Chapter 28: The Plan!
TWO WEEKS LATER!
Simon, Jeanette and the kids returned safely from their camping trip last week, and were warmly greeted by the rest of the family.
It wasn't long till they all fell into old habits with their busy lives, until Dave suggested a family barbeque. The others agreed and picked a Sunday when neither of them was busy.
While the burgers were on the grill, the family mingles with each other. Alvin absently watches Simon play with his two boys near the big oak tree in the back yard. As he watches Simon picking each of them up and spinning them around for a 'helicopter' ride, he realized that his brother never looked happier. Even when they were young kids themselves, Simon didn't seem to be 100% happy. This made Alvin think, and he began to realize that something is missing in his life. He turns to see that Brittany is looking at Jeanette combing her daughter's hair in the same way as he was looking at his brother.
Alvin ponders for a moment and goes up to his wife. "Hey, Brittany...I was thinking. Maybe we should give our siblings a time off from their busy schedule and perhaps take care of the triplets for a week?"
"Are you serious, Alvin?" Brittany asked in a shock. Never before had he ever 'volunteered' to look after Simon and Jeanette's children. Neither of them have had the need to be that responsible. Only if they had no other choice and being that their siblings were in a desperate situation then would Alvin and Brittany help look after the triplets.
"Sure, it would be fun. Being that we now have a cool house on the beach, the kids will love it. And besides, they are pretty much old enough to look after themselves. It's not like when they were babies and we had to watch them all the time." Alvin stated.
Thinking about it for sometime, Brittany nodded her head in agreement. But first they must get Simon and Jeanette to agree before they finalise their plan. They sat at the picnic table talking to Simon and Jeanette while the others prepared the rest of the dinner and as the kids continued to play around the yard.
"You want to do what?" Simon asked horrified.
"We want to take the kids for one week." Alvin told them.
"Why?" Jeanette asked already suspicious of the idea.
"Yeah, what's the catch?" Simon added, knowing his brother all to well from their childhood.
"No catch, we promise. We understand that you two are very stressed and we figured that maybe we take the kids for a week so you can have a break, if you know what I mean?" Brittany said knowingly.
"Besides, we know that you two haven't actually had a proper honeymoon and we figure that this could be the closest thing that you could have as one?" Alvin added with a wink to his wife.
"Alvin, forgive me, but do you have any idea how much responsibility taking care of three young children can be? Do you remember the last time I asked you to baby-sit them?" Simon said, pointing out Alvin's irresponsible behaviour. Simon still has nightmares of what would have happened if he didn't come home when he did to catch the triplets before they fell out of the tree.
"That was a long time ago, Simon. I'm all grown up now." Alvin argued in defence.
"Uh huh," Simon crossed his arms and eyed his brother warily.
"It's not that we are going to be that far away. We'll be at our place, just a couple of miles away." Brittany added.
"Well..." Jeanette and Simon both looked at each other and thought about what their older siblings were saying. They smiled and faced Alvin and Brittany.
"Alright," Simon said. "You can take them for one week."
"Great!" Alvin and Brittany chimed eagerly at the same time.
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THREE WEEKS LATER!
Alvin and Brittany come to pick up the kids early Friday morning. Dave had left the day before for a business trip. So far the plan to have Simon and Jeanette a whole week to be alone is working perfectly. Both Alvin and Brittany knew that their niece and nephews love to spend time with them and they had a wonderful week planed for them. But when they got there it was to their surprise Tom, Mary and Vincent were in no hurry to leave the parents side.
"But dad, we don't wanna go. We want to stay here with you." Whined Mary.
"Yeah." Tom agreed.
"Now guys, we discussed this already." Simon said as he rolled his eyes. "And we agreed that you three would have a fun week with your Uncle Alvin and Aunt Brittany."
"But Dad!" All three whined in unison. Simon just simply let out a low growl.
"Dad, you promised that we would do some experiments this weekend." Vincent pointed out.
"Vincent, I said that we'd do that next weekend. After when you get back from you Aunt and Uncle's." Simon sighed.
Jeanette walked up to her sister and handed her some bottles and a piece of paper with instructions written on it. One of the bottles had a prescription label on it.
"Now, Brittany, here are some of the kids vitamins. And this one," Jeanette said holding the prescription bottle, "is for Tom's ear infection."
Brittany took the bottles and had a closer look at the prescription one. It was defiantly eardrops, used for infected ears. She looked up at her sister puzzlingly. "Tom still gets ear infections?"
Yes, but they are not as bad as when he was a baby."
Brittany remembered when he first got sick and how stressful it was for everyone to deal with his screams of pain. She again looked up at Jeanette and smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry about a thing. Alvin and I will look after the little darlings."
"We're more worried that they might take care of you." Simon muttered under his breath.
"What was that, Simon?" Alvin asked then smirked.
"Nothing." Simon quickly said. "Here, you'll need this." He handed his brother a video that was entitled 'Mr. Science'.
"The kids love this video and it'll keep them busy if they get too rowdy." Simon instructed.
"Thanks Simon, but I think Brittany and I have the week worked out so that we won't need this boring science video." Alvin said as he attempted to give back the videotape.
"Just take it, Alvin." Simon growled and pushed the tape up against Alvin's chest. "You can use it for an emergency. And trust me, nothing ever goes as planed when your dealing with kids."
"Very well." Alvin sighed. He threw it carelessly into the trunk with the kids tote bags and sleeping bags. Then he closed the trunk.
"Ok, kids. Time to get in the car." Simon chirped as he clasped his hands together.
All three children ran up to their parents and hugged them tightly. Alvin and Brittany realized that this would be the first week that they would be apart from each other.
"Dad, we don't want to go!" Vince bellowed.
"But son, Aunt Brittany and Uncle Alvin have a whole week planned out for you three." Simon said with an assuring tone. "I'm sure you will have loads of fun."
"Why can't we stay here with you and Mom?" Mary asked sweetly.
"Because, your mother and I have plans of our own and they don't include you three...sorry." Simon said as he pinched her cute little cheek. He tried to stay as calmly as he could. "So, come on now, get in the car."
"I don't wanna get in the car." Vincent retorted as he crossed his arms and started to stomp his foot on the ground.
"Get in the car, Vince." Simon said as he ushered Mary and Tom in the back seat.
"No, you get in the car!"
Simon turned and let out an even louder growl and stared down at Vincent.
"Ok...I'm getting in the car." Vincent said as he finally caved in and crawled, reluctantly, in the back seat. He knew all too well when his dad made that look that he was about to get really mad.
Both Simon and Jeanette waved good-bye as they watched the car pulled out of the driveway and disappear around the corner down the street. Both of them let out a deep sigh and Simon walked up from behind his wife and rapped his arms around her.
"I'm really going to miss them." Jeanette admitted as she leaned on Simon's chest.
"Me too." Simon replied absently.
"So what do we do now?" She said with a sigh.
Simon thought for a moment and couldn't help to have a devilish smirk on his face.
"Well we do have the whole house to yourselves!" He began to state. "Dave is on a business trip for the week, the kids are away. It's just you and me." He purred before gently kissing Jeanette on the neck.
This motion that Simon did began to send shivers of pleasure down Jeanette's body. She smiled and turned to face Simon.
"Why Mr. Seville, are you flirting with me?" Jeanette tried to ask innocently.
"Depends if Mrs. Seville accepts." Simon added in a romantic tone before kissing her senseless. No words were needed when they went into the house to take the advantage for some quality time with each other.
TWO WEEKS LATER!
Simon, Jeanette and the kids returned safely from their camping trip last week, and were warmly greeted by the rest of the family.
It wasn't long till they all fell into old habits with their busy lives, until Dave suggested a family barbeque. The others agreed and picked a Sunday when neither of them was busy.
While the burgers were on the grill, the family mingles with each other. Alvin absently watches Simon play with his two boys near the big oak tree in the back yard. As he watches Simon picking each of them up and spinning them around for a 'helicopter' ride, he realized that his brother never looked happier. Even when they were young kids themselves, Simon didn't seem to be 100% happy. This made Alvin think, and he began to realize that something is missing in his life. He turns to see that Brittany is looking at Jeanette combing her daughter's hair in the same way as he was looking at his brother.
Alvin ponders for a moment and goes up to his wife. "Hey, Brittany...I was thinking. Maybe we should give our siblings a time off from their busy schedule and perhaps take care of the triplets for a week?"
"Are you serious, Alvin?" Brittany asked in a shock. Never before had he ever 'volunteered' to look after Simon and Jeanette's children. Neither of them have had the need to be that responsible. Only if they had no other choice and being that their siblings were in a desperate situation then would Alvin and Brittany help look after the triplets.
"Sure, it would be fun. Being that we now have a cool house on the beach, the kids will love it. And besides, they are pretty much old enough to look after themselves. It's not like when they were babies and we had to watch them all the time." Alvin stated.
Thinking about it for sometime, Brittany nodded her head in agreement. But first they must get Simon and Jeanette to agree before they finalise their plan. They sat at the picnic table talking to Simon and Jeanette while the others prepared the rest of the dinner and as the kids continued to play around the yard.
"You want to do what?" Simon asked horrified.
"We want to take the kids for one week." Alvin told them.
"Why?" Jeanette asked already suspicious of the idea.
"Yeah, what's the catch?" Simon added, knowing his brother all to well from their childhood.
"No catch, we promise. We understand that you two are very stressed and we figured that maybe we take the kids for a week so you can have a break, if you know what I mean?" Brittany said knowingly.
"Besides, we know that you two haven't actually had a proper honeymoon and we figure that this could be the closest thing that you could have as one?" Alvin added with a wink to his wife.
"Alvin, forgive me, but do you have any idea how much responsibility taking care of three young children can be? Do you remember the last time I asked you to baby-sit them?" Simon said, pointing out Alvin's irresponsible behaviour. Simon still has nightmares of what would have happened if he didn't come home when he did to catch the triplets before they fell out of the tree.
"That was a long time ago, Simon. I'm all grown up now." Alvin argued in defence.
"Uh huh," Simon crossed his arms and eyed his brother warily.
"It's not that we are going to be that far away. We'll be at our place, just a couple of miles away." Brittany added.
"Well..." Jeanette and Simon both looked at each other and thought about what their older siblings were saying. They smiled and faced Alvin and Brittany.
"Alright," Simon said. "You can take them for one week."
"Great!" Alvin and Brittany chimed eagerly at the same time.
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THREE WEEKS LATER!
Alvin and Brittany come to pick up the kids early Friday morning. Dave had left the day before for a business trip. So far the plan to have Simon and Jeanette a whole week to be alone is working perfectly. Both Alvin and Brittany knew that their niece and nephews love to spend time with them and they had a wonderful week planed for them. But when they got there it was to their surprise Tom, Mary and Vincent were in no hurry to leave the parents side.
"But dad, we don't wanna go. We want to stay here with you." Whined Mary.
"Yeah." Tom agreed.
"Now guys, we discussed this already." Simon said as he rolled his eyes. "And we agreed that you three would have a fun week with your Uncle Alvin and Aunt Brittany."
"But Dad!" All three whined in unison. Simon just simply let out a low growl.
"Dad, you promised that we would do some experiments this weekend." Vincent pointed out.
"Vincent, I said that we'd do that next weekend. After when you get back from you Aunt and Uncle's." Simon sighed.
Jeanette walked up to her sister and handed her some bottles and a piece of paper with instructions written on it. One of the bottles had a prescription label on it.
"Now, Brittany, here are some of the kids vitamins. And this one," Jeanette said holding the prescription bottle, "is for Tom's ear infection."
Brittany took the bottles and had a closer look at the prescription one. It was defiantly eardrops, used for infected ears. She looked up at her sister puzzlingly. "Tom still gets ear infections?"
Yes, but they are not as bad as when he was a baby."
Brittany remembered when he first got sick and how stressful it was for everyone to deal with his screams of pain. She again looked up at Jeanette and smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry about a thing. Alvin and I will look after the little darlings."
"We're more worried that they might take care of you." Simon muttered under his breath.
"What was that, Simon?" Alvin asked then smirked.
"Nothing." Simon quickly said. "Here, you'll need this." He handed his brother a video that was entitled 'Mr. Science'.
"The kids love this video and it'll keep them busy if they get too rowdy." Simon instructed.
"Thanks Simon, but I think Brittany and I have the week worked out so that we won't need this boring science video." Alvin said as he attempted to give back the videotape.
"Just take it, Alvin." Simon growled and pushed the tape up against Alvin's chest. "You can use it for an emergency. And trust me, nothing ever goes as planed when your dealing with kids."
"Very well." Alvin sighed. He threw it carelessly into the trunk with the kids tote bags and sleeping bags. Then he closed the trunk.
"Ok, kids. Time to get in the car." Simon chirped as he clasped his hands together.
All three children ran up to their parents and hugged them tightly. Alvin and Brittany realized that this would be the first week that they would be apart from each other.
"Dad, we don't want to go!" Vince bellowed.
"But son, Aunt Brittany and Uncle Alvin have a whole week planned out for you three." Simon said with an assuring tone. "I'm sure you will have loads of fun."
"Why can't we stay here with you and Mom?" Mary asked sweetly.
"Because, your mother and I have plans of our own and they don't include you three...sorry." Simon said as he pinched her cute little cheek. He tried to stay as calmly as he could. "So, come on now, get in the car."
"I don't wanna get in the car." Vincent retorted as he crossed his arms and started to stomp his foot on the ground.
"Get in the car, Vince." Simon said as he ushered Mary and Tom in the back seat.
"No, you get in the car!"
Simon turned and let out an even louder growl and stared down at Vincent.
"Ok...I'm getting in the car." Vincent said as he finally caved in and crawled, reluctantly, in the back seat. He knew all too well when his dad made that look that he was about to get really mad.
Both Simon and Jeanette waved good-bye as they watched the car pulled out of the driveway and disappear around the corner down the street. Both of them let out a deep sigh and Simon walked up from behind his wife and rapped his arms around her.
"I'm really going to miss them." Jeanette admitted as she leaned on Simon's chest.
"Me too." Simon replied absently.
"So what do we do now?" She said with a sigh.
Simon thought for a moment and couldn't help to have a devilish smirk on his face.
"Well we do have the whole house to yourselves!" He began to state. "Dave is on a business trip for the week, the kids are away. It's just you and me." He purred before gently kissing Jeanette on the neck.
This motion that Simon did began to send shivers of pleasure down Jeanette's body. She smiled and turned to face Simon.
"Why Mr. Seville, are you flirting with me?" Jeanette tried to ask innocently.
"Depends if Mrs. Seville accepts." Simon added in a romantic tone before kissing her senseless. No words were needed when they went into the house to take the advantage for some quality time with each other.