Hard Work

Delilah, Carter and Riley had gone back upstairs to finish up their admission video essay. Carter had set the camera back on the tripod and joined his sisters in front of the camera.

"So that was our family. Now we're assuming that you're wondering what else besides our blended family makes us different than all the other applicants." Riley said.

"Well here it is. It starts with our grandparents. Our maternal grandparents; Johanna and Jim Beckett are lawyers; to correct our grandfather is a lawyer while our grandmother was a lawyer. When our mom was nineteen years old and a sophomore at Stanford University; her mother was murdered during the holidays." Carter said.

"As far as our paternal grandparents go it's just our grandmother who you all just recently met. All we know of our paternal grandfather is that he was the love of our grandmother's life. They shared a special night together as we have been told." Delilah said.

"Now we said before the connection the three of us share with Alexis is our dad."

"Prior to marrying our mom; dad had been married twice before. Whereas our mom has only been married once before she married Dad."

"Dad was married twice in the early 90's just as Mom was."

"Neither one of Dad's marriages lasted long. His first marriage was the one where he was married to Meredith; that one ended a year and a half after Alexis was born. His second ended a month before Mom's first ended."

"The three of us were born in 2000; a whole six years after Dad and Meredith had Alexis."

After that Carter stopped the camera with the remote. They looked over the recording before they headed back downstairs for dinner. Before bed the kids would email their admission video to Amann Prep people who were in charge of the film camp. After that they would wait for a response as they finished out their last few days of their sophomore year. Alexis was already done with school and was home for the summer.

"So how did the video look?" Martha asked.

"It looked great; Grams."

"Thank you all for helping us with it."

With that the family of seven sat down to dinner. Alexis made plans to take her siblings to lunch the next day when they had their lunch period at school. Martha would be teaching classes all day at her acting school. Castle and Beckett would be working at the precinct with Ryan and Esposito.

In a few days; Alexis would be celebrating her 21st birthday and Martha was already planning a big party for her eldest granddaughter.