I’m sitting in the living room on the couch, my mom on the other end of the phone telling me her worries about how she thinks Paris came home to early. I explained that she is fine and reminded her that Spencer is a nurse and Paula is a doctor. But the protective grandparent in her will have none of that.

“Look mom.” I cut her off when Spencer comes down the stairs and goes into the kitchen. “’I’ll call you back.” I wait until my mom finish her goodbye before hanging up and throwing my phone onto the couch as I stand.

“Hey.” My arms circle around Spencer waist as she stands at the kitchen counter rinsing out a cup.

“Hi.” She whispers.

“So you think we need to leave Syd with your parents for the rest of the day or should I got pick her up?”

“Um…I don’t know.” She finishes rinsing the cup and sits it next to the sink. “It’s still early.” She says after glancing at my watch, as she moves out of my arms.

“Okay.” I lean back against the counter.

“When do you have to leave?” She says sitting down at the kitchen counter.

“In the next couple of days. I tried to push it back longer but…” I trail off. I walk over and kneel in front of Spencer. “Baby…I don’t want to go but I left in a hurry and left some paper work and not to mention I have a big meeting that I canceled.” I rest my hands on her knees. “I’ll only be gone two days. The flight and the meeting. I’ll be back before you know it.”

“I know…I’m just…”

“Hey…Brooke is going to come and stay with you guys while I’m gone. I already talked to her about it.”

“Okay.” She says putting her hands on mine and giving them a squeeze.

“Love you.” I lean up and kiss her.

“How’s Spencer?” I ask my sister through the phone. I’m currently back out of state wrapping up some lose ends. The meeting I needed to attend is breaking for the next ten minutes, before we concluded and I get to go home to my family.

“Uh…she’s okay…I guess.” She says. “She really hasn’t said much. She went into work like an hour ago. At first she was going to stay home, but I told her I got everything under control. The girls are just relaxing and watching cartoons.”

“Okay. Good.” I sigh. “I’ll be home later on tonight. Maybe around 10 pm. I left my car at the airport so I’m good to go. I’ll call you when I leave for my plane.”

I hang up and go back into the meeting. My family the only thing on my mind. Spencer and I need to have a long talk. I can’t stand the tension between us.

TBC

Sidenote: does anyone have a live journal. I just made one like a couple of hours ago. My user name is happytown21. Come be my friend J  I talked more about this in my AN.