"Happy fourth of july everyone" Eric says pulling up the flag and Lenny letting the bird free.

Later that day we were inside the kitchen making food and stuff for today i was helping Deanne when Roxanne starting getting angry at the sowing machine in spanish.

"Thats so sexy what did you say?" Sally asks.

"I think she said, iwjdndjajdhdiwoapa Milan" I said causing them to laugh.

Then I start to zoom out, I grab my heahphones and put " Welcome to the black parade"

'When I was a young boy,

My father took me into the city

To see a marching band.

He said, "Son when you grow up,

would you be the savior of the broken,

the beaten and the damned?"

He said "Will you defeat them,

your demons, and all the non-believers,

the plans that they have made?"

"Because one day I'll leave you,

A phantom to lead you in the summer,

To join The Black Parade."'

I start to sing to me wile reading.

'When I was a young boy,

My father took me into the city

To see a marching band.

He said, "Son when you grow up,

would you be the savior of the broken,

the beaten and the damned?"

Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me.

And other times I feel like I should go.

And through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets.

And when you're gone we want you all to know.

We'll carry on,

We'll carry on

And though you're dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry on

We'll carry on

And in my heart I can't contain it

The anthem won't explain it.'

"you know, these guys at the store were talking so much smack about this basketball rematch thats supposed to go on" Amber says.

"Well im glad we're getting these uniforms ready" Roxanne says as my dad slowly walks out of the closet from last night

"Owww no more drinkie" He says.

"Did you really sleep in the closet you drunk?" Roxanne asks.

He pulls back his shirt to see Sally's breast pump thing and he pulls it off.

"OMG" they all say. I just laugh.

'A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams

Your misery and hate will kill us all.

So paint it black and take it back

Let's shout it loud and clear

Defiant to the end we hear the call

To carry on

We'll carry on

And though you're dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry on

We'll carry on

And though you're broken and defeated

Your weary widow marches

On and on we carry through the fears

Ooh oh ohhhh

Disappointed faces of your peers

Ooh oh ohhhh

Take a look at me cause I could not care at all

Do or die, you'll never make me

Because the world will never take my heart

Go and try, you'll never break me

We want it all, we wanna play this part

I won't explain or say I'm sorry

I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar

Give a cheer for all the broken

Listen here, because it's who we are

I'm just a man, I'm not a hero

Just a boy, who had to sing this song

I'm just a man, I'm not a hero

I! don't! care!'

I get up and go to the deck to be alone by miself. I sit in the floor looking to the water antil I hear my dad runing away to Rob. Them everione get on the deck.

"Buddy Buddy whats the problem?" My dad asks Rob, but he just kicks him in the balls...... wow.

"Me and him?" Jasmine says walking up to them "Okay maybe i flirted with him, but that was just to get your attention" She adds.

"Well what happened to your head?" Rob asks.

"When i was changing into my PJs, i got the feeling that some perv was looking through my window, so i went to go close the shade and i tripped and hit my head" She answered.

From the corner of my eyes, I saw Andre and Greg duck their heads slowly out of site and I growled lowly. Screw not being the jealous girlfriend! Greg turned his head and smiled sheepishly knowing I had caught him red handed. I glared before 'accidentally bumping into both boys.

"I am so dead," Greg muttered.

"Yes, ou are." I said .

"You're whipped my friend."

Dad was talking about how he didn't have his life together like Lenny.

"Oh," Roxanne said "Together like Lenny. Oh please," she scoffed "I answered your phone. It was your assistant. I asked him if he canceled the flight to Milan and he said he did...BEFORE WE EVEN CAME HERE!"

"Wow, he is dead." I said.

"He said that?" Lenny tried to work his way out of this lie "Why would he say that? I mean..."

Roxanne cut him off "Oh, so, he just made that up, huh?"

Lenny kept stuttering and I wondered how he kept a straight face "I'm not saying he made it up, I think in his head he believes it's true."

Roxanne angrily walked up to him and pointed a finger at him "Don't you agent me Lenny! Stop trying to handle everybody and everything and start taking a little responsibility for once."

"I'll take responsibility, okay? You're right. I thought it would be better for our family to be here with normal people for once instead of going to Milan."

I almost laughed out loud when Deanne muttered "We're normal?"

"I don't think so." I said to her.

"I was scared to tell you," Lenny said and I looked to dad "It was easier for me to keep it a secret."

"If you peel back any marriage there are secrets," Eric told him. His wife gave him a look and Eric tried to cover it up "My secret is that I love you." He stuttered and his wife smiled.

"Roxanne I just, our kids are becoming nutty, snotty, spoiled. I, uh, a nanny, we got..."

Kurt smiled "So she is a nanny,"

"No, no, no, no she's not a nanny..."

"Of course she is a nanny!" Roxanne yelled fed up with her husband's lies "When does the lying stop?"

"It stops after this," he muttered "She's more of an opear."

"Lenny." Roxanne warned.

"Okay, the lying stops now. I won't lie to you ever again. I swear I love you."

"Men lie!" Mrs. McKenzie's mother yelled from her porch swing "They can't help themselves! Kurt sure as hell lies!"

"What do I lie about, Toe J Simpson?" Kurt yelled back.

"Oh please," Deanne said "the nanny?"

Huh, what about the nanny? What was happening here?

"What about the nanny?"

"You have a thing for her!"

"I do not have a thing for the nanny! I'm a married man, period. But did I enjoy having a nice conversation with a woman that wasn't going 'Where's this?' and 'Did you pick up that?' Yeah!"

"What?" Deanne asked "You can have nice conversations with me."

"When?" He said "You're always working and when you come home you're just tired all the time. You barely even touch me or look at me."

"He sounds like an old woman!" We heard from the porch "Deanne, you should have married Enverto Denuiso like I told you!"

"Yeah, you know what? If I had stayed with him, you'd be the one that's pregnant right now mama!"

"You're probably right, sweetheart! I'll just butt out!"

"Thank you!"

"Look maybe I do take you for granted and I'm sorry. How's about I take you out every Thursday for date night?"

"Well, Thursday is Grey's Anatomy but any other night would be beautiful."

Holy crap! Shouldn't the woman be complaining that the man is ignoring her and the man tries to fix it? Wow...

Eric spoke up "As long as we're all being honest," he said looking at his wife "I think I should be honest too. Um, I'm actually not a part owner of my own furniture store. I don't even work there anymore. I got laid off in April but I rented the caddy and I acted like, you know, a big shot because I didn't want you guys to know."

"Lamonsoff, you don't have to hide anything from us. I'm sorry."

"Yeah and since we're getting things off our chests here," Rob said "I have a confession to make," Rob paused "I'm wearing a tupe."

"No shit," the nanny said and I giggled quietly. I felt a hand slip into mine and I looked over to find Greg smiling at me. I get my hand and walk to the other side of the deck, I'm still mad, I walk quickly before Gloria spoke up.

"I have a confession to make," she said raising her hand "I'm really a man."

What the heck!

Everyone didn't really look surprised and started commenting "I'm just kidding! I'm just kidding! I'm really a little hurt that so many of you believed it,"

Greg and I smirked at each other , but soon I remember that I'm mad at him and gave a cold glare while Lenny tried to correct himself.

"Never the less," the old lady went on "I know it's not my place but, um, well after all I am older than anyone here..."

"Hell yeah you are!"

"Well despite the joking and the razzing, I see a lot of love here and with love comes hostility, like, um, Rob when he snapped at me the other day. That was scary and you all thought I was so calm but inside...inside I was saying 'Gloria Newnen, do not call him a bug eyed sociopath with a little man complex. Do not say that his hair makes him look like a dirty Q-Tip or that he resembles an elder, gay Jonas Brother or a midget Filipino Fonzy, I didn't say that!" At this point all of us were cracking up with laughter. I was laughing so hard that I was leaning into Greg's side and clutching my stomach.

"Life can be difficult sometimes," Gloria went on "it gets bump what with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned but that's what makes it interesting. And life, the first act is always exciting, the second act that's where the depth comes in." Rob went to hug his wife and his daughter's soon followed. Andre and Greg made their way into the hug and pulled me with him. I was squished in between Greg and Mr. Hillard's other daughter who I never got the name of.

After the hug I sit in the porch looking to the skie, was with my phone and headphones listining to some music. I put the song the max so I can't hear anithing or anyone. I am mad at Greg for look to another girl, but I know that proprabli this will not last.

I just wish that this love least for a long time.

I felt someone shaking my shoulder, I look to the side and see Greg smiling at me. I pull off my headphones.

"Hey, Amy." He said calm and swett.

"Hey....." I said cold. I look at him.

"Look, I'm sorry for what I did. I was a jurk and I promes I won't do it again." He said taking my hand "Belive me."

"Promessis..... they are made to who made them to brake." I said finding the floor very intristing.

"I suer that I won't do it again." He grab my chim to make m see his gorgues eyes.

"Really?" I ask.

"Really." Than he leand and kiss me, and I kiss back.