Jo looked around the living room.
Katie giggled. "You're not going to find my big brother hiding in here you know."
Jo smiled and shut the door behind her.
"I know, sorry Katie." she told her.
Katie just nodded not saying another word and told Jo to sit down and watch tv or something while she went off to the kitchen.
"Tea or..." Katie called over the kitchen counter.
"Tea," Jo smiled over at her.
Katie nodded and pulled out a fresh new tea bag and made a whole new pitcher just for Jo.
When the tea was finally done she came out of the kitchen with two glasses and handed Jo the other one.
"Thanks," Jo quickly smiled at Katie and took a giant gulp of the fresh cold tea. "Mmm..."
Katie smiled and nodded taking a less generous sip than Jo.
Megan ran in screaming. "Mommy!"
Jo quickly dropped her cup of tea to the coffee table and picked up her daughter.
"What's wrong, Megan?" she asked looking into her daughters eyes.
"Teddy is dead..." she cried.
"What?" Jo exclaimed and looked at Katie confused.
Katie looked at the both of them shocked and then realized that her dog must've taken the stuffed animal from Megan and tried to eat it but instead he just tore it to bits.
"I'll be right back!" Katie yelled and went to the back room to find the crime scene.
The head was on one side of the room and the legs were all scattered everywhere.
She looked around for her dog and when she finally found it she glared.
"Lucy! You know better than to ruin Megan's things..." she yelled and smacked her dog on the head. "Bad Lucy!"
She picked up Lucy and carried her back out into the living room to the sad mother and devastated daughter in her lap.
"I'm sorry," Katie showed Lucy and all the fluff in her claws and still hanging from her mouth. "Lucy kind of killed..." she looked at Megan now. "...Teddy."
Megan perked up and looked at Lucy.
Jo laughed. "Megan, why are you happy about that?" she asked.
"Because mommy, Lucy is okay, Teddy is just a stuffed animal." she surprised her mom with these words and surprised her even more by jumping off of her lap and running over to Aunt Katie and reaching out for Lucy. "Lucy!"
Jo folded her arm around her chest and grabbed her tea off of the coffee table and drank some more looking over at Katie and laughing a little.
Katie let Lucy down and Megan and Lucy went off to the crime scene room again and giggled and barked for hours.
Katie and Jo talked about Kendall up to now and sipping off a lot of glasses of tea.
"Want me to get some more?" Katie asked for the tenth time.
Jo nodded again and handed her the glass with a smile.
Katie took it and went to the kitchen and pulled out the tea from the fridge.
Then there was a knock on the door and they both froze.
Jo looked over at Katie scared.
I'll get it, Katie mouth over the kitchen counter top to her and walked around to her door.
"Kendall," she looked at her older brother from head to toe and smiled slightly. "What are you doing here?"
Kendall ignored his little sister's words and tried to get in through the door, but Katie was stronger than her drunk brother.
"No," she cried and shut the door in his face.
Kendall screamed for her to open the door and let him in but she ignored him.
"Please..?" Kendal's normal voice called through the drunkenness.
Jo's head perked up when she heard his normal voice, but it happened many times before and she didn't let that get in the way of him possibly hurting their daughter.
Megan ran into the living room and heard her father yelling at the door and ran over to her mother.
"Mommy, why is daddy yelling at the door like that?" she whispered to her mom.
Jo took her child in her lap and hugged her close.
"I don't know, Baby." she told her daughter and kissed her forehead.
Katie looked over at her poor sister in-law and her niece.
She mouthed "I'm so sorry" to them and Jo mouthed "It's alright... It's not your fault this is happening" right back.
After a few hours of screaming and pounding at the door Kendall gave up and went home.
Jo decided to wait it out a few more days while Kendall got "normal" again.