1-The Leaving Of...

"FAMILY MEETING!" The young brunette mother shouted up the stairs. She back away, hoping her children would get out of bed by themselves this time. There was very little chance of that.

Her children weren't children anymore, you see. Her two youngest had grown into moody teenagers and her two eldest had grown into lazy adults. All four of them still lived at home, making it such a tight squeeze with six, almost all, adults living in a small, three bedrooms, converted four bedroom house.

"What now?" A blonde girl groaned, turning over in her bed.

"I'm going back to sleep..." Marni yawned, pulling her cream duvet back over her head and turning on her own side, away from her sister and away from the door.

The four children shared the three upstairs bedrooms, whilst Courtney and Duncan had converted their old study into their own bedroom. They found it was a lot easier for them to have alone time if the children were on a different floor to them.

"ISABELLEA, AMARNA, THOMAS AND JENIFER!" Duncan bellowed up the staircase, seeing as none of them were making an effort to move. "GET DOWN HERE NOW!"

"I'M COMING!" Jenifer screeched, not impressed by being woken up at such an early time of eleven AM on a Saturday. She instinctively pulled her blanket over her upper body and tried to gain a few extra minutes sleep herself.

Thomas hadn't even stirred from his sleep at either of his parents' shouts and commands up the staircase. He was flat out on his back, his leg dangling over the side of the bed and his blanket a tangled over his body, snoring quite happily as he remained in the world of dream.

"NOW MEANS NOW!"

Thomas jumped up, toppling out over the edge of the bed and dragging his dark blue quilt with him. He was not impressed either.

"WHAT!"

"Family meeting, Tom." The caramel haired girl yawned as she stopped in her brother's room on her own journey downstairs.

"GET OUT OF MY ROOM, JEN!" Thom as barked, not liking the fact his bedroom door had been open anyway. He was sure he had closed it last night. Then again, it was a fuzzy haze of vodka shots and drinking games.

"THOMAS ISSAC HUDSON! GET DOWN HERE NOW!" Thomas groaned at the sound of his full name coming from his father's lips.

"I'm coming..." Thomas replied, half-asleep as he rubbed his eyes and got back to his feet.

He was still dressed in the clothes he had been in from last night, also. His plain black t-shirt was creased and his baggy jeans weren't much better. The 'T' necklace that was tied around his neck was almost chocking him to death, if only he hadn't been a vampire it would have succeeded.

Courtney stared down her four kids as the last one slumped down onto the sofa. Thomas looked more dead than usual. He closed his eyes, using the arm rest as a pillow, before his own father threw a cushion at his head to wake him up.

"You four are so lazy-" Courtney started, but never got to finish her sentence for she was cut across by Belle.

"If you're just gonna yell at us about how lazy we all are, I'm going back to bed."

"I am not yelling at you and that is not why I called you here." Courtney replied. She sat herself down on the arm of the chair Jenifer was sat on, making her daughter look up at her in wonder.

Nothing good ever came from family meetings as far as they were all concerned. All the four could do was pray that it was not them being targeted this time. None of them had done anything bad, unless you counted Thomas' excessive drinking the previous night and showing up home at two AM completely wasted.

"Then what is it?" Jenifer asked.

"Well we, your father and I, have been talking and-"

"Can you make this quick?" Thomas asked. "I'm meeting the guys soon."

Duncan took the closest magazine, rolled it up and hit Thomas over the back of the head with it within the space of a second. Thomas didn't even have time to react to the pain that now inflicted his whole head.

"You can go see your friends when we're done talking to you." Duncan told his son calmly.

Courtney cleared her throat and took a good look around at her children and her husband. She drew in a breath, but just as she was about to start speaking, she was interrupted again.

"You're not pregnant, are you?" Belle asked, eyes wide and hoping that it was not coming to that. "And if you are, dad is the father, right?"

"Why do you always jump to that conclusion when I try to talk to you?" Courtney asked.

"Because if I say enough times out loud, then I'll jinx into never happening."

Courtney rolled her eyes at tried to start talking again, this time to be cut across by her youngest daughter.

"Are you adopting another child?" She asked, staring up at her mother with a similar fearful look as her eldest sister had, had in her own eyes.

"No." Courtney replied gently. "No more kids are being added into this family."

"Are you getting a divorce then?" Marni asked, not really sounding bothered about whether they were or weren't, she just wanted to interrupt and have her own input in the conversation.

"You know." Duncan piped up, taking a good look around at all of the children. "If you all shut your mouths, you may just be able to get told what your mother is trying to say." They all rolled their eyes, turning away from both of their parents. "And then you'll all be able to get out of here quicker too."

It was like music to their ears. None of them spoke again. That was at least until Courtney has finished.

"Okay, your father and I have decided that we don't want to stay here anymore." Courtney started to explain. "What we mean is, we don't want to live in Scarlatina anymore."

"NO WAY!"

"I'M NOT MOVING!"

"I HAVE A LIFE HERE!"

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"

The whole room sprang into action. None of the kids wanted to move out of Scarlatina. All of their friends were in Scarlatina. All of their life was in Scarlatina. Moving out of Scarlatina meant leaving it all behind them. None of them wanted to start fresh over again.

"ONE AT A TIME!" Duncan shouted louder than all of the kids, shutting them all up in the process.

"We just need a change of scenery." Courtney further explained. "Get away from all this and...Ad everything that's gone on here."

Everyone knew what she had meant by the last statement. Too many bad things had gone on over the years to them. It had been ten years since the last big incident, but the memories still lingered around on every street corner they turned. It was awful and sad, but at the same time happy and joyful to know that it was at least all over now.

"I don't want to go anywhere." Marni spoke in a soft whisper.

"Marni." Courtney sighed. "You're twenty-four." Marni looked down at the floor. "You are perfectly capable of moving out and getting your own place here in Scarlatina. You too, Belle."

"Then I'm getting a place of my own." Belle said smugly, thinking she had just beaten her parents at their own game. She hasn't. And neither had Marni by agreeing with her sister.

"And what about us?" Jenifer asked, sitting herself up properly in the chair instead of slouching like she had been. "All of our friends are here." She said, referring to her brother and herself.

"We've grown up here!" Thomas defended. "You can't just move us away from it all!"

"Just think of it as a fresh start." Courtney was trying to be as thoughtful as she could, but she really wanted to leave Scarlatina.

Never thinking about her powers again was good enough for her. Moving to Earth for the rest of her life sounded pretty good, and it did to Duncan too. Scarlatina was fun for a while, but it did bore them. They had been there for one too many years and felt that it was about time they said goodbye to it all.

"You can always come back and visit." Duncan urged, trying to get the kids on their side and not their own.

"Tom, you're going off to college anyway." Courtney reminded her son. "It'll be a new start either way."

"And what about me?" Jenifer asked. "I've still got a year of High school left..."

"Jen, you can always start a new school." Duncan told her, trying to tone down the drama Queen.

"Come on guys." Courtney tried to encourage a happy spirit. "We know this isn't going to be easy for any of-"

"Why do it if it's not easy?" Thomas asked, always a fan of lazing around and taking the easy way out of things.

"Life only gets harder as you get older..." Belle mumbled to herself.

"So, what's the point of it?" Jenifer asked, struggling to think of a defensive argument anymore.

It wasn't as if it was going to help, anyway. Courtney and Duncan had their minds made up. There was no convincing them otherwise, that much was clear enough.

"To make you feel even more miserable than before." Marni replied.

"Marni, that's not true." Courtney told her daughter.

"That's it." Thomas spoke again. "I'm outta here." He got to his feet and ran out the door with his speed. He did not need to be listening to any of this anymore.

"I just can't believe you're doing this." Belle told her parents in shame, leaving the room herself.

"Me either." Marni agreed, following closely behind her sister.

"Why?" Jenifer asked, looking up at her mother. "Just why?" She got up from her seat and left the room like her siblings.

Courtney and Duncan were left to muse over if what they were doing was the right thing to do. The kids didn't seem happy and both of them had a bad feeling in the pit of their stomachs.

The brunette mother sighed, leaning her head on her husband's shoulder as he quickly move to sit beside her.

"Well, that went well."

A/N: I'M BACK BABY!

As you can probably tell, THIS STORY IS NEW! LOL! YEP! This season is ALL about growing up as a teenager when you are NOT a normal one...There will be love triangles, tested friendships, even dealing with marriage and the dreaded 'P' word ;) haha! But I don't want to give too much away to ya'll! LOL!

But I do have a good bit of drama for ya'll this story, kicking off...Well, it already has! LOL! Will Duncan and Courtney move away from Scarlatina? Away from everything we have grown to love?

One way to find out...READ! LOL!

I feel that I can relate HUGELY to the title of this story...As, am I sure, most of you can too…

OMG! This is story number 94 people! LOL! 12 of these stories ARE The Going's On related…YEP! TWELVE! Haha! This is, of course, number nine in the series. The prequel is there as are two oneshots J

I wanna talk to you guys seriously for a moment...

I was watching the Harry Potter premiere on YouTube earlier today and...Well, I was listening to what J.K. Rowling had to say and...Well, it got me thinking...That is what I want to be able to do in life...I want to be able to stand up on a stage, thanking everyone for helping me get my books out into film, crying my heart out because it's all over and done with now...THAT is my goal in life. J.K. Rowling is my inspiration! And I hope one day my books will be as successful as hers.

SERIOUSNESS OVER!

If I ever write a book, I want it published under the name Chloe Rhiannon. Just so ya'll be able to know it's me ;) LOL!

FIVE RANDOM FACTS OF THE DAY;

1) My brother quite army cadets today and 'daddy' wasn't impressed!

2) I have curled my hair at least four, possibly FIVE times today!

3) My two year old cousin came running at me, I moved out the way and he went SMACK into the front door!

4) I know how to do a fishtail braid! (Okay, I knew that one anyway...BUT! I never did tell you guys ;D LOL!)

5) I NEED TO PEE!

OKAY!

I'm good...LOL!

SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO CAN TELL ME WHAT THE CHAPTER TITLE IS A SORT OF MINOR PARODY OF! (Yeah...Not really a parody as such...BUT GUESS!) YOU SHOULD all KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE!

Uh...I always hate the first chapter...I never have any of my Thank you's to give out, do I? LOL!

Yeah...

WELL! I have now rambled for WAY too long! LOL!

Thanks for reading, please review :)

Love, ChloeRhiannonX