A/N: Well my story has a lot to do with how mean Keely is in the beginning, but don't worry and please don't say I 'killed her' she's OOC in the beginning, but TRUST me she gets better. And NO FLAMES, dude.

XOXO,

Rach

A wise man once said, life is not what you have, but what you get out of it. Which may be what kept Keely Teslow going all this time. Forget that when the love of her life left for another century, that she went into such a state, that the only thing to fix her sorrow was relations with other guys.

After Bruno Longfellow's many propositions of liaisons, Keely always rejected and told him that she couldn't because she liked someone else. Once Phil was gone, she still rejected him. Until one day as a senior, she finally decided to go out with him.

They had a very "The Notebook" style relationship, one that rarely included talking. She thought their relationship was only to take out her frustrations about Phil. Or that was until Bruno took it a step farther…

Which continued to happen, without protest from Keely. She let it happen until one day, when they got Bailey.

Of course, Bruno was only in it for the reason they got Bailey, at least that's how he made it seem. So as soon as Bailey was born, he was out of there. He calls once and a while now that Bailey's older, but he rarely does anything else. Bailey's gone five years believing that love doesn't really exist. Her mother works non-stop at the TV station to not think about Phil, Bruno, or Bailey. Bailey spends all of her time with nannies or with the maids. She's in therapy four times a week, and spends most of her time quietly.

How could someone only five years old be so messed up as someone say twenty years old? Some blame Keely, others blame Bruno, but yet there are the few that blame Phil.

If the only thing that could bring these estranged girls together is a natural disaster, what does that say about them? Who knows. They may even have to wait and see…

The dark gloomy clouds loomed over Pickford, California that day. Yet another lonely day for Keely and Bailey Teslow. Bailey waited by the door in her Pickford Academy uniform while Keely came rushing past.

"Mom…I'm gonna be late again…" Bailey said.

"No, you won't!" Keely said, grabbing her Gucci bag and escorting Bailey out the door with it, "The driver will take you to school, and then he'll be by to pick you up at two."

"But Mom you promised you'd talk to my class today about what you do,"

"Well I'm busy today, doing what I do. I can't."

"But you said— "

"I know what I said, but sometimes people don't always pay attention to things. That's how I ended up with you remember."

"Yeah. The only thing worse than me is buying the bad stock last week."

"Yes."

The driver walked up to the door, and opened for them. Keely strode down the walk way in her snake skin pumps, while Bailey hung back.

She sighed as she watched her.

"A little down, Miss?" asked the driver.

"No…" Bailey said.

"I don't quite believe that, Miss. She doesn't mean that…"

"It's ok, but she really does. My dad didn't love her. And he doesn't love me. So it's ok that my mom doesn't love me. I mean, 'cause no one loves her."

"It's alright, Miss, you know the staff loves you."

"I know. Thanks."

"Anytime."

Bailey nodded as she followed the driver out to the driveway. Keely's black corvette was already gone. Bailey shook her head, as pretty as her mom was on the outside, she wasn't very pretty on the inside. But Bailey knew she must be, maybe really deep down, she knew she must be.

Keely's black shiny corvette screeched into the TV station parking lot. She slammed her car door, as pulled her leather gloves off and briskly walked into the studio.

"Keely!" A stressed out dark haired woman said.

"Yes, Anna?"

"There's a big story at city hall, another at the Friar Pickford statue, and one at Pickford Academy…"

"Pickford Academy?"

"Yeah, they're having a career day and the President is going to be there."

"Really? Wow, Bailey was annoying me about going."

"But it's a parent career day, and you're not her mother…"

"Yeah but I'm the only family she has."

"So go, she'd be happy."

"Hmmm. I think I'll take the statue."

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