The cousins got together with Akito and Vincent's toy army soldiers while Eloise included Skipperdy, Vulpix, and Lavitar to make the game more exciting and interesting.

"Wow." Estelle said.

"I have released the turtle bomb!" Eloise proclaimed. "Girls win over the boys army!"

"No fair!" Akito folded his arms.

"You're lucky we didn't recruit Weenie." Estelle pointed with a teasing laugh to the pug dog who now wore an army helmet.

"Yeah, yeah, you two are just lucky that our army didn't have a secret weapon." Vincent folded his arms.

Estelle and Eloise giggled. The phone rang and Nanny went to get it while they played.

"It sure is great to have fun again without any homework to do." Vincent sighed out of relief.

"Plus I feel like we'll have some time off for a little while." Akito added.

Nanny walked over, but still had the phone off the hook as she was still talking with whoever was on the other line. "Children, I have some bad news... Your parents won't be able to come see you tomorrow, they have to go to London for a couple of weeks."

"NO!" the kids pouted, instantly disappointed.

"Your parents still want to talk to you though." Nanny tried to get them to stay.

Eloise was the most upset since she saw her parents much less than her cousins did. She ran to her bed and slammed the door behind her.

"Oh, dear..." Nanny was worried for her.

"I'll talk to them." Akito sighed.

"And I'll go talk to Eloise." Estelle said.

Nanny handed the phone to Akito while Estelle went to Eloise's room.

"Mom, Dad, Aunt Darla?" Akito asked.

"Oh, hello, there, Akito!" Darla greeted, though sounded exhausted. "I'm very sorry we can't come there tomorrow like we promised... I had some exciting news to cheer you all up though."

"Really?" Akito asked. "What's the exciting news?"

"Well, before we left Hollywood, we met a famous movie producer," Darla informed. "And I asked if it would be all right if you guys could spend a week or two in Hollywood for the set of his new movie!"

Akito's eyes widened. "Really!?"

"Oh, yes," Darla smiled. "You have mine and your parents' permission."

"Awesome! I can't wait to tell Estelle, Vincent, and Eloise." Akito said excitedly.

"I thought you all might like that," Darla smiled. "I know I enjoyed Hollywood back in my day, that was also when I met your father and he let me stay with him and his family. You better tell your cousin soon, there's a lot of packing to do and you have a train to catch."

"Yes, Aunt Darla; I'll tell them right away." Akito said.

"Thank you very much, sorry we can't come back to New York." Darla replied.

"Thank you so much for the surprise though, it makes up for it." Akito smiled.


The two then hung up and Akito dashed to Eloise's door and banged on it.

"Go away, Nanny!" Eloise whined.

"It's me." Akito confirmed and opened the door.

Eloise was crying into a pillow while Estelle was trying to comfort her.

"Eloise, even though Aunt Darla and Mom and Dad aren't coming back to New York City, Aunt Darla did do something to make it up to all four of us." Akito told her.

"Yeah...?" Eloise sat up on her bed. "What is it?"

"I hope it's a pony!" Estelle beamed then.

"It's not a pony..." Akito looked at his sister.

"Aww..." Estelle pouted then.

"We get to go to Hollywood and we get to spend a week or two there on a new movie set." Akito told them.

"Hollywood!?" Eloise's eyes lit up.

"Yeah, your mom befriended a movie producer and she asked him to let us stay in Hollywood for the set of his new movie." Akito informed with a smile.

"Did I hear something about Hollywood?" Vincent stepped in.

"Yeah, we're all going!" Eloise beamed, forgetting about her disappointment over tomorrow's cancelled plans.

"Wahoo!" Estelle cheered. "We're going to Hollywood!"

"Really?" Vincent asked in delight.

"I hate to rush you all, but we have oodles of packing to do before we have our last dinner here for a while." Nanny smiled. "I need some big and strong kids to help..." she then sighed, leaning against the door-frame.

The kids then bolted out of the room and went to start packing up to get ready for the glitz and glamour that was Hollywood.