"Family: Where life begins and love never ends."

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"Thanks, Maya, I'll see you at the game. Alright, you take care now." Emily finished, hanging up the phone, after finalizing some details with her sister-in-law about the house, as she made her way down the stairs. While walking into the dining room she noticed her daughter was sitting at the table, hard at work doing what she assumed was homework, something she didn't miss when she was in high school.

"Hey, my little star." Giving her daughter a quick peck on the forehead. "I was about to head out to watch your brother's game, you coming?" 

With a brief smile on her face Julie just shook her head, "No, I'm good." Closing her book before looking over at her mother who walked over into the kitchen. 

"Well, I've had photo shoots all day, and I don't think I got a chance to eat." Placing her cup under the faucet, while Julie gave her a look. "But, before you start getting on me because of my unhealthy eating habits, I got a phone call today."

As Emily drank some of her water, she could tell something was up, as Julie slowly took her glasses off. "Yeah, I figured as much." 

Tilting her head to the side, "Why would you figure? It was just Maya, checking up on us and talking about selling the house and all. She just wanted me to take some pictures for the website." Faking a groan Emily slammed her head on the island, softly but hard enough the create noise, causing Julie to laugh at her mother's antics while shaking her head. "Anyways, it would mean we have to do a lot of cleaning and getting rid of some stuff. Mija, if you're ok with it, maybe you can tackle Dad's studio?"

As her daughter avoided eye contact with her, she could already tell that Julie wasn't a big fan of the news or the suggestion. Leaving the glass of water on the counter, and walking over to her daughter, she placed a hand on Julie's leg. 

"I know it's still hard for you Mija, but you know Carlos and I wouldn't even know where to begin." But not seeing any sign that she was ok with the idea, Emily just squeezed Julie's leg in a comforting way, before clearing her throat. "It's ok, honey. If you're not ready, I-"

"No," Julie said, finally looking at her mom with a sad smile. "It's all right, maybe I'll try tonight." 

"You sure?" Only earning a nod for confirmation, Emily smiled as she stood back up. "Thank you again, my little star" Placing a kiss on her daughter's forehead and walked back to place her cup in the sink. "Don't forget the loft, and please be careful with the instruments that are up there."

While reopening her school book, Julie just rolled her eyes at her mother's comment. "I still don't understand why we have them. I mean with dad I can a little, but you mom I love you dearly, but your basically tone de-"

"You better stop talking before I ground you, young lady, as I still have the authority to do that." Pointing a finger at the girl, who just raised her hands in the air in fake surrender, causing a smile to once again appear on Emily's face, after she mentioned the instruments, before briefly glancing at the time. "Oh, God. I'm gonna be late." 

Julie glanced at her frantic mother, who was searching for her keys, "Under the mail." Julie said, pointing at the envelopes that were scattered around the countertop.  

Hearing her daughter's statement she slowly walked over to the pile and moved the mail to the side, only to let out an awkward chuckle from her mouth as she grabbed the object. "Oops." She shrugged casually before dashing for her purse. "You're a lifesaver. See you later, Mija!" Was the last thing Emily said, before running out the door and towards her car hoping that she wouldn't be late once again.

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Edited: 11 July 2024

Short chapter, but here is the first-ever part for the missing.

Yes, uploads are going to be a little scattered, since I have three projects I'll be working on with College and High School on top of that, but I do promise updates will happen when I can. 

The quick thing also, next week I have exams (Fun), but luckily they are only for two days. So, for those two days depending on if I decide those will be update times, I will not be updating. 

So, hope you all enjoy this book, if you haven't go check out my three other JATP books called:

-Ghost

Take care y'all

-Mech-x4fan

So...hi again.

A lot of you guys have been asking, if I am ever going to come back to this story, and as you can tell it has been very difficult for me to finish this story. I just rewatched the show and have been listening to the songs on repeat once again while at work, hoping that maybe I can get back into writing. Even looking back at my planned event I still have what I want to occur in my story to help inspire me into finishing this book I was enthusiastic about making initially.

Yet, if you guys couldn't tell this story is mainly and I hate to say it, will be on hiatus, meaning I'll update when I want to, right now mainly making my way through and fixing any mistakes that I feel need to be edited. I am trying hard to be there for this book as I stated many of you would love to have this story finished, and I do hope to get this done before the end of this year. 

I will also try and edit my other JATP story, Ghost, but that will mainly happen once I work my way through this book right now. 

To the people who still pay attention to this book, thank you for the overdue support, and I will try to honor your guy's request, but until then thank you. 

-Mech-x4fan

(Updated: 6 December 2022)