This is my first fanfic on here. Reviews would be very motivating and appreciated!

I went with Kiara to her support group today. I was just sitting and listening on the sidelines. Afterward we were walking through the lobby on our way out when someone calls my friends name. "Hey Kiara!" We both turn around a see a guy jogging up to us.

"Oh hey. What's up?" Kiara says to the guy. He's about six feet and looks to be about our age.

"Nothing much. Who's this?" he says referring to me.

"Oh this is my friend Callie. She used to live with me at Girls United. Callie, this is Tyler." Tyler reaches his hand out and being polite I shake it.

"Hi Callie, it's nice to meet you."

"Hi." I say back.

"So you guys wanna hangout?" Tyler asks us.

"Always but I can't. I have to get back to the group home. The van is waiting for me." Kiara says.

"Well I'll walk you to the van then." He smiles. The three of us walk out of the building an up to the Girls United van. "See you next week Kiara." Tyler says.

"Later Ty. See you soon Callie."

"Bye Kiara." I say goodbye to my friend and the van drives away, awkwardly leaving me with this person who I just met. "Well I should, I should be getting home. It was nice meeting you." I tell Tyler.

"Okay, do you need a ride or something? I could give you one if you want." He proposes.

"You have a car." I ask not believing it. He laughs.

"I wish, I have a bike." I laugh.

"And how would you think that would work?"

"Easy, you sit on the handle bars."

"Okay, and I should just trust you. How do I know you're not a serial killer or something?" I joke.

"If I was going to abduct you, it'd be pretty stupid of me to do it in daylight and in such a public place don't you think?"

"Yeah." I laugh. "Okay, I was just gonna walk home but if you want to give me a lift with your bike I'm down for that."

"Great, lets go." He says happily. I follow him to his bike where he stashed near the tall bushes. He gets on and waits for me. I carefully sit on the front handlebars.

"Uh I don't know about this anymore."

"Come on. It'll be fun. Hold on tight." Before I can answer he starts peddling and the bike moves.

"Oh my god." I laugh. This is kind of fun. I just hope we don't crash.

The ride has been pretty good so far. I can't remember a time where I actually put on a real smile for more than two minutes. We don't talk, but every of often on of us giggles. "Hey you wanna go get some ice cream, I need a break, and I don't know where the hell your house is anyway." Tyler shouts.

"Okay." He stops the bike in front of an ice cream shop. I hop off the handlebars and he chains the bike to a pole on the sidewalk. We walk in the store and we're out in five minutes. We sit on a bench outside the shop and eat our ice cream. "Thanks again for paying for me."

"No problem." He says. "So what's your story?" he asks.

"My story?"

"Yeah. What's going on in your life?"

"There's not much to tell that's interesting. Well my mom died when I was ten so me and my brother Jude have been in the foster care ever since. Our current foster family just adopted him. They want to adopt me but there are some complications. I spent some time in juvie and at Girls United; that's really me in a nutshell."

"Juvie huh? What for if you don't mind me asking."

"My last foster home the guy was abusive. One night Jude was being beaten and I just lost it, so I beat up his car."

"Badass. Nice." I look at him. "Not nice?" he asks. I shrug my shoulders.

"It is what it is." I eat another spoonful of ice cream. "So what about you?"

"Just bounced around from foster home to foster home. Just got place in a new one."

"How'd you land in the system?"

"Dad never part of the picture, mom was unfit. I've been in the system since I was eleven."

"How old are you?"

"Seventeen."

"Sucks to be in the system that long."

"Yeah; but there's nothing I can really do about it." He gets up and throws his empty ice cream cup away. "You ready?"

"Yeah." I get up and throw my cup away.

"Since I have no idea where the hell we're going, how about you pedal this time."

"Okay." I laugh. We get on the bike and I start riding, heading in the direction to Stef and Lena's house.