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Chapter 1

"Mac why did we have to move?" I asked my 17-year-old sister as we brought in the remaining bags from her car into the new house that our mother had bought. We shared it with our mother; older brother who was 20 and still didn't have his own place and our 3-year-old sister. "Food!" our brother AJ ran down the stairs and went to tackle me. I quickly moved out of the way and he banged into the wall. Both Laura and I stifled our laughs and headed to the kitchen.

I really should explain myself. My name is Elizabeth Sarah Anne McLean and I'm 13, going into grade 8. My shoulder length hair is chestnut, meaning it is brown with natural red highlights and my eyes are hazel. I am relatively quiet and get along with many people. Just if you piss me off you pay. I just moved to sunny Orlando from New York City. I missed the Broadway plays, Times Square and the museums. It's nice down here, warm and a little too sunny but it was okay.

I was bumped out of my daydream when AJ shoved me from where I stood, in front of the refrigerator. AJ routinely colors his hair different colors. The first time he did it, I was home sick and nearly choked on the peroxide he used to bleach it. I pushed him back and that resulted in a shoving match between my 20-year-old brother and me, who do you, think won? I was pushed up next to the wall and he was about to really get me when a kicked him where it hurt. He grimaced in pain while I darted upstairs. He looks tough but when you really get to know him, he is a big softie. I ran up to my room and flopped on to my bed. I was wondering what my new school would be like. I had seen it. It was a Jr. Sr. high school meaning they were connected. It was set on a pretty landscape and it was better than the dark dingy building that was PS 168.

The next thing I knew I was standing at the steps to my new school. With my schedule in my hand I walked down the halls, full of confidence. I hoped that this school had lockers, at my old one they ripped them out after there were some shootings at school. (AN: My cousin's school really did this!) I walked into my homeroom ahead of everyone else, the door was unlocked but there was no teacher in the room. I sat down in a desk in the front row and pulled a book out of my bag. "Hey, that is a cool book, I recommend the sequels." A voice said next to me. I looked over to see a blond kid with his hair in spikes looking at me.

"Hi, I'm Elizabeth McLean. But you can call me Liz or Pyro. Yeah, I know the book is good, I had to have read it at least ten times already," we both smiled at that, "I just moved here from New York City. What is our homeroom teacher like?" I asked him.

"Oh, Ms. Candles? She is a little odd and eccentric, and she can't teach Spanish for her life, but she don't give that much homework," I looked over at him, "My brother had her," he told me, "Anyway, my name is Aaron Carter." We sat and talked until the second bell rung. We both turned to the front of the classroom as a short fat man waddled into the room. Both Aaron and I shared a look; this could not have been Ms. Candles. "Hello class, as you all know I am Mr. Pierce. Your Spanish teacher, Ms. Candles has left and we have gotten you guys a new teacher, yet he isn't here," When Mr. Pierce said that a man walked into the room. He was a bout the same height as my brother and Hispanic. He turned to us and I looked at him. I blinked and shook my head, "Hey Liz, you okay? You look like you saw a ghost." Aaron whispered to me when Mr. Pierce and my homeroom teacher conversed. "I'm fine Aaron, but I just think I have…"

~ Laura's POV~

I really did not want to go to school this morning; I wanted to go, almost as much as I wanted to jump off a bridge into an ocean full of piranhas. I still don't understand why we had to leave NYC. I was just fine living there, I had the perfect boyfriend, and I loved my friends and school. I guess I should tell you a little about myself first shouldn't I?

Well, my name is Laura Jeanne McLean, but my friends all call me Mac. I'm 5'7" and have light brown hair. I have hazel eyes that change depending on my mood and what I'm wearing. But I'm warning you now, if my eyes are a dark brown, DO NOT mess with me, it won't be pretty. I'm 17, and can now drive. ::smile:: I just broke up with my boyfriend, Eric, because of the move to Florida, and my best friends are Kerri and Amanda. I'm relatively very outgoing, but I do have my shy moments… just not that often. I'm basically your average teenager.

I walked down the halls of the school and into the principal's office to get my schedule and locker # and combination. I got them both and headed down to my locker, which just happened to be right near my homeroom. I went to open it and started putting my books away, when I felt a tap on my back. I swung around, and was met with the most gorgeous pair of blue eyes I have ever seen.

"Hey, you new here?" the owner of the eyes asked.

"Yeah, I just moved here from New York City." I answered flirtatiously in my New York accent.

"I can tell, love the accent."

"Really?"

"Yep, I find it sexy."

"As I do your eyes." We continued to flirt back and forth for a few minutes until the homeroom bell rang. I had found out his name is Nick and he's my age, and in 5/8 of my classes.

"Can I walk you to class?"

"I guess. Do you know where Mrs. Weber's class is?"

"I should, it's my homeroom."

"Very cools." And off to homeroom we went. I found a seat right next to him.

"So, Laura, you doing anything later?"

"1. Call me Mac, and 2. no I don't think so."

"Wanna do something? Maybe catch a movie? I'll show you around town, meet me before last period, I have a free"

"I guess, call me. And I also have a free" I said taking his hand and writing down my phone number. We waved at each other and walked to our separate classes.

~ Elizabeth's POV ~

I shook out of my daydream and try to concentrate on what Howie, no this was school, Mr. Dorough, was saying. Aaron handed me a packet I looked at it dumbly. "He is giving us a pre-test," Aaron explained when he saw my confused face. I put my name up at the top and started to answer each question. The test was easy, most of my friends were Hispanic and knew Spanish and taught me some words and it didn't help that I knew my teacher well, very well, I had known him since I was eight. I had handed in the test first and I was day dreaming yet again of my past. My father had walked out after he found out about my littlest sister, Juilanna. I hated him for that. I was only nine at the time, Laura was 13 and AJ was 16. AJ was working an after school job and there he met Howie. They became friends and Howie often crashed at our apartment. Howie was my second older brother, and now he was my Spanish teacher, the irony was killing me.

I was brought out of my world when Aaron pushed me out of my seat. I stuck my tongue at him and collected my stuff. I took one last look at the person behind the desk, he looked at me and he called me back for a moment. "Pyro, you grew. Burnt anything down yet?" he referred to my height, the last time he saw me, I didn't even come up to his shoulder and know I could look right into his nose. He also referred to the candles I burned in my room, once the curtains caught in fire. He wrote me a pass and I ran to my next class.

The day passed like a breeze, Aaron was in every class down to lunch. We became good friends and walked together to class. Our last period was drama. We walked in and I was surprised to see Howie there. We all sat in the first three rows of the auditorium seats. The teacher, Mr. Fisk, said that we would be doing a production at the end of the year. He handed out a letter and a questionnaire to find out what we wanted to do. I looked it over, personally I really didn't like the choices so far, that is until I got to the bottom. The whole thing was a list of jobs, and I wanted to be in the lead. I checked it and went up to the drama teacher and handed it to him.

After all that was done he looked at the papers and divided us into groups, supporting actors, supporting actresses, lead male and lead female. He handed us a script and I looked it over, I grinned, it was Grease. Not only was it my favorite movie, I had been in my old school's production of it, I was Sandy. I couldn't wait to do the whole thing again. I waited until it was my turn, I looked over the part and started. I did the whole thing from memory. I could tell Howie was smiling, he knew I took after my brother in the love for acting. When I finished I got off the stage and went to where Aaron was sitting, doing some of the homework that some of the more evil teachers gave us. I sat down and we talked. I stopped talking for a minute because I thought I heard my name. I looked over and saw a group of people looking over at me more than once, "I think she is a snob. Did you see her up there? I bet she bribed Mr. Fisk or the new guy, Mr. Dorough for the script so she could get the part."

I walked up to the group and tapped the girl on the shoulder. I recognized the girl as Kaitlin, she was in a few of my classes. The boy next to her was Dave, he was sort of rude to the teachers and I mostly ignored him in all the classes I had with him. "Excuse me, but I think you said something about me bribing one of the teachers to do so good? For your information, I have a lot more talent in my pinkie than you have in your whole body. So stick your rumor where the sun don't shine." With that I slapped her with all the might I had. Once that little pleasantry was over she went to hit me, but I was prepared for this, I grabbed her fist and swung her around. She landed on her back; I kneeled over her, and took her head in my hands so I was cradling it. I guess people thought I was going to bash her head against the ground because suddenly they ran and went to get one of the teachers. "Don't mess with the best," I told her and put her head down. I stood up just as Mr. Fisk and Howie came up. Howie pulled me to the side.

I sat down in the hard chair in the office. There Mr. Pierce starred at me. "You fight on the first day, you're lucky that you have no record here, or from your old school so I am letting you off on a warning. Still I am going to call home and have some one pick you up." I silently laughed; AJ would come and get me…sure he had no clue how to get here. I looked at Howie and then I looked at Aaron, he smiled sympathetically. He was my friend so he followed me even though he had nothing to do with it.

~ Laura's POV ~

Ok, so school wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Actually, I really liked it. Hot guys were everywhere. Nick had been showing me around the school. Thankfully, he wasn't like that much like my brother. The world does not need to Alexander McLean's!

"What do you have now?" he asked me while I was fishing through my locker.

"It's last period right?"

"Yep."

"It's my free."

"Cool, mine too. What do you want to do?"

"Dunno, hold on a sec," I said as my cell phone rang. "Hello?"

"Maccy?" Ah, my brother. But what was so majorly important that he felt the need to call me during school?

"Oscar, what do you want?" I asked using my brother's nickname me and my sister had given him.

"How do you get to your school? Mom's at work, and I gotta take Julies with me to pick up Pyro, because she got in trouble." This caused me to burst out laughing.

"Oh, god! Her first day and she gets in trouble! Almost beats my record of 2 hours. But what did little Miss Good Grades do now?"

"She attacked some girl…"

"You have got to be kidding me!"

"Nope. Now how do I get there?" I told him the directions and hung up my phone on him mid-sentence. "Sorry, my brother's an ass."

"That's a nice way to talk about your brother. But so is mine."

"And he probably says the same thing about you."

"Who? Air boy? Nah, he loves me too much to say that. Kev maybe, but my brother no."

"Sure, and I'm the queen of England," I said sarcastically rolling my eyes.

"Well then, how's the royal family?"

"Ha, ha, very funny. You just know that I'm right and your not!" With that, I stuck out my tongue and walked away from him.

"Sure! Real mature! Laur! Watch out! Major pervs behind you." I didn't even have to look first; I knew just what they were going to do. Before they could even touch the bottom of my skirt, they receive a kick in the stomach area. Courtesy of moi. Then I continued walking away. Nick ran to catch up with me.

"How did you know what they were going to do?"

"Hun, I was raised in NYC. You gotta remember that."

"Oh yeah."

"So, who exactly were they?"

"Mark and Greg. Probably the biggest perverts in the school."

"Ah, thank you! Thank god they weren't hot!"

"And if they were???"

"I sure as hell wouldn't be here right now!"

"Well don't I feel loved!"

"Aww… poor baby!" I said rolling my eyes yet again.

~ Elizabeth's POV ~

I waited for my mom to come and start hassling me about getting in trouble on the first day. But all I had to do was remind her about Laura's stint, getting in trouble in two hours. AJ hadn't done that, and he was the original bad boy, the master at getting in trouble. When the door to the office opened I held my breath, but to my surprise AJ walked through holding my little sister. Howie stood up and shook hands with my brother. He introduced himself as Mr. Dorough, my homeroom teacher and AJ had a screwed up look on his face. Finally it dawned on him and he loosened up quite a bit. He gave our address and phone number and pulled me out of the school by my arm.

I was shoved in the passenger seat. He ride home was relatively quiet, with occasional swearing from my brother about the drivers in Orlando. "So you beat up a girl, huh?" AJ asked. I was freaked, was he going to get mad or what? Here I was, the sister with the good grades that never getting in trouble, getting picked up by the master himself. He got sent home at least once a week when he was in school. "Good job, I always knew you had it in ya! Too bad it took you this long so show the bad girl side of yourself!" He laughed at my awe stricken face.

When both of got home Laura was already home. She was sitting in front of the TV pigging out on chips. I shook my head and went upstairs to do what homework I had. The phone rang in my room,

"Hello?"

"Hi is Mac there?" A male voice asked hesitantly.

I went out of my room and went on the landing. "Mac phone for ya, sounds like a boy…" when she turned around I threw the cordless phone down to her. She gave me the finger while I went back into my room laughing. I turned up the music and went back to the dismal task of homework. After that I ran and turned on my computer, how I loved that stupid machine…I went on-line and talked to my friends for a bit, I asked how their first day of school went and got off when my mom got home. Thank God Mac didn't say anything, she was close to saying it a few times but with the death glares I gave her she stopped.

The next day went relatively smoothly until last period where Dave, Kaitlin and their group of friends kept giving me dirty stares. About halfway through the period a group of girls came over. "What you did yesterday was great, we all wanted to do that, except we haven't had the nerve yet." The redhead, Melissa was her name I later found out, said as her two friends sat down in the row in front of us. We talked for awhile and Sarah commented on my acting skills. I smiled and told her how I had done Grease the year before. We talked some more and then Mr. Fisk called all of us over. He gave us the speech on how there are no small actors, just small parts and crap like that. Then he started to read off the names of the people who would be working in scenery, costume and other things like that. Then he started reading the names of the supporting and lead roles. When he was reading the name for Sandy I was holding my breath. When he said my name I almost fainted, but I held my composure until I could let it out, at home and annoy my older siblings. When they announced Aaron as Danny, the male lead, we both grinned at each other.

While we were both sitting waiting for our older sibling to pick us up. Aaron' was buried inside his coat keeping the wind away from him while I was sitting without a coat on.

"What is wrong with you? It is so cold," Aaron started to complain.

"Whatever, scary cat!" I taunted him. He launched himself at me and we began to wrestle, thank god it was after school or else we would probably get in trouble. We wrestled a bit more and I pinned him. I leaned down and tickled his chin, "Never mess with me," All of a sudden I was on my back and Aaron was on top of me. He leaned down as if he was going to whisper something in my ear but instead his lips touched mine for a brief instant before I he got off my chest and helped me up. We waited a couple of minutes in an awkward silence then I spotted Laura's car coming in the entrance.

I hopped in and shut the door without saying anything. When we reached the house I got out of the car before it stopped and rushed into the house almost knocking over AJ who walked out the front door. Both my older siblings looked up at me while I rushed into my room and slammed the door. I threw myself on the bed. How could Aaron do that to me? We had become best friends. And he gave me my first kiss, if you really could you call it that. Just then a knock came to my door. I wiped away my tears and opened the door. AJ stood there handed me the phone; I was surprised that I hadn't heard it. I also wondered who it was.

"Hello?" I asked really not wanting to talk to anyone.

"Hey, Elizabeth? I'm so sorry that I did that before. I saw you lying on the ground, hair spread out and I had this incredible urge to kiss you. But then the fear in myself and the fear in your eyes made me brush by and get off you."

"Aaron, it's okay. Just do me a favor."

"What?"

"Next time you kiss me, make it last." We both laughed at that comment and we spent the next two hours talking on the phone.

Laura's POV

Something strange was up with Elizabeth, and I was determined to find out what… so of course, me being me, ease dropped on her phone call. I found it very interesting, and decided to bug her about it. So, I went to her room and barged in, catching her in 'La La Land' once again.

"Liz, Liz, earth to Liz..." I said, after trying to get her attention for 5 minutes.

"Huh? What?"

"Who's Aaron? And why is he calling you?"

"Aaron's a guy, and none of your business." She said walking away and towards her desk.

"Tell me now, or I'll make it J's business"

"And he'll care because?"

"Cause you're his little sister and he loves you. Ciao!" I said running out of the room to find my brother.

"JJ, Elizabeth is talking to boys on the phone!" I said. I knew that would get a rise out of him, especially after what our father put us through.

"WHAT?!?!?!" he said pulling his head out of the refrigerator, banging it on the way up. "Ouch."

"What are you ouching about? It's not like there's something to damage in that head of yours. And Elizabeth is talking to boys on the phone, and kissed one today at school." Next thing I knew, AJ was running up the stairs, waking the baby on the way. "Damn it! Laura! Get the babes please!" he called back down, then I heard a door slam, and I assumed it was Elizabeth's, cause I then heard screaming. After the satisfaction that I had annoyed Elizabeth, I went to go get 'the cute sister' i.e. Julianna. Walking into the pink room decorated with baby toys and Winnie-The-Pooh, I saw my little sister in her crib/bed crying. So, I went over to her and picked her up. "Hey Julies baby, what's the matter?"

"I want Away!" she cried, referring to my brother.

"Aw, AJ can't come here, Elizabeth is getting in trouble right now."

"Wizzy?"

"Yep, Lizzie. She was kissing a boy, and didn't want to explain to me, so I let her explain it to AJ."

"Eww! Wizzy got coowies!"

"Aww! You're too cute! But no, Lizzie doesn't have cooties."

"But she kiss boy!"

"I know, but she doesn't have cooties. You don't get cooties from kissing boys."

"So I can kiss boys? Like Away?"

"You wanna go kiss AJ right now?"

"Uh huh!" she said nodding.

"Ok, go ahead." I said leading her towards Elizabeth's room by the hand. I opened the door and found AJ actually relatively calm, but pacing. I decided I would let Julianna go in. "Go ahead baby, there's AJ." I said pointing to my brother.

"AWAY!!!!" she screamed and ran to him. He scooped her up in her arms, and received a huge wet kiss right on his cheek.

"EW! BABY DROOL!"

"I NOT A BABY! I BIG GIRL!" she demanded.

"Sorry baby girl. You're right, you are. Uh oh…" he said. I started hysterically laughing, Liz joining me, at the sight. AJ was standing there, holding my sister and his shirt all wet now. "Jules! Couldn't you have told me! I thought we were over the pants wetting!"

"Sowy Away, me forgot!"

"It's ok baby girl, but next time tell me when you have to go." This was so unlike AJ, though he was always really good with Julianna, after her peeing on him for the 4th time this week, he's usually be throwing a hissy fit right now. Ok, something was defiantly wrong in my house.

Elizabeth's POV

The reasons AJ had not totally yelled at me was because our incredibly cute baby sister was in the other room and I told him that Howie was fine with him and if he had any questions ask Howie about him. Ah, it was nice to have your brother's best friend you Spanish teacher. Now I left my dreamland when AJ barged into my room without knocking while I was writing in my journal. That led us to a shouting match that was not pretty. I think that is why Jules woke up.

A few weeks later I walked into school, I laughed at the chicken fights between the younger kids, to be that care free again. I was standing in front of my locker a pair of arms wrapped around me. "Aaron, not here, How- Mr. Dorough could walk by and there are some things I would like to keep away from Oscar the Grouch." His arms left my shoulder but his head was still on my shoulder. I fell asleep in math, I have been doing that lately but Mr. Math teach hadn't noticed or didn't care so I didn't get in trouble. Last period was fun, we started to practice each scene, that was fun because the first few only had Aaron and myself. We kissed a few times, it was in the script, but hey you heard no complaints from us. As we sat down he reached over and kissed my neck.

"Hey some one might see us, like Laura and well I don't want another screaming match with Oscar."

"Hey, I knew you had an older brother named AJ, but who is Oscar?"

"Oh, that is AJ, Laura and I just call him Oscar to piss him off. Hey that reminds me, can you help me think of a prank? Laura got me in major trouble with him and now I want her to think nothing happened."

"No, but I still want to kiss you." With that Aaron kiss my mouth and both of us decided for a nice game of tonsil hockey. Just then I heard two cars coming up, parked and two people jump out. We both looked and saw the shocked face from Laura and the angry shocked face of which I assumed was Aaron's brother. He grabbed Aaron and pushed him in the car. "See ya Laur!" he smiled at her and got in the car. I just walked in the passenger side of the car and refused to look at my sister. When we did reach the house I got out without a word and walked into the house without saying anything to AJ. I walked into Jules room and started to play with her.

The next morning instead of waiting for Laura to get up and get ready I wrote a note and said I would take the bus to and from school. I walked out and waited. Pretty soon a person from one of my classes walked out. It was Liz, one of Melissa's friends.

"Hey I didn't know you're on the bus."

"Well my sister usually drives me, but I am giving most people in my house the silent treatment so I take the bus until I feel like talking."

"Oh, here it comes. Sit with me, if you don't you will sit with a high schooler and they aren't the most…nicest." I laughed at that while we boarded the bus. During Spanish I listened took notes and almost fell asleep through it. I was all zombie-like throughout the classes. After lunch I headed to Social Studies, the quiz was simple and for once I did not fall asleep, that was a surprise…maybe it was because the teacher threatened to body slam anyone who fell asleep. So far he hadn't done it to any one in any of his classes, but I didn't want to be the first. The next period was drama and I was glad, they were going to do some scenes in which I was not in so I was able to fall asleep. The next thing I knew someone was poking me in the shoulder. I looked up to find Lizzie looking at me. I got up and we went to the bus.

We both walked down the street. I offered her to come to my house; it was getting a little boring only talking to Jules and my mom. We walked down the drive way and into the house. As we walked in I saw AJ running up the stairs and going into Jules' room where she was wailing at the top of her lungs and Laura was on the couch with pillows on either side of her head trying to block out the pitiful wails.

I just told Liz to follow me. When we passed Jules' room I peeked in. Her face was all red; I pitied AJ for what he was putting up with. Once we finally reached my room I broke out the music, turned it up so we couldn't hear the pitiful cries and took out our homework. Flipping to Spanish I took out a pen and quickly wrote down the answers and flipped back to English. Liz just looked at me.

"How could you do that so fast? Spanish sucks, but we are lucky he don't give as much homework as Ms. Candles did, she gave at least five workbook pages a night or more."

I smiled at her and showed her why it was so easy. Turning back to my English I figured out which words were prepositions and which were nouns. That was boring and tedious. Now all I had to do was math, science, and social studies. I was on question # 13 out of 30 when I gave it up. I walked over to the window and opened it; a blast of cool air came through the window frame. I threw out the book and closed the window, I neglected to see AJ coming out of the door that moment to get rid of the headache that Jules had not intentionally given him. I really guess a heavy math book hitting him help it at all.

Laura's POV

The baby had stopped crying, finally, and I was just getting comfortable on the couch watching TV, when my brother came in with what looked like math textbook, rubbing his head.

"Uh, J, what the hell are you doing with that?" I asked pointing to the textbook. "I mean, I know your stupid, but I really didn't think they'd send you back to high school once you graduated. But then again, there's a first time for everything!"

"Ha, ha, ha, very funny. Actually I was walking out to go to the store, when this," he said waving it in the air, "hit me in the head." With that he stormed up the stairs to my sister's room. I had to see this, so I followed.

"Elizabeth Sarah Anne McLean! What the hell provoked you to throw this at me?" he asked extremely mad, and then threw the textbook at her. That had to hurt. Good thing AJ can't throw well.

"Woops?" was all she could say.

"Woops? My insurance does not cover PMS!" I screamed, quoting from 10 Things I Hate About You, and for that I received 3 strange glances. "Sorry, had to let it out."

"Um, yeah. Ok Mac, we're gonna send you to the nice place with the rubber rooms and strait jackets now." AJ said grabbing my arms and walking out of the room with me, kicking and screaming the whole way. He didn't let go until I was able to turn around and bite him. It was great being taller than him in my shoes. 6-in. heels come in handy! I had just enough time to get out of his reach, when AJ thought it would be a good idea to chase me. I was happy I had time to take off my shoes first, other wise I'd be dead right now. Another thing that comes in handy is being able to run faster.

But soon he caught up to me. I blame the damn garden gnome. If it hadn't been there, I would have gotten so much farther, but no. I had to trip over it. Damn gnome. So, he tackled me down, just as I was getting back up. That led to a full wrestling match in the middle of the front lawn. Our neighbors much now thing we're insane. Not that it's far from the truth, but anyways. I had won, once again. Guess AJ forgets that I know his week spots, tickle him and then pinch the smallest amount of skin on him arm, and BAM! You win!

As soon as that rendezvous was over, I went back in the house and settled down in front of the TV again, and called my BF. So it was long distance. Did I care? Of course not! Waiting for her to pick up, I started to feel kinda bad for Liz's friend, she had to witness the chaos of our house. Oh well, she'll get over it. It's not that traumatizing, she just better hope she never has to be around when AJ is walking around in a towel… boy that's not a pretty sight!

Elizabeth's POV

Liz just stared at me.

"Yes I know, my house is crazy. You have to thank my older sister and brother…I swear if they weren't related the way they act would be considered flirting. This also tells me that instead of throwing the textbook out the window (or at AJ) would be bad….I wonder if I can shove it down the garbage disposal." She laughed at that. Continuing with the Science assignment.

"Homework sucks,"

"Hey at least we don't have some other teachers, some give more."

"Oh, well those people suck." We laughed about that and went on to doing our lines for Drama.

That was the schedule for the next few weeks. Both Aaron and I became really close, not really doing anything except hang out a school. We had a dance like we did every month and I really did not want to go. I was sitting at lunch once again trying to finish my math homework before it ended.

"Hey are you going to the dance?" Aaron asked as I scribbled down the answer to #22 out of 27.

"Nope they are too boring to waste $5 bucks on,"

"We can go to the movies instead. Just get someone to drop you off here, we go to the movies and still get back in time to get picked up."

"Sure meet me at the front of the school."

The rest of the day I was on cloud nine, waiting to get home and then go to the movies. Once I finally did I grabbed money, junk food, a camera (you never know when you will need one) and a small mirror. I bounced down stairs and waited until Laura came down. She dropped me off and said that she would be back at around 9:30, it was 7 now. I walked around and then I spotted Aaron.

"Okay, we have until 9:30. We go to a movie get sugar high and run back here." Aaron said after we gave each other a small kiss. We both ran down the few blocks to Movie Theater. We grabbed some candy from the pharmacy, they charged way too much at the theater. Running in we bought tickets and went into the theater. Sitting down in the back we looked at the people around us. There were a few older people, people from the high school, from kids from our school and a couple making out. I looked closely at the two people, they looked familiar. I poked Aaron and pointed to the couple. It was none other than Laura and Nick. I went a few rows behind them and took some pictures, the camera was for cloudy days and didn't need a flash (hey it works, even if there is no such thing). I ran back to our seats and we started to giggle. When the movie ended, before the credits started, we ran out of the theater and ran all the way back to the school. About five minutes later Laura pulled up, I got in and we both went home.

Laura's POV

"Mmm… Nick, stop. I gotta go get Elizabeth," I said in between kisses. But he didn't stop, just moved down to my neck. "Nick, come on. AJ will kill you if you give me a hickey." So he did, and moved back to my lips. "Nicky, baby. Stop come on. My mother will kill us both if Elizabeth is left there."

"Do I really have to?"

"Yes, now come on. Isn't your brother there too?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Nickolas! Don't be mean. Come on. You'll see me again in like 5 seconds. The school is just around the corner."

"Fine, let's go…" he said pouting.

"Aww, poor Nicky. Can't make out for another 2 hours." I said rolling my eyes. With that we both got in our cars and went to pick up our annoying, but cute at times, little sibs. I got out as soon as I got there, and found my sister hanging out with some guy. Then I saw Nick coming at us, so I ran up to him and planted a wet one right on his lips.

"That's a nice greeting. Now why can't I get one like that more often?" he asked.

"Cause I don't like you."

"Yet you just made out with me for about 2 hours because?"

"I dunno, spur of the moment thing."

"Whatever," he said pouting once again.

"Poor baby," I was about to give him another kiss, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. "What?" I asked turning around, coming face to face with my little sister.

"Done making out?"

"No, but let's go. Sorry Nicky baby, call me later, Ciao!" I said giving one last kiss, and leaving in the car with my sister.

"So what was that?" she asked.

"Nick, mess with him and I'll kill you. Swear to God!"

"Fine! He's all yours! I like someone else anyways." She said with a smirk on her face.

"Oh? And who would that be?"

"Some guy,"

"I was hoping so. Now give me a name."

"Aaron…"

"Carter?"

"Yeah, you know him?"

"No, but uh, that was his brother."

"Really?"

"Yep, ain't he hot?"

"No, he's brother is hotter."

"No, his brother is puny, now don't get me started on that cause you know I'll win." I said flipping on the radio, and began belting out the lyrics to Hero by Mariah Carey. Soon, we were home, and Elizabeth ran straight up to her room. Probably to go online, she's an online junky. Sounds like fun huh? I guess it could be, but what do you do for that long? I mean, doesn't it get boring? Me on the other hand, would rather hang out with friends, or talk on the phone. Though I do go online sometimes… ok, now I'm babbling!

Elizabeth POV

After the 'dance' I went on-line. Mac thinks I'm crazy, but what does she know? She couldn't even set up a computer, me on the other hand know it like the back of my hand, and the back of my hand is not very interesting. Logging on I went into the chat I visited frequently, the Backstreet Boys chat. After dealing with at least five bashers I go into one really juicy chat with a girl about Gene. Chapter 2