When they're ready, Grinch, Max and Aggie walked down the slope. There's no need to fly down this time. On their way, they walked pass Bricklebaum's house, only to be spotted by him.
"Well, look who's finally come out of the cave to get some exercise towards town!" Bricklebaum laughed while trying to take down the Christmas decorationw, and rushed towards his neighbor.
"Bricklebaum, it's good to see you too," the Grinch waved back.
"Come on, Grinchy, give me a hug," Bricklebaum hugged the Grinch tightly, who almost hardly breathe.
"I see that you've taken down the Christmas decorations," Grinch said when he noticed his neighbor's house has no Christmas decors anymore.
"Ah, yes. Aside from Christmas, New Year is one of the most exciting holidays of the year! I can't wait for it this weekend!" Then, Bricklebaum noticed Aggie behind his 'best friend', "And who's little lady? I've never seen her before."
"Oh, this is Aggie. She's from another world," Grinch replied.
"Another world?!" Bricklebaum gasped. "So, you're a dimension traveler?"
Aggie chuckled nervously, "Yeah, I am."
"Oh, that's great. It's so nice to have a visitor around from another world. So, what brings you here before New Year?"
"I was sent here to solve a friendship problem, but I haven't found since yesterday."
"Well, I hope you could find one today. Where are you two and your dog heading?"
"We're going to Donna Lou's today. I kinda promised her for something," The Grinch answered.
Bricklebaum thought of something sweet, like a chemistry between Donna Lou and the Grinch, "Oh ho ho ho! Someone's finally in love!"
"I know, right?! That's what I've been thinking since last night!" Aggie squealed.
Grinch grunted in frustration, "Grrrrr! I told you, we're just friends. That's final! Come on, Max, Aggie, let's go."
When the Grinch proceeded to walk back to town, Max and Aggie followed, not before Aggie whispered to Bricklebaum.
"I believe he likes her," she said as Bricklebaum laughed in agreement. "I'll see you around. Mister… uh,"
"Bricklebaum," he held his hand to her.
The winged human shook hands with him, "It's nice to meet you, too."
After the hand shake, he still watched the three walking towards town. "Mr. Grinch, give Donna some treats, will ya?!"
The Grinch pretended he never heard that, but he can't help hearing Aggie laughed at Bricklebaum's crazy advise.
"That guy is funny," she laughed more.
"And annoying even before and after I have a change of heart for Christmas," Grinch murmured.
When they made it to the Lou-Who household, the Grinch rang the door bell, hoping for Donna Lou to answer the door, but he only found Cindy Lou who opened the door.
"Mr. Grinch, you're here early!" The little girl was surprised.
"Morning, Cindy Lou," he greeted, then tilted his head to see inside the hour. "Is your mom around?"
"Yes, she's making breakfast. Come on in, join us!" Cindy Lou held both of the Grinch's arms and pulled him in while Max and Aggie entered, and she shut the door behind them
"No thanks, Cindy Lou, we just had breakfast," Grinch said.
"Yeah. I'm full, too," Aggie added.
When Cindy Lou led them to the kitchen, Donna Lou was trying to unclogged the sink again.
"Morning, Ms. Who!" Aggie greeted loudly, catching Donna's attention.
She turned around to face her visitors, "Oh, Grinch, Aggie, I'm so glad you came here again."
"Thank you, Ms. Donna," the Grinch grinned nervously.
"Please, no 'miss'. Just Donna," Donna insisted as she left the arrow plunger on the sink when she heard the whistle of the kettle.
She stopped the stove and took out two small plastic bowls. She grabbed an oatmeal pack, ripped it open, and mixed the oats in the bowls with hot water. While waiting for the oats to dissolve, she grabbed a plastic of bread, and noticed the baby with blue striped clothes almost bit his brother's head, "Buster, we've talked about this. Your brother's head is not breakfast," Donna said before throwing to loaves of bread in the toaster.
When the oats are ready to serve, Donna Lou was about to give the bowls of oats to the twins, but the Grinch stopped her by holding on of her arms, "Wait! Just a moment."
He grabbed a jar of sugar and a teaspoon to scoop an amount of sugar, and poured it in each of the bowl of oatmeal. When he finished mixing the oatmeal with sugar, he served them to the twins.
Buster wasn't sure if he's going to like the oatmeal with sugar, but when he tasted it with his bare hands, he liked and ate the whole bowl. When he saw his brother eating oatmeal, Bean started to eat his own food too.
Donna looked surprised at this. The twins never liked oatmeal before, but this is the first time they liked it, "Wow! I've never seen the babies love their oats before. How did you know they're going to like it?"
"When I was little, I like sweet stuff. Kids today like something with sugar, so just add a little sugar, they won't resist the food they don't like," Grinch explained.
"That's very smart of you, and you know more about children."
"Not really. I just know."
Donna just stared and smiled at the Grinch for a few seconds, until she noticed the baby with green striped clothes put his foot on his brother's mouth, "Bean, don't feed your brother with your feet again!"
"Mom, the toasts!" Cindy Lou yelled and pointed the toaster when she noticed the toasts were almost burned.
"I got it!" The Grinch volunteered as he pushed the button to eject the toasts.
When the two loaves are in mid-air, Aggie took out her wand staff, and pointed it at the toasts, "NUTELLA SPREADING BLAST!" Chocolate spread were launched in the air from the wand staff, and were caught by the toasts.
The Grinch took two plates and caught the loaves on them, and placed them properly on the table.
Since the twins already liked their food, Cindy Lou took a bite on one of the toasts, and beamed, "Wow, this is amazing! It tastes like chocolate!"
"It is chocolate and hazelnut," Aggie replied. "It's one of my favorite spreading for my sandwich."
As she almost forgot, Donna tried to unclogged the sink one more time to get what was on the drain.
Seeing Donna was having a hard time, Grinch grabbed the arrow plunger to help her out, "Here, let me help you."
When the two pulled the arrow plunger together, they successfully unclogged the sink when green and orange mush stroke their faces, almost hitting their eyes. Grinch and Donna ignored the negative and laughed at each other's faces. Cindy Lou, Max and Aggie watched this scene, and leaned closer to each other with smiles on their faces.
"What exactly is in that sink anyway?" The Grinch asked.
"We're having vegetables for dinner, and the twins puked them out after eating, so I decided to leave the sink up until this morning," Donna Lou explained.
While his master and the lovely woman were talking, Max climbed up the table with his squeaky toy on his mouth to reach for the twins, and played with them.
"So, are you going to work today?" Grinch asked.
"I can't. When I leave the sink up last night, I haven't wash the dishes yet, and I have to clean the house and take down all of the Christmas decorations for New Year's eve this Saturday. So, I have to stay with the kids today, and I know you still have to help Aggie finding a friendship problem she have to solve." Donna reminded.
The Grinch suddenly frowned when he remembered his promise, and he couldn't babysit Cindy Lou and her brothers today. Aggie felt the same too. She realized that, in her opinion, the Grinch wanted to visit and babysit Cindy Lou and her brothers because he wanted to see Donna Lou every morning, and promised to help her for everything she needs.
"You're right. I should go," the Grinch sadly walked away towards the door.
But before he could reach for the door, Aggie quickly blocked his way to stop him, "You knoooooooow… I think there's always enough time to find a ridiculous problem before New Year, soooooo… maybe we should watch over the kids, and find the problem later."
The Grinch was unsure why Aggie suddenly changed of finding a friendship problem too. He thought that she might be planning on something. He raised an eyebrow as he found something suspicious, but she only showed her big puppy eyes, similar to Cindy Lou's. "Are you sure you have time?" He asked.
"I have all the time in the universe, Grinch," Aggie said proudly as she gestured him to go and help Donna.
The Grinch wanted to figure out what the dimensional visitor was up to, but he doesn't have much time for that as he walked towards the kitchen and approached Donna, who starting to wash the dishes.
"Umm…"
That's the only word his said as Donna heard him and turned around to face him, "Oh, you're still here?"
"Yes, uh…" the Grinch was too nervous to speak out as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Aggie just said there's plenty of time to find a friendship problem, so I think you should go to work, while I'll stay here and take care of the work that you should do here today."
Donna was quite shock that the Grinch wanted to take her responsibilities in the house so she could go to work, "You don't have to do that, Grinch. This is too much. I can handle this."
"No, I won't mind. Besides, it was supposed to be a secret, but… when your daughter caught me, she wished you to be happy because you've been making everyone happy already. And I have to grant her wish." Grinch explained.
Donna was so touched that her daughter Christmas wish was her to be happy, and the Grinch volunteered to make it happen. "That's very thoughtful of you, Mr. Grinch. Are you really sure you don't mind working here?"
The Grinch replied, "I have nothing else to do back in my cave. I'll stay here and take care of the rest."
"Thank you so much. It means a lot. I better get dress. I'm gonna be late," Donna said before rushing upstairs to change.
When she's now out of sight, the Grinch looked at the sink, and thought of something to make Donna's work easier without having a hard time washing the dishes. He has a perfect idea how to do it, but he groaned in frustration.
"I never expected this. If only I should've brought my toolbox."
When Aggie heard what he said, she knew that the Grinch would go back to the cave again to retrieve his toolbox. It's going to be a long walk for him to go back and forth all over again. She quickly rushed out towards the door, leaving a strong breeze behind her.
The Grinch, Max and Cindy Lou felt the breeze as they turned to the door to find the door was open and Aggie was gone.
"Where's that girl?!" The Grinch growled.
It wasn't so long when Aggie came back panting, and brought the Grinch's toolbox, "Don't worry, I got the toolbox and the things you needed."
"What… but… how did you do that?" The Grinch stammered in disbelief.
"I have super speed. I can run and fly fast in mere seconds."
"But where did you get this?"
Aggie's confidence turned to nervous when the Grinch asked her how and she found her toolbox, "Um, well, uh… you see… uh…"
The Grinch knew that look as he yelled, "Aggie! Did you go to my workshop?!"
Aggie changed the topic as she shoved the toolbox to the Grinch, "You want the toolbox or not?!"
"Fine. Thanks anyway," He accepted his new friend's help as he took the box.
Just then, Donna Lou rushed the down the stairs with her purse and wore her nurse uniform.
"Well, I better go before I'll miss the bus," she put her cellphone in her purse. Before she can go, she approached Bean and Buster in the kitchen, and kissed them on the cheeks. Then, she approached Cindy Lou, who sat on the couch, and kissed her the same. Without thinking and in a hurry, Donna approached the Grinch, and almost kissed him, until she realized what she was doing as she stopped just few inches apart from him..
Both her and the Grinch were shocked about what was supposed to happen, but it didn't as they blushed embarrassingly with their cheeks turned red.
Cindy Lou and Aggie noticed this. Cindy Lou was just curious, but Aggie grinned in excitement as she realized there was like a spark between the two.
"I'm really sorry about that," Donna chuckled embarrassingly, "I just don't know what—"
But the Grinch held his hand up to stop Donna from talking, "That's okay. I know you're in a hurry."
"So, uh…" Donna didn't know what to say next as she was still trembled about what she almost did seconds ago. "Are you sure you can take care of everything here?"
"I got it all under control," Grinch said.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Grinch. I should go. I'm gotta be late," Donna rushed out of the door, and tried to catch up with the us.
"Bye, Mom!" Cindy Lou waved at her goodbye. "We'll see you again tonight!"
The Grinch kept watching Donna Lou run for the best until she was out of her sight, and slowly closed the door.
When he did, he tried to forget the moment he was so close to Donna. Who would've thought she was so beautiful with her blonde hair, wearing pink headband, and she has sparkly blue eyes. Grinch suddenly snapped out of his mind, and tried to stay focus on his new project.
"Come on, Max, we've got work to do," Grinch said to his dog as he took his toolbox with him, and went straight to the kitchen, while Max left the twins and followed him.
Meanwhile, on the couch, Cindy Lou was still curious about what's going on today. Aggie then sat beside her to accompany her. Since she got no one to talk to since the Grinch started to work, Max joined in to help him, and the twins are still eating, Cindy Lou turned to Aggie to ask a question.
"I don't get it. Finding a friendship problem is so important to you and you want to find it soon before New Year. Why did you give it up today?"
"Because… I think I already found the friendship problem," Aggie smirked with a sinister look.
Cindy Lou suddenly beamed, "You do?!"
"Yes, I certainly do."
They nearly kissed! Dang it!