Chapter 11- Dreaming of you

Dinner was quiet, not a normal thing. We're having Spaghetti and salad. The TV was on though, and Sean and Charles watched this Cartoon Network TV show, Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy. It's a stupid show, about three kids making scams for money to buy jawbreakers at a candy store, and they had to do it in their cul-de-sac neighborhood. As always, they end up with nothing in every episode, and ends up being stupid. They are among my little brothers' favorite shows, and well, I think its funny as well.

"Yep," A funny character named Ed said on the TV, "My brain stopped." My brothers and me laughed.

Otto, in the other hand, raised his eyebrow and managed to chuckle. Mom kept staring at him, still cautious of Otto.

"Doctor," my mom said for the first time in a while

"Yes Mrs. Gardner?" Otto asked.

"How old are you?"

I raised a brow. My mom asked how old Otto is?

"I'm 36 ma'am." Otto answered. Mom nodded.

"36?" I asked. Otto nodded. "I figured you were younger than that! Lots of people say you're in your forties or fifties..." I pointed to myself. "I'm 14, in the 8th grade."

"Really? I thought you would be younger than that, you look short."

"Blame it on my mom..." my brothers began to laugh.

"I'm, on the other hand, am taller than Crystal and I'm only 11!" Charles exclaimed proudly.

"Don't push it bub." I said, raising my best Freddy Kruger glove stance.

"Hey, have you any idea how you got from fiction world, New York to real world, Texas?" my mom asked. We all shugged.

"I'm a scientist, and I'm just as clueless as you are." Otto replied, taking another bite of his salad.

"Um...I have a weird theory..." I began to mutter.

"What is that?" Mom asked.

"Um...I remember wishing in my birthday that I could meet Otto..."

That made everyone quiet for a while. Mom pointed a fork at me.

"That's it. No more birthday cakes for you." I didn't complain. But she should've said no birthday cakes with candles though...

Dinner turned out well. I was the first one finished, with mom next. She made a family rule that whoever finished eating last have to wash the dishes. That ends up to a race between Charles and Otto. I kept cheering on for Otto. Sean doesn't know how to wash dishes yet. He's only 5.

"I'm not doing the dishes!" Charles said, gulping down his Kool-Aid. Unfortunately for Charles, Otto became champion. Charles kept whining. I usually had to wash dishes after dinner, since he was always beating me. I didn't eat all of my food.

"Here, I'll help you if you stop whining." Otto offered, showing his tentacles. Charles grinned.

"Man, sometimes you're lucky! I could use some extra arms!" And they did the dishes together, with the help of Otto's arms.

While I waited for them to finish, I went to the computer and finished writing a chapter to a fanfic I'm writing.

When they were finished, Otto looked around to our book and movie shelves, studying the movies we owned. Charles walked up to him in curiosity. "Wanna watch a movie?"

Mom was sitting in the white couch from where Otto first sat, watching the news, but she still didn't keep her eyes off of him, cautiously. I was in her room, posting another chapter to a fanfiction, since the computer in my room doesn't have internet connection.

"Watch them? Heck, I've never seen these movies before!"

"Hey, how about 'Back to the future'?" Charles said, holding up a Michael J. Foxx movie. "This is among my favorites."

"Okay. What it's about?"

"Oh the usual. Time travel."

When I was through posting up my chapter, we all began to watch the movie for the rest of the night, my mom included.

(Otto's POV)

The Hollis family allowed me to sleep for the night. But I don't expect them to keep me forever right? But I doubt Crystal'll let me go...she seem to treat me like a famous celebrity...

Maybe that's because I am.

Crystal didn't buy me PJs, but she did brought me jogging pants and I wore that, along with an undershirt she brought me. I thanked her also for providing me to sleep in the bottom bunk of Charles' bunk bed.

"S-sleep tight Otto," she says in a nervous tone. I raised an eyebrow. "Why you were trembling?"

"I wasn't trembling!" She snapped. I began to chuckle. "Suuurre you weren't."

"Otto!" She crossed her arms. "You can't be as bad as my little brother!"

"All boys are." Debi replied, sending Sean to bed.

Charles and I high fived as if we're best friends who succeeded in a prank. "That's what happens when you first met somebody and left him home alone with your little bro!" Charles pointed out.

"You left the house?" Debi asked. Before more chaos and confusion between daughter and mother goes on, I cut in. "Um, don't worry about that Miss. I made an excellent baby-sitter for your sons. Your daughter should be old enough to take a trip to the dollar store and back." Uh-huh, Yeah right. Like I'm really good with kids...

"Baby-sitter? Ha! We were the other way around!" Charles said with a smug look. Debi rolled her eyes and nodded.

"I'll be going to bed to rethink this all over. While I pretend that this whole thing is a dream, you are allowed to watch TV until your eyes tire." Debi said. We all told her goodnight. Meanwhile, the kids prepared a bed for me.

"Hey, you guys didn't have to do that. I know how to make my bed." I said, guiltily to the fact that I didn't help them.

"Naw, you're a guess, Octi guy! Gotta treat you one!" Charles said, climbing up the top bunk bed, already in his PJs. I lay in my bottom bunk, and Crystal agreed to watch the big screen with them in a chair until she's too tired. Rosie (dog), feeling left alone for the past few hours ever since I came here, began to jump on my bottom side of the bed and lay next to me. I asked Crystal if she's allowed to lie on the bed/couch.

"Well, yeah," she replied, "she's a housedog. Supposedly."

"Her name's Rosie right?" I asked sadly. Jeez, does this girl think about me 24/7?

"Yeah. I hope that doesn't hurt you too bad Doc..." Crystal said, turning the TV to cartoon network. Some program called Adult Swim is on, featuring a strange show "Aqua teen hunger force".

"It's okay." I said. Crystal smiles and turns to the TV.

On the TV this show, ATHF, featured a lot of crude humor and cussing. I wondered if these kids should see this.

"Then how is this 'vampire'," a strange character shaped like a box of fries said pointing to a school bus outside his house, "how is this vampire outside in the daytime?"

"Um...of course it's not a vampire!" a strange chocolate shake character named "Shake" said to "Frylock". "It's a reverse vampire!"

The little kids laughed at this strange joke. Cartoons can be stupid these days.

"What is this show?" I ask. Charles peeked his head from the top bunk, into my view.

"Aqua teen hunger force!" he exclaimed.

Crystal began to explain. "That's Shake, and that's Frylock, and the little meatball thingy is Meatwad. They're roomies, and in this episode, Shake is addicted to horror films and becomes paranoid because a bug ate their flag and a school bus is outside their house."

"See Shake? Dracula is dead." 'Frylock' said to 'Shake'.

After thirty minutes of this show, we had enough energy to watch the show after that. Crystal and Charles got excited.

"This, you'll love. It's called 'Case Closed!'" Charles said as jazz music and gloomy blues like introduction enter in.

"What's that?" I ask. I didn't feel real tired, even though I was earlier, and I was curious of what they watch on TV. Crystal began to explain, again.

"An anime show. It's about a high school detective named Jimmy Kudo who was changed into a little kid because of a crime organization that tried to poison him. He renamed himself Conan Edogawa and stayed at his girlfriend's house, not telling anybody who he is."

"So, it's a mystery cartoon?"

"Yup!"

Frankly, I wasn't interested, but after seeing this main character witnessing a dead body in his home and gathering certain clues, I began to step into suspense, and tried to figure this mystery out. It reminded me of a game of Clue.

"It's the brother!" Charles screamed.

"Yes, it's the brother." Crystal agreed.

I nodded no. "No, it's his sister." They disagreed, and I pointed out why. They still didn't get it.

"How about a bet?" Charles said. I shugged. "That wouldn't work if I lost. I have no money."

"No, you can do our chores if you lost."

"Deal." I laughed.

"I bet 2 dollars!" Crystal announced.

"Okay, I bet the same thing!" Charles replied. I didn't make any comments. It's the lowest these kids can go.

But of course, seeing a scientist and problem solver at this, with the help of my arms, I was right.

"Cough it up, kids!" I laugh. They each gave me $2 and stuck a tongue at me.

"Well, this is Otto's first money in this world..." Crystal pointed out. We all nodded and continued to watch TV.

Charles was the first down. Crystal looks at me with a smile and says that she was going to bed too, and asked if she could turn off the TV.

"Sure," I replied, yawning. I turned to face the wall in bed, Rosie snoring in the chair where Crystal sat.

Crystal turns off all the lights inside the house and checked her watch. It was 1:05 in the morning. She turned on her light and then turned to look at me with a tired grin. I waved at her.

"'Night." I whisper. Charles' snore came after that. Crystal began to laugh.

"Good night."

Before Crystal entered her room, she turned and walked to me, bending down on my bedside. I raised my head in confusion.

"Otto..." Crystal whisper. "If you experience any nightmares or problems of sleeping, don't hesitate to tell. As much your fangirls do, I know you better than anyone. Okay?"

I looked at the girl straight in the eye. She is serious, she really cares about me or what would happen. She knows that I moan for Rosie, and she knows that I would have problems sleeping. But I won't this night, after knowing that there are people out there in this world that cares about me, including this person that provided me shelter. I grin at her.

"Okay."

She smiles and stood up, and left to her room. "Wait." I said. She stopped in the doorway.

"Yes, Otto?" She asked, turning around to face me.

"Thank you. If you weren't there, I would be lost, here in a world where people thought of me as just a movie character."

"You're welcome. Good night Otto. Don't let the bed bugs bite!"

Bed bugs? I got the arms instead.

To be continued...

Chatroom conversations

I love you my faithful reviewers! I introduced a few cartoon shows I like to watch, and I'm angry because since school started, I can't watch them since they're late at night...Which I'm sure you wouldn't care. Though, my spirits are lifted cuz I just brought a Doc Ock toy at Walmart! I'm so happy! He's standing as my collectible, right next to my homemade doll! :)

Also, the other day, I just found out when looking to see if they are having new TV series of Spiderman because I heard some rumors, I found out that in MTV, they had a new Spiderman series. For Spiderman/Peter fans out there. I couldn't see if there were Otto in there. He wasn't among the character art they show. But I can't find out when they're playing the show. If anyone knows about this, please tell me!

Um...I'm going to stop wasting our time for me talking, so do what you need to do...and REVIEW!!

P.S, I think I should expect at least 100 reviews if we reach to the 15th through 20th chapter! C'mon and work it out :)