I'm not really all the proud or happy with this chapter. There really wasn't much to do with this episode in terms of Cassie and I probably could have left it out but I wrote it so I might as well publish it. And I am thinking about starting to change up the storyline sooner than I had planned to so it, but that depends on how I interpret the rest of the episodes.
"What on earth would possess her to put up this picture?" Kevin asked.
All of the siblings, except Kitty, were staring at a family portrait that Nora had hung on the wall. The problem with the picture; Kitty was the only one not in it.
"Maybe Kitty won't notice." Tommy offered.
"How can she not notice?" Kevin retorted.
"She's the only one not in the picture." Sarah pointed out.
"And she lives in the house." Cassie added.
"Why wasn't she there?" Justin asked.
"She couldn't get away from New York." Sarah answered.
"Oh please, it was the Kitty/mom cold war back then." Kevin said.
"Mom and dad looked so happy." Cassie commented on the picture.
"Mommy, save me!" Cooper suddenly screamed.
Cooper ran into the room, being chased by Gabe.
"Please don't chase your little brother." Sarah told Gabe.
Cooper ran out of the room and Gabe turned to face Sarah.
"But he spit in my mouth." Gabe complained.
"I don't care, slow down Gabe." Sarah replied.
Gabe ran out of the room.
"Wow, tough step-mom." Tommy commented.
"Mommy, help me!" Cooper cried out.
Sarah left the room to go deal with Gabe and Cooper.
"They're just too young to appreciate the pleasures of spitting in someone's mouth." Kevin said.
Tommy, Justin, and Cassie just stared at him. Cassie walked away from the boys and into the kitchen where Joe, Sarah, and Paige were.
"Paigey, why don't we go out back and play with Coop and Gabe?" Cassie suggested.
Paige happily accepted the idea and the two girls headed out to the backyard.
"You know who I saw at the market? That crazy woman, Sloan Doddleson." Kitty said.
Part of the family was in the kitchen, just hanging out, waiting for Saul to get there so they could eat.
"Oh the loud golf lady?" Julia questioned.
"Yeah, that's her." Cassie answered.
"I have been dodging her calls for a month." Nora told them.
"Yeah, she is desperate for you to respond to some golf invite." Kitty informed her mother.
"Not that dreadful husband and wife tournament?" Sarah asked.
"Yes." Nora answered.
"It's such a pageant." Sarah commented.
"They want me to go because they want to honor your father." Nora said.
"For his golf game?" Julia was confused.
"No, for the man he apparently was but I don't have anyone to play with." Nora answered.
"Oh, Kevin plays." Kitty offered up her brother.
"No, Kevin doesn't" Kevin quickly denied it.
"Yeah, Kevin does play. He played on the high school golf game." Sarah retorted.
"Only because I had a crush on a kid on the team." Kevin defended himself.
The family started to tease Kevin over his old crush he had. The family discussion turned back to the golf tournament and everyone was trying to get Kevin to go. Nora denied the fact that she wanted to go to spare Kevin. Saul arrived and he and Nora left the room while the family berated Kevin for not agreeing to go.
"Please help me tonight Cass." Kitty begged her sister.
It was days later and Kitty had agreed to watch Paige and Cooper even after being assigned a big interview for work.
"Kit, I had plans to go out with Olivia." Cassie replied.
"You can do that any day. Help me and I'll pay you." Kitty offered.
"Fine." Cassie agreed.
Paige and Cooper were both very hyper that night and Kitty was trying very hard to monitor them and work on her interview. Cassie was helping her more with the interview than with the kids because Kitty still wanted the title 'cool Aunt Kitty'. Halfway through the night, Warren showed up to help Kitty with the interview.
"Well since Warren is here, you can go hang out with Olivia." Kitty told Cassie.
"Oh I see how I rank." Cassie replied, teasing.
Cassie took the opportunity and left to go to her friend's.
"Well hey there." Olivia greeted her best friend.
"Hello, hello darling." Cassie replied.
The two girls immediately headed to the living room to pick out a movie to watch and ordered some pizza.
"How was babysitting?" Olivia asked.
"It was fine, but I think Paige is coming down with a cold." Cassie answered.
"Aww poor girl. So how about we watch 'The Parent Trap'?" Olivia suggested.
"Yes!" Cassie quickly agreed.
Cassie and Olivia were having such a fun time that Cassie just slept over then the two of them went to school in the morning. Cassie was really glad that she reconnected with her best friend. Her and Dylan were friends again too but not dating, and they were both okay with that. After school, Cassie and Olivia hung out, did their homework, watched some movies, and then Cassie headed home. Cassie entered the kitchen door and found Kevin, Kitty, and Nora in the middle of a very intense argument. They heard Cassie enter the house and stopped to look at her and then the phone rang and Kevin answered it. It was Sarah and something was wrong.
"Joe and Sarah took Paige to the hospital. She's been asleep for a few hours, she's not waking up." Kevin informed them after hanging up.
Everyone was immediately frightened. The four of them ran outside, got into Kevin's car, and sped off to the hospital. The family was sitting in the waiting room, grateful that Paige was gonna be fine but she did have diabetes.
"Hey, I just heard, is she okay?" Justin ran into the room and it was obvious he was wrecked.
"Why aren't you at work?" Tommy asked him, standing up to him.
"Cause I just got the call about Paige, back off man. Anyway I go off early for good behavior" Justin replied.
"So, it has nothing to do with the fact that you're totally high right now?" Tommy asked, giving him a shove.
The entire family was now on their feet, shocked by the scene unfolding in front of them.
"Look, everyone else might sit around and feel bad for you, but I won't." Tommy told his youngest brother.
"I didn't ask for your sympathy and I certainly didn't ask for your help." Justin pushed him back.
"When are you gonna learn to grow up?" Tommy grabbed him by the collar.
Kevin quickly grabbed Tommy and pulled him away from Justin.
"Piece of work, just like dad." Justin commented.
"Justin, he is not like dad!" Cassie yelled at him.
Tommy turned around to face Justin and looked him square in the eyes.
"I'm not like him. Dad never stopped caring about what you did with your life. I do, I stop right now, I stop today." Tommy told him.
Nora couldn't take it and she left the room. Justin stared at the rest of his family, not believing what happened. Cassie walked over to Justin.
"Justin, you need help. You have got to stop with the drugs." Cassie pleaded with her brother.
Justin just looked at his sister and left.
"Ah you took down the picture?" Cassie asked.
The family was gathered at Nora's for yet another family get together.
"What are you gonna put there instead?" Sarah asked.
"Oh it doesn't need anything, it's perfect the way it is, empty." Kitty said.
"Oh no, no emptiness in my house." Nora denied.
"So what is going to go there?"
The entire family was at the park, taking a new family picture. They were all sitting in a picnic table. On the bench was Justin and Cooper was sitting in his lap, then it Cassie, Nora, Kitty and Paige was sitting on her lap. On the table was Joe, then Gabe, Sarah, Kevin, Saul, Tommy, and Julia.
