11:15am—
Annie brought up food tray for the boys then had them sit at their table they had then used that tray to bring Simon his soup then she went downstairs to get the boys their water as well as Simon's bottled water. Annie then went back downstairs to eat then just as she finished eating her husband came in.
"Eric, where did you go?"
"To the church to get my laptop." Eric responds as he makes himself lunch.
"Your laptop is in the den. Try again."
"Yeah, I know. I had to run an errand for something. And it's in the garage if you want to look." Eric responds as he sits down to eat.
"I am going to look." Annie says then goes to the garage and sees what Eric did then comes in.
"Well?"
"I can't believe you did that Eric." Annie says in disbelief as she sits down.
"What? Honey come on. This house has been so lonely without Happy and I think Drew will make this house more less lonely and I think Simon should help the twins with Drew."
"Drew?" Annie asks.
"Yeah, it's a two year old Springer Spaniel, housebroken and just needed a home and was spayed before the owner of Drew gave him up."
"So when were you going to show the twins this dog?" Annie asks a little angry.
"I was going to see if they were awake and show it to them." Eric says as he finishes his lunch then puts the dishes away.
"Go get the dog and see how the twins like him."
Eric then goes to the garage to get Drew who was in the kennel then takes him inside to show the twins. He and Annie went upstairs to the twins room where they were playing with their toys since they felt much better.
"Hey boys. Look what I have." Eric says as he sits on the bed with the back to the double doors.
"Oh, a doggie." Sam says as he and David go up to their dad as Annie sits next to him.
"Yeah. I'm just borrowing him. It doesn't mean you can have him, I just wanted to see how you like him." Eric responds as Simon walks in from the doors and goes towards where his brothers are.
"I don't like it when he licks me." Sam says as he laughs when the dog jumped and licked him, he did the same to David while they pet him.
"I have to take him back but I'm glad you like him. And I'm sure that Simon would love to help you take care of him." Eric says as he picks up the dog and puts him under his arm.
"Simon, if we get a doggie will you help us take care of him?" David asked.
"Sure." Simon says as he goes back to his room, closes the double doors, the twins go back to playing as Annie felt their forehead while Eric took the dog back to the car.
Twenty minutes later Eric comes home to find Annie watching TV so he sat down next to her to watch it with her.
"Eric, where did you put Drew?" Annie asked.
"I took him to the pound and they are going to hold him for me."
"So what if Simon goes away to school, who will take care of him?" Annie asked.
"I'll do it."
"Very good." Annie says as they watched TV.
"Well, one thing is for sure, I'm not going to take the dog fishing." Simon thinks to himself in his room as he falls asleep.
"Hey mom why can't I have a dog? I'll take good care of it and I'll walk it. Please I really want one." A young 10 year old Simon asked and pleaded.
"Because you are too young."
"Please God, just let a dog come into our yard today, I really will take care of it and not let it die." Simon prayed in his room that he shared with Ruthie.
"Happy, come here girl. Happy. Happy, what's wrong?" 18 year old Simon Camden said as he called Happy from the twins room. Went to check on her since she didn't respond, she was asleep in his room on the bed that he does NOT sleep on.
"Simon?" Eric comes in as he sees his son day dreaming since he was not sleep.
"Oh yeah dad?" Simon says after snapping out of his daydream as he sits up with Eric sitting on the head of the bed facing him.
"Look, I'm sorry I didn't talk to you about getting a dog for the boys. I guess I just miss having an animal in the house and I just didn't think about it.
"It's okay dad. I really don't mind helping Sam and David if you get the dog. I love you dad."
"I love you too son. And you know that it wasn't your fault that she died and we told the twins that she had a heart attack." Eric says then stands up and leaves to go back downstairs to finish watching TV.
Few hours later dinner time came, everyone including Kevin ate and later stayed up since it was not a school night and went to bed later.
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