Chapter 3! BOOM SAUCE! :) I do not own Kickin' It

Chapter 3

I walked into the dojo and saw Rudy working with the kids, when I was bombarded by the gang asking where Jack was. "Calm down you guys. He'll be here in 3, 2,-"

"Jack, is back," Jack said smiling as he came through the doors of the dojo. Everyone turned around to see him and yelled "Jack!" as they went in for a group hug. "Hey Jack!" Rudy yelled from across the dojo. "Uncle Jack!" yelled the kids as they joined their parents in Jack's group hug.

I felt a small tug on my shirt and looked down to see Maci standing there with a confused look on her face. "Mommy, who is that?"

I smiled down at her and said, "That Maci, is our guest Jack. He grew up with your aunts and uncles and he hasn't seen them in a long time.

Maci frowned, "But you said that you grew up with them too. So, did you grow up with them too?

That got me really misty-eyed, but I wiped it away before anyone could notice. "No baby, I didn't."

Before Maci could ask why, Jack looked up at us and nodded in our direction, then started walking towards us. "So you must be Maci?" Jack said squatting to get eye level with Maci. "My names Jack and...and..." Jack pause for a moment and frowned. He looked up at me and back down at her several times before he spoke again. "She looks almost nothing like you, except for the pretty brown eyes."

Wait, he thinks my eyes are pretty? No Kim, don't slip back under. He left you lost, alone, and scared. I frowned. " She looks more like her father than she does me." I looked up and saw Jerry with a deep frown on his face.

"Mommy! Mommy! Can we take Jack to go get ice cream from Frosty's?"

"Um, maybe we can all go when Rudy dismisses you guys."

"All right everyone's dismissed," Rudy yelled happily.

"Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Frosty's we go," Milton's five year old son Milo sang as we walked out of the dojo.

As we walked towards Frosty's Jack spoke up, "So you guys hang out at Frosty's?"

We all smiled as Eddie explained, "We do it for the kids' sake, but we still hang out at Falafel Phil's every once in a while."

Jack smiled, probably reminiscing over the memories at Falafel Phil's. "So how are Phil and Tootsie doing?"

Mika laughed at the story that was about to come. " Uncle Phil is doing great. And Tootsie...Well, when Jerry and I got back from our honeymoon, Uncle Phil too us to my home country to be blessed by our village elders. But what we didn't know was that Tootsie had gotten close to another goat and four months after we got back, Tootsie had twins!"

Jack looked at her and laughed. Trust me when we found out we all had that same reaction. "So what did he name them."

Mika smiled, "Jerry came up with the names and they fit them pretty well. Tell them what you named them Jerry."

Jerry blushed when Mika said his name in her accent. He has been with her for ten years and he still does that. "I, uh," Jerry said trying to recover his cool, "I named 'em Oopsie and Whoopsie."

Jack laughed at the names. "Perfect names for little accidents."

Jerry smiled at Jack's comment, "I also came up with the name for mine and Mika's accident.

Mika laughed, but quickly recovered and quietly said to Jerry, "Jerry be nice to Jason."

Unfortunately, she didn't say it quietly enough because Jason quickly retaliated by saying, "I was an accident."

Mika gave Jerry a "great now look at what your blabber mouth did" look and quickly explained to Jason, "No sweetheart. You were not an accident, you just weren't...planned.

But that didn't satisfy Jason. "How wasn't i planned?"

"Well you see Jason. Your parents, at a very young age, started-"

"RUDY! Dude, don't you think he's a little young to be hearing about the Birds and the Bees story?" Jerry yelled.

"Ya, I guess so," Rudy said nodding his head in agreeance with Jerry. And by that time we had made it to Frosty's.

We got inside and all the kids ran straight for the display case, which most of them couldn't see over. One by one, their parents gently picked them up and showed them the ice cream and allowing their kids to get what they wanted.

I walked over to Maci and was about to pick her up when Jack beat me to her and placed her on his shoulders. "Wow! I can see all the ice cream from up here!" Maci beamed which made me smile.

I ordered a single scoop of Cookies 'n Cream in a bowl, then I turned to Maci and Jack and asked them what they wanted. "I want Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough on a waffle cone! It's my favorite," Maci said excitedly.

Jack looked up at her with a smile on his face, "That's my favorite kind too."

"Maci, you're going to have to get a cup, because you have school tomorrow and I need you to hurry up so that we can go get ready." She pouted for a little bit, but finally gave in and then I ordered Jack and Maci's ice cream. Then we went and sat with the gang.

We were all enjoying our ice cream when Jack spoke up, "It's been a while, and for my sake and your kids' sakes, could you please go over their names again.

Eddie and Grace started. Eddie pointed to a darker skinned boy with shoulder length curly hair, "This is Joshua Jace and he is five." Grace pointed to a little girl sitting next to her. She also had dark skin, but it was lighter than her brother's. "And this is Evalyn Marie and she is three."

Milton stood up and walked behind his son and put his hands on the shoulders of a boy with red hair and freckles. "This is Milo Kames Krupnik and he is also five." Julie smiled as Milton said Milo's name. "Milly picked out Milo's name all by his self. I was so proud when he came up with such a creative name like that."

We all laughed as Milton blushed a bright red, then sat down as Jerry stood up. "Now it's time for the two greatest kids ever. Mi hijo Jason Blaiz y mi hija Jina Marisol. Jason is eight and Jina is six." We all laughed as Jerry started slipping into Spanish.

The laughing started to die down and then everyone was looking at me. "I guess it's my turn then." I put my arm around Maci and pulled her in for a side hug. "This is my little girl Maci Emma." "And I'm six!" Maci yelled happily throwing her arms up in the air.

"But you turn seven in November don't you?"

"Yup, I turn seven on November the...the..."

"Nineteenth," I whisper in her ear.

"The Nineteenth!" she yells happily.

"So what do you want for your birthday?" Rudy asked leaning on the table.

"Anything My Little Pony or Disney Princess or My Littlest Pet Shop or Barbie," Maci exclaimed.

"Wow, that's a lot," Rudy said confusedly, trying to process what have of the brands were.

"I know," I laughed, "When I was her age I was happy with a jump rope and a board game."

"I think I got you beat Kim," Jerry said smiling. Oh this was going to be good. "The only things I could get, had to be bought off the black market, which had almost everything anyone could dream of. That scooter I got when I was twelve, my dad got for a buck fifty. But you really don't want to know how that guy got a hold of so many scooters.

Mika smiled in a "I want to say something now" way and Jerry finally noticed. "What about you my exotic flower," Jerry asked seductively as he pecked his wife on the lips which earned a collective "EW!" from the kids and Rudy. "Well the best present I got when I was in Old Country was a pig." Everyone looked at her and shrugged. "That seems cool," Julie said speaking up.

"Oh, but you didn't let me finish. It was a pig my father shot for my birthday dinner and the only way we could have it that night was if i could skin it and gut it before dinner preparations. If I finished before then, we would have the pig. If I didn't then we would have to wait until the next day and we had to worry about if the meat was still good or not."

Everyone looked up at her with shock, but Jack being Jack broke the silence. "So you had to do that all by yourself?"

"Yea. I got the pig at sunrise and finished and barely finished at sunset, which is when they do the preparations."

Jerry put his arm around Mika's shoulders. "She beat a record in a pig skinning and cutting contest. She turned a two and a half day competition, into a fourteen hour competition. She beat out grown men who had been doing this for years, and most had way better equipment than she did. "Not bad," Eddie said nodding his head.

"Hey Jack, I have to get Maci home and get her ready for school tomorrow. Do you want to stay here and have Jerry drive you home or do you just want to go ahead and ride with me?"

Jack looked around at everyone and then back at me. "I'm going to go ahead and go with you.I need to get settled into my new life." Jack then threw one of his famous Jack Brewer smirks at me. "Come on Maci," Jack said picking up Maci, "let's go put you in the car."

Jack walked out of Frosty's carrying Maci while giving her light pecks on her head. I looked back at the gang and Jerry spoke up, "Now are you going to-" "No!" I yelled snapping back into reality. I turned away and quickly followed the Hollywood Backstabber who had my daughter.

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