p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Charles loved the summer, him and his Dad went on big Boyle Boys adventures. He did sometimes miss Jake if there were days they didn't hang out, but he made sure to send him a daily update letter anytime he went away. So far this summer they'd been to several different food camps. His Dad had bought him his first food dehydrator, the one his father had given him when he was Charles' age. All in all he was having a great time. He couldn't wait to start first grade; a whole new year of seeing all his friends everyday. At the moment Charles had more pressing matters: Jake's birthday was coming up! He had been in contact with Karen, who seemed a lot less enthusiastic about the prospect, saying they would just have all the gang round and have a cake or something. So far Charles had managed to convince her to get a bouncy house and hire a clown; someone had to make an effort, Roger wasn't going to. It had taken Charles a good couple of months but he had finally crafted the perfect present for Jake, he couldn't wait to see his best friend's face when he saw it./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It was Monday morning, Charles and his Dad had been making a casserole with his Dad all morning. At 11 there was a knock at the /"Hey Jake," he heard his Dad /Charles let out a scream of delight and leapt out the chair, rushing to the door to meet /"Jakey!" Charles exclaimed, bounding over to his friend and embracing him /"Hey Charles," Jake replied, trying to breathe through Charles' hug cutting off his oxygen /"Did you come all this way by yourself?" Lynn Boyle asked the 5 year /"Uh huh," Jake replied, Charles had finally released /"Is your Mom at home?" Lynn /"No she's at work," Jake /"Oh, so she left you all on your own?" Lynn /"No she left me with Dad, but then he said he had something he needed to attend to and went out. I got bored so I came here," Jake told him, Charles was still bouncing up and down with excitement at Jake coming over /"I see," Lynn said, a concerned look on his /"Is that okay, I can go if you're busy" Jake /"No buddy that's fine, come on in," Lynn welcomed,br /Jake had barely stepped in the door when Charles dragged him to his room, desperate to give Jake a tour of the changes he'd made./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""This is Arlo, this is Madison, this is Mario and this one is Jake!" Charles explained, he had told Jake the name of every single stuffed animal in his room, all 240 of /"Cool," Jake said, snapping out of his daydream. "Hey Charles, do you want to come with me and Gi-"br /"Yes, one thousand times yes," Charles burst /"You don't even know what it is yet," Jake /"If you're going, I'm going Jakey!" Charles /"Okay, well I was gonna ask if you wanted to come to the waterpark next month with me and the gang?" Jake /"YES!" Charles /"Cool, well it should be fun," Jake /"Let's go tell my Dad," Charles said, grabbing Jake's wrist and leading him down the /"Hey boys," Lynn said as the two boys skipped into the /"Hey Dad, guess what! Jake's invited me to go to the waterpark with everyone next month!" Charles told /"Hey that will be fun. Can I come as well Jake?" Lynn /"Sure you can, Mr Boyle," Jake /"Oh and Jake, I called your Mom just to let her know you were here. She gets off work in about half an hour, do you boys fancy going to the park and she can pick you up from there. It's just less of a journey for her," Lynn /"Yeah!" The boys erupted and scrambled to put their shoes and coats on./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Charles and his Dad held hands as they walked, Charles kept begging to hold Jake's hand but Jake said he was too big to hold hands. Lynn managed to persuade him to hold his hand when they crossed the street and it wasn't long before Jake felt left out and clung to Charles' hand the rest of the walk. At the park Lynn pushed them both on the swings, then Charles watched and applauded as Jake did the monkey bars and then they both settled down and played in the sand. Soon Karen /"I can't believe he left him, thank you so much for taking him, sorry about all this!" Karen muttered to Lynnbr /"Not at it, it is a pleasure having him and I'd much rather look after him than him to be left alone," Lynn assured /"Hey Mom," Jake said running up to /"Hey buddy," Karen said, crouching down and embracing her son, after she'd let him go Charles insisted on hugging her /"You boys ready to head off home?" Lynn asked /"Okay," They /The four of them walked across the field together, Jake and Charles walking in front holding hands and the parents behind /"Dad!" Jake called /Roger Peralta was walking along the bottom of the field, checking his watch. He looked up and horror came across his face when he saw /"Jake stay there!" Karen said as she began marching towards her /"Hey boys, why don't we play a game of I Spy?" Lynn /But Jake could not be distracted, he watched as his parents argued in the /"You left him alone! He is 5 years old!" Karen screamed at /"He's fine, look at him," Roger /"Anything could have happened! What you did was illegal, I could call the police on you!" Karen shouted /"It's not a big deal, calm down!" Roger /Jake went to run over to them but Lynn caught his /"Stay here buddy, let your parents talk," he said, patting Jake on the /Eventually Karen and Roger stopped shouting, Karen ordered Roger to go and get a pizza and movie to watch with Jake to make up for missing the day with /"Come on honey let's go home," Karen said, walking back over as Roger headed down the /"Is Daddy angry with me?" Jake /"No honey of course he's not angry with you. You did nothing wrong. Now he has gone to get a movie and a pizza to make up for leaving you, so say goodbye to Charles," Karen /"Everything okay?" Lynn asked, while the boys were busy saying /"Yeah it is now, sorry you had to see that. And thanks again for everything you did today," Karen told /"Anytime," Lynn said smiling, he took Charles' hand and headed off back /Karen then hoisted her 5 year old into a carry and he rambled on about going to the waterpark the whole way home./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It was Monday morning, Charles and his Dad had been making a casserole with his Dad all morning. At 11 there was a knock at the /"Hey Jake," he heard his Dad /Charles let out a scream of delight and leapt out the chair, rushing to the door to meet /"Jakey!" Charles exclaimed, bounding over to his friend and embracing him /"Hey Charles," Jake replied, trying to breathe through Charles' hug cutting off his oxygen /"Did you come all this way by yourself?" Lynn Boyle asked the 5 year /"Uh huh," Jake replied, Charles had finally released /"Is your Mom at home?" Lynn /"No she's at work," Jake /"Oh, so she left you all on your own?" Lynn /"No she left me with Dad, but then he said he had something he needed to attend to and went out. I got bored so I came here," Jake told him, Charles was still bouncing up and down with excitement at Jake coming over /"I see," Lynn said, a concerned look on his /"Is that okay, I can go if you're busy" Jake /"No buddy that's fine, come on in," Lynn welcomed,br /Jake had barely stepped in the door when Charles dragged him to his room, desperate to give Jake a tour of the changes he'd made./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""This is Arlo, this is Madison, this is Mario and this one is Jake!" Charles explained, he had told Jake the name of every single stuffed animal in his room, all 240 of /"Cool," Jake said, snapping out of his daydream. "Hey Charles, do you want to come with me and Gi-"br /"Yes, one thousand times yes," Charles burst /"You don't even know what it is yet," Jake /"If you're going, I'm going Jakey!" Charles /"Okay, well I was gonna ask if you wanted to come to the waterpark next month with me and the gang?" Jake /"YES!" Charles /"Cool, well it should be fun," Jake /"Let's go tell my Dad," Charles said, grabbing Jake's wrist and leading him down the /"Hey boys," Lynn said as the two boys skipped into the /"Hey Dad, guess what! Jake's invited me to go to the waterpark with everyone next month!" Charles told /"Hey that will be fun. Can I come as well Jake?" Lynn /"Sure you can, Mr Boyle," Jake /"Oh and Jake, I called your Mom just to let her know you were here. She gets off work in about half an hour, do you boys fancy going to the park and she can pick you up from there. It's just less of a journey for her," Lynn /"Yeah!" The boys erupted and scrambled to put their shoes and coats on./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Charles and his Dad held hands as they walked, Charles kept begging to hold Jake's hand but Jake said he was too big to hold hands. Lynn managed to persuade him to hold his hand when they crossed the street and it wasn't long before Jake felt left out and clung to Charles' hand the rest of the walk. At the park Lynn pushed them both on the swings, then Charles watched and applauded as Jake did the monkey bars and then they both settled down and played in the sand. Soon Karen /"I can't believe he left him, thank you so much for taking him, sorry about all this!" Karen muttered to Lynnbr /"Not at it, it is a pleasure having him and I'd much rather look after him than him to be left alone," Lynn assured /"Hey Mom," Jake said running up to /"Hey buddy," Karen said, crouching down and embracing her son, after she'd let him go Charles insisted on hugging her /"You boys ready to head off home?" Lynn asked /"Okay," They /The four of them walked across the field together, Jake and Charles walking in front holding hands and the parents behind /"Dad!" Jake called /Roger Peralta was walking along the bottom of the field, checking his watch. He looked up and horror came across his face when he saw /"Jake stay there!" Karen said as she began marching towards her /"Hey boys, why don't we play a game of I Spy?" Lynn /But Jake could not be distracted, he watched as his parents argued in the /"You left him alone! He is 5 years old!" Karen screamed at /"He's fine, look at him," Roger /"Anything could have happened! What you did was illegal, I could call the police on you!" Karen shouted /"It's not a big deal, calm down!" Roger /Jake went to run over to them but Lynn caught his /"Stay here buddy, let your parents talk," he said, patting Jake on the /Eventually Karen and Roger stopped shouting, Karen ordered Roger to go and get a pizza and movie to watch with Jake to make up for missing the day with /"Come on honey let's go home," Karen said, walking back over as Roger headed down the /"Is Daddy angry with me?" Jake /"No honey of course he's not angry with you. You did nothing wrong. Now he has gone to get a movie and a pizza to make up for leaving you, so say goodbye to Charles," Karen /"Everything okay?" Lynn asked, while the boys were busy saying /"Yeah it is now, sorry you had to see that. And thanks again for everything you did today," Karen told /"Anytime," Lynn said smiling, he took Charles' hand and headed off back /Karen then hoisted her 5 year old into a carry and he rambled on about going to the waterpark the whole way home./p