So I wrote more tomatofox children! This one introduces Kitt Kurtzberg the baby of the family, he is five years younger than the twin girls. Now I shall start the story:
Kitt slipped out of his bed, his bare feet making contact with the cold wooden floor.
He shivered.
The room was dark it just reminded him of his nightmare. He looked around wildly as the darkness swirled around him. He expected at any moment to see a pair of glowing yellow eyes that would pierce him with their stare.
He saw no eyes but that not calm his racing heart.
He whimpered and rushed out of the dark room heading to the room across the hall from him. He slammed opened the door in a rush.
There was a yelp of surprise as Aria quickly tried off the lamp in her bedside table and also hide with her book under the covers. Then she noticed Kitt standing in the doorway, not an angry parent. She gave a sigh of relief but then fixed Kitt with a cold glare.
"What are you doing in here?" She hissed. Kitt looked down at his bare feet and tugged at the dark blue sleeve of his pajama top.
"Your meant t-to be s-s-sleeping" he whispered, his stutter playing up.
Aria sighed "yeah, so are you, get back to bed"
Kitt looked up with tearfilled teal eyes "C-can't"
Aria gasped "what's wrong?"
"Bad dream" Kitt said, padding over to Aria's bed.
She moved over and pulled back the blankets a little so Kitt could clamber in.
He moved in close to her, warming himself up. That was when Piper had, had enough of the noise. She pushed up the fox sleep mask she was using to block out the light of Aria's lamp.
"What the flying fox is going on?" She asked sitting up on the bed. She saw Kitt sitting up with Aria in her bed. "What's he doing in here?"
"Bad dream" Aria and Kitt replied in unison.
Piper nodded "I see"
"Can you read me a story, Aria?" Kitt asked.
Aria smiled "of course, what one do you want to hear?" She took the big book of fairy tales out of from under the blanket.
"Peter Pan!" Said Kitt.
"No, read little red riding hood!" Said Piper.
Piper and Kitt glared at each other. Aria sighed.
"If you're going to fight I'm not reading either of them"
Piper and Kitt let out disappointed "Aw's"
"Instead we'll read the little mermaid!" Aria exclaimed, her aqua eyes shining with excitement.
Piper sighed "you always choose that!"
"I like fish" Kitt declared with a smile.
Aria patted his red hair "that's nice"
Piper threw the covers off the bed before getting out of the bed and coming over to Aria's bed. "Push over" she demanded.
"No, there's no room for you!" Aria said.
"of course there is, Kitts tiny and your skinny enough so shove over" Piper said trying to push Aria over so she could fit in the bed with them all.
Unfortunately she pushed Aria too hard, Who then accidentally pushed Kitt off the bed. Kitt let out a cry of shock and tried to grab hold of something. He caught hold of the lamp so not only did he fall off the bed he made an awful lot of noise doing it.
The girls gasped and then they heard footsteps. They winced.
Nathanael stood at the door "Girls, what's going on?" Then he saw Kitt lying on the floor with a broken lamp "Kitt, what are you doing in here?"
"Bad dream" all three kids said at the same time. Nathanael raised an eyebrow in confusion "All if you?" He asked.
Piper shook her head, brown hair rising and falling back on her shoulders "nope, just Kitt"
Then Lila appeared at the doorway, their pet fox Ron-Ron slipped into the room behind her. He passed up to Kitt who was sitting on the floor and rubbed himself against the boy "ro-ro" he whispered as he stroked the fox. Ron-Ron licked his face.
"What's going on?" Lila asked, her green eyes scanning the room.
"Kitt had a bad dream apparently" Nathanael explained to his wife.
Kitt nodded as he stood up and came over to her trying and failing to carry Ron-Ron, the fox was a little heavy for the young boy.
"Put Ron-Ron down, he's uncomfortable" Lila said.
Kitt plopped Ron-Ron down by Lila feet. Lila reached down and scratched behind the ears of the fox, he closed his eyes in contemptment
"I'm guessing nobody is going to be able to sleep now" Lila said.
"A story might help" Aria said holding up her book.
Lila smiled "okay then"
"Yay!" all the kids exclaimed. They ran out of the room to their parents bedroom. Ron-Ron ran along with them.
Lila laughed "looks like someone is gonna be left out"
Nathanael rolled his eyes.
After Lila had the kids settled down and somewhat squeezed into the large double bed.
Kitt cuddled up to his mum, Aria in the middle and Piper at the end with a sleepy fox lying at the end of the bed.
Lila opened up the first chapter of the little mermaid and started reading aloud.
Nathanael passed and stopped to observe his happy family with a smile. Then he walked off to do some Artwork as there was sadly no room left in the bed for him.
The kids loved when Lila read to them, being an actress meant she was great at doing the voices for each character perfectly. Her voice for the sea witch made the kids, especially Kitt laugh.
Nathanael went to check up on Lila and the kids and found them all sleeping peacefully, Piper was lying cuddled up to Aria. Kitt was cuddled up to Lila who was lying asleep the book lying face flat open across her stomach.
Nathanael smiled and walking in he removed the book and placed it on the desk. Then he pulled the blankets up carefully over them. He pressed a gentle kiss against each of their foreheads, whispering "goodnight".
Ron-Ron opened one brown eye observing Nathanael walking to the door, Nathanael switched off the light and closed the door gently. Ron-Ron let out a yawn shutting his eyes again.
Calm and quiet descended on the Kurtzberg household, which was unusual but not disliked. The quiet gave Ron-Ron the time to dream about chasing rats. 'yeah, that would be nice' the fox thought as he drifted off to sleep.