“Are you giving mama a hard time?” she asked with a twinkle in her eye.

Ashley shook her head vigorously making her brown curls bounce around.

“Yes she is, I swear Paula I don’t know how you get her in that bath every time with out a chase around the house,”

Paula Carlin laughed good naturedly, “I have my ways Chris,”

“Oh really?” Christine Davies smiled warmly holding her hands out for her daughter which the blonde handed over, “Which are?”

“That’s a secret,” she whispered laying a kiss upon Christine’s cheek, “I’ll order some pizza while you bathe her,”

“Pizza again Paula?”

“Oh shush,” she waved her hand, “its better than when you constantly had us eating peanut butter banana sandwiches for dinner because you didn’t want to eat it by yourself.”

“What ever, go order…come on Ashy lets go take a bath,”

“Nooo,” Ashley screamed trying to wiggle free but this time she was stuck and was hauled into the bathroom, the door shut this time so she couldn’t get out so she sat down crossing her arms and pouted earning a chuckle from Christine.

Paula walked to the phone and ordered two large pizza’s once that was done she put the phone back on its hook and went to the bedroom to change into sweat pants and a long sleeve shirt than walked into the living room with socks only on her feet. Sitting down in the lazy boy chair she popped the foot rest up and relaxed into it. Her thoughts flowing about how she and Christine had gotten to this place.

Paula Carlin moved to Los Angeles when she was eighteen to attend UCLA, her parents back in Ohio her home town, discouraged it but in the end it was her decision. Once in LA she was a little frightened but her boyfriend Arthur Rylan was with her, he too had been accepted to the school. The two made their way up to her room where she met for the first time her roommate Christine Davies and her husband Raife Davies; they married young at the age of seventeen.

As the year wore on the two grew closer and closer, half way through Arthur came out as gay which Paula’s parents didn’t like one bit, saying she needed to come home before she too was corrupted but she held out. She and Arthur are still good friends till this very day. Christine and Raife began to have some problems when they hit twenty three, in a drunken passion one night Raife forced himself upon his wife and four weeks later Christine found out she was pregnant with Ashley Emily Davies.