Kellie went out to the backyard to find Drew and Josslyn getting Oscar settled near the fire. Jake and Jason were eating s'mores while Trina helped Alyssa with her marshmallows. Cameron was with Aidan and Jared was bring s'mores supplies to Oscar while Jamie worked on roasting his marshmallows.
"Is Danny coming?" Alyssa asked.
"If he wants to," Kellie said.
"I'll go get him," Alyssa said.
"Nope, if he wants to join us he will," Kellie said, sitting next to Jamie and grabbing a roasting stick, "I need a marshmallow."
Jared grabbed the marshmallows and walked over to Kellie.
"I'll roast it for you," Jared said, "You shouldn't be so close the smoke."
"It's not good for the baby," Jamie said, focused on roasting his marshmallow.
"Boys, one night by campfire won't harm the baby," Kellie said, putting her hand out to Jared for the marshmallow.
"How do you know for sure?" Jared asked.
"I bet my mom could settle this," Oscar said.
"How so?" Jared asked.
"She's a baby doctor," Oscar said, "Why don't we call and ask her if Kellie can hangout by the fire?"
"Only if my mom promises to sit away from the fire because your mom said that's what she should do," Jared said.
"Deal," Kellie said.
Jared nodded his agreement.
"Dad, can you call mom and ask her?" Oscar asked Drew.
"Sure," Drew said, grabbing his phone. He called Kim and explained the situation.
When he hung up the phone, he said, "Your mom will be roasting her own marshmallows."
"Wait, huh?" Jared asked.
"The baby doctor said one night by the campfire won't hurt your Mom or the baby one bit," Drew said.
"Hand over the marshmallow," Kellie said.
"Never make deals with mom," Jamie said, trying not to laugh at this brother, "You can't win."
"But…" Jared said.
"A deal's a deal," Oscar said.
"And you want your mom to have fun right?" Josslyn asked.
Jared handed Kellie the marshmallow.
"You know, I'm going to need graham crackers and chocolate bars too," Kellie said. Josslyn passed the crackers and chocolate bars around.
Jared sat on the other side of Kellie and reluctantly pulled his own marshmallow out of the bag.
Alyssa who had finished her s'more bolted upon seeing Danny come down stares.
"You came to roast marshmallows," Alyssa said, happily. She launched herself at Danny hugging him.
"Come sit next to me," Alyssa said.
"Alyssa, let Danny decide what he wants to do," Kellie said.
"Roast marshmallows," Alyssa said, "Why else would he come down here if he wasn't going to have s'mores?"
"Alyssa," Kellie said, motioning for her to come over to her.
"You're no fun," Alyssa said, ignoring Kellie and sitting next to Trina.
Danny stood unsure of what to do.
"Do you want to stay or do you want to go home?" Jason asked him.
Danny didn't answer Jason, but walked over to Oscar and Josslyn and sat next to them.
Alyssa grabbed the marshmallows and took them to Danny. She sat next to him.
Kellie watched as the kids roasted marshmallows and chatted, noticing Jake looked unhappy that Danny was ignoring him. She also saw Cameron looking as if he wanted to intervene.
Kellie shook her head at Cameron. Cameron reluctantly backed off for the moment.
"I'm going to get something to drink," Kellie said, "Does anybody else want anything?"
Kellie was greeted by sounds of voices making there requests.
"Do you need a hand, Mrs. Morgan?" Trina asked.
"I'd appreciate it," Kellie said as she and Trina walked into the house.
"I'll give you a hand too," Drew said, following them as Jamie and Jared huddled off to the side by themselves.
Kellie led them to the garage where the extra fridge was.
Kellie started pulling out water, juice, and soda and handing them to Trina.
"Why don't we grab an ice chest?" Drew asked.
"Get some of everything," Trina said, "People can pick what they want themselves. You only have a basketball team hanging out in your backyard."
"Good idea,' Kellie said.
"If you want to go back to Joss and Oscar and Cam," Drew said to Trina, "I think we've got getting the drinks handled."
Trina looked at Kellie and Drew, "I get it, a meeting of the step parents. Good luck. After what I saw at the park with Danny today, you're going to need it."
Trina left Drew and Kellie to talk. Drew grabbed the ice chest off the shelf.
"I'm getting the impression Jason's visit with Danny and Jake at the park didn't go so well," Drew said as they added drinks to the ice chest.
"Danny was his usual self," Kellie said, "And refused to have anything to do with Jason or Jake really. He ditched them to hang out with Cameron and Trina."
"No wonder Jake is throwing daggers at Danny right now," Drew said, "And Cameron?"
"Livid at Danny for being mean to Jake," Kellie said, "Somehow Jake wanting to come over here led to Danny, Cameron, and Trina inviting themselves along. But I'm pretty sure Cameron had something to do with dragging Danny along."
"You are brave to take on having all those kids over with half them of ready to throttle each other," Drew said.
"Well, I also put Danny in time out when he got here," Kellie said.
"Still no luck getting through to him," Drew asked.
"No, Jason tried to talk to him and Danny demanded he leave," Kellie said, "But not before he let slip that he pushes Jason and Jake away because he's afraid of losing them again."
"I wish there was some way we could get him through this faster," Drew said.
"I'm trying," Kellie said, "Which while we're here, my forensic accountants turned over evidence to the police that one of of the board members and the executive director at the foundation have been embezzling funds. Some of the those payments may have been to Dawn of Day and Shiloh. The executive director and Shiloh were college roommates. And his sister works for Sec Nav."
"May have been made to Shiloh?" Drew replied.
"Investigation is still on going," Kellie said, "But I'm hoping this eventually takes care of Shiloh and Garrett."
"Does Sam know?" Drew asked.
"Not yet," Kellie said, "All this happened today. It's been a busy couple of days. And thank you for keeping Jason from beating up Evan Walsh at the Floating Rib the other night."
"I can't say he wouldn't have deserved it," Drew said, "But you're welcome."
"What exactly did he say to…" Kellie started to ask.
"If Jason didn't tell you, I won't," Drew said, lifting the ice chest, "Now what do you say we get these drinks to the kids and save Jason from wrangling them all by himself?"
In the backyard, Kellie noticed the tension between Danny and Jake still. While she was handing out drinks to the kids, Jared and Jamie approached Danny.
Kellie couldn't make out the words that were exchanged between the three boys. The next thing anyone knew a fight a broken out between Danny, Jared, and Jamie.
