I'm back after a hiatus! Yayy! Okay so I dunno where this story is going to go so it might end soon. This is sped up to a month later so Roger is a little sicker now.

A month later, Ria was still working on her book for Glory. Each of the kids wrote a blurb on their own pages and took pictures while they were there. She and Ryan were still on bad terms, which was difficult since they were both expected to keep the kids in line. Roger was getting weaker and was usually confined to bed. None of the kids were getting any sleep since someone had to stay up to make sure Glory didn't see anything too bad.

One day when Roger felt a little better, Mark got him and the kids together to go over some legal things with Joanne. She got out a legal notebook and some other documents and sat at the table with the other four. "Okay so we need to settle the matter of custody for Glory" she said "From what it looks like, Ria is the one who could receive custody since Roger's name is the one on the documents from New York and she's his immediate family. But I would advise that Mark and Ryan take her since Ria's planning to go to Arizona State…"

Ria leapt from her seat, "You can't be serious! These two barely talk to her, I should get custody!"

"Honey you know that you couldn't balance school, dancing, and Glory all at once" Roger wheezed. "I've seen you try to everything here and you're running yourself down. You really need to concentrate if you want to pursue dancing later."

"Papi you don't know what I know. If she's left with….them, Ryan is just gonna regret her everyday. He said so himself, when he tried to hit on me again, if she's left with those two she'll be miserable!" Ria screamed

"Ria, Glory will be just fine. If you keep this up, you might get worse. I've seen you recently and I can tell you haven't been well. If you just listen to your dad and go to college, you could concentrate and maybe make a better life for yourself." Mark tried to reason " You've got to realize that before…"

"Before what?"

Mark realized what he had just said, "Before….you miss out…." Ria knew what he meant, "You mean before I die like my mom did and my dad is right now."

"Ria you know I didn't mean…"

" No, that's what you said last time when you found out about us. You just think my dad and I are walking time bombs. Just wait for us to die so you two can benefit from it! It was like you two woke up and said "Hey let's take advantage of our AIDS infected buddies, "marry" them and when they keel over, we'll be set!"

Roger turned to his daughter with a knowing yet suspicious look on his face, "Ria what are talking about?"

"Don't play estupido with me papi! I know about the royalties from your single. We didn't use them because you didn't want to sell out, so you kept them hidden and only used a little bit. You and mami knew about them but didn't use them so we lived in God-awful hell for years. I remember that time when I was eleven and mami got sick. You wrote out your will and said how much you were gonna leave me and what was gonna be donated. I never let you know that I found out because I thought you'd be mad at me for sneaking around. I know Mark knew about this, he had to have known. Why else would they agree to live like this? And since you have Glory she's gonna be in the will, I'll die like these morons predicted and they'll get it all since Glory's a minor! You never think anything out, you just live in your stupid rock-and-roll, smack filled, hazy world like you ALWAYS HAVE!"

Joanne sat there and watched this play out, She could see that something wasn't right. "Ria honey, you need to calm down because…"

"I'm NOT gonna calm down! No one else is thinking straight! I can't take this…I just can't" she said before taking off. Just then Roger started coughing and throwing up blood. "

"Guys, get him to the couch and get Jason in here." Joanne said "This doesn't look good."

Okay, this is about to wind down to the end. I'm gonna end this before it gets even weirder since this is nothing like how I planned this. R&R!