Hey this is my first fanfic for outnumbered! I love outnumbered I watch it all the time. This is quite a dark story but I just wandered what would happen, how they would react. This is set after just after the 4th series. Jake is 15, Ben is 11 and Karen is 9! I don't own any of the characters or anything. Enjoy!

"Mum , ben is jumping up and down on the washing machine" Jake shouted to his mother even though she was in the same room as him. Why did everyone in this family have to be sucha an idiot! Jake thought to himself. "Bens what? Ben we don't have time for this hurry up and get ready for school" Sue Brockmen yelled to her second youngest son. Sue continued to clean up, get herself ready for work and the kids ready for school. "Pete can you get ben to stop jumping on the washing machine?" She continued. Jake looked up from the kitchen table while listening his iPod and having breakfast to see the chaos of an average, embarrassing morning at the Brockmen household.

"Ben why are you jumping on the washing machine?" A nine year old Karen asked.

"Because I wanna see if the washing machine breaks when it has mud and ants and DVD's inside" Ben explained.

"That's silly" Karen exclaimed,

"No its not, its science" Ben continued.

"It's not science if it was science then, Erm you wouldn't need to jump on the washing machine" Karen said proudly.

At that moment Pete walked in and tried to analyses the situation. "No your wrong I am doing science because it's an experiment" Ben shouted back at Karen.

"No it's not an experiment ben because, because you have hair like a girl!" Karen shouted back. Ben and Karen then started to shout over each other

"Hey, hey, hey!" Pete shouted while separating Ben and Karen which was quite easy as ben was still on top of the washing machine. "Stop it! Karen go and get your shoes on" Pete continued. "But why you're not telling ben of" Karen said back to her dad. "Because I'm going to tell ben off when you have gone to put your shoes on ready for school" Pete explained . "That's a lie" Karen shouted as she ran out of the room.

"Ben what are doing jumping on the washing machine?" Pete asked dreading the answer. "I was doing an experiment" ben said while jumping down off the washing machine and running out the room "Ben" Pete shouted after ben after realising what he was doing. "Don't put DVDs and ants and mud in the washing machine" Pete continued to shout after his son. Oh god! Why did ben think of putting ants and DVD's in a washing machine? Pete thought to himself. Pete grabbed a cloth and cleaned the ants and mud out of the washing machine. He then grabbed the DVD's that were covered in mud and had about a hundred scratches. Well we're going have to throw them DVD's. Mostly jakes favourite. Well that's going to be a fun conversation.

Pete then came out of the laundry room with the DVD's covered in mud to find Karen and ben sitting on the counter watching the latest fight between sue and Jake. Pete noticed that ben had actually gotten ready and Karen had not. Unfortunately for sue she was losing the argument between Jake and herself. "Jake you are always out with your girlfriend, why don't you invite her round here" Sue said in a calm voice.

"Invite her here? Are you being serious? Do you not understand how embarrassing you are mum! God your sucha-" Jake was cut off by Pete who got himself involved.

"Ok what the hell is going on here" Pete shouted still hoping that Jake had not seen the DVD's in his hand.

"Mum says I can't go out with my girlfriend and I have to bring round here! You both realise how embarrassing that would be! " Jake fought back and looked at his parents who clearly didn't see this from his side. "You're both such twats!" Jake shouted back.

"Jake do not swear at you're at your mother or me" Pete snapped.

"Dad are they my DVD's?" Jake asked still very annoyed .Bloody hell! I didn't think he'd notice with everything else going on.

"Yes but it wasn't me who covered your dvd's in mud and ants or gave them hundreds of scratches it was ben" Pete confessed again dreading what was going to come out of his eldest sons mouth .

"Are you serious? Are you not gonna make him pay for new ones!" Jake shouted.

"Look Jake calm down! And ben apologise to your brother for ruining his DVD's" Pete explained to both of his sons.

"I'm sorry Jake for using your DVD's for science and you should hide your DVD's better" Ben said.

"Ben" Sue and Pete said in unison.

"I've had enough of this" Jake snapped and stormed out of the kitchen and the next thing everyone else heard was the huge slam of the front door.

"Right Karen go get your shoes and ben hurry up and get to school " sue said. Ben sighed and went outside to walk to school . Ben saw small silver car with blacked out windows, parked at the corner of the road. He realised that the car been since the Monday. It was now Thursday. As ben walked past the car on the way to school he looked in to the car window and saw a dark figure looking back at him. Ben then thought it was a good idea to run most of the way to school in case the dark figure came after him. Karen on the other hand ran upstairs to get her shoes and bag and stood just outside of the open front door and stood their listening to her parents conversation .

"Jake is pushing me right to the edge" sue snapped.

"I know" Pete said

"I bet his hiding something" sue suggested.

"You always think that." Pete said

"come on let's just go" sue mumbled feeling hopeless.