The 13 Days of Rucas
Hello, my fellow readers. It is I, the great James Stryker bringing you another great chapter of The 13 Days of Rucas. Okay, this is another favorite chapter along with the last chapter. I am a huge movie buff and this chapter describes it all because I have like a whole lot of movies on DVD and I have some of the greatest Academy Award winning movies on DVD from some of my favorite directors like Sydney Pollack's Tootsie, James Cameron's Avatar, Tim Burton's Batman, Lethal Weapon 2, yeah Lethal Weapon 2 was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound. In this chapter, Lucas starts Friar Family Movie Night in their new house and Riley and Juliet try to pick a movie to watch on their first night at their new house. Now, I will be mentioning some movies, some old and some new movies, some that you've heard of and some that you haven't heard of. So here it is, Day Nine of The 13 Days of Rucas. BTW, this takes place before Juliet's World and Juliet is four in this one.
Day Nine
Movie Night
Lucas, Riley and Juliet have family movie night.
"Alright, it's that time again. Bring out you favorite snacks and sit down on the couch, because Friar Family Movie Night is about to start." Lucas announced as Juliet enters the living room with Rover the puppy by her side while Riley stops working in her office upstairs and walked down the stairs. Lucas entered the kitchen to check on the s'mores that were in the oven and the popcorn, then he made his way over to the refrigerator and grabbed two cans of cherry vanilla Pepsi for him and Riley and a bottle of tropical punch Kool-Aid Bursts for Juliet. Ever since Juliet was three, Lucas started family movie night back when they were living in their old apartment on Saturday nights.
"So, what are we going to watch today?" Riley asked, sitting down on the couch.
"Hmm, we could watch Luke Cage on Netflix but I remember that Juliet is in the room. Plus, you tend to get a little hot in your panties when you see Mike Colter shirtless and making me a little jealous." Lucas said as he noticed a grin on Riley's face. "You're grinning about that. Great, that's one thing to add to the list, along with Chris Pratt's bare ass on Passengers."
Riley giggled as Rover walked over to her and jumped on the couch and laid down on her lap while Juliet tries to pick a DVD from underneath the TV stand for the whole family to watch.
"See anything you like, Jules?" Riley asked as Lucas entered the living room after taking the s'mores out of the oven to let them cool off.
"Hmm, well let's see what we could watch." Lucas pulled out The Omen Collection on Blu-Ray. "How about The Omen?"
"No. And no we are not watching Omen IV: The Awakening because it sucked and it's directed by the same guy who directed that horrible Halloween movie." Riley said.
"Halloween 5? Yeah, that was horrible. I mean, Jamie having a psychic link between her uncle Michael Myers, Rachel getting killed off, those idiot comic relief cops, Dr. Loomis being a dick, excuse me. Sorry, Juliet. And to top it all off, Tina is annoying!" Lucas exclaimed as Juliet looked at her father.
"Daddy, how come you hate mommy's friend Tina?" Juliet asked.
"Tina is not real. She's only a character in a movie that daddy doesn't like." Riley said.
Lucas then pulls out another DVD, this time it was the movie Amadeus. He held the movie up and showed it to Riley, in which she made a face.
"Amadeus. Seriously?" Riley asked.
"It's a good movie." Lucas said.
"Daddy, man with big hair is funny." Juliet said.
"Yeah." Lucas said as Riley glared at him.
"You let her watch that movie? Please tell me that it's not the R-rated director's cut." Riley said.
"No, it's not. It's the PG-rated version. Why would you think it was the R-rated director's cut?" Lucas asked.
"I don't know. Maybe boobies." Riley said. Lucas started chuckling while Rover barks for a treat. Juliet stops looking for a DVD to watch and gave Rover a treat before going back to pick one out until she found one.
"Mommy, daddy. Can we watch Bambi?" Juliet asked.
"Ooh. Good choice, Jules." Lucas said as Juliet smiled at him right when Riley cleared her throat to get his attention.
"Uh, Lucas. Could you come here for a second please?" Riley asked as Lucas walked over towards the couch and sat down next to her. "Lucas, we are not letting our little girl watch Bambi. Do you want her to end up like Skippy?"
"Skippy? Who's Skippy?" Lucas asked.
"You know who Skippy is." Riley said as Lucas made a confused look on his face. "Ugh! The squirrel from Animaniacs who was in the movie theater watching Bumbie: The Dearest Deer with his Aunt Slappy and he started crying in the movie theater."
"Oh, the episode where Skippy cries from when Bumbie's mom got….." Lucas said until Riley cuts him off by covering his mouth with her hand.
"Jules, did you find anything yet? Because if you haven't, then we might as well watch Netflix and pick something to watch on there." Riley said as Juliet continued to look through the shelves until she picked out a DVD to watch.
"Mommy." Juliet said.
"Yes?" Riley answered.
"Can we watch this movie?" Juliet asked, holding up a DVD copy of The Crying Game that her parents owned as Riley's eyes widened after hearing her little girl ask if they could watch the movie.
"Oh, no. Honey, it's a no-no movie for mommy and daddy to watch when we're alone and while you're in bed asleep." Riley said.
"Why can't I watch it?" Juliet asked.
"Because you're only four. You see, this movie has a lot of bad things in it that your innocent little mind won't understand." Lucas said.
"How come? What kind of bad things does it have in it?" Juliet asked.
"Well, there's a lot of cursing, a lot of bad no-no words that you might hear mommy and daddy say. It's too violent. It has some content that you won't understand. Plus, there's a scene where a woman is revealed to have a….." Lucas was then cut off by Riley punching his arm. "Ow! What?"
"Don't even think about it." Riley said, glaring at her husband.
"Mommy?" Juliet asked, looking at her mother.
"You'll understand when you get older." Riley said.
"But daddy let me watch Mortal Kombat." Juliet said. Riley gasped, turning to her husband who was busy whistling and playing innocent in front of her.
"You let our daughter watch Mortal Kombat?!" Riley asked.
"The movie's rated PG-13! It's not like you'll see anyone getting their spine ripped out. Okay, well the scene with Scorpion scared Juliet a bit and so did Shao Kahn at the end but she started laughing when I made fun of the character sounding like Dr. Claw." Lucas said. "Hey, if you want to talk about watching movies that she's not supposed to watch, who was the one who introduced our daughter to Brian De Palma's controversial classic Scarface while she was an infant?"
"It worked for Mitchell on Modern Family!" Riley exclaimed.
"As a result to use the Ferber method on her?" Lucas asked. "That's your way of soothing her?"
"Well, yeah. Mom and dad tried it out on me, Auggie and Charlie when we were infants." Riley said.
"I got one!" Juliet yelled out after grabbing the DVD from out of the DVD shelf and walked over to Riley and Lucas and handing it to them. Riley and Lucas look at the DVD and sees that it's the 1984 classic The Neverending Story.
"The Neverending Story. You want to watch that one?" Lucas asked.
"Yeah." Juliet smiles.
"Alright. The Neverending Story it is. Are the snacks ready?" Riley asked right before she starts the movie.
"Yeah." Lucas said.
"Can we watch this movie as well?" Juliet asked, holding a DVD copy of The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter in her hand as Riley turned to Lucas.
"There's a sequel?!" Riley asked as Lucas chuckled.
And that was Day Nine of The 13 Days of Rucas. I hope that you all enjoyed that cute little chapter. And yes, The Neverending Story is one of my favorite movies from my childhood along with Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. When I was young, I did not know that there was a sequel to The Neverending Story when my mom had the second one on tape with the Looney Tunes short Box-Office Bunny. Maybe she taped it on HBO back in 1991. For those of you who are new to The Neverending Story, watch the first one and the second one. Don't get me started on the third one with the kid from the Free Willy movies and Jack Black in it, it drove me insane like the Nostalgia Critic. LOL. Just avoid The Neverending Story III because it sucked! Next time on The 13 Days of Rucas, Day Ten and I'm going to have a lot of fun writing Day Ten because it's about Riley and Lucas creating fun rules for each other. Sorry that I didn't get to post Day Nine last night, I was busy playing The Last of Us Remastered on the PS4 and I was also exhausted from work as well. Working 8 hrs is kicking my butt. LOL. Don't forget to review this story, add this to your favorites and follow it for updates. Also for Day Ten, if you can come up with some cute or sassy rules for Riley and Lucas, feel free to send some to me and I'll put it in the story. I'll see you guys next time. Till next time, my fellow readers.
