"How was your day guys?" Lena asked as usual
"It was boring like always" Mariana said
"Ms. Jasper kicked me out of history today" Jesus said half laughing
"Why?" the vice principle in Lena came out
"It was really not my fault! Emily asked me for a pencil, and, as a joke I gave her a pink pen, and she started yelling at me cuz I ruined her drawing and I started laughing, it was hilarious. And Ms.
Jasper laughed a little to! But then she told me to leave and come back when I calm down."
"It was you?! I heard about it from Ashley. It most have been hilarious. Emily is so serious about her drawings! you're so mean" Mariana laughed at her brother
"Why was she drawing in the middle of history class anyway? You guys listen in class right?" Lena said, looking at her kids who pretended that they didn't hear.
Callie changed the subject quickly "I had to run a mile in Gym today. It sucked."
Then the conversation was mostly about music and what celebrity broke up with what celebrity this week.
After they had finished eating, Brandon, Callie, Jesus and Mariana volunteered to clean the table and take out the trash and wash the dishes.
It was suspicious, and Jude thought they were going to ask to go to the party.
Lucky for them, Lena was in a very good mood and did not notice their suspicious behavior. She just though it was one of those good days.
Jude sat at the dinner table and did his homework, he wanted to hear what his siblings are going to say to convince her they should go to the big party they were all invited to in the morning.
"Mom" Jesus started
"The four of us were thinking." Mariana continued
"We want to go out tonight, Just the four of us" Brandon explained.
"Where to?" Lena was starting to be suspicious
"Its a get together of a few of our mutual friends." Callie said, trying to find the right thing to say without lying
"Where is it?" Lena was still suspicious
"Its in Hanna's house" Mariana said.
Hanna was one of her best friends and Lena knew her parents well. Lena did not know that Hanna's parents and her little sister, Maya, were in a vacation in NY visiting family, and that Hanna's big
sister who was in collage came back for the week.
"No problem, enjoy" Lena said.
She trusted both Hanna's parents and even more her four grown up kids.
"Wait, Hanna has a little sister about Jude's age right?" Lena remembered
"Yeah" Mariana said, no knowing where this is going to go
"Why don't you take him with you?"
The four looked at each other. They knew its going to be a party, probably with booze. They did not want their youngest brother to see it.
"I think Maya's sick" Jude, who was listening to the conversation said.
He knew she was at NY with both her parents.
"Then you can stay here with me and Mom" Lena said, right when Stef walked in.
"Hey all" Stef said.
She didn't look to good.
"Is everything OK dear?" Lena asked as she came to hug her wife
"I think I got the flu. I'm gonna go take a shower and I'll come back down."
Stef went up stairs and Lena boiled water to make her wife some tea.
"This winter… Everyone's sick. Maybe its even batter if you get out of the house guy, so you go and enjoy yourself, just don't come back to late"