Hey Belchies! I'm sorry that it took 3+ weeks to get a new chapter to you. I accidently wrote the final chapter before I wrote this one. Unfortunately I didn't get many comments on the last chapter, and I'd really love to know what you guys think. So please let me know what you guys think, both the good and the bad, I can take it. :D Thank you to all that have commented. I hope you guys still like the story.

Friday afternoon finally arrived and after the long week that they had, the Belchers were looking forward to a weekend of relaxing and spending time together. The kids returned to school for their second-to-last day, and Bob and Linda re-opened the restaurant utilizing the back alley entrance. Business had been non-stop today. This morning after Olsen Benner of the channel 6 news reported that the Belchers saved the Wharf, the restaurant saw a lot of foot traffic, and these feet had mouths. Teddy and Mort were there as usual, but other regulars such as Maya, Beckett, Marshmallow, Cha-Cha, Marbles, Glitter, and Connor and Farrah Coloroso also made appearances today. It couldn't have just been a coincidence. A lot of new customers who had seen the news report also stopped in for a bite and to see the heroes in action.

"I almost didn't recognize the restaurant with all these people inside." Tina confessed when she and her siblings entered through the back door into the kitchen.

"I think they're called... customers." Louise stood on her step stool and glared out the order-window at the packed diner.

"Girls." Their father scolded when he heard them making fun of his business.

Linda entered from the basement holding a tray of freshly ground up beef. "We got the beef, we got the beef, we got the beef! Yeah, we got the beef!" She sang loudly to the tune of "We got the beat" by the Go-Go's.

"You Go-go mom!" Gene danced along.

When Linda saw her children she got so excited that she nearly dropped the tray. "There are my little detectives!" She tossed the meat tray to Bob, surprisingly he caught it. She ignored her husbands shriek and gathered her kids into a bone crushing hug. "How was school today? Did you solve any more murders? Ha!"

"Actually yes!" Gene shouted. His family turned to look at him with confused glances.

"WHAT?" Linda shouted back in her shrill voice. They never knew what to expect with these kids.

"Wait, no." He corrected himself. "We just had a fire drill."

Linda fanned herself and Bob rolled his eyes and returned to cooking Mort's take-out Burger of the day, the "Celine Dejon Burger" (comes with honey Dejon mustard).

"Well were all your friends excited to hear about how you saved the wharf?" Linda asked when she calmed down.

"Eh I was busy trying to advertise for our concert. It's probably going to be a small intimidate show because a lot of people have to go to their grandparents funerals that day."

Bob hummed in response. He felt bad for his son getting rejected so much but also felt somewhat relieved that he was too naïve to realize it.

"I was still busy debating whether or not I want to ask Jimmy Jr. out... also I had to retake that science quiz that... I failed last week." Tina whispered the last part hoping that her parents wouldn't hear and remember that she wasn't doing so well in school. Despite trying she wasn't fairing well in most of her classes, she was decent in English but struggled with just about every other course.

"Did you pass this time?" Bob and Linda hoped that she had better news for them. If Tina failed one more quiz she'd have to repeat 8th grade science. It was bad enough that she already has to repeat 8th grade math next year.

"Does the earth revolve around the moon?" Tina was confident that she knew the answer to that question and was trying to show off what she learned.

"Uh no... it revolves around the sun Tina. The moon revolves around the earth." Bob corrected her with a bit of concern in his voice.

"Oh. Well, there's your answer." Tina didn't sound too upset about failing though because Jimmy Jr. was likely in the same boat when it came to science and math. The Seymour Bay school district had a weird set up for failing students. Huxley High was just a short 2 minute walk from Wagstaff, so rather than keeping students back entirely for only failing some courses, they only had to retake the ones that they needed to. Tina will move on to the 9th grade for the classes that she passed and repeat the classes that she needed to at Wagstaff.

Bob sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose in an attempt to hide his frustration from the kids. "What about you Louise, how was school?"

She was still exhausted from the night before and was sitting on the floor resting her back against the dishwasher. She shut her eyes and leaned her head back. "Eh I was asleep for a good chunk of it. Now to sleep through work too."

Tina walked over to her sister and sat down next to her. "What about your recess prank? That was pretty cool."

Louise's eyes shot open. She glared at her older sister and angrily whispered "Shhh Tina!" It was too late, her parents heard everything.

"Okay what'd you do this time Miss Missy?" Linda removed fries from the deep fryer and placed them in a to go box.

She looked up at her parents and smiled. "I just want to point out that everything's fine and I didn't get caught...yet... It was a simple prank really..."

Louise went to Mr. Frond's office at the end of lunch not for counseling (obviously), but to enact her prank. After many forced trips to Frond's office Louise was very familiar with his routine. Every day after eating his tuna fish sandwich, he takes off his faux-Rolex watch (a gift from his mother) then washes his hands and brushes his teeth.

Louise went to his office towards the end of lunch pretending like she needed to talk about her "feelings" after she found Cotton Candy Dan's dead body in the sink hole. Frond set her up with some coloring books and his therapy doll "Traumatic Event Trent" while he went off to the bathroom. When he left, Louise picked up his watch and moved the hands back an hour. She would do more but she didn't want it to be too noticeable which would likely lead her to getting caught. Once he came back and began to refasten the watch to his wrist, she bombarded him with questions so he wouldn't check the time. When they arrived on the playground she ran off to play with her older siblings and friends. She saw Mrs. Labonz and the other teachers double then triple check the time, but they seemed as happy as the students to remain outside.

"He didn't notice, thus I didn't get caught." Louise smiled as she finished her story.

"On the bright side that's probably the tamest prank you've pulled." Linda put her hands on her hips and glared down at Louise. "Still you need to stop pranking until the end of the school year. Which is Monday... So no more pranks until school's over on Monday."

"Sure, sure." Louise said unconvincingly.

"You know my mom was a bit of a prankster too." Bob flipped Mort's burger and placed it on a burger bun. He handed the take out container to Linda so she could dress it and pack it.

"Really? What kinda pranks was she known for? I feel like I've been in a prank-rut lately." Louise looked up at her father with interest.

"No, no" Bob slightly chuckled. "That's not... I'm not telling you this to give you ideas Louise. I'm telling it to you so you can feel close to your grandmother."

"Okayyyyyy." Louise whined like most tired kids would do when they're ready for bed. "I am actually interested to learn more about her. So what pranks was she known for?"

"My grandparents told me she'd get in trouble in school for pranking, but it was the pranks that she pulled on me and my dad that really stuck out. I remember this one time..."

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"Mom I need you to sign my permission slip, we're going to Atlantic City tomorrow." 9 year old Bob handed a piece of paper to his mother.

"Well that sounds fun. I'll sign it after breakfast. Now we need to hurry up and get to the restaurant, your dad is doing the cream-cheese stuffed French toast for the specials and he needs some help prepping.

Just then Bob and his mother heard a loud scream come from upstairs, they dropped their breakfast and ran towards the noise. When they reached the top of the stairs they saw a furious Big Bob walk out of the bathroom in his robe. His hair and mustache were soaking wet with green water dripping off.

"There's something else wrong with the damn pipes, the water coming out of the shower head and faucets is green. Even the toilet is flushing green water."

"But you worked so hard to fix the leaky pipes yesterday. How could this have happened?" Louise placed a hand on her husband's shoulder comfortingly.

Big Bob took a towel and started to dry his hair off. "I don't have time to deal with this, we'll just have to suck it up and call a plumber."

"YES!" Louise cheered. Big and Little Bob glared at her and she realized her mistake. "I mean, yes... yes we need to hire a plumber."

Before the family headed to the diner, Big Bob called a plumber to fix their pipes. Louise's brother Ernie came over to wait for the plumber while the Belchers went to work. Louise waited tables while little Bob bussed them, and Big Bob cooked his regular customer Henry a tuna melt.

Little Bob returned to the kitchen with a tub of dirty dishes and started to place them in the sink to wash them. "Hold on Junior, it's getting late, we have to get some desserts ready for the dinner rush. Go make some jello."

Little Bob searched the pantry up and down for a single jello packet, but there was none in sight. "Um dad, I couldn't find any jello."

Big Bob grunted as he frantically searched the pantry. "If you want to do something right, you gotta do it yourself." He too came up short. "What the hell? There was two full packs in here yesterday. Junior were you messing with the pantry?"

"What? No, of course not dad." He was honestly telling the truth but based off the look that his father was giving him he sensed that he didn't believe him.

"They were here yesterday, and now they're not. So where could they have gone?" He didn't mean to raise his voice but this was just not his day. First the pipes at home needed repair, then his prep cook called out, and now his menu was falling apart.

Louise barged in the room when she heard her husband raise his voice. "Bob calm down. Now what's going on you two?"

"I put two boxes of jello in there yesterday and now they're gone. I think Junior has been making toys out of restaurant supplies again."

"Dad that's not true!"

"Oh god." Louise put her hand over her mouth. She turned to her husband and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hun I need to tell you something..."

Big Bob gave her a concerned look.

"I took the jello. I took it and put it in the shower head, the faucets, and toilet tanks at home, that's why the water was green. You're not good at fixing things and you refused to hire a plumber. I just couldn't take it anymore."

Little Bob snickered at his mother's revelation. He placed a hand over his mouth and tried to hide his laughter so his dad didn't get angry. He looked up at his father waiting for him to react to the news from his wife, he tended to be a bit of a grump and would often overreact to bad news. Instead he started chuckling.

"Dad?"

Louise joined in. Their son just stared at them, he had no idea what was going on and he was starting to get concerned.

"Mom?"

"Louise that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Bob finally chocked out.

"I know honey, and you fell for it!"

"Ha that was a good one mom!" Little Bob joined them once he realized what was going on. It wasn't the first prank his mother had pulled on them, but it had definitely been the funniest and most memorable. Seeing his grumpy and ill tempered father reduced to tears and laughing along with his goofy prankster mother was a sight to behold. It was moments like these that he'd cherish forever.

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"Ha grandma sounds great." Gene returned to the kitchen with a tub of dirty dishes, followed by Tina with the broom and dust pan.

"She was great Gene." Bob placed a hand on his son's head and tussled his hair.

"Why haven't I thought of pranking with jello before? It's so versatile." Louise observed. Her mind was racing, there were so many possibilities. She didn't know where to begin with the jello prank saga.

"You actually pulled a prank with jello once when you were just two years old. You scared your mom and I good."

"Oh yeah, I still have nightmares from that." Linda shuddered. She had just returned from dropping Mort's burger off at the funeral home and returned to the kitchen with two more order slips. She put a couple of patties on the grill and started cooking them herself so Bob could focus on telling his story.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Flash Back 7 Years Ago XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"Here we go again." Present day Tina said with an uncharacteristically snarky attitude.

"What the hell Tina?" Present day Bob scolded.

"Sorry it's just been a long week."

Bob told his children about the first prank that they caught Louise pulling. Bob was giving Louise a bath, she was happily splashing along, getting the floor and her father soaking wet. Bob stepped out to the hallway to get a towel when he heard Louise screaming. He ran back to the tub to see what was wrong.

"Louise! Sweetheart what's wrong?" He pulled her out of the tub but couldn't see why she was crying.

Linda then came storming in. "My baby what's wrong?" She stood next to Bob and inspected the toddler but she couldn't figure it out.

After her initial screaming Bob realized that she had only been crying with her mouth closed which was unusual for any child. Could she have bitten her tongue? Or broke a tooth? Did she swallow something? He placed his thumb on her chin and tried to pry her mouth open to get a better look. Louise clenched her jaw tight at first but finally gave in. When she opened her mouth red liquid came gushing out.

"Oh my god!" Linda started to gag.

Bob started to hyperventilate. He was mainly just afraid of seeing his own blood, but this was a lot of blood, or so it appeared. He sat on the floor so he didn't drop his child. Louise then started to giggle.

"What the?" Linda and Bob looked at each other then back at their daughter.

Bob slid his finger across the red substance dripping down his daughters chin and sniffed it. Linda looked on curiously.

"JELLO!" Louise yelled throwing her hands up in the air and giggled some more. Her parents seemed less than amused.

Bob's heart was still racing but it calmed down when he remembered the jello prank that his mom pulled when he was a kid. He started to laugh like he and his parents did that day all those years ago.

Linda looked at him like he was crazy. "Bob this isn't funny! I thought she was seriously bleeding! Were you in on this?" She yelled.

"No of course not Lin. It's just... My mom did stuff like this... I mean not this exactly, you see this one time..." Bob told his wife about his mother's big jello prank as they washed the jello off of their daughter's face. Louise giggled again. Bob looked into his daughter's mischievous little eyes, and he realized that despite the fact that she had never met her, Louise was acting more like her grandmother day by day.

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Bob pulled a photo out of his wallet and showed it to the kids. It was of him sitting next to the tub soaking wet and covered in bubbles and red jello. Louise sat in the tub with jello still dripping down her face and looking quite proud of herself for the hijinks that she pulled.

"Ha ha naked baby pictures." Gene lightly teased his little sister when he caught a glimpse of the picture.

Louise rolled her eyes and pretended not to be embarrassed by the photo, but the blush on her face was evident.

"So even though you continue to drive us crazy with your pranks, and you often get yourself into trouble at school... I wouldn't change your mischievous ways for anything." Bob pinched her red cheeks to further add to her embarrassment. "Although maybe you could scale the pranks back just a little?"

"No promises." Louise slapped his hands away from her cheeks.

"Mmm."

"What else do you have in this wallet?" Gene swiped Bob's wallet from his hands and started shuffling through it.

"Not much... like I don't think I even have any money in there."

"Oh yeah there's not much in here." Gene continued to rifle through his father's wallet. "Let's see... we have a quarter, a credit card with a very faded magnetic strip, a receipt from the drug store for some ointment, and is that a packet of jello I see?"

"Umm I think that's a condom." Tina pointed out, she had just seen her first condom in health class last week and considered herself an expert now.

"Oooh cherry flavored." Gene admired it.

"Ew." Louise scrunched up her face.

"Don't lose that receipt! That ointment gave me a rash like you wouldn't believe." Linda scratched her pits.

"Oh my god Lin, go wash up."

"Hey Bob you got any cherry jello, all this talk about jello is making me crave some." Teddy shouted through the order window.

"Heh...Teddy when did you get here?" Bob laughed. "And no... we don't have any cherry jello."

"Lime? Do you have lime jello? Or maybe pineapple?"

"Um I think I have some cough drops?" Bob rifled through his pockets.

"Are they cherry?"

Bob inspected the old cough drops that had been sitting in his pockets for god knows how long. "No they're lemon."

"Yeah that will do."

Bob placed them on a plate with Teddy's burger. It didn't really go well with the burger of the day, but this meal was for the guy who willingly ate a sponge because his friend told him to.

"Cough cough." Linda tried to fake cough as she handed Teddy his food, but it just sounded like she said the word "cough". "Bon appetit. HA!"

"Oh my god. Is it closing time yet?" Bob pinched the bridge of his nose as he often did. He looked around the kitchen at his family and remembered the ordeal they went through the night before. They were all really lucky to be alive, and he was lucky to have this amazing, disgusting, and beautiful family.