a/n: Hey! Just a few things to clear up before you start reading. I'm choosing at random which prompts I use, so I'm not going in order (the prompt I'm using for this one is 24, so the next one won't be 25). This series could get shippy, but there is no way it'll get smutty. Fluff is guaranteed. Well, enough of my blabbering, you've got a fic to read! I hope you enjoy :)

They all came from very different families.

Don had spent his childhood in a stereotypical happy American family, filled with big smiles, lots of people, and his mother's famous apple pie. Well, famous in their small town anyway. His home was filled with too many people and not enough space, but because Don was the talented one he found himself the centre of attention multiple times.

Not that he minded, he lapped it up as much as he could.

He owed his current success to his family. If it weren't for them fostering his love for singing, dancing, and acting he may never have become the big star he was today. Though they didn't appreciate him running away to vaudeville, not one bit.

(Especially with that boy… He was a bad influence on sweet little Donny.)

The bad influence in question was Cosmo Brown, who was exactly the opposite.

It was his family that was the problem. His parents yelling at each other at all hours of the night, his sister's bad habits, and lack of funds made it one of the worse places to raise a child. Though it had its upsides – Cosmos' grandfather actually cared about him, and a good 90% of the time he was doing the child minding rather than his parents.

The only reason Cosmo had become so close with Don was to escape his hell hole of a home when his grandfather wasn't there. But by the time his father walked out and his mother started drinking, he had long since given up hope of having a decent home life. His family was the main reason he left, and he never regretted leaving one bit.

Kathy, on the other hand, had a family that was a bit too perfect. When her father wasn't on a business trip and her mother touring with her orchestra, they were controlling her every move. Every subject at school, every friend she made, every film she saw, everything.

She loved her parents dearly, and they gave her the time of day when they could, but sometimes she felt like Kathy Selden didn't exist. She certainly wasn't making her own decisions anyway.

When it wasn't her parents suffocating her, it was the housekeeper or the butler. "Don't do this Kathy, don't do that Kathy, would your mother want you doing that Kathy?" Sometimes she wished they would just leave her alone.

But after Don became a big movie star, Cosmo became Monumental's musical genius, and Kathy became Hollywood's newest leading lady, they came together. They came together to form their own family, not too big, not too lonely, not too restricting.

And they loved it.