Bubbles!

School was just getting started when Ebony brought a note in for Grandma Dragon.
It said.

“Grandma Dragon,
Please excuse Malcolm from school today,
he is ill. Mrs. Black Leather”

“Oh that’s too bad” Grandma said crunching her eye brows into a worried look.
Pinko and the guys didn’t know that Malcolm was sick until then and so after school they all went to see him and bring him his homework.

Malcolm was still in bed and his mother said the boys could visit him just for a little bit.
Around Malcolm’s bed there were half read comic books, a tray with an empty bowl of soup, a half drunk cup of water and crumbs from some crackers. There was a remote control to the TV his mother had brought in for him with some videos of Land Before Time. Malcolm was half asleep and when the boys all clambered into his bedroom he was awakened by them stirring around and sat up in bed. His sheets were a tangled mess and the room was warm and damp. The boys were kind of timid as they approached the bed but soon saw that Malcolm was alert enough to talk with them.

“How are you feeling Malcolm?” Tim asked.

“Well, I threw up yesterday and now when ever I go pee it hurts really bad”

“eeewwwooo” all the boys exclaimed in chorus.

“That’s horrible” Legolas volunteered after a long awkward silence.

Malcolm explained that he’d gotten some medicine from the Wizard and would have to take it for a few days. He had to drink lots of water and rest for a few days too.

“Well here is your homework” Patrick said thumping the pile of books on the bed.

“Don’t put them there Patrick” said Pinko.

“It’s ok I should get up and do something, I’ve been lying here all day and I’m really starting to get stiff” explained Malcolm shifting in his pajamas.

The boys stayed for a few more minutes explaining the lessons for the day and telling Malcolm that he looked better and they would come by tomorrow. Mrs. Black Leather interrupted and said that they should probably go so Malcolm could get some more rest. She thanked them for coming to visit and gave them each a warm raisin cookie before they felt.

The boys all started toward the hot tub to go play. They all had their homework done and had told their parents where they were going so they were kind of bummed and kind of excited. They were bummed that Malcolm couldn’t come and excited to go play in the warm water.

Jeremiah, even though Grandma told him not to, had brought some bubble bath to the hot tub room. No one else knew about it except his elf brother Tim. Tim was kind of worried that he had brought it but was kind of curious to see what would happen when they poured the whole bottle in the tub and turned on the under water jets . So although Tim told him he shouldn’t, he kind of smiled when he said it and Jeremiah knew he was just as curious as he was to see what would happen.

All the boys put their clothes in the cool boys locker room by the hot tub and they hung their fluffy thick soft towels on the hooks by the tub and they all climbed in slowly because it was so hot. Leify and Isaac Nosompos could get right in because they had protective scales on their bodies.

After they were all used to the heat, Jeremiah climbed out and pulled a bottle out from under his towel. He opened the lid and let the thick goopy liquid pour out into the tub. He emptied the entire bottle! Then, Tim nonchalantly got up and turn on the jet bubbles in the hot tub. At first the boys were thrilled to see the bubbles come forming. But after a while Pinko noticed there were a lot more bubbles than usual forming in the hot tub. In less than two minutes, the bubbles were over flowing and streaming down the tub and onto the flood. In five minutes the floor was nearly covered in bubbles. Jeremiah was delighted. He laughed and giggled. But when the bubbles filled the floor and about 3 feet up the wall, he said

“Hey, Tim, turn off the jets, that’s enough”
“I’m trying to, Tim said desperately”

Tim searched and searched for the switch to the jets along the wall but he couldn’t find it, the bubbles were everywhere. The boys had to clear a way to breath when they walked and Ebony found the window and opened it.
Immediately a stream of bubbles flowed down the castle wall from the tub room and started for the moat. The boys pushed the bubbles out of the window and soon could see each other.

“What did you guys do?” yelled Pinko

Sheepishly, after Tim finally found the jet switch and turned it off, he said. “Um, Jeremiah put some bubble bath in the tub”.

“Oh my! You guys are going to be in so much trouble when Grandma finds out!” chided Pumpkin Fairy. He was disappointed that he hadn’t thought of it.

“No we’re not!” Tim said. He started swatting the bubbles with his towel and soon all the boys were dancing around the bathroom with their towels swatting the bubbles like flies. They leaped to get the ones on the ceiling and walls and took huge towel-fuls at a time.

When all the bubbles were popped, the rest of the boys went to get dressed and left Tim and Jeremiah to finish the job. Well, Jeremiah was very afraid of Grandma getting upset so he started washing the bathroom. He scrubbed it and rinsed it until it shined. Then he dried it with a bunch of towels and threw all the dirty laundry into the Genie laundry bin. It was very clean.

The next morning Grandma went in to take a little bath and noticed how clean it was and was surprised. The Genie workers didn’t even do that good of a job. She didn’t know what happened but she was very curious about the stream of bubbles that were running down the castle wall and filling the pirate's ship. hum....