"We are late!" Mercedes had yelled for the third time. They were currently supposed to be in route to Aaliyah's band concert. But looking at her phone she saw that it was half past six and the concert started at 6:40. It didn't help that she had an important business meeting that had lasted up until 6:25. She barely had time to get herself ready. She had thrown on a white blouse with a purple pencil skirt and black pumps to match.

"Mommy."

Mercedes looked down to find a half naked child, whose hair was messily thrown into a ponytail, tugging on her skirt.

"Jaylen. Where's your shirt sweetie?" She sighed.

"Mommy it's hot" Jaylen whined. Mercedes shook her head as she proceeded to call out for Cameron. Before the word even came out of her mouth she heard something crash by the steps. Jaylen and her turned around to see Cameron slumped over on the floor beside one of Jaylen's many action figures. The disgruntled teenager muttered "I'm good" as he got up.

"Umm, you were supposed to be getting Jay ready" She said gesturing to the toddler who was now preoccupied with the newly found action figure.

"Yeah but he kept running around screaming that it was hot and-"

"Nevermind." She said already knowing where it was headed. She started to head upstairs to go find Jaylen a shirt. "Did you at least get Jayla ready?" Mercedes asked.

"Yes ma'am. But I should warn you… Dad wanted to do her hair."

"Oh Lord," She thought as she reached the top of the stairs. Walking into the twins room she picked up a shirt that had been thrown on Jaylens bed. She walked to her bedroom and opened the door to find Jayla sitting in Sam's lap attempting to read a book. She laughed to herself as she saw Jayla snuggle up to Sam as he helped her read. Daddy's little girl.Looking at Jayla she internally gave applause to Sam and Cameron. Her little girl looked cute as ever wearing her purple little sundress. And to her surprise her hair wasn't a mess. It was pulled back in a ponytail and a light pink bow adorned her head.

"Now say I-am-your-father" Sam said nudging the exciting toddler. Mercedes rolled her eyes. Of course they would be reading that. A few weeks earlier Sam had spotted Star Wars children's books and bought them on sight.

"I am -" The confused child looked up at her father for help.

"Your-Father" he said slowly.

"You Fada!"

"Close enough. Good job La-La!" Jayla squealed as Sam scooped her up in his arms and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

Knocking on the open door, Mercedes looked at the pair who had now seen her and were now sporting matching guilty faces.

"Mommy!", Jayla squealed jumping off of her dad's lap. Mercedes stern face slowly gave way to resolve as the little girl hugged her leg.

"Mommy?" A deep voice spoke making her put a hand on her hip.

"Don't you 'mommy' me" she said glaring at him. "We were supposed to be gone 15 minutes ago." she huffed as her arm fell back to her side.

Sam got up from the bed walking over to her. "I'm sorry" He stared down at he carpet. "You know I don't-"

"It's fine Sam" she reached out to smooth his hair back into place. It had gotten a little messy with him playing with Jayla.

He looked up and smiled that lopsided grin that she never would grow tired of. He leaned in for a kiss but was interrupted by Jayla's giggling.

"Ewww" Jayla said looking up at them.

"I like how you think LaLa. Yes no kissing. Especially for you." he picked her up. "No boys. No kissing. No boys and last but not least no boys"

Jayla just replied with another "ewww". Sam looked back at Mercedes who was pouting and he put a hand over Jayla's eyes as he gave Mercedes a chaste kiss. Removing her fathers hand she looked at him and then her mother and then back at him and said "eww".

"You have her trained." Mercedes laughed at Jayla's antics as she walked out the door and down the stairs with Sam following behind her.
"That's a good thing" Sam said seriously.

Walking to the front door she called out for Cameron and Jaylen. Mercedes gave Cameron the shirt for Jaylen as she got her purse.

"Okay is everybody ready?" she asked. She gave everyone a lookover. Cameron was wearing plaid as usual, a trait passed down from his father no doubt, with some khakis and converse. Jaylen, who perched on Cameron's shoulders, was finally wearing his black long-sleeved shirt that said 'may the force be with you'. Sam wore a black smedium shirt and some dark wash jeans and dress shoes. Everything looked right except for one thing.

"Where's Tyler?" Mercedes asked.

"I think I saw her head out to the truck awhile ago" Cameron answered.

Looking at her phone she realized they only had 5 minutes to get there on time. "Okay let's go everyone."

After they all got out of the house, they piled into the Suburban where Tyler was reading a book.

"It took you guys long enough" Tyler said as Cameron buckled in the twins. "I was beginning to think you guys forgot about the concert" she muttered looking back at her book.

"There were a few distractions" Mercedes said as Sam drove to the school. As she looked out the window, Mercedes felt Sam grab her hand and squeeze it.

"Green Light" Tyler piped one second after the light changed.

"Okay speed racer. I've never seen you so excited to go to one of Aaliyahs concerts." Sam chuckled.

"Ummm..well I now see how important it is to support my sister." she mumbled.

"Oh I always thought it was because that Zach guy was going to be there" Cameron mused glancing at Tyler. At that he earned a punch in the arm.

"If you tell them about him I'll tell them about Jesse" she threatened.

"I'm just kidding around. I'm pretty sure they didn't hear me anyway." They looked up front to see their parents not paying any attention to them. Looking back at each other they both felt relieved.

"Are we almost there?" Tyler called out.

"No" her parents said in unison. Sam looked at Mercedes and caught her eye. It was going to be a long ride.

A/N: Heeeeyy. Idk what I'm doing. I was at my sisters concert and I thought of this. I get a lot of my inspiration from my family lol. They are something. But yeah. Oh and I think there's going to be a part 2 just because. Oh and sorry for any mistakes.

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-Kenya xx