"So what exactly is this CMS?" Stef asked on Saturday afternoon. She was filling up the dishwasher while Lena was sitting at the table with an instruction manual in front of her looking completely irritated.

Brandon was spending the weekend with Mike, something Stef was regretful of for she still hadn't had a chance to have another talk with her son. The twins and the Jacob siblings were in the living room watching a movie and the two moms had just finished clearing up the lunch dishes.

"Campus Management Software." Lena answered. "We have to update the entire student body information into this new software - personal information, contact information, medical history and make sure it's all up-to-date before we input it. You wouldn't believe how many people forget to inform the school of updated phone numbers and addresses. We also have to input their grades, behavior records, the schools the seniors want to apply to, the works into the new system. We're doing away with all student files and spreadsheet records. I will be easier in the long run but putting it all in is a pain in my…" She trailed off in exasperation.

"How long do you have to get it all done?" Stef questioned with a small smirk.

"By the end of the month." Lena answered, trying to figure out the manual one more time.

"Maybe you should consider hiring someone else to do it." Stef suggested, knowing that Lena wasn't the most tech-savvy person in the world.

"You really think the board is going to pay someone to do this when they can dump it on the vice principal for free?" Lena asked sarcastically as she dumped the booklet on the table in frustration as she tried to figure out which step in the book matched the image currently on her screen. "And Monty, despite her background in the corporate world, believe it or not, is actually worse at this than I am." She laughed. "The kids at the school can work a computer better than most of the teachers." She said.

"Well, then get one of them to do it." Stef suggested, only half jokingly, as she put the last dish into the washer and started a cycle. "They could maybe at least teach you how and then you can get it done." She added, knowing that it wouldn't be appropriate for any student to have access to private records of the entire student body.

Lena paused and starred at Stef as she genuinely considered her suggestion. "You're a genius." She said in awe, wondering why she hadn't thought of something so simple. All she had to do was get a kid to show her how to fill in a fake profile and then she just had to follow the same steps with the rest of the student body.

"And don't you forget it." Stef warned playfully as she sat down next to Lena just as Callie came limping into the room.

"Hey, Love." Stef acknowledged Callie. "Your leg hurting?" She asked as Callie took a seat next to Lena at the table.

Callie nodded and glanced at the booklet that Lena had just discarded. "Campus Management Software?" She read out loud. "Sounds like some microchip to control the kids minds." She laughed freely, unlike anything Stef and Lena had heard from her before.

"I wish." Lena teased back with a broad grin. That one carefree remark, that one laugh from the girl was enough to completely brighten her mood. "It's a software for student information." She explained. "In will enable us to have all of a students information at just one click." She recited the slogan for the software. "Unfortunately there is no software that can magically input all that information for us." She joked as Stef put Callie's pain medication and a glass of water down on the table for her. "Hey, how are you with computers?" Lena asked her, wondering if Callie could help her get started right now.

Callie shrugged for she wasn't sure what the answer was. She definitely wasn't a wiz at the computer and she hadn't really done much with one being in the foster system but at the same time she was born in the computer age and she'd been able to hold her own in her previous schools and some of the better homes that had computers available. "I can try." She offered as she flipped open the booklet to have a look at what it said.

Lena smiled as she turned the computer towards Callie for the girl to have a look and she started up the program from the beginning to follow the steps. Surprising both women, Callie became engrossed within minutes; so desperate for something to do besides sit around all day and think about her aching leg.


"That was easier than I thought." Lena smiled as she and Stef made their way out to the back as Callie focused on the software in front of her.

"Looks like she really needed that." Stef agreed, glancing back at the girl as she shut the door and linked her arm through Lena's as they walked to a couch to sit down.

"Poor thing, all she does is sit around at home or get tortured at therapy." Lena said with a sigh as the two settled onto one of the couches in the back yard. "So, Brandon." Lena said all she needed to, in order to get the blonds mind working again.

Stef sighed. "I'm not doing this right." She said regretfully with a shake of her head. "I don't know how to do it right." She added, hoping that no one would think that she didn't care. "The twins need every thread of security that they can get but Brandon needs us to take his side in this."

"There are no sides." Lena said, offering whatever support that she could. "We're all in this together. We're all a family." She smiled at Stef. "We just have to make that clear to all three of them."

"How?" Stef asked, wondering if Lena had some magical way of making everything perfect and why she just couldn't see it.

"I think we all need to sit down together and talk." Lena offered. "We have to be open and honest about…" But Stef was already shaking her head at the through and Lena knew exactly what she was thinking. "We will have rules." She assured. "We will make sure that everyone has their say without actively trying to hurt anyone but everyone needs a chance to be heard and respected for their opinion of we want to get past this."

Stef was looking at Lena with so much doubt, wondering if this really was the only solution and wondering if it really would work.

"If we do it together then we have some control." Lena added wisely. "Brandon can voice his anger and so can the twins and we will be there to support them all. Otherwise they will keep on fighting when we're not around."

With a sigh of resignation Stef finally nodded. "Okay." She said at last, having no solution of her own. "I really hope you're right."

With that decision made, both women sat in silence, lost in their own thoughts, wondering when life would truly go back to normal for them all.