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CHAPTER 5

ROUND TWO


August 20, 1962

7:43am

Blue Cove, Delaware

Parker Manor

"We're leaving children." Catherine said, as she grabbed her briefcase. Mr. Parker stood by the door looking very impatient. He was tapping his foot and occasionally glancing at his watch.

"Emma, I should be back around seven." Catherine stated.

"Catherine." Mr. Parker sighed.

"I'll have the children fed and in bed Mrs. Parker." Emma replied. "Have a good day ma'am." She waved.

"You three be good, don't give Emma a hard time today please." Catherine said kissing the children goodbye.

"Finally." Mr. Parker said passing Catherine her coat.

"We be good Momma." Mor replied.

"I'll believe it when I see it." Catherine said and left with her husband.

"All right you three what would you like for breakfast?" Emma asked closing the door behind Catherine and Mr. Parker.

"Oatmeal." Sammy said.

"Okay one oatmeal. Jarod, Park what would you two like?" Emma said leading the children into the kitchen.

"Oatmeal too." Jarod said answering for himself and Mor.

"Alright then oatmeal all around." Emma commented. The three children sat down at the table as Emma set herself to making Breakfast.

"What we do today Mor?" Sammy asked.

"Play in Daddy's office." Mor told the boy. Sammy and Jarord paled, they knew just as well as Mor did that Mr. Parker's office was off limits.

"Mor No." Jarod said firmly.

"But Jar I wanna go."

"We do something else not dat. We not 'pose to go dere."

"Okay." Mor said angry Jarod had denied her of something she wanted to do. Usually she would not agree with Jarod but she could tell that Jarod was firm on the subject. Jarod could be just a stubborn as her when it came to certain things.

"We could lock Emma in the closet." Jarod offered trying to raise Mor's sprits.

"How?" Sammy asked as Mor grinned wickedly.

"Yeah Jar how?" Mor asked. Jarod then began to whisper his plan to the younger children.

"What are you three whispering about?" Emma asked placing the bowls of oatmeal in front of the children.

"Nothin'." They chorused.

"Now what would you three like to do?" Emma asked after the children had eaten their breakfast.

"Hide 'n seek." Sammy said.

"But Sammy it's raining outside."

"Cat let us play inside when it rains, Emma." Jarod told Emma.

"Well I guess it's okay then."

"Yea!" The children cheered.

"I'm gonna be it. You run, I chase . Kay? Last person I find, it." Mor said as though Emma did not know the simple rules to hide and seek.

"Okay." Emma agreed.

"Go hide I count." Mor said, and the other three went to hide.

"One. Two. Three." Mor counted very slowly. "Nine. Ten. 'Leven " As Mor counted she made a peanut butter and poured a glass of milk. "Fifteen." Mor then carried, the glass of water and the sandwich, a book along with, a flash light she had discovered under the kitchen sink and placed them in the coat closet. "Twenty ready not here I come!" Mor yelled.

Squeals were heard as Mor discovered Jarod under her parents' bed. Emma behind the shower curtain, and Sammy in Catherine's office under her desk. Mor had purposefully found Sammy last.

"You count now Sammy." Jarod said.

Sammy began to count, (though not as accurately as Mor) and Mor, Jarod and Emma ran off.

"Emma hide here." Jarod said pointing to the closet.

"Okay Jarod." Emma said and opened the door, and then went inside. Jarod quickly closed the door behind her and locked it.

"See it work." Jarod said turning around to meet the gaze of his two friends.

"Jarod, Sammy, Park, someone, let me out." Came Emma's voice.

"How, Emma?" Mor asked innocently.

"Look at the doorknob sweetie their should be a lock, turn it." Emma instructed.

"Can't reach Emma." Sammy said.

"No worry Emma we leave you lunch n' a book to read." Mor spoke. "Leave you light too. Turn it on."

"Bye now Emma. We go for help, get you out o da closet." Sammy said.

"No, no children don't leave." Emma called out. But the children had already left.

"Dat was fun. Now what?" Mor asked.

"Go outside, play in rain?" Sammy suggested.

"Kay. But how we get out? Lock too high." Mor said.

"Help me getta chair." Jarod said and the three children went to get a chair from out of the kitchen. They then managed to push the chair to the front door. Jarod then climbed it and unlocked the front door. Done he opened the door and leapt down from the chair.

"Let's go." Mor said as the three children then went outside. They splashed around in the mud puddles, and flung mud at on another.

Tired of their game the mud covered children returned to the house.

"Emma you wake?" Jarod asked knocking on the door to the closet.

"Jarod, did you find help?" Emma asked.

"No but we gotta chair." Jarod said."No worry we unlock door now Emma." Jarod stretched up and turned the lock letting the nanny out.

"Hi Emma." The three children spoke.

Emma's mouth dropped at the sight of them. From head to toe they were covered in mud. Emma was ready to cry at the sight that beheld her.

"We need a bath Emma." Sammy said.

"Yeah Emma we dirty." Mor said. Emma couldn't agree more.

"C-come children lets get you three out of those clothes and in to the tub." Emma managed to say. She then led the children upstairs to the bathroom where she started a bubble bath and then helped each of them out of their clothes and into the tub. Once all three were in the tub Emma began washing the mud out of their hair. The water became so filthy from the mud that Emma then had to empty out the dirty water and once again fill the tub with water to finish washing the children.

The one thing Emma didn't count on while bathing the children was the water battle that would ensue. Water and bubbles flew across the room as Emma tried to wash each of the children. By the time all was said and done with Emma looked like a drowned rat.

"Children I'll be right back I'm going to get some towels now don't move." Emma said and left to get the towels. Had Emma thought things through she would have brought towels with her. Both Catherine, Elizabeth and Margaret had learned over the years not to leave their children alone in the tub. Emma soon found out why. As she was returning to the bathroom three soaking wet, suds covered children went streaking past her. Emma uttered a word under her breath that each of the children had been sworn not to say.

The poor woman then spent the next twenty minutes chasing the children. All were exhausted once the chase was over. The three children were so tired in fact that as soon as they were dressed they fell right to sleep.

Relived that her charges were napping Emma too treated herself to a short nap.


August 20, 1962

7:09pm

Blue Cove, Delaware

Parker Manor

"How were the children Emma?" Catherine asked as she and her husband entered the house.

"After nap time they were angels Ma'am. But before..." Emma trailed off.

"How bad were they?" Catherine asked.

"Well they locked me in the closet."

"Oh Emma I'm so sorry." Catherine apologized.

"Actually I think that the children have become rather fond of me Ma'am. They left me a

sandwich, glass of water, a flashlight, and a book. Apparently they wanted me out of the way so that they could go outside and play in the mud. Afterwards they let me out and I gave them a bath."

"You ah, didn't leave them alone in the tub did you?" Catherine asked.

"Yes Ma'am I did and let me assure you that I never will again." Emma said smiling at the memory of the three streaking children.

"Emma I understand that the children are a bit... rambunctious if you would like to leave I will write you an excellent recommendation."Catherine told the nanny.

"If you don't mind Ma'am I'd like to stay. At least until young Jarod leaves. They truly are sweet children I don't think that they truly mean any harm to me. They just want to do certain things that they know I would not allow."

"Well then Emma I'll see you Monday. You have a good weekend."


"You too Ma'am." Emma said and left.

"I know you three are awake." Catherine said entering the nursery where the three children slept.

Jarod, Mor and Sammy opened their eyes and looked up at Catherine.

"We need to have a little talk," Catherine said sitting down on the bed. "The three of you need to go easy on Emma. She's a nice girl whom for some reason is rather fond of the three of you even after you locked her in the closet and left her tied to a chair." Catherine scolded. The three children looked down in shame, if there was one thing they hated most in the world it was disappointing their parents.

"I'm not saying that the three of you must behave as though you are prefect angels, but keep your antics down to once a week. Am I clear?"

"Yes ma'am." The children replied.

"Good now what story would you like to hear tonight?"

"Little Princess." Mor said. The boys made no moves to argue, they didn't care what the story was as long as Catherine was reading it.


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Up next the kids try to get to never never land. And guess what folks Jarod's time is almost up