Zoe was getting her things put away when Braxton walked into the bedroom. Wade and Braxton had been home roughly an hour before Zoe and Ariel had gotten home. The guys had called it in a bit earlier than they had wanted to when it started to rain on them. They saw no use in sticking around to wait it out when they could use that time on the road and they just didn't think that rain was going to let up anytime soon. Heading home was the right choice for them.

"Can I have a word?" Braxton asked, nervously sitting on the bed. Zoe stopped what she was doing, moving the now empty suitcase to the floor to sit next to Braxton.

"Of course you can, Brax. What's going on?" Zoe asked, giving him her full attention.

"I'm not going to lose you, am I?" He asked, looking down, swinging his feet back and forth. Zoe frowned looking at him. She was waiting for him to elaborate more but nothing more had come from him.

"That's not going to happen, sweetie. What makes you think that you would lose me?" She asked, placing a comforting hand on his back.

"It's happened before," he said quietly but Zoe had heard him. Things were slowly starting to click in her head on what was really bothering Braxton and she wanted to take the pain and hurt away from him.

"With your Mom?" She asked softly. Braxton nodded his head, sniffling a little. Zoe pulled him in for a warm hug, holding him as tight as she dared too. "Braxton you need to know that I'm not going anywhere. I'm sad that I lost the baby, but with you, Ariel and your dad, we can all make it through this together." She was finding it hard to find the right words to use without making his mom look like she had been in the wrong and didn't want them to be around. That wasn't the picture she wanted to paint for Braxton even if it was the truth. She couldn't change the picture that Braxton had in his mind of his mom for her actions on that once. "Just because this thing happened before doesn't mean it's the same situation. Things are different now."

"But you guys fight, even though you try not to let us know about it, we still hear you guys," Braxton informed her. Zoe nodded her head. Parents that fought had an affect on the kids that was something she knew first hand. "Plus dad was telling grandpa about it." Zoe sighed to herself and started to wonder if Ariel had overheard her talking to Jackie.

"I'm sorry about that, but fighting is natural," she told him. "But that isn't going to make either one of us leave. We're a family Braxton and we need each other to lean on." She was trying so hard to keep the whole talk as far away from Aggie as she could.

"But they fought all the time and she left us," Braxton told her a hint of anger mixed in with hurt showing through, letting Zoe know there was no way around talking about Aggie.

"That's because she thought it was best by leaving giving you guys the chance to recover without her around because she didn't want you or your dad to be hurt. She was only trying to protect you guys," Zoe told him trying to be understanding on where he was coming from. "But with us sticking together like the family we are, together we can make it through this with the strength we give each other, okay?" She asked him.

Braxton nodded his head in understanding. He felt better now that he had talked to Zoe about it all. He hated to think so little of Zoe but if his mom was able to walk away from them, it was only going to be easier for Zoe to do the same thing and then not only would he be losing a mom but a sister as well and that was going to hurt a lot. He didn't want them to leave, he liked having them around.

Meanwhile...

Ariel was sitting on the couch when she saw Braxton signal that he was going in. Putting away her notebook she went to the garage where Wade was at.

"What are you doing?" She asked, seeing him sitting in a chair staring at the car they had yet to finish remodeling. She had missed working on it, but it was hard to do anything with the car as of late with everything going on around them.

"Nothing," he told her. He had actually came out to the garage to get pliers and a wrench he needed to fix the shower in the upstairs bathroom, he was tired of it dripping water for nearly 20 minutes after someone had taken a shower. "What brings you out here?" Wade asked, looking at his daughter.

"Nothing really," Ariel told him looking down at the cement floor. Wade raised an eyebrow; he could that something was going on with her.

"Did ya have fun this weekend?" He asked, waiting to see if she would bring up whatever was bugging her on her own.

"Uh-huh," she told him. She hadn't minded staying in a little group with other kids her age when her mom and grandma went off for the massages. It had given her a chance to figure out what it was she wanted to add to the plan that Braxton had came up with.

"Is that all you have to say?" Wade asked with a soft chuckle on how hard she was trying not to say anymore. He could see that she wanted to say something else she was just making herself hold it back.

"No," she said shaking her head. "Mom was talking to grandma in the car and did you know that you're not very quiet when you yell?" Ariel questioned him.

"Is that so?" Wade asked taking a deep breath. Ariel nodded her head. "You know I don't mean anything by it when I yell, right?" He asked her. Ariel shrugged her shoulders. "I love your mom and I love you and I love Braxton, and just because I yell doesn't mean any different, I'm just getting frustrated and want your mom to see things the way I see them and she's trying to do the same thing, is all," he told her.

"Mom says when you guys fight, it's helping make things better between you guys and making you guys closer," Ariel commented. Wade nodded his head.

"She's right about that," Wade told her. He hated that even though they had tried their hardest from letting the kids know that they were fighting that they still heard it. When he fought with Aggie, Braxton was too little to know just what was going and he wasn't able to see it tear him apart like his fighting with Zoe had done for Ariel and Braxton. Their fights were affecting all of them.

"So we're going to be a family for a long time?" Ariel asked then.

"We're going to be a family forever," Wade assured her. Ariel smiled and skipped from the room.

Wade followed suit seeing his son and Zoe exit the bedroom. He placed his tools on the kitchen counter when he noticed that Braxton and Ariel were up to something.

"You guys should go for a walk," Braxton commented.

"We should?" Wade asked with an amused smile on his face. Ariel nodded her head. "Is there a reason you want us out of the house?"

"No reason at all," Ariel told them.

"Is that so?" Zoe asked, walking over to Wade, taking his hand in hers. "I do think they're right," Zoe agreed.

"Whatever you two are up to, we'll figure it out," Wade warned, leading Zoe through the kitchen and living room to the front door.

Wade had his arm warped around Zoe, holding her as they walked down the street. They both were enjoying this little time where it was just them and they could let everything else go for just a moment. It didn't last long when they had two kids that were clearly up to something. They were trying to figure out just what their kids were up too. They had kept them occupied and mostly out of sight to see what else was going on around their house and then they basically kicked them out in one of the most polite ways they could have done so.

"What is this?" Zoe asked when they returned home, after they had decided they were gong long enough. They walked around the house to enter through the back door to see that kitchen table and been transformed to look like a table right out of a 5 star restaurant, the lights on dim giving off a very romantic feel to their kitchen.

"We wanted to do something special for our parents," Ariel commented. "Ya know to show ya that we love you both very much."

"We appreciate what you guys do for us and we want to return the favor," Braxton added on.

"Thank you," Wade told them, as they shared a hug between the four of them.

"That's our cue to come get our grandbabies," Earl announced entering the room.

Jackie informed them that dinner was ready and to have a wonderful night and that they should just let everything go for the night and enjoy this time together. Wade and Zoe promised that they would do just that.

With them gone, Wade pulled out Zoe's chair, poured her something to drink and went and got the food from the oven to serve both of them.

They ate their delicious dinner talking and laughing. They were really enjoying each others company, they really were treating their dinner like a date they hadn't had the time for in quite some time. It was then that they realized they really needed to make more time for just them.

"It was really sweet of them to do this for us," Zoe commented taking a sip of her sparkling apple juice. "I should've known better, but I really thought she had been listening to music, her headphones were on and she was messing around on my phone," she went on to say. "And I really didn't know that we were being that loud when they should've been asleep."

"I know," Wade told her. "I can never get through to Brax when he's playing games, so I had thought it was fine," Wade sighed. "I like what they did, I just hate that after we tried so hard to keep them from it, we pretty much told them right out," he told her.

"I know what you mean," Zoe commented. "But we can change it tonight Wade. Dinner was lovely and it is us here alone," Zoe told him seductively.

"Now that is something I can do," he winked, pulling Zoe with him to the bedroom. He was going to take his time and get reacquainted with his wife.