" Penny, come here please." Bexley called.
" Yeah?" Penny skipped over to where Josh and Bexley were.
" So, it's around the time school would start-" Bexley started.
" So, I get to go to kindergarten?" Penny perked up.
" Sorta, we're going to homeschool until we get back." Josh explained.
" Okay." Penny smiled.
oOOo
" WHAT IS THIS?" Josh stared at the example of long division. The guys sat around Ben and JoJo's hotel room while Bexley and JoJo took Penny to the pool.
" She's doing long division in kindergarten?" Ben asked from a few feet away.
" It's probably someone who thinks that's gonna make kids smarter." Cara laughed.
" I think it's gonna confuse kids more." Sky shrugged.
" Forget the kids, it's confusing an adult." Ben chuckled.
" This is completely different from when I learned long division." Josh muttered.
" You also learned long division about 17 years ago." Cara stated.
" Ah, long division, the bane of my existence." JoJo said as she, Bexley, and Penny filed into the room.
" You would be amazed at the amount of times I've heard her tell off numbers." Ben laughed as JoJo flopped onto the bed next to him.
" Whatcha doing?" Penny skipped over go Josh.
" Trying to figure out how to teach you long division." Josh muttered.
" Oh, you line them up, go down by twos each time until you finish with no remainder." Penny spit out. The six adults stared at her in surprise.
" What? It's easy." She shrugged.
" How-" Sky gaped.
" I think we have a math wiz on our hands." Bexley laughed.
oOOo
" And if you can't find me, look to the Western sky! As someone told me lately, everyone deserves the chance to fly!" Jeff sang from on top of a table.
" Jeffrey, get down." Bexley laughed.
" Sorry mom!" He hopped down.
" Coming in!" Ben barreled in the room with Penny on his back.
" Benjamin Tyler, put her down." Bexley grinned.
" Aw, but it's fun." Penny giggled.
" Don't you have a lesson right now?" Bexley cocked an eyebrow.
" Shh, I'm hiding from Daddy." Penny whispered loudly.
" Penny?" Josh called from down the hall. Penny dived behind Bexley's.
" Has anyone seen Penny?" Josh asked.
" I have no idea where she is?" Sky said dramatically.
" Too sarcastic, you're gonna blow my cover." Penny hissed.
" Penny, come on, you've got school." Josh chuckled, picking her up.
" Alright fine." She sighed.
oOOo
" Do you know all of our middle names?" DeMarius asked.
" What?" Bexley gave him a look.
" Do you know all of the Toursies middle names?" He repeated.
" She doesn't know mine." Cara smirked.
" I don't know yours, do I?" Bexley looked mildly surprised.
" Sky?" Michael looked to the red head.
" What?" He glanced up.
" What's Cara's middle name?" Michael asked.
" You think she's told me." Sky snorted.
" If we guess it, will you tell us?" JoJo asked.
" Sure, but it'll take a while." Cara nodded.
oOOo
" Elizabeth?" Chaz asked in the elevator.
" No." Cara laughed.
" Jane?" Anthony asked.
" Nope."
oOOo
" Katrine." Ben cut her off on the way to the pit.
" That's JoJo's middle name." Cara made a face.
" I know but it's the only German name I cod think of." Ben sighed.
" Sorry." Cara laughed.
oOOo
" Can we have a hint?" Iain begged.
" My middle name is five letters long." Cara grinned.
" Emily!" JoJo shot up.
" No." Cara shook her head.
oOOo
" Layne." Jeff fell off stage, into the pit during a run through.
" Nope." Cara shook her head.
oOOo
" Cara, we've been going for a week now." Jeff sighed.
" What is your middle name?" Nico muttered.
" I know." Sky strolled in.
" Do ya?" Cara smiled.
" Evony." Sky smirked.
" How did you-" Her jaw dropped.
" You're middle name is Evony?" Nick looked between the two of them. After a moment, everything clicked.
" You asked Anni, didn't you?" She deadpanned.
" Hey, there was no rule against me asking your sister." Sky grinned.
" Uh-huh." Cara rolled her eyes.
oOOo
" Mommy?" Penny looked up from the early learning book in front of her.
" Yea?" Bexley turned to her daughter.
" Am I really your daughter?" Penny asked.
" What provoked that?" Bexley asked carefully.
" Because, before you became my mommy, I had a different mom. But she wasn't very nice." Penny explained.
" Penny," Bexley sat next to her, " Just because you aren't biologically related to us does that make you any less our daughter. You were born of our hearts and that's what matters."
" I love you, mommy." Penny smiled.
" I love you too, babygirl." Bexley whispered.
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RomanceIt had been three years since tour. Three years since moving in with Josh, Ben, and Bexley. Two and a half years since JoJo made her Broadway debut. A year and a half since Sky and Cara got engaged. One year since Cara went on tour with the cast of...