Author's Note: I sincerely apologize for taking over a week to get back to updating this story. Between school, which, I am very close to finishing up the semester, and a horrible week in other areas of my life, this story got more or less, pushed to the back burner. But here I am with the next chapter, so hope you enjoy!
Chapter 8, Seeking Forgiveness
Zack POV
I felt so stupid, as I continued to cry while Betty gotted me all cleaned up, changed into the one extra diapie that Didi had brought with her, and changed into a new dark blue t-shirt that wasn't covered in food. In fact, all of us were cleaned up and changed into our extra clothes that were brought for us by our mommies and daddies. Once we were all clean, Didi put me, Dil and Tommy into the car, and we lefted the restaurant and went to the park. That car ride to the park was probably one of the most quietest rides I ever went on with Tommy and Dil, as all I heard was the motor of the car, as Didi was so upset by our behavior, she didn't even put the CD of music back on. I might have struck up a conversation with Dil, but since Tommy was seated in between us, I wasn't about to start up anything. Yet though, seeing that I still had a couple of days of staying at Tommy's house, I had to find a way to get him to forgive me, and fast. Little did I know that breaking my promise was about to lead me down a long road of punishment from Tommy, as my long weekend continued.
We arrived at the park, and Didi sat Tommy down on a bench, saying some words to him in a very stirn tone of voice.
"Tommy, you will be sitting in time out, and thinking about what you've done. And you may not get up, except to use the potty, understand?" Didi said.
Tommy nodded, and from what I could tell, he didn't move another muscle after that. Of course, while I personally felt I should be the one sitting in time out, I was about to get quite a punishment from Tommy. Let's just say, getting him to forgive me was not going to be easy. No matter, I tried to shrug it off when I saw Phil, Lil, Chuckie and Kimi coming over near me.
"Hey there Deed, decided to bring the tikes to the park. Laura told me as we were walking out of the restaurant that she was tired, so she would be taking Jesse home." Said Betty, as she sat down on the park bench next to Didi, while Dil proceeded to crawl off towards a nearby sandbox. I then turned towards Phil, Lil, Kimi and Chuckie.
"So, what do you wanna do guys?" I asked.
"I think I wanna just pick some dandelions, and maybe give them to Tommy. I feel really bad that he had such an awful trip to see Rosie, and then, you had to go and blab about it to everyone." Said Chuckie.
"Hey, I didn't mean to." I replied.
"I don't blame Tommy for not wanting to speak to you no more. I wouldn't be speaking to you no more either if you had blabbed my secret that you promised me you'd keep to yourself." Said Chuckie.
"Who's side are you on anyway Chuckie? Don't tell me you're only taking Tommy's side cuz you've known him before he ever tooked his firstest bite of solid food." I argued.
I was still mad, and it looked like things weren't looking good for me and Chuckie either.
"Fine, I guess, I'll just, go play by myself for a while." Said Chuckie, as he wandered off somewhere in the park.
"We'll play with you Zack." Said Phil.
"You will?" I asked.
"Of course!" Said Lil.
The three of us went off to play for a while. As we were playing in the grass, I over heard Angelica and Susie talking close by.
"Hey, I never thought I'd say this, but maybe Angelica and Susie have some ideas on how I can get Tommy to forgive me." I said.
I left Phil and Lil to race some worms in the grass, while I toddled over to where Angelica and Susie were playing with whatever new Cynthia toy that Angelica had on her at the time.
"Hi Zack." Said Susie, as she spotted me coming over.
"Hi." I said in a melancholy tone of voice.
"What's wrong?" Susie asked.
I went on to tell Susie and Angelica about how Tommy had been telling me about his trip to see Rosie, and how I promised not to tell anybody, only to accidentally spit it out while we all went to eat lunch today at Zappy Burger. As a result, Tommy was now giving me the silent treatment for possibly forever, and now, I needed to find a way to get him to forgive me.
"Did you say you were sorry?" Susie asked.
"Yes I did. I apologized immediately." I said.
"Well, there's one way and one way only to get Tommy to forgive you." Said Angelica.
"What?" I asked.
I couldn't believe I was going to seek advice from Angelica, but I was desperate to get my friendship back with Tommy, so at that moment, I'd try anything.
"Give him something. Like a toy or a cookie. And only give it to him, if he agrees to forgive you. At least, that's how I work." Said Angelica.
"That's not true Angelica. Zack, don't listen to her. Bribing, which is what Angelica was instructing you to do, is not the way to make friends, or gain back old ones." Said Susie.
"Yeah it is Carmichael, you're just too dumb to understand how people work." Said Angelica.
I just stuck my tongue out at her and went on to hear what else Susie had to say.
"You need to give Tommy time to calm down. I'm sure he won't stay mad at you forever. Tommy's a pretty forgiving person in the time I've known him. But it's true with anybody. Push them or bribe them to forgive you, and chances are they won't. Try hard to not do anything else to upset him, and I bet ya, by the end of the day, you and Tommy will be giggling and having fun together it will be as if your little food fight never happened." Said Susie.
"Thanks Susie, I'll give this a try." I said, as I left the two four-year-olds to play with Angelica's Cynthia toy, and went off to find Phil and Lil.
"We were thinking of playing racing Reptar, wanna play with us?" Phil asked as I came over.
"I'd love to, only, I can't race very well in this stupid diapie." I said.
"Yeah, me and Phillip couldn't exactly run in those diapies neither." Said Lil.
"They even felt worser when we dressed up as vegetables in that parade." Added Phil.
"I feel like a vegetable." I muttered.
"Well what kind of vegetable do you feel like?" Lil asked.
"I feel like, I feel like, a brustle sprout!" I cried, as I started to burst into tears.
Then, I stopped. Surely there was a way to escape these diapies, and I was going to find a way, as I started pulling at my diapie, hoping to rip it off.
"Zack! Stop! What are you doing?" Phil asked.
"What do you think I'm doing? About to escape to freedom that's what." I said.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Said Phil.
"Oh? And why not?" I asked.
"Me and Lillian did it, and gotted in trouble with our daddy for running across the living room carpet with no diapies on." Said Phil.
"Well I'm in the park. And I don't have a daddy. I have an aunty, and she's out of town. And so, I'm gonna escape my diapie. It's either that, or be miserable forever." I said, as I pulled really hard on the butt balloon, till it popped off, and flew somewhere in the park, leaving me in nothing but my dark blue t-shirt, completely naked and barefooted from the waste down.
Phil and Lil just exchanged glances, as they stared at me, now diaperless, but I didn't care what they were thinking. I wouldn't get in trouble, and if I went potty, don't dogs and other aminals do it outside anyway? Anyway, happy to be free from that stupid puffy diapie, I decided to enjoy my freedom while I had it. Me, Phil and Lil began to race through the park, until I fell down in a mud puddle.
"I can't do anything right today. I fall down in the mud, and to make things worser, I broked a promise to one of my bestest friends and they don't believe I'm sorry." I muttered, as I stood up and brushed the mud off of me as best as I could.
"I believe you." A girl's voice said from off to my left. I turned to see Kimi looking at me, with a huge smile on her face.
"So, if I had broken a promise to you, you'd forgive me?" I asked.
"Of course Zack, I know you didn't mean to do it. It was only a accident." Said Kimi.
"Don't tell me, tell Tommy." I said.
"Why don't we both go tell Tommy, come on!" Said Kimi, as she took my hand, and we all headed over to the park bench where Betty, Didi and Tommy were all sitting. Tommy was now playing with his toy laptop that Peter gave him for Christmas.
"Go on ahead, maybe Tommy's now calmed down enough that he'll forgive you." Whispered Lil in my ear.
I approached Tommy, and began my apology.
"Hey Tommy, I'm sorry I broked my promise. I didn't mean to. It was only a accident. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me." I said very apologetically, but Tommy didn't even hear me. He continued to be engrossed in his toy laptop, not looking up once.
"I guess an apology don't work if they're not even paying attention guys." I said with a sigh, turning towards Phil, Lil and Kimi, a frown on my face.
"Zachary! What on earth happened here?" I heard Didi saying from behind me.
Then it hit me. She discovered me, diaperless. Boy did I have a price to pay for that. Because we were at the park, and my last clean one she brought with us was put on when we were getting cleaned up at the restaurant, I had to go back to Tommy and Dil's house, wearing one of Dil's diapies. It wouldn't have been so bad, except because he's slightly smaller than me, his diapies were snug on me, making them even more uncomfortable than the butt balloon things my aunty left me with.
"Something wrong Zack?" Dil asked me, as he heard me trying to get comfortable in my car seat.
"I know you're slightly smaller than me, but your diapies are very uncomfortable." I said.
"Hey Dil, would you please tell the invisible boy to my right to be quiet?" Tommy asked.
"I'm not invisible!" I snapped.
"What invisible boy Tommy? All I see is Zack." Said Dil.
"I don't know a Zack, but I do know of a boy who's invisible and I wish he'd just, go away!" Tommy yelled, as his mommy turned into the driveway of their house.
After we got there, she changed me back into my puffy diapies, which, after having to wear a snug diapie that was too small for me, I'll stick with my stupid puffy ones until my aunty returned and could get me regular diapies again in my size that I prefer to wear, or, decided to start me on the potty six month earlier than most other babies, whichever one she decided to do. I personally wouldn't mind using the potty like a growed up. I hated having to wear diapies and rely on growed ups to change me every so often. Then, once I was changed, Didi putted us all down for our naps. This is when the trouble only got worser. While I decided to be a cooperative guest, Tommy on the other hand, decided to be difficult. He refused to take his nap, kicking and screaming, making things difficult on Didi, not even being interested in his hot milk, so she took him downstairs, while Dil and I settled down for our afternoon naps. I got Tommy's bed all to myself, so that was fine by me, as I fell asleep.
I must have been tired, as by the time I waked up, Dil had long since gotten up and gone downstairs, no longer in his crib, and the sun was starting to get lower in the sky. I gotted downstairs to find Peter was on the living room couch, Dil was off in the playpen playing with his Goober toy, and Tommy was sitting at the coffee table, making a really tall stack of blocks.
"That's block twelve." Said Peter, as Tommy stacked another block on his rather tall stack.
"Thirteen." Said Peter, as Tommy stacked another block on the stack, now taller than he was.
"Hmmm, I don't know if you can do fourteen blocks Tommy, it's getting pretty tall, and getting difficult for you to reach." Said Peter, as Tommy picked up another block on the floor.
"Oh sure I can." Said Tommy, as he just barely reached the top of the stack of blocks, putting the fourteenth block on top.
"Wow! Fourteen blocks! That's very good!" Said Peter.
"I'm gonna go for the nextest one. Uh, Elevendy bazillion." Said Tommy, as he picked up another block off of the floor and was about to attempt reaching the top of the stack.
"Actually Tommy, the number that comes after fourteen is fifteen." Said Peter.
That's when I decided I'd try to come and help.
"Allow me." I said, as I picked up a block from the floor, and there me and Tommy were, both reaching up to put that fifteenth block on to the stack, when my hand bumped into the stack, causing the tower to come crashing down.
"Peter! Tell Zack he can never not touch my blocks again!" Tommy snapped, as he started running around, picking up all of the blocks on the floor, putting them into a purple bucket, and seeing to hiding them from me.
"Tommy, why don't you tell Zack not to play with your blocks. And he was only trying to help. That stack was getting way too tall for either one of you to reach. Chances are you would have knocked it down come the fifteenth block." Said Peter.
"You tell him. I'm not speaking to him no more." Snapped Tommy, as he ran out of the room with the purple bucket, frustrated.
I tottled over to Peter, and decided to have a talk with him.
"Hi Peter. What are you doing here?" I asked, as I proceeded to try to climb on to his lap, with not much luck, thanks to these stupid diapies. Peter then picked me up and put me in his lap on the couch.
"Well Zack, after the day you and Tommy put Stu and Didi through, they're out to have an evening to themselves, and I'm here babysitting again." Said Peter.
"Yay!" I said with a smile.
"So, I hear you and Tommy aren't getting along." Said Peter.
"Yeah. I mean, all I did was blab about the trip you and Tommy took to see Rosie. I'm sure that trip couldn't have been as bad as it has been so far for Tommy." I said.
"I was there, and even I can't say I had the best time of my life. But you did promise Tommy you wouldn't tell, and you told. I think he's pretty upset with you. But I wouldn't worry. I'm sure when he's ready, he'll come around." Said Peter.
"I hope so. I miss him. And I didn't mean to do it, it was only a accident." I said, as I gave Peter a hug.
But that didn't help matters any, or it didn't seem to in my opinion anyway. To make matters worse, Tommy continued to find ways of avoiding me. I founded out from Peter he never took his nap, even when he got there, and Stu and Didi gave him a second bottle of hot milk, and Peter tried to get him to snuggle with him on the couch, all Tommy did was roll around and kick him. Dinner didn't go much better. Peter got Chinese takeout, to make things easy on everybody. I loved the stuff. Wonton soup, and those little crunchy noodles, which I was glad I finally had enough teeth to eat those now. Even Dil and Peter seemed to enjoy their food from what I could tell, but not Tommy.
"Come on Tommy, don't you wanna try some of the beef with garlic sauce?" Peter asked.
"No!" Snapped Tommy, as he picked up a spoon, about ready to throw it on the floor.
"Now Tommy, don't throw that on the floor. What is my rule when you throw something on the floor?" Peter asked.
"Uh, you'll pick it up and give it back to me?" Tommy replied.
"No Tommy, if you, Dil or Zack throw something on the floor from the dinner table, it goes bye bye." Said Peter.
"I wish I could throw Zack on the floor and make him go bye bye." Muttered Tommy.
"Now Tommy, I'm sure you don't really mean that. You and Zack are friends, and he didn't mean what happened earlier today." Said Peter, as I saw him finding something else for Tommy to eat.
"What ever." Muttered Tommy.
A little while later, Peter had some yogurt and some Gurber spaghetti fixed for Tommy to eat, and he at least ate that up, once I finished my food and disappeardid into the living room, where Dil was playing with one of Tommy's Reptar puzzles. I sat down and helped him with it, till Peter said it was time for all of us to head up to get ready for bed.
Of course, getting ready for bed didn't go much easier. Peter was gonna let us all have our bedtime bottles of hot milk with Ovaltine while he read us a story, but Tommy proceeded to take the bottle out of his mouth and get all fussy.
"All right then. I guess we'll just skip the story tonight, and go brush your teeth and get you kids all ready for bed." Said Peter, as we were all led into the bathroom to brush our teeth.
Peter helped me with my teeth, as he found my toothbrush and toothpaste in the bag aunty packed for me. Then, he helped Dil with his teeth, as his toothbrush and toothpaste were on the counter, but he couldn't find Tommy's stuff anywhere. He founded him a toothbrush to use, but I'm guessing Tommy spotted my reflection in the mirror, because he threw the toothbrush down on the counter, and ran out of the bathroom.
"Well, I guess your teeth will be ok for one night. Come on kids." Said Peter with a sigh, as he got me, Dil and Tommy all dressed into our jammies for bed. Dil went right to sleep upon being placed in his crib, and even I was quite content, when Peter got me tucked into Tommy's bed, but Tommy, was a completely different story.
He ran out of the bedroom, only half dressed for bed, and Peter, ran through the house, chasing after him. I'm not sure when he caught Tommy, or if he eventually, gave up, as Peter returned to Tommy's room, empty handed. I was about to snuggle up with my white stuffed bear Frosty, the lastest toy my mommy and daddy gave me before Aunty took me in as her own, when Peter scooped me and Frosty up, and carried us off into Tommy's mommy and daddy's room, where I was placed down on the bed.
"You rest here for a while. I'll come get you once Tommy's asleep." Said Peter, as he lefted the room, and I snuggled up with Frosty on the large bed I was laying on, and went to sleep.
Sometime later, Peter came back and gotted me, as this waked me up.
"Zachary, you can go to sleep where you're suppose to now, Tommy and Dil are fast asleep." Said Peter.
"I wanna stay here. I'm comfortable." I moaned.
"I'd let you stay here, but Stu and Didi will be back any minute, and I'm sure they'd like their bed to sleep in. Now come on, let's go." Said Peter, as he scooped me and Frosty up, and carried us back to Tommy and Dil's room.
"So how did you get Tommy to go to sleep?" I whispered to Peter.
"Well, I put on some soft music, held him in my lap in the rocking chair, and fed him his bottle of hot milk. He drank it and went to sleep on my shoulder. So I put him in his bed, and now, I'm gonna put you in bed next to him. Now you and Frosty go back to sleep now. I'll see you all later." Said Peter quietly, as he tip towed into Tommy and Dil's room, lay me down in Tommy's bed next to him, and I went back to sleep.
I noticed Tommy get up at some point during the night to go potty, and then, he never returned. I had no clue where he spent the rest of the night, and I didn't really care. If he was happy, staying mad at me forever, that was his problem. I awoke early the nextest morning, to find Tommy still hadn't returned, and Dil was still sound asleep in his crib. I made my way downstairs, and I'm guessing Stu and Didi were still asleep too, as I heard some snoring as I went past their bedroom door, and made my way down the stairs. I couldn't find Tommy anywhere, but I did find the clicker on the coffee table. I picked it up and turndid on the TV. I couldn't believe what was on TV, one of my favoritest TV shows of all times, and sadly, one of the few shows that I liked, but the rest of my friends didn't care for much. Super Why was on. It's about these kids who turn into super heros, known as the Super Readers, and they go into different story books and solve problems by finding the super word of the day to solve their problem.
In this particular episode, they were off on an outside space adventure. It was really good! Only, when they were about to give the secret word, the TV turned off. I turned to see Tommy next to me, the clicker in his hand.
"Hey! Turn that back on I was watching that." I snapped.
Instead of turning back on the TV, Tommy just threw the remote at my head and ran off in the opposite direction.
"Ow!" I cried, as the clicker hit my head.
I picked it up, but by the time I gotted the TV turndid back on, Super Why had ended, and Goober had started, causing me to miss the super word answer of the day. Of course, Dil, Stu and Didi were all awake at this point, and Dil was excited to see that Goober had come on, so I just, made my way into the kitchen to have some Reptar cerial for breakfast, and get on with my day. It was obvious, that Tommy was still mad at me, so looked like another long day for sure.
Sometime after breakfast, I was about to play with one of the toy laptops in the playpen, when I apparently reached for Tommy's, as he spotted me, and toldid me to not touch it. So I then reached for Dil's, and as I played with it, I started to have a daydream where the Super Why characters paid me a visit, and helped me and Tommy become friends again. In my daydream, we became friends again, but sadly, it was only a dream, as I glanced at a blank screen on Dil's toy laptop, either because it shut off, or I ran down the batteries.
"Something wrong Zack?" Phil asked.
I looked up to see that Chuckie, Kimi, Phil and Lil had all come over to play with me.
"Oh nothing. I just had a super great daydream where the characters from my favoritest TV show ever, helped me and Tommy become friends again, only it was just a dream." I said with a sigh.
"Don't worry Zack, I'm sure Tommy will forgive you. In the meantime though, I'm gonna go play with him so he don't get too lonely." Said Chuckie, as he lefted the playpen.
Of course, seems that yesterday, he only cared about how Tommy felt in all of this. I'm guessing after having a day to think about it, he saw both of our sides of the story. Whatever, I was about to suggest something for me, Kimi Phil and Lil to go play together, when we heard a loud sound coming from Tommy and Dil's basement.
"What was that?" Phil asked.
"I don't know." Lil replied.
"Oooh, I think it's a basement monster!" Said Kimi.
"Yeah, maybe it's a basement monster. Come on guys, let's go see." I said, as we all headed for the basement door.
On the way there, Tommy must have spotted Kimi, as he asked us where we were going.
"What's going on guys?" Tommy asked.
"We're off to get rid of the basement monster, making all of those strange noises!" Said Kimi.
"No thank you Kimi, I think I'll stay up here, where the monster can't get me." Said Chuckie.
"You're gonna come with us, right Tommy?" Kimi asked.
Tommy must have spotted me at that moment, as he did something he usually only does if he's sick and doesn't feel well.
"Uh, no thanks guys, I'm gonna go play with Chuckie." Said Tommy, as he grabbed Chuckie's hand, and they went off towards the playpen.
"I'll go with you guys, come on." Said Dil, as he caught up to us, and we headed down to the basement.
When we gotted down the stairs, we founded the source of the noise.
"That's no basement monster, that's just my daddy, working on another one of his inventions." Said Dil.
We all nodded in agreement. As we were about to head back upstairs, I'm guessing Dil's daddy caught us.
"Kids! No! This is no place to play. Come on, let's get you kids back upstairs." Said Stu, as he carried us back upstairs to the living room.
I'm guessing Tommy didn't sleep too well yesterday night neither, as he and Chuckie were lying side by side in the playpen, taking a nap. Didi was outside in the garden, so me, Dil, Kimi, Phil and Lil all headed outside to the sandbox to play and try to figure out the situation with me and Tommy, while we dug wholes in the sand.
"Maybe Angelica's right you guys. Maybe I should give Tommy something to get him to forgive me." I said.
"I don't know, but I guess it's worth a try." Said Dil.
"Ok, I'll do it." I said, as I went back inside the house, to find Tommy and Chuckie sitting at the coffee table in the living room, coloring on pieces of paper with crayons.
I tottled upstairs and got my bear Frosty. I wouldn't give this bear to just anybody, as it was very special to me, but if it meant me and Tommy would be friends again, then it was worth it giving him up. I gotted back downstairs and got to the table where Tommy and Chuckie were coloring.
"Who's that Zack?" Chuckie asked, noticing me with Frosty.
"This is my favoritest bear Frosty. He's all white, and my mommy and daddy gave him to me. He's really special and I sleep with him every night, but I'm willing to give him to you Tommy, if you forgive me for breaking my promise." I said.
To my unpleasant surprise, Tommy took the bear out of my hands, and instead of forgiving me, he made things worse, by ripping his head off. This had me so upset, that I sat down on the floor and started crying.
"Oh dear, what happened?" I heard Didi say from the other room, until she came in to see what had happened.
Tommy and Chuckie had lefted the room, leaving me there with Frosty, his head detached from his body.
"Oh dear." Said Didi, as she picked up the two pieces of Frosty, and took them away.
I calmed down at this point, really hoping she could fix him. However, I was starting to lose hope. Then, I saw the paper and crayons on the table, and remembered back to my daydream from earlier. Then, I got a brilliant idea! Tommy loves Reptar, and he loves stories. So, I was gonna make a story book where Robosnails did something to upset Reptar, and Reptar, had to forgive him.
No sooner had I gotted started on making my picture book for Tommy, when Chuckie founded me.
"Hey Zack, what you doing?" Chuckie asked.
I explained my idea to Chuckie, and to my pleasant surprise, he sat down with me at the coffee table, and helped me make my picture book.
After we finished the picture book, it was time for lunch. To my surprise, Tommy was cooperative, and we all ate our fried bologna sandwiches more or less in silence. I could tell though, that something, was bothering Chuckie, but when I tried to ask him what it was, he didn't reply.
After lunch, we were all playing outside in the backyard, me playing rolly ball with Chuckie, Kimi, Phil, Lil and Dil, while Tommy was off by himself in the sandbox. Chuckie would play with us for a few minutes, then go over to the sandbox to play with Tommy.
"Come on Tommy, can't you forgive Zack? He really does miss you." I heard Chuckie saying to Tommy from the sandbox.
"No! He broked his promise to me and as far as I'm concerned, I don't wanna be friends with a, with a, a, promise breaker." I heard Tommy snap back at Chuckie.
"Well I'm going back to play with Zack and my other friends, so, guess I'll just, catch you later then." Said Chuckie, as he rejoined us.
It was at that moment, I decided to show my picture book to Tommy.
"Guys, I think I'd better show my picture book to Tommy, before things get any worser. Chuckie is starting to look out of breath and tired." I said to the others, as we all approached Tommy in the sandbox, me carrying the picture book I made, as I sat down across from Tommy in the sandbox, opened the book, and began my story.
"On this page, Robosnails broked Reptar's favoritest toy." I said, as I showed Tommy my drawing.
Then, I turndid it to the nextest page.
"And on this page, Robosnails is saying he's sorry for breaking Reptar's favoritest toy." I said, showing Tommy the next page of my book.
"And on this lastest page, which Chuckie helped me draw, Reptar forgives Robosnails for breaking his toy, and they're friends again." I said, as I showed Tommy the last page of my book, and then, put the book down in the sandbox.
No sooner had I put my book down, when Chuckie started crying.
"What's wrong Chuckie?" Tommy asked.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? You and Zack that's what's wrong. I'm tired, and I'm not having no fun no more cuz I keep having to play with you two separately, instead of all of us together. I wish we could all be friends again, cuz I'm getting tired of running across the yard to play with each of you guys." Said Chuckie through his tears.
"Come on Tommy please, I'm really really sorry for breaking my promise yesterday, and I really really wish you'd forgive me. I've missed playing with you all day, and I'm sure Dil, Kimi, and Phil and Lil, who have been playing with me all day, miss playing with you too, right guys?" I asked.
Dil, Phil, Lil and Kimi all nodded.
Tommy sat there and thought for a minute before speaking up.
"And, if I can't play with you two together no more, then Zack and Tommy, I don't wanna play with neither of ya." Said Chuckie.
"Come on Chuckie, don't say that, you're my bestest friend. I don't ever wanna stop playing with you, and as for Zack, I guess if Reptar could forgive Robosnails, then I guess I can forgive you. I'm sorry I was so mean to you, and broked Frosty, and upsetted you Chuckie, it's just, I never had anybody break a promise to me before other than Angelica, and I just, well, I was really shocked that Zack did this to me. But I now know you didn't mean to do it, it was only a accident, so Zack, I forgive you." Said Tommy, as he gave me a hug, and I toppled over into the sandbox, burying Tommy in the sand, causing all of us to start laughing.
No sooner were we giggling and laughing, having fun, when a rain drop hit my head.
"Uh guys, I think it's starting to rain. We'd better go inside so we don't gets wet." I said, as we all gotted out of the sandbox and headed for the doggy door, since the other doors were closed.
All of us made it through the doggy door, except for me, who got stuck, thanks to my puffy diapies. Somehow though, Phil and Lil grabbed both of my arms and I somehow, gotted through the doggy door. It was a tight squeeze, but we got me inside the house, just as the sky really opened up, and the rain started falling even harder outside.
Once we were inside and in the playpen, Chuckie spoke up.
"You know, uh, Tommy, you did promise to tell us all about your trip to see Rosie when you gotted back." Said Chuckie.
"Yeah I seem to remember that too." Said Phil.
"Me too!" Added Lil.
Tommy took a deep breath and sighed.
"I don't know you guys." Said Tommy in that sad tone of voice he uses sometimes, when he's disappointed.
"Come on Tommy, I'd love to hear about the rest of what went on on your trip. We're not at a restaurant, or Music Class, or the park no more where every baby in the world can hear us. And we all agree, this trip of Tommy's he tooked to see Rosie, stays amongst friends, right?" I said.
"Amongst friends." Everyone else said, as we all put our hands together.
"Wanna catch them up Zack?" Tommy asked me.
"Sure!" I said, as I told Dil, Chuckie, Kimi, Phil and Lil everything that had happened on Tommy's trip up to that point. The flight to Boston, that first day of adventures, and reminded them about him getting sick and what all took place on the day he was spose to go to the marathon with Rosie.
"So now, we're up to Rosie's birthday party. Right Tommy?" I asked.
"Yep." Tommy replied, as he stood up against the glass doors at the back of the playpen, the rest of us, sitting on the floor in a semi circle, our attention turned towards Tommy.
"So, you went to sleep on your worstest sick day ever, eager for Rosie's birthday party the nextest day. What happened next?" I asked.
End of Zack POV
So, what did happen next? Well, you guys will have to wait for Tommy to tell more of his story until the next chapter of this story, so please, do stay tuned!
Author's Note: Earlier in this chapter, I mentioned the daydream Zack had with the Super Why characters. If you want to read about that daydream in its entirety, then please check out my one-shot story called, Let's be Friends, which is posted as a Rugrats/All Grown Up, and Super Why crossover story. I should also point out that the real Zack my OC is based off of, hates Chinese food, and doesn't have a white teddy bear named Frosty, but while my OC Zack is based off of my nephew, I can't have them be completely identical to one another. Some things need to be different between the two, I don't wish for my OC to be a complete identical twin to my nephew, even if they do share some things in common. And as for when I'll get the rest of the chapters posted to this story? I do have some essays as final projects to get done that are due at my final class on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, and do have other things to attend to over the weekend, so I can't promise you all that chapters 9 through 12 of this story will get written up and published before Tuesday, May 5, 2015, but I can promise you all, that once the semester has concluded for me, I'll officially be on summer break come May 6, 2015, therefore, this story will get finished post May 6, if not before May 5. I thank everyone who has read and reviewed the story up to this point, and, we shall talk again really soon.