Author's Note

So in this story James is 20, Kendall, Logan, and Carlos are all 21, Katie is 16, Jamie is 17, Joe is 18, Erin is 25, and Danny is 27.

Jamie's Point of View

I was working on my homework trying to get caught up from when I was out last week. I'm not allowed to play on the soccer team until I get my work caught up because where I go to school you have to have a B or higher in order to play and I currently have a C in three of my classes. Joe said he would try to help me when he got home from work but said it might be a while because he might have to close which means he won't get home until 11:30. Erin is working on some case, Dad is working the graveyard shift, Grandpa is extraditing someone from South Carolina to stand trial for murder or something like that, and Danny is supposed to be staying with Joe and I. It's not that dad doesn't trust us it's just that the last time he let Joe and I stay by ourselves we ended up calling the fire department and let's just say that is the most trouble I have ever been. I heard the door close and knew that Danny was here. Danny always lets the door slam. Joe tries to close it as quietly as possible so that he can scare me.

"Hey kid!" Danny yelled up the stairs.

I know that he would go to the kitchen and grab a bottle of beer, then he would go upstairs to his room before he would come and check on me. It was the same thing every time. I heard him go into his room and new he would come in here and check on me in about five minutes. I continued to work on my homework.

"Hey kid." Danny said causing me to jump.

"Hey Danny."

"What are you working on?"

"Currently English. I have to read a book and write a reflection on it. Mrs. Peters said that she wanted me to hand it in by tomorrow and I haven't had the chance to start yet. "

"Well get it finished before you go to bed. I don't need another call at work from that woman because for some reason she ended up with my phone number instead of dad's phone number."

"Maybe because you gave it to her last year when Joe had her and she decided she liked you and wanted to date you but you turned her down."

"Just keep doing your homework, kid." Danny said as he left my room.

I started reading again and then my phone started ringing.

"What?" I said as I answered my phone annoyed.

"Well, that's someway to greet your favorite cousin, Jamie." The person on the phone said laughing.

"Sorry Katie, I missed a week of school and Danny was just in my room distracting me from my homework."

"It's cool. I feel your pain. I live with four guys."

"So anyways why did you call?"

"Oh yeah, so next month my boyfriend James, his band, and I are going to be in New York. James and I are going to stay for an additional two months if that is okay?"

"Of course it is! Wait don't you have school during those two months?"

"I do online school now. Mom decided homeschooling was too taxing of her and the PalmWoods School said that I had to get an actual part in a TV show or a movie or be a singer or a model. Apparently they don't think managing is an actual part of the rules. Idiots. Anyways what have you been up too lately? How has soccer been?"

"Everything is good here. Grandpa is still working as the PC, Dad buried himself in his work after mom die, Erin got married and is pregnant, Danny is still single but has a crush on an ER nurse, and Joe is still Joe. I haven't been allowed to play soccer because of grades."

"How is Uncle Frank holding up?"

"He has good days and bad days. It's that way for all of us. I have my moments too but it's gotten better."

"Well, I just hope it gets better for you. How is Erin holding up?"

"She has hidden herself in her work until she is going to have to go on maternity leave in a couple of months. Hey, I gotta go. I have homework to finish before Danny comes in here and starts to chew me out for wasting precious time on the phone when I should have been working on my homework."

"Alright." Katie said laughing. "Tell everyone I said hi."

"You do the same. Bye Katie."

"Bye, Jamie."

Jamie hangs up the phone and finishes up the homework he knows how to do and gets ready for bed.