Chapter 10

Cameron was flying out of his seat before the car stopped. Spencer was always half a step behind his older cousin. Cameron practically flew out of the door when Lucky opened it. "Mommy!" he screamed. "Uncle Nikky fell into the water and he got all wet and then he was grumpy and then he got all scary mad..." his words trailed off into a muffled blur as the door to the house shut behind him. Nikolas and Lucky glanced at each other and chuckled as Spencer rushed up the front porch to catch up with Cameron.

Nikolas and Lucky began unloading the camping gear and carrying it up the porch when Elizabeth emerged from the house. "So where are the fish?" she asked innocently.

Nikolas glanced at Lucky who grinned and chuckled as he turned to Elizabeth, "Nikolas knocked them all in when he fell in the water."

Elizabeth's face showed first shock and then laughter which she tried to conceal from Nikolas, "So Cameron was telling me the whole truth..."

"Sadly it's true," Nikolas confessed with a grin.

"So were you really scary mad at him?" Elizabth quizzed.

"WEll he and Spencer did pull some pranks on us... and I blamed him for falling in... but really it was my fault."

Lucky grinned at his brothers confession. "So where are the boys?"

Elizabeth glanced from one brother to another. "I have no idea." Thermos she had been holding was instantly forgotten as they all set off to find where Cameron and Spencer had gone.

Cameron's foot was wedged tightly into the small diamond shaped opening. "Spencer, help me... I'm stuck." Cameron begged.

Spencer peered anxiously at the back door which was easily visible from thei location. "Cameron I can't reach you."

Cameron continued to wiggle, trying to loosen the latices grip on his shoe. "Hurry, Mommy or Daddy or Uncle Nikky will be here soon. They'll come to find us and I'll be stuck up here. "

Spencer looked at his cousin, "Well I tried to tell you that you shouldn't do it..." Spencer said cautiously. "But you just wouldn't listen."

CAmeron grimaced at him and then resumed his battle with his shoe. "Maybe if I take off my shoe I can get it free."

But before anything could be done Lucky spotted them. "Cameron!" he bellowed. "What do you think that you are doing?" His face was red as he ran towards them.

CAmeron's lip pouted out as a tear fell from his eye. "I'm stuck!" he plantively wailed.

And Lucky laughed. He laughed as he hadn't laughed in years. He probably hadn't laughed this hard since...since... cince he and Gia and Nikolas were practicing for the Nurses Ball and Nikolas's pants ripped when he attempted a dance move from seam to seam. Tears sprung to his eyes as he laughed so hard that his side hurt. Elizabeth and Nikolas discovered Cameron still stuck in the lattice and Lucky laughing so hard that he couldn't breathe.

Nikolas plucked him from her perch and sat his feet back on the ground. Elizabeth looked at Lucky oddly. But she let it slide. Apparently Cameron's predicament had amused him... and maybe just maybe Cameron would finally learn his lesson, but probably not. It was just a lovely dream.