Jason and Kimberly are sitting at the kitchen table doing the homework and class work that they didn't do while they were at the hospital. Kimberly keeps looking over at Jason's paper.
"Yes, may I help you?" Jason asked jokingly.
Kim smiled at him, "I was just checking to see what your answers were." She said.
Jason rolled his eyes at her and moved a chair over. He knew she could do it herself, he also knows she only doing it to annoy him. Lacey and Joseph came through the door.
"Family meeting in the living room, let's go." Joseph ordered as they walked by.
Jason and Kimberly got up from their chairs and headed to the living room. Everyone else was already in there. Jason motioned to his 10-year-old cousin Jeremy to move, so that he could sit there. Jeremy slid down onto the floor and Jason sat down on the couch facing his parents.
"Joseph and I are leaving tonight to go to San Francisco. We will be back, Monday night." Lacey told them
"Mom, why are you and dad going there?" Lesley asked.
"A friend of mine who is a Social Worker called me about adopting a pair of sisters. They are 7 and 10. Their mother died a few years ago and their father just recently died. The girls are close to being separated, the 7 year old will be on her way to an orphanage in Sacramento while her older sister will be headed for San Diego. So to make a long story short Joseph and I have decided that we will take in the girls. Unfortunately, we do have to leave tonight to get them." Lacey explained.
"Lesley and I were going to a friend's house this weekend. Does this mean we won't be able to go?" Jeremy asked.
"Everyone can keep their plans for the weekend, as long as your home by 5. Except for you Kimberly, no competition." Lacey said.
Kim just smiled; she didn't want them to know that she is still planning on going to that competition.
"Jason, you and Kimberly are in charge. Just don't get pizza every night." Joseph said and then he and Lacey headed up to pack.
The next day after school, Kimberly and Jason were at the Youth Center hanging out with their friends.
"So Kimberly what is the cover story for Saturday?" Zack asked.
"We don't need a cover story. They are going out of town." Kim told them.
"Oh, why?" Trini asked.
"They are taking in more strays." Jason answered.
Kim just rolled her eyes and elbowed him in the side.
"Since when do you guys have cats?" Tommy asked.
"We don't. That is just what Jason calls us." Kim told them.
"Us?" Zack asked.
"Yeah, his cousins and I. Since we are orphans and now Lacey and Joseph are taking in two more orphans from San Francisco. They went there to get the girls. Jason thinks of us as strays since we have no home just like cats. You should have seen the first time he called Jeremy a stray. Jeremy beat him up, he so had it coming." Kimberly explained.
"So Kimberly, how are you going to manage to compete in this competition that you are not allowed to go to." Jason asked wanting to change the subject.
"I'm not telling!" Kimberly said in a sing-song voice.
"Why?" Tommy asked.
"Because if you knew what I am planning for tomorrow, you would never let me do it." Kim said.
"What are you planning?" Zack asked.
Kim just smiled and sipped her drink as she knew what she was planning for the competition.
"Why would you think that we wouldn't let you do it?" Tommy asked.
Their conversation was interrupted by their communicators going off.
Saved by the bell, Kimberly thought.
The teens left their table to take care of the problem. Rita had sent down a new monster that needs to be dealt with.
"At least this is one weekend we won't have to be lying about what it is that we have been up to." Kimberly said.
