Zach checked his watch again and went back to his book. Any minute now, he’d be in the care of six chibis running around his apartment. With their parents at a three-hour conference with their teachers, that would be eighteen total hours, and with his two dollar an hour policy he’d have enough money to buy a weeks worth of Macaroni and Cheese! He smiled to himself just as the doorbell rang. He hopped over his couch and ran to the door. He opened it to find Chibi Duo (Oh-No!) and his parents, Father Solo and Sister Helen, accompanying him. They exchanged the usual chitchat then they unceremoniously left. Zach turned around to Chibi Duo. "So, what do you want to do tonight Chibi Duo?"
"Ok, first, I want to have some pixie sticks, then I want to play your Nintendo, then I want to have dinner then I want to go over to Hilde’s home so we can bug her!" (Note: Chibis never refer to other Chibis as Chibis, Chibis think they are high and mighty Chibis so other Chibis must be as high as they are.) (Chibi Duos Note: I’ve never seen the word ‘Chibis’ used so many times in one sentence!)
"Um…" Zach said, "while there’s some daylight out wouldn’t you want to play outside?"
"No!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes!"
"Positive?"
"Yes!"
"Did you know your epidermis is showing?"
"Yes!"
They went on about this for a while until the doorbell rang again. But before Chibi Duo could ask what the heck ‘dysfunctional’ meant Zach had opened the door to find Chibi Trowa at the door. "Hi Chibi Trowa! Uh… where are your parents?" Chibi Trowa pointed out to a car with his parents in it. They waved then left. "Ok Chibi Trowa what do you want to do tonight---? Chibi Trowa! Where’d you go?" Zach looked over to his couch where Chibi Trowa was reading his book. "Ok… I guess you can do that tonight."
Zach had just set up the Nintendo in his room for Chibi Duo to play on when his doorbell rang again. He rushed over to find Chibi Wufei yelling at his parents. "This is injustice! Leaving me at this guy’s place while you get to discuss me without myself having a single word about it! You two have no since of integrity!"
Chibi Wufei’s parents just turned around and left for their car. Zach turned to Chibi Wufei. "Don’t worry you’ll have fun tonight. Your friends Chibi Duo and Chibi Trowa are already here!"
Chibi Wufei just stared at Zach and said, "You are weak. You give Trowa a book and Duo a Nintendo. You don’t bother to care for them yourself! Their parents should pay the book and the Nintendo for their care!" Zach sweat-dropped at this and grabbed the remote and turned the channel to Toonami where Tenchi Muyo was showing.
Chibi Wufei was hypnotized. "Justice… Integrity… Weakness… Aw Heck!" He sits down and watches.
Zach was just able to sit down as the doorbell rang again. He got to the door as quick as he could to find Chibi Quatre and his dad standing there. "You took five point seventy-six seconds to answer the door! Such tardiness is inexcusable! But since you’re the only one my little Quatre decided to be baby-sat by. Goodnight Zach! Remember, Quatre likes his apple juice served at precisely 42 degrees farenheight." Quatre’s Dad turned around and left in his golden limousine.
"So, Chibi Quatre, what do you want to do? Chibi Duo has the Nintendo in the other room, Chibi Wufei is watching Tenchi Muyo, and Chibi Trowa is reading a book."
"Wow! I want to go play Nintendo with Duo!" Quatre said gleefully. "Wait a sec, aren’t all your games that are rated ‘Teen’?"
"Actually, I rented this just for you" Zach said, he had seen this coming. "It’s Yoshi’s Story!" Chibi Quatre eagerly grabbed the game and ran for the Nintendo.
"Well, now that that’s settled I can start making dinner." Zach said to himself. But just then his skylight shattered as Chibi Heero and his parents dropped into Zach’s apartment.
"Remember Heero, your mission is to obey Zach and to behave" his mother told him.
"Mission Accepted"
Zach was a bit freaked out by this. "So um… have a good night at the conference!" he wanted Heero’s parents out of his apartment as soon as he could.
Heero’s dad looked uncertainly at his wife. "Um… yes… the conference." They both jumped up into their helicopter and left.
"So Chibi Heero, what do you want to do tonight?" Zach asked cautiously.
"Set up the shooting gallery"
"I don’t have shooting gallery."
"Thank goodness I brought mine then." Heero pulled a small box. He pushed a button on the top and threw it. Out of the box came one of those cheesy carnival shooting galleries. Zach was about to ask how that worked when there was another ring of the doorbell. He answered it to Find Chibi Leal and her parents at the door.
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! I don’t want to go here! There are too many boy cooties!"
Chibi Leal’s mom just rolled her eyes, "Honey, I’ve spent almost my entire life with your father and nothing bad has happened to me!"
Chibi Leal looked past her mom to where her dad was waiting in the car. "HONEY! IS THIS A ZIT OR A MOLE?"
"It’s a gummy bear Phil! You’ve been eating them for an hour!"
Chibi Leal shuddered to herself.
"Don’t worry Chibi Leal," Zach said, "There’s plenty of stuff for you to do here!"
Chibi Leal looked around. Chibi Wufei was smashing the TV because Tenchi Muyo was cancelled, (YAY!) Chibi Trowa was reading a book that was quite possibly bigger than he was, Chibi Heero was shooting all the targets one-by-one, and Chibi Duo and Chibi Quatre arguing over whether or not to play Goldeneye or Yoshi's Story. She sighed. It was Going to be a long three hours.