Chapter 6, No Ticket to the World?
The afternoon of August 9, 2014…
After everyone had finished their lunches, they found a nearby garbage can to throw the food away in, and headed down the sidewalk towards the Library of Congress. However, when getting to a cross street, Stu and Randy, turned in the direction of the Air and Space Museum.
"Stu honey, where are you going?" Didi asked.
"Don't you remember Deed? Randy and I have that meeting at the Air and Space museum with those people interested in my latest and greatest invention, my Dunni Bears hot air balloon." Stu replied.
"Oh, that's right." Said Didi.
"No worries everybody, Stu and I will taxi it back to the hotel later on this afternoon after our appointment is finished." Said Randy.
"Good luck dear." Said Lucy.
"Thank you." Said Randy, as the light changed, and he and Stu crossed the street, and continued on to the Air and Space Museum.
A few minutes later, the rest of the gang arrived at the Library of Congress.
"And here we are everybody, the Library of Congress, a national monument I've always wanted to visit ever since I was a little girl." Said Charlotte in an excited voice.
They headed inside where they were met by a large lobby with several noisy tourests, gathered in a long line, to head through security and head on tours of the Library of Congress.
"This is a library? It seems awfully noisy to be a library." Said Kimi.
Before they knew it, the line had moved along, and it was time for the Rugrats and their families, Peter, Taffy and the Salt Waters, and the Generics, to pass through security and meet their tour guide on the other side.
"We're at the security checkpoint people." Said Howard G, as he emptied his pockets and put everything into the little bin, and made his way through security, like the same security system at the airports.
"Guys, we're at security, that's where the ransom note said to give the two million dollars, or in our case, our library cards. Everybody, hand me your library cards, and I'll give them to the person in security." Said Bobby, as Zack, Kimi, Chuckie, Dil, and by this time, Susie, Jesse, Phil, and Lil all had library cards as well. Hazel was the only one who didn't have one, but she was ready if this plan failed to work. Everybody handed Bobby their library cards, then, after he walked through security, he pulled his own library card out of his pocket, and attempted to hand it to what he thought was the person checking them in at security, only it was their tour guide at the other end of security.
"Yes little man?" Said the tour guide, an elderly looking lady wearing blue clothing.
"Yeah, this is my library card." Said Bobby, as he attempted to hand the library card to the lady, only to have the lady return it to him.
"Sorry young man, but you won't be needing your library card here." Said the tour guide.
"Why not?" Bobby asked, looking puzzled.
"Because this is the Library of Congress, and the card you have there, is for a public library." Said the tour guide.
"Oh, well how do I get a library of congress ccard then?" Bobby asked.
"Well, only members of congress can check books out at this library, the vast majority of citizens like yourself, can only come here to tour the library, or use our provided reading rooms, to sit and read material we have stored here at the library." Explained the tour guide.
Disappointed, Bobby turned around to see that his family, all of the toddlers, and their families had passed through security, so he went around, and returned each library card to each one of the toddlers, while the tour guide went on to introduce herself, and explain a little bit about the Library of Congress.
"Good afternoon everybody, my name is Mrs. Nole and I'll be your guide today. You know, the Library of Congress is the home to thousands of books, some of which, can only be found here. We also have a couple of very special exhibits, a George Girshwin and a Bob Hope exhibit if anybody's interested." Said Mrs. Nole.
"Do you have a gift shop? I've been collecting postcards at all of our stops." Kira asked.
"Yes we do." Mrs. Nole replied, as she pointed towards the doors that led into the gift shop.
"So, where do you guys wish to start?" Mrs. Nole asked.
"I want to check out the Girshwin exhibit." Said a member of Taffy's band.
"Oh yes, you appear to be with Taffy and the Salt Waters, I believe some people will be wanting to meet with you, but they won't be here for another fifteen minutes, so, come with me everybody, to the Girshwin exhibit." Said Mrs. Nole, as she led everybody to a room, where the Girshwin exhibit was.
Upon entering the room, Girshwin's music filled the room, and surrounding everybody, were pictures of him, along with his piano, and original sheet music he wrote.
"Now this, is cool! I hope someday, the Library of Congress is able to make room for the Taffy Exhibit." Said Taffy dreamily, as she looked around the room, amazed by what she saw, even though Girshwin wasn't one of her personal favorites, she was always amazed by any musician, no matter what style of music they played, if they made it far enough to be featured at a place like this.
After a while, some staff from the library came and met up with Taffy, who went off with them to hand out her flyers and promote her tour, while some of the adults got bored, and went off to look at the Bob Hope exhibit, which was in the room next door. Of course, by this point, all of the adults were either engrossed in the exhibit, heading off to other exhibits, or in Kira's case, stopping off at the gift shop to buy postcards, and no longer paying attention to the kids, as even Peter and Kelly were sharing moments with each other, giving Bobby a chance to get Susie and the toddler's attention.
"Well, bad news, apparently, we have to be members of congress in order to have library cards here." Said Bobby.
"How do we become members of congress?" Lil asked.
"I don't know, I'll ask my brother." Said Bobby, as he approached Derek, who was twittling his thumbs, looking bored. Bobby, poked him in the ribs to get his attention.
"What do you want, dork?" Derek asked.
"How do you become a member of congress?" Bobby asked.
"By being another twelve years older and several feet taller. You're too little to become a member of congress dweeb." Said Derek.
Disappointed, Bobby made his way back over to the toddlers.
"Derek says we're too little." Said Bobby.
"Yeah, we heard." Said Phil.
"Ok Hazel, what's your brilliant backup plan?" Bobby asked.
"Wormies!" Hazel exclaimed.
"Wormies?" All of the toddlers and Bobby replied in unison.
"Well, yes." Said Hazel.
"How are worms gonna get Tommy back?" Chuckie asked.
"Well, we're at a library, and libraries are filled with all sorts of books. And my mommy always talks about book worms." Explained Hazel.
"You mean, worms can read? Wow!" Said Phil.
"I didn't know that." Added Lil.
"Yep, so, all we've gots to do, is split up, go all over the library, let these wormies loose, and eventually, the wormies will be so busy reading all of the books, that if that Bob and Mike person are around here somewhere, they won't wanna stay cuz they'll interrupt the wormies, so they'll ditch Tommy and make a run for it." Explained Hazel, as she lifted up the blue dress she was wearing, to reveal her diaper, where she pulled out a handful of worms, and started passing them out to all of the toddlers.
"Wow! Great plan Hazel." Said Kimi, as she took her worms.
"Yuck!" Said Chuckie, as he dropped his stack of worms, only to have them crawl off into the hallway outside of the Girshwin exhibit.
"Come on everybody." Hazel called, as all of the toddlers and Bobby split up, chasing after Chuckie's worms, running into all of the rooms of the Library of Congress on the two floors, the rooms containing books, the reading rooms, and any room they could enter, leaving worms wherever they ran.
Of course, while Hazel thought the worms was a good idea, something told her it might not be enough, so unknown by the other toddlers, she also grabbed handfuls of mud out of her diaper, and started spreading it all over the floors and walls of the library, as well as any books she was able to reach.
"Wormies like their dirt." Said Hazel, as she turned and smiled at Phil, who had caught up to her at this point.
"Yep, they sure do." Said Phil.
"And it pays to not get potty trained till you turn three, or at least that's what my mommy and daddy gots planned, so I could provide everything in my diapie." Said Hazel.
"Yeah, those were the days." Said Phil longingly.
"Yeah, I can wait a little bit longer. I'll never forget when Rosie was getting potty trained. All she could talk about was how she wanted to be potty trained so she could impress Tommy, as he was potty trained when they metted, although I heardid he kept having diarrhea accidents in front of her. I guess, diarrhea is hard to control during potty training." Said Hazel.
"I've been lucky to not get the runnies in a while. It helps to cut back on eating entire boxes of crayons." Said Phil.
"Hmmm, maybe that was Tommy's problem. He ated too many boxes of crayons when he metted Rosie." Said Hazel.
"Nah, Angelica toldid us he had a bad case of the love bug, I think that causes runny poop too." Said Phil.
In another part of the library, Bob was holding Tommy tight, as they weren't interested in his escaping, while Mike secretly snuck around, pretending to be a Library of Congress inspector, as he snuck around behind the counters at the gift shop, and other places where money was kept, using his charm, to get the money out of the safes, and stuffing his pockets. Looking for a place to hide, Bob and Tommy walked through a door, only to find it was a janniter's closet, that didn't open from the inside. Frustrated, Bob started banging on the door, hoping somebody would let him out, but it was in a deserted part of the library at the time, so nobody heard him. Nor did they hear Tommy starting to cry, kick and punch the door too, to try to get it open.
"Shut up kid, shut up!" Bob yelled at Tommy, but the two-year-old kept on crying, hoping somebody would hear them, and get them out of there.
By this time, the adults noticed once again, the strollers were empty, so everybody went off, running through the library, looking for the kids. In one of the reading rooms, an elderly man who was looking at a book, nearly threw the book on the floor when a worm crawled across the page.
"Eeewww!" The elderly man cried.
"What? What is it?" A dark haired lady sitting across from him in the room asked.
"Worms, there's a worm, in my book!" The elderly man cried, as he got out of his chair and ran out of the reading room, to find more worms in the hallway.
"Oh my gosh, more worms! I'd better report this to the library staff, right away!" Cried the elderly man, as he went off to seek some help, only to slip on some mud on the floor.
"Yuck!" The elderly man cried, as Mrs. Nole came walking by with the adults, who were still looking for the kids.
"Oh my goodness! Look at this mess!" Didi cried, seeing the sight of the mud.
"I'm terribly sorry, I had no idea how messy our library was, we've never had worms and dirt in our facilities before." Said Mrs. Nole.
In the hallway leading up to the closet where Bob and Tommy were trapped, Chuckie had turned down that hallway, getting lost from the rest of the group.
"Bobby? Susie? Where is everyone!" Chuckie cried, as he approached the closet door, where he overheard Tommy crying.
"Tommy?" Chuckie asked, but Tommy must have not heard him, as he continued to cry.
"Maybe it's not Tommy in there." Chuckie thought to himself, as he overheard a man's voice coming from behind the door as well.
"Quiet kid, and if you should ever cry again in my presence, you'll be sorry." Snapped Bob, as he shoved a pacifier into Tommy's mouth, quieting the toddler down, though Tommy didn't care much for pacifiers, but he'd wait to spit it out until they were rescued.
Chuckie was about to reach up and open the door, when a loud voice came over a P.A. system, nearly startling him half to death.
"We're sorry, but due to a recent worm and mud infestation at our facilities, the Library of Congress will have to be closed down until further notice. Please vacate the area immediately." Said the woman over the P.A. system.
"Oh no!" Cried Chuckie, as he turned around and ran back in the direction he came from originally, to run into his dad Chaz at the end of the hallway, thankful he had found Chuckie, as by this point, the adults had gathered up the rest of the toddlers, and Peter was phoning the limo service, to see if they could come an hour earlier than expected, as thanks to this infestation, their scheduled ninety minute tour, was only thirty minutes long.
Everybody left the library, except for the staff, some exterminaters who came in to inspect the place and clean it up, and Bob, Mike and Tommy. Mike was now frantically searching the library, so he could get Bob and Tommy, and get out of there. He was about to give up, when he overheard Bob scream from inside a nearby closet.
"Get me out of this damn thing." Bob cried, as he punched at the door again.
Overhearing this, Mike came to his rescue, opened the door, where Bob, carrying Tommy, still with a pacifier in his mouth, came out, and the three of them, rushed out of the library and back to their bomb shelter in a hurry. Once they had escaped the library and were outside, somewhere along the way between the Library of Congress and their bomb shelter, Tommy spit his pacifier out on to the ground, never to see it again.
Back outside the library, while waiting for their limo to arrive, Bobby, Susie and the toddlers, just all, looked at one another in disappointment.
"Sorry guys, I was sure my worm idea was going to work." Said Hazel.
"It's ok Hazel, you at least tried." Said Phil.
"Yeah, I guess book worms and people can't be in the library at the same time." Said Bobby.
"Of course not dork, because those weren't book worms. They were real worms." Said Derek.
"Real worms?" Bobby asked.
"Yeah, a book worm isn't a real worm, a book worm is someone who reads a lot." Explained Derek, as he buried his head into his comic book.
"Well I guess that makes you a book worm then since you're always burying your head into comic books." Said Bobby.
"Whatever." Muttered Derek from inside his book.
"Wow I didn't know there were two types of worms, the kind that read books, and the kind that me and Phillip eat." Said Lil.
"Yeah kind of like there are two types of Dil." Said Chuckie.
"Oh yeah, the kind you eat, and the kind you don't." Said Lil.
"Yeah, and please, don't eat me." Said Dil.
No sooner had he said this, when their limo arrived, to pick everyone up and take them back to the hotel. They all piled in, and headed off.
"Have a good day, we'll see you tomorrow at National's Stadium for the big game." Called Hazel's dad to the rest of the crew in the limo, as it drove off, and Hazel's family, who was staying at a different hotel entirely, the Watergates Hotel, where Hazel and her parents walked to. On the way there though, Hazel, who was in a stroller at this point, spotted a pacifier on the ground. Curious about it, she picked it up, and stuffed it into her diaper.
"Hmmm, I wonder if this binky belongs to Tommy? I'll ask the others about it the nextest time I see them." Hazel thought to herself, as she stuffed the pacifier into her diaper, and she and her parents returned to their hotel.
In the limo on the way back to their hotel, all of the adults were talking about Tommy, and trying to think of where he could have ended up. Overhearing their conversation, Derek peered out from behind his comic book, and made a comment.
"I know why sticky fingers went missing, it's because he's one gullable little kid." Said Derek.
"His name's not sticky fingers, his name is Tommy, and what's gullable mean anyway?" Bobby asked.
"It's what you and your little baby friends are, dork. Someone who's gullable will believe just about anything they hear, and in most cases, it leads to a world of trouble." Explained Derek.
"Uh oh." Bobby thought to himself, as the limo pulled up in front of their hotel, and let everybody out.
"I'll be back to take you Taffy to the train station at around four this afternoon to pick up your friend Sandy and her kids." Said the limo driver to Taffy.
"Thank you sir." Said Taffy, as she waved to the limo driver and made her way into the hotel to catch up with the rest of the crew.
Once everybody had returned to the hotel, since they got back earlier than expected, and both, the adults and the kids were hot and exhausted, everybody went and settled down for a long afternoon nap, while Taffy and her band tried to get in a tiny rehearsal. Unfortunately, as a result of feeling hot and exhausted, not to mention, worried about Tommy's disappearance, as it had been four days, and he still hadn't turned up, the rehearsal didn't go well. Taffy's mind kept wandering, causing her to mess up on her guitar playing, messing up the band.
"Hey! Pay attention!" Snapped one of the band members.
"Sorry guys, I guess, I just, can't concentrate today. Besides, the limo will be here any minute to take me to the train station to pick up Sandy and her minis." Said Taffy, as she glanced down at her watch to see it was five minutes until four.
Taffy put up her guitar and headed outside to wait for the limo, while her band members headed up to their hotel room, to rest for a little bit. The limo arrived, and took Taffy to the train station, where she learned Sandy's train was running late. It arrived half an hour later, at four thirty, at which time, Sandy, Mary and Rosie got off, and met Taffy in the station.
"Taffy! How great to see you again." Said Sandy, giving Taffy a hug.
"Minis, do you remember Taffy?" Sandy asked.
"Yes, I do, hi." Said Mary, shaking Taffy's hand.
"Hey." Said Taffy, smiling down at Mary.
Rosie looked up at Taffy and smiled.
"Well, we'd better be going, right this way ladies." Said Taffy, as she led Sandy, Mary and Rosie out to the limo in front of the station. Rosie and Mary were overwhelmed by this, as neither one of them had ever ridden in a limo before, so this was pretty exciting.
As they drove back to the hotel, Taffy pointed out to Sandy and the girls some of the places they were passing by, and which ones they had visited so far while on their trip. Upon arriving at the hotel, they walked into the lobby to find that the Rugrats, their families, and Bobby and his family, along with Taffy's band members and Peter, had all awakened from their afternoon nap, and were down in the lobby, enjoying this little afternoon snack thing that the hotel provided on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons, other than the daily continental breakfast that was served every morning. Taffy led Sandy, Mary and Rosie around, and introduced them to everybody who they had not met yet, as they already knew Zack and his aunt Celeste, and they knew Peter, while Rosie knew most of the toddlers, and Sandy knew everybody from when she came to visit Taffy during her spring break from school, but Mary didn't know most of the people there, so she was glad to finally meet them.
No sooner was everybody getting aquainted with everyone, when Randy and Stu walked into the hotel, disappointed looks on their faces.
"So dear, how did it go?" Lucy asked, upon seeing her husband walk in.
"They never met with us. Apparently, according to the people at the Air and Space Museum, Mister Roach had a family emergency, and would have to push back our meeting to tomorrow evening." Said Randy.
"I let them know we'd be at National's Stadium at the big ball game. I don't mind relocating our meeting to there, as we'll be outside, in the perfect environment to truly demonstrate my Dummi Bears hot air balloon prototype." Said Stu.
"Any word about the whereabouts of Tommy Stu?" Betty asked.
"Nope, but seeing that our meeting got canceled, Randy and I headed over to the Police station, where we reported him missing. Apparently, while Taffy has confirmed with us that she's made a note to mention this to the people at every place we've visited this week, the idiots that run this capital, are too dumb to say something to the real Police." Said Stu.
"At least Stu and I had the decency to finally take matters into our own hands, and report it to the real Police ourselves. They say they'll keep their eyes pealed, and let us know if something should turn up." Said Randy.
While the adults went on talking with one another, Rosie approached the toddlers, where she was introduced to Bobby and Susie, the only two she didn't meet when she met everybody else back at Valentine's Day.
"It's nice to finally meet you Rosie." Said Susie with a smile, as she shook Rosie's hand.
"Thank you." Said Rosie, as she shook Susie's hand, and looked around at the toddlers, to notice that someone was missing.
"Hey, where's Tommy you guys?" Rosie asked.
Everybody stared back at her in silence, frowns on their faces.
"Uh oh, something's wrong, I know it. Where is Tommy?" Rosie asked again, now in a panicked voice.
Before Bobby, Susie, or any of the toddlers could respond, a news report came on a television that was in the lobby, showing Tommy's picture.
"Oh my gosh you guys, Tommy! He's on the TV! Look!" Exclaimed Rosie, as she pointed to the television with the news report on it, Bobby, Susie and the other toddlers, all turning their attention to the television screen where Rosie was pointing.
"And in recent news, our nation's capital has been undergoing some interesting mysteries over the last week. First, the mysterious disappearance of a young toddler by the name of Tommy Pickles. He went mysteriously missing at the International Spy Museum back at the beginning of the week, and Police and security guards at several locations are still searching for this missing child. If he should turn up in your neighborhood, please notify your local Police immediately. Along with Tommy's disappearance though, has also gone a huge sum of money from several popular tourist attractions in our nation's capital over the last week as well. Everywhere from the International Spy Museum, to The National Zoo, Museum of Natural History, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Library of Congress. And recently, The Library of Congress has been closed down as a result of a recent worm and mud infestation. We have no idea if or when it will be reopened to the public again for tours, that, has yet to be determined. On top of all of this, officials at the National Zoo found an orangutan costume inside of the orangutan house, and saw a day's worth of fruit eaten in one sitting on August 7, and several tourests spotted what they seem to call a weir orangutan while touring the zoo that very same day." Explained a female news ankeror on the television.
"His body looked like an orangutan, and his head looked like that of a small boy with dark purple hair, it was so scary of a sight, I ran away before I could take a picture!" Explained a tourist.
Everybody gasp at the sound of this news. Back on the television…
"And in sports, famous baseball player Bucky Majors plans to announce his retirement from baseball at tomorrow night's game." Said a male news ankeror, as the picture turned to Bucky Majors, with his announcement.
"I quit playing for the Grizleys at the beginning of this season, as I was recovering from Pnewmonia at the time, only playing when a substitute was needed, but tomorrow night, I will be filling in for one of the players on the Nationals, as we go up against the Braves at National's Stadium in Washington D.C. and I make it, my final game, of baseball." Explained Bucky Majors on the television.
"And in entertainment news, the upcoming band, Taffy and the Salt Waters will be starting their big tour after the big game tomorrow night at Nationals Stadium. Several flyers promoting her tour have been handed out at several locations around the nation's capital, and both, the game and the opening tour concert have been sold out, making over two-million-dollars in ticket sales at the box office. It is also been confirmed that famous children's artist, Sherry Berry, will be appearing tomorrow evening to open up for Taffy and the Salt Waters, and Sherry has something to say about this." Continued the male ankeror on the television, as the camera cut to a picture of Sherry Berry, talking with reporters.
"I have known Taffy ever since she was a little girl, and I am honored, to be performing at her big tour premier tomorrow." Said Sherry Berry.
Overhearing this on the news, Taffy turned her gaze away from the television, back to her friend Sandy, who was across from her at the table where they were sitting in the lobby, a frown on Taffy's face.
"Something wrong?" Sandy asked.
"I don't know if I can go through with this. I mean, with being so worried about Tommy, and worried for his family and all of our friends, my heart, just, isn't feeling it." Said Taffy with a sigh.
"But Taffy, you've come this far, I'm upset about Tommy too, but you can't give up now." Said Sandy.
Just then, the news returned after a commercial break, with more coverage.
"Later on this evening, Taffy and her band will be dining with the President at the White House, as President Obama presents Taffy with a special award for her outstanding achievement so far, and to wish her luck on her big tour. We'll have more on the story of Taffy and her tour as things progress, but if money continues to disappear from the various tourist attractions around the area, will it be a matter of time, until America, is destroyed?" Said the female news ankeror.
"And now, here's Homohi to talk about the recent news of the monsoon that's on its way to Japan." Continued the female news ankeror, as the picture changed to show Tokyo Japan, and some fearce winds near the area, blowing stuff around, and a male reporter started talking about the monsoon, completely taking the kids attention away from the news, as they were no longer talking about the events that were taking place in Washington D.C. anymore.
Overhearing the news on the television, as well as Taffy possibly canceling her tour, this perked Bobby to get the others attention.
"Guys, this is getting serious! If Tommy isn't found tomorrow, Taffy's tour might get canceled!" Said Bobby.
"And that's not the only thing going on here you guys, did you notice how they said money went disappearing from all of the places we've been too also?" Zack asked.
"Yeah? So?" Chuckie asked irritably, as he wasn't sure what money had to do with Tommy.
"Guys, I think everyone is on to something here." Said Bobby.
"What do you mean Bobby?" Phil asked.
"I have a feeling that Bob and Mike are involved in all of this, all the way." Said Bobby.
"Who are Bob and Mike?" Rosie asked.
"The people who lefted a ransom note in the rejecting pool at Jefferson's Memory this morning. We founded it, and tried to get Tommy back this afternoon at the Library of Congress, but I guess wormies are no substitute for library cards, or two-million dollars." Said Zack with a sigh.
"But what makes you think they've been at all of the places we've been anyway?" Lil asked.
"Well, think about it you guys, money has gone missing from every place we've been to this week, and the description of that weir orangutan, doesn't the description of its head, sound a lot like Tommy's?" Bobby asked.
"So I wasn't making it up then." Said Chuckie.
"What do you mean Chuckie?" Bobby asked.
"Guys, I've runned into Tommy at every place we've been. He was that baby orangutan we were helping, that was no real orangutan at all. And when I heardid him cry, Reptar, from inside the orangutan house, it was him, but our mommies and daddies gotted there to take us back here before we could rescue him. And then, the nextest day at that place with all of the human bones, it was Tommy who founded the hand, but those kidnappers stopped him, so he threw it to me. And then, remember? I sawed Tommy behind that statue of that George guy, but again, those kidnappers gotted him too quickly, before me or Tommy could meet up. And later, when we were at the library, I heardid him crying behind a door, but before I could open the door, a loud scary lady came over this speaker thing, making us leave cuz of the wormies. Guys, Tommy and the kidnappers are following us." Said Chuckie.
"So you really did see Tommy at all of the places we went. I'm sorry I didn't believe you before then." Said Zack.
"It's ok Zack, I forgive you." Said Chuckie, as the two of them gave one another a hug.
"So Bobby, after hearing what Chuckie just concluded, do you think we'll run into Tommy at that baseball game and concert tomorrow?" Rosie asked.
"Well, if they're continuing to follow us to every place we've been, then yes, there's a good chance they'll be at that game tomorrow. And for our sake, we'd better hope they'll be there, as we leave to go home the day after tomorrow, so tomorrow is it you guys. When at that baseball game, we need to join together, and do whatever it takes, to get Tommy back, and see if we can't also save America as well." Said Bobby.
"I'm with you all the way." Said Rosie, as she went up to Bobby and shook his hand.
"Me too." Said Susie.
"I'm in, if Phillip agrees to be my partner." Said Lil.
"Come on Lillian, you know we'll always be partners, we're twins after all." Said Phil.
"No, you'd rather spend time with Hazel." Snapped Lil.
"Come on Lil, I'm really getting tired of your attitude, and besides, Hazel's not here right now. She's at some place called Watergates, why someone would build a gate out of water is beyond me, as I don't think that works very well." Said Phil.
"Well Hazel can go with Jesse then, cuz I'm tired of being Jesse's partner, I want my brother back." Shouted Lil.
This upset Jesse, causing him to collapse to the floor and start crying.
"Awe, don't cry Jesse." Said Kimi, going over and putting a comforting hand on Jesse's shoulder.
"I can't help it Kimi, Lil hurted my feelings, and Tommy is gone." Said Jesse through his sobs."Yeah, I miss Tommy too." Cried Rosie, as she went up to Dil to give him a hug, only to have Dil back away.
"Don't look at me Rosie, Tommy toldid me if I gotted too close to you, I'd get sick, after all, he's been sick every single time he's been with you." Said Dil.
This only made Rosie cry louder, as she never meant for Tommy to get sick when he was around her, it always happened.
"That's not true Dil, you take that back." Shouted Rosie through her sobs.
"I don't know, who wants to spend time with a guy who believes aliums exist?" Zack asked.
"Hey! You stop talking to my bestest friends brother like that Zack." Snapped Chuckie.
At this point, all of the toddlers were back to quarreling, and crying, getting on Bobby and Susie's last nerves. To get away from the fighting, Susie went off and found Angelica at a nearby table, stuffing her face with the last of the cookies that were being served at the afternoon snacking party provided by the hotel.
"Hey! Don't take all of those cookies for yourself, save some for us." Snapped Susie, but it was too late, Angelica put the last cookie on the plate into her mouth, chewed it up, and swallowed it quickly, before responding.
"No! And once I'm President, nobody gets any cookies except me, got it?" Griped Angelica.
"Angelica? Would you please, just, give up the whole becoming President thing? You're never gonna become President, and it's getting on my last nerve! Why don't you do something important, like help us find Tommy? You haven't helped once in the entire time we've been here ever since he went missing." Shouted Susie.
"Maybe I don't want that dumb baby to be found. With him out of the way, I can boss the babies around, and Tommy won't try to stop me." Said Angelica.
"Oh yeah? Well you forgot that Bobby and I are here, and we're not gonna let you push the other babies around either, right guys?" Susie asked, but the other toddlers were all too busy quarreling with one another to even notice.
"See? They're too dumb to care." Said Angelica, as she stuck her tongue out at Susie, and walked off.
Getting fed up with listening to Susie and Angelica's quarreling, and the toddlers quarreling, Bobby went over to where Mary and a hand full of the adults were gathered at this point, trying to pick out something for dinner, which from the look and sound of it, this decision was going about as well as keeping the little ones in line.
"I'm not all that up for tye food again tonight, the stuff we had the other night gave me heartburn." Said Didi.
"And I don't want pizza, I'm sick of pizza." Snapped Dana.
"Oh come on everybody, pizza is awesome! Could eat that stuff everyday!" Said Betty.
"There's a nice seafood place down the street, anyone interested?" Kira asked.
"No, Zack and I went there the other night, and he hardly touched his food. It's thanks to this I'm practically out of yogurt and stars that I picked up at the mini market down the street." Said Celeste.
"So, what are we gonna eat then?" Lucy asked.
"Well I heard Martha and Derek left to pick up some pizza for their family, I'm sure we can figure out something." Said Howard D.
Just as Howard said this, Sandy, Taffy and her band, all left the hotel in the limo to head to the Whitehouse for their dinner with the President, and Sandy left Didi with an overnight bag for Mary and Rosie, as they would be spending the night in Stu and Didi's suite, since she wasn't sure what time they would be getting back from this thing, as there was a rumor going around that they'd get to spend a night at the Whitehouse as well, and Taffy was only allowed to bring one guest along with her band, so she asked Sandy to accompany her to this dinner, since they were, best childhood friends, and Sandy made the effort to come all this way to see Taffy off on her tour, while Bratanica was too busy working at Whacky Burger to care.
"By the time you figure out anything, it will be midnight, and keep it down I'm trying to have an important conversation with Jonathan over here." Shouted Charlotte to the other adults, her hand covering the mouth piece on her cell phone at this point, before she turned around, removed her hand from the mouth piece, and continued talking with Jonathan, as she walked away from the group, and got on to the elevator to head back upstairs to her room, where she'd hopefully, get some peace and quiet to get some work done.
Seeing Charlotte walk into the elevator, Bobby decided to follow her in there, hoping he too, could get some peace and quiet, only to find out he'd soon be wrong. Once he and Charlotte got up to their level where their suites were, Charlotte went into her suite, while Bobby went into his, only to be greeted by more arguing, this time, it was between his father and sister.
"Dad, I'm like, eighteen-years-old, I don't need adult supervision!" Kelly shouted.
"And I don't want my only daughter, spending the night, alone, with the king of the Confederacy!" Snapped Howard G.
"What do you think we're gonna do anyway? Get me pregnant or something? Since it's our last night in the hotel, Peter agreed to order a movie on Pay-Per-View for us to watch." Said Kelly.
"Well I'm sorry Kelly, your mother and I don't approve of you dating this, Peter guy." Said Howard G.
"Dad." Griped Kelly.
By this time, Bobby couldn't take it anymore, so he snuck past his arguing father and sister, over to a chair in the corner of the room, where he pulled out his Captain Squash video game, and got lost in the game, hoping to drown out the constant fighting he had been witnessing for over the last hour, but while playing the game, all he could think about was the following.
"Taffy might cancel her tour, Phil and Lil can't get along, Rosie and Jesse are upset, nobody wants to play with Dil, Susie and Angelica are arguing, our families can't decide on what food to eat for dinner, and now, my dad and sister are fighting over the king of the Confederacy? That's it, I must find Tommy tomorrow, before America gets destroyed, and we all, go to war!" Bobby thought to himself, as he put his video game down, and covered his ears, to block out the constant shouting of his dad and sister, who just, wouldn't shut up.
And this, ends chapter 6. So, what will happen at National's Stadium? Will Tommy get found and will everybody make peace? We'll find out, in the next chapter, so please, do stay tuned!