This is dedicated to myself because I work very hard- Nah, I'm just kidding. This is dedicated to Shawn Levy who was the director for the movie that gave me the inspiration for this chapter. FLAME ON!
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Have You Ever Wondered
Chapter 7: Never a Dull Moment
(now here's a change of what we're used to...) Mr. Dickson's POV
"DAD!" I heard a voice yell from upstairs. I continued to stir the pasta sauce as I listened to multiple little thumps, meaning someone was coming down the stairs. "DAD!" I head the voice yelled again and I turned around to Hannah and April, one of them had a little cut on her forehead, standing on the oposite side of the kitchen.
"Daddy, Chad shot a dart at April's face!" Hannah said with her hands on her hips.
Nigel, Hannah and April's cousin, ran into the room, "I expect he'll be punished for that."
I rolled my eyes and handed Hannah the spoon, "Here, you like stirring, right?"
Hannah nodded and took the spoon.
"Nigel, can you get me a band-aid?" Nigel ran out of the room and towards the powder room.
I lifted April up onto the counter, "Okay, let's take a look..." I leaned in and did a fake scream.
April looked worried, but I smiled and patted my 7-year-old daughter's head, "Don't worry, I'm joking. There's a hardly a scratch."
I looked around, "Nigel! Where's that-"
"Here you go," He responded, coming out of no where.
"Thank you Nigel!" I responded, putting the toy story band-aid on April's forehead.
"Daddy, this gloop is on fire!" Hannah shrieked dropping the spoon on the floor.
I picked April up and carried her over to the stove, "That's how daddy likes it, hot and SPICY!" I leaned over and set April back down onto the floor, and she and Hannah ran away from the kitchen.
"Hey Chad! Wanna play darts?" April asked, stomping upstairs.
"NO! NO MORE DARTS!" I yelled behind me turning back to the stove just as Jake (one of my oldest sons) and David (Another one of my ((adopted)) nephews) skated behind me.
"Hey Dad, Lenny put a bucket on Oogie's head and it got stuck!" Jake informed me as they headed to the back door.
"No skating inside!" I called after them.
"Can we ask those kids down the road to play street hockey with us?" Jake asked.
"The Drilovsky's?" I replied as the boys skated circles around the kitchen.
Jake nodded.
"Don't leave Kami out!" I said.
"Kami can come play with April and Hannah!" Jake replied, flinging open the back door and jumping the steps.
"Oogie!" I called out, turning the stove off and heading toward the sound of a little girl's muffled screams.
Soon enough, I found my adopted neice with a bucket on top of her head, and I helped her slide it off.
"Why did Lenny put a bucket on your head?" I demanded, smoothing down the girls braids.
"Ask Lenny!" She replied, pointing to the second floor of the house where Lenny and Ashley were running into a bedroom.
"If David's outside, and you're here, and Lenny and Ashley and there... Where's Bruce?" I asked, counting off my brother in-law's children.
As if on que, I heard a scream from outside and I ran to the dining room, looking out of one of the windows to see a small blonde boy hanging upside down (his ankles were attached to a rope).
"Hey Uncle Conner! Isn't this sweet?" Bruce yelled in, grinning.
"ASHLEY! LENNY!" I yelled upstairs, and at the same split second, Bruce feel into a bush (his rope was let go of) and Ashley and Lenny dashed downstairs.
"WE DIDN'T DO IT!" They yelled in unision.
The started to come toward them but then the doorbell rang, so I turned around, but not before warning, "Don't move, either of you."
I opened the door to the small, blonde Drilovsky girl.
"April, Hannah, Kami's here!" I yelled up and the twins hurried out of their room.
"Up here Kami!" April waved and Kami ran upstairs.
I turned back to Lenny and Ashley, but neither of them were there. I turned around the other way, Oogie was gone too.
I sighed and went back to the window, seeing Ashley, Lenny and Oogie untying Bruce. As soon as they saw me, they all rushed away.
As I headed back to the kitchen, Chad stomped downstairs, "The girls are taking over up there!"
"Then go hang out with Jake and David," I suggested.
Chad made a face.
"The Drilovsky boys are outside with them. They're playing street hockey," I tried.
Chad made an even worse face.
"You can invite Riley," I said exasperatedly.
Chad ran out the door and I went to the kitchen.
I groaned, picking up my pot of sauce just as multiple shrieks could be heard from upstairs. Then three little pairs of feet ran downstairs.
"DADDY!" April and Hannah yelled together, Kami stood silently behind them.
"Yes?" I asked, taking a bite of the sauce and grimaced. I reached for the window ledge that was home to various spices plants. Which one was the basil? Oh yeah, that one.
"LOOK WHAT CHAD DID TO OUR DOLLIES!" April shrieked.
I turned around to Hannah and April holding out rag dolls that were covered in sharpie mustaches and scars and all the hair was cut off of them.
I came and kneeled over next to the girls. How was I going explain this one? "Well your dollies are super secret agents. The scars are from their battle missions and the mustaches and haircuts are their super secret spy disguises."
First there were blank looks but then they smiled understandingly.
"This is better than the time Mark made my dolls monsters for Halloween!" Kami giggled.
"Did Fernando tell you that?" I asked.
Kami nodded and then turned to the twins, "Hey, do you wanna play secret spy dolls outside so we can watch the boys play street hockey?"
Hannah and April nodded and the girls ran through the family room and outside. I followed, putting my Blackberry into my pocket.
Once I was outside, I took in my surroundings. Jake, Chad, Riley and David Berenson, Fernando, Mark, Patton and David Uno (my nephew) were playing four on four in our street (our house was on the end of a dead end road) but it seemed as they were on a time out, since Jake and Fernando were kneeling next to Hannah, April and Kami, tying blue ribbons into the girl's pony tails, representing their team, which was Jake, Fernando, Patton and David U. against Chad, Riley, David B. and Mark.
Lenny, Ashley, Bruce and Oogie were climibing the cherry tree in our front yard, laughing about Bruce being tied up earlier and Oogie's bucket head.
Kami, Hannah and April were being cheerleaders for the blue team, forgetting about the spy dolls that lay in the front yard.
I could see Nigel a few houses down at the Gilligan's house with the Beatles boy and the oldest Gilligan boy.
My phone vibrated and I saw my wife's picture on the screen.
"Hey Sarah," I greeted.
"Hi honey, listen, mom needs Monty, Benedict and I out here for a few more days..." She sounded despereate. My father in law was recently diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and their three children had flown out there earlier this week.
I swallowed a sigh, "How much longer?"
"14 days," She said timidly. "Can you handle watching all the kids until then? Nigel as well, Joy is flying out tonight to be with Monty."
"Of course I can handle it," I responded.
"It isn't too hectic?" She asked caringly.
I smiled to myself, "Not hectic, but there's never a dull moment."
Okay, so, the first person to review and tell me what movie this chapter was based off of gets a chapter all about their character and April :)
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