Early in the afternoon the next day, we find the residents of the farmhouse getting everything ready for when their special guest arrives.
After about two hours, it wasn't long before someone arrived knocking at their front door "Eustice, would you mind getting the door ,that might be them now!" Commanded Muriel who was in the kitchen preparing dinner, Eustice begrudgingly decides to do as he was told, and walks over to the door to answer it .
Opening the door ,Eustace was in complete surprise when he sees a family of four standing in front of the doorway ,greeting the old grouchy farmer with smiles on their faces.
Looking at the man before Eustace ,he was as tall as Eustace, he had brown hair and wore a black polo shirt ,a pair of khaki pants, and Oxford shoes while the woman besides him which was his wife had a very slim figure ,red hair that reached her neck, and she wore a blue sweater ,Capri pants, and high heel boots.
The children they had consisted of a teenage girl with long black hair in a tube top and jeans, and the other child being a girl by the age of four with brown hair tied into pigtails ,she wore a striped shirt, shorts that reached her knees, and slip on shoes.
Eustace just stares at them until the man replies to him by sarcastically asking "come on pop ,surely you haven't forgotten about your only son have you?" In which Eustace replies "oh believe me, I thought I would after you went and married the airhead here."
The man's wife after hearing this, proceeds to giggle at him before she says "I see you haven't changed one bit since the reception, still the same old grouch who thinks he's funny" as if Eustace's words toward her have no impact.
Muriel afterwards steps in to greet the family by saying "oh Gavin, its so lovely to see you and your wonderful family" to which the man refered to as Gavin proceeds to hug Muriel ,saying "It's good seeing you and dad again too mom" before Muriel proceeds to hug his wife afterwards, saying "and Gina so good to see ya again."
While Muriel is doing so, the woman named Gina replies "I know ,its been so long since we've seen each other, I wish Gavin and I made plans to see you guys sooner" before the two women began giggling.
Afterwards, Muriel begins to notice the two daughters before her and Eustace, as Muriel approaching them says "oh and are those our darling grandchildren, my look how adorable ya both are" Gavin then says to his kids " Madeline ,Katy ,I want you two say hello to your Grandma and Grandpa ."
The teenager known as Katy simply greets then with a sigh, saying "Hey grandma ,hey grandpa, glad we can get a chance to meet you" sounding uninterested ,Muriel proceeds to approach her, before she says "my what a beautiful young lady ya are dear come here and give your grandma a hug" as Muriel does so, while Katy proceeds to hug her back before being let go from the hug.
"Hi grandma ,Hi grandpa" says Madeline excitedly, then Muriel proceeds to walk over to her, and gives her a hug before Eustace greets them by saying "yeah yeah hi, nice you can come, don't expect anything from me you hear?" To which the girl reffered to as Madeline begins to giggle at her grandpa's silly response.
"Oh please do come in and make yourselves at home, wont you" asks Muriel attempting to welcome their guests into the living room.
As the family enter the farmhouse ,they take the chance to look around the living room admiring all the effort put in to making it spotless for their arrival, as well as the couch set up inbetween Muriel and Eustace's usual seating areas.
Gina admiring the hard work done for them ,comments saying "awe you know you two didn't have to do all this for us" Muriel afterwards, kindly responds to her saying "oh we simply wanted nothing but the very best for our dear family" Turning to Eastace asking" wouldnt you agree Eustace?" Only for him to uncaringly respond "yeah yeah, so when do we eat?"
Muriel after hearing what Eustace had asked ,realizes something before saying " oh Eustace your absolutely right ,I forgot to prepare food for our guests" before she walks over to the kitchen in a hurry, but not before she tells her new guests "Gavin ,why don't you and your family make yourselves at home, while I get dinner started."
The family sitting on the couch unwinded after a long journey, laying their bodies into the soft cushions while they join Eustace in watching some T.V.
As the do, young Madeline notices Courage come down the steps after he finished cleaning the upstairs ,what he didn't expect was little Madeline to then lunge out at the screaming dog joyfully, as she cries out "DOGGY!" Before wrapping her arms around his pink fluffy body, nuzzling her cheek on his in the process ,much to Courage's surprise.
This gets all the family's attention afterwards ,as they turn to see their young daughter with the poor frightened dog ,while Eustace simply laughs at Courage's misfortune saying "I'm starting to like that kid already" before we hear footsteps from the kitchen rush in ,"Courage is that you? Oh" asks Muriel who walks in after hearing his scream ,only to notice Madeline nuzzling him ,granted she wasn't hurting him nor was she crushing him ,but he was still frightened by the overexcited young child that is one of Muriel's granddaughters.
"Oh Courage how sweet ,your already making freinds with wee Madeline, such a good dog" says Muriel, Katy hearing this asks her sweet grandmother " wait a sec, you named him Courage?"
Gina afterwards apologizes for her little girl ,as she says" I'm sorry about Madeline, she just can't resist hugging anything cute or small" before approaching Madeline to lift her into her arms while still holding Courage in hers ,as he asks himself "am I going crazy or was I just ganged up by a little girl?"
Afterwards Gavin proceeds to walk up to Courage next , he gently proceeds to rub his back and say "Well hello there little guy, it's really nice to meet you" Muriel proceeds to walk over to the family ,before Madeline gives Courage to her sweet grandma.
"Courage ,I'd like you to meet our guests" Muriel says, holding Courage in her arms presenting him to Gavin and his family ,before she returns him to Madeline much to Courage's fear.
Gavin afterwards turns to Katy, saying "Katy ,I want you to stay down here with grandpa and watch Madeline ok your mother and I are gonna have a look around the house" in which Katy replies by giving her dad the ok finger gesture, before the two make their way upstairs, afterwards Muriel says to Courage "now Courage ,why dont you keep the children company with Eustace, while I finish preparing dinner."
Once Muriel was in the kitchen again, Katy begins to pull out her iPhone from her front pocket begins checking for messages on it, mumbling to herself how lucky she was her iphone service and wifi can still function anywhere ,while Madeline keeps nuzzling Courage.
Eustace looking at this ,starts to hatch an idea asking his granddaughters "say ,would you girls like to see what grandpa got to show you?"
The two where very curious to know what he wanted to show them, only for Eustace to quickly proceed and grab something from behind his chair, which happened to be his mask, putting it on before facing them and shouting "OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!" scaring both Madeline and Courage as they scream to the top of their lungs, while Katy was taken aback by her grandpa's mask.
Satisfied with scaring three people at once ,Eustace begins laughing at the poor misfortunate trio who ended up as victoms to Eusace's cruel joke, he was laughing so hard that he failed to notice Muriel walk in ,when she saw what Eustace had done ,she proceeds to walk over to the farmer ,before striking him on the head with a rolling pin.
"OW what did I do?" Asked Eustace, caressing his head trying to ease his pain, only for Gavin and Gina to step in and before Gavin asks " is everything alright down here?", Only for Muriel to assure him everything's fine, saying "oh no worries Gavin dear, just letting your father understands how we shouldn't treat our guests."
Courage while still being held by Madeline proceeds to look toward the readers and comment saying "if this is what I'm going to be putting up with for a while I might as well get comfortable right?"
There it is the next chapter to the story I hope you enjoy it if you do let me know in a review please.