The first night at the Hollander hotel had been nice for all three boy quads. They all slept there, without knowing about each other. Each one of them thought they were alone there, with their families. But they were not.

Dicky woke up in his bed. He felt something holding onto his shoulders, and when he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a smiling Alec.

"Finally, you're awake"

Dicky's hand automatically moved up to rub his eye.

"Everyone has already gone to eat breakfast, get up dude" Alec removed Dicky's blanket for him.

Unwillingly, Dicky sat up and hopped out of his hotel bed. Alec was already dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, standing by the little wardrobe. Dicky dragged his feet over there, and swung the doors open. One of the shirts he had packed fell onto the wardrobe, and so it was chosen for the day.

"Hurry up, turtle" Alec laughed as Dicky put the shirt on him.

After a minute, Dicky was dressed, and they were on their way to the hotel restaurant. The carpeted floor felt weird under Dicky's feet. It was like he was outside on grass or something.

They reached the restaurant, and Alec quickly spotted the other four by a window. He pointed them out for Dicky, and they went over there.

"Good morning, Dicky" Isobel smiled, but it was clear it was fake. She looked like she was trying to seem happy, but really wasn't.

"Good morning" Dicky's smile however, was real.

Alec and him sat down on two chairs. Steph looked at them excitedly.

"Mom and dad said we're gonna go somewhere in town today!"

Dicky and Alec started smiling too. They nodded to each other.

"Sounds good"

There was a short, awkward silence. No one really had anything to say.

"Boys, you did lock the door, right?" Marcus looked up from his tomato sandwich.

Dicky and Alec gave each other a quick look, asking each other if they had done it by doing so. Both of them realized they hadn't.

"One of you, hurry off and lock it"

"I'll do it" Dicky stood up from his chair and turned around. As he walked away he could hear Isobel quietly telling Marcus off for making one of them do it.

He didn't care about having to go back.

At the same time Nicky left room 27. All of the other Thornton's were already at breakfast, but he didn't feel hungry at the time. He told them he would come in a few minutes, and now was the time.

The blueberry pancakes from the breakfast menu (Braelynn sent a picture) had sounded very tempting, and now he needed some.

He walked down the corridor, approaching where it divided in three directions. The rooms, the bathrooms, and the restaurant.

What Nicky didn't know was that right at that moment, Ricky stepped out of the men's bathroom, and Dicky was coming from the restaurant. Unaware of each other's presence, the Harper boys walked down their parts of the corridor, all looking down at their feet.

Then Ricky looked up when they were a couple of meters away from each other. He gasped, and his eyes filled with tears. Ricky's gasp made Nicky and Dicky look up to. As their eyes watered too, they stared at each other in indescribable happiness.

"Oh my goodness!" Nicky wiped a tear away with his yellow sleeve.

All three of them ran the last meters to each other, and threw their arms around each other.

"I can't believe this!" Ricky sobbed with happiness tears.

"But, what are you guys doing here?" Dicky looked at them as they let go into a slightly lighter hug. It was more like a quaddle now.

"We went here for my foster dad's business trip"

"My foster mom let me choose where I wanted to go, as a celebration trip that I had been there for a month"

"Isobel and Marcus fight all the time, so they got this trip as an apology for us"

The boys all nodded at each other's reasons, while still smiling and crying. They tightened their grip around each other, and hugged again.

Alec, Meghan and Braelynn then came from the restaurant corridor. All three of them stopped right in their tracks when they saw the boys in the fork of the corridor.

"Dicky, what are you doing?" Alec was obviously confused.

"Richard, who are these people?" Meghan was just as demented.

"Nicky, are they your brothers?" Braelynn was no different.

Nicky, Ricky and Dicky all let go of each other, and turned towards their foster siblings.

"I'm hugging my quads" Dicky wiped a tear away.

"Meghan, these are my brothers"

"Yes, they are"

Meghan, Braelynn and Alec all looked at the quads, shocked and confused. Braelynn was the first to speak up, and actually do something.

"That's amazing!" She walked up to Ricky and Dicky. "Hey! I'm Braelynn"

Ricky reached out his hand, and shook Braelynn's.

"Ricky. And not Richard" He gave Meghan an annoyed glance.

"I'm Dicky"

Alec walked up to them, smiling.

"And I'm Alec"

"Nicky"

"Ricky"

Meghan kept her place a couple of meters away from them. She looked nervous in a way, like she wanted to go up to them, but couldn't. Ricky noticed this.

"Meghan, is something wrong?"

Immediately, Meghan looked away.

"N-... No"

Ricky tilted his head.

"Look, Meghan. There's clearly something that's not right. You can tell us"

A tear rolled down Meghan's face.

"Okay..." She took a deep breath. "I've just... always wanted a sibling, and now I kind of got one... But it didn't feel right. Mother and father ruined it for me, and they made me act just like them"

Everyone looked confused, except Ricky, who seemed kind of shocked.

"Really, Meghan?"

Meghan nodded.

"Now that I saw you with your siblings, I just like... realized what it should be like, and how much you love them... but hate me"

"I don't hate you..." Ricky tried to sound comforting as he walked up to Meghan. She gave him a quick 'are-you-serious' look.

"Okay, I kind of did. But not anymore"

Meghan smiled, and so did everyone else.

Silence followed for almost a minute. But it wasn't awkward. It felt nice. Alec suddenly flinched.

"Shouldn't we like... go back to our families, and see each other later?"

Everyone else seemed to like that suggestion. They got together with their foster sibling, and walked off in different directions in the restaurant.