I'm so proud of me, I wrote this update completely on my phone! I did run it through a quick spell check though so hopefully it's not horrid. Thanks for the support and I don't know if I told y'all, but I'm still in school so updates usually won't come until late in the week, sometimes the weekend.


Later that evening, after the children had been bathed and put to bed, the three adults sat around the living room catching up. It felt good, to sit back and laugh this way with Kendall, JR, and Marissa. She hadn't really realized how much she missed them until they were there. It left a slight ache in her heart, knowing that they would be leaving soon but when Kendall leaned against her laughing at something JR said and when Marissa beamed at her with a look of absolute happiness, she figured that ache didn't matter right now.


A few streets over, Steven lay staring at the other side of his bed, wondering what it would feel like if Bianca was there instead of a wall. Would she smile at him happily or would she be asleep right now? Would he be able to watch her face while he listened for the sounds of their children waking up calling for him? Or would they be so busy losing themselves in each other that nothing and no one else mattered? If he closed his eyes and cleared his mind, he could remember the slight grin shed worn earlier in the store. The way she looked so happy to be joking around with him and the subtle smell of her perfume. He took his time visualizing it until he could recreate the entire scene, he pretended that the little redhead had never shown up, about how Bianca would keep smiling at him, maybe even invite him over for dinner. With the image of her smiling face in his head, he finally fell into a peaceful sleep with a content smile on his face.


The next morning, Bianca woke up to Kendall talking quietly to Gabrielle. She took a moment to just study her sister, in a lot of ways her hero, with her baby girl. She'd always worried about the kind of relationship they would have but as Kendall spoke softly to the little girl, she realized her worry was misplaced. Kendall loved gabby as much as she loved Miranda and the boys. With a smile, she sat up and stretched,

"Hey you two, no world domination until after breakfast." she said sternly. Kendall and gabby looked up with frowns,

"Aw, darn it." Kendall grinned. Bianca spared a chuckle,

"And don't forget to ask Mimo and AJ if they want to help." she wagged her finger warningly. Kendall pouted and whispered something to Gabby who giggled and ran out. She looked at Bianca closely before she spoke.

"So, dear baby sister," she began.

"Uh oh. Usually when you start a sentence like that I'm in for it. It wasn't me, all blame lies on JR." she insisted. Kendall chuckled and moved to sit beside her and wrapped an arm around her loosely.

"I didn't know how much I missed you until this morning." she admitted, a note of sadness in her tone. Bianca nodded, resting her head on Kendall's shoulder.

"I thought that last night." she said. Kendall took a deep breath.

"Do you think you'll move back home?" she asked. Bianca thought it over.

"I'm not sure." she confided. "All I've ever wanted was to give the girls stability but all this moving isn't helping, is it?" she asked. Kendall was quiet.

"No," she agreed. "But if you move back, maybe you could...stay?" she offered. Bianca sighed, thinking back to Pine Valley.

"Let's go have breakfast and well spend the day together. Just me and you." she said. Kendall nodded, deciding not to push.


Steven woke with a start, his heart racing as he slowly remembered his dream. His body ached in pleasure and he looked around frantically, wanting nothing more to reach out to Bianca and finish what the dream had started. Realizing that wasn't going to happen, he moved his hands to his face to try and wipe his blush away before moving it under his blanket and helping himself.


Kendall looked over at Bianca who just happened to be watching Marissa again. She'd had her suspicions about the two of them before; it was just the way that Marissa seemed to gravitate toward her sister and vice versa. Bianca always absolutely beamed when she saw Marissa coming and the happiness was a welcome change from the constant shade of sadness that always seemed to engulf her. Even though Bianca never said anything, she had a feeling something had been going on between them but then Bianca had announced she was moving and Kendall was honest enough to admit she didn't know what to think. She felt confused but when she saw Marissa a few days later at Krystal's, she felt heartbroken for the absolutely crushed look on the redhead's face. She had wondered if maybe they had broken up but now, seeing them, she wonders why they'd never gotten together. She sat her glass in the sink and rested her hand on Bianca's shoulder,

"You two would be cute, yunno." She said with a supportive smile. Bianca turned to look at her slowly and finally a wry smile covered her face.

"Not you too." She said. Finally, she sighed and looked away. "If Marissa were interested, then maybe." She said softly. Kendall's eyebrows rose.

"She's not?" she asked. Then she frowned. "Wait...this isn't why you moved, is it?" she asked. When Bianca didn't speak initially, alarm bells went off.

"You know, even though Pine Valley is home, something bad always happens when I'm there. I fall in love with a straight girl, I lose friends, I give birth during a storm, I give birth during a tornado," Bianca ticked off. She frowned. "Yunno, thinking back on things, I think I'll adopt if I want another child." She said. She shook her head to get back on track. "I wonder if it's me, maybe I'm just bad luck because it seems to follow me everywhere but not here. While I've been here, I've finally felt… like I belonged somewhere. It may be selfish, but it's an amazing feeling Kendall." She said quietly. Kendall swallowed heavily.

"So it was only part of the reason?" she asked with a tearful smile. Bianca only smiled back.


Steven sat at his computer desk, checking the new reports to make sure he wasn't missing anything vital in his community. When he reached the channel two website, his jaw dropped when he saw a bulletin about the new Miranda Center and Bianca's face smiling proudly at him. When he saw that she had others, he vaguely remembered her mentioning them, he decided to do a quick Google search of her name and his jaw dropped at what came up. Apparently there was a lot about her he didn't know yet. He bit his lip and clicked on a link; it was time to start learning.