Shortly After Dot was born Darlene started drinking again. Though she took it a bit slower this time around. She didn't completely loose it until the end of summer. By September she was drinking every day, and her other addictions followed closely behind.
September 8th, 2009; The day Yakko was dreading, It was the first day of school. Any kid dreaded the first day back, but Yakko had other reasons for not wanting the day to come. Sakko had been pretty un-reliable lately, despite the talk Yakko had with him the night they brought Dot home, Sakko continued to leave home and avoid all of them. Yakko told him several times that school was coming up and that he would have to watch Dot while he and Wakko were at school, but he doubted Sakko had remembered.
Yakko got out of bed and walked towards the bathroom to get ready. On the way there he passed the nursery and found Sakko in the rocking chair feeding Dot a bottle.
"Morning dad, morning sis." Yakko grinned. "He's home. He's actually home, now I can go to school no worries!"
Yakko finished up in the bathroom and found Wakko was already ready.
"Wakko did you get ready yourself?" Yakko looked at him, he was wearing normal clothes, his hair was combed into place, and he didn't have bad breath so that meant his teeth were brushed too.
"No Daddy helped me. He's got breakfast ready hurry up!" Wakko ran down to the kitchen with his back pack on.
"Impressive." Yakko thought. His dad even helped Wakko get ready, and made them breakfast. All he did was ask him to watch the baby.
Yakko entered the kitchen and was met with the delicious smells of eggs, english muffins, and "BACON? HE MADE BACON? I LOVE YOU DAD!"
"You made bacon I love you daddy!" Wakko yelled and ran towards his father.
"You took the words right out of my mouth bro."
After breakfast Sakko handed the boys their lunch boxes, took a picture of them and they left for school.
Yakko arrived home in the best mood his first day of 4th grade was awesome, he didn't have any diapers to change, bottles to make, a brother to get ready, and he had bacon. School was not bad either, his teacher is a babe, he sits next to the prettiest girl in school, he can take out more books in the school library, 4th graders get first choice of basketballs in gym class, and he had a philly cheese stake at lunch.
So Wakko how was your first day of pre-school Sakko asked when the boys entered.
He didn't reply he just walked up to his room and closed the door.
"Is it something I said?" Sakko asked sounding like a sad little kid.
"He wouldn't tell me either. Yakko shrugged. "He was silent the whole bus ride home."
"I've got to get down to the store, do you mind watching the kids?" Sakko put on his best puppy dog eyes.
Yakko was unfazed by the fake cuteness but he gave in anyways. "Fine."
"Thank you son." Sakko hugged him and left.
As soon as Sakko closed the door Dot began to cry.
"Right on cue baby sister!" Yakko walked up to the nursery and picked her up. "Hi Dot did you miss me? Hmm did you miss your big brothers?"
She giggled and made a grab for his hair. Yakko dodged her little hands.
"Yakko!" Wakko ran in.
"Yes?"
"Can we watch Looney Tunes?" Wakko held up their favorite Looney Tunes tape and smiled and batted his eyes.
"Cute doesn't work on me Wakko, but when it comes to Looney Tunes I always say yes." Yakko was always in the mood to watch looney tunes, or spend time with his sibs, but he was really hoping to find out what was bothering Wakko so much.
"Tha.." Wakko started to reply but was cut off by the house shaking.
"EARTHQUAKE! WAKKO SIT AGAINST THE WALL!"
He ran to the wall and sat down.
"PUT YOUR HEAD IN BETWEEN YOUR LEGS AND COVER YOUR NECK WITH YOUR HANDS!"
He did so while Yakko covered Dot.
Yakko could hear things from other rooms in the house fall and break, he wasn't worried about any objects he just wanted to get his sibs threw this alive. It felt like minutes but it was probably only 30 seconds later when the ground stopped shaking.
"You alright Wakko?" Yakko got up and looked around the room everything was fine nothing broke in the nursery.
"Yeah I am fine."
"Lets go see if the rest of the house survived the quake, then we will watch Looney Tunes." Yakko picked Dot back up and held Wakko's hand. He led them downstairs. They entered the kitchen. All the electronics were powered off. The microwave, stove, coffee maker were all on before. Then he noticed the fridge was off. He flicked the nearest light switch, but nothing happened. Confirming that they had lost power.
"Well it looks like we won't be watching Looney tunes until the power comes back on."
"Awww man stupid Earth." Wakko crossed his arms.
"Don't blame the Earth Wakko its not its FAULT." He emphasized the last word then laughed, but received a confused face from Wakko and a pull of his hair from Dot. "Anyone... no...? Alright lets get some candles lit."
Yakko and Wakko took out the families earth quake kit. Because they lived in Washington they were used to Earthquakes and kept some supplies together incase of emergencies. Yakko lit a few candles and put one in each room.
"Okay umm we could listen to music?" Yakko suggested.
"That's boring! Can we teach Dot how to play football?" He pulled a football out of his hammerspace along with a baby sized football helmet and jersey.
"Ehhhhh lets wait until she learns to walk, and Listening to music can be fun." Yakko pulled a radio out of his own hammerspace and turned it on. He flipped threw a few stations, the news, salsa music, more news, boring talk show, country music, gospel music, more news, he stopped when he reached a rock station and turned it up.
"Run to the hills - run for your lives
Run to the hills - run for your lives
Run to the hills - run for your lives
Run to the hills - run forrrrr yourrrrr livvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss"
"That was Iron Maiden, we'll hear more from them later on the station that plays it all KATS on 94.5 FM." The radio host announced.
"MEOOOOOWWWWW" The announcer hit a button that sounded like someone stepping on a cats tail. "KATS 94.5 FMMMMMMMMM IN YAKKKIMAAAAA"
"Yakko the radio people said your name!" Wakko was surprised.
"No they didn't, thats the town we live in Yakima, Washington." (In case you were wondering where they lived.)
"Now that last song was a hit from the 80s so lets stick with the theme, here is CRAZZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYY TRAINNNNNN by OZZY." The host announced.
"MEOOOOOWWWWW" He hit that annoying cat shriek button again "KATS! 94.5 FMMMMMMMMMM IN YAKKKKIMAAAAA"
"Why do they keep meowing?" Wakko asked his brother.
"Just incase you forgot how annoying they are, they like to remind you." Yakko grinned. "Now this is a good song listen up sibs!"
"All aboard! Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa!" The music begun and Yakko sung along.
"Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay" He looked at each of his siblings after each set of lyrics receiving giggles from each of them.
Halfway threw the song Wakko was picking up the words, he had the chorus down and was belting out the lyrics alongside Yakko, who was holding Dot and dancing with her. Dot was giggling and making all sorts of baby noises joining in on the fun.
Once the song faded out and the annoying radio station host went back to hitting buttons promoting his station.
"I like that song can we listen to it again!" Wakko jumped up and down all pumped up from the song.
"I don't choose the songs Wak, we have to wait until the radio announcer plays it."
"Aww man!" Wakko pouted.
Just then the power went back on.
"Powers back, you want to watch Looney Tunes?" Yakko pulled out the Looney Tunes tape.
"Cant we find the song on the computer? Wakko walked towards his fathers desktop and turned it on. He was too young to know anything about computers but he saw his dad play music on it before, and knew it could be done.
"Sure we can." Yakko looked up the song, and ended up playing it 3 more times. By the third time Wakko had all the lyrics memorized, and was ready to learn a new song.
"Maybe there was nothing bothering Wakko after all." Yakko thought while dancing and singing with his sibs.