The room was silent. Everyone looked chocked, not knowing how to proceed.

Kitty was the one to break the silence.

"Tommy. I can't in words tell you how extremely ashamed I am of you. How you can do this to Julia, to Lizzie?" Kitty spoke quietly and slowly, weighing every word carefully. She knew, as well as everyone, exactly how bad this was for all of them. She was also aware that Tommy knew, but they still needed to sort it out as a family.

Justin was slowly shaking his head, like he couldn't believe what he just heard. "Bro. This is not cool. I…"

"I'm sorry. I know you all hate me for this, and you should. I hate me for this. It wasn't suppose to happen, but it did." Tommy covered his face with his hands.

"Well, I know I didn't come here for this, and frankly, it's more than I can handle. See you all later." Saul got up. When passing Sarah he quickly stopped to put a hand on her shoulder. He squeezed it gently. When passing his sister he did the same.

The room was again quiet and they could all hear the door close when Saul left.

Nora had the whole time been so quiet. She looked sad more than chocked. "Okay. Here's what we do. Tommy, go see Julia." She nodded towards her oldest son as she looked up at her looking like a puppy receiving instructions from his master.

"Sarah – I realize I was unfair to you before when we discussed Ojai. I'm sorry." Sarah had a surrendered smile on her face. "You should take your kids and go home. They don't need more of this."

Sarah immediately objected. "But mu-um!"

"No, Sarah! I know this will change a lot for you when it comes to Ojai, but it's Saturday night, we're not in the office and for heaven's sake – it's Scotty's birthday."

Everyone turned their eyes to Scotty, starting to apologize. Scotty waved his hand at them. "It's okay. It's kind of amusing when you consider the irony of what happened the first time I participated in one of your dinner parties."

Kevin put his hand on Scotty's arm.

"It's definitely not okay. Tommy – I did not help you start a family for you to destroy everything in a twinkling."

Tommy barley let Kevin finish. "I know! As I said, I hate myself for this. It just happened once, and I was emotionally… I don't know, worn out."

"We do not need to hear this Tommy. Now leave." Nora made it clear she was not going to take no for an answer.

When Tommy left the room, Rebecca met him in the hallway. They both stopped.

"I'm sorry Rebecca, you don't deserve this."

"No, I don't, but who's surprised? My mom is a false and promiscuous liar, who apparently has a thing for the men in this family." Rebecca shrugged. "And who am I to talk? I date Justin, because I'm so desperate to find a guy or a Walker or whatever, that I'll date the guy who is almost my brother!" Rebecca's voice was unstable and shaken.

Tommy put his hand on her shoulder, as if he was going to embrace her in a hug but didn't really dare to. They stood there for a few seconds, before Tommy exhaled heavily and took away his hand.

He whispered a soft "Sorry" to her before leaving the house.

When Tommy had left the room, Nora quickly started instructing her kids on how to proceed.

"Kevin, I'm so sorry about this. I know you wanted a nice family gathering for this day, and surly we can all agree that's not happening. I suggest you bring all of Scotty's presents with you home and finish the day with only each other."

Nora stopped briefly to catch her breath. She then continued.

"Sarah, as I said, you should take your kids home. Of course there must be changes in how Ojai and Walker Landing work, but this is not the time, nor the place. I suggest you all take a day and let this rest, and try to keep it professional on a meeting Monday morning."

Suddenly Rebecca appeared in the doorway. Her eyes were swollen and her lower lip was shaking. Justin got up to hug her, and he did a cell phone rang from a distance.

Kitty was quickly on her feet to answer.

"It's mine."

"Guys, I'm going to take Rebecca upstairs." Justin had his arm around her as they started climbing the stairs.

Kitty entered the room. She spoke directly to Robert.

"We need to leave. The numbers of tomorrow's release came, and they're not good. We need to fix it before the morning." Robert got up to leave.

"Well, it's been… a strange night, to say the least. The food was great though, Nora."

Nora lifted her eyebrows and looked at the table. They had barley had time to start eating, all the food was just laying there, neatly portioned out on every plate.

"Scotty, I'm sorry, but I assure you, this whole family is going to do it's best to make this up to you."

"Forever." Kevin added to his mother's words.

Sarah got up. "Cooper! Paige! We're leaving!" Sarah went to fetch her ice cream eating children from the kitchen. She knew they had heard way too much, and she herself was not without blame. She knew she would have to explain a lot for them, and to Joe.

Sarah jerked when she thought of Joe. Explaining to him why their children knew this much would be worse than this whole situation.

Left in the dining room was Nora, Scotty and Kevin. Shortly after Sarah left, Cooper and Paige came in to give their uncle Scotty a birthday hug.

When they heard the door close behind them, Nora covered her head in her hands.

Kevin got up to give her a hug from behind.

"I love you mom. Do you want me to stay here over night?"

"No." Nora sat up straight. "You go. Have a glass of wine and open presents. You deserve that."

Scotty received the tightest hug he had even gotten when saying goodbye to his mother-in-law.

Moments later Nora was sitting on the short side of the table, all alone, with traces of her family scattered all around her.