A/N: sorry for not updating this story for a while, I had most of it written and then got side tracked with life. I finished it and will also be working on my other stories if you read any of them. I'm so sorry for the long delay, I will try and update quicker.

Stephanie is standing in the kitchen, still sleepy and wishing she was fast asleep in her bed. She had set the table up, made lunches for the girls and was now making breakfast for them. She was holding baby Abbie in one arm, talking to one of her artists about work later that day and still monitoring the food so it didn't burn. She was already stressed out having this amount of tasks to do this early in the morning, plus unsure what she was going to do with work and the two young girls at home all day.

"Blair, Ruby, AJ. Come down and get your breakfast." Stephanie yells knowing it was almost done now and they were on a tight schedule already.

"We're doing the next two songs for your album today. I have the team coming and we will be working through the entire day." Stephanie says to her artist on the phone.

"Girls hurry up you've not got long until carpool comes and you need to eat first." Stephanie yells as none of her girls had come downstairs.

"I will see you at 9:30 we will go through the songs together and then the team will be here at 10:30 and we will start recording." Stephanie says ending her phone call and putting her phone down on the counter.

"Okay Abbie let's put you down in your seat." Stephanie says placing her down giving her a bowl of her food and freeing her arms so she could serve the breakfast for the girls.

"AJ, Ruby, Blair get your little butts down here you need to eat before school." Stephanie yells once more standing at the bottom of the kitchen stairs.

"Coming mom. AJ was crying we were trying to make her better. She's okay now, we made her laugh." Ruby says walking down the stairs first. A few seconds later a tear stained AJ comes down the stairs with Blair holding her hand.

"Breakfast is served Blair, Ruby eat up quick, carpool will be here any minute." Stephanie says placing waffles down on plates and putting them on the table for the girls to eat.

"Is aunt Michelle coming today?" Blair asks shoving waffle into her mouth.

"Yes she is but she didn't say what time she would be here." Stephanie says sitting at the table with her girls.

"I want to stay here today and play with aunt Michelle." Blair says her voice going into an almost whine again.

"You are going school, aunt Michelle will be here when you come home." Stephanie says not even listening to her whining.

The carpool pulls up outside the house and beeps their horn to say to the girls to go. Just as the front door in the living room opens.

"Sis you here?" Michelle says walking through from the living room. The instant she walked in it was a walk back to her childhood. She hadn't been home many times since she was 18 and being home to stay for a month was strange. Every-time she came back she was staying in a hotel and not in the house, this would be the first time staying back there since she was young.

"Aunt Michelle, aunt Michelle." Both girls yell ignoring the carpool and running through to topple Michelle down to the seat behind her so they could hug her.

"Woah Baby. You two have missed me." She says laughing a little as she tried to get out the girls arms.

"Blair, Ruby school. Your lunches are on the counter. Camilla is waiting for you outside." Stephanie says to the girls knowing they needed to go school.

"Oh nuts, I wanted to stay with aunt Michelle." Blair says just wanting to be at home.

"You will see her after school. She's staying for a month you will see her lots." Stephanie says hoping they would eventually leave.

"Go, we will catch up later." Michelle says giving both girls a quick hug and pushing them out so they would leave. They both leave though reluctantly and go to the carpool that was still waiting for them.

"This place has not changed much." Michelle says observing the surrounding area. "How you doing Steph?" She says going up to her to talk.

"Yeah dad likes the way he left it huh. And I'm okay I needed you though. It's been so hard the last year and I feel like it's just getting harder. You need to meet AJ and Abbie." Stephanie says as she opens the door to the two girls in the kitchen.

"What happened in here?" Stephanie says the second she walked into the kitchen seeing the mess it was in. Abbie had food all over the place and the table was all practically on the floor. The table was stripped of everything that was covering it, AJ just sat there staring at Stephanie.

"I had a accident." AJ says with a shrug of her shoulder like it was nothing.

"An accident huh?" Michelle says as she bends down next to AJ. "I've never seen such a mess. What do you think about playing a clean up game?" She says offering her hand for AJ to take if she wanted too.

"What clean up game?" AJ says interested but not certain.

"What we do is make it a race, whoever can put the plates and cups in the sink the quickest wins. Then whoever can clean the baby food, syrup, waffles and whatever else is on the floor the quickest will win. What do you say?" Michelle says giving her an encouraging look hoping she would join with her.

"Maybe, but how?" She asks holding her arms out unsure how to fix the mess.

"My dad used to live in this house and I know where he keeps all his cleaning things. I'm certain we can find them if we look hard enough. Shall we go on a hunt for them first? Then we can start our race." She says getting a nod from AJ and she finally takes Michelle's hand in hers. The two go off together to start the search for the cleaning supplies that her dad still kept in the same place.

"Let's get you all cleaned up." Stephanie says picking Abbie up from the high chair. They go upstairs and starts changing her out her now messy clothes and cleaning the mess her hands and face were now in.

Downstairs Michelle and AJ were starting the race both picking up plates, cutlery and cups that had once been on the table and putting them in the sink to get cleaned. The whole time they were doing it Michelle kept watching her to make sure she was okay.

"That's all the plates and stuff. You win, you were so quick. Phew I'm tired." Michelle says fake wiping her forehead to show she was tired from the work.

"Now the muck. You're bigger, you'll win this one." AJ says picking up the exact same things that Michelle was picking up so they could clean. They both had a pair of gloves on that were too big for both of them, a spray bottle, sponges and kitchen wipes so they were able to clean up the floor. Michelle had also got a bucket so she could chuck the chunks of food into it.

"Let's go." AJ says bending down to the floor to start cleaning, she just watched what Michelle was doing first as she didn't know what to do, but then learnt to spray the muck and use the sponge to wipe it off.

"Freeze." Michelle says as she heard the stairs and knew Stephanie and Abbie were coming back down.

"What why?" She says before she got to the last step and peeped her head round.

"The floor is drying. Don't even think about putting your feet on this floor just yet. Wait I have an idea." Michelle says as she grabs a few sheets of kitchen tissue and places them at the end of the stairs. "Now you can go." Michelle says so Stephanie was able to move again, though it was too difficult.

"You're still like dad with your cleaning huh?" Stephanie says seeing everything out on her kitchen floor and how Michelle was.

"No, I have a maid do the job in New York." Michelle says grabbing pieces for herself so she could get up from the crouch position she was on still. "I still know how to clean and your kitchen was messy."

"AJ put your sister in her playpen and you go play upstairs, the girls both have lots of toys you can play with." Stephanie says handing Abbie over to AJ. She does as was asked and leaves Michelle and Stephanie alone for a bit.

"That little girl is adorable, but clearly trouble in the making." Michelle says as the two of them walk through to the living room together.

"Yeah, what did she even do to make it so messy?" Stephanie says agreeing with her then wondering what exactly had happened.

"She said Abbie started throwing her food everywhere and she was trying to stop her. That's all she told me." Michelle says sitting down in an all too familiar sofa. "You still have the sofa? No way!"

"Okay, I will talk to her about that later find out the truth. I know dad is still attached to everything we grew up with. So how is the fashion business?" Stephanie says changing to topic to her life.

"Crazy, I have so much left to do and it's actually nice relaxing with you for a few minutes. I'm pretty used to having three phones, my laptops, iPads on and buzzing every second plus having many people surrounding me. It's not easy to get time to relax with this job, but I wouldn't change it ever." Michelle says sharing a small portion of her current life with Stephanie.

"And I thought my life was crazy Huh. Are you sure you don't mind helping me out? You sound kinda busy." Stephanie says sounding unsure all of a sudden thinking Michelle was going to change her mind and be too busy.

"It's fine, I promised you a month and I will help you for that month. I will be working from here, but it's okay. I will just be needing more phones and laptops to get my work done and talking to everyone that way. Nothing to worry about." Michelle clarifies knowing she would manage no matter how much work she had to get done.

"So what do you need from me today?" Michelle asks thinking that she was obviously going to have stuff to do all day.

"Look after Abbie and AJ, keep them entertained and fed all day. When Blair and Ruby come home, make sure they do their homework and are fed. Are you sure you are okay doing this?" Stephanie says panicking that maybe she didn't want to do any of these things.

"You got it dude. What about you? Where are you working today and do you need anything?" Michelle asks unsure what the situation with Stephanie was.

"Working from home today, we have the recording studio downstairs again like when we were kids. So I will be pretty busy all day. Just like when we were young if the red light shows that means don't even think of disturbing us." Stephanie says informing Michelle of what the situation was for her day.

"Have you got ice cream and cookies? I need them while I'm working." Michelle asks thinking what she needed.

"Yeah fridge and the furthest cupboard to the right." Stephanie says shaking her head a little that Michelle still ate the same as when she was a kid.

Michelle starts getting everything out her laptops out on the table and turning them on, she gets her phones out and turns them on placing them on the small table next to the sofa. She loads up her iPad and places that down on the sofa between her and Steph. She gets up from the sofa and walks into the kitchen getting her ice cream and cookies placing them down next to the laptops and then gets her huge folder she had placed with all her bags down when she arrived.

"Woah baby what is in that thing?" Stephanie says seeing it in Michelle's hands. It was bigger than Michelle and she had no clue what was in it.

"My sketches, schedule, contacts, my life. I keep pretty much everything I need in here. It's how I know what to do and what has been done and who and when I need to talk to people." Michelle says unzipping the huge folder opening it up to show lots of sketches at the front.

The door bell rings a few minutes after, Stephanie had just been watching and seeing what Michelle had been doing asking her questions every so often. She gets up to get the door knowing it was going to be her artist ready to run through the songs before recording them.

"Hey Shayna, come in." Stephanie says opening the door and letting her enter. The instant Shayna is in the room she starts to freak out.

"No way, you're...you're...you're Michelle Tanner." She says starring face to face with Michelle.

"Duh." She says while starting to sketch on one of her unfinished designs.

"I love your clothes, I'm wearing one of your dresses right now. You're my favourite designer." Shayna says still fangirling over her. Michelle looks up for the first time and smiles at her seeing her actually wearing one of her dresses.

"We have to go rehearse now Shayna." Stephanie says trying to guide her out the room and then goes into the kitchen expecting her to have followed.

"What are you working on? Can I see any of your new designs?" She asks desperately so excited she got to meet her and see her designing up close.

"Wait til fashion week then you can see everything." Michelle says not willing to share her work with her.

"Shayna basement now. We have to have the songs perfect before you record." Stephanie says from the kitchen after having sorted out drinks for everyone for when they arrived.

Shayna goes in and joins Stephanie in the kitchen and down into the basement where the two of them sit with the guitar and start going over each song and changing things and perfecting each area of it.

Michelle was still working on the sketch and was starting to look into her emails knowing she was going to have lots she had missed while being on the plane and then getting to know Stephanie's additional family briefly.

The front door bell rings again and she gets up to answer it not really knowing who was going to be there. The instant she opened the door she knew what they were at the house for.

"Through the kitchen, down the stairs in the basement. Stephanie and Shayna are already working." She says pointing in the directions for them to all take.

"Thanks." One of them says as they pass by her, the line of people plowing through the house was never ending, as Michelle thought everyone was in and had started to shut the door more people pushed it open.

When she finally got a chance to get back to work she started to make sure to focus on responding to any of her clients and getting everything done. She hadn't ever gone so long without working and was in need to catch up and quickly. When each email was done and each text was responded back she took to start looking through her schedule on what she was still to do before fashion weeks started. She was getting swept up in her work as time was passing her by not paying any attention to the kids that were in the house.

"What you doing? Can I help?" AJ says who had been sitting quietly next to Michelle for a while and was now wanting to help her.

"Huh?" Michelle says stopping reading and looks over to her confused as she didn't know she was there. "Umm, you can help by designing something really pretty for me. Hold on a second." Michelle says as she gets up and moves the small table from the alcove and next to her, she places a piece of paper out and draws a shape on it and then gets some colors from the shelf out for her.

"Can you decorate this dress? Make it as pretty as you want. I can never have enough wonderful dresses to create." Michelle says pointing to it for AJ to know what she wanted.

"I can do that. Do you want it Pink or Purple? Or Elsa Blue?" AJ says finding out what Michelle wants for it.

"Your choice." Michelle says not bothering what it looked like, she had come up with it just to occupy her and thought it would be fun.

Down in the basement Stephanie, Shayna, the band and the rest of the crew were all working hard recording her songs. They stop and start when something wasn't good enough or Stephanie just thought something wasn't right. Meaning they hadn't had as much progress as they wanted, each having a different creative take on what they needed to do.

"No this isn't working. Let's do a take without the music right now. When Shayna and I went over this before you all came it worked and sounded perfect. Now I'm not so sure." Stephanie says speaking through from the other section of the room speaking to everyone about the change from the take they had just done.

"Okay but I thought it sounded great. I think if we just took it down a little like this." A man who was next to Stephanie says while showing her what he meant. "Then it would work, the music is overpowering in just that one part, so doing this calms it and showcases Shayna." He says playing back the song as he shows her what he felt needed to happen.

"Yeah, let's try my way too and we can decide later. If we don't get this done we will be here all night we are only doing two songs today." Stephanie says looking at the time on the clock seeing they had already been there too long and not even finished a full song yet. She was getting frustrated at nothing going quick enough.

Michelle was occupied by phone calls and Skype sessions with her team back in New York, she had one phone to her ear, a face before her on one of her laptops, emails up on her iPad. AJ still sketching more designs for her on all the sheets Michelle had created for her so she was occupied to stop her distracting her while she worked and Abbie had gradually fallen asleep in her playpen.

"I'm back at my childhood home in San Francisco helping my sister look after her children. I know the timing couldn't be worse, but she was crying and begged me, she's had the worst year of her life there was no way to say no. She lost so much in one year and being alone is not easy for her." Michelle says speaking to both the face on the laptop and the voice to her ear.

"I'm still working on everything, I have planned for nearly everything to be moved and done here. I'm gonna need you here soon, the closer we get to fashion weeks. So if you fly down I'll find somewhere you can stay. It's going to get hectic what with looking after 4 kids under 10 to help my sister and then running my empire here for a month. Plus my sister is going to need some time to talk to me and heal." Michelle says speaking to the person in the phone this time.

"Aunt Michelle can we play now." Blair says coming running through the door, school being over now.

"Shhhh, Abbie is sleeeping and I'm on the phone." Michelle says to her not free to play right that second. "Go do your homework, we will play later."

Blair and Ruby both go upstairs a little sad they hadn't had any time with their aunt yet but do as she had asked and start working on their homework.

"I don't know what to do with this Ruby." Blair says taking her math homework into her sisters room.

"So learn how to do it. I'm not your teacher." Ruby says not caring to help her.

"Please help me I can't do it. It's too hard." Blair says whining to her sister.

"Beat it baby brains, can't you see I'm doing my own homework?" Ruby says angrily at her.

"I miss daddy, he always made sure we did homework together." Blair says walking out the room her face sad and tears threatening out her eyes.

"Aunt Michelle, Ruby is being mean and won't help me with my homework." Blair shouts from the top of the stairs tattling on her sister.

"I'll be right back." Michelle says to both the phone and the screen, so she could go sort out whatever drama was happening.

"Blair what is your homework?" She asks when she reaches her at the top of the stairs.

"Math and I don't get it." She hands over the sheet with the work on it, Michelle looks it over and tries to think of a way to help her.

"Go downstairs I will help you in a minute okay." Michelle says handing it back over to her.

"Ruby next time your sister asks for help just help her. It's not exactly hard as you've done it all yourself." Michelle says sighing as she didn't have the time for the drama. She goes back downstairs and picks up her phone again.

"I've gotta go now the kids are home and fighting already, I will call you again tomorrow." She says ending the phone call. "You too, we will speak again when I'm free again." She says looking at the screen ending the chat she was in.

"AJ how many pictures have you made?" She asks knowing what she was planning on teaching Blair.

"Six dresses, one suit." She says having had more out on the table that she was able to color but had yet to do them.

"Okay so we have 6 dresses Blair, if I took 2 of theses dresses how many do we have left?" Michelle, says taking two of the dresses off the pile.

"I don't know." She says looking defeated already.

"Come sit with me." Michelle says patting her lap so she could join her. She sits down still looking sad and confused.

"Put your hands out like this." Michelle says showing her what to do, opening her palms out wiggling her fingers so Blair would do the same.

"You have how many fingers?" She asks her hoping this would be an easy way to start.

"Five on this hand and five on this one." She says looking at her unsure what she was making her do.

"So if I took this hand away. How many do you have left?" Michelle says covering one of Blairs hands with her own.

"Five, I have five left. Can I do the dress one again?" She asks thinking she finally understands what she had to do.

"AJ has designed 6 pretty dresses, I took 2 dresses away and now AJ has how many left?" Michelle says separating the six picture out and holding the two she took earlier back.

"One, two, three, four. AJ has four pretty dresses left." Blair says unsure and looks at Michelle getting a proud smile from her. "I did it, I did it. Thank you aunt Michelle."

"I knew you could. Now go try that homework of yours and if you get stuck I will help you, but i don't think you will." Michelle says helping her off her lap so she was able to do the homework sheet on her own now.

"Abbie stinks, she filled her diaper. You didn't change her once today." AJ says holding her nose from the smell that was protruding from her diaper.

"Diapers make me apprehensive." Michelle says reluctantly getting up from the couch to pick up the baby. She holds her away from herself not wanting that smell so close.

"What's aprensive means?" AJ asks looking intrigued what she was saying, not pronouncing the word correctly as she asks.

"Anxious and Nervous." Michelle says responding to her, she was now walking closer to the kitchen.

"What's they mean?" AJ says again still unsure.

"Scared." Blair says in response but still concentrating on her homework.

"Oh yes the red light is off. I will be right back." Michelle says walking towards the basement.

"Stephanie, we have a emergency up here can you come help sort it out." Michelle shouts from the top of the stairs. Stephanie comes up a few seconds later and could smell the issue that Michelle was talking about before she asked.

"Oh she stinks, have you not changed her today?" Stephanie asks taking Abbie from Michelle's arms.

"No way jose. Left that job for you, enjoy." Michelle says walking over to the fridge looking for something to eat.

Stephanie takes Abbie upstairs so she could change her into a clean diaper. She places her on the table and removes the smelly one and then, wipes her, then places a new diaper on finally making most of the stink disappear.

"That must have been painful all day not having a clean diaper on. We need to work on Michelle so she will change you." Stephanie says picking up a smiling Abbie and holding her on her hips.

"You okay Roobs?" Stephanie asks walking into her eldest daughters room checking on her while she was out of work for a few minutes.

"Yeah, I just miss dad. I love that aunt Michelle is here to help us, but it feels weird." Ruby says who was laying on her bed lookIng at a picture of her and her dad.

"I miss him too. I feel the same it is very weird not having him around. He was the best father to you girls, he adored you. Not one day went by where he wasn't making you smile and giggle. He always made me smile too." Stephanie says a small smile creeping out on her face without realising it as she thinks back to him.

"He would wait for us to get home from school everyday and be crouching down with his arms wide open for us to run into them. Then he would hold us in the warmest hug anyone ever had. I came home today and forgot he wasn't waiting for me. Then I got sad when he wasn't waiting. I remembered all over again that he isn't here now." Ruby says tears falling down her face.

"I know it's hard without him around. But you have these beautiful memories, we all have these beautiful perfect memories of him. We have to cherish them, keep them close to us, close to our hearts that way he is never far away, that means he never left us." Stephanie says tears of her own falling thinking of him. She pulls Ruby close to her for a brief hug, she still had Abbie in her arms who was wiggling between the two in the hug.

"Daddy would have loved Abbie, he would say she was a ball with legs." Ruby says wiping her tears looking at a wiggling smiling Abbie.

"He would, the two would have been inseparable." Stephanie says a small smile on her face again knowing exactly what he would have been like with the baby. "I've got to go back to work soon, want to come watch?"

"No, I want to stay with aunt Michelle." Ruby says getting up from her bed ready to head downstairs. The two girls head down together. Stephanie puts Abbie in her high chair in the kitchen knowing she needed to be fed.

"I've got work Michelle, you okay looking after the girls? I'll be back to put them to sleep later." Stephanie says standing by the stairs at the top of the basement ready to head down for more work.

"I got it, you go back to work. I want some time with my nieces anyway." Michelle says getting plates out from the cupboard ready to feed them.

She places a tub of chicken in the centre of the table, then places plates down and then got a bowl of salad out and put that out too. Then sits down next to Ruby at the table.

"Monsters dinner is ready come and get it." She yells to the two that were still in the living room. They come in and sit at the table with Michelle, Ruby and Abbie who were sitting there too.

"Can we play beauty fashion show after?" Blair says with chicken in her mouth, wanting to play a game with aunt Michelle.

"We get makeovers then walk with pretty dresses on like we are models. Can we aunt Michelle can we?" Blair says excitedly after swallowing her chicken this time before speaking.

"I have too feed the baby first. Maybe Ruby can help before I'm free?" Michelle says holding a piece of chicken in her hands.

"Do I have too? I hate her baby games." Ruby says complaining about joining in.

"No you don't have too." Michelle says making Ruby smile and Blair sulk.

As soon as they had finished eating Michelle prepared the babies food and got her fed while Blair and AJ went upstairs to start playing the game they wanted to play. Ruby stayed in her bedroom looking on her iPad entertaining herself.

"You need glitter in your hair." Blair says after designing AJ's hair how she thought looked pretty and then sprinkled glitter into her hair, making a mess in her bedroom.

"I do you after right?" AJ says wanting to be able to join in too.

"Yeah then we go too mommy's closet and put on her dresses and heels." Blair says the plan for her game in mind.

Blair stares into the mirror she had in her room and makes sure that she liked what AJ looked like. She nodded and smiled happy that she was like a baby model now.

"My turn yeay. Sit here." AJ says getting out the seat ready to start Blairs makeover. Blair takes the seat before AJ ready to know what she was going to do.

AJ attempts too put Blairs hair up in a fancy style but not really getting it too work. She grabs the glitter tub that Blair had used on her own hair and a different one that Blair hadn't used and throws the glitter around the room and round Blairs head, not really reaching the place it was supposed to be. Making the whole bedroom a mess.

"What is going on in here?" Michelle says as she comes up now finished feeding the baby.

"Makeovers." Blair says simply, not being aware what a glittery mess her room was now in.

"Let's stop with the glitter now AJ." Michelle says walking into the room and taking the tubs out of her hands.

"Let's go choose dresses and then we can be models." Blair says grabbing AJs hand guiding her into her moms room.

"Where do you think you two are going?" Ruby says stopping them from entering her moms room.

"Mommy's too choose dresses for our game." Blair says confidently not being afraid of Ruby.

"Go choose some of your own dresses and leaves moms stuff alone. You didn't ask her if you could use her dresses." Ruby says pushing her sister back to guide her away.

"She always let's me." Blair shouts at Ruby.

"I don't care, go back to your own room and put your own clothes on and play your stupid baby games." Ruby shouts back to her getting Michelle's attention, who had been trying to clean up the glittery mess the girls had made.

"What is going on? What are you fighting about now?" She says annoyed that in her first day there the girls have fought twice already, and AJ had made two huge messes already that day. She was feeling more exhausted by children than she did by running her own empire.

"She was trying to steal moms clothes. She didn't even ask to use them."

"We were playing, Ruby stood in front of the door and won't let us in."

"She's such a baby, Abbie is more mature than you."

"I just wanted one of mommy's pretty dresses. So I could be a model."

"I wish you would just grow up."

"Yeah well i wish you would turn into ice."

"I wish you would be shipped to Africa."

"Well I wish you would turn into a spider and I swat you dead."

"Oh yeah? Well I wish it were you that died not daddy."

"That is enough girls. I can hear you all downstairs. Michelle can you take AJ and clean her up. I'll deal with whatever is going on here." Steph says having come up from the kitchen stairs after hearing the commotion that was going on just at the top of the stairs.

"My room now." She says pointing to the bed so both girls would sit down. Both girls were crying after their fight got out of hand.

"I never thought I would hear you girls be so ungrateful and mean to each other. Especially after what we have been through. It's one thing to fight, but to say you wish your sister was dead. Ruby I'm appalled that you would even think something so horrible." Stephanie says her face looking grave at everything she had heard. She goes and sits down on the bed in between her daughters.

"From the second we were told what happened to your dad it's been hard. We've struggled for a year with grief and hurt and loss. It's not been easy but we've always always had each other. Please don't change that, we could lose each other at any time like we lost him. Before you two fight or say something mean to each other think about it, think about if there is a better way to get your point across. Don't be saying you wish each other were dead, that would break my heart even more if either one do you died." She says pulling the girls really close to her for a tight hug.

"I'm I'm I'm sorry mommy, I was angry at Blair. I didn't mean it, I don't really want her dead." Ruby says through her sobs.

"I don't really want you too be a spider so I can kill you either." Blair says knowing she'd said about killing her aswell.

"Good, we should never think that about our family no matter how angry we are. Do you understand that? Never." Steph asks getting small nods from both the girls.

"Life is different without him, here everyday I know that, everything makes us think of him, remember him and wish he was still here making us laugh and smile, to give us one of his warm hugs, too protect us from any troubles, scares or worries we had. He was there to greet you after school, to play with you, do your homework with you and stopping the two of you from fighting before it happens. He took in many scared and lonely children as he had such a huge caring heart." She stops and pauses her tears coming just think of him, of all the good he did for their family.

"Everything is much harder now that he has gone, now that his love and hugs are not around to protect us. I know your hearts still hurt, the space for him feels lost and painful, that you wish he was there waiting with his goofy smile and open arms whenever we needed them." She says smiling and crying at the same time, his image in her mind.

"He's still here, he's in our hearts and in our thoughts and there are little things all around us, to be reminded of him. It's not the same, but he never fully left us. For me when I look at you two I see him. You both look just like him, you have so many of his qualities, I know when I look at my beautiful girls I see him smiling back at me." She looks at both girls seeing so much of their father in them. They both look up at her and smile, loving that she said they reminded her of their dad.

"When Blair was trying to come in your room, I was angry as I wanted to go in your room too look at pictures of him. I love being able to see him again, to think about how much he loved us. She was going to ruin my time with him by coming in, I just got really upset and was mean to her. I'm sorry Blair." Ruby says her tears falling down her face, confessing what she was doing and apologising for being so mean.

"I miss the way daddy used to play with me. He didn't mind my games, he just played with me and laughed and had fun, he didn't care if I wanted to play model makeover or play with my dolls or have princess tea parties. I wish Ruby would play with me like daddy did then I'd feel better and not so alone." Blair says her already sad teared up face turns to a sulk.

"Maybe you two could think of a game that both of you can do together and include AJ, something your daddy played with you both. I know you are different ages, you like different things and that it's not always fun having your little sister bugging you. I was an older sister too Ruby, and I was also a little sister Blair, that didn't know when to leave my big sister alone. But no matter how much you don't want the other around you have too find time for each other. One day you will get on and be best friends." Stephanie says trying to find a way to solve the problems. Sharing her old childhood issues with the girls.

"For now you go and play in your how rooms. And we will try again tomorrow. I'm not working tomorrow so I can give you both more attention that you want." Stephanie says giving the girls hugs.

"I love you both so much. Now go to your rooms and I will be in too tuck you in later." Stephanie says helping the girls get off the bed separating the two of them for the night.

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That night continues with Stephanie wrapping up everything in the studio, the team finally finishing both songs and agreeing in everything. Michelle spends the time cleaning the glittery mess as best she could, and playing a small game with AJ and Blair a less messy one.

Steph does as she said and tucks the girls into bed ending the chaos that the day had brought. She sits downstairs with Michelle for a while watching her work on her sketches and just letting herself relax, neither speaking to each other. She stays there until she herself went to bed, too exhausted to carry on.

Michelle was busy finalising her sketches, responding to emails and texts once more. Ringing up her assistant and other members of her staff, not stopping for anything, now falling farther behind on her work than she should have been if it weren't for looking after the kids all day. It was already a rocky start and an unpromising sign of how behind she will be for fashion weeks. She knew though that her family was important and they needed her right now.