Hello! Here's chapter 4! I hope to finish this story today, so we are officially half way through the story (it will be eight chapters total).

Welcome back to Ashley Tanner. Enjoy chapter 4!

Disclaimer: I do not own the TV show Full House or its characters. The character Ashley Tanner was an idea given to me by Movies And TV Shows AU.

"Stop it!"

Ashley glanced up at Stephanie's loud shout, and she watched as the kitchen door swung open, and Stephanie stormed inside with Michelle on her heels.

"Stop it!" Michelle repeated, stomping her tiny feet.

"Woah," Ashley laughed. "What's going on?"

"Michelle wants to play the shadow game," Stephanie began.

"Michelle wants to play the shadow game," Michelle reiterated.

"And I keep telling her to stop-"

"And I keep telling her to stop-"

Stephanie gestured to Michelle. "But she doesn't!"

Michelle gestured to the empty air to her right. "But she doesn't!"

Ashley sighed. She remembered when DJ and Stephanie went through that phase. DJ played with Ashley; Stephanie played the shadow game with DJ; and going back even further, Ashley played the shadow game with her mother.

"Steph, you move along," Ashley told her. "I'll handle this."

"Thank you!" Stephanie groaned in relief before running for the stairs to escape their younger sister.

"Michelle, it's not polite to copy people," Ashley said.

"Michelle, it's not polite to copy people," Michelle repeated.

"I mean it, Michelle," Ashley told her, sternly.

"I mean it, Michelle," Michelle reiterated.

Ashley picked up her little sister and sat her on the counter so she was eye level with Ashley; Ashley covered Michelle's mouth with her hand, and even when Michelle licked her palm, she didn't remove it. She was pretty used to people licking her palm when she covered their mouths by now, considering she had to do it with her other sisters and even Kimmy when they either said something they weren't supposed to or were about to say something that would get them in a lot of trouble.

"Michelle, I understand that the shadow game is a phase almost every kid goes through," Ashley assured her, "but that does not making copying people and following them around right."

Michelle shrugged in a confused gesture.

"Michelle, it's not right because it seems like your mocking them."

Michelle knit her eyebrows.

"Mocking means to rudely copy someone to make fun of them, and I know that was not your intent, but sometimes it's not about what you mean. It's about what other people see. I know that you're a sweet girl, but if you go following people around and copying everything they do, they may start calling you Michelle the Mocking Girl, and we don't want that."

Michelle shook her head.

"I didn't think so. Now if I move my hand, will you stop copying me?"

Michelle nodded, and Ashley wiped her hand on her jeans.

Michelle hugged Ashley, and Ashley returned the embrace before pulling back to look her sister in the eye.

"Now, Michelle, I do have to punish you because Stephanie told you multiple times to stop, and you refused. Not only that, but you also talked back to me," Ashley told her. "Lucky for you, I already have a fitting punishment in mind."

"Stop it!"

This time, it was Michelle's loud yell that made Ashley look up from her book as she sat on the living room couch.

Michelle walked into the living room with Stephanie in her heels, and the older girl was smiling as she followed Michelle.

"Stop it!" Stephanie repeated.

"Ashley, I've learned my lesson!" Michelle assured her.

"Ashley, I've learned my lesson!" Stephanie reiterated.

"Just make her stop!" Michelle begged.

"Just make her stop!" Stephanie said.

Ashley laughed. "You played the shadow game with her for five hours, so it's only fair that Stephanie gets the same amount of time. Therefore, she has three more hours."

Michelle groaned, and Stephanie followed suit before they left the room while Ashley chuckled as she turned back to her book.

The hardest part about being a disciplinarian is making sure the person you are disciplining trusts you and knows that you love them, even if you have to be hard on them sometimes.

This part is especially hard with Michelle. Michelle is only four years old and four year olds misinterpret things often; you yell at her, and she may think you don't like her anymore (like when Uncle Jesse shouted at her last year, and she ran away to Teddy's house). On top of that, Michelle doesn't have a mother in her life; she doesn't know the motherly love Pam would've given her, like Stephanie and DJ and I do. I know my mother would've been able to discipline Michelle, and Michelle would know that Pam loved her, punishment or not.

I'm not my mother. I don't have the experience in motherhood and taking care of others like she did (even before Stephanie, DJ, Michelle, and I came along, she had a younger brother to protect and take care of) . All I can do is learn from my mother, and one of the things I learned from her is even when you're using tough love, the person you're punishing needs to know you love them. It's especially hard to remember that with Michelle because she's younger and doesn't understand the ways of discipline like Stephanie and DJ do.

That's why I need to always remember to make sure that Michelle knows that I love her and that I always will. She's my baby sister, and no matter how many times I punish her, at the end of the day, my love for her will only grow stronger.

I should be back within the next few hours with the next chapter, but until then, I love feedback (but keep it kind or constructive criticism because any flames will be ignored and reported if necessary) so tell me what you thought in the form of a review or a PM, and if you do, I will try to get back to you as soon as possible to thank you for taking the time to review and answer any questions you may have. Thank you.

Did you like Michelle's punishment? That was my favorite part because I thought it was fitting for what Michelle did wrong.

Thanks for reading! Goodbye, everyone!