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"Charlie keep your feet on your side of the line or I'll kill you." Rosslyn threatened quite sincerely with a low growl, simultaneously shoving her sisters feet off her lap. Rosslyn curled her feet into herself, using her knees as a barricade to keep her sisters legs from returning to their previous position.

"No." Charlotte mumbled almost inaudibly as she snuggled up against her brothers shoulder and fell back to sleep.

Clay popped his head into the backseat, "Would you two stop it? We haven't even left yet."

Quinn hopped into the front seat opposite her husband, "Who wants snacks?" she asked chipperly.

Logan looked towards his mother, "I do! I do!" Charlotte immediate sat up, smoking her head off the top of her brothers chin.

"Ouch." She frowned.

Logan rubbed his jaw, "Are you sure we can't take two cars?" he frowned. Having not spent more than three straight hours with his sisters since eighth grade, he was not looking forward to the cramped four hour drive.

Quinn gave Logan a sympathetic smile and looked at her husband, Rosslyn immediately sat up, "I want to go with Logan!" she shot her sister an annoyed glare.

"No one is going anywhere." Clay replied as he got behind the wheel of the SUV.

"So annoying." Rosslyn huffed as she slumped back down into her seat, pulling her hood over her head and popping her ipod buds into her ears.

Charlotte rolled her eyes as she readjusted her seatbelt making sure to cross her sisters imaginary line. Twice.

Clay put the car in geer and started down the driveway, "Are we having fun yet?" he called to the back seat before exchanging a smirk with his wife.

"Daddy I have to pee." Charlotte whined.

Rosslyn gave her sister an irritated glare, "Maybe if you hadn't drank four juice boxes in an hour you wouldn't have to."

Logan smirked to himself, but then remembered his other sisters annoying whine, "Dadddddy. I really do have to go."

"Fine." Clay relented as he pulled over to the side of the road. "Go."

"Go." Charlotte echoed, "Go where?"

Logan couldn't hold back his snort and Rosslyn looked over at him seeming very pleased with his reaction.

"In the bush." Clay replied and Logan almost thought that his father was having fun with torturing his baby sister.

"What? No!" Charlotte squeaked.

"Than you can't have to go that bad." Clay replied as he shifted the car back into drive.

"Clay." Quinn rested a gentle hand on his forearm although she was smiling, "Stop teasing her." Quinn rotated around to face the back seat, "Ross will you go with your sister?"

"She's not a baby." Rosslyn replied almost immediatly, "She can go by herself."

Quinn looked at her youngest, her strawberry blond locks tattered against her rosy cheeks, as her green eyes squinted towards the edge of the trees, not far from the road. "Common baby" Quinn coaxed, "I'll go with you."

"It's okay." Charlotte began climbing over her sister towards the door making sure to elbow her in the ribs before jumping from the SUV, "I'll be fine on my own." She made sure to look her sister in the eye.

"Says the one who still sleeps with a night light." Rosslyn murmured as Charlotte slammed the door in her face.

"Don't tease your sister." Quinn told Rosslyn.

"Oh so it's okay for Daddy to tease her?" Rosslyn asked smugly looking between her parents.

Quinn gave Clay a firm look, "No. It's not."

"I wasn't teasing her." Clay produced his best look of innocence.

"Oh yeah?" Rosslyn countered, "Than why did we pass a service station about half a mile back?"

Quinn who had been looking out the window as her youngest tippy toed towards the cover of the darkened trees head snapped around, "Is that true?"

"Of course it's true." Rosslyn replied matter-o-factly.

"I-well-not exactly." Clay stuttered before relenting, "Okay so maybe I missed the service station on purpose."

Rosslyn snorted as Quinn gapped, "Why?"

"She needs to grow up a bit." Clay replied quietly.

"Oh so this is supposed to teach her a lesson?" Quinn was getting angry now.

"Yes. No. I don't know." Clay ran a hand through his hair, "I just don't want her to be afraid of everything her entire life."

"You can't push her!"

"She has to realize that the world isn't out to get her." Clay rationalized.

"She's a little girl Clay!" she was yelling now but she didn't care.

Rosslyn, uncomfortable with her parent's uncharacteristic fight, scooted over towards her brother as he wrapped a comforting arm around her.

"We're right here." Clay tried to calm his wife, "She knows we're right here. Nothing is going to happen to her."

Suddenly the door opened and Charlotte appeared with a smirk towards her older sister, "No problem." She jumped back into the car, "Oh you're going to sit in the middle now?" she asked her sister, not bothering to wait for a reponse as she made herself comfortable by the window seat. "Good."

No one said anything.

Charlotte looked around, "Why is everyone so quiet?"

Quinn was staring straight out the front dash fighting the tears that pooled in her eyes.

Then, as if to break the tension, Rosslyn shoved Charlotte, "Shut up Charlie, we're playing ghost town."

Charlotte rolled her eyes, "Well you obviously loose."

Rosslyn matched her sisters eye roll as Clay shifted the car into drive and they continued towards the lake house.