"No," Riley complained. "There are more pictures."
"We can look at them some other time. Now it's your bedtime. Go on," Wyatt told them.
The boys climbed off the couch then Riley turned back to tell them. "Don't look at any pictures without us."
"It's a deal," Sam told him.
When the kids were done getting ready, Sam and Wyatt joined them in their room. Seeing all the paper airplanes hanging from their ceiling, Sam was impressed.
"That's incredible. Those are a work of love," he said and Wyatt gave him a sad smile.
"Our mom and dad made them," DJ said. "And I helped. But Ry was too little."
"I helped too," Riley said as he climbed into his bed and Wyatt pulled the covers over him.
"He ripped up papers then he waved his arms like a bird and yelled, 'Pane, pane,'" DJ said as he got into bed as well and Wyatt went over to him to tuck him in and kiss the top of his head.
"That wasn't me," Riley insisted indignantly and pouted at his brother.
"Barney believes you," Wyatt said to Riley.
Riley looked down at the dog and smiled at him, happy to have him in his corner. "Good Barney."
"Are you going to tell us a story?" DJ asked Wyatt.
"Another story?" Wyatt sat cross-legged on the floor in front of Barney's bed and motioned for Sam to sit down too. "You'll want to hear this too."
"I need to hear the bedtime story?" Sam said as he sat down on the floor as well.
"That's right. Because you are in it," Wyatt informed him. "Last night I told them the story of how I met Barney. Tonight I'm going to tell them how I met you."
"OK," Sam said. He kind of did want to hear that.
"Barney and I were in my new car, and we were driving here. Well, I was driving. Barney can't drive, and his feet are too short to reach the pedals." He stopped there while Riley giggled.
"Barney can't drive," DJ said and peered down at the dog.
"So I was driving and Barney was just hanging out in his pet carrier when he let me know that he had to pee. We happen to be passing a nice field. I stopped there and got Barney out and put a leash on him. We were going to go for a nice walk by some bushes, when this guy jumped out of the bushes and scared us." Wyatt turned to Sam just in time to see him rolling his eyes.
"I didn't jump out," Sam said.
"That's a spoiler," Wyatt told him.
"You were the scary guy?" DJ asked and looked at him funny.
"Now I'm scary," Sam said and looked at Wyatt accusingly.
Wyatt laughed. "He was only scary because he surprised us. It turned out he was really a nice guy. He told us, 'See those bright orange berries over there growing on that bush? Don't eat them. They're dangerous.' Barney and I listened to him and thanked him for his advice. But then the guy got in his car and went away, and I thought that's too bad. See I didn't get that guy's name or his phone number, and I didn't know where he lived. So I thought I might never get to be friends with him."
"Oh no," Riley said.
"It was Sam," DJ said to his brother.
"I know," Riley told him, but he still seemed to be in a state of suspense. "What happened then?"
"One day I was going into town with my two nephews named Ry and DJ," Wyatt said.
"That's us," Riley exclaimed.
