Its now Wednesday. Paula wasn’t home all weekend and the kids barely noticed. They’re all now at school, and of course bored as hell.

   "Ugh, I hate this place." Ashley slammed her locker door dramatically.
   "How many places don’t you hate?"
   "Hmm," Ashley brought her finger up to her chin and pretended to think. "Good point. What are you doing tonight?" She ran her finger over Spencer’s jaw line.
   "Well, I was going to go to your house so we could get re-acquainted with your bed, but…"
   "But..?" Ashley whined. "Spencer, there’s always a fucking but!"
   "Yeah, I know. But trust me, I’ll make it up to you."
   "You better!" Ashley pointed a finger in Spencer’s face and Spencer kissed the tip of it.
   "Anyways," Spencer rolled her eyes. "Dad said that we need to have a family discussion."
   "About what?"
   "I have no idea." The bell rang. Spencer grabbed Ashley’s hand "Off to biology." Ashley gave an extremely over-dramatic sigh. Spencer giggled and muttered "Drama Queen."

   "Here," Arthur handed a  brown envelope to Paula. "I signed them."
   "Thank you."
   "So, do you have everything packed and ready to go?"
   "Yepp."
   "Where will you be staying?"
   "Umm, with Ben."
   "Ben? As in Med School Ben?"
   "Uhh, yeah. That Ben."

Arthur shook his head.

   "How long?"
   "How long what?"
   "Damn it, Paula. Don’t play dumb with me. How long?"
   "I have no idea…" Arthur gave her a cold glare and she re-thought her answer. "About a month."
   "A month? Your shitting me, right?" He began to pace back and forth. "You are telling our kids why we are getting a divorce. You’re explaining this to them."
   "Arthur, that’s not why-"
   "don’t go there. This is why and you know it. They deserve to know, Paula. And you will tell them today. If you try and lie about it they will find out anyways. You at least owe them the truth."

Paula sighed and sat down.

   "Fine, Arthur, I’ll tell them."

Spencer was sitting in 5th hour and she was going out of her mind. Suddenly her phone began to vibrate in her purse indicating that she had recieved a text message. She carefully got it out.

‘hey beautiful. lets get outta here so we can spend a couple of hours 2gether’
‘ok, but we rnt gettin 2 no ur bed more. nt 2day’