why don't you go play while your Daddy and I talk with these people, okay?" Mung said as the young rock monster went upstairs to his room. Schitnzel was nervous as he saw the couple.

"Greetings.

I'm Mariah and this is my husband Cassius.

We're Gherkin's birth parents.

We see you found our bundle of joy and have done a good job of raising him." Gherkin's mother said to him.

"But why show up now?

It's a little strange." Mung said to them.

"That night when Schitnzel found him, we were poor and out of luck but now things have changed.

We know how much you love him and he loves you but we....... want you to keep raising him but we'll be living in Marzipan City in a cheap apartment.

That way we can still be family." Mariah told them.

Schitnzel smiled at that as he heard Gherkin come downstairs as the couple left.

"Daddy what's going on?" he asked drinking juice.

Mung looked a little nervous at this.

"You see when you were a baby, your parents couldn't take care of you and left you in a dumpster until one night when Schitnzel found you. He has been raising you since then. The grown ups that came in here today were your birth parents.

They decided to let Schitnzel keep raising you but would keep a watchful eye on you by living in Marzipan City where we still be family but we still love you along with your birth parents.

Do you understand Gherkin?" Mung explained to him.

"Sort of Uncle Mung." Gherkin answered him.

Schitnzel noticed that Gherkin was very quiet the rest of the night even during dinner. He had a feeling the child was confused by what Mung had tried to tell him. He then calmed Gherkin down at bedtime while getting him to sleep.

"Radda, Radda, Radda, Radda?" Schitnzel said to him.

"Yes Daddy Schitnzel I understand." Gherkin replied to him yawning as he kissed Schitnzel goodnight as he went back downstairs where Mung was preparing ab order.

He hoped Gherkin was okay.

"Radda, Radda." Schitnzel answered kneading dough.

Mung understood as he made soup.

Chowder was asleep in bed.

"I'm sure Gherkin will be okay.

He looked pretty sad eariler." Mung told him as they finished the order.

Schitnzel then went to bed around midnight and was really tired.

He climbed into bed and yawned seeing Gherkin sleeping peacefully.

He hoped that he would be okay and that they'd always be family no matter what.....