A/N: I was thinking of writing the Vegas stop in Jun's POV, but decided it would be funnier when told by an older person. So this chapter is just a little filler chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own GX. No additional information will be given...
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That old guy was wearing UNDERWEAR! On his HEAD!
Jun was about to crack a rib from laughing. Even though his brothers had moved on to other activities by now, Jun still found even the slightest thought of underwear funny enough to keep his mind occupied the whole night.
But even though it was possible for Jun to laugh the whole night, he wouldn't be allowed to do so. The van had just pulled in to a hotel parking lot.
Mommy lifted Jun out of his car seat.
"Your hair is getting a bit dirty...how about we give you a bath tonight, sweetie?"
Bath? BATH?
The bathtub was Jun's arch-nemesis, and had been so for as long as he could remember.
Jun started wailing so loudly that Mommy was forced to put him down.
Jun was now sure that once again, Mommy would be nice and not make him have a bath. Iori made him have a bath EVERY NIGHT, and he had been hoping Mommy would give him a break from that.
But apparently, Mommy had been hanging around Iori too much.
"I'm sorry, but you have to have a bath sometime. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun, though!"
Well, there was really nothing more Jun could do now. He would just have to wait until they got to the room to act.
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For a while, Mommy seemed to have forgotten about the bath. She spent a while helping Daddy bring the suitcases in from the van.
Jun was sitting on the floor of the room, playing with his toy plane again. This time, his tummy didn't hurt, so he didn't have to stop playing.
Eventually, though, he got tired of the toy and reached over to put it on a nearby chair.
Then, Mommy noticed that he was done playing.
"Oh good, you're at a stopping point!" she said. "I didn't want to interrupt your playtime. But now you're done, so we can have that bath!"
Jun immediately restarted the wails of protest. He raced around the room, trying to find any means of escape.
He soon located the door that went into the hall. But just as he realized that the doorknob was too high for him to reach, Mommy picked him up.
"That's not the way to the bathroom, silly!" she laughed.
Now Jun was in a dilemma indeed. He could always escape by hitting or biting. But he usually saved his biting for Iori, because she was an evil witch. Mommy truly didn't seem to be aware that Jun hated baths so much.
So violence seemed to be out of the question, at least for this one situation.
He didn't know enough words to just say, "I don't like baths." Most kids his age did, but Iori said that Jun had something called, "developmental delays", which made it so he didn't know as many words as other two-year-olds. Not being able to talk was very frustrating at times like this.
So all Jun could do was wail, "No! No! NO!" over and over again as Mommy carried him into the bathroom.
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Well, here Jun was.
Mommy had undressed him and was now filling up the bathtub.
Fortunately, the faucet wasn't letting a lot of water out, so the tub was filling up really slowly. This gave Jun some additional time to plot an escape.
The bathroom was a small room, with no windows. The only way out was the door.
Fortunately, Mommy had left the door open a crack, to let the steam from the bath out the room.
So Jun waited until Mommy's back was turned, and bolted out the door and into the main room.
At first, no one said anything. Then Chosaku started laughing.
"You know, it'll be kind of hard to escape to anywhere when you don't have any clothes on, Jun..."
Oh, right. Jun had forgotten about that small detail.
Mommy used this opportunity to drag Jun back in to the bathroom. The tub had been filled, and Jun had no choice but to go into the tub.
Okay. So Mommy had succeeded in putting Jun in the tub of water.
But that didn't have to mean she would be able to succeed in actually giving Jun a bath.
Currently, Mommy was getting out the shampoo. She was still going on and on about how fun this bath would be.
But so far, Jun thought this bath was WORSE than the ones at home.
This hotel didn't have his favorite bubble bath, and the tub was awkwardly shaped and uncomfortable to sit in.
But...as much as Jun hated to admit it...he was trapped. Now it was on to the worst part of bathtime...getting his hair washed.
Iori used a special shampoo that didn't make Jun's hair tangly, and didn't hurt when he got it in his eyes. However, the mean hotel people didn't have that kind of shampoo in the little bottles.
What was more, Mommy did NOT do a good job at washing hair. She kept getting the shampoo into Jun's eyes, so he was wondering if his eyes would ever stop stinging.
Finally, Jun had had enough.
He bit Mommy as she was getting shampoo in his eyes for about the hundredth time.
Jun realized he had to act quickly before Mommy decided to punish him.
So he looked up at Mommy with the most innocent face he could muster. The fact that his eyes were tearing up from the shampoo helped him in this.
Fortunately, it worked. Mommy immediately started apologizing, saying that she was a horrible mommy for making Jun do something he didn't want to do.
And then, she rinsed Jun's hair and let him out of the tub early.
Jun was happy. Another victory for him! Maybe he wouldn't have to take another bath for the rest of this vacation!
He went to sleep almost immediately after Mommy dressed him. It took her three tries to get the diaper on correctly, but at least she was learning.
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A/N: Like I said...filler chapter.
Soon, though, the family will be hitting Vegas! I'm also thinking of writing a chapter where they get lost in the deserts of Nevada.
