"Hello?" Jacob answered the phone, "ya hang on a sec." He looked at his mother who was giving him a bad look and then picked the phone up again, "Just a minute PLEASE!" and ran to get his sister before his mom could say anything.

"Hello?" Kim said as she picked up the phone that was off the hook.

"Hey babe! Guess who?" Kim didn't have to guess.

"Hi Derek." As she said this she looked up at her mom who was now very interested in the conversation. "Hang on a sec." She put the phone on hold and ran up to her room.

"Your father will kill you if he finds out…" Mrs. W yelled to her daughter as Kim ran up the stairs.

"Mom please!" Kim cut her mom off, stopping dead center in the middle of the stairs giving her mom the best puppy eyed look she could come up with.

Mrs. W sighed, "Fine! 5 min that's all!"

"Thanks mom!" and with that Kim was on her way to her room again.

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"Hey, babe...."

"Derek, I am not your babe anymore..."

"Sorry..."

"So why did you call?" Kim asked.

"Because I wanted to tell you that I am going to Oklahoma City with my baseball team in 2 weeks, and I was wondering if you would mind if I stopped by to see you."

"Derek, I don't think that is such a good idea..."

"Kim, I want to see my daughter. You can't keep Maggie from me forever."

"Fine, but only for one day."

"Okay, good, see ya then, sweetie..."

"I'm not…" Kim muttered, and with that the phone was dead.

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"So I heard that Derek called." Nicki said to Kim as she entered the bathroom to find Kim getting ready to go out.

"Who told you?" Kim asked putting the eyeliner pencil down.

"Jacob." Nicki replied picking up the eyeliner and applying some to her own face, "So what'd ya guys talk about?"

"Nothing much." Kim didn't really wanna talk about it, right now.

"Whatever! What did he have to say? I mean he's been calling here for a long time and this is the first time that you guys have talked."

Kim just smirked, "He's coming to Oklahoma City and he just wanted me to know it..."

"When?"

"In about two weeks. He's coming with his baseball team. He wanted to get together."

"So what did you tell him?"

"I told him to call me when he got there and I'd see what I could do from there."

"You're really going to get together with him?" Nicki asked.

"Why not?" Kim answered, "He said he wanted to see Maggie any way. And I can't deny him that." Kim left the bathroom before Nicki could say anything more.

She went to her room to pick up her car keys and as she left her room… "Where are you going?" Nicki asked walking down the stairs with her.

"Out to find a job." Kim said, opening the front door, "You don't need the car right?"

"No I don't I was just wondering." Nicki paused, "Well your going to be back soon right?" Nicki questioned.

"Well after like 8pm, ya." Kim said as she left the house leaving the door open.

"Good cause they're coming over. Zac's going to meet Micah and I wanted you to maybe meet Isaac." Nicki followed her sister out to their car.

"Please Nicki. I think I could live with out meeting them for a while."

"Sure! You know you'll take that back some time when you fall madly in love with one of them."

"Oh my god ya! I can't wait till that day comes!" Kim grabbed Nicki's hands into her own, "And then when me and Taylor get married you have to help me with what to wear to the wedding..."

"What ever! I get Taylor! You're just going to have to settle for Isaac or Zac and that ain't that bad." Nicki raised her eyebrows.

Kim just shook her head, climbed into the car and said 'bye' to her sister.

As Kim was pulling out of the drive way Nicki heard..."Nicki! Hey!" Coming from across the street.

It was Zac running over with Taylor and Isaac tailing behind.

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"Hey I gotta go. I told Kate that I would pick her up after dance today." Isaac said.

"Hey Ike I wanna come! Micah you come with us!" Zac said hopping that maybe he could catch a glimpse of Chrissy.

"I can't. I'm going to Jacob's soccer game. Why don't you come?" Micah answered Zac's question with another one.

Once ever one made up there minds, the only people that were left in the Wesley's house was Nicki, Taylor, Maggie (who was still sleeping from being put down by Kim before she took off.) and Mr. Wesley.

The rest of the Wesley family and Zac had gone to Jacob's soccer game and wouldn't be home till later.

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"Kim?" Nicki asked to the sound of the basement door opening.

"Ya?"

"Come here, I want you to meet someone."

Kim did as she was told and when she got there she found her sister sitting with a very cute blond boy. She gave him a smile, knowing full well who he was before Nicki could introduce them.

"Taylor, my sister Kim." Nicki introduced them, not really having to. "Kim this is Taylor."

"Hey." Taylor smiled back at Kim, in a low voice that sent shivers up and down Nicki's body.

"Hi."

"So where were you?" Nicki asked.

"I told you already. I went to find out if I could get a job any where." Kim told her sister, taking her coat off and placing it on one of the chairs that was in front of her.

"Cool. Find any, cause our cousin has been looking for a long time." Taylor asked.

"Nope! It's…" Kim was cut off by her dad's yells.

"Kim is that you?" Mr. W yelled.

"Ya." Kim yelled back. "Come here!"

"Watch out, as soon as mom left he began drinking." Nicki warned her sister.

Kim rolled her eyes and did as her was told. Once she got there, a cloth in the face welcomed her.

"Clean." Her father told her.

"What?" Kim was confused, "it's not my turn tonight and I did it yesterday and the night before I might add!"

"What's your point." Mr. W asked. "Your sister has someone over and everyone else is out."

"I have to go check on Maggie." Kim said, going beside the dirty supper dishes in the sink to put the cloth down, "then I'll do them."

"No." Mr. W grabbed her arm. "Do then now. Maggie can wait. She ain't going any where." He pushed her over to the sink again making her hit her knee against the counter hard.

She gave her dad a bad look and started to walkout of the room again limping a little, "It'll only take 3 min to go check on her. The dishes ain't going to go any where."

"Don't you get smart with me!" Mr. W yelled at his daughter as he caught up with her and pulled her back. "I'm going out so get your ass to the kitchen sink right now and start cleaning before your mother comes home."

"I will!" Kim yelled back, shoving her father's hands off of her.

With that Mr. W pushed her against the wall. Hard against the wall, so hard that down stairs Nicki and Taylor, the only other people in the house, could her the loud bang of Kim's body against the wall.

"What was that?" Taylor asked innocently.

Nicki didn't say anything. She just gave Taylor a worried look.

"You are such an ungrateful brat!" Nicki could hear her father yell. That's when she got up from the couch and ran to her sister defense. When she got there she saw her father kick Kim, who was lying on the floor.

"DAD LEAVE HER ALONE!" She yelled, but when her father looked up at her and as soon as she saw the hate in his eyes she backed up so fast almost falling down the basement stairs.

Mr. W gave Kim one last kick and left the house in a big hurry.

Taylor sat motionless on the couch not really knowing what was going on. He didn't know whether or not to go see what had happened. Curiosity got the better of him and he could be seen making his way up the basement stair into the kitchen.

"What happened?" he asked to Nicki whom was the only one in the room and sitting on the floor.

Nicki looked up at Taylor. Her face was in shock, but she was able to say, "Nothing. Dad just dropped something."

"Oh." Taylor's eyes scanned the room to see what could have been dropped when his eyes meet with the clock that was on the stove. "Oh shit!" he shrieked, "I have to go home. Promise mom I'd be home to help her put the kids to bed cause everyone else is out."

"Ok" Nicki, said as Taylor helped her to her feet.

Once she was there Taylor didn't let go of her hand. He looked in to her eyes and she looked into his. And before Nicki knew what he was doing, or even before Taylor knew what he was doing, he kissed her.

"Umm...Bye. I'll call you. " Taylor said before leaving a very stunned girl standing along in shock.

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"So you don't know if you can do any thing tomorrow?" Isaac asked his girlfriend when the white GMC pick up truck was right in front of Kate's house.

"I have no clue if mom wants me to drive Chris and Jess to the dance concert practice thingy tomorrow in Oklahoma City or not." Kate explained.

Isaac shook his head no, "Were going up there and giving them a ride tomorrow for some dame conference."

"So why did you ask if I could do anything?"

"Cause we're going to be home around 9pm and I wanted to go see 'There's Something About Mary." Isaac told his reason.

"Well how about you call me when you guys get home. Ok?"

"Ok." Isaac said, before Kate's lips meet his forming a good night kiss.

"Night." Kate said, then left the truck and headed off into her house.

"About time you got home." Chrissy said, when Kate passed her bedroom.

"You should be asleep." Kate said, "You have to get up early tomorrow."

"Well I would be if Jared would stop calling 24/7!" Chrissy pointed out. "Call him back!"

"It's to late."

"No, he told me that he needed to talk to you and to call him as soon as you got in no mater what time." Chrissy said turning over in bed so that she wouldn't have to look at Kate, "GOOD NIGHT! And please shut my door."

Kate did as she was asked to and then called Jared. "Hey Jared? Hi, it's me. Chrissy knows some thing is up."