stop and stare , closed.

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

well well, mrs trent. aren't you supposed to be studying? i know you're not doing that if you're signed onto the instant messenger... what a naughty girl. ;]

how's my girl?

[brittany trent]

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well, well, well mr. trent, aren't you supposed to be working? i think you not working is worse than me not studing... i don't get paid. and i thought you liked the fact that i was naughty. *shakes head* can you ever make up your mind? i'm fine... bored out of my freakin' mind with all this crap, but i guess that's the price i pay. and you, love? you obviously can't be working too hard.

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

maybe you don't get paid now, but eventually you will, so don't go and screw it up. ... kidding. and of course i can make up my mind. i never said i didn't like you being naughty. you know i love it. i was just making an observation.

no, not working at all. for an auto garage, there aren't many cars. i might have to go out and start disconnecting brakes and popping tires just to have something to do at work. i mean, getting to talk to you in the middle of the day is always a bonus, but you know things are bad when i'm checking e-mail and actually chatting online. ...i have over 100 e-mails...

so how 'bout my other girl? hayles with the sitter?

[brittany trent]

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yeah, eventually i will get paid, but i don't really want to think about that. when that time comes it'll mean spending all day away from you and hayles, and that's just not something i'm ready for. of course... she'll be in school before i start teaching. kade! there will be no vandelizing of cars! even if you do end up fixing them, it's not right. one-hundred? let me guess, seventy of them were from jared trying to talk you in to joining him for a trip in his profession.

yeah, i dropped her off before i came here. so, i'd say she's doing great. you know how she loves to play with the other kids she has around her house.

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

i don't think i'm ready for any of that either. god...school. can't we just home school her instead? lock her away from all the other mean little kids and keep her all to ourselves? i mean, that seems like the obvious solution to keeping her out of gangs and drugs and getting pregnant at sixteen.

;]

fine. no vandalizing of cars. ...but you're sure that i can't key one or two or them up? maybe bust out a window? i'm bored out of my mind here, brit. two of the other guys were sleeping and the other three are playing cards. and there's no air conditioning which sucks out freaking loud. of course most of them are from jared. crazy pictures and stories. i'm keeping them so that you can be entertained later. some are pretty good.

other kids. why does she need other kids when she has us?

you know i'm kidding. i just wish i was the one with her all day. it's finally happened, i'm jealous of a couple of 2-5 year olds...

[brittany trent]

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kade, we are not going to lock our daughter up in a closet to keep her away from other kids. she'd hate us forever. and hey now, if i hadn't gotten pregnant at sixteen you wouldn't have that little girl. of course, she could have always come later, but it all worked out. though, you'd probably kill whoever it was that ended up being the father. at least kevin wasn't TOO harsh on you.

no. you leave those poor innocent cars be. when they need you, they'll come. wow... sleeping on the job... no wonder you don't have any business. haha. just kidding, love. i don't really have an air conditioning problem... i'm actually kind of cold... god. jared. i'll bet they are entertaining. i'm still fully amazed that jared is still in one piece.

she needs kids her own age. i hate leaving her to, but we have to do it. yeah, sure you're kidding. we all know you're just a big softy underneath, even when you act all tough. oh my! kade trent jealous of 2-5 year olds! how could it be? lol.

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

i know we can't. it was just an idea. and i know brit, believe me. i'm glad it happened the way it did. i can't imagine not having hayley or you the way i do. and yes, yes i would probably kill the little bastard if things end up that way. i can't say i'll be as kind as your father was to me. kevin had every right to much, much worse. i'm just thankful that i've always been a favorite with him, even after all that shit that happened in high school.

the gas prices are just too high. people can't afford gas, so they don't run their cars. when they don't run their cars, nothing goes wrong with them for me to fix. i never thought i'd see a day when i actually wanted a car to roll in here rather than sit on my ass and do nothing all day. i wish i were cold... and yeah, jared's still in one piece. one of these e-mails has a video clip with it from one of his skydiving expeditions. it's crazy as hell, what that boy does. sometimes, i really don't know where he came from.

bite me. you've always knows i was a softy, and that little girl makes it tens times worse. just one more hour, and i can leave and go pick her up.

[brittany trent]

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good, 'cause i'd hate to think that after three years you'd want a different outcome. haha. yeah, but because dad stopped drinking he gained a great hold over his temper and such. he could have been quite mean and nasty. but, i think dean did most of that for him. even though he's pretty much let it all go... i hope i never have to hear you threaten the life of some poor boy who gets involved with our daughter.

honey, i'm sure a car will roll in eventually. and if it doesn't, then you can just sit here and distract me from my studying. you know, it's kind of funny. i come to the library to get away from your destractions and you stil manage to do it. an evil gift if you ask me. a video clip? oh my. he's the ugly duckly in the family... and for some reason he seems to be hayles favortie uncle. how is that possible?

yes, i always knew you were a softy. i knew you were a lot of things, i just didn't spread the word to everyone at school. lol. yeah, she's easy to love. and everything we went through to get her this far only makes you more attached. yeah, maybe when you're gone i can actually study... or run straight home. i don't think i'm going to get much studying done at all. *sigh*

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

ah, good ol dean, my favorite brother-in-law... he really kicked the shit out of me for that, didn't he? i laugh about it now, but that was one hell of a fight. but you were there. you know. and i'd be upset and threaten the kid for a long time. i'd only really consider killing him if he left hayley instead of sticking with her.

an evil gift, but one that you know you enjoy. i can show you a few more of them tonight. ;] and it's possible because jared has the mentality of a young child. he's on hayley's level, so they get along well. plus, hunter's just so...hunter. not exciting at all unless you get a few drinks in him first.

yeah, because of that reputation of mine.. sometimes i look back and wonder what the hell i ever saw in any of it, or how i even got there in the first place. it's not like i asked for it. you should go straight home that way i can see you as soon as i get there with hayles.

[brittany trent]

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honey, he's your only brother-in-law. yeah, he did. we always knew dean had a loose temper, we just never thought he'd go that far. should have kept a better eye on him. yeah, well not all guys are as great as you. there are certainly ones out there that would leave. i think a lot of people were surprised when you didn't. i wasn't, but others were.

oh, so you have more, huh? maybe i should rethink the fact that i've always believed you were a good guy. because a guy with so many evil gifts couldn't possibily be that good. true. very true. yeah, but you see, hunter's the uncle you'd go to to tell all your problems to. jared's the one that you go to to forget those problems. still, jared's insane, and as long as hayley knows not to follow uncle jared's example, then it's all good.

we all look back and wonder. all that matters now is who you are now. i guess you'll have to wait and see what i decide. you know, i would have thought my day off would have been spent with you and hayley, but then i decided to study. honestly, what was i thinking?

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

um, didn't you read the sarcasm behind my words? should have kept a better eye on him? yeah, maybe, but i can't say that i didn't have it coming. i deserved a lot of it, and that's why i didn't fight back until he pissed me right the hell off. but, again, you were there. i'm just glad that jared, hunter, and those other guys jumped in and ended it, or else dean and i probably wouldn't have until one wasn't breathing anymore. seems pretty stupid now.. are you kidding? my own family was surprised that i didn't leave. just goes to show what a horrible little son of a bitch i used to be. have i ever thanked you for making me better than that?

oh, i'm good and you know it. but there's no fun in being good all the time. just look at hunter. see, i never told all my troubles to hunter. i told you and jared. sometimes mykayla. hunter was a last resort. i don't know why, but he and i never really connected on that level. i guess i just didn't want him to see how messed up i could be. and jared was always the best at making the problems go away temporarily. you were always my number one, though.

you were thinking that you'd be good for once and do what you were supposed to do instead of putting it off to the last second because you were hanging out with your amazing husband and gorgeous little daughter. that never really works out for you though.

[brittany trent]

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... of course i read the sarcasm. that's a typical response to such comments. okay, smart ass, we know we should have watched him closer. i would have jumped into the middle of that freakin' fight first if jace hadn't held me back, considering, you know, i was with child and such and he didn't want me to get hit in the crossfire. yeah. most people continuously told me i was nuts for believing the best in you. and of course you've thanked me... just in ways you might not know about.

okay, maybe not, but being good is what got hunter anna. and she's more than enough woman for any man to handle. of course... he's not totally all that good when he's with her... i always went to you. you know that. but, when i couldn't go to you, i went to hunter. or if i wanted a second opinion. i never went to jared. his judgement wasn't one i nessecarily trusted. i bonded with all four of you trents, i'm just closer to different ones in different ways.

what can i say, i've always been a procrastinator. though, now that i have much better things to do with my time i can't help but put everything off. and you don't help when i'm at the house trying to do it before school the next day. you know you're irrestible to me. and you just have to make it so much harder! lol. and hayley... well, i put everything off for her. i always have.

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

i'm glad he held you back. i know you're a vicious little thing when you want to be, but dean and i weren't thinking straight. it's hard to tell what we might have done. you were nuts for believing in me the way you did, and still do. i didn't deserve it a lot of the time. oh? how so?

anna's just crazy enough to balance hunter out, and he's mild enough to do the same for her. and babe, i know hunter's no saint, but i didn't need to read that. hunter was always good with the advice. his opinion was one that i valued more that most, and that's exactly why i couldn't tell him a lot of things. and jared wouldn't have ever led you wrong. he might seem unstable, but when you make him see that you're serious, he is actually very...well, good at that kind of thing. close in different ways, huh?

i know. i need to hit the lottery. that way we can spend our time doing better things without work or school getting in the way. either that or some uncle of ours needs to be rich and die so we get the inheritance. oh, so now it's all my fault? you just have no self control. not that i mind it, but still... and that little girl always comes first.

[brittany trent]

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yeah, i know, but jace also did not do anything to stop the fight either. i hated that fight... maybe, but i'm glad i did. a hopeless cause like you has to have someone to believe in him. honey, if i have to tell you what those ways are, then you have certainly not been doing your job right.

yep, they're a perfect match. and yes, i know you didn't need to, but i'm just evil like that. yeah, hunter should seriously think about persueing a career in shrinkish. i don't know how many times i've yelled at him before for "advising" me. it was annoying. and yeah, i know jared's good at that kind of thing when he gets serious, but that doesn't mean i had him on call. he tended to offer his advice when i really didn't want it.

yep. close in different ways. you in many, many different ways... hunter in a "lean on your shoulder" kind of way... jared in an annoying older brother kind of way... and mykayla in a loving younger sister kind of way. besides, i've known you all since i was born. if i wasn't close to every single one of you something would be wrong... and since i'm in the family, yeah. lol.

yeah, the lottery would be nice... until the government took half of it. you know... forget the rich uncles... we'll just hire an assassion to take out jackson. i've never liked that man, and if he and mom weren't currently paying for school, i would like him even less. he's just so... bitter. *shutters* looks like mom finally met her perfect match.

yes, it is all your fault. you know i have no control and you take complete and total advantage of it. it's not my fault that i can't resist temptations. i've never been at all good at it. yeah, the world revolves around ms. hayley elizabeth trent... especially when her daddy gives her everything she wants. but, on the upside... at least levi has a snuggle buddy and doesn't route in the bed with us. those were some pretty funny times...

[kade trent]

wayward_son :

yeah, well, not to be mean or anything, but i really don't know how much help jace would have been if he would have tried anyway. he did good with keeping you out of it. kept you and him both out of the way and from getting hurt when it really wasn't needed. god...it's been a while since i've even thought about that night. it was right after we'd told you dad, wasn't it? we went out and dean found us... good times.

eh. we trents have our moments, but we always took care of each other, and you. still do. we need to get everyone together soon and do something. i actually kind of miss my crazy brothers and sister. don't tell them though. they wouldn't ever let me live down the fact that i miss them after swearing that i was never happier than when i moved out and away from them. even if i was just kidding, kind of.

damn government.. always have to come in and kick you in the ass just when you think you finally hit it good. we don't have enough money for a real assassin. i bet jared would do it for close to nothing. he has little morals when it comes to that sort of thing. though, him with a gun would be a scary image...

there's no point in denying that one. i do take advantage of it, but only because you're a pretty good temptation yourself. we already knew that i didn't have any control, though. you were the one that it was surprising out of, not that i'm complaining on bit. yeah, well have you seen those pretty hazel eyes of hers? there's no way i could ever tell her no. it's the same damn way with you and your gorgeous eyes. one look and i'm sold.

oh yeah. hilarious. i'm just glad that i'm no longer picking hairs off of me and having to wonder if they're yours or the dog's.