The next was saturday morning and the kids slowly started to make their way downstairs and soon as they started smelling the aroma of pancakes and waffles.
"Morning babies" Stef said as Callie, Aria, and Jesus made their way downstairs.
"Morning mom, morning mama" Was the kids sleepily reply.
"Morning" Mariana and Brandon said right behind the other kids as everyone started to sit down and serve themselves some breakfast.
"Jesus, can you catch this in your mouth if I throw it to you?" Aria asked getting a piece of bacon ready to toss to her brother who was sitting across the table from her.
"Hit me!" Jesus said as Aria threw it. He caught it flawlessly. "Oh yeah!" Jesus and Aria exclaimed. "Your turn!" Jesus said to Aria as he threw a piece to her.
"Epic fail!" Aria laughed as she missed the bacon by a good 3 inches. "I was so not close" She said as she stood up to grab the bacon.
"Really you two? Can we go one meal without food flying across the table?" Lena asked as Stef gave the two trouble makers a glare of mock sternness, although she was happy Aria seemed to be in a better mood then the night before and seemed to actually be eating a decant amount.
"Nope" Jesus, Callie, and Aria said at the same time laughing as Brandon tossed Aria a waffle.
"Can we at least try?" Lena asked hopefully.
"Fine! Ruin all our fun" Jesus said laughing.
"I agree with Mama on this one" Mariana said. "I would love to just be able to eat and not have to worry about getting food in my hair"
"Come on, it would look better than it does now" Jesus said as he pretended to get bacon grease in her hair.
"Knock it off. All of you" Lena said trying to stop a fight that she knew was going to happen.
Stef too, quickly jumped in to help her wife stop a fight among all of the teenagers at the table, "So it's Saturday, what's everyone's plans? Or do we have you all captured here for once?" Stef raised an eyebrow jokingly while inquiring what her children all planned to do for the next two days.
"Im planing on skyping one of my friends on my laptop" Aria said nonchalantly.
"You have friends to skype?" Jesus teased his sister while grabbing another piece of bacon from the plate.
"Yes, I do as as a matter of a fact. He is going to help me get onto the school swim team when it starts" She added.
"That's great new love..." Lena started.
"Wait, he?" Callie and Brandon both called out in the annoying older sibling wondering who you are dating type of way.
"Yes he, and eww no. I would rather date a pregnant hairless cat" Aria added with a smirk.
"Gross." Mariana whined before looking to her moms, "Can I be excused I have plans with Lexie; and don't care to hear about dates with hairless cats." Without much more from her, Mariana left the room while the conversation continued.
Lena wrinkled her forehead while glancing around at her children, "I have such strange kids. Anyway the important part is you getting on the team and you knowing someone on it already, does it sound like something you're going to enjoy?"
"Hell ya! I mean the practise sound like they are going to kick my ass most days (in real life they do lol) but the team is great and we have meets every friday." Aria said forgetting that her foster moms don't like her swearing.
"Love, language please." Lena quickly jumped in.
"But the rest of that sounds great, it'll give you something to do and maybe help you make some friends at Anchor Beach." Stef quickly added, excited to see her daughter excited about something, "And do you think you'll be able to get on the team? "
"Everyone makes it. It's a small team he said last year there were only 11 people on it so they were all varsity" Aria said.
"That's awesome, love!"
"So my little sister is gonna be a jock huh?" Jesus teased, "Guess you'll get varsity status before I do for wrestling."
"Yeah" Aria said throwing a piece of bacon at Jesus. "Get use to it" She added as she dodged a piece getting thrown back at her.
"So you're gonna be on the swim team again? Wasn't that part of the problem the first time?" Callie spat her words towards Aria, then turned to her moms, "You're going to let her do this?"
"Callie, shut up" Aria said as she and Jesus started talking about life as a jock in high school.
Stef and Lena began to clean off the table after Callie stormed off when Aria told her to shut up and her moms ignored the outburst, outside to make the time less awkward. Jesus and Aria continued to tease each other and discuss their sports teams.
"At least I get a cool uniform. What you guys have to wear makes it look like you are going to be performing at a ballet performance or something like like" Aria laughed.
"Low blow dude!" Jesus cackled with laughter, "Wrestling is manly. That's why I get all the girls, what are you gonna have to show for your little swimming team?"
"Hot dudes with their shirts off at every meet" Aria laughed.
"Gross." Jesus faked vomiting, "Now, if there were girls, than maybe." He raised his eyebrows jokingly.
"Eww." Aria laughed as she slapped him across the face playfully.
"So do I get to meet this friend at least?" Jesus said after he was able to finally stop laughing, "I mean, I'd like to approve of him of course being the big brother and all. Plus I don't have any weekend plans."
"Why do you need to approve of him? I am not gonna date him. and hell to the no you aint meeting him." Aria said getting up finally and helping her mom's wash and dry the dishes.
"That's what you say now but how can you be so sure?" Jesus continued his teasing, getting ready to get up and go into the other room.
"Like I said I would rather date a pregnant hairless cat" Aria called after him chuckling to herself.
"Glad to know we don't have to worry about at least one of you kids dating." Stef chuckled while taking a dish from Aria.
"How do you know that I am dating someone and I just didn't tell you guys about it?" Aria said with a smirk.
"Aria Jacobs, if you are dating someone, we as your mothers better know right now." Stef turned from the dishes and tried to keep from laughing at her daughter's smirking face.
"I am a woman of many mysteries" Aria said loving to see Stef get riled up.
"Aria! You better tell me right now..." Stef started to raise her voice.
"Stef, love. Calm down, she's purposely doing this." Lena was chuckling at how Aria could read Stef like an open book.
"Or am I?" Aria said with a dead straight face.
Stef and Lena both glanced at eachother before speaking against, "Well, as your moms, we would like to put down the rule that if you're dating we need to at least know the name of the person." Stef was trying not to let her emotions show through and she was trying to play her daughter's game.
"You guys are way too easy!" Aria said laughing.
"What does that mean!" Stef finally started laughing realizing that Aria had been messing with them the entire time.
"Thats for me to know and you to find out" Aria said as she started to walk away up to her room.
"You better be going to your room for that smartass comment" Stef caled out after her daughter but couldn't keep her chuckling quiet.
"I was but now I am thinking about heading to my friend Jacob's house" Aria said as she made her way to the door pretending that she was leaving. Instead of leaving she went up to her room to fire up her laptop.
"Hey dude" Aria said as her skype call went through and she saw Jacob's face on the screen.
"Hey! what's up?" Jacob asked.
"I just had the most hilarious breakfast ever" Aria said as she proceeded to tell him about it.
"Hmm. I don't know if I should be relieved or offended that you think that a pregnant hairless is more attractive than me" Jacob said as he started laughing.
"Eh. Both?" Aria said laughing at the hurt expression on his face. "So anyways after that happened I was talking to my foster brother Jesus about sports..." Aria continued to tell the story.
"That's great!" Jacob said laughing when Aria told him about the little game she played with Stef and Lena.
"It was great!" Aria said.
"Telling all those cute swim team girls about your smoking hot brother?" Jesus came into the room trying to look as buff as he could after hearing Aria mention his name to someone on the computer.
"No. I am telling the swim team guy how you look like a pretty little ballerina in you wrestling uniform" Aria said as Jacob started laughing.
"Okay no, man you gotta help me out here. Explain to her that it's a dude sport!" Jesus was frantically waving his arms to the outline of a person on the computer screen from his spot at the door.
"Whatever you say Ballerina" Jacob said from the screen. "Ill talk to you later Aria" Jacob added as he hung up the call.
"Oh. Sorry, I didn't expect to interrupt and have them hang up on you." Jesus quickly apologized feeling guilty.
"Nah. It's fine. He had to go anyways. They were having a family day" Aria said as she closed her laptop.
"Ah okay good. I can stop pretending now huh?" He joked, "So anyway, the real reason I came up is because everyone else had plans and moms seem pretty set on making sure we're all out of the house today, and honestly I'd rather not imagine why. So do you have any plans to leave I can tell them?"
"First of all ewwww. Thanks for putting that image in my mind and no, not really I was just going to chill around the house. But maybe you and I can do something?" Aria suggested.
"Oh thank you, I did not want to hear that all day today." Jesus laughed, "What are you up for?"
"I don't know. You pick something" Aria said.
"Wow, thanks for that insightful help." Jesus pulled out his phone, "Skatepark, movie, mall? Anything sound good?"
"Movies?" Aria suggested.
"I'm down, it should get us out of here long enough. Wanna go in like ten minutes so you can get ready." Jesus was about the leave the room before turning back around to face Aria, "Should we bring friends or something?"
"Well my friends are busy today" Aria said. "I don't care if it is just you and me" She quickly added.
"Fine, I won't meet your friends, I see how it is." Jesus laughed, "I'll drive, fifteen minutes and I'm leaving."
"Alright. Meet me downstairs. Ill let Stef and Lena know" Aria said.
A few minutes later and the two teens were in the car on their way into town to see a movie, it had been a few minutes since Jesus had last said something until he finally glanced over to his younger sister and then back to the road, "Okay, it's been bugging me. What did Callie mean earlier when she flipped out about you doing swimming and then she yelled at moms?"
"It's a past that I don't want to get into. I already shared a lot with them and I am surprised that
I am still in this house after they learned about it. I don't want to add more to it and have the risk of getting kicked out" Aria said.
"Okay..." Jesus paused, he wasn't the sibling that usually did the deep talks, all of them had horrible stuff happened to them while in the system and he choose to try and make now a happier time by not mentioning it, "As long as you're okay? Right? Cause the others don't do sports or boarding or any of the cool stuff like you." He joked.
"Don't worry. I am fine" Aria said.
The car then pulled into the parking lot and the two walked into the movie theater while making jokes the entire time. Both were grateful to get out of the house, but Aria was even more thankful for just an easy happy day with her family after the drama she had been dealing with the last couple of weeks.