She woke up to her momma running her finger up and down the length of her nose,"Good morning sleepin' beauty." Savannah wrinkled her nose and gave Char a rotten half smile. Her mother laughed and scooped her into her arms, blonde hair intangled. "daddy is down stairs making pancakes with chocolate chip faces." The six year old hugged back and jumped down to rummage through her covers.

"got her." Savannah lifted up a doll with bleach blonde hair and cowboy boots.

"you still have that?" her mother laughed.

Savannah looked at the doll and at her mother, then she took her doll to her toy shelf and placed her in the pink pedestal. "big girls don't need toys." She scoffed at her mother as she was about to leave the room. "Momma wait! I need to get my clothes."

"It's breakfast, pajamas are completely suitable."

"you're not in pjs."

" that doesn't matter c'mon." char threw her over her shoulder as savannah let out a squeal and they made their way to the kithchen.

"goodmorning you two." Cooper placed a kiss on his wifes cheek as she sat savannah down in her princess pajamas.

"took you long enough" mason made a face at his half sister and she returned a raspberry.

"this early and you two are already at it?" coop pulled out a chair for charlotte and placed breakfast on the table.

"She started it!" mason protested

"no I didn't, daddy." She batted her glossy eyes at her father and smirked at her brother.

"doesn't matter who started it, im ending it. Now, eat your breakfast." Butted in momma bear. "Anna don't you have a project due today?"

She averted eye contact and raised her eyebrows to the floor, "not that I remember." She began to chew on her bottom lip.

"young lady I did not raise a fibber. You had to bring in something didn't you?" charlotte looked at her husband and cooper raised from her seat and went to his daughters blue animal book bag.

As he rummaged through the messy bookbag char made conversation with her kids. "what have you been learning in class, Mason?"

"not much, just variab-"

"Savannah may I please see you in the living room." Cooper politely interrupted. They walked to the living room with a piece of paper in hand.

Before coop could even say anything savannah went off like a rocket:" I didn't want her to come because she likes mason more and-"

"hey, calm down." he took his childs dainty little hands into his and lowered himself to her level, "what on earth makes you think your mother favors one of you over the other?"

"she chose to talk to him first over me." Her brown eyes filled with tears.

"that doesn't mean she loves him more."

"she always spends more time with him. She even brings him to school and I always have to go with you." She held the waterworks back and pulled her hands from her dads.

"that's because she has to drop by her hospital and its by your brothers school."

"but then she goes right where you do."

"well, why don't we alternate every-"

"why can't he just go with his real momma!? It's not fair that he takes mine." Anna stated it so loudly that it was heard through the house. She ran through the kitchen and up the stairs to her room. Mason stared blankly at charlotte not knowing to be hurt or angry. She dropped her eating utensil and quickly hurried into the living room, only to hear the door slam above them.

"how the hell does she know about mason?"

"that's a different problem, char" He continued to try to calm his wife as he sat beside her, "her assignment was to bring in her favorite family member of the same gender."

"she never told me that."

"she thinks you like mason more. That's why she didn't tell you."

"that's ridiculous. I love them both equally, why would she think that? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a secret I don't know about. I mean hell you didn't even know you had a kid until he was eight and you two get along perfect. But I know I must be doing somthin' wrong if my own kid doesn't even like me and-" she looked away choking on her own words.

Cooper took her hand in his and pulled her cheek gently back around. "That child loves you with all her heart. And it will be hard to believe sometimes but that is the twist to this parenting thing." She leaned away and hid her face again. "Char," he tried to catch her eye but she hid again. "Charolete, please look at me. I have seen you cry and I have held you at your worst. Savannah is six it is going to get hard because she is a smart kid, which makes me unbelievably proud. If you think this is hard wait until she is a teenager." He scoffed.

They sat in silence for what seemed like hours but were only a few minutes. She broke the silence " would you be able to take Mason to school just for today? I think I am going to spend a day with savannah, if that's okey?"

"I think it's a great idea." Cooper kissed char on her for head "I love you so much." He wrapped his arms around her in a tight hug and kissed her one more time on the lips. " I will see you tonight." Him and mason made their way out the door and pulled out of the drive way.

Char went upstairs and cracked her daughters' door to lean her head against the rim and watch savannah. The child took her costumes and shoved them under her bed. Her toys went on their shelves and markers in her desk. She walked to her bleach blonde doll and looked at her in thought. Then she picked her up and walked surely over to her trash can and threw her in along with her boots and cowboy hat. She headed to her closet to find some clothes but that's when her mom caught her attention, "do you need something, momma?" she reached for her ruffled white shirt but couldn't reach. Then she stood on her tiptoes and was lifted into the air by her mother, anna grabbed her shirt and her purple skirt to match. throwing her pajama shirt to the side, she swiftly removed her shirt from the hanger and threw it on carelessly. Next was her skirt, she slipped it on and took the two strings and knotted them behind her back. "Not like that silly, here let me help." Charolet laughed and unknotted the loose ends. "I really like this skirt, makes you look gorgeous." She finished the big bow and turned her around.

"thank you. Can I wear my boots today?" she ran to her closet and grabbed out her brown boots with two matching buckles on the sides. She fished out two grey socks from her drawer and ran back to her mom. "do these match?" she asked puzzled.

"yes they do," char smiled a genuine smile, "Anna, if you could do anything you want- and I mean anything in the world- what would you want to do?"

Her daughter wrinkled her face then looked at her in the eyes, "anything?" still puzzled.

"Anything" charlotte smiled.

"well I will have to think about that." She grabbed her blue jean jacket and slipped on her boots. "ready."