turned to face Wes, “Sam did it soft daddy it didn’t hurt at all.” She then walked out carrying her baby doll Wes had gotten her and went to the kitchen. He leaned forward and kissed me softly whispering a thank you. I smiled in return and we found our way to the kitchen. After grabbing my things I followed them out of the door and we drove to Wes’s family home. I took a few deep breaths as he parked his car in the driveway. “Don’t be nervous Sam…really you look beautiful and they are going to love you…come on.” Before we could even reach the door it came open and I assumed the two people standing there were his parents. The man was a skinnier less built version of Wes in about thirty years. His mother was a tiny little thing she could not have been more than five feet tall. She looked like the most delicate lady I had ever met. MaKayla wrapped herself around them both and then took off into the house to find her cousins. Wes introduced me to them both and his mother hugged me and welcomed me to her home. We stepped in and his father told me to make myself at home… “Don’t be nervous hun, with this group you just got to jump right in or sweetheart they will surely eat you alive…they smell fear.” He laughed and I felt Wes grab my waist and whisper, “Come on baby you have more family to meet.” The big family room and kitchen attached was swarming with adults and kids. I felt overwhelmed I came from a family of just me and my parents. The fact that I was now standing here in his parent’s home looking at what appeared to be a small army made me feel like making a mad dash for the nearest exit. I heard a few people yell out to Wes and a couple kids where now hanging on his legs laughing. “Everybody this is Sam…my girlfriend.” He turned to me as if to weigh my reaction to him calling me ‘His Girlfriend’. Everyone started to walk over to us as he went through the introductions of all his siblings, nieces and nephews. He had two brothers one older, Randall and his wife Melanie their two kids Kyle and Kendall. His younger brother Wade which plays as the drummer in the band that played that first night I met him in the bar, his wife Amy who was seven months pregnant with their first child. Then he had one sister Rachel who was the youngest at twenty four and had twin boys Matthew and Andrew and a five month old daughter Rose. He had a beautiful family and he was right they were so warm and inviting. His brother immediately began given away all his little secrets growing up and his sister told all the stories of when he came to her rescue and would beat up all the boys that were ever mean to her. Her husband Marty chimed in, “Hell he even beat the snot out of me when he found me kissing her on the front porch after our third date.” Wes laughed, “Kissing my ass Marty you were mauling my little sister against the front door.” They all laughed it off. I helped his mom and sister in the kitchen and I felt like part of the group. They didn’t treat me like the new girl. I felt comfortable and realized quickly that I had to joke right along with them. His dad at one point gave me a light pack on the shoulder saying, “I think you are going to fit right in with this rowdy bunch hun…no worries.” Wes came into the kitchen to grab a beer and his sister asked him about Sarah. He shot her a look and I turned back to what I was doing. “What…sorry you know I hate that girl. I always have and it just pisses me off that she left Kayla at the sitters like that. What does your lawyer say?” I heard them talking behind me as I continued to keep my hands busy next to his mom. I tried not to hear them as he discussed that his lawyer felt he would be granted temporary full custody due to the fact that she had abandoned MaKayla a number of times over the last six months to get loaded with random guys. I had no idea that his ex was that kind of person seeing her you wouldn’t have guessed