When they school day was over, Rachel went to pick up Ben and Karen from after school club. Eddie was going to take Jake home, he wanted to talk to him on his own.

"Mummy" Karen shouted as she ran over and wrapped her arms over, Ben of course done no such thing, he looked sulky, his lower lip protruding.

"Whats wrong Ben?" She asked

"Nothing, but Mrs Kennedy wants to see you" he said, just as Rachel seen the woman who ran the after school club walking towards them.

"Mrs Lawson, can I have a quiet word please?" she asked. Rachel nodded and let go of Karen's hand, urging her to go play for a few moments.

"Is there a problem?" Rachel asked in concern.

"No, I just want to say how sorry I am and if there is anything I can do to help, then please let me know"

Rachel was confused, what was she talking about it.

"I'm sorry you lost me"

"Your Husband, you know the police"

Rachel was really confused now, but she knew exactly where this was coming from.

"Is this something Ben has said?"

"Yes, that your husband got arrested, for stealing from the casino"

Rachel threw a look over to her youngest son, who was now standing on top of the saddle on a toy bike, with a pretend sword, swooshing it about in the air.

"BEN, come over here please" Rachel shouted. Ben didn't want to he was playing.

"But I'm playing" he shouted back.

"now please" she replied back. Ben jumped off the bike and ran over.

"Would you like to explain to Mrs Kennedy that what you said about your father is a lie"

"It wasn't a lie, it was a dream" he replied.

"I'm sorry, but Ben has a bit of an imagination on him, whatever he tells you, don't believe it" Rachel replied, and the teacher glared at Ben.

"Well, Thank you for clearing that up" Mrs Kennedy replied. Rachel took Ben's hand, followed by Karen's and walked out to the car.

"Ben, how do you think your father is going to feel, people thinking he got arrested, whatever possessed you to say that"

"Cos it's cooler to have a Casino robber for a Dad than a Maths teacher" he replied in defense.

"Well, it's wrong, you can go home and apologies to your father"

"But you lie to us all the time" Ben replied

"I do not"

"Yeah you do, you said eating carrots makes you see in the dark, not true, because I did an experiment last night, I made Karen eat all the carrots in the kitchen, then locked her in the cupboard, and she couldn't see"

"You did what Ben, when?"

"When you were doing work and we were playing"

"Karen is this true"

"Yes Mummy, but I was playing with my teddies at the time, we pretended we were in big brother, and it was a weekly challenge"

Rachel really did wonder what went through her children's heads at times.

"Big Brother, Karen, when did you watch big brother?" Rachel questioned.

"All the time in Jake's room" she replied. "It's funny, they get all whiney in the diary room and start crying when they fail, or someone is mean to them. They go like, it's not fair, he had more biscuits than me, or it's not fair that man smoked all the cigarettes. Then Big brother makes them do something stupid, like the time they had to all dress up as cats and walk about purring all day"

"Well no more Big Brother Karen, its no appropriate for you, or for Jake for that matter"

"What does not appropriate mean, does it mean naughty?" Ben asked

"It means, not right, or not fitting" Ben turned his head to indicated he still did not understand.

"Yes it means Naughty" Rachel replied exasperated by the whole conversation.