The rest of the gang arrived with the styrofoam cups. Chas came out from the back kitchen, and paid them each for their work.
"We're here!" Tommy Pickles, Chuckie's closest friend said as he entered the shop.
"Dad, Mom! What's up!" Kimi Finster, Chuckie's sister called
C.J., excited to see her older sister, ran straight to her, hugging her leg.
"Hey C.J.! How was your day?" The older sister asked
Before C.J. could answer, her attention was brought to her twin brother, who was calling for her from the kitchen.
"A little help here Chasity?" asked Kirk, who had accidentally gotten his feet stuck in the melted candy cane, and was now stuck to the floor.
Back at the front door, the rest of the gang walked in, and placed the crates of cups in the supply room.
Chas then took out some money to pay them, which all but Angelica refused. They all then joined Chuckie and Nicole at a separate table from the adults so they could talk, being that they missed their friends, as half the gang was still in 8th grade.
Each member of the gang was unique in their own odd way. Tommy was the leader. Brave, creative, and an unhealthily wild imagination, he was almost Chuckie's polar opposite, although the two had been best friend's since they were babies. Kimi was Chuckie, C.J., & Kirk's sister, a year younger than Chuckie and 9 years older than the twins. She became his step-sister when Kira and Chas married, although her last name went from Watanabe to Finster when Chas adopted her as his own daughter, being that her biological father Hiro, although loving, was not ready to raise a child, and therefore, wanted Kimi to be with someone better for the job. Kimi was quite like Tommy, although she was easily the most Naive of the group. Phil & Lil Deville were twins, just like Kirk and C.J., nothing more to it. They were alike in everyway, even with Lil starting to outgrow her old tomboyish ways. Angelica Pickles was the oldest at 14, and Tommy's cousin. Still her selfish self from childhood, she had at least outgrown her rude attitude towards her cousin and his friends. Susie Carmichael was still her old, perfect self, only not as much in love with singing anymore. She still did it, and loved it, but after seeing what Hollywood could do to singers, she decided to not expand farther than the internet, and to just focus on studies. Harold Frumpkin was the oldest male member. He met Susie and Angelica in preschool. He was once quite overweight, but had lost that as he got older, and many other things as well. He was now known as Harry at school, and had outgrown flirting with Angelica, deciding to just forget about a girl who only abused him as a friend. He had also outgrown his lisp, and was in a band with Susie, Chuckie, and Dil, and was now running an online DJ business. Dil Pickles was the youngest member. He was 11, although in the same grade as Tommy and his friends. And although he was quite smart for his age, skipping a grade had obviously had it's tole on him. He was still a straight-A-student, but in his anxiety, had entered a laid-back hippie phase. The worst part, it wasn't one of his odd week-long quirks, he'd been this way for a while, in order to cope with how stressful things had become for him. Despite that, he still was able to legitimately be happy, it was just his stressful lifestyle that made him nervous.
Regardless of everything that was different and crazy about them, the whole group was as close as could be, and weren't worried about letting Nicole join in on the fun.
"So Chuckie, the twins are turning five soon, what's planned?" Tommy said
"Same as every year. We celebrate Christmas here with everyone, then, the family heads to Mt. Moon Snow Resort to go skiing and snowboarding until January 2nd, then we head back to L.A., and await for our beloved winter break to come to a tragic end." Chuckie explained, with minor dramatization at the end.
"And you're all invited to join us if you're all willing to pay for yourselves, as always." Kimi said
"We already reserved our room." Phil said
"Same here for me, Dil and Angelica." Tommy said
"Still working on it." Susie said
"I don't know, I've never skied before." Nicole said
"I'll teach you. I taught Harry, and even Angelica." Chuckie replied
"Trust me, it's no sweat." Harry replied
"Look, we do that every year, what I really wanna know is, the surprise Chuckie has planned like every year for the twins." Tommy said
"Yeah Chuckie, every year, you come up with a cake idea so epic, other cakes run in fear." Phil said
"So, what you planning to do this year?" Lil asked
"Well, I'm still brainstorming. I can't really think of anything yet. You heard of writer's block? Well, I'm having 'baker's block'." Chuckie explained
Back in the kitchen. C.J. & Kirk were also talking about their plans for their birthday.
"Get over it! Dad and Grandpa are too unhealthy to take you on the Leviathan, you have to wait until you're tall enough!" explained C.J.
"But I've been watching my growth patterns, I've grown a good 3-5 inches."
C.J. just rolled her eyes as she tried to scrape the dried up candy that surrounded her brother's feet.
"Believe what you want. How did all this harden so fast?"
"I dunno, it just did."
"Well, I got everything but what's under your shoes."
Kirk took off his shoes, and started helping his sister.
"Hey, did you hear about what Dad said about Grandma and Grandpa and how they get hyper when talking about twins?" C.J. asked
"Yeah, you think they don't like twins?"
"They still love us, maybe it's more, just the idea of two kids being around the same time. Like the difficulty or something."
"Chasity... You might actually be half-right. Dad was an only child, right?"
"Yeah."
"And Grandma and Grandpa wish they had more kids, right?"
"Yeah."
"There you go. They don't hate twins, they just probably hate the idea of a couple getting to have multiple kids."
C.J. all of the sudden felt sympathetic.
"That stinks, I wish there was some way we could make that better."
"Dad and Mom tried. They gave them 4 grandkids, what more?"
"I guess... Oh Kirkland watch out-"
All of the sudden, Kirk accidentally made a tear with the scraper on his sneaker.
"Darn it! Ah whatever, Chuckie apparently has these really nice vintage converses from when he was my age that he won in a contest. I guess I can get some hand-me-downs, right."
"10-year-old hand-me-downs? Ewww Kirkland" C.J. exclaimed "That's gross. And it's Chuckie's feet."
"The guy scrubs his feet as if they're hands everyday when he comes home from school, what do I have to worry about?"
Just then, Chas came in, and tried to ignore his son's bare foot. "Hey kids, look, can you all take you grandparents to our house and help them get settled."
"Okay Dad." Kirk replied
The Finster Kids took their grandparents to their house. The kids had a quiet conversation about their grandparents. Within 15 minutes, they arrived at the Finster home, and started moving boxes. When Marvin bent down to pick up something, his wallet fell out, and it opened up a list of pictures.
"Hey, Grandpa's wallet, check out all the old pics he has." Chuckie said, picking up the wallet
"There's you, aww, look at me, and check out Kirkland and Chasity, and look at their old wedding pic, and both of Dad's wedding pictures, and... an ultrasound? Why are there two babies? It's dated to when Grandma was pregnant with Dad, why are there two babies." asked Kimi
"Fetuses Kimi, they're not born yet, so they're fetuses." corrected Chuckie
"What is up with this picture though?" Kirk asked
just then, Marvin came out and saw the kids. "What's up with what picture?"
"Uhhh..." Kirk stammered
"This one Grandpa." Chuckie lied, pointing to the wedding picture of his grandparents. "Why aren't you two smiling, you guys just got married."
Marvin looked at the picture, he gave it a good look, then spoke "Because... I just met her!" He then laughed, which confused the kids
"You're marriage was arranged?" C.J. asked
"It's a joke." Chuckie replied, face-palming himself "How does she even know what an arranged marriage is at only 4-years-old?" was all he could think
"Yeah, back then, a professional photographer was expensive, you had to get a picture with every family member, so you had only one chance to make it look formal. Now, you can just get your own DSLR camera and do it yourself." Marvin explained
"Well, thanks for that Grandpa, sorry for looking into your wallet, we didn't take any money or something." Kimi said
"Well that's good to know." Marvin said, putting his wallet away "So which room are we staying in?"
"I set up something in our room." Chuckie said, referring to him and Kirk, who shared a room
"Well alright then, thanks boys." Marvin said
When his grandfather re-entered the house, Chuckie pulled the ultrasound out from his sleeve.
"Why did you take that from Grandpa?" asked C.J. as the kids took the last of the suitcases and went in to the house
"I have some suspicions towards this picture, look, I'm just gonna borrow it for a little while, find out what I can about this, and see if our grandparents have been hiding something from us." Chuckie said
Have Marvin & Shirley been hiding something from their family? What was up with that ultrasound? And speaking of two babies, is there something in store for Kirk & C.J.? Stay Tuned! Please Review!