Chapter 6

It was a Saturday morning, and as usual, Brooke and Joanne were cooking breakfast, while the other's sat around the table waiting for their food.

"You know." Brooke smiled, playfulness in her tone, flipping a pancake, and then looking over at Joanne who was buttering toast, "It's kind of like, you and I are the married couple, and those are our children." She said nodding to the table, where Maureen, Leah and Tessa sat.

Joanne smirked, raising a brow, looking over her shoulder, watching as Maureen spilled syrup on her hands, and was trying to clean it off, but she was just making an even sticker mess.

Joanne turned back to Brooke, "Maureen is like a child at times, I'll give you that." She smiled, "But she is and will always be my wife, the love of my life."

Brooke lightly laughed, "Just testing you." She winked.

"Brooke." Leah smiled, coming over to the two, wrapping her arms around Brooke's waist from behind, "Stop hitting on my Mama….please." She replied, "I know you're only teasing, but it's a little disturbing."

Brooke smirked, leaning into Leah, turning her head slightly to peer at her out of the corner of her eye. "And what if I-ahhh…" She whimpered when Leah slowly slid her hand down the front of her sweat pants. "Okay…no more teasing…" She choked out, turning to see if Joanne had seen the naughty gesture her daughter just did, but the lawyer was over by the table, setting out plates.

"That a girl." Leah smiled, nipping at her ear, and then retreating back to the table.

"You'll never guess what!" Haley suddenly said, bursting into the kitchen, Kylie and Tyler following behind.

"What?" Maureen asked her focus on the sticky napkin attached to her fingers.

"Roger, like got me signed or whatever!" Haley smiled.

"What do you mean signed?" Joanne asked, walking over to Maureen with a wet washcloth and helping her clean up her hands.

"The other night after my gig, he introduced me to this guy. Well Roger failed to tell me that he was a producer!" Haley grinned, "Well he liked me so much, he wants me to go on tour with him and open for his band."

"That's great!" Maureen cheered, jumping out of her chair, wrapping her arms around Haley, the two of the jumping around, they only stopped when Joanne didn't seem to share the same reaction. She turned to look at Joanne, raising a brow, "This is great, isn't it Joanne?"

Joanne bit her lip, pausing a moment to think, "Haley, I don't want you to get your hopes up. I just…" She shook her head, "So much stuff to think about."

"I know Mama, and I have." Haley replied.

"Legal matters too?" Joanne asked.

"I was going to go over that with you. He even wants to talk to you." Haley said, walking over, gripping onto Joanne's forearms, "He's a friend of Roger's. Roger wouldn't put me in any dangerous situation, you know that."

"What about your family?" Tyler finally asked, and everyone turned to him and Kylie who was in his arms.

"I know, Tyler, but I figured-"

"We can't come with you." Tyler said, "We can't drop everything and just come with you, it's not fair to us."

"I'll take Kylie." Haley replied.

"She has school. A year long tour, Haley. Come on, we can't take our daughter out of school for that long. She'll get held back." Tyler said, "And you can't just leave her for a year, it's not fair to her, or us."

"I'll figure something out." Haley said.

"You need to grow up and realize this is just a dream." Tyler replied setting Kylie on the ground.

Haley's fingers balled into fists, her eyes darkening, shooting daggers at her husband. "I need to grow up?" She asked, "I did grow up!" She yelled, "I've played the grown up. I had a baby when I was fourteen!"

"Haley, calm down." Joanne said reaching out for her, but Haley shrugged Joanne off.

"No! What isn't fair is that I lost my youth." Haley said, looking over at Kylie, "I mean, I love my daughter to death. I feel so blessed to have her." She replied, and then looked up at Tyler, "But I just… I was so young. I missed out on a lot." She said calming a little, tears stinging her eyes. "You were able to go to college; you had your fun nights out, while I stayed at home with her. Isn't it my turn now?"

"It doesn't work like that, Haley." Tyler said, his jaw clenched.

"It doesn't work like that, because you're not the one with a singing opportunity." Haley replied.

Tyler looked away for a moment, taking a deep breath. By this time Leah had taken Kylie out of the room and downstairs. Finally he looked back up, "I'm just going to go, before I say something I'll regret."

"Good idea." Haley mumbled, not looking up at him as he disappeared, listening to the door softly shut.

Maureen turned looking at Joanne, and then to Tessa who began to cough uncontrollably.

"Alright." Maureen said, walking over and picking Tessa up, "We're going to the doctors." She replied, not sure what to make of the Haley situation right now, so she simply left the room.

Joanne sighed, following Maureen, but not before turning to Haley, "Well talk about this when I get home." She said in a stern voice, not giving Haley a choice in the matter and then left, leaving Haley and Brooke alone in the kitchen.

"Sooo…" Brooke said, darting her eyes back to the pancakes, "How 'bout some pancakes to go along with this drama?"

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Sorry, I know you're all wondering about Tessa, but i haven't quite figured that out yet... lol. It's either going to be serious...or... not so serious. But for sure chapter 7 is when you'll find out.

I'll also put more MoJo in the story. :) This is the RENT section after all. ;)