Carol pulled up the Martinez driveway thankful that they were willing for the boys to come over after school and they would give them dinner. Carol looked through her wallet walking up the path to give them some money to help with the food costs of feeding three teenage boys. She was early she knew they were not expecting her for another hour. She knocked on the door and Andrea opened the door and invited her in.

'The kids are in the lounge,' she told Carol she stuck her head in and saw Nathan and Mitch sitting there and no Charlotte and Daniel anywhere to be seen. 'Charlotte and Nathan have gone to the store for me, I thought it was best to split Daniel and Charlotte up a little bit, Charlottes got her licence and her own car, Daryl and Caesar fixed it up for her 16th birthday,'

'That's nice,' Carol said, she looked hard at Andrea she had no idea of what was going on under her roof, she didn't know if she should tell Andrea the boys were playing tricks on them. She looked around to make sure Caesar was around or not before she told her, 'Where's Caesar?'

'He's at the club with Merle trying to clean up the fight between Daryl and Connor, Daryl got a case of the jelly fish's today,' Andrea said.

'Yeah, I left him handcuffed to the bench at the police station,'

'Really he's going to be spitting tacks,'

'Andrea?'

'Yeah?'

'Can I tell you something?'

'Yeah?'

'You didn't send Nathan to the store with Charlotte, you sent Daniel,' Carol told her.

'Daniel but when they come in Daniel had the denim jacket on,'

'He swaps with Nathan, Nathan and Daniel have been swapping a lot,' Carol told her, 'Mitch too wild to pick up Daniels personality, but he helps cover, but that's Nathan... NATHAN!' she called out towards the lounge, no one come, ' COME HERE RIGHT NOW!' Carol called, Nathan shuffled down the hall towards the kitchen doing the awkward foot shuffle that his father did when he was unsure or worried.

'Tell Andrea!"

'Ummmmmmmmmmm,'

'Tell Andrea why you did,'

'We been swapping for weeks, you keep separating Daniel and Charlotte so we swap and you just keep putting them together,' Nathan admitted.

'Charlotte is in on this,' Andrea said.

'Course she is, she suggested it,' Nathan threw Charlotte under the bus, Carol waved him away a little bit. Nathan went back to the lounge Andrea looked at her watch and picked up her cell phone.

'Charlotte I want you and Daniel home right now!' she spoke into her cell phone. She looked at Carol, Carol bit her lip, she wanted to try say something. She didn't know what to do this was way out of her parenting zone.

'I'm sorry, I don't know what to do here, I've only had them two months,' Carol admitted Andrea nodded.

'Its ok, I've been parenting 16years, watch and learn, you're not going to flip out if I ground your boys?' Carol shook her head, Andrea stormed through to the house into the lounge, 'Right, you two, who was in on this?'

They both looked guilty, they didn't meet her eyes. They glanced at their mother to see if she would stick up for them. They quickly realized that they were in the shit well and truly with Andrea and their mother was backing Andrea, they also knew that their Dad would go mad about the game they were playing and the fact they knew that Daniel was mucking about with Charlotte.

Carol looked at her boys and in two months they were sneaking around and swapping their identities, she looked them over. Somehow over the past few months they had taken some of Daryl's traits. Lying seemed to be at the top of the list and chasing tail seemed to be the next trait. Carol groaned, she didn't know what to do. She half listened to Andrea grounding her son's. She grounded them for one week in the house and one week hard labour at the garage. She then turned to the front door as it clicked open.

Daniel to his credit stood facing Andrea holding Charlottes hand. Carol was proud that he was standing beside Charlotte waiting for his punishment. Caesar come into the house via the garage and walked down the hall, it was the first time he got in trouble with his mother, his eyes widened seeing her father, he'd seen violence and experienced violence and was prepared to protect Charlotte. He looked frighten, he pushed Charlotte behind him and looked challenging to Andrea and Caesar with narrowed eyes waiting.

'What's going on?' Caesar looked at the stand off.

'The boys have been swapping and we thinking we are sending off one of the others with Charlotte and its still Daniel,' Andrea told him.

'Oh yeah?' Caesar looked at Daniel, 'You been touching my daughter?' He challenged Daniel.

'No sir,' Daniel lied, He was still holding Charlotte's hand, 'We just... going steady, I ain't done nothing wrong,'

Caesar narrowed his eyes studying Daniel, he looked at the two guilty boys in the lounge. 'This isn't good boys, Daniel, you come to my shop tomorrow,' he told Daniel then he wandered off upstairs to go shower.

'Kitchen now,' Andrea told them, she sat them at the table, 'Lets talk... I'm a bit concerned here about some things,'

Charlotte's face flamed, Daniel shuffled and finally sat on a chair. Carol didn't know what was going on.

'I've got condom's missing from my bedroom,' Andrea said, 'And unless your Dad is fooling around, which if that is the case he will be going for a drive with Merle, I'm asking if you have taken them Charlotte?'

'Yes...' she whispered.

Daniels face flamed, Carol wanted to die, she wanted to be anywhere else in the world but at the table talking about birth control with a 16 year old girl but she took a breath. 'Charlotte are you and Daniel having sex?' She asked her because Daniel appeared to be speechless.

'No... not really, we took them just in case,' Charlotte whispered.

'You know I had the boys at 16, and I just got them back, I'm not going to tell you both not to have sex, but if you are, I think you need to be on the pill and use condoms... and don't have sex,'

'Oh my god, can we not!' Daniel stood up and walked around the room, 'We are not ok, we just... don't want to end up like you and Dad... all fucked up,' he leaned over and kissed Charlotte on the mouth in front of her mother and his, 'I'ma gonna walk home, where's Dad?'

'At the hospital, probably,' Carol told him, 'Don't walk we will go home now, but Andrea has something she wants to tell you,'

Andrea grounded Daniel as well as his brothers. Carol managed to give Andrea some money and she also she made plan's to get together to talk about the kids tomorrow. She was feeling like she was way out of her league of parenting skills. She wanted to take Andrea home with her to help her enforce the rules. Andrea walked her out and gave her a hug.

'Just remember you arrest people, you even managed to slam and cuff Daryl today, those boys, a piece of cake,' Andrea told her. She really hoped Andrea was right.