Author's Note: I forgot to mention at the end of the last chapter, that Courtney, is owned by Tropical and Sean. Now that I got all of the disclaimers out of the way, between the start of this story, the last chapter, and this one, on with the next chapter!
Chapter 5, An Interruption, with a Bit of Bad News
Zack POV
We sat in the bathtub, waiting to hear what Peter had to tell us about Rosie.
"What's wrong?" Tommy asked.
"Tommy, Rosie is in the hospital. She has appendicitis." Said Peter.
"Pendicitis, what's that?" Tommy asked.
"That's appendicitis Tommy, and it's when your appendix, which is located down near your tummy, starts to hurt, and if it's not removed in time, they can explode, and you can get very sick and die. But don't worry, Rosie is at the hospital, and when I spoke to her mommy earlier today, she was getting ready to head into surgery to have it removed. I'm sure we'll hear from them tomorrow to see how it all went." Said Peter, as he finished washing me off and shampoohed my hair.
When Peter was finished giving me my bath and drying me off, I sat there on the floor, in a nightshirt Aunty Celeste packed me and another one of those uncomfortable diapies, while I watched Peter bathe Tommy and Dil. I couldn't help but notice for the rest of the bath, while Dil seemed to not pay much attention to the bad news that Peter had recently announced, continuing to giggle and enjoy the toys in the tub, as now that he was olderer, as long as he didn't have to take a bath alone, he was getting to where he would take his baths without putting up a fuss, Tommy had a worried look on his face the rest of the time.
A little while later, Peter had all of us in our pajamas, and tucked into bed, Dil in his crib, me and Tommy over on the other side of the room, lying side by side in his big boy bed.
"Goodnight Tommy, Dil and Zack. Tommy and Dil's mommy and daddy should be back in a couple of hours." Said Peter, as he blew us a kiss from the door, turned out the lights, and headed downstairs to do whatever babysitters do after we go to bed.
I rolled over and looked at Tommy.
"So, wanna tell me more about your trip to see Rosie?" I asked.
"Maybe later Zack, right now, I'm kind of sleepy. Night night." Said Tommy, as he rolled over, and went to sleep, the worried look never leaving his face.
I could tell Tommy was worried about Rosie, and something tolded me he wasn't going to tell me anymore about his long weekend he had with Rosie, until he knew she was out of the hopcickle and going to be ok. I glanced over at Dil, who had fallen asleep in his crib at this point, so decided to close my eyes, and fall asleep, since there was nothing better to do.
The nextest morning, we awoke to find it was raining outside. Tommy was coming back from the potty when I awoke.
"Morning Tommy." I said, as I yawned and stretched, sitting up in bed, as I reached for the bed post, and thought, perhaps if I got myself steady on my feet, as long as I didn't sit down, until I was willing to be stuck for a while, maybe, just maybe, I could walk around in this stumpy butt balloon of a diapie. I gave my plan a try, and to my pleasant surprise, I had to move slowly, but it worked!
"I'm ok Zack." Said Tommy, as he headed towards the bedroom door, me waddling after him. I happened to glance over at Dil's crib as I lefted the room, to find he was gone.
"Where's Dil?" I asked.
"He's probably downstairs eating his breakfast, come on." Said Tommy, as we made our way out of their room and downstairs.
By this time, I was getting tired of walking, so I sat down, and discovered my diapie doubled as a diapie and a trampeleen. I bounced down the stairs, then grabbed a hold of the bannister, so I could steady myself and walk again.
"See? I tolded you you'd get use to those diapies." Said Tommy, as he obviously noticed I could transport myself.
Of course, he's forgetting that while I may be younger than most of the crew, I was the smartest one of them all, I mean come on, I'm probably the onliest 18-months-old toddler, who's dying to get potty trained, and this was starting to go on, before my aunty left me in such discomfort.
"Yeah, I don't wish to be stucked forever." I said with a sigh, as we made our way towards the kitchen.
Tommy and Dil's mommy and daddy were there, as they had just finished feeding Dil some oatmeal, when me and Tommy entered the room. Tommy's mommy helped us get into our booster seats at the table, and gave us bowls of Reptar cerial. While we were eating, I noticed Tommy didn't seem all that happy.
"You're still worried about Rosie, aren't you?" I asked, taking my lastest bite of cerial.
Tommy nodded, as he hopped down from his seat, his cerial only half eaten. His mommy tried to get him to eat the rest of it, but he wasn't buying it, so we were put into the playpen, just as the Goober show came on the TV. This show didn't interest me and Tommy in the least, but Dil was all over Goober, so he picked up a spare plastic screwdriver off of the floor, snuck out of the playpen, and went to watch. That's when I got my brilliant idea.
"You think we should go see Rosie ourselves?" I asked Tommy.
"That's a great idea Zack, we can go to the airport and fly to where Rosie is, and see her in the hopcickle." Said Tommy, a smile spreading across his face.
Unfortunately, we didn't even make it past the kitchen. We were about to attempt escaping into the backyard through the doggy door, when Tommy and Dil's mommy stopped us.
"I'm sorry Tommy and Zack, but it's raining. You can't play outside today." Said Tommy and Dil's mommy, as she putted us back into the playpen, Tommy, now crying at this point.
"Don't worry Tommy, I'm sure Rosie's going to be ok." I said, as I grabbed the star ball, and rolled it towards him.
When I rolled it towards Tommy though, he stopped crying, but did something I've never seen him do before. He turned around, like he was scared, then ran towards a stuffed teddy bear of Dil's with a missing ear that he had chewed off a while back, and started clutching on to it with all of his might.
"It's ok Rosie, you're safe, the bolder isn't gonna get you." Said Tommy.
I just looked at him.
"Are you in sane Tommy? That's not a bolder, it's our favoritest ball, and that's Dil's teddy bear, not Rosie." I said.
Tommy turned around, sat down, and just looked at me.
"You ok?" I asked, now getting concerned for Tommy, if anything, I was more concerned for Tommy than I was about Rosie at that moment, even though I hoped her surgery went well and that she was feeling better.
Tommy put his hands on his head and lay down on the floor.
"I've gots a headache. Maybe I just, need to lie down." Said Tommy in a barely audible voice, as he lay down and closed his eyes.
I decided to let him rest, as I reached over for either his or Dil's toy laptop, that was in the corner of the playpen. I had one just like it that Peter had gotten for me for Christmas, but as far as I knew, my aunty didn't send it with me for the long weekend, since she knew I'd have plenty of other toys to play with. It's one of those things I'll play with when I'm by myself, pressing the letter buttons and hearing what each letter is and what they're for, and listening to music on it.
"Press a letter button." Said the computer, as I flipped the switch on the side of the screen.
I pressed the letter D to learn who's toy laptop I was playing with, as Peter had programmed all of our toy laptops to recognize the firstest letter of our names.
"D is for Dillon, that's your name." Said the computer.
I knew it was Dil's computer, as had it not been, it would have tolded me that D was for dinosaur, and the T would have told me it was for Tommy, not for train. Of course on mine, Z was the designated first name letter, while on everybody else's, Z was for zebra. I knew Dil wouldn't mind my playing with his computer for a while, so kept myself occupied, until I overheard Tommy running out of the playpen.
I looked up to see him rounding the corner out of the living room into the hallway, but with how clumsy I was moving as of late, I decided to not try to chase after him. Goober can be annoying, I can only imagine what it's like when you've gots a headache and you're worried about your long distance bestest friend, maybe Tommy needed to escape from the room for a bit. I went back to playing with the laptop for a little while longer, till I smelled a familiar smell. No, it wasn't a poopy diapie, this time, it was a good smell.
"Time for lunch." I hearded Tommy and Dil's mommy say, as she came and gotted me out of the playpen and carried me into the kitchen, where the aroma only gotted better.
She had fixed me my favoritest soup, steak and noodle soup! I was so excited, I dug in immediately, and at this point, it seemed about the most exciting thing to be happening that day, as while I enjoyed playing with the toy laptop, I was starting to get bored with it.
Of course, I had to put up with two cranky toddlers. Dil growing cranky because he was drug away from a Goober marathon on TV, and I overheard Tommy's daddy on the baby nmonitor, trying to get Tommy up to come eat, and he grew cranky. Obviously, his headache wasn't gone. No matter, my two hosts were put down at the table with me, and both given bowls of soup, which Dil ate all of his, Tommy, hardly touched his.
"Feeling any better Tommy?" I asked, pretending not to notice.
He looked at me, nodded, and turned back to his bowl, where he just played with the noodles, not eating anything.
"I wished there was something I could do." I thought to myself, as I finished my soup, starting to grow sleepy for nap time.
We were all then placed into the playpen, where I more or less, drifted off to sleep and had some strange dream, where we fell through a whole in the floor, me, Tommy and Chuckie that is, as Chuckie appeared in my dream, not sure why nobody came over to play that day, maybe because it was raining, but in my dream, a bunch of peoples asked us questions and to our pleasant surprise, we could talk to growed ups.
The dream ended with a parade of confetti, as I awoke, to find myself now in Tommy's bed. I'm guessing the growed ups moved us upstairs once they founded us asleep, I then turndid to my friend, who was also waking up, while I glanced over at Dil's crib, to find he awoke before we did, but sadly, it was still raining outside.
I proceeded to tell Tommy about the strange dream I had, and then, he tolded me about a dream he had, where I didn't want to have blond hairs no more, so he shaved his head, and everybody thought he was a tiny baby again.
"Glad that was only a dream." I said, as he finished his story, and I made my way down on to the floor.
"Yeah, me too." Tommy replied, as he hopped down from his bed, the two of us, making our way out of the room and heading downstairs, where we founded Dil watching the Dummi Bears on the TV.
When The Happy Song came on, we started singing and giggling, me bouncing to the music, and Tommy, seemed more or less like he had forgotten all about Rosie, so I decided to not mention the subject, as we continued to enjoy The Dummi Bears.
Around the time it ended, the doorbell buzzer went off. One of Tommy's parents answered the door, and in walked Peter into the living room, carrying his iPhone.
"I can't stay long, but I have somebody on my iPhone who wants to talk to you Tommy." Said Peter, as he crouched down on the floor in front of us, me, Tommy and Dil gathering around the iPhone, where we all saw Rosie's picture on the screen.
"Hi Tommy." Said Rosie, her voice was slightly croaky, like she had just waked up.
"Hi Rosie." Said Tommy.
"How are you feeling?" Peter asked.
"I'm better, it still hurts a tiny bit, but not like it was." Replied Rosie.
"Hey Rosie, I'm Zack, remember me?" I asked.
"Oh, hi Zack." Said Rosie.
"So, what happened Rosie?" Tommy asked.
Rosie went on to tell us about how she had gotten over her tummy bug, when she went to play at her friend Hazel's house, and she hurted so bad, it was all she could do to keep from crying. She had surgery, and while she was asleep, she told us of some dream she had where we were different characters in some magical land or something, and Tommy was a dust bunny or something, and I ate wormies. Glad that was a dream, worms may be Phil and Lil's favoritest food, but not mine. Anyway, it was her own make believe land, where booboos didn't exist, but Peter was evil there, so she was glad when her sister got the good Peter on her iPad, and when she awoke, she was feeling a lot better.
"Well Rosie, I'm gonna have to go, but glad you're doing better." Said Peter, as we saw Rosie's picture leave and a girl with brown braids in her hair was on the screen.
"We do need to be going, Rosie ate her lunch today at the hospital, so it looks like she can be released to go home. She'll just have to take it easy for a few days, but she's gonna be fine." Said the girl with braids on the screen.
"Thanks for letting us know Mary, and thanks for calling me. Stu and Didi tell me that Tommy's been worried sick about poor Rosie, or at least that's what I'm gathering, since he hardly ate anything today for breakfast and lunch, took two naps, and seemed rather cranky." Explained Peter.
"Well, we'll talk to you guys later then." Said Mary.
"Bye bye guys." We all said, as we waved at the screen, and the call disconnected.
"Would you like to stay for dinner Peter?" Tommy and Dil's mommy asked, walking into the room at that point.
"I'm afraid I can't, but I'll catch you all later." Said Peter, as he got up from the floor, and rushed out the front door.
I turned towards Tommy, who looked a lot happier now, and was about to have him tell me more of his trip to see Rosie, when we were all sent into the kitchen at this point for dinner.
I surely hoped dinner was just as good as breakfast and lunch were at this point. To my unpleasant surprise, dinner was roast beef, mash potatoes, and green beans. I didn't mind the green beans, I wasn't all that up for the roast beef, nor did I care much for mash potatoes. I was a guest in Tommy and Dil's home, so tried to eat as much as I could handle, tossing my mash potatoes on to the floor when nobody was looking, hoping Spike or Spikfi would eat them up.
Before I could attempt to toss any globs of mash potatoes on to the floor though, the telephone rang, and to my pleasant surprise, it was for me! Tommy's mommy got up from the table to answer the phone.
"Well hello Celeste, how goes your emergency business trip?" I heard Tommy and Dil's mommy asking my aunt.
A few minutes of silence passed before their mommy spoke again.
"Well, the diapers are working out, but seems as if Zack isn't moving as fast as he was in his old diapers. I'd have him wear Dil's, but he's still in the size below Zack as far as diapers are concerned." I heard their mommy say into the phone.
I was thankful that a growed up was noticing the difficulty I was having in these diapies, hopefully, my days of wearing these would be over by the time my aunty came back, if not sooner.
"Wanna say hi to Zack? Sure! I'll get him for you." Said their mommy, as she came over to the table, and put the portable phone on to speaker phone.
"Zachary, the telephone is for you." Tommy and Dil's mommy said, as she put the phone down on the table near me.
"Hi Zachary." Said my Aunty Celeste.
I couldn't talk to growed ups yet, so I started pressing numbers on the phone. I pressed the number 8.
"An eight!" Said Tommy's mommy.
Then I pressed the number five, then a zero, and several more numbers, as their mommy repeated back to my aunty what numbers I had pressed.
After a few minutes of doing this, I started to cry.
"Now don't worry, I'll be back in a few days." Said my aunty, as I started to calm down, thankful she'd be coming back, as I did miss her a lot.
"Oh goodness Didi, I completely forgot to notify Veronica that we wouldn't be at music class tomorrow." Said my aunty with a sigh.
"Can you call her and let her know you won't be there tomorrow?" Didi asked.
"I would, if I had her number." Said Aunty Celeste.
"Well, Tommy seems to be over the tummy bug he caught last weekend while out in Boston, and nobody else around here has caught it, I guess, I could take the kids to music class in the morning." Said Didi.
"It's at the local community center. I believe your niece Angelica attends preschool there, as I've seen the preschool class attend the weekday sessions when Zack and I have gone when I've been able to take a day off of work." Said Celeste.
"Well, we're suppose to go out to lunch with the gang at Zappy Burger tomorrow, and go spend a lovely afternoon at the park, provided the rain has let up, as it rained all day today, but music class sounds nice. I have yet to go to one! And I am a member of the community center, so I won't have to pay extra to attend. Do you know if we're carpooling everybody, or do I just need to bring Zack, Tommy and Dil?" Didi asked.
"I received text messages from Betty, Kira and Laura, stating they'd be taking their own kids to music class tomorrow. That's what reminded me I had forgotten to let Veronica know we wouldn't be there this week, due to my being out of town, and if you couldn't take the kids, I was going to see if Betty, Kira, or Laura could pick them up on their way to music class, but since you can take them, I won't worry about it then." Said Celeste.
"Well ok then, you have a good weekend on your business trip, or as good as it can get, and we'll see you on Monday then. Wanna say bye bye to your aunty and hang up the phone Zack?" Didi asked me.
I waved my hand, and hit the red button on the phone. Once that was all over, I started to feel a little bit better.
"Did you hear that Tommy and Dil? We're going to music class tomorrow!" I said excitedly.
"And this will be my firstest class without a broked leg, so I'll be able to do the movement part, as well as playing innerments" Replied Tommy excitedly.
"I wish I could say the same." I muttered to myself, as I dug into my green beans and meat, eating everything on my plate, except for the dreadful mash potatoes..
"Don't worry Zack, you're moving better in those diapies, maybe you'll do just fine at music class tomorrow." Tommy tolded me reassuringly.
"Maybe you're right." I said with a sigh, trying to accept these changes. At least I finally hearded from my aunt, and only had to put up with her absence for a few more days, surely, I could get use to these diapies even more so by then too, or would I?
A little while later, after we were done with dinner, we went through the getting ready for bed ritual, of saying goodnight to the appliances, like the fridge and the oven, then brushed our teeth, and Tommy and Dil's mommy read a book to us about Reptar saying goodnight, as he too had a similar routine of getting ready for bed, minus saying goodnight to appliances, and for tonight anyway, he took a bath in the book, but we skipped the bath, probably cuz Peter gave us one yesterday night. Then, she sang us a soft, soothing song called Beautiful Dreamer, and before I knew it, I was sound asleep.
The nextest day, we awoke early, excited to head to music class, and spend a day with our friends. We ate all of our breakfast, gotted dressed, and before we knew it, we were in the back seat of Tommy's mommy's car, me on the far right, with Tommy in the middle, and Dil behind Didi, as we left for music class. Unfortunately, a bunch of traffic caused us to be in a very slow moving line, which tolded me we'd be in the car for quite a while. Seeing that we now knew that Rosie was ok from her pendicitis or whatever it's called, I decided to get Tommy to tell me more of his trip he had to Rosie's.
"Hey Tommy?" I said.
"What." Tommy replied.
"Think you could tell me more about your trip to Rosie's? I know we're getting to an unprettyful part of the trip, but I wanna hear about it, please?" I asked.
End of Zack POV
And this, ends chapter 5. So, will Tommy tell Zack more about his trip to visit Rosie? We'll find out, in the next chapter.
Author's Note: As you can see, this chapter focused more on the real time events of the current weekend at which time Tommy is telling his story on. You may have also noticed, that the events of my stories, Zack's Blond Hair, Alternate Ending to Zack's Blond Hair, which was Tommy's dream, Ask the Dynamic Trio, which was Zack's dream, and the other story that I have currently in progress, Rosie in Make Believe Land, all overlap with the events of this story that's currently in progress right now. Hope you guys are still enjoying this story, and once I complete chapter 6 on this story, we'll be halfway through this story, and I may go back to updating Rosie in Make Believe Land for a little bit. For now though, I'm gonna go take a break, but be looking for more chapters in both, this story, and in Rosie in Make Believe Land, coming soon. And to everybody who's reviewed this story thus far, I thank you for your reviews, even if you had to review as a guest. I've since gone and approved your reviews, so we're all set.