Ryan grinned as he watched his best friends tried to dunk eachother in the ocean, they've been best friend for over fifteen years, he had met Kyle the first day at school, both of them had resume the same day, will was from the orphanage close by, he was one of the welfare boys the prideville potray to show their good will, although growing up with his parents he had assumed the kiddos from the welfare are thief and everyone had scorned them, although never to their face, no one has never been anything less than polite with them in public at least the adults were while they encourage the battle between the kids. Thinking he was right, he had warned Kyle who's family had just move to town about will and they had gotten it into their head to play hero, one day when they saw him taking a lot of lunch home after scool, they had assumed he was stealing it, so they had followed him to prove he was a thief and unluckily for them the bully gang from outside prideville had approached them and will had end up saving them and turned out the cafeteria let's him take the children leftovers home for his family.
Ryan blinked as he noticed a shadow above him, he looked up and saw both his friends at each of his side, they had noticed him lost early and decided to bring him back, he looked at their mischievous face, then sat up, "no Guys, I just changed."
"No one asked you too." Kyle grinned as they both carried him and dump him into the water.
"Arrgh." Ryan groaned, how could he think they were the best thing that has ever happened to him, he stood dripping and looked at their grinning faces.
"Oh oh uh, baby got wet." Will teased.
"I've got some towels, oops..." Kyle covered his mouth, "I meant wet towels."
Ryan bend and scoop some sea sand rather than water and threw it at them, it met them squarely on their chest
Will and Kyle exchange looks, "okay... if that's how you want to play it."
They both rushed to him and attacked him
"Cheer up Kyle." Will bump into his friend, "I guess you and miss destiny aren't fated then."
"Fated." Ryan Chuckled, "he doesn't even know the girl name, she could be married with four kids."
"Don't jinx it Ryan, just because you guys don't have a love life doesn't mean that I've to be single forever."
"Who said there's something wrong with our love life?" Ryan asked
"Maybe yours, I love my life like this." Will shrugged
"Says the asshole who never makes a commitment."
"I'm committed to the business, besides... ever seen an asshole who makes you rich?" Will smirked.
"Arrgh, I should punch you." Kyle groaned.
"Can you actually managed to throw one?" Ryan asked.
"I'm a lot better than you, Mr heartbroken." Kyle smirked.
"Well what can I say, I'm the good guy here."
"Yeah, I know, the good guy who leaves ladies crying the next morning."
"Hey?"
"Yeah, I know." Kyle out his hand across his neck, "we are the good guy, he's the bad influence." he pointed to Will
"Me?"
"Yes, you."
"We never used to get into fights." Ryan agreed.
"But that all we seems to be doing since we've met you." Kyle smirked.
"What can I say, I gave you the courage to fight your demons, you should be grateful." he moved ahead then bow to them "...but then brethen, man will forever be ungrateful."
The guys chuckled then ran to his side each.
"You are so arrogant." Ryan jab his ribs, "...and Kyle you are wrong, I thing he's keeping a mistress nowadays."
Will looked at him strangely.
"Okay not a mistress..." Ryan corrected, "...maybe a girlfriend."
"Shut up you i***t, that was why you got dumbed."
"Ouch, you fool, that such a low blow."
"Well it wasn't exactly a high shot when you jinx my love."
"She's not..."
"Guys..." Will tap them, "low or high shot, I think we've got a problem."
The guys looked in the direction of his gaze, two children were hand painting and glueing sea shells on their car.
"What, What are you kids doing?" Kyle shouted at them.
Jamie and jasmine looked at them in fright then slowly moved backwards.
Will moved closer to talk to them but ended up scaring them as they continue to move backward.
"Let just go." Kyle moved to open the car.
Jamie moved forward and bit his hand before retreating backward.
"What the hell!" Kyle screamed, then turned to the kid as they screamed on top of their lung, attracting attention.
The men shared a look wondering what to do next as the passerby continued to stare at them.
Eden and her brother Jayden ran to the location with their paint bucket and shells,
"Leave my brother alone." Eden threw her shells at them while Jayden poured them paint.
"What nuisance." Kyle threw a shell on the floor, he had gotten most of the paint since his friends used him as guard, some had even hit his face.
A security guard ran to the location.
"Help us officers, they are trying to kidnap my brothers." Eden told the officers.
"What!" the men shared a look.
"N...no." Will proceeded to explain what happened.
Captain bend in front of the kids and asked them what happened, Jamie chose to speak first
"We were painting and they tried to steal our car."
"Really!" Captain asked.
"Yes." Jasmine agreed
"See... They're thieves." Eden scoffed.
"Look at this rude brats." Kyle exclaimed as he rubbed his hand.
"We weren't rude." Jasmine shook his head, "we didn't even talk to them."
Ryan patted Kyle shoulder to calm him down but he wasn't having any of it, he turned to the security guard impatiently, "excuse me, can we go, we are quite busy."
"We are also busy you know." Eden replied, "and you ruin all our design."
"And our plan, we will never finished before mum get here." Jasmine added.
"True." Jamie said downcast.
"And we need new paint." Jayden turned over the paint bucket.
Eden looked at them angrily, "officer you should jailed them."
Will who has been observing spoke, "kids is this your dad's car?"
"No." they shook their heads.
"Then your mum's."
"No." they all chorused.
"It's our car." Jayden said
"Yeah." the rest agreed.
"Santa gave us for being good." Jamie bit his lips.
"No it's because we are the best." Eden corrected.
Will removed the key from Kyle jacket and beep the car.
The children jolt from the sound.
"I think there's been some mistake, a honest one." Will said, "if you look ahead, you will see another G-wagon just like mine, that's probably their car, they must have thought this was theirs."
"What going on here?" Candice asked.
"Mummy!!!" the kid ran into her arm in tears.
She calmed each of them down gently, "are you okay?" she asked.
Jamie shook his head negatively causing the rest to do the same, she spent the next couple of minute calming them down.
"She's the one." Kyle whispered.
"What?" they asked
"The lady of my dream."
"You mean the one you saw yesterday?" Ryan asked.
"Yes."
Ryan chuckled, "sorry, she's definitely the lady in someone's dream, just not yours."
"You really need to stop jinxing him." Will grinned, "how exactly did she turned out married with four very loud kids." he chuckled.
"Excuse me." Candice stood, "what's going on here?"
"It seems as if your kids made a mistake." he pointed to the car, "they were... Designing this gentlemen's car."
"Ooh!"she moved closer as she observed the men who were covered in paint and their car, it obvious the kids had made a big mess.
"Jasmine Jamie, did you throw paint on them or could they have kicked your paint?"
"What?" Kyle exclaimed.
Candice shrugged, then offered him her handkerchief.
He ignored her then looked away.
She turned to the kids, Eden had hid herself behind her brother.
"I did." Jayden volunteered
She looked at Eden then heaved, "I'm so sorry, I'll pay for your drycleaning and the car wash."
"Nevermind." Kyle shrugged off her offer.
"We will take care of it on our way." Will offered.
She turned to the children, "kids, what do we say when we cause an accident?"
The children shared a look then the boys said, "sorry."
"Eden?" Candice called.
"I don't know why I have to apologize, you said the world was my canvas and I could paint it like I wish."
Kyle sniffled his laughter.
Candice eyed him then turned to her daughter, "Eden?"
"I only wanted to do something nice for mum's birthday." she sniffled.
"That not an excuse, apologize."
"You don't really have to be harsh on her.... it's..." Ryan said.
"Eden."
"He called me a cockroach."
"What?" Kyle exclaimed, "you liar."
"He said nuisance." Jayden pinched his fingers.
"Cockroach are nuisance." Eden cried, "I'm no cockroach and I do not wish to apologize." she cried and ran away.
"Go ahead.' she nodded to the kid who all ran after Eden, then she turned to Kyle, "you called my kids nuisance?"
''I ..."
She raised her hand, "I suppose you see in others what you are yourself." she clicked his photo with the car, "now this will calm her down." she turned away.
"Wait you..." Kyle tried to call her but will and Ryan pull him back, "let's just go."
Will started the car and drove off.
Candice called her sister, "if you do not get your ass down here this second, I'll dump the kids in the orphanage."
She heaved, she wonder how Janice always manage to deal with Eden .
"I can understand Kyle silence." Will poured himself a glass of wine "...but not yours Ryan, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." he continued to sip his brandy.
"And you ordered brandy out of the house?" Kyle asked.
"And..."
"You aren't teasing me either, although I don't really think she's the mother."
"Shut up, you definitely heard them call her mom."
"You call my mum, mum"
"Either way she comes with baggage." Ryan said.
"And what more proof do you need, the birth certificate?" Will scoffed.
"She looks too young to be."
"She's what 24.. 25"
"Yeah, that's young."
"Well if she's rich enough to buy her kids G-wagon for being good, she certainly could afford to raise four noisy kids.... Besides I think I know her."
Kyle turned his attention to will who just spoke, "know her as in neighborhood friendly, or know her as in your hook ups"
"Nah, I doubt, I'll forget going to bed with such body, so the former"
"Better."
"She's still out of your reach."
"So what up with you." Kyle jab Ryan and ignore Will
He heaved, "nevermind."
"Is it Janice again."
He heaved, "it's her birthday today."
"Dude, you still keep tabs on her."
"No, that kid said something about birthday and my mind just flew to her."
"And not mine but hers" Will c****d his head. "Just like that."
"Okay, I.. I thought that lady look like her."
"She's definitely not Janice."
"Of course I know." he chuckled, "she's the woman supposed to be in your dreams." he teased.
"Awww." Kyle groaned.
"Was she with the kids."
"Awww, stop it you bastards."
Ryan Chuckled out loud, "I really do have a gypsy trait in me, think about the odd, not one or two but exactly four, quadruplets at that."
"Now that one hell of a dream I'll never wish for." Will down his glass, "now young men." he stood, "let's go clubbing."
"Nah." Ryan shook his head, "not today."
"Yes today, I intend to help you find a girl who will erase Janice from your mind and you too..." he turned to Kyle, "...I'll definitely get you one without kids."
Kyle chuckled, "When I return." he stood and went to the men's room."
Janice knew she has a partial love for the restaurant, not because it was owned by a friend, or because she had help in the set up, okay Maybe partially because of that but also because of the breath taking view, she always gets from the second deck, it was the perfect place for family dinner, she always made sure to come here anytime she's in town, some time for work, at other time for fun, she smiled from her position she could watch the sun as it dip just below the mountains, she looked at her surrounding it's not exactly an open space but it's not entirely closed either, it's a Terrace cut out to give privacy depending on the number of guest, theirs was twelve feet, some just six, theirs was perfect for the family of six.
She smiled as she sip her wine, Eden stole a plantain of Jayden plate causing Jayden to chase her, she smiled again, it was the perfect restaurant for kids
"Won't you stop them." Candice asked as Jamie and jasmine joined in.
"Nope, I'm just going to enjoy my view."
She heaved and cleaned her hand, she had learned the hard way, what manner of disaster could occur when four kids gets into a fight at a table, she stood and grabbed Eden and jasmine at the same time, "enough kids." the rest looked at her and slowly back away.
"No you don't." she pulled Eden and Jasmine along and encircled the rest in a corner collapsing against eachother in a fit of laughter.
Janice smiled, it's moment like this she was glad she never actually gave them up, Shelby was right, just the right amount of noise.
"Hey daydreamer." Candice snapped her hand, "I'll go get..." she looked at the kids and herself, "...us cleaned up."
"I'll come with you."
"And lets someone spike our food, no thanks."
Janice laughed, "you've been to too much clubs, no one will spike our food here." she looked around "besides, I think we are done here." she rang for the waiter who appears immediately
"Yes ma'am."
"Please clear our table, we will be back for dessert when we..." she looked from the waiter to the kids who were grinning with mischief, "get some cleaning done."
"Yes ma'am." the waiter got to work.
"Kids." Janice step forward, "on a queue."
The children got into a line
"Follow me and do not touch anything." she led in front while Candice watched from behind making sure none of them deviate