A/N:

AmoebaJones: I have answered your question about Roosevelt in my last chapter of 'Bad Summer' but I hope you do read this chapter. I do know there is a private school that has the name of Eleanor Roosevelt but there is a public school named, 'The Roosevelt School'. Ruthie and Simon went to 'The Roosevelt Elementary' School in the first season.

Oh brother, I guess having a character with the same first name as the character on the show isn't a good idea. LOL

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own the show or the characters on the show.


Just as Simon got on the landing, he heard Eric cough but wondered why he could hear it since when he went to bed the door was closed. He turned towards his parent's room to see it was opened, so he jogged in there to see if maybe the twins were in there and they were sleeping with Eric. He took a relived sigh as he saw his brother sleeping side by side with Eric on his side of the bed with the bathroom light on. They were under the covers as Simon shook his brothers to get them to wake up.

"Hey. What are you guys doing? You know daddy is sick."

"We know. We just got scared." David said sleepily.

"Why didn't you just wake me up or let Ruthie know, we would sleep with you?" Simon said with a whisper.

"Cause you were asleep and so was Ruthie." Sam said.

"Come on, I'll sleep with you." Simon said.

"Okay." David said not wanting to make their brother mad.

After David and Sam got off the bed, Simon closed the door to his parents room just as the twins got into their room, he went in their room, tucked his brothers in. He got the pillow and blankets from his bed as he took it off then laid on the floor between his brothers as they had already fallen asleep. A while later Annie came home checking on Ruthie then Simon's room but noticed he wasn't there so she checked the twins room and saw him sleeping with the twins then went to her room, she opened the door then after she got in she closed the door and went to bed.

The next morning, Simon had woken up a few minutes before the twins so he got up, put his pillow and covers on his bed then got dressed for school then he woke up his brothers. They were groggy and told him they weren't feeling well, Simon felt his forehead and it was warm so he told them to stay in bed and he would go get mom then a few minutes later Annie comes in since Simon went to get her.

"What's wrong?" Annie asked.

"I don't feel good." David says.

"Oh, well. Simon why were you sleeping with the boys?" Annie asked as she felt Sam's forehead with her hand then her cheek then did the same for David.

"Cause last night they were sleeping with Dad and actually I didn't know where they were when I noticed they were not in their bed after I got out of the bathroom. I looked everywhere for them then noticed the door to your room was opened and just took a quick peek."

"I see, that's probably why you both are not feeling good. Why did you sleep with daddy, you know he's sick?" Annie asked as Simon left to eat even though he wasn't feeling good either. He just felt tired and queasy but he didn't eat much of his pancakes that Annie had made and Lucy was making some more since she offered so Annie can look in on the twins.

"Well, cause were scared and didn't want to wake up Simon or Ruthie since they were sleeping too." Sam said after Annie took out the thermometer from David's mouth then looked at it.

Annie then went in the bathroom to wash the thermometer with alcohol she put on the cotton then wiped it. After rinsing it with water and drying it she put it in Sam's mouth.

"Well, I think you boys should just stay in bed for today and maybe you will feel well enough to go to Simon's game." Annie said as she tucked in Sam then David.

"Okay." Sam and David said.

Annie then was about to go downstairs when Eric came out of his room.

"Hi. Honey, how are you feeling?"

"Much better, thanks. That Nyquil sure helped and I'm going to eat with the kids." Eric said as he and Annie went downstairs.

"Well, looks like it's just you and me who are not sick but the twins are in bed." Annie says.

"What do you mean the twins? I thought I heard Simon talking to them or even they were in bed with me but I thought I was dreaming." Eric says as he sits down.

"Well, they got scared, they said. Didn't want to wake up Simon or Ruthie so they went to sleep with you and I think they got their cold from you." Annie said as she put the plate of pancakes on the table then sat down.

"But how did Simon know where they were?" Eric asked confused as he put the pancakes on his plate then syrup as Annie did the same.

"Well, he didn't at first. He saw door open noticing they were gone. He looked in the other bedrooms then downstairs to see if the doors were locked which they were. Then just happened to notice you were coughing to the point he could hear it, then saw the door was open and checked to see if they were in the room, they were.

"So I wasn't dreaming." Eric says as he took another bite as Annie did.

"No." Annie says.

Meanwhile at JFK—

In third period class, Simon was beginning to feel nauseous so he got up and asked for a pass to the nurse, Mr. Malph gave him the pass then Simon got his bag to see the nurse.

As he walked through the hall, he immediately ran to the bathroom that was close by to throw up then after cleaning his mouth and nose, he went walked to the nurses office.

"Hey."

"Hi Joe. Give me one second here and I'll give you your prescription." Mrs. Cleaver said as the nurse, Mrs. Van Pelt came in from her office when she noticed Simon was there.

"Okay." Joe says as he sits down on the chair where the sign in table is and Mrs. Van Pelt came over to see what was wrong with Simon.

"Okay, you have a fever of 99.0 degrees. But let me and Susie check your mouth." Mrs. Cleaver said as she pressed the button to the steel stick to make the cover shoot in the waste basket.

She then got Joe his medicine, he took it with water that she poured in the cup then put his medicine back and signed his pass so he could go to class. She got a little flashlight, a tongue depressor from a tall glass jar that was next to the electric thermometer then had Simon tilt his head back and open his mouth. They looked in his mouth and it was normal, no inflammation of his tonsils.

"I think you should go home and get some rest. Do you want to call your mom?" Mrs. Cleaver said then asked.

"I agree." Mrs. Van Pelt said.

"No, that's okay. She will see me when I get home." Simon says as he takes his bag then the nurse gives him a pass to go home. She went to the small area just outside of the nurse's office to give a note that Simon went home sick.

About twenty minutes later Simon drives home, parks the car in the driveway as he notices one of the vans was gone as he walked in. He closed the door then went to the kitchen to get himself some water then went upstairs. He heard the TV on in his parents' room, saw that his father asleep, went towards his room, noticed the twins were napping as well so he put his bag down, set his alarm, got under the covers to take a nap.