Chapter 25

"Eat." Tommy ordered. He had a spoon of baby food and held it to Mikey's face who was sitting in a high chair in Tommy's apartment. "Eat it."

"I will." Phil walked in. "What are we having?"

"Baby food." Tommy said holding the spoon to Phil's face.

"Great!" Phil smiled immediately eating the food in the spoon. "Wait. What flavor?"

"Apple."

"Apple?" Phil asked. "Yuck!"

"You don't like apple?" Tommy asked oddly. "Freak."

"What? Because I don't like apple sauce? Or apple juice? Or apple medicine?"

"Well, I understand the medicine, but you don't like apple sauce or apple juice?" Tommy yelled. As Mikey looked at him oddly.

"What?" Phil turned to Mikey. "What are you lookin' at?"

Mikey rolled his eyes and turned away. Tommy and Phil looked at him odd then Tommy said, "Anyway...you don't like any of that?"

"No." Phil shook his head.

"Holy crap." Tommy shook his head. "You freak. You are a bad influence to my child."

"I don't get the big deal!"

"Okay, Phil." Tommy forced Phil to sit down on a kitcken chair and Tommy sat next to him. "Not everyone likes apples. It's not wrong to not like apples. But everyone loves apple flavored sauce, juice, and other novelty foods!"

"Not me." Philstood up. "Later." Phil then left and Tommy sighed shaking his head.

"Zippity doo da, zippity day!" Lil sang while gong through files on her desk. "My, oh my, what a wonderful day!"

"Yes it is!" Daniel poked his head in.

"Daniel!" Lil stood up dusting her skirt off.

"Lillian Pickles, I have good news for you." Daniel smiled .

"What?"

"You're getting a promotion." Daniel smiled.

"Really?" Lil shouted. "Screw being fired! This is great!"

"Yes. Yes it is." Daniel nodded. "For the both of us."

"How so?"

"Well, you get a job." Daniel nodded. "I lose one."

"What?"

"You're taking over Fasion 'N' Love companies." Daniel grinned. "Now that blasted wife of mine will quit bugging me." he rolled his eyes then began mocking his wife. "Sell that worthless job. Make some money! Get a life! Quit acting gay! Quit hitting on the girls at Hooter's!"

"I don't understand." Lil rubbed her forehead.

"Lillian." Daniel put his hands on her shoulders. "You own this worldwide company. Have fun with it. I expect you'll be moving into my office. My stuff is already cleaned out so good luck with it!"

"What if I need you?" Lil asked. "You know. For some questions or something."

"I'll be in Malibu." Daniel smiled putting sunglasses on then leaving.

"Holy freakin' crap." Lil laughed. "Yes! Yes! Yes! Those years of ass kissing and begging to be fired payed off!"

"Dude." Phil tapped Chuckie on the shoulder at the seat of the bar at Doug's Diner.

"What?" Chuckie turned to him.

"Check it out." Phil pointed to a guy sitting at a table on the other side of the diner talking to some other men. "Jeff Goldblum."

Chuckie turned to Phil and shook his head. "Phil." he said and Phil turned to him. "That's not Jeff Goldblum."

"Sure it is." Phil smiled pointing to the guy again.

"No it's not." Chuckie shook his head. "Infact, I know that guy."

"Seriously?" Phil asked.

"Yeah." Chuckie nodded. "Well, I recognize him, but I can't put my finger on it."

"Hey!" Phil turned to his friend. "I recognize him too."

"It's not Jeff Goldblum!" Chuckie shouted.

"No!" Phil said. "It's Cody."

"Who's Cody?"

"Remember?" Phil asked. "The Thanksgiving party? Sam's boyfriend. Wouldn't take care of Frederick?" Phil then gasped. "Where is Frederick?"

"Don't worry," Chuckie said, "Sam picked him up earlier."

"Don't you remember Cody?"

"Wait a sec." Chuckie nodded. "Yeah. Yes I do. Cody's the guy that Sam brought to the Thanksgiving party. Her boyfriend. The jerk who wouldn't take care of Frederick."

"Um, yeah." Phil nodded. "I kinda just said that."

"Sure, sure." Chuckie said looking at the guy. "I'm gonna go talk to him."

"No!" Phil tried to stop him but Chuckie walked over to the guy anyway.

"Hey buddy!" Chuckie tapped Cody on the shoulder. Cody turned from his two friends and they all three glared at him.

"What?" Cody snapped.

"So, you're too good for my son, eh?" Chuckie asked angrily as Phil came up behind them.

"Dude," one of Cody's friends said. "Are you dating this guy's son or something?"

"No!" Cody yelled. "Dude, what do you want?"

"Buddy, listen." Chuckie sat down next to him.

"Son of a bitch!" Cody yelled. "Dude, what do you want?"

"Dammit!" Chuckie shouted holding his head. "If I hear dude one more time,I'll-"

Phil then leaned in and whispered to Chuckie, "Dude, I gotta pee. Hurry this up."

Chuckie turned and glared at Phil then went back to Cody. "I'm Chuckie Finster."

"Oh crap." Cody's eyes widened.

"Don't like my son?" Chuckie asked.

"Sorry, dude, it's just, I'm not a kids person." Cody shrugged innocently. "Nothing personal nor did I mean to hurt anyone. Especially Sam."

"It's okay, I guess." Chuckie grinned.

"Thanks." Cody shook Chuckie's hand. Chuckie stood up and him and Phil began to walk off but Cody mumbled, "Jackass."

"That's it!" Chuckie heard him and ran back to the seat and sat down. "What is your problem with my family?"

"What are you talking about, dude?" Cody leaned back in his chair, crossed his arms, and shook his head.

"You don't like me! You don't like my son! You don't appear to like anything that has to do with me!" Chuckie yelled.

"We're gonna be here a while." Phil rolled his eyes walking towards the bathroom.

"Thomas!" Lil swung the door of her and Tommy's apartment open and ran in. "There you are!" she yelled with a big smile on her face.

"I'm Kimi." Kimi, who was on the couch, looked at her odd.

"I know, Kimi." Lil smiled.

"Holy crap, Lil." Kimi stood up and smelled Lil's breath. "You're drunk."

"Nooo." Lil shook her head. She then looked around and leaned in towards Kimi and whispered, "Okay, maybe I'm a little drunk!"

"Yeah!" Kimi said waving her hand in front of Lil's mouth. "But, why are you drunk?"

"You know something, Kimi." Lil sat down at the kitchen table. "I'll tell you. Sit!" Lil shouted as Kimi sat down.

"Okay, why?"

"Well, my boss quits and gives me his job." Lil hiccuped.

"Wait a sec." Kimi grinned. "You own Fashion 'N' Love?"

"Oh yeah."

"My favorite fasion company?"

"Oh yeah."

"And you can get me discounts?"

"Hell, Kimi, I can get you free crap!" Lil cheered.

"Free?" Kimi asked. "I like free stuff."

"Hey, Kim," Lil leaned in and whispered to Kimi. "Me too." she then began laughing. Kimi looked at her odd as Lil began laughing uncontrollably then stopped to catch her breath.

"You okay, Lil?" Kimi asked concerned.

"Hell yeah." Lil nodded. "Hey, you got any vodka at your place?"

"Lil, I live here." Kimi said.

"So?" Lil chuckled. "Got any?"

Kimi stared at her then shrugged. She walked over to the fridge and opened it. She closed it and opened a cabinet above the fridge. "What do ya know." Kimi smiled pulling a bottle of vodka from the cabinet. "We do."

"What is it you don't like about them?" Chuckie asked. Him and Cody were in a tense conversation. Cody's friends had left and Phil was sitting in a seat at the same table with his head hanging off to the side, asleep.

"Well," Cody said. "They drool. They cry. They poop."

"So did you!" Chuckie yelled.

"When I was a baby!" Cody yelled back. "I'd say the biggest reason is because when I was a kid, my parents didn't like me much."

"Really?" Chuckie asked. Cody nodded sighing. Chuckie gave him a grin of feeling sorry for him then blurted out, "Ah, that's no excuse!"

Angelica put a plate of food on a table and head back to the kitchen but stopped when she saw Lil and Kimi walk into the restaraunt. She rolled her eyes and walked over to them.

"What are you guys doing here?" Angelica asked.

"I can't take care of her anymore." Kimi sighed. "She's drunk. She's too hard to take care of."

"She is a handful when she's drunk." Angelica nodded. "Sometimes she's mean."

"Don't you talk about my man, bitch." Lil said to a waiter who walked by them.

"Please, Ange, watch her." Kimi grinned.

"No." Angelica shook her head. "I have a job. I have money. I have a life. You take the day to take care of the drunken fashion designer."

"You mean," Lil said, "Fasion boss."

"Fasion what?" Angelica asked.

"Wait, that's not right." Lil rubbed her head. "Oh. I now own Fasion 'N' Love companies."

"Tch." Angelica rolled her eyes. "Yeah right."

"No." Kimi smiled. "I called and checked in on this. She really owns it!"

"Holy freakin' crap!" Angelica shouted. "Are you freakin' serious?"

"Oh freakin' yeah." Kimi nodded.

"Yes, freakin', yes!" Angelica shouted. "Hey jerk-wad!" Angelica shouted into the kitchen. "I freakin' quit!"

"Sure!" someone from inside the kitchen yelled.

Lil, Kimi, and Angelica were in Lil's apartment. They had glasses of wine and were all at the kitchen table.

"To us." Lil smiled.

"Yes." Angelica nodded. "The girls. The best creature ever put on this freakin' Earth."

"Got that right, sister." Kimi smiled taking a drink of wine.

"Why are we drinking wine and celebrating?" Angelica asked.

"Because Lil can get us free clothes." Kimi explained.

"Oh yeah." Angelica smiled. "That's a good reason."

"Very good." Lil nodded. "Hey, shouldn't we get Susie?"

"She won't drink alchohol." Angelica rolled her eyes. "One of those vegetarian things."

"She's not a vegetarian. Nor is not drinking alchohol one of its consequences." Lil said.

"I don't know." Angelica shrugged. "It's something like that. Maybe it has something to do with Good Will. Hell, I don't know."

"Ya know a movie you don't see on TV much anymore?" Lil asked.

"What?" Kimi and Angelica both replied.

"Top Gun." Lil nodded.

"That is a good movie." Kimi nodded. "And Tom Cruise, oh yeah."

"You know a movie he's in that I loved?" Angelica asked. "Risky Business."

"Excellent movie!" Lil smiled.

"Oh! Oh! Days of Thunder!" Kimi yelled.

"Yes!" Lil yelled in agreement. "Oh! Deep Impact!"

"Uh, Lil." Kimi said. "Tom Cruise isn't in that."

"So?" Lil asked taking another drink of wine. "Good movie." she shrugged.

"No, the crying doesn't bother me." Chuckie shook his head. He and Cody now had cigarettes in their hands, Phil was still asleep, and no one was there except them and Doug. "But, Frederick doesn't do much crying."

"I really don't think the crying bothers me much either." Cody said taking a puff of his cigarette. "I honestly don't know what it is that I don't like."

"Hm." Chuckie leaned back in his chair and thought. He then said, "Is it the poop?"

"No." Cody shook his head. "You know, I think it's the commitment. A child is alot of hard work."

"I hear that." Chuckie chuckled.

Tommy walked into his apartment and looked oddly at Lil spread out on the couch, Angelica leaning upside down against the wall, and Kimi in a chair asleep. "Okaaay." he looked at them as he closed the door.

"Where have you been?" Lil got up off the couch and slapped Tommy.

"Lil?" he asked rubbing the red mark on his face. "That hurt."

"Did you like it?" she asked.

"W-What?" Tommy slowly began to back up. "W-Where's Mikey?"

"In Kimi's room." Lil said walking towards Tommy. "But why don't you and I go into our room."

"Why?" Tommy looked at her oddly. "Oh crap. Lil, I'm not into S&M."

"Nor I." Lil smiled. "But I am into sex."

Tommy looked at her for a second then nodded. "Me too." he smiled and the two ran into their bedroom.

"Kimi!" Angelica yelled as Kimi woke up.

"What?" she asked yawning. "Damn, I have the most horrible hang over."

"Me too." Angelica said. "Lil's still drunk though."

"Gosh," Kimi rubbed her head. "Lil drank her feelings apperantly."

"That girl can drink and drink and drink!" Angelica chuckled. "She's quite the wild girl."

"Yeah." Kimi nodded. "Ugh. Where'd she go?"

"She's screwing Tommy." Angelica nodded.

"I see." Kimi rubbed her head again. "Okay, I'm going to bed."

"Me too." Angelica walked out and Kimi walked into her bed room.

"Thanks Chuck." Cody shook his hand as they both stood.

"Not a problem, my friend." Chuckie smiled.

"Maybe I should spend some time with Frederick." Cody nodded. "I'll be his second dad."

"No no no." Chuckie shook his head. "You're the step dad. I'm the dad."

"So what do I do?"

"Um," Chuckie pondered. "Be the dad when I'm not around I guess."

"Come on, guys." Doug said. "Closing time was ten minutes ago."

Chuckie, Cody, and Doug walked out and Doug locked the door and they all three disappeared into the night.

Phil then jumped up from his snooze in the chair. "Chuckie?" he called out. "Cody? Doug?" He the began to look around and walked over to the door. He tried to open it but it was locked. "Oh crap."