Fighting With My Brothers - A 3 Ninjas Comeback - A 12 Story Collection

12. Tumtums New Frenemy Chapter 6

   Rocky, Colt and Tumtum walked inside. Mrs. Douglas was sitting in the living room on the sofa reading a book.
,, Hey Mom. '' Rocky greeted his mother with a kiss on her cheek.
,, Hey. How was your day? '' Mrs. Douglas turned around to see her boy's.
,, Great, I guess. '' Rocky answered and headed to the stairs.
,, I guess? Hey Colt. Are you still taking your medications? '' Mrs. Douglas added.
,, Yes. '' Colt said as he went into the kitchen.
,, Okay good... '' Mrs. Douglas paused and saw Tumtum walking up to her.
,, Watcha readin' Mom? '' Tumtum asked as he sat down next to his mother.
,, Oh, just an historical book from the 18 centuries. How was your day? ''   Mrs. Douglas closed her book and paid attention to what her son is going to give her.
,, It was, very good actually, but not. '' Tumtum paused.
,, What? Why? Did something happened again? Did you get into detention again? '' Mrs. Douglas tried to make eye contact with her son, but who completely ignored it.
,, No. It was Billy who had to go this time. ''
,, What? Really? How come? ''
,, I accidentally bumped into him again, which I did not do on purpose, then Mr. Wright caught Billy starting a fight again. '' Tumtum answered.
,, Really? That's great! At least I believe you now and that you didn't have to go to detention this time. '' Mrs. Douglas smiled.
  Tumtum frowned.
,, What's wrong? ''
  Tumtum sighed and looked into his mother's eye's ,, Mom? Is it obvious that, children who don't have a parent go insane sometimes? ''
  Mrs. Douglas thought a bit ,, Yes. Many children in the whole world are going through time's like that these day's. Why? What made you ask that? ''
,, Well, the thing is... Mr. Sides has always showed up so far, like at School and picking Billy up, and he seems very nice and all. And I'm starting to wonder, is there a Mrs. Sides? I mean why would Billy act so weird? '' Tumtum asked.
  Mrs. Douglas nodded ,, It could be somewhat obvious that he doesn't have a mother, or maybe, Mrs. Sides is to busy to have time with her son... '' Mrs. Douglas thought a bit and   Tumtum waited for her to continue ,, What if, you and I go over at Sides this evening, and give them a little visit? And I also got a fresh baked pie in the fridge that I could give them too. ''
  Tumtum smiled ,, I'd like that. ''
,, Okay. Go upstairs and put your stuff away and then we'll go over to their house. '' Mrs. Douglas smiled.
,, Do you know where they live? '' Tumtum wondered.
,, I'll call out to principal Wright and ask him. I think he knows. '' Mrs. Douglas answered.
  Tumtum nodded and stood up and headed up stairs with his backpack on his back. Mrs. Douglas went into the kitchen to give principal Wright a call, to see where the Sides lived.
 
   Few minutes later, Mrs. Douglas and Tumtum got into the car to headed over to Sides place. Rocky and Colt stayed at home cause they had some homework to do.
  Few blocks away from the Douglas house in Augora Hills, Mrs. Douglas and Tumtum arrived at Sides house. It looked really empty, but all Mrs. Douglas could hope for is to get out of the car and ring their doorbell.
  Ding-dong!
  Mrs. Douglas and Tumtum waited for someone to open the door. Suddenly the door opened and Mr. Side lighten his smile ,, Well hello Mrs... '' he paused, forgetting what their names were.
,, Hi. Oh ummm Douglas. Mrs. Douglas. '' Mrs. Douglas handed her hand out to shake hands with Mr. Sides.
,, Nice to see you again Mrs. Douglas '' they both finished shaking hands, then Mr. Sides turned and looked at Tumtum ,, And you must be Michael. ''
,, Yes. That's me sir. '' Tumtum nodded.
,, Well it's great to see you. What made you stop by? '' Mr. Sides asked.
,, Oh my son and I have been talking about coming over to welcome you to the neighborhood, and I brought you some pie. '' Mrs. Douglas lifted the plate of pie higher.
,, Oh why thank you so much. You didn't have to do that. You're actually the first one's that stopped by here and welcomed us. '' Mr. Sides chuckled and took the plate of blueberry pie.
,, Well, we're glad to be the first. '' Mrs. Douglas smiled.
  Mr. Sides smiled back ,, Well come on in. Make yourselves at home. '' he turned and walked inside. Mrs. Douglas and Tumtum followed him in.
,, Don't mind the mess. Billy and I can't get thing's done when it's just the 2 of us. '' Mr. Sides said as they approach into the living room.
  Tumtum hearts stopped. Just the 2 of us? He must be a widow!
,, Don't worry. We have like 3 boy's in the house and only one female to take care of everything, I think we both can relate. '' Mrs. Douglas smiled.
  Mr. Sides chuckled ,, Yep. That's just how it is. ''
  Tumtum didn't knew what to say. Since he and Billy went along very bad, he didn't knew if he should ask for him. But why not? That's the only reason he and his mother came over here for.
,, Where's Billy? '' Tumtum asked.
,, Oh. He's upstairs in his room. Billy! '' his father called him ,, Look who's here! ''
  Footsteps came tipping down the stairs and Billy appeared. But he stopped quickly as soon as he saw Tumtum standing in their living room, looking at him. His jaw dropped.
  Tumtum swallowed his throat ,, Hi. ''
  Billy said nothing. Why did he came over? That's the first question he's going to ask Tumtum very soon.
,, Billy? Can't you say something back? '' Mr. Sides asked.
  Billy looked back at Tumtum and swallowed his throat ,, Hi. '' he almost whispered.
  Tumtum tried to smiled but he didn't knew if that would help.
,, Billy. Why don't you show Michael up to your room? '' Mr. Sides asked ,, Then we can all eat some pie together later. ''
,, Oh no it's fine. We decided to just stop by and visit a little... '' Mrs. Douglas word's ran out.
,, Oh no. Stay. Besides, only if your husband might be home soon. ''
,, No. He's working at very late. '' Mrs. Douglas nodded.
  Mr. Sides nodded back ,, Billy? Do you mind? ''
  Billy nodded quickly and ran upstairs.
  Tumtum turned and looked at Mr. Sides ,, Go on. It's in the hall right on the left. '' Mr. Sides smiled.
  Tumtum put his shoes off and ran upstairs to see if he could catch up with Billy. His heart almost exploded. They had a fight today earlier again and how will Billy act to Tumtum right now?
,, Thank you. '' Mrs. Douglas sighed.
,, Take a seat. '' Mr. Sides took a chair for him to sit down.
,, I wanted to talk to you about our boy's. '' Mrs. Douglas broke the silence.
,, Yes. I'd love to. I've actually been waiting for this moment to happen to talk to someone about it. '' Mr. Sides chuckled.
  Mrs. Douglas raised her eyebrows ,, Really? ''
,, Yeah. Well to be honest, Mrs. Douglas, ever since we moved here, our boys always ended up fighting in school, Billy hasn't been himself lately. Ever since... '' Mr. Sides paused and looked to the all with bunch of photo frames hanging on it.
  Mrs. Douglas caught him where he was looking at. Mr. Sides stood up and went to the wall and took a photo frame and handed over to Mrs. Douglas, for her to see it.
,, Ever since Mary was missing. '' Mr. Sides finished.
  Mrs. Douglas looked down at the photo frame, a picture of a family, with Mr. Sides, Billy and Mrs. Sides.
,, This is your... ''
,, Wife. Yes. '' Mr. Sides nodded trying to hold his tears back.
,, Wha...what happened? If you don't mind me asking? '' Mrs. Douglas looked at Mr. Sides.
,, She's been kidnapped. Apparently since 2 weeks ago. I used to work for this man named William Fleming who ran this huge company back in San Francisco. I haven't paid my bills for a long time in this apartment he let me live in with my family. He started to go nuts about it and that night he warned me and my family to get out of the place, men broke into the apartment and grabbed my wife and... '' Mr. Sides paused and let a few tears rolled out of his eyes.
  Mrs. Douglas felt him. She also tried to help herself not sobbing along with the poor man.
,, And took her away. To who knows where! '' Mr. Sides sobbed ,, It's been 2 weeks and who knows, is she still out there? Waiting for me? Or did they already ended her being killed. '' Mr. Sides let his crying go.
  Mrs. Douglas couldn't help herself but cry along. She stood up and went over to the poor man and hugged him ,, I'm sorry that had to happen. ''
,, It's not your fault. Really. '' Mr. Sides sniffed as Mrs. Douglas released the hug.
,, Where did you say it happened? '' Mrs. Douglas wiped her rolled out tears off of her cheeks.
,, San Francisco. And it's been 2 weeks. Some say she's dead, some say she's still out there, and some say... '' Mr. Sides couldn't finish his last words, only thinking about his wife being missing.
  Mrs. Douglas thought a bit. She should tell Sam about this. He was an FBI anyway. So why not?
,, Well, just so you know, my husband works at the FBI and he's sort of the boss there and he has his own crew. You should call him and tell him. I'm sure he will do anything about it. '' Mrs. Douglas said calmy ,, Or if you can't I can do it for you... ''
   Mr. Sides shook his head ,, Doesn't matter anyway. I still call every police stations nowadays and they all say the same thing. They haven't found anything yet or they're still working on it. '' Mr. Sides said.
  Mrs. Douglas was silent. She didn't wanted to push Mr. Sides to hard on anything, so she'd rather just be quiet.
  Tumtum, apparently wasn't upstairs with Billy. He was actually hiding on the stairs, wanting to know the truth about why Billy was acting so weird. He heard every word his mother and Mr. Sides were saying. Tumtum didn't cry, but he felt terrible for Billy. He stood up, took a deep breath and headed upstairs to find Billy's room.