“It's a Valley girl thing. It's getting huge, but it sounds stupid.” Sage replied.

“Is she always like that, being a jerk, I mean?”

Sage, Brooke and Rachel all nodded. Brooke answered. “Always. Her and her friend.”

“So I left Clark and now I get that?” Tracy asked.

“Tracy, mean people are everywhere. That is a fact of life.” Sage stated.

Edited by Djkauf

Tracy and family for some more fun. This time, William debates his choices,and Tracy gets something done that all girls have.

Friday February 18th 1983

William sat in a chair, on the side of the class, where several other parents were seated. Persephone, Moony and all Tracy's friends were with them. Maggie was next to her husband, as they watched their daughter go through her class. William had never put much faith into this style, not until Tracy had defended her grandmother. She was still sore from her hormone shot, but her attitude was unwavering.

Almost an hour later, as kids came in for Lok's class, a tired and slightly sore Tracy walked over to them, bowed at the edge of the mat and sat down. Jaio came over and smiled at them. “She is doing well in her placement in the intermediate class. As for her Mandarin, she is learning the basic greetings, and Brooke is taking her time, so we don't overwhelm her.” To Maggie's side, Brooke nodded.

Lok came over and smiled at her. “Tracy, since your parents are here, and my class is showing up, we will work on the other techniques I have been teaching you on Tuesday.”

“Thank you, Shifu.”

“You are most welcome. So, go and have a fun night.”

“I will. Mom moved down here today.”

“Well, that is great news.” Lok replied.

“I know. Now to wait till June for Dad to move down.”

“Patience. One must learn patience in life, or waiting will drive you crazy.”

~o~O~o~

Maggie, Vance, and William followed Tracy and her friends into the Mall. They had time to spare before they needed to be elsewhere, so Persephone had driven the girls and Maggie, while William took Moony and Vance to the local mall in Pleasanton. Tracy had begged for earrings and she had the money to pay for it, so William told Maggie to cover half of the bill, if she wanted, or the whole bill, if it was cheap enough. As they entered the mall, Vance tried to get near Sage, but each time he did, the girls would dash off to a store, leaving him watching as they raced in.

William finally stopped by him and chuckled. “It's worse when you're the parent and the kids won’t stay near by.”

“I just want to hang out with her.” Vance said.

“You got to remember, she's Tracy’s friend and you never get in the middle of a group of girls, unless you wish to be trampled.” William said with a grin. “But I hear there's a sporting goods store here, so maybe you and I could go check that out while they get Tracy's ears pierced”

“Pierced?”

“Yeah. She's living as Tracy now, so earrings are important. Unless you want to wear some as well.”

“No.” Vance answered.

“Persephone, can we take your son, so he isn't hanging out in the jewelry store?”

“Please, I'm sure he'd hate it.”

Moony nodded. “Yes, I would.”

“Come on then. You know the way?”

“Yeah, past the food court.”

“Good. Maggie, meet us in the food court. We can get the girls dinner, because it is late enough.”

“I will.” Maggie said as she moved to catch up with her daughter and the girls. She found them as she looked into a jewelery shop for teens.

Tracy moved around the racks, her eyes going over all the earrings. Her friends stood with her as they held up each card, pushed her hair out of the way and let her look in the tiny plastic mirrors. The clerk walked over to Tracy's group and she looked to Persephone and Maggie. “Getting your daughters some earrings?”

“Well, my youngest is going to wait.” Persephone said, putting a hand on Andromeda. “But we're actually here for her daughter, the sandy blonde with the blue skirt. She wants to get her ears pierced.”

“Mom, could I get a pair too?” Sage asked, holding her hands out in a pleading manner.

“Okay.” Persephone turned to face the clerk. “We need to get her ears pierced too.”

“We have a special going on right now. One pair of earrings at regular price and a starter set, half price with a piercing. So if the two who are getting them want a few more minutes, just let me know when you're ready.”

“Okay.” The girls chorused together. Maggie looked around the shop, letting her daughter have her space, till a voice caught her attention.

“Mom!” Tracy said as she ran over and showed her four cards, each with different styles of earrings. “I need help. We've narrowed it down to these four and we're all thinking of getting one set that matches. The ones with the tiny stars. Should I get a birthstone for me?” She held the card up to her ear.

“I think pearls would look good on you, but remember, you'd have to wear the first set for a couple of weeks, before you take them out.”

“Oh. Well then, yeah, I'd like to get the stars and the pearls.” Tracy had turned to put the stuff back, she stopped half a step away. “Thanks, Mom.”

“No problem, sweetie.”

~o~O~o~

“So where are we going for the night?” Tracy asked Sage and Brooke as the girls sat at one of several tables pushed together in the food court. Vance and Moony were up at a counter, looking for more food. Her hands kept playing with her earrings and each time her mother would gently move her hands and tell her to stop.

“My place.” Sage replied. “Brooke's mom isn't feeling well and her Grandfather wants to keep us from getting it. So Brooke is staying with us until her mom gets better.” William began to chuckle and Tracy laughed, causing Brooke to give them a funny look.

“What?” Brooke asked.

“I kinda told Vance that we would be at your house because your mother lets us run around naked, just to see what he would do.”

Brooke's face broke in a big smile, then she began laughing. After a few minutes, she looked to Tracy. “We gotta have fun with him.”

Sage just groaned. “Noooo.”

“Now girls, don't tease him too much. I have to deal with him for the next few months all on my own.”

“I have to agree. I wouldn't tease him too much.” Persephone added. “You don't want to ruin his relationship with Tracy.”

“I'm sorry, Sage. I tried to ask Aunt Shelly, but they wanted to keep the house to the adults tonight, but she said tomorrow we could stay there, if you want.”

“That’s okay, I can survive. My bedroom door locks.” Sage replied, then she smiled. “Besides, we got a surprise now.”

“What?” Tracy asked.

“We have a TV and cable. Dad finally agreed that it doesn't rot the brain, but he wants us to watch some PBS each week, so we are cultured.” Sage rolled her eyes at the last part.

“Cool, so MTV?”

“Maybe. I know Moony is having Vance over, so who knows. We have to agree on the show.”

~o~O~o~

William's car pulled up to Sage's home. He had offered to take Vance and Moony, while the girls and Maggie rode with Persephone. As Persephone's VW bus pulled up, Vance looked over as the girls got out.

“Are the girls staying here tonight?” Vance asked. His father went over to Brooke and offered to carry her, which she nodded her approval.

“Yes.” William replied, as he picked Brooke out of her chair. “Your Aunt has something going on tonight, so do the Parker’s and William’s. So they are doing the sleepover here tonight.” He walked the few feet to the steps.

“Sleepover? I thought they were going to Brooke's?” Vance asked. "So Sage is going to be here?!?" He began to perk up.

“Brooke's mom is sick, and your Aunt, Uncle, Mom and I are stepping out for a bit.” William went up the steps, then in the house, where he waited for Brooke's chair to be brought into the house, then he placed her in it.

There was a knock at the door and Persephone answered it. Jamie, Rachel's sister walked in. “We're going to be gone for about an hour or two, but you can call the William's house if there is a problem.” Persephone told them.

“Okay Mom.” Sage and her brother replied.

“We've also called Jamie over, because Lance wants her out of the home for an hour or two. We'll dish out ice cream or something a bit later, but for now, just have fun. Vance, soda is in the fridge, help yourself.”

“Okay.” He said with a nod of his head.

~o~O~o~

William, Maggie were at Lance and Lynn's house with the parents of Sage and Stacey and Casey. Lok and his wife had just returned from their school in Dublin and they were there for Brooke. Shelly and Frank were there as well. Lynn was busy passing out sodas to the parents and William was getting ready for possible trouble, or news that his daughter hadn't told him yet.

Lance sat in a chair and faced the Pattersons. “William, Maggie, we wanted you two here because my wife and I, Harvey and Lilian, Carl and Persephone and Karen and her parents have been talking over an idea for the past couple of months, ever since Christmas. We know how much the girls are looking forward to hanging out for spring break, but instead of letting Rachel have us go all over the Bay area for mall shopping, we came up with an idea.”

“What type of idea?” Maggie asked.

“See, we were going to take Jamie and Rachel on a trip for Easter break, but Rachel said they had plans and she didn't want to miss out on Tracy's first Easter break. The others were having the same issue.”

Harvey chuckled. “Stacey was throwing the same problem up at us once Tracy took off in December.”

“Same with Sage and 'Romy.” Persephone added.

“Brooke has been better. She knows she has competitions and if she is not good, we don't let her go.” Lok stated.

“Where are you thinking of going?” William asked. He was afraid of being put on the spot and if it involved money, he would have to find a way to politely decline.

“Disneyland.” Lance stated.

“I don't know, it's kinda expensive.” William replied. He didn't want to be rude and he didn't want to ruin their ideas, but he knew that would be more money then they had at the moment. “what with Maggie moving, it may be hard for us to make it, but don't let us ruin your vacation.”

“And as the Godparents to Tracy and Vance, we owe them several years of gifts, so we'll pay their way, hotel bill, and help you with your tickets into the park.” Shelly stated. “William, that job is going to run you into the ground the next few months, take this chance to have some fun. You said you already asked for the time off, right?”

“Yeah, I figured I was bringing Tracy down here for Easter to hang out with the girls.”

“Well, then just show up and we'll bring you with us.” Lance stated. “You push yourself too hard and you may start to resent your children for the move. Relax. I know how hard it is to ask for help, but remember, you have money coming in from those cars that the O'Brien guy is selling for you.”

“True. I keep forgetting those.”

Lance turned to face the others. “Lok, can you and Jaio take time off of work?”

“With the school, we may take the week off of training, but what if just Karen went, to save on money and rooms.”

“So you're all in for this idea?” William asked.

“This beats my idea of just finding a campground up north.” Harvey stated. “The girls weren't too happy about sleeping in the trailer.”

“We do have an issue.” Lilian stated.

“What's that?” Lance asked.

“Well, there are how many of us? I mean including Mooney, Jamie and Vance? I'm guessing we're taking them with us. So what does that total to?”

“Twenty three.” William replied rather quickly. Math had been his strong point and he knew he had done the count for all the families before. “That's with the three oldest, Lok and Jaio, plus Karen and Shelly and Frank.”

“Twenty two. I took some time off work already and wanted to save the rest of my time off till September and December.” Frank stated.

“Twenty two people then. We have to transport that many people.” Lilian said.

“Well, my truck holds nine, as does yours. That's eighteen” Harvey told his wife. “I think Karen's van can hold six, so it may be out, so we can focus on leaving the luggage with that vehicle. The trucks don't have much storage space.”

“I have a van.” Shelly stated. “I can take seven people, including me, or I can take three others and fill the back with bags, so Brooke will be in the vehicle with her wheelchair.”

“Let's take Shelly's van, Take my truck, Lilian's truck and we keep the girls in one truck, except Jamie, unless she wants to be there.”

“When would we go?” Lance asked. “Later Friday, after school got out?”

“I couldn't go, not on the Friday.” William said. “I have work until Saturday afternoon and Vance has a full day the Friday before. Even if I could get the weekend off, we wouldn't get here till seven, that means Disney at midnight, if not later.”

“Okay, Monday then. Harvey, that work?”

“I'm off from Friday to Sunday the next week.”

“So more then a week? Good.” Lance said with a smile.

“I do have Sunday off, so we can travel then, or Saturday.” William said.

“We may not go.” Lok said, patting his wife’s hand. “But we would make sure that Brooke can go. She needs happiness in her life. But could we think about it?”

“Please do, we have a month and a half. But I would like to call a tourist place, so we can get the tickets and book the hotel early” Lance replied, then he looked to Carl and Persephone. “You two are good to go, right?”

“Yes. I'm just trying to think if we want to subject Mickey and Donald to my two girls. 'Romy is a total Donald nut.” Carl smiled brightly. “Actually, Persephone and I had been kicking around this idea for a while. We can use the tax money and go with that.”

William's eyes lit up. “I forgot about tax refunds.”

“We got it covered, William.” Shelly reminded him. “Save taxes for other expenses, like a moving van.”

“The Doctor and Therapist is on the eighteenth, so that's one saving grace.” Maggie stated.

“Two less stops?” Harvey asked.

“That too, but hopefully she won't be high on the hormones and in a mood when we go.”

“Here's hoping.” Lance nodded. “Lets just remember that Tracy isn't the only one we have to worry about with hormones. What about the court thing, Maggie, that's Friday, right?”

“Yeah, Early morning.” Maggie answered.

“I wish I could be here for that.” William grumbled. “Stupid job.”

“We know.” Maggie patted his arm. “I know you want to be here.”

“William, no one is looking down on you.” Shelly stated. “You're doing what you feel is right and instead of switching Vance mid school year, you're waiting.” William thought about her statement and he really wondered if they were doing what was best for Vance.

“Okay. So starting Friday before we go, we get the kids packed, we can load up on Friday and be ready for Saturday. William, when are you due to be off?”

“Noon. Also lately they've been doing their best to piss me off. Six on, then six, then four, then eight. ” He replied.

“So, if there were no issues, you could be here by three if you come straight down?” Lance asked and William nodded.

“I got a thought.” Carl said. “What if, the person with the smallest amount of people waits for William. When William gets to that person, we take off for Disneyland.”

“No. We all go together, in case one of us has car problems.” Harvey said.

“I got to side with Harvey on that. Together is safest.” Lance said and William agreed.

“One caravan is better. That way we all get there at once and all the parents are with their children.” William said with a nod.

“Very good. So we leave in a large group. William will bring Vance to Shelly's. We meet at Shelly's and we load up from there.”

“Yeah.”

Shelly leaned forward. “So do we tell the girls now?”

“We should, that way they will all be on their best behavior.” Lance stated. “And the older ones too.”

“Tomorrow.” Harvey replied. “After I get off work, we can meet at Persephone's.”

“No. They're going to my place. So meet there and we can have a pizza or something.” Shelly replied.

“Tomorrow at Shelly's for pizza and carnage.” Lance said with a chuckle.

Harvey leaned forward and cleared his throat. “I would like to offer something to Vance and Moony. Disney may seem childish to them, so what if this summer, I offer to take them camping? I can take Carl and William too, that way the boys get to hang out with their fathers.”

“That could work.” Carl said. “Moony and I do need to hang out more.”

“Same with Vance and me, but we shouldn't forget our daughters.”

Carl smiled at William. “Will, we're going to be at Disneyland with our daughters. Your son will be with my daughter. So I think we have the girls covered.”

“Poor Sage.” Maggie chuckled. “So much for it being the happiest place on Earth.”

“I have a thought.” Persephone chimed in. “For when we get there, since Vance and Mooney are the only boys in this group, what if Tracy comes our way for a couple of nights, so we have Tracy, Sage and 'Romy, then we switch, so the boys can share a bed and the girls can share one too.”

Maggie nodded at the logic. “Good idea. We could do that.”

~o~O~o~

“Would it be wrong to admit that I've thought about moving now and not waiting for June?” William asked, while he sat at the table in a restaurant with his wife, Shelly and Frank. “They are doing their best to fire me. Why not save them the problems and just quit, move Vance down to this school system and have Dad watch our stuff. We can just as easily drive up, pack the house up and move.”

“William, we're always ready to help you move.” Frank replied. “Well, on the weekends would be easier. But we're there for you.”

“We can do it, but what brought this on?” Maggie asked.

“Work, mostly. The managers are by the time clock, almost daily, and they are getting nit-picky if I clock in or out, a minute early or late. So far the union is covering my backside, but I'm almost to the point of saying it just isn't worth it. Then there's issues on the floor and if I am driving, they make me stop and help, then they get on my ass for not doing my job. It's getting to be more than I want to deal with.”

Maggie lightly touched his hand. “William, none of us can tell you what to do. I know Tracy would love it if you were to move with us. But I can't speak for Vance. I know he is mad because the boys on the teams won't let him play in the sports, but that can't be his only reason to move. You have to do what feels right for you.”

“What feels right is having my family together, not split between two towns and hours apart.”

"William, I love you and I want you with me, but if you have to wait till June, then so be it. But if you choose to move now, I will make sure Vance is enrolled here and I can get that taken care of rather quickly."

~o~O~o~

Saturday 19th February 1983

“Go Vance!” Brooke yelled from their sideline show of the two on two game that Moony had set up.

Vance had been paired with Moony, while they went against two boys that Moony went to school with.

Vance faked a pass to Mooney, then he rushed the basket, getting closer to the basket, but the boy covering him stayed between him and the basket. Vance quickly passed to Mooney, then ducked past the boy as Moony made the shot. It hit the edge of the basket and bounced towards him. He scrambled to get the ball as the boy who was covering him rushed for it too. Vance got his fingers on it, then he spun and passed it back to Moony who took yet another shot.

This time the ball hit the backboard and bounced into the hoop. As it dropped to the ground, Tracy and her friends all cheered.

“Hey no fair.” One of the other boys said. “We don't have our own cheerleaders.”

“Just one of the perks to having sisters with friends.” Moony said with a grin. “It's not my fault that your parents just gave you brothers.”

“Although it would be funny to put your brother in a skirt to cheer us.” the other boy said with a chuckle.

“So I know which one is his sister, which one is yours?” The one that had called himself Bryce asked Vance.

“That one.” Vance pointed to Tracy. “The one with the blue skirt.”

“The one next to his sister?”

“Yeah.” Vance said.

“She got a boyfriend?”

“Yeah.” Vance said. “Big mean kid, about her age. He actually helped out when she got attacked.” He chuckled. “Actually he was there both times she got attacked.”

“Who attacked her?” Bryce asked.

“First time was an asshole from school. Someone who used to be my friend. Him and two other kids tried to attack her. They manged to hurt her, then they fucked up.”

“What did they do?”

Vance smiled. “When she was hurt, like hurt so bad she had to get emergency surgery afterward, she got up and fought all three of them and beat the shit out of two of them because they attacked our Grandma. No one touches our Grandma.”

Moony nodded. “Yeah. I heard she was moving damn slow when she visited in December.”

“Then two weeks ago, the younger brother of the guy who attacked her in December came to the property, but this time Tracy beat the snot out of him and one other guy, at the same time, while Tracy's boyfriend and I held back the two big dudes who came with them and Moony had Tracy's back with one other guy. She kicked some major ass that day.”

“The other guy, his name is Jerry, he was pretty cool.”

Vance nodded. “He's been all over the world. His Dad's in the Army.”

“Peter was pretty cool, for an outdoors type.”

The fourth looked to his watch really fast. “Well, come on, let's get playing. I got to get going in an hour or so.”

“Sure, I got time.” Vance said.

~o~O~o~

The girls were walking the nearby park, making sure to keep out of the bigger puddles. The game was over and they knew they had to be back at Persephone's place, so the girls could go to Shelly's for the night. Moony and Vance were following them, but giving them some space. They had almost reached the entrance of the park, when a voice disturbed their day.

“Look, it's like, Orca, the gimp, the, um, freak and like, Porker pigtails.” One of the two girls who had become the constant thorn in Rachel, Sage and Brooke's side said with a laugh. They all turned to see just the one girl standing there.

“Porker Pigtails?” Tracy asked, looking to Rachel

“Meet Yvette.” Rachel replied. “Together with a friend of hers, they share a brain-cell. But I think it’s on vacation today.”

“Like, um, shut up Orca.” Yvette told her.

“Like, um.” Rachel started to reply, doing her best to copy the valley speak, then she dropped it and spoke one word normally, but with a lot of annoyance. “No.”

“Come on, I don't want more problems.” Tracy said. “Let’s just go down the road or something.”

“Yeah.” Brooke agreed with a nod. “No point in being insulted everywhere we go.”

Sage put her hand on Rachel's shoulder, so she wouldn't get worked up. “Yvette, we're just hanging out with our friend. We don't want any problems.”

“Well, then, like, um, stay out of my, um, park.”

“Sure, we'll stay out of your park, but this public one is still fair game.” Rachel replied.

“Let’s just go.” Tracy stated. “Last thing we need is more problems.”

“What's going on?” Vance asked as he got closer with Moony.

“Nothing. Yvette was just leaving.” Sage stated, then they started to walk for the entrance again.

Yvette looked at the two boys and her cheeks went a bit red, then she turned and ran off. She didn't want to have problems with older boys, not cute ones like they were.

“So is there a reason she speaks like that?” Tracy asked as they reached Brooke's street. “Is she mentally retarded or something? I don't want to be mean, but she sounds like she is.”

“It's a Valley girl thing. It's getting huge, but it sounds stupid.” Sage replied.

“Is she always like that, being a jerk, I mean?”

Sage, Brooke and Rachel all nodded. Brooke answered. “Always. Her and her friend.”

“So I left Clark and now I get that?” Tracy asked.

“Tracy, mean people are everywhere. That is a fact of life.” Sage stated.

“Come on, let’s get to the house. It must be time to go by now.”

~o~O~o~

The girls all piled out of Persephone's VW bus and headed for the door of Shelly's house. Tracy led the way. She tried the doorknob and found it locked, so she knocked, then they waited. William opened it up, looked outside and started to close it. “No thanks, we gave at the office.” He said with a chuckle. He shut the door, then locked it.

Tracy knocked again and she heard her the door unlock, but it only opened up a crack. “Hello?” William asked, but he tried to speak in a voice higher then normal.

“Daddy, it's us. Can we come in?”

“Us who? I'm not expecting an us. We're expecting a group of them, but not a group of Us. Are you sure this is the right house?” He shut the door and locked it again.

A confused Vance, Moony and Jamie came around the corner. Sage looked at her brother as Harvey and Lilian walked around the garage. “What's going on?” Sage asked.

“Just a talk with everyone.” Harvey replied. “Nothing bad.”

Tracy grumbled and knocked one more time. “Daddy, can we come in?”

The door opened once more and William peeked his head out. “Are you selling Avon? Maybe candy for school?”

“Daddy. Come on, we all got our bags and stuff.” Tracy whined. “And its raining out here.”

It was only a mist, but it was still mean of him. “Okay.” He said, opening up the front door and stepping to the side. “Were you good last night?” He asked, looking at Persephone.

“She was good and so was your boy.”

~o~O~o~

William and Maggie both pulled the parents and Shelly outside leaving all the kids, including Jamie, Vance and Moony to wonder what was going on. “Persephone, do you know what school district Vance would be in, if he were to move and live in Shelly's house?”

“Yeah, he would be in Moony's. Why?”

“I'm considering moving him down now. Sure, it could cause some problems, being three months to the end of the school year, but I don't know if I can take it.” William stated.

“Being away from the wife and daughter?” Persephone asked him.

“That, and work. They really are trying to get me fired. If I go now, I don't have that fired mark on my work record. I get fired and it’s just a bit harder to get a job.”

Persephone nodded at the logic he had. She just wanted to help examine all things, in case he didn't think of them. “But what about moving? Will you store your stuff, until you can find a place?”

“Well, there is a storage place near your house. And God knows Tracy will want to go to school with her friends and Vance could use someone like your son, since he knows a bit of what Tracy is going through.” Maggie stated.

Persephone nodded. “Well, let’s talk about it after pizza. We can let the kids watch the TV or something and we can cover the main issues you may face.”

“Yeah, Jamie wants to go to a friends house, so her ride is showing up shortly.” Lynn stated.

Shelly stood up from the swinging seat they had on their covered porch. “Frank has left for the pizza, but he said to start without him.”

“Come on, let’s go make their days.” Persephone said with a smile.

They all walked in and made the kids all take seats in the small living-room. “Okay, we have all of us here to ask you all an important question.” Lance started. He looked to his two daughters. “We were thinking of taking a family trip for Spring break. By luck, Stacey, Casey and Vance all share your days off from school, so I offered my idea to the other parents.”

“What decision?” Rachel asked. “We were going to try and go to as many malls as we could that week.”

“Well, you could, or would you rather go to Disneyland?” Her father asked. It took a moment, then all the girls started to squeal.

“All of us?” Sage asked. And when the parents nodded, the girls squealed again.

“Me too?” 'Romy asked and her mother nodded, this caused the little girl to dance around in one place.

“Now, we know Disney may seem for younger kids.” Harvey told Vance and Mooney. “So this summer, while your father is moving here, Vance, and when Carl takes a week off for the summer, I'm taking you boys camping in the mountains for a week.”

“Vance, this means on the Saturday before your spring break, you need to make sure you are packed for a week and ready to go when I get home. I'll be picking you up and we're headed straight down here and then we're headed for Disneyland once we get here.”

“Okay.”

"Then it's settled and you all want to go?"

Moony and Vance shrugged, but Jamie, her sister and the rest of the girls all erupted in cheers.

~o~O~o~

“Vance, Tracy? Could we speak to the two of you in private?” William asked.

His children walked over and he led them upstairs to the bedroom that Tracy had taken over. “There are two main things we want to cover, before Carl takes you back to his house, Vance.”

“Are we in trouble?” Tracy asked.

“No, you're not in trouble.” William said with a shake of his head. “Vance, I have been considering moving down here a bit earlier. Work is really riding my backside and I think it’s only a matter of weeks before they find a reason to fire me. So would you be upset if we moved you down here earlier?”

“I guess not. It’s not like I got a lot of friends at school anymore. I mean Emily May talks to me, but not that much. And Peter did say he'd mail the letters for us.” Vance said with a shrug. “Moony did say that baseball was starting soon, so I'd be able to try out for that team, at least.”

“So is that a yes?” William asked.

“Yeah. I'd move. But what about the rest of the stuff? Could I take a day off of school for it?”

“I think we'd start with the clothes and stuff like that, so we don't fill Aunt Shelly's house, then we work on the rest in the summer.”

“So you'd move sooner?” Tracy asked, like next week?”

“Well, I have to give work two weeks notice, but the sooner I can do it, the better.”

“Awesome.” She replied, a huge smile on her lips.

William looked at her. “This is thing number two. Tracy, you mother and I are looking at going to the church that the William’s attend. Rachel is going to be with them, so would you like to go?”

“It will just be us, and the Williams. The Parkers go to their own church, Brooke has things to do and the Millers don't go to a church.”

“Sure, I guess.”

“Vance?”

“Do I have to?” He asked.

“No. You don't have to go, but we may ask again, in a few months, that is.”

“Then could I hang out with Moony some more?”

“Sure. We can allow that, if Persephone doesn't mind. We can ask her in a bit.”

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When Vance had taken off and the girls had taken over the living-room, Rachel and Sage pulled her to the side. “So, what did your parents want?”

“Well, they wanted to see if I'd go to church tomorrow.” Tracy replied. “I guess Brooke, Stacey and Casey have stuff going on, so I was thinking about it.”

“Please.” Rachel held her hands up, begging to Tracy. “Please, come with me.”

“Can I think about it?” Tracy asked. “After Molly, I'm scared to get near churches for fear someone will attack me.”

“Okay, you can think about it.”

“Dad's also thinking about moving down early.” Tracy stated.

Sage gasped and Rachel hugged her. “See, it will work out!” Rachel said as her arms wrapped around her.

Soon, all will be right, next up, Church!