"Mommy!" Alexandria "Alex" Spencer-McCall yelled as she walked into the house. She saw her mother, Sam, working on a file for her PI business, McCall and Jackal PI.
"Hi Alex. How was school?" she asked her youngest child.
"Good." She set her backpack down on the couch.
"Where's Rebecca?"
"Right here." The 13 year old came into the house. "Can I go to Aunt Robin's? She wants me to help her with baby stuff. Mattie won't help because she wants to go hang out with Tommy. Abrielle is going to go to the hospital with Patrick, so it will be just me and Taylor."
"Sure, I guess. Do you have any homework?"
"Nope." She threw down her bag. "Bye!" Becca ran out.
"Where's Lydia? I didn't see her at school today." Alex said as she started her homework.
"She left late. I left for the office at 6, like I do on a normal day. Your father normally gets here at 6:30, but he didn't get here until 7:30, so no one woke up Lydia." Sam rolled her eyes.
She didn't mind having step kids, Lydia and Tommy, but they could be such a pain. Both depended on Lucky to do everything for them, which annoyed Sam because her kids did everything for themselves.
"Oh." Alex went back to her homework as Sam started to work again.
"Everyone, its dinner time." Sam said to Lucky, Lydia, Cameron, Emmy, Alex, and Marissa. They all sat down.
"Where's Kristy?" asked Lydia. Kristy was always late and being pregnant hadn't helped her at all.
"I don't know." said Sam.
"She's pregnant, don't you think it matters?" Alex asked.
"Kristy is 18, Alex. She can handle herself. But what about Rebecca? She's always here." said Emmy.
"She's at Robin's." then, Zack came in carrying Tyler.
"Tyler!" said Marissa. She went over and took her nephew. "Where's Lexi?"
"Hi-hi!" yelled Lexi. She ran over to Alex.
"Hi guys! Sit down and eat with us. Most of the kids are gone anyway, so we have plenty of food!" Lexi sat next to Alex, Tyler moved next to Marissa, and Zack took a seat next to Emmy.
"That's because you don't know how to say no to your children. You need to teach them that it's rude to leave at dinner time." Lucky said to Sam. She rolled her eyes and got up to answer the ringing phone.
"Hello?"
"Sam, its Robin. Do you mind if Rebecca eats over here?"
"No, it's fine. How are you?"
"Well, I feel huge and my back hurts, but other than that, I'm great."
"I remember being pregnant. But now my baby is 12 and I don't think I could handle another child after the 9 I have already."
"Nine is a lot, but you're a great mother and you always do what's best for your kids." Robin paused. "I have to go, Taylor and Rebecca are very impatient."
"Okay. Tell Rebecca to be home before 9."
"I will. Bye Sam." said Robin.
"Bye Robin." said Sam. They hung up.
"Who was that?" asked Lucky. Sam just ignored him. He always had some comment about her kids and she wasn't going to feed that fire.
