McKayla smiled as she watched Kai get ready for school. He was being stubborn as usual, wanting to dress himself. When he was fully dressed, to the best of his ability, McKayla ushered him into the kitchen for breakfast.

"Momma, I want poptarts." Kai whined as McKayla smiled at him.

"Okay, what flavor?" She stared at the assortment of flavors in her cabinet as Kai sat, in deep thought.

"Blueberry!" Kai jumped in his chair as McKayla grabbed them from the cabinet and placed the two pastries on a plate in front of her son.

Kai hurriedly ate his breakfast before he bolted towards the door. He was beyond ready for school. McKayla just smiled as she followed her son out the door, after locking it behind them. As the pair descend the stairs McKayla stops, Sheldon and Leonard are also leaving.

"Oh hey McKayla!" Leonard happily says as he continues to lock his door.

"Good morning Leonard, Dr. Cooper." McKayla's tone turns icy as she walks past the two men and continues on down the stairs.

"Well that was odd." Sheldon says as he turns to Leonard.

"Really? I don't think it is considering she pretty much hates you right now." Leonard huffed as he began to walk down the stairs.

"No, I meant that Kai was clearly wearing mismatched clothes, shouldn't his mother pick them out for him? And what do you mean McKayla hates me? I have been friendly to her."

"You made out with her and told her she was a mistake Sheldon, believe it or not women don't like that." Leonard shook his head as he opened the door to the apartment complex.

"So I've made an error, and I am supposed to fix it somehow?" Sheldon stopped and stared at Leonard and Leonard rolled his eyes before he got inside the car.

"Yes, you're supposed to apologize, and be friends with her again."

"Well I don't see any reason why I would do that. I have been friendly to her. I simply stated the fact that I had messed up."

"Of course you don't. She's your friend's sister Sheldon. Besides don't you feel any remorse for upsetting the poor woman? I mean obviously she liked you if she was so torn up about it."

"Why would I feel remorse, I did-"

"Nothing wrong, yeah I got it. Shut up and let me drive." Leonard huffs as he stares at the road.

McKayla hummed to herself as she sat in her office. She had dropped Kai off without any incident, and made it to work with time to spare, only to find the giant stack of papers on her desk. Each paper was a request for funding and time from the university, for one experiment of another. The amount og requests shocked McKayla, causing her to sigh, wondering how many of these people will actually make discoveries, and how many are just trying to replicate experiments. So far most of them were replications. When a loud knock sounds on her door McKayla jumps.

"Come in." McKayla calls as her door opens. A young secretary is standing there, holding another huge stack of papers.

"Let me guess, more requests?" The young woman simply nods. "Okay, put them in the floor by my desk, since there isn't an inch of clear space anywhere." McKayla lets out a small growl as the younger woman backs out of the room.

After hours of reading McKayla stands up to stretch her back. It seems like every other request is a repeat of ones prior, so much that she is pretty sure she has read the same request many times. With a small huff McKayla picks up a box of denied requests and sits them outside of her door, leaving the door propped open. As she is picking up the other box she hears a knock on the door, and turns around to see Leonard.

"Oh hi Leonard." McKayla smiles a she sits the box down beside the other one.

"Hi McKayla, I was wondering if, you wanted to get dinner tonight?" Leonard smiles when McKayla nods.

"Um sure, I'd love to, let me just call one of Kai's friend's parents. I'm sure he could stay there for a little bit, or the whole night."

"Great, I'll be at your apartment to get you at eight then." McKayla smiles as Leonard swallows and waves goodbye.

McKayla laughs as Leonard leaves, before pulling out her cell phone and dialing a number.

"Hi, Johanna. It's McKayla, Kai's mom, I was wondering if Jordan wanted to have a sleep over, I have plans and I wanted to see if Kai could spend the night tonight. Okay, that will be great I'll bring him over at six then. Okay, bye bye." McKayla smiles as she hangs up her phone and grabs her things to head to pick up Kai.

I know it's been forever, and this is short ): good things soon I promise, too many of life's stresses lately is all.