Previously on Forever Entwined...

Todd McKay was accidentaly released from jail still obsessed with his ex girlfriend, Marcia, whom he shot.
Haley, Michael, and Kimberly moved into the orphanage with Gisselle and Matty and Gisselle decided to take in two more orphans.
Haley started dating Jimmy's ex-fiance, Michelle Haynes.
Alycia and Sydney started a new life and Alycia spent the night with a friend.

ALYCIA

Good sex. Bad sex. Okay sex. Drunk sex. I've had it all. Well okay, mostly it was my alter-ego having sex. But STILL, I remember it. But the one kind of sex I hadn't had was the kind with a guy that you actually like and would like to get to know better. I expected it to be, you know, different. And it was. ESPECIALLY the next morning when...well, read on.

"Coffee has a lot of caffine in it, Mommy. Maybe if you stopped drinking it you wouldn't have trouble sleeping."

"Thank you, honey, but I don't have trouble sleeping."

"Really?" said Sydney skeptically. "Because Jared told me you're bad in bed."

"THINK, Sydney, THINK, what EXACTLY did Jared say? And when did YOU see him?"

"This morning on my way to the bathroom. The fact that he was leaving our house at that hour with disheveled hair suggests that he stayed here overnight JUST to see how you were sleeping."

"That's probably it," I said. "But I still don't have trouble sleeping. He just thinks that I'm not good at making it."

"Making WHAT?"

"Making...the bed," I finally said. "And he had no business trying to tell people that because NO ONE makes a bed like your Mommy."

Sydney searched for a way to help the situation. "Well, if you want, *I* could tell people you're good in bed."

I choaked on my laughter. "No honey, that's okay. If you really want to help me, just go into your room to do your homework as soon as Jared gets here tonight, okay?"

"Hi Alycia," said Jared. "I got here a little bit early so I figured..."

"That you could talk to my daughter about sex some more?" I snapped.

He stopped in his tracks. "Oh, geez. Sydney HEARD that?"

"DUH!" I said. "She said that you TOLD her..."

"I wasn't TELLING her anything!" Jared protested. "In fact, I tried to leave extra early so that she wouldn't see me, and on the way out the door I mumbled something about the bed being bad."

"So it was the BED you were complaining about?" I said cynically.

"Yes!" said Jared. "In fact, I just bought you a new mattress. It's in the truck."

I started to smile. "Well, how WOULD you describe what we had last night?"

"It was amazing," said Jared. "But...we wouldn't want to to spoil our friendship right."

"Huh? Oh yeah, I completely agree. You and me. Friends."

"Yeah."

Like THAT was ever going to happen.

GISSELLE

The six childred I raised all joined the orphanage as infants except Alycia, whom my husband Luke already knew, so trying to integrate random children was a first for me. "Kids, this is Andrea Walsh and Steven Larson. Andrea and Steve, this is my friend Haley McLolyn, Kimberly Kerry, Matthew Smith, and Michael McLolyn."

Steve's eyes got huge when he looked at the other kids. "WOW! How can you afford such fancy clothes?" Andrea just pouted.

"EVERYONE can afford this stuff," said Kimmie.

"Mr. and Mrs. Mosse couldn't!" said Steven. "That's why we all had to wear this!"

"Well, we won't have anyone wearing these clothes here," I said. "UNLESS you want too."

"I want to change," said Andrea flatly.

"Me too!" said Steven. I sent them off to the boy and girl rooms to find something to borrow.

KIMMIE

"So this is our room," said Andrea grumpily.

"Yep," I said. I was definitely NOT excited about sharing with Andrea, but since only two kids can fit in a bedroom and boys and girls can't share, I really had no choice. "I sleep on the bed to the left by the TV, but you can sit on it and watch too if I'm not here.

"GOOD!" said Andrea as she changed in a matter of seconds. "Because that's what I'll be doing."

I really didn't know what to say to that. "Well, like I said, it's okay."

"Yeah," said Andrea in a tone that suggested that she didn't care. "And I know you were here first and all, but just so you know, this is OUR room now, and I am NOT letting you make all the decisions on what to do with it, and I am NOT letting you have boys over when I want to be alone like Annie Mosse."

"I don't really want boys in here anyway," I said. "All they want to do is watch stupid movies on my TV."

"Good," said Andrea. She glared at me and left the room.

MATT

"You have such a COOL room, you guys!" said Steve.

"Thanks," said Michael. "Hey, maybe he could share with us for a few nights."

"AWESOME!" he said.

"You know, Steven," I said. "You seem like a pretty cool guy."

"Oh, things will be great around here for the first few weeks," he said. "But after that, things will get horrible. And once THAT's over, Gisselle and Haley will send me back to the Mosse home and they'll make me run laps on Valium for leaving. So let's enjoy this while it lasts."

Michael and I just starred at him. "Wow. You sound like you come from a WEIRD place," I said.

Steven shrugged. "I can understand why someone would hate a kid like me. The only really weird thing about the Mosse's are the games that they play when they think that we're in bed."

"Like what?" asked Michael. We couldn't help but be fascinated.

"There's this one where she sits down on top of him, rocks back and forth, and moans and groans."

Our eyes grew huge. "REALLY?"

"Yeah, and he'll do it sitting on her back, too! Oh...and wait until you hear what she does with her mouth."

"OKAY kids, dinnertime!" said Haley. "Steven, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Sure."

We never did get to hear what they were talking about.

SYDNEY

After my Mommy helped me with my homework, she and Jared went back to bed so that he can study her sleeping habits. Finally, he's doing something useful around here. "And then Mrs. Smith said, WHAT are you doing with MY ISOTOPES? Mr Smith hid under the table, for he knew that he'd done his wife a terrible wrong in converting her oxygen-17 into oxygen-18. CHANGE THEM BACK! She yelled. I CAN'T! he yelled back. THEY'RE ALREADY..."

"...I am going to HIT your HEAD with my hand traveling at a high velocity! Oh Yeah, when I'M going to throw the table at your MAGNEESEUM ISOTOPES! You wouldn't DARE! Uh-HUH! And I'm going to convert them back into regular magneesum, TOO!"

"Hello, Sydney."

"You can't be here. Strangers aren't allowed in my room. Just Mommy, Shadow, and Jared."

He smiled. "But I'm not a stranger, Sydney. I'm your father."

"No you aren't," I said. "Mommy said that my Daddy did a very horrible thing to Auntie Brooke and had to go away to the house of bad people."

"That's where I was," he said. "I got out."

"But what are you doing here? My Mommy doesn't want you here."

Then he reached down to pick me up. "She will once I bring you back to my laboratory."

"Wow! You own a laboratory?"

"Yes," he said. "You bet I do! And you can do whatever you want with it and make all the ice cream tokens you want."

This guy obviosly did not know a THING about science. "How about you make me your official manager?"

"Deal," he said. And he carried me off.