Happy ever after? (A Sequal to love hurts?)

Choices

Ben's POV

"What the hell are you doing!?" Janet snaps, walking into the livingroom. "I'm watching tv. What's the problem?" I shrug confused. "Your making a mess" she sighs, moving me off the sofa and starts fluffing the cusions. "Have you forgotten who's coming today? The social worker is gonna be here in 3 hours and the last thing I need is her thinking we're slobs"

"It's just a cushion" I chuckle "It's not funny!" She frowns. "You know she's gonna be judging us on everything"

"It's fine. Just relax" I say softly. "How can I? I'm doing everything I can to be a good mom and nothing I do is ever good enough and..."

"What are you talking about? Your a great mom" I cut her off. "Then why won't protective services leave me alone? She's here every week writing notes on everything we say and..."

"Seriously Janet, you need to try and relax. I know it's hard and I wish they'd leave us alone too, but they just need to make sure everythings ok. Alots happened and they need to make sure everything is safe for Mikey and Tamika and that your coping ok"

"But they are safe and I'm coping just fine"

"I know that and so do protective services" I assure her. "No they don't. Nobody believes that. Why else would they need to be here all the time?"

"If nobody thought you could be a mom and take care of your kids, do you honestly think Michael and Ocean would have signed custody of Mikey back over to you? They didn't have to. They adopted him and leagally they didn't have to give him back, but they did and they did it because they knew the best place for him was for you and they knew he'd be safe and taken care of" I say softly and she doesn't say anything and I sigh slightly and wrap my arms around her.

"Your not the only one that's been through this. Michael and Ocean went through the same thing"

"Not anymore. Protective services never go to their home now. They don't even have a social worker anymore. Now she's too busy coming here and trying to look for anything that shows I'm not taking care of them" she mutters. "They may not have a social worker now, but that's only recently. They had protective services crawling all over them for years remember? And their ok aren't they?" I say sofly and again she doesn't say anything for a moment.

"I'm just scared she's gonna take them away from me." she croaks then starts crying. "That's not gonna happen" I say softly and pull her closer to me.

She starts calming down a little, but then jumps when there's a knock at the door. "Don't worry. I'll go see who it is" I smile and go answer the door.

"Hey, I was just passing and thought I'd stop by" Jodie smiles and walks into the hall way. "Hey, listen now really isn't a good time. Janet's here and..."

"So I can't even see my own brother anymore?"

"Of course you can, but she's really upset right now and we're expecting somebody soon. I'll call you later ok?"

"Who's coming?"

"It's kinda private and..."

"Meaning it's none of your damn buisness" Janet frowns, walking into the hall way. "I was just asking" Jodie mumbles. "Are you ok?"

"Think back to my last answer" Janet says sarcastically. "You can't hate me forever. We used to be best friends"

"Jodie. Nows not a good time for this" I cut in. "But it needs to be said" she turns to me then turns her attention back to Janet. "Your marrying my brother and we're gonna be family soon and..."

"You'll never be my family" Janet cuts her off. "We can do this another time" I cut in, but again Jodie ignores me. "Can we please just sit down and talk?"