Hey! Hope you like this! Oh, and to whoever asked, this is set after the 1st movie, so obviously the second movie didn't happen in my story cuz the Dad's dead. Oh, and it's all gonna be set in Jake's Pov. Enjoy!

Chapter Two : Matthew Jake's Pov

It's gonna take a while to get to the graveyard, so I guess I might as well tell you about Matthew.

I suppose that it's a good thing that Mom met him. She used to just stay in bed all day, crying. I couldn't handle it. I mean, I could take Kim and Jessica and Lorraine crying. I understood it with them, all of us kids had cried when he died. I'm not saying that Mom wasn't allowed to cry, it was just unexpected, I'd never seen her cry before.

Well, anyway, one day when Nora came to visit, she told Mom that TJ knew this guy who was her age (45) that was widowed, like her. The next time TJ and Nora came to visit, Matthew came with them. I wasn't really impressed, or shocked. He just looked… boring. He had short brownish grey hair, and was wearing a suit. It was him that wasn't impressed when he saw all of us kids. Jessica and Kim were chasing Henry, reading to him about Molecular structure, or something like that. Mike was swinging from the chandelier, which he'd been doing ever since Dylan accidentally did it. I was skateboarding through the house, and Nigel and Kyle had just dropped a glass vase. We were just doing what we did everyday. Matthew looked like he wanted to run out of the house and go home. I kinda wish that he did.

Well, back to what I was saying. Mom came downstairs, and introduced him to all of us kids. Then they went out for dinner, and Nora and TJ babysat. TJ is great, nothing like Hank. He laughed when he found Mike trying to skateboard on his car, and even when Nigel dropped his baseball tickets down the drain. He's cool, and loves kids, so he married the right girl. Him and Nora got married last year, a few months after Dad died.

Well, anyway, that night I remember that me and Mike were bored, so we decided to hide Jessica and Kim's homework. They hate it when we do that, so we do it a lot. So, Mom got back with Matthew, and made the mistake of inviting him in for coffee. At the exact moment that they walked in, Jessica was on Mike's back, killing him, and Kim was trying to get me to put her down (she was annoying me with her shrieking, so I was trying to put her down the laundry chute.) Matthew's face was priceless!

So, as you can see, we didn't really get off to a great start with Matthew. I could tell from the first time I saw him that I didn't like him, but it took everyone else a little time to realize. Even before they realized that they hated him though, they knew that he was annoying. I mean he calls me JACOB! Also, he calls Mike Michael, Kim Kimberly and Charlie Charles, when on our birth certificates it says Jake, Mike, Kim and Charlie. So really he doesn't call us by our real names.

Mike was the next to realize that he hated Matthew. There wasn't really an incident, he just knew. Then Nigel and Kyle told me that they hated him, cuz he said that he hated football (ever since Dad died, they want to be football coaches when they're older. If you don't like football, keep outta their way!) I don't think Sarah ever liked him (of course I wouldn't know, because we hardly talk anymore.) I don't think Lorraine, Charlie, Henry or Mark ever liked him either. Jessica and Kim took some time, but finally they listened to their incredibly cool older brother (me) and saw him for the jerk that he was. TJ and Nora have always hated him, so I don't know why TJ brought him into our family. TJ always jokes that it's because he wanted to kill us, Death by Matthew he calls it.

The thing is though, Mom's besotted with him. To her, he's the great, clever, kind guy that can offer us the lifestyle that we need. So we can't do a prank on him, like we did to Hank, it'd break her heart. We just have to put up with him.

We're nearly at the graveyard now. I kinda don't wanna go, I'm nervous. I'm not too sure why. I

think Mike is too, he's gone a little quiet. I just wish that none of this had happened, that Matthew had never come into our lives, that we never had the car crash, but most of all, that Dad had never died. Cuz if he was still with us, January 18th would just be a day, not a horrible memory of losing your Father, and your whole life changing.