"What do you mean remind them?" Jenny asked.

"Just what I said." Jamie replied getting up, "Look my parents are in marriage counseling that's getting them no where, your parents are separating and Keith, Aunt Brooke and Uncle Lucas haven't been together in years but that can all change if we do something about it."

"Yeah but like what?" Keith asked, and Jenny nodded both looking skeptical.

Jamie paused to think it over, "I don't know yet." Both Jen and Keith sighed but Jamie shushed them, "Let's just take the rest of today and think it over."

"Jamie were 13, 11, and 9 respectively what difference could we possibly make?" Jenny asked.

"God, you are so cynical. What do we have to lose? We can't mess things up any more than they have right?"

Jenny and Keith looked at each other and shrugged, "He's right." Keith admitted.

"Of course I'm right," he said exasperated, "I'm Haley's son. Assume from this point on that I'm always right."


"We are home." Nathan announced a few hours later leading the guys in.

"And drunk." Brooke said.

"No." Lucas said, pushing his hair from his eyes.

"Luke, I bought you your first beer and got you drunk for the first time about thirteen years ago, I think I can tell when you're inebriated."

"Congratulations." He said bowing to her, "Hey Hales, Peyt."

"Don't start Lucas." Haley warned as she zoned in on her own husband, "Seriously? We have seven children in our home and the three of you are off getting drunk."

Jenny, Keith, and Jamie watched the scene unfold from the top of the stairs, all their parents were fighting now.

"Yeah, they're so in love." Jenny said sarcastically.

"Jen, look at the way my dad is looking at my mom right now." Keith said pointing to Lucas, who was being yelled at by Brooke.

"She's screaming at him." Jenny said rolling her eyes.

"Yeah, but look at him." Keith pointed, and Jenny still silently protesting looked at Lucas who was grinning at Brooke, even though she was still yelling.

"I call Aunt Brooke." Jenny said.

"What?" Jamie asked.

"Well we can't go about asking our parents how they fell in love, and what they did on their first date, cause we already know that." Jenny said, "Therefore I say we get organized. I'll take Brooke and Lucas, Keith you take Nathan and Haley, which leaves my parents for Jamie."

"Okay so what do we do?" Keith asked.

"Do I have to think of everything?"

"You've only come up with this one part." Jamie said, "I came up with the rest of the plan."

"Whatever, look the point is we each take a set of parents and start from there." She said.

"Okay so I've got to get Haley and Nathan to tell me- hold on," he interrupted himself as his mother's shouting and his fathers drunken rambling got louder. He went to Andy's room and dragged Penelope out, she immediately walked down the stairs with her hands on her hips.

"Mom, dad."

"Yes dear?" Brooke sighed.

"You were saying?" Jenny asked, but Keith held up a finger and shushed her, "Seriously just watch her work." He added.

"I thought we agreed that if me and Keith-"

"Keith and I." Haley corrected, as she dragged Nathan to the kitchen.

"Yeah that, if me and Keith didn't fight you two wouldn't either. And what do I hear happening? Fighting? Why is that?"

Jenny and Jamie watched in disbelief while Keith just grinned at his little sister.

"Penelope." Brooke sighed again.

"We're fighting because mommy is angry that daddy got drunk, with uncle Nathan and uncle Jake." Lucas said.

"Lucas." Brooke said.

"Brooklyn."

Brooke laughed softly, "My name is not Brooklyn."

Haley and Nathan came in from the kitchen with three mugs of coffee, while Peyton and Jake came back from the porch where they had relocated for their own argument.

"Damn." Jenny whispered after Penelope had gone back to Andrea's room, "She is good."

"I know." Keith said.

"Let's make a plan to start tomorrow." Jamie said finally.

"I'm still unclear on the details, but I guess we'll all just figure it out as we go along." Keith shrugged.

"Exactly." Jenny said, standing up, "It's like Jamie said, we can't make things worse."


The next morning Jenny got up uncharacteristically early and waited in the kitchen for either Brooke or Lucas to wake up.

She'd hadn't slept that well the night before; Jamie and Keith were okay roommates. At least they didn't snore. But the problem was that all she could think about was her parents, and her aunts and uncles, by extension.

So while trying to sleep, Jenny had come up with a plan. Cause she was not gonna let these six people forget how much they loved each other.

"Hey little girl." Lucas said walking into the kitchen.

"I'm the oldest, Uncle Luke, and I'm definitely not little."

"Nah, I was the first one of the five of us, not counting your dad of course, to meet you. You'll always be that little girl to me, kid."

Jenny rolled her eyes and poured some coffee, "Did you look in on Aunt Brooke when you got up?"

"No, can't say that I did." Lucas said opening one of the kitchen cabinets, "You want some sugarless cereal or sugarless oatmeal?" he added.

"Oh jeez, seriously?" she asked getting up to look.

"Yeah, we're so gonna need to go grocery shopping, cause our kids won't eat any of Haley's health food." Brooke said entering the kitchen in her pajamas.

"We don't even eat Haley's health food." Jamie said as he and Keith followed Brooke.

"Coffee?" Luke offered Brooke.

She nodded, "So what are you three doing today?"

"Well, if your going shopping I'll go with you Aunt Brooke." Jenny said, giving both Keith and Jamie a glance.

"Sure sweetie."

"I was gonna take Tyler, Penelope, and Keith to see my mom and Lilly. Jamie you can come if you want." Lucas said.

"Okay what's everyone want for breakfast?" Haley asked entering the kitchen with Nathan in tow, "Cereal, oatmeal, or bacon and eggs?"

"Bacon and eggs." The whole group answered after a short pause.

"Let me help you, Breakfast Girl." Brooke said putting down her cup.

"Someone wanna go wake up Peyton and Jake?" Luke asked, nodding to Nathan.

"Why the three of you gonna go get drunk again, and leave all the kids to us again?" Haley asked giving Brooke an apron.

"I'll go get them." Jenny said, as Lucas and Nathan began apologizing to their ex-wife and wife, respectively.


Jenny knocked on the door of the room her parents were sharing. It had struck her as funny the night before when Haley had shown them to the room with only one bed. But after a whole night of thinking she had began to feel bad for her parents.

"Dad? Mom?" she opened the door to see Peyton asleep on the bed and Jake sleeping on a chair. She sighed all bad feelings gone, "Wake up!"

Jake fell off the chair and Peyton sat up, "What?"

"Anyone could have walked right in here and seen dad asleep on the chair." She said.

"Honey, that wouldn't have happened." Peyton sighed reaching for her robe, she turned to Jake, "You didn't tell the guys anything last night when the three of you were partying did you?"

"Of course not." He sighed kissing Jenny's cheek.

"I'm gonna go to the store with aunt Brooke today." Jenny said, "We're going grocery shopping."

"Ok hon." Peyton nodded.

"And everyone is waiting in the kitchen for you guys to come have breakfast. I'm gonna go wake Ellie."


"Okay so Nathan and I are going to join Luke and the kids to see Karen, to drop off hers and Lilly's gifts. Then we're gonna go see Deb and our usual obligatory visit to the prison to see Dan for Christmas." Haley told Peyton and Brooke as they cleaned the breakfast dishes.

"Jenny and I are gonna go food shopping." Brooke said then added to Peyton, "As long as it's okay with you."

"Of course." Peyton shrugged, drying the plates, "So what's Jamie doing when you guys are going to see the grandparents?"

"Well he sees Lilly all the time in school, and Deb picks him up sometimes, and getting him to see Dan is actually harder than it is to get Nathan, so he said he wanted to stay behind."

"Well I don't know if he's got something else to do, but he can come with us to Jake's parents." Peyton suggested.

"If you don't mind, I'd rather he didn't stay at the house alone." Peyton nodded, "You know Brooke I didn't ask, are you okay with all this?"

"All what Tutor Girl?"

"Well not going to see Karen and Lilly, I mean I know how close you guys are, and I know how not close you and Luke are…" Haley trailed off.

"I'm fine Full-of-Concern Girl." Brooke shrugged, "I mean I can just go visit Karen before we leave again, and I mean I spent the whole drive here with Luke, with barely any fights. I'm glad that you invited both of us, even if we aren't married anymore the kids still deserve to be with both of their parents on Christmas."


Please review, and tell me what you think so far. Oh and I'm sorry I keep forgetting to tell you: Jenny is thirteen, Jamie is eleven, Keith is nine, Andy and Penelope are eight, Ellie is five and Tyler is three. All the adults are about 28-29 years old, depending when their birthdays land.

-Em