Chapter 7, Music Class, and Breaking the Promise
Zack POV
Tommy and Dil's mommy gotted us out of the car and ready to take into music class. She put me into the double stroller and had Tommy help her push.
"Here sweetie you can help me push." I heard their mommy say, as Tommy and his mommy grabbed on to the back of the stroller, and we went inside.
Once we were inside, I could tell their mommy was losted, which was no surprise, this was the firstest time she was bringing us to music class. Usually, it was me and my aunty picking up Tommy and Dil every week.
"Hmmm, I didn't think to ask Celeste where music class is held in this building." I heard their mommy say to herself. Then, Tommy started pointing like he was trying to show his mommy the way, but guess we were standing near a bathroom, as she thought he needed to go potty.
"Oh, do you need to go potty sweetie? We're right near the bathroom. Come on, let's go." Said their mommy, as we went into the bathroom.
Turns out Tommy did need to go, so it wasn't a totally wasted trip. When we came out of the bathroom, at least somebody had showed up that could help us get to music class.
"Oh hey there Deed." Said Phil and Lil's mommy.
"Hi Betty." Said Tommy and Dil's mommy.
"Need a hand? We're heading to music class." Said Betty.
"That would be wonderful, as I've never brought the kids. Usually, Celeste brings them but she's out of town on business this weekend." Said Didi.
"No problem Deed, come on, it's this way." Said Betty, as we followed her, pushing Phil and Lil in their double stroller down to the room where we needed to be.
When we gotted there, we went inside, and were greeted by Veronica. She's tall, with long black hair, and wears pink lipstick and a dark purple long dress.
"Good morning Mrs. Deville, and good morning Phil and Lil, welcome to music class!" Said Veronica, as Betty signed in for class. The growed ups had to sign us in as a way for them to know we went to class or something. Then, we were the nextest ones in line.
"Tommy! Dil! And Zack! Great to see you! And, looks like Zack got his blond hair back. And who's this?" Said Veronica, as she looked up at Didi.
"Oh, hi, I'm Didi Pickles, I'm Tommy and Dil's mom." Said Didi.
"Oh, how nice to finally meet you. I'm Veronica, and usually, Zack's aunt brings them to class." Said Veronica.
"Well she's out of town this weekend, so, here I am. And I must say, Tommy is all excited to be here this morning. He babbled in the car all the way here." Said Didi with a smile.
Of course, what Tommy's mommy didn't know was the fact that Tommy was telling me all about his trip to visit Rosie lastest weekend. To the growed ups, our talking sounds like babbling. Someday, they'll be able to understand us, but for now, we babble as far as they're concerned.
"Well, just come sign yourself and the kids in over here, you can store your stroller over with the others next to the instrument closet here, and feel free to go find a space in the circle. We'll be starting shortly." Said Veronica, as Didi signed us all in, gotted me and Dil out of the double stroller, and me, Tommy and Dil went and founded a spot on the floor.
"Hey Pickles, Wehrenberg, how's it going?" Said Johnny, a two-year-old kid who's around Tommy's age, only he has brown hair and wears red buttondown shirts, blue jeans and black shoes. We metted him at music class, and it's about the onliest place we usually see him.
"Great! I sawed my aunt and uncle lastest weekend." Said Dil.
"And what about you Zack, what you been up to? Have a good time with grandma and pap pap last week?" Johnny asked.
"I did, and Tommy here, well, he…" I started to say, before out of nowhere, a hand was covering my mouth.
"Tpommy what? Tommy what?" I over heard Timmy Mcnulty say off to my right. He was over with his little brothers and his mommy Connie, as they were busy picking out their instruments.
I tried to speak but the hand continued to cover my mouth. Before I could look to see who was covering my mouth, Veronica came by with the box of instruments.
"Tommy! Keep your hands to yourself! And let's get you all wiped up, it's time to pick out your instruments and get ready for music class. We're about to start." Said Veronica, as she set down the box in front of us, Tommy's hand now leaving my mouth.
Me, Dil and Tommy, once Veronica wiped his hands clean with a baby wipe, picked out our instruments. I grabbed a pair of marockas, Tommy grabbed a tamboreen, and Dil grabbed what they called rain sticks. They looked like drum sticks without the pointy ball on one end, and you hit them together to play music.
She then moved over to Phil and Lil, who picked out sand paper blocks to rub together, and no sooner had they picked out their instruments when Chazz came in with Chuckie and Kimi, and Martha Generic came in with Bobby. So far, so good, no sign of Angelica, so looks like music class would at least not leave me tone deaf by the end.
Chuckie, Kimi and Bobby picked out their instruments. Chuckie picked out a drum, Kimi picked out some symbols, and Bobby got out another pair of rain sticks. Then Jesse showed up with his mommy Laura, and he picked out the last instrument in the box, a xylophone.
"Ok boys and girls, now that everybody has their instruments, what are we going to sing and play first today?" Veronica asked.
Timmy's hand went up.
"Yes Timmy you have a suggestion?" Veronica asked.
"How about the carrots and potatoes song." Said Timmy.
"Great choice! Ok everybody, let's play our instruments, and get started." Said Veronica.
We all played our instruments and sang the song. It goes to the tune of Apple and Bananas, only we sing I like to eat carrots and potatoes, and sing the different vowel sounds just like with apples and bananas.
After that song was finished, Bobby got to pick out a song.
"What do you wanna sing Bobby?" Veronica asked.
"If you're happy and you know it." Said Bobby.
"Good choice!" Said Veronica.
This time, we didn't use our instruments, since we had to do different things during the song. First, if we were happy and we knew it, we had to clap our hands. Then, we had to clap our hands and scratch ourselves. Then, we had to clap our hands, scratch ourselves, and stomp our feet. The list went on and on and on until we all got tired. Finally, after that was done, Chuckie was the next one to suggest a song, since now that he was three-years-old, he could more or less, talk to the grown ups.
"Yes Chuckie what would you like to sing?" Veronica asked.
"The pack all your troubles song." Said Chuckie.
"Hmmm, don't think I know that one. Care to sing it to us?" Veronica asked.
Chuckie started beating on his drum, and sang the song to us.
Pack all your troubles in your old kid bag, and smile, smile, smile
Take all the things that make you sad, and throw them in a pile
As he sang, I started to move the best I could, seeing I was still in this butt balloon of a diapie, till I toppled over backwards. Then, to my surprise, I couldn't believe who was helping me up. It wasn't Tommy and Dil, it was Phil and Lil! No arguing, none of that, they just, each grabbed a hold of my hands, pulled me up, and there we were, dancing to Chuckie's tune. When he was finished, everybody clapped.
"That was a lovely song Chuckie." Said Veronica.
"And nice job on the drums little guy. Would you like to take drum lessons?" Chazz asked Chuckie.
"I might be able to help you with that Chazz, I have a good friend who teaches drum lessons. I'll have him get in touch with you." Said Veronica.
Chuckie looked at Chazz, I could see he had a nervous smile on his face, but he nodded, approving of the drum lessons. Not sure how the drum lessons would go, since I personally could tell his rhythm was off, seeing I am a huge music buff, thankfully, the growed ups wouldn't have been able to understand my comment, but I just kept my comment to myself. Who knows, maybe after Chuckie has some real drum lessons, he'd get better.
"And seeing Zack, Phil and Lil dancing, gives me an excellent idea for our next activity! Let's put on some music and have movement time." Said Veronica, as she put on one of their official CD's into the boom box, turned on the music, and we all danced. Kimi danced with Chuckie, Dil danced with Tommy, Jesse and Bobby danced together, the Mcnulty brothers all formed a ring around the rosie circle, and had fun going around in circles, and Phil and Lil continued to help me.
Tommy was right, they definitely must have warn diapies like this at one time if they were being so nice to me and helping me move, as I'm guessing they had difficulties staying up in those diapies too. I planned on thanking them later. Johnny even joined us at one point, and movement part of class was lots of fun!
Then, before class ended, we sat down and those of us who couldn't talk very well yet, our mommies picked out some songs.
"I've got an idea." Said Laura Barrow, as she started to sing.
There's a whole in the bottom of the sea,
There's a whole in the bottom of the sea,
There's a whole, there's a whole, there's a whole in the bottom of the sea.
There's a log on the whole in the bottom of the sea.
There's a log on the whole in the bottom of the sea,
There's a log, there's a log, there's a log on the whole in the bottom of the sea.
There's a bump on the log on the whole in the bottom of the sea,
There's a bump on the log on the whole in the bottom of the sea,
There's a bump, there's a bump, there's a bump on the log on the whole in the bottom of the sea.
After that song had a few more verses, Johnny's mommy picked for us to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which I'll admit, that song is ok, but it nearly put me to sleep. Luckily, I awoke when Phil and Lil's mommy Betty came out with a good one.
"Hey, we've gotta wake this place up now, and Laura's song idea gave me a good idea for a song." Said Betty, as she began.
There's a whole in the bucket dear liza dear liza there's a whole in the bucket, dear liza a whole.
Can you fix it dear Henry dear Henry dear Henry can you fix it dear Henry dear Henry fix it.
So how do I fix it dear Liza dear Liza so how do I fix it dear Liza how.
With water dear Henry dear Henry with water dear Henry dear Henry with water.
The song continued on like that until we finally reached the end. Finally, before music class came to an end, Chazz had us do the song on top of spaghetti, and it was quite funny, as when it got to the part of the song where they lost their poor meatballs when somebody sneezed, Chazz actually sneezed, causing us all to crack up.
And finally, Tommy and Dil's mommy Didi picked the last song we did for the day. Her favorite song I hear her humming sometimes when she's doing stuff around the house, Red River Valley.
After we all finished singing, Veronica congratulated us.
"What a lovely song to close us out on Didi, and I hope to see you coming to more of our music classes in the future, even is Celeste comes too." Said Veronica.
"You know, I think I might just do that. I had a lot of fun today." Said Didi, as she went and putted me and Dil into the double stroller.
Then, Didi started eyeing a stack of CD's they had next to the sign in sheet.
"Nice collection of CD's here Veronica, are these the CD's you guys use for the movement portion of the class?" Didi asked.
"Yes, they are! Care to buy them? The money for the CD's goes towards new instruments for us to use, and we have a rotation. Here are the CD's we use during the fall, winter, and spring semesters of this class." Said Veronica, holding up one stack of CD's in her left hand.
"And here are the CD's we use during the summer semester." Veronica continued, as she held up a different stack of CD's in her right hand.
"Thanks, I think I'll get these, they'd be nice for us to listen to in the car, and to put on while the kids play." Said Didi, as I saw her writing on a tiny piece of paper and purchasing some of the CD's.
"Oh, you're gonna pay by check, that's fine, just make it out to Yucaipa Musical Foundation." Said Veronica.
"Will do." Replied Didi.
"Hey Betty, you and Didi still going to Zappy Burger for lunch?" I heard Chazz asking her.
"Yeah Chazzy what's up?" Betty asked.
"I just saw a text on my phone from Kira, she really needs me to get back to the Java Lava. Seems it's starting to get busy. Would you mind taking Chuckie and Kimi for the afternoon?" Chazz asked.
"No problem Chazz, I'd be happy to do that." Said Betty, as I saw her pushing Phil and Lil in their double stroller, Chazz following her out to her car with Chuckie and Kimi, as he helped her get them into the car.
"We'll see you at Zappy Burger shortly." Said Didi, as we wizzed past their car, heading down further in the parking lot, where Didi got us into the car.
Once we were in the car, on our way to get lunch at Zappy Burger with Phil, Lil, Chuckie and Kimi, I was gonna have Tommy tell me some more about his trip to see Rosie, when Didi put on one of the new CD's she just got. We heard songs like Old Mcdonald, Mary Had a Little Lamb, and London Bridge is Falling Down. No sooner had London Bridges ended when we were rounding the corner into the parking lot of the restaurant, and the delicious smell of burgers and fries, filled the air.
"I'm hungry, how about you guys?" I asked.
"Me too Zack, I can't wait to get a hamburger with Kepchup on top, fries, and a apple juice." Said Tommy.
"I want chicken!" Exclaimed Dil.
"I wanna hamburger too, but I like barbecue sauce with mine, fries, and a vanilla frosty." I said, as Didi put me and Dil into the double stroller, and she and Tommy pushed us into the restaurant.
"Over here Deed." Called Betty from a table. We went over to the table where I found Chuckie and Kimi at one end, Phil and Lil across from them, and I was seated with my back towards a large window that looked out at the parking lot, with Dil placed to my left, and Tommy sat across from me. Chuckie and Kimi were off to my right, and Phil and Lil were off to my left. A few minutes later, Didi and Betty brought back our lunches, each one of us got Zappy Happy Meals with the food and drinks we wanted, and then, they went and sat at the next table over, a small little table for two.
"So, what did you think of music class Deed?" Betty asked.
"It was wonderful! And I'm quite surprised at how smoothly it went. I mean, our kids stayed engaged Betty. There was no running off, no getting in trouble, no mess of distruction, it was just, perfect! I'm so thankful that Celeste Wehrenberg gave us such a good idea, if only we had known about this sooner. I mean I can't even count on my fingers now how many times we've lost sight of the kids. My brother's wedding, I hear they let the animals out of a petting zoo that Stu, Chazz and Howard took them to a while back, and I will never forget the time my husband and father-in-law took Tommy to a baseball game. The kid landed in the winner's glove. I saw the whole thing go down on the TV after I got home from work, and passed out on the floor." Said Didi.
Then, Laura walked into the restaurant with Jesse.
"Hope you don't mind us stopping by. Is it ok?" Laura asked.
"Sure sure, put Jesse in that seat next to Tommy there." Said Betty, as Jesse was placed into the empty seat across from Dil, and Laura took a seat at the smaller table with the other growed ups.
"Hi Jesse." Said Tommy.
"Hey guys." Said Jesse.
"Wasn't music class fun you guys?" Chuckie asked.
"Yeah! I loved that song Phil and Lil's mommy came up with about fixing a whole in the bucket, that song was fun!" Said Kimi excitedly.
"Yeah, but I thought it was so funny when your daddy sneezed during the song about spaghetti." Said Phil.
"Yeah me and Phillip laughed so hard, we thought we were gonna have to go potty." Said Lil.
"Well, glad you didn't, and, thank you for helping me in movement class. My aunty went away, and left me with some pretty uncomfortable diapies to wear. They're really puffy, take up too much room to put anything in, and they're not easy to walk in." I said.
"Yeah me and Lil wore those back in the fall, and they weren't very comfortable. They did bounce though." Said Phil.
"Yeah did I discover that feature quickly. It's the only way I'd make it down the stairs alive at Tommy and Dil's house." I said.
"So how was the rest of your time with grandma and pap pap Zack?" Lil asked me.
"Yeah we see you don't gots purple hairs no more." Added Phil.
"Nope, I sure don't, and I had lots of fun with grandma and pap pap. We played together, went out to eat, and I was sorry to see them leave. Especially since my aunty had to go away too." I said.
Then is when I made the biggest mistake in my eighteen months of life.
"I can say this much. My weekend with grandma and pap pap went a lot better than Tommy's long weekend with Rosie. Poor guy gotted sick. He throwed up, had diarrhea, and went poopy in his pants in front of Rosie." I said.
"Ooops." I then said, as I threw the chicken nugget I had in my hand down on to my plate, and covered my mouth before I could say anything else.
"What's wrong Zack?" Kimi asked me.
But before I could respond, something soft and warm landed on my head. I reached up to find a hamburger patty dripping in Kepchup in my hair. I was about to ask where it came from, when I looked at Tommy's plate across the table from me. All that remained was a stack of sweet potato fries. The hamburger was missing, or rather, now in my hand.
"Sorry you gotted sick Tommy, but you didn't have to throw a hamburger at Zack's head. That wasn't very nice. Why did you do that?" Said Chuckie.
"Yeah Tommy why did you throw that at me?" I asked.
"You know very well why I did that." Tommy snapped, his voice sounding angry. I then looked up at his face, which was red with anger.
"Uh oh." I thought to myself, as he then proceeded to knock over my vanilla frosty.
"Hey! My frosty!" I cried.
"That's what you get for breaking your promise. I toldid you I didn't want you telling nobody about my trip to see Rosie but you did, and you toldid everybody the worstest part of the trip that you know about so far too. How could you do this to me?" Tommy asked, still sounding angry.
"I'm sorry Tommy, I just, slipped. And don't worry, I only told our friends." I said.
"And who else? We're not alone in this restaurant. Who knows what other babies know about my trip now. And what about this morning at music class? You almost blabbed to Johnny. It's a good thing I covered your mouth when I did or my big secret would have been blabbed there too. That's right Zack, you blabbed my secret to the world." Yelled Tommy.
"I know I did, and I'm sorry. It was a accident. I said too much. Please, forgive me." I cried.
"Just shut up Zack, just shut up. I'm not speaking to you no more." Tommy shouted, as he threw a hand full of sweet potato fries at me, which I managed to catch.
"Fine!" I yelled, as I threw the fries back at him.
We may have stopped speaking to each other, but we continued to have the food fight of the century, throwing our food at one another across the table.
"Gosh Tommy I've never heard you say shut up before. And you and Zack are scaring me, stop it, stop throwing the food at each other. Just, stop it!" Chuckie cried, as he started to burst into tears.
"I don't know Chuckie, that sounds like fun!" Said Kimi.
"That does sound like fun." Added Phil.
"Yeah!" Added Lil.
Soon, all of us were throwing our food at one another, getting it on to one another's clothes, into one another's hair, while Jesse, Dil, Phil, Lil, and Kimi were all laughing, Tommy and I continued to look angry at one another, and poor Chuckie, was trying to avoid the fight, but couldn't. Finally, his crying got the growed ups attention. Tommy's mommy must have spotted him throwing, as she had a pretty stirn word with him.
"Tommy! We do hnot throw food, and especially at restaurants, do you understand? When we go to the park, you will be sitting in time out young man." Scolded Didi in a very stirn tone of voice.
Tommy started crying, and at this point, I was so upset with myself for breaking my promise, I started crying too.
"Awe I wouldn't worry about it Deed, Tommy's just going through his terrible two's." Said Betty.
That's when I stopped. I've heardid the growed ups use the term terrible two's, but never understood what they meant. I then turned to Chuckie, who was three. Surely he knew all about them.
"Uh Chuckie, can I ask you something?" I asked.
"What?" Chuckie replied.
"What are the terrible two's?" I asked.
"Oh, don't remind me. When I was two, I went through so many terrible things, like getting potty trained, almost getting sucked down the drain, a monster under my big boy bed, and having to get my hairs cut, they weren't fun. The terrible two's are the worstest, and in another six month, you're gonna go through them too." Said Chuckie.
"Wow, thanks, but maybe that's not all. I mean, did you see how Tommy treated me? Maybe the terrible two's is when you turn into a terrible person, like Angelica." I said.
Everyone gasp at my comment.
"Glad I didn't get that end of the terrible two's." Chuckie muttered.
"Well, I'm pretty sure Angelica gotted that end of the ordeal, and she's still got them two years later, at age four, hince, why she's always so mean to us. And now, Tommy's got them too, according to the growed ups. And seeing he's related to Angelica, oh no, I really messed things up this time." I cried, as I burst into tears again.
"Come on little guy, let's go get you cleaned up." I heard Betty say from behind me, as she picked me up, and she, Laura and Didi were helping all of us messy kids into the bathroom at the other end of the restaurant to get us all cleaned up.
As they were cleaning us all up, I continued to cry, really feeling upset. I broke a promise, I may have messed up my friendship with Tommy forever, and even worser, I broke the evil curse, of the terrible two's. If Tommy does turn mean like Angelica, it's all gonna be my falt, and I'll never be able to live it down. I must find a way to get him to forgive me before it's too late.
End of Zack POV
So, looks like Zack really messed things up. Tommy and Zack have snapped, big time, and is the Rugrats gang doomed forever? Has a friendship been ripped apart? Or will Zack and Tommy find a way to fix it? Will Tommy finally forgive Zack, realizing that simply a mistake was made? We'll find out, in the next chapter, and since I have to go babysit the real Zack today, I don't see chapter 8 appearing until sometime tomorrow or the next day at the earliest.
Author's Note: So now we know where Chazz got the idea to have Chuckie learn how to play the drums. If you've never seen the AGU episode, Truths or Consiquenses, where Chuckie is seen playing drums terribly, well now you know where the idea started in the first place, based on the events of this chapter. Also, most of you don't know the real Zack, who my OC is based off of, but in reality, he is now 18-months-old, and thanks to him developing some foods and songs that he likes, I'm able to incorporate some of those interests in for my OC to like too. Also, my real nephew and his mommy, AKA my sister-in-law do attend an actual music class locally here in town, where they do things similar to what I depicted in this chapter. And as for some of the songs I had everybody pick out to sing, some of them have appeared on Bobby's World, the song, Red River Valley has been featured in three Rugrats episodes, you fans can let me know in the reviews which three episodes they were in, and I'll let you know if you're right, and some of the other songs, I heard on a CD in my sister-in-law's car, and as a result, they were stuck in my head the rest of the day. This was true as far as the songs about the whole in the bottom of the sea, and a whole in the bucket are concerned. I'll admit, I've never gone to one of their actual classes, but I thought this would be something new and neat for the Rugrats to go and do, since that was an activity they never went to in an actual Rugrats episode. Though I think the episode, Music, from season 6, would have been interesting had they been at a music class, singing those songs and imagining the stories in their head. You can let me know in the reviews if you agree or disagree. Anyway, this chapter is long enough, so, I'm gonna go for now, but if you haven't checked it out, the rest of Rosie in Make Believe Land has been posted, should you wish to check it out, and, we'll talk soon.