Hey y'all! First of all I am so sorry this is going up later than planned. I had to wipe my computer on Sunday, when I'd planned to update and I lost everything. Luckily all my fanfics were backed up on the OneDrive and my memory stick but I was missing one part so had to type that up again. Only just finished typing it so getting this up now. Thanks for sticking with me. Big thanks to JaneAndMaura05, Vbbneighbor, Sweekid45, MH6459 and guests Jen and Vanilla for their reviews and Madbadger for doing a monster read to catch us all up! Glad you enjoyed it that much

Lots of festive love,

LM xxxxxxx

A New Family, a New Future-Part 3:

It had been a couple of days since Jane and Maura had left on honeymoon and Cailin and Angela were in the main house with Louisa. The time was being used well and Louisa was helping Cailin check off the various lists with things she'd need for college whilst Angela was packing things into boxes and labelling them. The three had quite a good system going and they were hoping to have everything sorted by the time Jane and Maura returned from their honeymoon.

Louisa's friends, all five of them, had been rather silent over the summer and Louisa had been wondering what was going on as she didn't understand what she'd done wrong. All the plans they'd made over the summer had slowly fallen through and Louisa couldn't help but wonder what was going on.

In the end she decided to say to them that she and Cailin would meet them at their favourite juice bar and if they didn't show up then Louisa would know they had a problem with her. Cailin hadn't wanted to go but she just had a feeling that the five girls had been keeping a secret from Louisa and if they were then she'd be there to help Louisa.

Cailin and Louisa arrived and went and purchased their favourite juices before they went and sat down and eventually Ariana, Jessica, Bex, Lana and Jen walked in and grabbed their juices and walked over to the table and sat down.

"Hey," Louisa smiled before sipping her juice, "how are you all?"

"Fine thanks. You?" Ariana said.

"Wondering what is going on and why you lot have been avoiding me all summer," Louisa said, deciding to get it over and done with, "we made all those plans and then you delete me from the WhatsApp group and then say that all our plans have been cancelled. What have I done wrong?"

The five girls looked at each other, knowing that someone was going to have to say something. Lana sighed and looked at Louisa,

"We're not going to the same high school as you and we didn't know how to tell you because we don't want to upset you…"

"Don't use my past against me. The fact is you have lied to me and I hate liars. If you were my friends you'd have told me in the first place. Thanks for caring," Louisa said with as much sarcasm as a 13-year-old could manage before Cailin just grabbed Louisa's hand and led the girl out of the juice bar and round to Starbucks.

"Go and find a seat and I'll grab some food and drink," Cailin said before Louisa went off to find a table and waited for Cailin. She checked her phone and none of the group had text her so she just deleted their numbers from her phone. She had just put it down when Cailin arrived with their food and drink.

The two sat there in silence before Cailin looked at Louisa.

"How you feeling?" she asked.

"I don't really know," Louisa sighed, "they're meant to be my friends, yet when it came down to it they just shut me out and tell me this right before we start school," she said before Cailin checked her phone and gasped.

"Good job I got these in takeout cups. You've got a Skype call with Jane and Maura in 45 minutes. We need to get back," she said before she and Louisa quickly finished their food before heading out to Cailin's car and driving the short distance back to Beacon Hill so Louisa could get ready for the Skype call.

"Hey Lou!" came Jane's voice a little while later and then Maura came into shot.

"Jane! Maura!" Louisa smiled, having already made up her mind that she wasn't going to tell them about what had happened with the girls, "how is the honeymoon going?"

"It's so warm here and we are going to come back with a tan, that's for sure and we've already got you some stuff," Maura said, "mind you Jane doesn't seem to be tanning at all. They had some stuff that will go well in your new room so that's what we've got you. How are things going in Boston?"

"It's going really well thanks. I'm helping Cailin pack for her college apartment with Angela and I never realised how much stuff someone had to take to college. I swear Cailin isn't going to need everything that she is taking," Louisa said causing Jane and Maura to laugh.

"Oh Louisa! That's the whole point of college, taking more than you need and then never using any of it!" Maura laughed as she looked at Louisa's face, "I did it and I'm sure Jane did it. A lot of it is to wind up your parents and get them all annoyed so they'll realise how much they'll miss you and the teenager thinks they'll need it all when they don't really need it."

"So you're fully expecting me to do the same?"

"Yes we do," Jane said, before Angela appeared, "Lou…we'll say goodbye here because we need to talk to my Ma ok?"

"OK. I love you both," Louisa said as Angela walked over.

"Cailin's over in the guesthouse," she said before Louisa headed off and Angela sat down.

"Hey Angela. Have you seen the news?" Maura asked.

"Yes they said something about a hurricane that's heading your way," Angela said, "we haven't told Louisa though."

"It's only set to be a small one so we've decided to stay but don't tell her either way. Luckily I've set her social media up so no news stuff appears on her feeds so she won't know," Maura said, "but just make sure she doesn't find out."

"Are you sure it's a good idea to stay?" Angela asked.

"Ma it's only going to be a weak Category 1 storm. We'll be fine. We just don't want Lou getting worried and then her keep asking you to check on us. We'll be fine, just make sure Lou doesn't know anything about it."

"I'm not happy with keeping it from her but if you think it's for the best then that is what I will do. After all you'll officially be her parents in two weeks time," Angela said.

"If there was any threat or danger then we'd be preparing to evac out and back to Boston," Maura said, "we'll be fine. Our main concern is that Louisa doesn't find out about it because we don't want her thinking that she's going to lose us. I can't bare the thought of putting her through that all over again. She lost Sadie and Brian but she won't lose us. Promise you tell her Angela."

"OK OK I promise not to tell her but that doesn't mean I'm keeping it from the rest of them. I'll keep it from Cailin though as those two are as thick as thieves but I'm telling Frankie, Frost and the others."

"We'll settle at that. We'd better go and get ready for dinner. Give our girl a hug for us. Love you," Jane said before the call ended.

Angela sat back and wondered if things would stay as they were, or get worse. Only time would tell.