A/N: So, time for another update! Not too much homework this weekend, so I had a little bit of time to write. Also, everyone please sign that petition in my profile to keep MIOBI alive! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Make It or Break It

Spending time with the kids was a blessing and a curse for Payson. It helped her bring out her child-like characteristics. It also relieved some of the constant pressure of being a professional athlete. As she played Pat-a-Cake on her dorm room floor, she temporarily forgot about Lauren's health, being in a relationship, and gymnastics, and took time to just relax and be a kid.

It was not always easy, though. When she was not acting like a kid, she was acting like a grown adult. She could not just act like their babysitter, she had to remember her actual role in their life; Payson was their mother, not their babysitter. She was tied down to these kids for as long as they were here. There were times she wanted to just walk out of the room and do her own thing, but she knew that wasn't an option. Whenever she felt like that, Payson just thought of her future self and how angry future-Payson would be if anything happened to her children.

For the next however days, her life was going to be a routine. Right after she was done with practice, she would rush over back to her dorm room where Addie and Liam have been waiting for ten minutes. There was something in her gut, though, that didn't trust those kids alone in a dorm room, but they didn't really have a choice. She would have zero free time. While everyone was out having fun or doing other thing, she was here being a mother. This was only the second day, but Payson could tell she was going to burst any minute.

She was in the middle of changing Liam's diaper when she heard a knock on her dorm room door. "Just a sec," she said as she quickly finished up. "Alright. Come in."

When the door opened, she was glad to see Rigo standing behind it—something that reminded her of her usual life and someone else who doesn't still get Happy Meals.

"Hey!" Payson said as she got up from the floor. She went over to Rigo, planting a small kiss on his lips. As soon as she pulled away, Rigo pulled her into another kiss; this time it was longer and more passionate.

When he attempted to deepen the kiss, Payson quickly pulled away. She frowned as she said, "Rigo… my little cousins are in the room."

He scowled as he replied, "How could I forget? They've practically become your little accessories since yesterday."

Payson glared at him. She didn't know whether that was supposed to be a joke or a low blow; either way, she didn't like it.

"Rigo, they're my responsibility…"

Rigo sighed, looking away from Payson. "How about Austin? Shouldn't he be helping you with this?"

"He is helping me with this," she answered.

"Then where is he?"

Payson was getting extremely irritated now. She really liked Rigo, but he acted a bit immaturely at times. "He's at practice, so right now they are my responsibility and mine only," she paused, "Rigo, why are you acting like this?"

"I don't know. Maybe because it feels like I haven't spent time with my 'girlfriend' in forever," he said putting air quotes around 'girlfriend.'

This was starting to get out of hand for Payson. He was acting like he hadn't seen her for weeks when they just hung out yesterday. But a part of her felt bad, as well. She is supposed to be his girlfriend, but instead she was being a mom. Rigo was acting as if he was first in her life right now, but family always had to come first, no matter what. It killed Payson to have to turn him down, but deep down she knew it was the right thing.

"Rigo, I know, and I'm sorry, but Addie and Liam are my… my main priorities right now," she paused, "you can hang out with us if you want," she suggested.

"Thanks, but I'll pass," he paused, "How about when Austin is done with practice? Can he take them while we hang out?"

Payson thought about it for a minute and was going to agree when she remembered that her and Austin were going to take them out for ice cream outside of campus when his practice was over. She looked at the clock and realized Austin was probably done with practice around this time; it was too late to cancel her plans now. She looked down, not wanting to look at his face while turning him down. "I cant. Austin and I were actually going to take them out for ice cream when he gets out of practice."

Coincidentally, as soon as she that was said, Austin came into her room. "Sorry, am I interrupting?" Austin asked as he caught eye of Rigo in the room.

Rigo sighed. "No. Not anymore," he paused heading toward the door, "Call me when I'm not the fifth wheel, okay?" he said to Payson.

Austin watched as Rigo left Payson's dorm room. He wondered what had happened. He never paid too much attention to the BMX rider; he just never appeared to have any real depth in his personality. The few times he had seen Rigo, he always came off incredibly cheesy to him and a little too perfect. He never pictured him to have an angry side.

"Is everything okay?" he asked to Payson.

Payson rolled her eyes, although it looked like her eyes were watering a bit. "Yeah, everything's fine. Rigo and I just got into a little argument."

"He seemed angry," Addie noted.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Austin asked.

Payson was going to ask him how he and Kaylie were able to keep their relationship smooth, even with all of what has been going on, but she recognized that it was none of her business, so she just shook her head and suggested for them to start going.

…

Having a boyfriend who was a BMX rider had its pros and cons. It was good for getting her mind off of gymnastics, but it was bad for getting her mind too much off of gymnastics. It was nice talking to someone about gymnastics who wasn't on the girls team. She could never a hundred percent trust the girls on her team because they technically were still her competitors. Fully trusting your competition wasn't always the best idea because you never really knew their motives and tactics.

"So, how was practice?" she asked Austin when they were sitting at a table in the ice cream shop.

"It was alright I guess. I've been trying to land my Tripple Back on floor."

"Really?" she said, clearly impressed, "that's a tough skill!"

"Pshh. I'm a tough-skill kind of guy,"

Payson laughed as he continued. "I just hope it's enough to get onto the team."

She gasped. "Austin, you can't think like that! You cannot doubt yourself, ever."

"Payson, come on, let's face it. I'm the oldest guy on the team. The guys are starting to peak, and I'm not," he shrugged," I've already peaked, and there's nothing I can do about it."

"Austin… you're acting as if you're on your death bed. You're only twenty-one, not sixty-one," she remarked, "Come on, you're Austin Tucker. You belong on that team. And so what if you've peaked? You can peak twice."

He sighed as he changed the subject. He did not want to talk about it anymore. "What about you, Pay? How's your gymnastics going?"

She shrugged. "It's going alright. I'm a little nervous about cuts, but I think if I finally land my Double Illusion, I'll be okay."

"Dude, that will totally knock the judge's socks off; I'm tellin' you, Keeler. That's a dangerous skill."

She smirked. "Well, I'm a dangerous-skill kind of girl," she said, mimicking his wording from earlier, "and I thought you didn't take women's gymnastics seriously?" she teased.

"Hey, hey, hey; I never said I didn't take women's gymnastics seriously. I just think that men's gymnastics are more challenging," he remarked.

"Oh, is that what you think?"

"It is! We do six apparatuses; you girls only do four."

"You've gotta be kidding me! The four we do are so much more difficult than the six you guys do put together. And let's be honest, the girls are the face of gymnastics."

"The girls. The girls? I am the face of gymnastics, therefore the boys are the face of gymnastics," he joked.

Payson laughed in disbelief as she put down her ice cream, "Addie, you're a gymnast. When you think of gymnastics, you think of girls, right?"

Addie nodded, as Austin spoke. "Of course she's going to think of girls. She is a girl!"

"Oh, so you're saying if we asked her who the face of… let's say… football was. You're saying she would say girls because she's a girl?"

He sighed, throwing his hands up in the air. "Alright, Keeler, you got me. Girls are the face of gymnastics."

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha," Payson sing-songed, trying to rub it in his face that she was right all along. "But I still think mens gymnastics is more challenging," he added.

"Whatever you say, Tucker!"

"But seriously, if you want, I could help you on your Double Illusion. Besides from being incredibly good- looking and extremely talented, I do happen to be an awesome coach."

"Uhm, if I recall, the last time you tried to help me out, we ended up doing cat noises on the floor…" she pointed out.

Austin laughed as he recollected on the memory. Besides from being one of the only memories he had of just himself and Payson, it was one of the best memories he had from the Rock. The look on her face when he started purring was one that he would never forget, and the memory was one he would still remind her of even in ten years. "Oh, shut up, Payson. Do you want the help or not?"

Payson sighed. "I don't think so. I have like zero time these days. Between them and training, I barely have time for my boyfriend."

Austin was shocked. A couple months ago, Payson would never have chosen spending a time with a boy over extra training. It was an unusual side of her, and he wasn't exactly sure if he liked it or not. "Payson Keeler, the most focused gymnast alive, is choosing a boy over extra training?" he put a hand on her forehead, "Are you feeling alright?"

She removed his hand from her forehead as she replied, "Yes, I'm fine," she paused, "Not only that… but you can't help your girlfriend's competitor."

"Payson, she's also your teammate. And… no offense, but Kaylie is top-ranked at the moment, and you're… trailing in the middle. "

Austin didn't mean to be so harsh, but he knew saying that would motivate her. Part of Payson was quite offended by his comment, but part of her knew he was right. She was probably barely any competition to Kaylie. She was still getting used to the fact that she was no longer the top gymnast.

"Well, what can I do, you know? I'm… no longer the top gymnast; Kaylie is, and I have to accept that," she paused, looking down, "Maybe I've peaked."

"About ten minutes ago, a wise person told me that I could peak twice, and so can you." Austin placed a hand on her shoulder. "It's okay. You're going to make the comeback of the century, Keeler. Don't sweat it."

Payson looked at him. "You really think that?"

He looked back at her with pure genuineness is his eyes. "I really do. You know, I remember when you broke your back. I was watching it on TV. I was for sure that you were gonna win the All-Around."

"…but I didn't," she cut in.

"No you didn't," he agreed, "but you won something better. You won a kick-ass interview for one of those Serious Gold Medal Stories, and you won the title as the comeback kid. I mean, I'd rather win all of that than a stupid Nationals medal that might not even be real gold, to be quite honest."

Payson laughed. She really thought he was going to say something serious, but she knew the meaning behind it was serious, and it was enough to make her feel better.

Austin looked at their children and suddenly something sparked in his brain. "Hey, since they're from the future, do you think they could tell us what happened at the Olympics? Like who medaled?" Austin wondered out loud.

Payson glared at Austin. From the little she knew about time travel, she knew it was probably not the best thing to do. She had to admit, though, it was tempting. "Austin… no. I don't know much about time travel, but from what I know, if you change the future, that's like really bad and don't you want it to be a surprise?"

"We're not changing the future. We're just… finding out about it," he said smartly, "I mean, we are already are finding out a lot about the future from them just being here."

She swung her head back and forth. "It's still not a good idea, Tucker."

He smirked. "Be careful how you use my last name, Keeler. Because technically in a few years… it'll be all yours."

Payson grimaced as she thought about it. Most likely within the next fifteen years, she'd be married to Austin and her last name would be Tucker. Payson Tucker. She started to get over the fact that her future kids came over from the future, but was not exactly ready to accept the fact that her future husband was Austin. It hadn't really processed in her brain yet. Somehow she found it easier to believe that her future children came over here by a time machine than her actually ending up with Austin Tucker.

"Don't flatter yourself, Austin. You weren't exactly on the top of my possible-future-husband list, either," she said.

Either? She must have thought that she wasn't on the top of his list either. Maybe it was true, but he decided to play along just for fun. "Payson, who said you weren't on the top of my possible-future-wife list?"

"Austin, you can't honestly say that you expected me to be your future wife,' she said.

Austin was taken aback a little bit by her comment. Truth was, he was always attracted to Payson. He knew it was wrong to think of other girls like that while he was in a relationship, but he was a guy; he couldn't help it. Unlike Payson, Austin actually wasn't that shocked when he found out that he was going to end up with Payson in the long run. At first he was a tad bit shocked, but the more he got to know her, the more he could see how much it wasn't too far-fetched—her being the serious, focused one and him being… the slacker. It was one of those 'opposites attract' situations. Besides the differences in their personalities, he could see where they were similar people as well.

"You wouldn't be the first person I would have thought of, but you definitely wouldn't have been the last," he paused, "Who did you think you were going to end up with?"

She shrugged, "I don't know," she began, "I guess Rigo. I mean, he's my boyfriend, so…" she trailed off.

"Seriously, Rico?"

Payson rolled her eyes. "Rigo, Austin, Ri-go," she corrected, "Why do you seem so shocked? Who did you think I was going to end up with?"

"Hmm.." he thought, "Something in me thought Sasha, but now that I think about it… you guys are way too similar," he said.

"Me and Sasha Belov? Where would you get that idea from?"

"Do you not remember a certain kiss?"

"Oh, come on!" She was tired of everybody mentioning the kiss; she just wished it had disappeared. "It was a crush, a little sixteen year old crush. I don't understand why people can't just let it go, instead of making it into one big love story."

He knew part of her anger referred back to the interview the other day when the kiss was mentioned. Kaylie had told him all about it that same day. "Oh well, Keeler, in about ten more years, I promise it'll all blow over."

She really hoped he was right. She was tired of hearing it every five seconds and being judged on it. She just wanted a clean slate.

Author's Note: I kind of rushed on the end there because I wanted to finish this before the new episode started because I know the episode is going to be a lot about what happened last week and that made me sick. So.. Payson is starting to feel bad for Rigo in this story. Any idea on what's going to happen?

Please Review (with a cherry on top). I love seeing what you guys think of the story. It motivates me X1000.

I'm adding this little part after watching tonight's episode. WARNING: Some spoilers might be ahead. They are just... changing Payson before my eyes, not in a good way for me either. My problem with it is that they didn't even do it gradually either. Literally she came into season 3 as a totally different person. Rigo is getting too cheesy for me. I have a lot of other thoughts about him, but that's in a forum on here, so you can read it there. Anyway, I'm really mad at how much they changed Payson, but what I did like was how a little bit of the old Payson came back for about 2 minutes this episode. That was it, unfortunately. I still love Payson, though. I don't think she could ever not be my favorite character. I think I'm under like a Payson spell or something cause I can never not like her. With Jordan, all I have to say was that.. I knew it before the season even started. Wendy.. you're a freaky bitch. That's all I have to say about tonight's episode! Review with what you thought about it!