Kayla Huntington (Desperate Housewives character)

Kayla Huntington
Rachel Fox, portrayer of Kayla Huntington.
Desperate Housewives
Portrayed by	Rachel Fox
First appearance	Listen to the Rain on the Roof (episode 3.01)
Created by	Marc Cherry
Profile
Gender	Female
Age	13
Occupation	Student
Relationships Family Nora Huntington (mother) Lynette Scavo (foster mother) Tom Scavo (father) Preston & Porter Scavo (younger brothers) Parker Scavo (younger brother) Penny Scavo (younger sister ) Stella Wingfield (foster grandmother) Glen Wingfield (foster grandfather) Rodney Scavo (paternal grandfather) Allison Scavo (paternal grandmother) Lucy (foster aunt) Lydia Lindquist (foster aunt)

Kayla Huntington is a fictional character on the ABC dramedy series "Desperate Housewives". She is the daughter of Tom Scavo and Nora Huntington, and the foster daughter of Lynette Scavo. Kayla is a 13-year-old girl.

Before Season 3

In episode 2.22, No One Is Alone, Lynette decides to follow her husband Tom because she is convinced that he is having an affair. This is all because Lynette helped her boss, Ed Ferrara, with his sexual problems and, once Ed's wife found out that someone other than her husband was seducing her online, she made him promise that he'd fire that person. But Lynette was too important for the company, so he told his wife that the responsible one was Tom, and decided to find just cause to fire him. Ed eventually found out that Tom had spent money on theater tickets and flowers in Atlantic City, and told Lynette about this. So she followed her husband and saw him entering a house, then spotting him together with another woman ( Nora Huntington ), assuming they were lovers. In the season two finale, Lynette has left her husband, but after Porter suffers from a fall and breaks his arm, the two get back together, and Tom explains to his wife that he isn't having an affair, only that he has found out that he has a daughter from a love affair he had before he even met Lynette. The girl's name is Kayla and the mother wanted to tell Tom and now she wants the child support money that Tom has been owing her for all these years back. Lynette finally agrees to give her a lot of money, as long as that keeps her away from their family. But Nora wants the two families to gather and spends the money on an appartment close to Wisteria Lane, so that that gathering can happen.

Season 3

Kayla made her first appearance in the season three premiere. Apparently, she is a very sweet girl that gets along very well with Lynette. It's Nora that causes all the problems. She and Lynette don't get along, because Nora is childish and annoying, and also, she's very tempted on stealing Tom from Lynette. When Tom wants to open a pizzaria, Lynette doesn't appreciate the idea, but Nora is very supportive to Tom behind Lynette's back, and one night Nora meets him at the restaurant and they have dinner together, and after they've drank a bottle of wine, they kiss, but Tom swears to her that he doesn't want anything more and reassures her that he loves his wife. Nora is very upset at this, and leaves. Tom and Lynette had had a fight before this event, and when he comes back home, they get back together on good terms. But, when her husband explains to her what happened, Lynette breaks into Nora's house and threatens her that if she ever comes near Tom again, she will hurt her. Due to this, Nora decides to leave to Mexico with her daughter, to work as a stripper in a danceclub. However, Lynette tries to sue for custody of Kayla, and then goes to the Field's Supermarket to shop for hamburgers for lunch, and Nora, recognizing Lynette's car in the store's parking lot, enters to confront her about the custody case. Meanwhile, Carolyn Bigsby, a neighbour, creates a hostage situation because her husband Harvey cheated on her. During the event, Carolyn shoots Nora in the chest and, before she dies, Nora tells Lynette that Kayla is the only thing she's ever done right in her whole life and that she needs to take good care of her. Lynette promises her that she will love Kayla like she was her own daughter, and Nora closes her eyes, rests her head and dies. After the hostage situation is over, and after Lynette's been shot in an arm, Kayla is brought back to the Scavos' house after staying with her grandmother for a while to live with them. Lynette tries everything to make her feel welcome and comfortable, but Kayla doesn't make it easier, later confessing to her father that she'll never love Lynette. When Lynette skips work to help her husband with his pizza business, making up a false excuse to Ed, Kayla reveals the truth to him, and Lynette is almost fired. Later, Lynette quits her job to work as a manager at the Scavos Pizzaria.

Season 4

In season four, Kayla seems to be more considerate towards Lynette, and appears to care about her cancer situation. Along with her brothers, Kayla witnesses that Danielle's baby was born on Halloween night. Due to the tornado, Kayla, along with her father and her siblings all are possibly deceased, as they are in Mrs. McCluskey's basement and the house has collapsed on top of them.

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