The next day, Chris woke up uneasily on the couch. It was hard for him to look around the room and come to the realization he was still in the depressing future.
Chris yawned, and sat up stretching. And he looked down to see a pair of two wide blue eyes staring at him.
"GAH!" Chris yelped out of surprise as he jumped up. It was only Trent, (Martin's four year old) who was still in his pajamas, and holding a lemur stuffed animal, "Oh, it's only you Trent... wow, don't do that! You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Chris said, smiling a little as he sat back down on the couch.
"You snore..." Trent said, giggling a little as he hugged his stuffed animal, "I was waiting for you to wake up, uncle Chris..."
Chris smiled lightly at the four year old, "Oh really?" and he ruffled Trent's brown hair, "I'm guessing you want to play or something, right?"
Trent nodded eagerly, but, Kitty soon walked over into the living, then into the kitchen, calling to Trent, "Your not playing until you've had your breakfast young man..." she said laughing lightly.
Trent groaned, "Yes mommy..." and went over to the kitchen in a pout, dragging his stuffed animal behind him.
Chris got up again, and went over to the kitchen himself, "So Kitty, where's Martin? Is he still sleeping in?" Chris smiled to himself, knowing his brother always loved to sleep in on Saturday's.
"Nope, he's at work..." Kitty said with a sigh as she picked up Trent with a bit of difficulty (being pregnant and all), and put him in his chair at the table.
"At work?" Chris asked blinking, "He has work even on Saturday's?"
"Yep, when working for Zach, you don't have much leverage..." Kitty said as she put a bowl of oatmeal in front of Trent.
Chris blinked, and sighed shaking his head sadly, "Jeese..." and he sat down with a thump beside Trent.
"Is Zach that dorito head guy, mommy?" Trent asked, as he ate, getting more oatmeal onto his face then into his mouth.
Kitty laughed lightly, "Yes he is, honey..." and she went over to Trent wiping his face off with a wet wash rag.
Chris looked around, "Maybe I should go visit Martin at the office building..."
"Actually..." Kitty started, "If it's not to much to ask, I was wondering if you'd play mom for me, today..."
Chris blinked, "Play what?"
She laughed, "I mean, I need someone to watch Gabe and Trent for me while I'm out buying groceries and paying water bills." Kitty rephrased.
Trent jumped up and down in his chair, "Please do it uncle Chris! It would be so fun! We could go to the park! Or the pool! Or dig for buried treasure in the backyard!"
Chris sighed and smiled at the little boy, "Alright... I'll do it..." he said laughing.
Kitty smiled, "Great! Thanks Chris." and she leaned down to kiss Trent's head, "Now be good for your uncle, I'll be back in a few hours." and with that, she grabbed her purse and left out the front door.
Trent quickly jumped down from his chair and ran over to Chris, "Can we go to the backyard and play? Please?"
Chris smiled and stood up, "Well, first of all, you have to get dressed. Second of all, we need to wake up Gabe."
"Waking up Gabe is easy." Trent said, smiling and he quickly ran to the hallway, to Gabe's room.
Chris followed, and watched Trent jump up onto Gabe's bed, and start to shake Gabe, hard, "WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!"
Gabe jumped up with a shout, and glared at his brother, "I was trying to sleep in you know!"
"But Uncle Chris is going to play with us!" Trent insisted, "So you need to eat and get dressed!"
Gabe sighed as he got up and went over to his dresser, taking Lettuce out of his fish tank, "Fine, let me just feed Lettuce first..."
After both boys were fed, and were both dressed (which Chris found difficult, because he couldn't get Trent to hold still), they all went out to the backyard.
Overall, Kitty and Martin had did a good job with all the gardening and landscaping. And Chris was just relieved to see grass again, since the whole city seemed to be rid of all plant life.
A large white fence circled the backyard, and moss, and roses covered one side of it thickly. There was a large tree in the far corner of the backyard, and then in the other corner was a small fish pond.
Gabe carefully brought Lettuce over to the fish pond, and put him in.
Chris found that there were other aquatic animals in the pond, and they weren't just normal things like frogs and such (Though there were frogs too). Such as sea stars, craw dads, and some kind of blue fish.
"Can you do a flip?" Trent randomly asked Chris.
Chris blinked, "Well, it depends..." and Chris started running, and then flipped over, but, he messed up the landing a little, and fell over on his butt.
"Usually I'm better in the trees..." Chris said laughing nervously.
Gabe smiled, "Can you teach us?"
Chris looked over to the tree in the corner of the yard, and nodded to himself, "Sure..."
Maybe he could get use to this uncle thing.