You should’ve seen the look on the babies’ faces when they spotted Danny and me entering the gym doors. Let’s just say they looked scared to see us (Except for Dash and Quan of course.) because we had false angry looks on our faces. It’s kind of hard to make a mad face when you’re trying so hard not to burst out laughing. But I managed to do it.
When we approached the babies Danny cried, “Tommy! Tucker!”
“Phil! Lil!” I called out angrily.
“It wasn’t our faults!” Phil cried, quickly running up to me.
“We was only following orders!” Lil said, approaching her twin brother as slowly as she could.
“Tommy,” Danny asked, madly, “was this your idea?”
“Um, well, I…” Tommy stuttered. “Bart camed to my house when you, Sam, and Tucker was at school. He camed up with the idea, and I camed up with the plan!”
I glared at Bart. He had a mixture of surprise and fear in his eyes. He gulped, glanced up at me, and mumbled, “Don’t have a cow, man! We was only trying to helps you!”
I tried to keep my mad face on, but what Bart said was so funny, I couldn’t help myself! I burst out laughing. Unfortunately, that made Danny start laughing too.
The babies looked at us with puzzled and relieved looks on their faces.
“So, you’re not mad at us?” Tucker asked, quickly.
Once Danny and I got control of ourselves, I cried, “Of course, not! You guys were only trying to help! We were just pretending to be mad at you guys to get even!”
Danny nodded. “We appreciate what you did, you guys.” He paused before continuing. “Just, don’t ever do that again!”
“Don’t worry!” Tommy exclaimed. “We won’t!”
“Yeah,” Angelica said, arms crossed and rolling her eyes, “hopefully!”
I smirked. “Why?” I asked. “Were you afraid that Danny and I were gonna yell at you?”
Angelica glared at me. “No!” she cried. “I’m not ascared of you dummies!”
Little did Angelica know that Tucker was sneaking up behind her while she was saying this. “BOO!” Tucker yelled.
Angelica screamed.
All of us burst out laughing.
“Oh,” Angelica said, in mock seriousness, “well, that time I was just messing with you! That’s all!”
“Whatever, Angelica!” I said, rolling my eyes.
“Wait a minute!” Tommy suddenly cried, turning to me and Danny. “Does this mean our plan worked, and you guys are friends again?”
Danny and I glanced at each other, then back at the babies, and nodded. “Yep!”
Tommy grinned. “That’s great!” He turned to the others. “Did you hear that babies? We did it! Danny and Sam are friends again!”
The babies cheered.
“Hey, Sam!” Chuckie exclaimed. “Do you gots our picture moneys?”
I was puzzled for a moment, until I realized what Chuckie was talking about. “Oh, yeah!” I took the piggybank out of my right dress pocket and glanced to my left. The photographers were all set up for pictures! It was a good thing too. I was getting tired of carrying all of that heavy money in my dress pocket. “Well,” I said, “we might as well get our pictures taken before everybody else gets here.”
“Good idea!” Phil cried. “Let’s goes!”
As the babies ran to the photographers, Dash and Quan approached us.
“Hey, Dash!” Danny exclaimed. “Hey Quan! Thanks for helping me and Sam back there. That was really nice of-,” Danny was cut off when Dash picked him up by his shirt collar.
“Listen closely, Fenton!” Dash cried. “What happened back there, stays back there. Everything is gonna go back to normal starting tomorrow. You don’t tell anyone about this, and I won’t either. Got it?” He held up his fist.
Danny nodded, quickly. “Sure, Dash. I don’t have anything against that!”
Dash smiled. “Good! It was a pleasure doing business with you Fenton!” Dash shook Danny’s right hand as fast and as hard as he could. Then he and Quan ran to the other side of the gym to pour mouthwash into the punch.
Danny groaned. “Great!” he cried. “One arm’s bruised, the other one has been nearly pulled out of its socket, and now I need to get my right hand sprayed for Dashaburkulosis!”
I laughed.
“Hey, Danny!” Tucker cried. “Sam! Get over here! You guys have to pay for the pictures!”
“We’re coming!” I called. I turned to Danny. “Come on! Let’s get over there before they take the picture!”
When we got over to the photographers, Jazz came running up to us.
“Where have you been all this time?” Danny asked.
“Helping Mom and Dad at the daycare center!” Jazz answered. “What did I miss?”
“Well,” I started, “Danny and I got trapped in our classroom, we became friends again, and Dash and Danny became friends for a record of two seconds. I think that’s about it.”
Jazz looked at me with a surprised look on her face. “Wow!” she exclaimed. “And I thought I was only gone for half an hour!”
As I gave the photographers the money, Danny asked, “It’s only been half an hour?” He faced the babies. “How long were Sam and I in our classroom?”
“I don’t know.” Tucker replied. “Probably about ten minutes.”
“Really?” I asked. “It seemed much longer than that! It seems time goes by really slow at school.”
Danny opened his mouth to say something, but one of the photographers interrupted him. “So, you want seven copies of this picture, and nine people in the picture?”
I nodded.
“Well,” the photographer said, “we have a policy that when someone buy more than five copies, you get one more copy for free!”
“Sweet!” I cried. I paused for a moment. “But do we need another copy?”
I glanced at Danny who was lost in thought. A minute passed before he exclaimed, “I think we do!”
He walked to his left to where Bart was. He had been watching us gloomily, while the babies were getting ready for their picture.
I watched Danny and Bart chat for a few minutes. Then they both came to the photography section. “Here’s our tenth person!” Danny exclaimed.
I smiled. Bart did seem to look happier.
A few more minutes passed before we were all ready for our picture.
“Okay, kids!” the second photographer cried. “Everybody ready?”
I checked to see if everyone was comfortable. Everything seemed to be all right. I turned back around and nodded.
“Okay, then!” the photographer cried. “On the count of three, smile and say cheese! One…Two…Three!”
“CHEESE!” we all exclaimed.
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