Arthur and his parents are driving in the car)
Arthur grumbles. " Why?"
David looks into the rear view mirror. " Why what, Arthur?"
Arthur sighs annoyed. " Why do I have to go to a boring photo shoot with you when it's sunny outside? Would be more fun to hang out with Buster!"
D.W. frowns. " Boy, Arthur sure like to ask questions!"
David steers through a side street. " Because sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do!"
(The car arrives at the party)
Arthur looks out of the window and gasps. " There's no kids! You said there would be kids! Here's only adults!"
Jane shrugs. " Lucy told me there would be."
Arthur looks at his mother. " Where?"
David locks the handbrake. " They are probably coming later."
Arthur was still annoyed. " Why?"
(Lucy waves to Jane from the front step of her house)
Jane sighs. " These questions... sometimes you just can't know the answer to everything."
Arthur grumbles. " And sometimes YOU can't know the answer to anything!"
Francine Frensky: (V.O.) family photo
(Arthur grabs an umbrella off-screen.
Fade back to the episode.)
Jane looked a bit disappointed at him. " Arthur, it´s enough!"
Michael scratches his head. " Dad, Arthur be whining with questions since we left Elwood City!"
They left the car and greeted Lucy, Jane hugs her. " Hey, this is so sweet to be here!"
Lucy laughs and fondles D.W.´s hair, the girl giggles. " Aunt Lucy!" She hugs her aunt happily. Lucy turns to the boys. " Arthur, Michael, how are you boys?"
Michael hugs her. " I´m fine!" Arthur passed them, with an bored expression on the face. " Fine, i am fine!"
David followed him into the hallway. " Arthur, what was that?" When Arthur turned around, David puts a hand on his shoulder. " Be kind, okay? No one is responsible for your bad mood! It lies in your hands. Just try to occupy yourself here in the photo shoot. No discussion!"
Arthur said How long till the Photo shoot? After he put the lunch of the boys in the refrigerator, David shuts the door. He sighs when his wife came in. " Hopefully he calms down soon!"
Jane noded. " He been like this all morning. Kind of whiny."
David smiles. " Trust me Jane, Arthur will come around soon I know it."
Jane shrugs. " Yes but he was give Michel a hard time getting dress! He didn't wanted to wear his blue suit he just wanted his casual clothes."
...Back inside
Arthur jumps on the couch. " Why can't grown-ups ever just answer a simple question? Why can't they just say, "Yes, we know the answer, and this is what it is?" He sighs annoyed and turns the knobs on a TV, but each channel is static.
Arthur grumbles. " Why, why, why, why, why, why, why. Hey, is that tv show in the middle, the Terrific Troopers. I can give it a second chance, nothing else to do, and just the middle of it right, no flashing lights as in the intro! maybe this isn't so bad after
A few hour late
D.W headed inside the House, when she entered the living room, she looked on the tv and yelled. " Arthur no, that show is trouble! Dad forbid you to watch it!" She grabs the remote and puts the tv out. " Phew, that was close!"
Arthur stares at her, with crossed arms, annoyed and angry. " D.W., give me the remote! It is boring here, what else should i do?" D.W. ran out of the living room. " MOM! DAD! Arthur tried to watch the bad tv show!
Jane, had Kate in her arms, and David stood with Lucy and her husband when they heard D.W. shouting.
Jane looks over to David. " Oh my, what is it now?"
David sighs. " Oh boy, i told him to occupy himself, but not that tv show! I go and talk with him."
Michael came over to his younger sister. " D.W. how did Arthur found that show?"
D.W. shrugs. " I have no clue Michael."
Michael looks around. " I go inside and talk to him, dad!"
When Michael entered the room without knocking, Arthur was still sitting on the couch, clenching his teeth, his eyes glaring at his brother.
"What?" Arthur forced out.
Michael looks at him. "Are you alright?"
Arthur shook his head. angrily " This day is boring, and a MESS! Family photo, after that night we had to watch our sisters. We deserve a day for us, but no, we must go here and wasting time!"
"You look a little...angry", Michael continued, crossing to Arthur.
Arthur answers in a sarcastically voice. "I'm fine, Michael!"
Michael sighs. " Arthur what have gotten into you today?"
Arthur grumbled. " I'm tired. at least you was able to sleep without a little sister at your side. She moves around all night. push me to the edge of the bed. And then we spend a whole sunday here, that's boring!"
Michael shrugs. " Oh okay, but it´s not the fault of anyone else here!"
David entered the room and stopped in front of Arthur, crossing his arms. " Arthur, enough of this! You were mean to aunt Lucy, and you act like we ruin your time, but you ruin our time here! Sometimes we have to do things we don´t like okay? Do you think i like all what i must do? Not really, but that´s life! And didn´t you like aunt Lucy? By the way, Jessica arrived with Cora and your cousin Reese is here with his family! So some younger people are around! Is this okay now? Please, behave yourself."
Arthur sighs and looked ashamed down. " Sorry dad, i, i was a bit of the line!" He stood up when aunt Lucy came in. Arthur ran over to her and hug her with a sniffing. " Sorry aunt Lucy, it´s not my day! It´s sweet to see you!"
His aunt fondles his hair with a laughter. " All fine, my dear! I know that it could be boring with us adults sometimes. I talked with mom and dad, seems you had a hard week! but it´s sweet how good you boys took care of your sisters! Im proud of you!"
" Arthur, Michael! HEY!" Cora enters the room, with D.W. on her side. The cousin of the boys smiles. " Do you guys wanna hang out in the garden until the photo shoot? I got pictures from our vacation on the bahamas!" Arthur and Michael look over to David, he nodes. " Sure, i guess it will be fun!" Luckily Cora changed her bratty behaviour since aunt Lucy´s wedding and was more friendly since that.
While Arthur, Michael and D.W. sat with Cora under a tree and look at her photos from the vacation, Jane and Tabitha, Reese´s wife, sat not far on the grass with Kate and Tabitha´s daughter Gwendolyne. Arthur felt better now, they having fun and laughing. He nearly forgets the last fews days, the seizures, the night he must look over D.W. and Kate...
And beside he can´t sleep cause of D.W., he must say that he felt proud that she asked him to stay at her side. Showing she trusts him, D.W. could be annoying sometimes, he thought, but maybe Michael and dad were right, sometimes an 2nd older brother must do what he have to.
Cora held up a picture where she was sitting behind her dad on a jetski, both laughing and waving. D.W. gasps. " I want to ride a thing like that!"
Cora giggles. " It´s called jetski, and you must be taller for that, but no worries, you grow faster than you believe!" She fondles D.W.´s hair that made makes both girls giggling.
Then aunt Lucy came out of the house, followed by Grandpa Dave and uncle Fred who stumbles over the stairs of the veranda. He grabs the handrail in last second and waves with a smile.
The kids giggling, even Jane and Tabitha did so. Lucy claps her hands. " So, now all are here for the picture! Lets do this, then we have dinner, alright?" She laughs and waves with both hands.
Lucy´s husband Curt places a camera on a tripod in front of the house. All of the family came together now.
Grandpa Dave stood on the right, Fred beside him then David and Jane with Kate on her arms, Jessica and Richard are next in the line, then David´s mother Thora, Lucy was on the left, she laughs to her husband. " Hurry, handsome, you have to be on the pic!"
In the next line stood cousin Reese with Tabitha who holds Gwendolyne, then Cora, Arthur and Michael. D.W. stood in front of her brothers.
Curt activates the timer and ran over. " Alright, ten, nine..."
He stops beside Lucy and wraps his arm around her. " Five, four,three..."
All family members smiled and waved at the same moment. " CHEESE!"
Arthur felt happy this moment and, with his loving family he could go through everything.