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Chapter 43
All of the Baker kid's had packed their stuff and Tom was loading the car. Tom looked across the road and the Murtaugh's car wasn't there so they must have already left.
"Right kids any homework that needs done better get done on Sunday once we're home I don't want any of you falling behind in school work," Kate said to all her kids who all claimed not to have homework but Kate knew that wouldn't be true.
"Is everyone here?" Tom asked.
"No just waiting on Lorraine and Jessica," Henry replied.
"Lorraine, that's no surprise there she'll be taking a huge suitcase for 2 nights," Sarah said mocking Lorraine.
Jessica walked out the house nd towards the car, she had to admit she wasn't particularly looking forward to going away for two nights when half her family weren't speaking to her.
"Jessica cheer up you look miserable," Kate said as Jessica put her bag in the boot.
"You okay there Jess?" Jake asked her.
"Yeah I'm ok," Jessica said with a fake smile but Jake knew she wasn't.
"Look don't worry we're here for you," Mike smiled. Although Mike hadn't really been speaking to Jessica much recently he didn't like seeing her upset and realised that she could maybe do with some of her family being there for her right now.
Finally Lorraine had all her stuff ready and the Baker's hit the road.
"Is Charlie not coming?" Lorraine asked.
"No I did phone him yesterday but he said no," Tom replied.
"That's a shame he couldn't come," Lorraine said as she would have liked to have seen Charlie.
"Dad can we stop for food, we're hungry?" Kyle complained.
"No we're getting our dinner once we're there," Tom replied.
"Is that all being paid for by Jimmy to?" Kate asked Tom.
"Yeah," he replied, "that man loves to splash his cash".
After an hour and a half in the car and Nigel and Kyle continually asking are we there yet, they were now here.
"Woah is that is?" Mark said as is jaw dropped.
"It looks so cool," Kim added. The hotel was huge and it was all light up with neon blue lights. It had about 7 floors and the centre of the hotel was all glass which allowed you to see some of the inside which showed the reception and a spiral stair case. There was also elevators which could be seen as well as various sofa's that were in the receptions area.
"We have never been to somewhere so nice as this!" Lorrain said. The Baker's rarely went away since having twelve kids made it a rather expensive holiday so the only place they has really been was the lake, and this hotel and the house at the lake were worlds apart.
"At least we won't have to worry about the Chizler here," Mike laughed.
"It even has a spa," Lorraine smiled.
"And a pool," Sarah added.
"Everyone please behave now," Tom said as they stood outside the hotel before they were going in to check in.
"I want you all to go sit over there on that sofas while me and your dad check us in," Kate said.
"Wow this is amazing," Mark said as they walked in.
"Oh look Nora and Bud are here too," Lorraine said as Nora and Bus walked into the hotel with little Tom.
Tom and Kate walked over to the kids, "Right we're in rooms of two apart fomr Kyle and Nigel you're in with us," Tom said.
"Oh why?" they asked.
"Because you're too young for your own room," Kate replied.
"Mike you go with Jake because he is older and Mark you go with Henry," Kate said as she gave them room keys.
Kate turned round to give the girls their keys then she realised that there would probably be a problem here, "Right I need you's to be mature and be able to share a room," Kate said.
"Well can I go with Lorraine because that I what usually happens?" Sarah asked.
Kate looked at Kim and Jessica to see if they would share.
"Yeah I'll just go with Jessica," Kim agreed, "It's only a room to sleep in".
"Thank you Kim for not making that into a big argument," Kate smiled.
Everyone went to their room to put away their bags before they would head downstairs for their meal.
"Kim I know you probably don't want to share with me but I'll try to stay out your way," Jessica said as she put her bag on her bed.
"Well like I said we're only going to be in here to sleep anyway and it's only two nights," Kim replied. Jessica was surprised that Kim had been so cool about agreeing to share a room with her. It made her more hopeful that they would sort things out because a few days ago Jessica was sure that there was no way that Kim would share with her.
Mark and Henry had gotten the key for their room and were unpacking their stuff.
"Mark please tell me that's not what I think it is?" Henry said as he seen Mark put Buttons in his cage down next to the window.
"Well I couldn't leave him at home Henry," Mark replied.
"You do realise that this hotel will have a no pets rule," Henry stated
"Well we will just have to put up a do not disturb sign so that the maids don't clean the room," Mark replied.
"Does mom or dad know about this?" Henry couldn't believe that Mark had taken his frog with him to such a fancy hotel.
"No they don't so please don' tell them," Mark pleaded.
"I won't but how did you get him here without them knowing?" Henry asked.
"Well I hid his cage under everyone's bag so no one noticed him there, and I made sure I was the first to get my stuff out the car and I hid the cage under my jacket and no one noticed," Mark answered. He was actually quite surprised that he managed to pull that off without anyone knowing he took Buttons with him.
"We can't go anywhere without that frog," Henry said shaking his head.
"Well I was planning on asking Kenneth to look after him but then he ended up coming here too," Mark replied. He couldn't have left Buttons at home by himself until Sunday anything could have happened to him.
There was a knock at their door. Henry panicked as they realised they had the frog with them.
"It's mom," Henry said as he looked through the peek hold on the door. Mark ran to the bathroom in their room with buttons in his cage and put the shower on so him mom would think he was in the shower and wouldn't know about the frog.
"Hey mom," Henry said as he answered the door.
"Are you two ready we're suppose to be downstairs for out evening meal in ten minutes?" Kate asked.
"Yeah I just need to get changed," Henry replied.
"Is Mark in the shower?" Kate asked as she could hear the shower running.
"Yeah he is," Henry replied.
"Well tell him to hurry up when he gets out," Kate said.
Jake and Mike were walking past and noticed Kate leaving Henry and Mark's room and caught the door before it shut.
"Hey guys," Henry said as Jake and Mike walked in.
"Hey we're just two rooms room down the corridor from you. I think Jessica and Kim might be in the room in between," Jake said he sat down on one of the beds in the room.
"Is she gone?" Mark asked as he stuck his head out the bathroom door.
"Yeah she's gone Mark," Henry replied.
"Were you not actually in the shower?" Mike asked as Mark walked out fully clothed and dry.
"No he took his stupid pet frog with him and mom and dad don't know so he hid in the bathroom and pretended to have a shower when mom came in," Henry explained.
"He's not stupid," Mark said sticking up for his frog.
"Surely you're not allowed pets especially frogs in this hotel?" Jake asked.
"Of course you won't be that is exactly what I told him," Henry replied, "If we all get kicked out we all know whose fault it will be".
"Well we just have to make sure we don't get caught," Mark said.
After Henry and Mark got changed the four boys made their way down to the restaurant in the hotel. It was a very big restaurant and all the table's has nice white table clothes with a purple border. And there was big chandeliers all around the restaurant basically there was one above each table.
"They're here finally," Tom said as everyone was waiting for the four boys.
Mike looked confused as he noticed that there was so much cutlery on either side of his place mat.
"Dude what cutlery do I used?" Mike asked Jake.
Jake looked just as confused as Mike, "You work your way in from the outside," Lorraine answered as she overheard Mike ask Jake.
"You can tell we don't eat out often especially in fancy places," Jake stated.
The Murtaugh's were sitting at a table next to the Baker's and player's from the team and other members of staff from the football team were sitting at various table's with their families but as a lot of the player's were only in the early twenties not a lot of them kids and only a few has young kids, and a few of the other members had kids which varied in age from toddlers to about twenty years old.
"Hi kids how are you all doing?" Jimmy said as he and Serena came over to say hello.
"They're all just fine," Tom replied on behalf of everyone.
"You all ready for these games that have been arranged for tomorrow?" Jimmy asked.
"What sort of Games?" Sarah asked him.
"Well I've arranged volleyball, archery, races of different kinds and a obstacle course," Jimmy replied.
"It all sounds so familiar," Tom said under his breath since Jimmy had pretty much arranged the same events that were at the labour day cup.
"What was that Tom?" Jimmy asked.
"Oh nothing I was just saying how great it is of you to have arranged this all," Tom lied with a fake smile on his face.
"Here is my Ann," Jimmy said as Charlie and Ann walked in.
"Charlie I didn't think you were coming!" Tom said surprised to see him.
"Well when Ann said her family was coming too we decided we couldn't miss it," Charlie replied as he sat down with Ann at the Murtaugh's table.
"Hope you don't mind me sitting here dad it just there is no room at your table," Charlie said.
"Yeah that's okay," Kate replied for Tom as she could tell that Tom wasn't too happy about that.
"How come when I ask him to come he says no then all of a sudden when Jimmy is here he decides to come because Ann's family is here," Tom stated.
"I don't know, I wouldn't worry about it Tom," Kate replied.
"Well we're just as important as the Murtaugh's," Tom remarked.
"Tom don't worry about it, Charlie knows that we're just as important," Kate said to calm Tom down.
Tom was getting even more frustrated with Jimmy. He had just takeover everything. First he announces he is the new Sponsor of the team, then he says he's coming to the annual BBQ but Jimmy being Jimmy re-arranged the whole thing, Tom knew that soon this would mean that Jimmy would be interfering with his job as the coach.
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