Just Us 4

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I woke up to the smell of bacon and eggs, and with Virgil's arm across my face. Logan was too busy searching for online dictionaries, while Roman was having his part of the fun by searching "how to deal with fart problems" when Logan went to write something down. Logan finally caught him in the act and hit his hand.

"Ow!"
"Stop that! It keeps asking if I want to try a free sample of GasX and BioTrust!"

Roman held his hand up to his mouth when he slipped a snickering snort. I couldn't help but to sneak in a giggle as well. Logan looked very annoyed and looked back at his computer. He turned around not even two seconds later and looked Roman in the eye.

"Did you seriously change my background picture of an atom to a picture of Justin Bieber shirtless when I was sleeping??!!"

Roman fell over in complete laughter and I burst out laughing as well. When Roman fell, he accidentally landed on Virgil's foot, which made Virgil jump awake in pain and surprise.

"Ow! Roman what the heck?!" Virgil screamed as he threw a pillow at him.
"S-Sorry V-Virgil! I f-forgot that you were th-there," Roman laughed.

Logan furiously changed his background back and Virgil looked at me with a confused expression.

"What happened?" He asked me.
"Oh, nothing important," I smirked.

He eyed me suspiciously again, but his eyes widen when we all whipped our heads towards the door, hearing our names being called.

"Logan, Roman, Virgil, Patton! Come get breakfast! We're having egg omelets with bacon!," Michelle called from downstairs.
"Coming mother!"
"Coming mom!"
"Coming Michelle!"

Virgil and I jumped off the floor and followed Logan and Roman downstairs where Henry and Michelle were waiting at the table.

"So Virgil, since it's your first time here, just to let you know that we just grab whatever is on the table. We don't do the prayers or anything if that's what you're use to," Henry told him.

Virgil and I both laughed silently. I was thinking of the one time mom cussed to Jesus because he gave her a "poor life."

"What?" Henry asked.
"Oh, it's just that we're never into anything like that. The only thing we did during dinner was deciding who gets who's leftovers if they don't finish," Virgil said.
"Oh, well I'm that case, let's eat!," Henry chuckled.

Logan was the first to grab his fork and get himself an omelet. Roman piled a bunch of pieces of bacon on his plate, while Michelle was sprinkling her omelet in pepper and Henry was filling his mug with coffee. I grabbed my own omelet with my hands and got a couple piece of bacon. I looked over at Virgil, who was struggling to get his food, and giggled.

"What's so funny?" He snapped as his omelet fell off his fork and he groaned in frustration.
"Do you need help?" I asked with a grin on my face.
"No, I got it," he said as his omelet fell off the fork again. "Ok, maybe a little help."

I laughed and stuck my fork into an omelet. I hovered it above my own plate and plopped it on top of Virgil's.

"Thanks," He muttered.
"You're welcome!," I chirped.

He rolled his eyes and we all started eating our breakfast. A minute or two into our food when Henry made an announcement.

"So, your mother and I were thinking. Because of your good grades during the school year, we were thinking of starting our camping trip tomorrow morning instead of this weekend. And we will be staying for 6 days instead of 4."

Roman's, Logan's, and my eyes all lit up. AHHH!!! CAMPING WITH THIS FAMILY IS SO FUN!!

"Yes! Yes! 100 Times YES!!," Roman screamed.
"That would be totally amazing!," Logan chirped.

All I could manage was an excited squeal.

"And if it's ok with your mom Patton, I was thinking of bringing Virgil along. So he won't have to stay home by himself again," Michelle added.
I shrugged," That's fine with me!"

I thought about bringing Virgil along on the trip, and how much fun it'll be to play tag with a 4th person!

"Ooh! We could finally play four square at the abandoned basketball court! Or we could make another small fort in our tent!Or maybe we could explore down creeks! Or-"
I was cut off by Virgil sticking bacon in my mouth," I get it. But, to be honest Mrs. S-"
"Call me Michelle dear."
"-Michelle, I don't really want to go..."

I was super shocked. The other day he was literally yelling at me for leaving him alone with mom!! Now he doesn't want to spend time with us?!

"What?! How could you not wanna go?" I asked.
"I don't know, I'm not really much of a camper, plus I don't know much about camping."

I took him by the shoulders and shook him.

"Why don't you join us man?!"

He pulled my arms off of him and looked at me like I was a psycho.

"I just don't think I'll have fun."

We exchanged looks, me now looking at him like he was the crazy one.

"Won't have fun?? Virge, the whole point of camping is to have fun! Surely that's not the reason why!," Roman protested.

Virgil just merely shrugged. Why won't he just join us?

"Well, if Virgil doesn't want to join us, then that's fine. I'll just drop him off tonight before lunch and I'll have you pack Patton," Henry told us.

I nodded with a sad expression. How come Virgil won't just come with us? It would be so much fun! The table was quiet again after that. My heart sunk. I wanted my brother to be with me this year.
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Henry pulled up to our house and both Virgil and I stepped out.

"Get about 8 outfits Patton," Henry told me and then looked at Virgil. "You sure you don't want to come?"
Virgil shook his head," I'll just stay here."

Henry just turned back to the wheel and Virgil and I walked to our house and inside. Virgil followed me to our room and I started packing.

"Just come with us for this week. If you don't like it, I won't ask you to do anything you don't want to again," I told him.
He eyed me," I doubt that'll happen."
I sighed," Please? Just for the week and that's it!"

Virgil looked at his feet and I was thinking of anyway to get him to come.

"I'll do your laundry for the summer if you don't like it."
He looked up at me and bit his lip. "Fine. But only if mom agrees to it."

I smiled a wide smile and I saw Virgil smirk a bit. I ran out of our room and saw mom on the couch, reading.

"Mom mom mom! Can Virgil go camping with Roman, Logan, and I tomorrow?!"
She looked up from her book and raised an eyebrow," I thought the trip was next weekend?"
I shook my head," No no no! Henry changed it because of Roman's and Logan's grades."

She sighed and I put my hands together and quivered my lip.

"Pwweeeaassseee???"
She rolled her eyes and smiled," You're lucky you're good with begging."

I was so happy!!

"Thank you thank you thank you!!"

I went up to her and gave her a hug, which I guess she wasn't expecting because her eyes were wide.

I ran back to my room and finished packing my bag and found another duffel bag for Virgil.

"Start packing! At least 8 outfits! Don't forget toothbrush! I'm going to tell Henry you're coming!," I squealed and left Virgil as I ran back outside.

Sorry I haven't been posting for awhile. NWEA is just the worst at the beginning of a new semester🙄. Anyways, I might be late on a couple of posts for school related reasons. But I'll try to update this as much as I can. Anyways, thanks for reading my fans! And like always! Stay tooned my Pupper Lovers!
   -Pups Out!🐶