The morning was madness from beginning to end.

"You Son of a Bitch!" Jake stormed down from his bedroom, seeing Cegs waiting in the kitchen. Cegs knew it was coming. A week had past, it was about time someone found out.

"Cassie, really? You just had to go there?"

Callum was talking to Penney in his bedroom as things had moved fast with them when he heard all the yelling from downstairs.

Isabel was getting her breakfast talking to Cegs when Jake came storming down. And Cegs didnt really knwo what was happening until Jakes fist met his face.

"JAKE!" Isabel rushed over to Cegs, who already had a pretty bruised face. Cegs wobbled a bit but he was able to take it.

"No, no its ok Isabel. I deserve this. Come on Jake, punch me again" He called out, drunk off his ass. Callum ran down, buckling up his trousers on the way.

"What's going on?"

"I'm gonna kill you!" Jake pounced again, hitting Cegs in the stomach making him curse in pain yet still not defend himself.

"Jake, stop it!" Isabel pushed him away from Cegs while Penney rushed to get a crying Rowan. 

"Don't stop him Isabel, let him at me" Cegs yelled, almost wobbling and stumbling every time he spoke.

"SURPRISE!" Clare blared into the already crowded hallway and then burst into a million tears. It was like shakesprere play gone wrong. Callum looked at a shouting Cegs to a roaring Jake to a crying Clare.

"I'm too young for this..." He whispered to himself. "Ok" He shook his head to think through all the madness "Penney take Clare inside the kicthen"

"You're drunk Cegs and you're...wired..." Callum looked into his little brothers eyes. It was way to early for this to be happening. "Isabel, bring him up stairs. And Cegs, go home."

"Let him kill himself on the road! Its about time anyway!" Jake called, Isabel pushing him up the stairs. She pushed him on to his bed and gave him the worst death stare.

"You think..that's..gonna work..Bel?"

"What the hells wrong with you?" She asked, pulling his covers over him and taking away the beer on his desk.

"ME? CEGS KISSED CASSIE!"

This was news to Isabel but she still scowled at Jake "Drugs, Jake? Really?" And she stormed out, locking him inside.

Isabel wanted to see what was wrong with Clare but a drunk Cegs sat by her door waiting for a cab. "Cassie, really?"

"I'm a jerk. A douche. A asshole. I've heard it all before firecracker" He gestured with his hands. He knew she was mad at him.

"Give me your keys" Cegs handed them over without argument and Isabel called him cab. "You are a jerk Cegs" And she slammed the door shut.

"Calm down and tell me what happened, from the top?" Callum was trying to talk to distraught Clare but she just kept weeping.

"Is there something in the air, making everyone crazy today?" Callum asked Penney and Isabel.

"I think its just this house" Isabel sat down, completely exhausted already. She felt like crying. She dint know what was happening. All of a sudden everything was breaking down.

They found out hours later that Clare has slept with some guy who then recorded it and showed it to all his friends. Even though it was a big deal in Clare world, it was tiny compared to the world Isabel and Callum were living in.

"God, sometimes i think runaway it the best option" It was late in the evening. Clare was watching the notebook in her room. Jake had stopped yelling and Isabel had fallen asleep on the sofa with Rowan.

"I don't blame you! Does this happen on a regular basis?" Penney asked, moving closer to Callum as he washed the dishes.

"Not regularly. Not liek this. Not all at once. God, the only sibling left is Isabel. She has her melt down we'll be completed" Callum was exhausted with this day.

"What about Rowan" Penney wrapped her arms around him.

"Nah, Even if he was bale to have a melt down , he would be a cute one i'd say..." He chuckled.

"You're so cute when you talk about him." 

"Oh yeah" He turned around and they kissed for a brief three point three seconds until they were interrupted by teh phone.

"I'll get it!" Penney skipped to the phone and answered it. "Um, yeah, he's here. Callum, its for you...."

Callum grabbed the phone "Pacco, hey..." and rushed off outside.

"Hey man, look i need that number of that guy that sold me that stuff last week...i need more of it..." Jake voice was husky on the phone as he tapped his fingers on his phone.

"I know man, but there's a party coming up and i need some to sell, you know what I'm sayin'. So if you could get him to meet me somewhere, that be awesome"

"Man, you ain't gettin' me mixed up in anything, its just some spare cash...you knwo how it is" He spoke differently then before.

"Ok man, i appreciate it. I owe you one, ok? Thanks bro" And he hung up, and became the scared good guy Jake had always been.

He wasn't that guy. He wasn't that guy he took drugs and sold them. He wasn't that guy and he didn't knwo when he had become that guy. One minute it was a joint next minute, he was buying white cocaine.

Cocaine. He didn't even knwo if it was cocaine  but he knew he needed it. He knew he's stop shaking if he got some. Isabel had locked him in but he could jump the window, no problem.

No problem at all.

Isabel had woken up to Rowan's crying and she carried him sleepily to his room, tucked him in and kissed him goodnight. She slopped onto her bed and lay there for awhile.

She thought about Clare and Cegs and Jake and Callum and Penney and finally Rowan. Too much things were happening. Too much people were crashing. Too much damage was being done.

A tear rolled down her lightly bruised cheek and that's all she let out before she wiped them all away and fell asleep to the sound of a sad silence.