Zandra sat in the nurses station helping the new nurse with meds. It had already been a long day and the nurse wasn't listening to a word she was saying.
"I know what I'm doing you know." the nurse snapped. "I don't need a babysitter."
"Its required for all new nurses to have help with meds the first month of the job." Zandra replied with a sigh. She jumped when she heard her phone go off. She quickly answered it worried that it was one of the boys.
"I need a shopping buddy." Beth said when Zandra answered the phone. "What time do you get off work sista?"
Zandra laughed and looked up at the clock. "In about ten minutes. But I have to pick the boys up from school and make sure that they do their home work and dont kill each other or burn my house down before I go."
"Let Big Daddy pick them up." Beth said with a laugh. "they go to school with our kids any way. And I'm sure the boys would enjoy the look on the other students faces when they get into the truck with him. I'll even tell Dog to dress like he's about to go on a hunt."
Zandra thought about it for a moment. "Tell Dog to give them tough love when it comes to their home work and you got yourself a shopping buddy."
"Consider it done." Beth replied happily. "meet me at the office when you get off work."
"Will do." Zandra replied handing up her phone. She looked over at the nurse who smirked.
"Phones aren't allowed when your on the clock." She said crossing her arms.
Zandra just smiled back at her. "Mine is. Just in case the boys needed help."
"That didn't sound like a boy." she snapped back.
Zandra just kept the smile on her face. "Your right. It was my other boss. Now lets pass meds before I have to go. If we don't it will be both of our asses on the line for me having over time."
The moment Zandra entered the bail bonds office her phone started to ring.
"Aloha." Zandra said then had to hold the phone away from her ear as Zac started to talk excitedly.
"You had Dog pick us up from school! And we get to hang out at his house!" Zac said and Zandra couldn't help but smile. "Zandra your the coolest!"
"Dont give me all the credit. It was Beth's idea." Zandra replied then out her phone on speaker so Beth and the others could hear.
"Beth you are the coolest!" Zac said even more excited than before.
"Can we trade you in for Zandra?" Jonas asked.
"Funny Jonas." Zandra said with a smile.
"Oh he's not being funny." adam said. "I mean come on, your ok at times Zandra, but they are way cooler."
"Man am I feeling the love." Zandra said sarcastically.
"I still love you aunt Zandra." Matty said and the others groaned calling him a suck up and brown noser.
"Ok ok, that's enough. Leave Matty alone and go do your homework." Zandra said hanging up the phone.
"You didn't even say goodbye." Duane Lee said sounding very surprised.
"We dont say goodbye." Zandra explained. "They once told me that they never wanted me to tell them goodbye because every one they ever cared about never returned afterwards. I've only said bye to them once and that was when I moved here. That's why they hated Tommy so much."
"Ok boys you man the office the best you can." Beth said getting to her feet. "The girls and I are going shopping."
"Make sure you get Zandra a new wardrobe." Leland teased. "The only thing she wears is scrubs."
Zandra put an arm around Lyssa's shoulders and brought her closer as if ready to tell her a secret. "Remind me when I'm not tired and not mad at the new nurse at work, that I owe Leland a come back for that statement." she then turned to Leland. "Just watch your back. I'm like a master mind when it comes to pay backs. You won't even see it coming. I'm like Catwoman you never know when I'm going to pounce."
Every one burst out laughing and Zandra bowed. "Thank you, you are such a wonderful crowd."
At the shop the girls went into Beth and Lyssa drug Zandra to the sales rack and started to pile cloths into her arm that they thought would look good on her. They didn't even have to ask her what size she was. After working in there line of work they were very good at guessing people's size. When Lyssa picked up a cute pair of shorts Zandra shook her head.
"You can just go ahead and put those back." Zandra said shaking her head.
"Oh come on Zandra you have got to have a great body under those scrubs." Lyssa said holding out the shorts. Zandra shook her head her head again.
"I have a huge scar on my right leg." Zandra replied. "I haven't worn shorts since I got it."
"Just try them on for us." Lyssa said with a pout. Zandra smiled and took the shorts from her.
"But this is a one time thing." Zandra warned. Beth put a couple more shirts on the pile and lead the girl back to the dressing room.
By the time Beth and Lyssa got done with Zandra she had three big bags full of cloths.
They walked into Beth's house they found the the boys waiting for them in the kitchen.
"So what did you guys get her to buy?" Adam asked with a smirk. "Time to model Zandra. And there is no getting out of it."
All four boys pulled out water guns from behind their backs.
"Who in their right mind would give you guys water guns?" Zandra asked as Dog, Leland, Duane Lee and Tim walked into the kitchen followed by Beth's kids. She looked over at the guys and saw Duane Lee and Leland trying to hold back laughter. "I'm calling you two when they flood my house with those things."
Zandra then got sprayed a little by Jonas.
"Model or the scrubs get it." jonas demanded as his brothers held their water guns up at her face.
"Ok you win for the time being." Zandra asked and the boys put down their water guns.
"We change our minds." Adam said holding up his hands in defeat. "we'll just wait to see what you got when you wear them."
"To late." Zandra replied and Matty quickly pointed over at Leland and Duane Lee.
"They told is to!" Zac demanded. "Pay them back! We still haven't lived down the hicks aunt thing back home."
"Hicks aunt thing?" Tim asked and Zandra laughed.
"I took the boys to see my college basketball team play one day and they told the whole team that I was their mother and they all had a different dad. It wouldn't have been so bad but the team took it as I was easy. I was getting phone calls from them almost every hour asking if I wanted to hook up. So to get even I dressed up in a pair of work overalls muddy work boots and an old shirt that just stopped at my belly button. I put my hair in pig tales and went to one of the school plays Jonas and Adam were in. When ever they were on stage I stood up, whistled and clapped real loud I pointed up at them and with a very southern accent told every one they were my nephews."
"We got her back though." Jonas said with a smile. "We put a dead rat on top of her engine so every time she turned her car on it smelled like a dead animal. It was a new car too."
"Do you guys always pull pranks on each other to that extent?" Dog asked and the boys smiled.
"Zandra does it to every one." Jonas replied. "Tell them what you did for your senior prank day."
Zandra shook her head. "They dont want to hear about that."
"She put a car in the principle's office." Matty exclaimed. "And she never got caught. And there were cameras in every hallway."
"What can I say no one expected it from the quite shy one." Zandra replied picking up her shopping bags. "I'm going to go model now."
The moment she was out of the room every one turned to the boys.
"Ok we need to hear the whole story." Leland said saying what every one else was thinking. "Did she drive the car in?"
Jonas smirked. "No she took the car apart and rebuilt it in his office."
"How the hell did she pull that off?" Duane Lee asked.
"Her cousin worked at a junk yard so he let her take a car that was soon to be smashed." Adam said almost sounding proud of his aunt. "A guy she grew up with ran the school cameras so he switched the taped from the camera when he was asked about it."
"And for taking the car apart and putting it back together in the office." Jonas said sounding even prouder than his brother. "She had two of her other cousins, who work on cars, help her with that."
"She even got it pulled off with out her class mates knowing." Abam said. "and they were all out in the parking lot having a camp out as their prank."
"She never told us how she pulled that one off." Jonas said sounding a little upset by the fact.
"We had been bringing parts off it in a month before and keeping them in the basement." Every one jumped when they heard Zandras voice behind them. She was dressed in a pare of tight dark blue jeans with wholes in the knees. Her shirt was a short sleeved tee with a silver dragon going from her right shoulder to her left side. The shirt showed just enough skin to make the guys wonder.
"Aunt Zandra you look..." Jonas started and looked at his older brother for help.
"Back to normal." Matty finished for them. They had all noticed that her wardrobe consisted of baggy jeans, scrubs, and old t-shirts from camp, her old school, or her old job. Now she looked like the girl they had met at camp and grew to trust and love.
"Thank you Matty." Zandra said spinning around. "It feels good to be back."
She gave Jonas a small wink and he smiled back at her. He was the only one that under stood what she really meant. She then turned to Beth and Lyssa holding up the shorts they had made her try on that day. The boys started to laugh.
"No way!" they all said in surprise and Zandra cleared her throat.
"I found these in one of the bags." Zandra said and the girls smiled.
"Lyssa bought them for you after we saw you in them." Beth said with a smile.
"We also took the tags off of them so they are non returnable." Lyssa said with a smirk. "But we'll give you a pass on not modeling them for us."
Zandra hid a smile, turned around and headed back to the bath room to try on more outfits.
Jonas walked over to Beth and smiled. "She needed this. She never goes out and shops for herself. She always ends up buying things for others."
"I do have to ask about that." Beth said. Zandra had bought a lot of cloths and even on sale that was a lot of money she blew. "If she's only a CNA how could she afford all the things she bought?"
"Zandra isn't exactly poor." Adam explained. "Her family is like a calmer version of a mofia. In the town she grew up in every one was related to her or knew her. They knew every thing that went down. Zandra was like royalty back home. So her family was very well off."
"When she was sixteen a friend of hers died in a car crash. Zandra was with him and tried to save him. Pulled him out of the car before it blew up." Jonas said. "His family sort of adopted her as a daughter. Later that same year they died in a fire and left every thing to her. She sold the farm ground and most of the livestock. Which made her the wealthiest person in town."
"But she almost never uses the money." Adam replied. "She feels like she doesn't deserve it. So she works and lives off her pay."
"The only time I have ever seen her use the money was to buy cloths for a family living in a tent." Jonas said with a smile. "But that's just how she rolls."