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The Third Wheel

I was getting ready for school, when the phone started ringing. I wondered who it could be at this hour.

"Em, get the phone," my aunt said from the bathroom.

"Okay," I replied back.

I picked up the phone and answered it. The phone crackled a little bit and then an automated message started playing, "Do to the sleet we've been having. One wing of the school has been flooded do to a leak in the ceiling in one of the classrooms. We thought it be best to close the school for an early weekend, so we can get everything cleaned up. Have a good weekend and we hope to see you back on Monday. Goodbye."

The automated message ended and I hung up the phone. Yes, no school today. I love when we get an extra day off, but usually that means we'll have to sacrifice another one to fit in the days we missed. Aunt Kate came into the living room and asked, "Who was on the phone?"

"The school called and said they had a flood in one of the wings at school. So schools canceled today for an early weekend," I said.

"Wait, you're not going to school today?"

"Nope."

"Great. Now I have to cancel with Castle."

"I forgot about your date with Castle. You don't have to miss it."

"Yeah, but I can't leave you here because maintenance is supposed to be sweeping the whole apartment to clear out some bugs. The whole building is supposed to be gone from 11:00am to 1:00pm."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that too. Maybe I can just go to the brunch with you guys."

"I guess you're going to have to come. I'll let Castle know I'm bringing you along."

"Okay."

We were out for brunch at a local restaurant Castle liked to go to. He wasn't mad that I was tagging along, he actually thought it would be kind of fun hanging out with both of his Beckett's. We were eating by the window and Aunt Kate and I were sitting together while Castle was sitting in front of us. I ordered a large stack of pancakes while my aunt ordered an omelet, and Castle ordered a Friday special, which had so much stuff on his plate I thought it would spill over.

"Are you really going to eat all that Castle?" my aunt asked.

"Yeah, why? It's not that much," Castle said with a shrug.

"It could feed an Army," she said.

"Well I'm hungry and it's too good to let it go to waste," Castle said as he picked up a slice of bacon.

My aunt laughed and said, "Okay Castle."

I stole a piece of sausage off of Castles plate and ate it.

"Hey, you little munchie monster. That was my sausage," Castle said with a playful pout.

"I know, and it was really good," I said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll have a piece of your pancake," he said and cut a piece of my pancake, eating it with a smirk.

I huffed with a smirk of my own and said, "Fine… I have plenty of pancakes."

He stuck his tongue out at me and then I stuck mine out at him.

"Okay, my two children. Stop playing with each other's food," Aunt Kate said with a small chuckle.

We all started laughing and finishing our food. We continued having small talk, but it was mostly Aunt Kate and castle who were having a conversation of their own, while I stared out the window. Eventually we left the restaurant and were walking down the street together.

"I had fun today," my aunt said.

"Yeah, so did I. It was fun having mini Beckett around. Maybe we should have days like these more often," Castle said.

"That would be cool, I like spending time with the both of you," I said.

Castle hugged me to his side and said, "I'm glad. You know, since we do still have some time to kill and we're already out and about. Why don't we go to this awesome arcade just a few blocks away?"

"That would be so much fun," I said.

"Yeah, we can do that. It would be nice," my aunt said.

"All right, to the arcade," Castle said.

We walked a few blocks to the arcade and it was an extremely large place. It looked exciting and I couldn't wait to play all the games in there. We went inside and there was tons of games lined up along the wall and some in the middle of the gaming floor. We got some coins from the coin machine and Castle and I both were like children in a candy store.

Castle went to one game and I went to another. I decided to play some of the classics like Pac-Man and Galaga. I was having a blast and my aunt Kate looked like she was having a fun time too. We even played some games together which was really fun. We played some air hockey and foosball. I won a few of the games we played together, but Castle was really good.

We were about to leave after two hours of fun and games, but there was one last game I wanted to play before we left. It was the claw machine and there was a very cute blue and green teddy in there that I wanted. I wasn't very good at this game, but sometimes I'd get lucky.

"You sure you can do it?" my aunt asked as she handed me a dollar.

"I think so. I really want that bear," I said.

"You can do it mini Becket," Castle said.

I took the three turns that the game gave me and each time I got closer and closer, but I couldn't get the right angle to snag the prize I wanted.

"Oh well," I said.

"Here let me try. I was pretty good at this game in the past, I even won Alexis a few when she was younger," Castle said, stepping in to claim the prize I wanted.

He put a dollar in and cracked his knuckles before he took ahold of the joy stick that controlled that shiny claw of broken dreams. He maneuvered the claw to be at a good spot, which wasn't too far away from the teddy but it wasn't right on top of it. Castle had a serious look on his face, making himself look like he was seriously determined to win me the teddy.

His first try turned out to be a bust, the teddy bear just slipped out of the claws grasp as it was being pulled up. The second time the same deal happened. Castle was doing really well, but it wasn't good enough for the evil game that liked to toy with people's emotions. It was Castle's final turn and I think we were all holding our breaths as he hit the button for the claw to go down and clamp around the teddy.

Anticipation was high as it wrapped tightly around the midsection of the teddy and it started coming back up, with the teddy lightly resting in the hands of the claw. So far the teddy was still nestled snuggly in the claw and it was bringing it over to drop it down the chute to the prize box. We were all excited as we watched it going slowly to the prize box, hoping it wouldn't fall as it got closer and closer.

It finally reached the drop section and the claw let the teddy go, letting it fall down the chute, awaiting to get picked up by the lucky winner. I went over and pulled out the blue and green teddy bear and it was way softer than I expected. I hugged it close and looked up at castle who had a smug smile gracing his face.

"Thank you Castle," I said.

"No problem mini Beckett. I knew I could do it," he said.

"You're so full of yourself Castle," Aunt Kate said with an amused smile.

"I'm not because it's the truth," Castle said with his own smile.

"Okay Mr. awesome. Let's go home," she said.

We went home and as soon as we got in I put my teddy in my room, sitting it on the shelf that held a few of my other stuffed animals I've gotten through the years. It fit perfectly with all of them and it's a special one because Castle won it for me. I couldn't ask for a better boyfriend for my Aunt Kate.