Undercover Family

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Chapter 10.

A few hours later, Spencer has been awake for a while and is playing with Derek on the computer. Penelope decided to take a break from the computer and went into the bedroom to play with a bunch of Barbie dolls with Emily, who was feeling bored. They loved all the clothes and accessories that momma had accumulated for the Barbie dolls. Aaron is still sleeping in his crib so the girls are being quiet. JJ and Dave finally came back from their ride; they went to see a lot of the parks and recreation that Harvard has to offer. There are a few parks, community aquatic center, a library and the Armilda the cow.

Armilda the cow is the cow that sits in the middle of Ayer Street; it was there to represent what Harvard used to be. A big dairy area, at one time there was seventy dairy farms in a twenty five mile radius of the city. In fact, Harvard still celebrates the dairy and farming community with the June festival known as Milk Days.

Many of the parks are quite nice with great care to the conservation of the land. They were great places to fish, play sports or on the playground and boating. Our two intrepid explorers said that they should spend a Saturday there to just check it out. They have many sports fields and even some leagues for people to join. It is not a bad place to live.

Momma got up to begin to make dinner for the family. She decides to make hamburgers, fried potatoes and onions, salad and kool-aid. JJ goes into the bedroom and joins the girls on the bed to quietly play with the Barbie dolls. She finds it fun to also dress and pretend the dolls are doing things. The girls decided that the dolls should all go out on a date with their ken dolls. They started to giggle about whom can make which doll look the prettiest. They tried to keep quiet, because they didn't want to wake up Aaron. Last thing they need is for him to wake up and start crying again because of the pain in his mouth. Spencer got tired of the games that Derek wanted to play on the computer, so he left the computer room and went to see the girls playing in the bedroom.

"Can I play?"

"Sure, which doll do you want?" says JJ smiling.

"I don't care." She hands him a blond ken doll and some clothes. "What do I do?"

"Well, we are dressing them up to go out on the town. You figure out what you want him to wear out on the town, so he can then pick up Ginger."

"Ginger?"

"Yeah, Penelope's doll is named Ginger."

"Oh. You know, I don't really want to do this." He leaves the doll there and walks out the door, the girls laughing behind him. He goes to the porch where David is sitting at the table, putting a puzzle together.

"What you doing?"

"I'm solving the dilemma of the lack of world peace."

"Uh."

"I'm putting a puzzle together."

"Can I help?"

"If you must." Spencer sits down and starts to look for pieces that go. David had most of the frame together, so they were looking for the inner parts in the corners and attach to the edges in. The puzzle had 1000 pieces and was a nature scene with a lot of sky, trees and grass. Spencer got bored after a while and decided to leave David to his puzzle. Spencer goes to the kitchen.

"I'm bored."

"Well, what do you want me to do about it?"

"I tried playing with everyone else, but nobody wants to really play with me."

"I'm sure that's not true. I am sure they all gave you a chance to play with them."

"Yeah, but they weren't playing anything interesting."

"What do you think is interesting?"

"I don't know, not dolls or shooting games or puzzles."

"Well, who says they have to do what you want to do?"

"Nobody. But I'm bored and nobody wants to play anything interesting."

"Sweetie, I wish I could help you, but if you want dinner, you need to let me cook. I don't want you to get hurt so please go find something to do by yourself."

"Okay." He goes out to the porch and tries to find something that would be fun to do in the toy box. He finds a remote control helicopter and decides to make it fly, he has a sneaking feeling that he shouldn't play with it alone, but he didn't care right now. He made it go up and down and was heading it to the other end of the porch, he was wondering how close he could get to David without irritating him. It seems five feet, because at that distance, David looked up and gave Spencer the evil eye. Spencer just smiled and continued to send the helicopter to the puzzle. He got clumsy and all of a sudden the machine fell from the sky right on the puzzle and sent pieces all over the place.

"Spencer!" Dave tries to keep his voice low, because he doesn't want to wake Aaron, but he also wants Spencer to know that he's mad.

"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to make lose control and land on the puzzle."

"Oh no, you just sent it over to do what?"

"Just to irritate you, not destroy your puzzle."

"Well, you did both." He got up and started toward Spencer.

"Yelp." Spencer opens the door into Momma's bedroom and goes running past the bed with the girls on it and the crib with Aaron. David came chasing after him five seconds later.

"Hey, what is the deal?" says JJ.

"I am going to kill that little kid."

"What did he do?" asks Penelope.

"He spilled my puzzle pieces all over the porch floor. He was playing with a remote control helicopter and dropped it right on the puzzle. I am gonna get him." He continues into the living room and catches up with the miscreant in the dining room. He corners him behind the table and is just about to smack him a good one, when he remembered who he was and who the person in front of him was. Instead he glares and points at him.

"You come near me again tonight and I am going to forget that I am an actual adult and that am supposedly your older brother and I am going to cream you." He turns and goes back to the porch. Spencer wasn't too sure he liked the way it turned out. It didn't get the actual effect he wanted. He wanted to mix it up or do something with someone. He attacks David from the back and knocks him to the floor.

David says "What the hell? What has gotten into you today?" As he is trying to defend off Spencer's hits on his body. The 'boy' seems to be pummeling the heck out of his big brother. Momma comes running in.

"What is going on here?" As she is looking at Spencer on top of David and hitting him while David is trying to defend himself. Derek came in and pulled Spencer off. Spencer wasn't finished yet and started pummeling on Derek now. Momma moves forward and pulls Spencer off and holds him to her.

"What has gotten into to you today?"

"I don't know, nobody wanted to do anything with me and I got just mad about it."

"You got mad because they didn't play with you."

Derek says, "That's not true, we played computer games together."

"But, I wanted to play baseball with you and you wouldn't let me."

"You're still angry about that. Look we would have had you join us, but you don't throw well or catch well and we both had gloves and you didn't. We didn't want you to get hurt."

"That's no excuse for ruining my puzzle. He dropped the helicopter right on top of it and caused the pieces to spill all over the place." says David.

"I didn't mean to do that" Spencer screamed, which wakes Aaron up and he screams as well. Momma is still holding Spencer and takes him to the corner and tells him to stand there until she got back. She tells David to check the burgers and food on the stove and Derek to set the table. Going to the bedroom, she sees the girls at the crib trying to calm down a screaming and crying boss man, who has woken up to a very sore mouth and is still not feeling good at all.

"Girls, I'll get Aaron, you go get dinner on the table, Emily do you feel okay enough to eat with the family?" JJ and Penelope go to the dining room while momma picks up Aaron.

"Can I?" She looks expectantly at momma.

"Let me check your temperature first, get on the bed." She gets the thermometer out and places it under Emily's arm. She is holding the boss man and jiggling him trying to calm him down enough so that she can care for Emily. When the thermometer goes off, she checks and sees that it is normal. "Your temperature is good, so you can eat and spend the evening with the family. When you go out, do not talk to Spencer right now."

"What happened, what did he do?"

"That's not your business."

Emily goes to the dining room and momma takes Aaron to the changing table where she cleans up his messy diaper and takes his temperature. His temperature is still a little high at 100.2, so she fixes a bottle with liquid medicine. Putting the bottle in his mouth, she takes him out to the dining room, where it appears that the kids have gotten everything together. Spencer is still standing in the corner, however. She walks over to him and gives him a hug.

"I'm not really angry with you as much as I am with your behavior. Go find your seat and we will talk later." He goes to the table with his head low. David makes a plate of food for him. Aaron has finished his bottle of medicine and momma opens a jar of baby food and spoon feeds it to him. The rest eat their burgers, potatoes and salad. Aaron looks at their food, but doesn't want it. He doesn't really understand why he doesn't want it and is not happy with this revelation of himself. He feels that right now, he is more of a baby than an adult FBI agent and is not happy with the idea. He struggles to fight that baby in him but the pain in his mouth just is overcoming anything else. After dinner, momma gives him a teething ring to chew on and rub against his gums.

The family meets in the living room to discuss the problem that Spencer seems to feel. Momma asked him what he was feeling that day.

"I was feeling that nobody wanted me around. I mean you spent most of your day with Emily or Aaron, Derek and David wanted to spend time with others and I just alone all day."

David speaks up, "Sometimes that's going to happen Spencer. We are all different people and we are trying to be a family of children, even though we are adults. Emily and Aaron were sick today, they needed momma's attention. I am sorry that you felt neglected by the rest of us. I guess I didn't think of that when I started doing things with the others and not with you. Because you are younger, sometimes it will be harder for you to join us, but that wasn't right for us to neglect you and I am sorry."

"I am sorry too, I didn't mean to destroy your puzzle and then to attack you."

"You're forgiven." He gets up and hugs the man.

"It is getting late and I want everyone to be well-rested for church tomorrow, so why not get ready for bed. We will take baths tonight instead of tomorrow night starting with Spencer and JJ. Spencer do you want me to wash you or David?"

Sheepishly, he says "David."

"Boys go wash upstairs and JJ go wash downstairs." Momma is sitting in her rocking chair and holding Aaron, Penelope brings a bottle to her for him. Momma smiles thanks at her and so does Aaron as he takes the bottle. Derek puts a show on TV and sits down to watch. Emily sits down next to Derek and leans against him to watch the show. Fifteen minutes later the boys come back down with their pajamas on. They sit and watch the show. "Derek, upstairs for your bath."

"Can't I wait until the end of the show?"

"Derek."

"Please, it's only five more minutes."

"Okay, five minutes and then upstairs." JJ came in with a nightgown on and sat down to watch the show that was on. "Penelope would you help Emily take a bath tonight?"

"Sure, come on little girl."

Two hours later, the children are in bed and Aaron is sleeping. Momma goes to bed and she hopes tomorrow will be a better day.