Yay new story! Woohoo lol. Ok this is the sequel to my story unexpected. It continues two years down the road from where the last story left off. Grace and Luke are no longer together and haven't heard from one another. Luke continues school close to home, and no one knows what Grace is doing. Also, no one has heard anymore from Mitch since he had kidnapped Grace.

This is just a brief summary so any knew readers cannot be totally lost, and also to set the setting for the old favorite readers. J

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter 1

"Arcadia High School" Luke read aloud off the front of an old yearbook. 2005. He had come across a box filled with teenage memories.

He had volunteered to help his parents clean out their house for what he considered to be their first ever spring-cleaning. He had already found boxes of old stuffed animals he and Joan had played with when they were little. He had laughed at the sight of them. They had become home to what seemed to be a colony of mice.

Luke leafed through the yearbook turning straight to the page he was located. He hardly recognized himself at first glance, for now he wore contacts and his "baby face" had disappeared. His friends looked different as well. Friedman had lost his fro years ago, replacing it with a shorter more styled look, and a goatee had now taken residence on his face. Glynis, he had not seen since high school, but he knew she had changed. Through the course of that year in fact, She had ditched her glasses for contacts and had started wearing makeup. He remembered that day as if it were yesterday. It was the day he had dumped her to pursue relations with…

Luke snapped the book shut. He had made it his duty not to think of her. It had been two years since he had last seen her. She had left him after all, and he had still not been able to come to terms with the situation.

Luke was snapped back to reality by Joan.

"Hey geek, you do know it's not necessary to read everything you clean right?"

He smiled at her , appreciating her sense of humor.

"I just thought I'd give one last look at all this stuff before we throw it out."

"What! We can't throw it out these are memories! Look, (She held up a stuffed bunny) don't you remember all the fun we had with these?"

"No," He laughed.

"Well, I do, and we aren't throwing them out."

"Joan, those animals have become the residence of Mickey Mouse and all his mousketeers! Look, they even chewed the eye off that rabbit."

Joan instinctively drops the rabbit and moves on to the box in front of Luke.

"Well you can't throw away this stuff, look it's our old yearbooks. Oh, and here are some old pictures. Aw look it's me and Adam at prom." She smiles and shoves the picture in Luke's face. "Oh, here's you and Grace."

Luke tensed at the name, closed his eyes and bit his lip. Then he grabbed for the picture, but Joan did not let him seize it.

"No ya don't. I don't care if you don't want all these old pictures and stuff but I do."

Luke was getting angry.

"Then have them, but if they some how find their way into my room I promise you I will burn them."

"You are so insensitive Luke."

Luke didn't respond right away, but he knew that if someone would have said that to him 2 years ago him, and everyone around him at the time would have laughed hysterically.

He finally spoke.

"How is it insensitive of me not to want to see a bunch of old pictures of people I used to know."

"Because most people like to see pictures that remind them of their youth, Brain."

"Well, most people also don't have a box of pictures full of an old girlfriend who left them after 4 years without an explanation either."

Joan rolled her eyes. "Can't you just remember the good things about her? I mean seriously Luke. It's over! The more you try to avoid the subject the more you bring it up."

Luke laughed, "I don't bring it up."

"Oh really, then why are we talking about it then?"

Luke scowled at her.

"Fine." He gave in more because he didn't want to argue than out of defeat. "Help me move the sorted boxes back up in the attic."

After an awkward silence Joan changed the subject.

"So, are you still hunting for an apartment?"

"Yeah. Why?" He asked.

Well, there is one down the street from me for rent, It's really nice and cheap. It would be good for you. That is unless you are still fond of your back to the future wall paper here." She laughed.

He threw a ball at her. "What's the catch?"

Joan laughed, "I don't know what you mean."

"Yes you do, you never had any good news unless there is a catch."

"Hey! That's not true!"

"Really?" Luke questioned laughing even harder.

"Well, you'd have to have a roommate,(Luke's laughter doubled when she said this) but she's really nice I promise."

" A girl? You can't be serious, Adam put you up to this right?"

"No, I'm serious! Plus we've already arranged for you to meet her. You are doubling with us Friday."

"Like hell I am!"

"Too late now we already have reservations."

"Joan! I don't want to meet her, and I definitely don't want to live with her! I'm not that type of guy!"

"Luke stop living in the Stone Age. You don't have to be dating her to be living together. Haven't you ever seen Threes Company?"

Joan, that's a TV show, a 70's TV show. Everything was crazy then. Look I just don't want to do this ok?"

You haven't dated in 2 years Luke. We are worried about you."

"Fine, you no what I'll go on your date since you have reservations, but that's it. No after dinner movie or anything else got it?"

"Yay!" Joan ran over and hugged him.

"We need to go get you something to wear. When do you want to do that? How about tomorrow?"

"Joan! No, I'll wear a nice shirt and jeans; I'm not buying a new wardrobe for some girl I'm only going to see once. And not by choice I might add."

Ok, so that was the first chapter, yes I know it lacked my usual cliff hanger but I have to get some sort of setting before I can start leaving cliff hangers. Sorry that chapter is kinda boring I promise they will get better. Definitely more conflicts to come . J