A Different Way To Finding Each Other

No Means No

"Mom can we go with Matt Tan and his family to Oceanside?" Brandon and Bradley asked.

"When?" Stef asked. She hoped it wasn't Mike's weekend.

"This weekend?" they asked as she eyed them in an incredulous way as she sighed. They eyed her with pleading eyes. "Well?"

"The answer is no. This is your dad's weekend and this is last minute and if you want to go you need to ask him. I'm saying no."

"But mom?" they asked.

"You two want to go. Ask him!" Stef asked. The big twins sulked away and they slammed their bedroom door as Stef's face grew red. Door slamming wasn't allowed and the big twins knew it as Stef went upstairs as Lena came to get her.

"Let them be and they are preteens," Lena reminded her. The blonde sighed.

"Fine and you are right," she replied as they went to the family room to relax.

"MAMA?" Callie asked as the moms stopped their kissing as their only girl came near.

"Yes baby girl?" Lena asked.

"Can I go stay over at Lexi's for the weekend?"

"Sorry baby girl, but not last minute," Lena replied. "And it is daddy's weekend."

"Oh. I forgot," she added. "I'm sorry."

"Plus she's coming tonight since Uncle Armando asked me a few days ago," Stef replied. The girl nodded in a huge smile. "Can we watch a movie?"

"No. You can play," Stef replied. The girl nodded.

"Mama. After you and mommy are done playing Tonsel Hockey can we play with my soft Princess dollies?" the girl asked.

"I can't my girl. I'm leaving tonight with grams for dinner and a movie overnight," Lena replied.

"I forgot and I have fun," Callie replied.

"What about me I'm I chopped liver?" Stef asked.

"No, but you don't like playing dollies with me," Callie replied. "Plus only me and mama do."

"How about we take out your Star Trek Enterprise drone?" Stef asked.

"For know no. I need to see if you won't be too invested with the boys. You tend to forget about me."

"I do not!" Stef replied.

"You do too!" Callie voiced. "All the time."

"Fine and Tonsel Hockey?" Stef asked.

"Kissing. You joke with me and Lexi all the time with that saying."

"Fair enough," Stef replied. The phone rang and it was Maya Tan, Matt's mom asking if the boys could come over. "They asked me to ask you and it's okay if they can come," Maya Tan replied.

"It's not up to me, it is my ex- husband's weekend," she replied. "I will be talking with them both."

"BRANDON! BRADLEY!?"

"Um yes?" they asked.

"The master bedroom now," she replied.  "Now."

Lena eyed her daughter. Callie eyed her mama. "Let's go to the store baby girl."

"Sure," Callie replied as she eyed two of her oldest brothers and felt bad for them.

Stef was beyond mad and walked into the master bedroom and yelled. 

"No means no. Are you two five?" Stef asked.

"No," they replied.

"No? Well you sound like it," she replied. "If you want to go. You need to ask dad."