After a flawless preformance Brianna looked into the crowd and frowned. The seat her mother had been siting in when her act started was empty. When the last girl had preformed and the judges picked the winner (Her by a landslide of course) the seat was still empty. She finnaly found her mom outside talking on her cell phone.

"Mom?"

"Oh...hey Sweetie."

"What's going on?"

"Oh nothing Sweetie. L-lets go home."

Brianna arched her eyebrow, but said nothing. Her mother wasen't very responsive on the ride home. When Brianna told her she'd won the pagent she just nodded. Now Brianna was really confused. Even stranger she noticed was they were going straight home instead of out for ice cream. Her mom just stopped outside of the house and said "Bye bye Sweetie.".

"Where are you going?"

"Just on some errands."

"Can I come?"

"No." Her mom said. Then she drove away.

Brianna shrugged and went inside. "Hey dad I'm home!" She called.

Her dad walked up to her with a sypethetic look. "Hey Brianna, how are you feeling?"

"Fine...so what's for dinner?"

"Whatever you want."

"Really? Can we order a pizza?" She asked exitedly.

"Of course we can. Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine. Why?"

Her dad made an even more sympathetic face. "Beacause Kick's in the hospital."

Brianna looked unmoved. "Yeah he's in the hospital all the time."

"Brianna...he's in the ICU."

"So?"

"Do you know what that means?"

"Yeah I'm not stupid! What's he in for this time? Getting his ego fixed?" She said sarcasticly.

Her dad looked down at her sadly. "Why don't I go order that pizza?"

"Ok, whatever." Brianna said siting on the couch and turning on the tv.

Later when their mom got home she just went up to her room without saying anything.

"What's up with her?" Brianna asked.

"She's probably upset over the Dillweeds hospital bill." Brad said picking his nose.

"Heh! Yeah!" Brianna said snorting. "I wonder what he did this time?"

"I don't know. Mom and dad haven't been grumbling about it."

"Yeah and dad was acting all weird when I came home."

"Maybe the Dillweeds hospital bill was so high we can't buy lots of stuff anymore!"

Brianna opend her mouth to respond, but the ring of the doorbell. Their dad paid for the pizza and set it down in front of them.

"Ooh pizza!" Brad said grabbing a slice from the top box. He took a big bite then spit it out and grabbed his tounge yelling ''Hot! Hot!". He ran into the kitchen and drank staight from the faucet in the sink. "Aww man that was really hot." Bread said walking into the living room.

"No kidding! This is everything on it with double jalapeno." Brianna said poking his pizza.

"That's Kicks flavor! Blech!" Brad said tossing the hot slice in the trash. "Where's the pepporoni?"

Brianna opend the other two boxes. "They're all Kicks favorites!"

"What? But the Dillweed wasen't even here to mess it up! Why would dad order these?" Brad said taking a slice of the least offensive kind of pizza, pinapple anchovy and picking off the anchovy.

"Oh sorry guys." Their dad said walking in. "I was thinking of Kick when I ordered those...he would have enjoyed them." He said sniffling.

Brad and Brianna shared a confused look. "Is something wrong dad?" Brianna asked.

"Nothing." Their dad said leaving the room. Once he'd left they could hear him crying.

"Man I wonder what's wrong."

"I don't really care."

"Dad did say he's in ICU...you don't think..."

Brad was gone.

"Brad?" Brianna asked looking around.

Brad was at the malls food court telling any girl who would listen that he didn't think he should be alone that night since his little brother was in the ICU. It was working till a girl asked what happend. The girls then got mad and dumped their food on him. Brad came home looking moody. "Stupid Dillweed. You ruin everything."

Brianna glared at him.

"Alright I'm sick." Brad said catching the hint. "I wonder what happend to Kick?"