Hey! Here is my first story! I hope you guys really like it, if you think it starts out slow, I promise, it will get better! Oh, and PLEASE REVIEW! It will encourage me to make more chapters and stuff like that! IMPORTANT: This story takes place in 2015, Gabe is 16, Charlie is 6, Toby is 3, Teddy is 20, and P.J. is 22. And YES they will all be in the story! Enough of my talk, to the story you may go! (That sounded a lot better in my head...)

January 27 2015

The air was frigid against Amy Duncan. Bob had just left for an emergency "Pest Control" problem and Toby and Charlie were with Teddy and Spencer for the day. She had stepped outside of her home to get a breath of the frozen air. Tears mixed with mascara stained her face making a trail through her foundation.

She sat down on the worn looking bench outside the front door after pacing for five minutes, she had her yellow coat wrapped around her, but her arms were not in the sleeves.

She wanted to cry more, but she knew that would do nothing but make her look like a wuss, and Amy Duncan was not a wuss.

She hadn't thought about it for almost five months, well, of course she thought of it, but it never lingered in her mind like it did today.

Her smile was starting to become a little true for once, and her sapphire eyes started to sparkle again. Something her youngest three had never really seen.

"Why? Why did it happen to me?" she squeaked. She loved her Gabe dearly, even when he was in trouble. She didn't know what life would be without him, or any of her five children in fact, but Gabe, well, she knew he was never suppose to be born.

All of the Duncan kids were obviously unplanned, and after Charlie and Toby were unplanned, the oldest three knew they were too when they had to add and extra room to the house, and Gabe was especially unplanned, he just didn't know the especially part, yet. And that was exactly what Amy Duncan feared.

Speaking of Gabe,

"Mom? What's wrong?" Amy looked up to see the worry in her son's big brown eyes. She wiped away the tears and flashed him a fake smile. "Nothing, sweetheart, I'm fine, it's just.." a worried look darted across her face as her voice trailed off while she thought of an excuse of her tears. "Come on, mom, it's freezing out here lets get you inside" the sixteen-year-old laid his arm around her shoulder and guided his mother through the front door. She coughed, avoiding his eyes.

"Looks like your sick, I'll get you some, hot chocolate while you go change into you pj's" the entire family always called there nightwear "Pj's" because of the oldest Duncan child. She gave him another fake smile and started to walk up the bright green steps.

She hated lying to him, whenever she lied the pit in her stomach grew deeper, she could feel it. It was killing her and she knew it, she was dying inside, she had been dying for sixteen years.

The boy knew something was wrong, something terribly wrong. His mother never cried, never. He had only seen her cry once before and that was when she thought she was alone in the kitchen, looking at a picture the day he was born.

In the picture Amy had a bright smile on her face, but there was a look in her eye that was unsure. A four-year-old Teddy was on Amy's right, glaring at the bundle in her mother's arms. Six-year-old P.J smiled at the camera brightly with his father's hand on his shoulder on Amy's left, Bob had his other hand behind Amy's back.

Everybody was so young, his dad wasn't bald, he had a little less gut, and Amy's hair was down to the middle of her back.

Gabe had always thought it was a nice picture, but he always noticed the smiles were off on his parents' faces, something was wrong, something was way wrong since they day he was born.

Teddy Duncan smiled at her three-year-old brother who was sitting on the bench next to her, sipping on a juice box. Charlie was on the other side of her reading a book between the chews of her peanut butter and jelly sandwich she had made for her.

She noticed her mom was weary again, so she called Gabe to come home as soon as possible. Her mom was crying again, she never knew why, but her mom never cried, so she thought she would take her brother and sister to an indoor play area with her fiance, Spencer. They were having so much fun, it made her smile.

She missed living at home with her overambitious family, all five kids in one house, with two crazing parents was annoying when she was sixteen, but now that she lives in an apartment in downtown Denver with Spencer, she kind of missed it, which she never thought she, Teddy Renee Duncan, would ever say.

She looked at her watch then at Spencer, "We better get ready to leave, it's almost time for the dinner party" Spencer nodded and smiled at his little soon-to-be brother in law, but he thought to all of Teddy's siblings of his own, especially since he was an only child.

He picked the three year old up after putting Toby's coat and his own on and smiled at Teddy, who was holding Charlie's hand. The six year old did not like being held, for six, she was really mature and smart, unlike the Duncan boys.

All four of them walked out of the building and walked to Spencer and Teddy's BMW, Spencer's parents bought it for an early wedding gift, they switched on and off using it, while the other drove Ed.

They put Toby into his car seat and Charlie slipped on her seat belt, and they drove to the Duncan Residence.

P.J. looked at his watch and smiled at Skylar. "Time to go, we have to meet the family at home in ten minutes." Skylar smiled at the thought of the whole family eating dinner together.

Skylar had moved back from New York and they dated for about another six months before P.J. proposed to her, they got married a year ago. Now, they lived on the opposite side side of Denver than the house P.J. grew up in, in a nice two bedroom house with a decent sized kitchen and living room, and two big bedrooms

They got in their car, and drove to the house.

Teddy looked at P.J., then at Gabe, they both looked back at her, knowing what she was thinking, they knew too.

Something was going on that was bothering their mother, and they were all mentally arguing with each other to who would ask whats wrong with her, who had been silent the whole dinner, sometimes smiling at her youngest son, then go back to staring at her dinner plate.

The least expected Duncan child questioned, "For cryin' out loud, your three children over here want to know whats wrong!" Charlie finally said, aggravated a little, then looked at her older siblings, and smirked. Gabe sneered at her,

They all knew he loved his little sister, and they were really close since Gabe is really the only one who still lives in the house and is old enough to talk to, but cool about it, unlike her parents.

Amy popped her head up and gave Charlie a "your talking to me?" look.

"N-n-nothing, I'm fine" the pit dug deeper in her stomach, all the kids could see a pained look in their mother's eyes.

Something was wrong, something was terribly wrong.

I hope the first chapter was good! Sorry it was so short, please comment, you wouldn't think, but they really do make an effect, even with one word! Please review if you read this! Let me know what you think, I also take constructive critisim! PLEASE REVIEW! Thank you guys sooooooooo much for reading, the next chapter is coming soon!