>One year later<

"Daaad! Can you tell me a story?" six year old Anna shouted from her bedroom.

"Hold on, love. Let me take a quick shower first," John yelled from behind the bathroom door.

Anna groaned and did a belly flop on her bed. She didn't want her dad to take a shower now. She wanted to cuddle with him and listen to his crazy stories about her uncles and dad. Only seven minutes passed and John came running in. He layed down next to Anna and faced her.

"Tell a story! Tell a story!" Anna chanted.

John planted a kiss on her forehead and chuckled softly. Then an idea popped up in his head. He started to tickle her. Anna tried to jump off her bed and run but John held her tight so she wouldn't escape. All Anna could do was laugh.

"How 'bout I keep tickling you, hm?" John smirked.

"Nooo! Stop, Daddy," Anna laughed.

John finally stopped only because he had a good story to tell her. Once he stopped, they both stretched out on her bed, trying to get as comfy as possible because John tended to have long stories.

"Hmm," John said. "How 'bout one I never told you before?"

"Yes, yes, please."

"It was a cloudy day. Me and Paul, George, and Ringo were done recording our newest song, You've got to Hide your Love Away, did you know I sung it? Oh, yeah, anyways, it was such a hot, humid day, we were going to go out for smoothies," John said.

"Yum!" Anna said remembering trying her first blueberry smoothie only three months ago.

"I ordered banana, Paul got strawberry, Ringo wanted Mango, and George got strawberry like Paul. After we finished, a pack of fans were around and spotted me, well, er, us. We ran over to the beach and we hid under a canoe. Then, it started to rain. So we started moving around with the canoe over us as some sort of shelter. Then Paul got a crazy idea that we should ride it out in the water," John smiled.

"I wanna ride a canoe!" Anna said excitedly.

"No, not until your older. We all said no to Paul, but Paul ran out from under the canoe into the water and he started swimming in the rain! Can you belive that? We tried to talk him into coming back on land be he said he was, 'cooling off'," John used air quotations. Anna giggled at that.

"So we went into the canoe and rode it out in the rain just for Paul. We were soaking wet and shivering. But Paul, no. Instead of getting in the canoe, he tipped it over and made all three of us fall in the cold water. We all attacked Paul and slashed at 'im. We finally dragged him out and we went back home to dry up, but it was a very good memory now," John nodded to himself.

"Uncle Paulie is funny," Anna giggled.

"Indeed. Now it's bedtime, love," John said getting off the bed.

"But I'm not sleepy at all, daddy. See. My eyes are still opened all the way and I'm not yawning," she pouted.

"Now don't be that way. I have to tuck Julian in. Now when I'm done, you better be in bed falling asleep, got it?"

"Yes, daddy," Anna said in a small voice.

John left to tuck Julian in. He went in and saw Julian was waiting on the bed for John. John walked over and pulled the covers over Julian and kissed his forehead.

" 'Night, Julian. Sweet dreams,"John left.

"Good night, Dad."

John went back to Anna's room and peeked in. He saw a lump under the covers in her bed. Since the light was already turnes off, John closed the door and walked to the living room to see how Cynthia was. But he failed to her a door creak open and the soft footsteps of a small girl.

"Julian, you remember what we are gonna do...right?" Anna crawled on Julian's bed.

"Yep. Come on. We can't be seen at all otherwise dad and mum will lock us in the dark, scary basement where dragons and ghosts are," Julian said seriously to make Anna listen.

"I pinky promise. Now come on!" Anna ran to the door with b Julian.

Over the past year they became very good friends. The first month wasn't so well. Fighting, arguing, pinching, pulling hair, bickering. It happened every day. But they stopped one day after Anna let Julian have her new ball and after Julian let Anna play with his toy trucks. And they did everything together after that.

"Make sure Mum can't hear us," Juan whispered.

"Okay," Anna talked loudly.

"Shhhhh! Hide behind the couch, then we can hear," Julian pointed towards the tan sofa sitting in front of the telly.

They army crawled behind the couch and waited, and waited. Finally John and Cynthia walked in together and they sat down. It was silent for a minute or two and Anna was tempted to stick her head out and see if they left or not.

"Are they in bed?" Cynthia questioned.

"Yes, fast asleep. How was yer day, love?"

"It was, well, like usual. Work, work, work around the house. Clean up and cook. How was the lads today?" Cynthia asked.

"Oh, they were fine. I'm sorry for not being a better husband, Cyn. I'll make it up," John promised.

"Ah, you will?"

"Like this," John leaned in and kissed Cynthia.

All Anna and Julian could hear were kissy noises which grossed them out. And Julian blew their cover. He screamed and ran straight to his room leaving Anna behind the couch alone.

"Julian? Anna are you out here, too?" John asked.

Anna felt ashamed of herself. She came out slowly and hung her head. John was disappointed in her. He picked her up and carried her back to her room. Luckily, Julian was able to escape the parent zone before Anna, which left her in trouble. But all John did was retuck her in and close the door tightly. Anna fell asleep quickly after that.