A/N Hi this is my first fanfiction, I'm not sure if it's any good but please give it a go and drop in a review if you want. Constructive criticism is welcome :) I have been reading these for years and thought I'd take a wack at it ;) Lol

And I'm from England so if any of the Geography or whatever is wrong then that's why !!

This is supposed to be my year 10 coursework but I ended up getting carried away and wrote loads so I wrote a new 1 for that and thought I'd share this one with you lovely people. Well enjoy anyway :D BTW the chapters may not be that long and sorry about that but they seem a lot longer on word.

Summary: A teenage girl has to leave her life in Hollywood to move to a small town to live with her grandmother for the summer. A mother, daughter and grandmother come together over a shocking revelation. Rated M, there isn't anything too racy but I thought it is better to be on the safe side.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that you recognise. It is based off the film Georgia Rule and I used some names from Home and Away. The title of this chapter is the title of a song by the Arctic Monkeys so that is not mine either. I'm not going to keep posting this so anything that you think you know, isn't mine, for the whole story.

Sorry about my long rant, now on with the story.

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Lily Law.

Fluoresent Adolescent

"Come back!"

"No!"

"Nicole for God's sake don't cut off your nose to spite your face"

"What does that even mean?"

"Fine, you know what have it your way, I'll be back for you at the end of summer."

"Whatever!"

It was always like this nowadays. Natalie couldn't remember a time when her and her daughter could just talk and it not be turned into an argument. It was becoming more and more difficult to deal with her and she was getting tired of fighting and punishing, and she was running out of ideas. She'd pop into the house to make sure she knew that Nicole was coming and then get out of there as fast as she possibly could, she couldn't stomach anymore time than that.

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Nicole Franklin was many things but, contrary to popular belief, stupid was not one of them. She knew that her mum had sent her here because she thought that it could sort her out. Well that's not entirely true. Her mum hadn't sent her here, she had come off her own accord. Anything to get away from 'home'. Life wasn't all it was cracked up to be, she definitely knew that. But that's a story for another day, or so she thought. She looked around wondering where to go from here.

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Lily had been pleasantly surprised to here from Natalie after all this time. Actually, surprised is an understatement, it was a complete shock to the system in fact. She hadn't heard from her since 1996, the year her beloved husband died. So here she was waiting for her to arrive with bated breath. When she finally heard the doorbell ring she was at the door within seconds, but not to seem to eager she waited a few seconds before opening it.

"Natalie, how are you?" Lily asked but feigning disinterest, after all they hadn't exactly left things on great terms.

"Im great mother thank you and yourself?" Natalie asked with equal 'disinterest'.

"Wonderful, Now where is my beautiful granddaughter?" Lily asked while walking out onto the porch to look for her.

"Well, I decided to drive down here, I thought it might be good for us, you know bond over a road trip…"

"Where is she?" Lily asked again, quickly losing patience.

"She bolted from the car in the middle of the interstate 40." She sighed dejectedly.

"Well what are we going to do?" Lily asked worriedly, the interstate 40 was still quite a long way away.

"Well I am going to get Nicole's bags out of the boot, get in my car and drive to Peach Springs, I'm meeting some friends." Natalie answered making her way to the car. Lily followed not satisfied with the answer,

"What, so you're just going to drive away knowing your daughter is out somewhere, anywhere, in Arizona. She's only been here once in her life, how is she meant to know where to find me?"

"Oh don't worry, Nicole is very resourceful when she wants to be." Natalie said with conviction, she did raise her for 17 years after all and her mother had only met her once before. " But just in case here is my cell phone number, if she's not back by midnight call me and I'll turn around." She handed the business card to her mother and drove off.

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Nicole's legs gave way eventually, after walking God knows how many miles. The sun was blazing high in the sky, it was so not the time to be doing, literally, cross-country walking. She found some shelter from the sun under a billboard and lay there thinking. How had she ended up ruining her new Louboutins by walking this insane distance? It was ridiculous; all she wanted was to have a fun summer before starting school in the fall. Maybe go to Tijuana, always fun, or maybe the Hampton's, good old Ray has a house there. But no I'm stuck here in Hicksville, Arizona. The sound of a car approaching snapped Nicole out of her daydream. The ugliest car to ever grace the earth was staring back at her. Oh well what else did she expect, a Mustang? But…hold up, the driver was a major hottie, if they all looked like this then maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

"Hey, are you alright there?" The unnamed 'hottie' asked.

" Oh yeah I'm just great" Nicole smirked as she looked him up at him, he definitely worked out.

"What are you doing led down there all alone?" He questioned, face screwing up in confusion. Now as mentioned earlier, Nicole was not stupid, but she was many other things. These things include; spoilt, flirty, slightly promiscuous, a drama queen, and not by any means modest, meaning she knows she's pretty and uses it to her advantage.

"Admiring the view, so cutie what's your name?" Nicole giggled at the blush that crept up his neck.

"Geoff, and yours?" He replied

"Nicole, nice to meet you Geoff" Instead of giving her hand to shake as most people do, she leaned up and gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek.

"Oi Geoff stop slacking and get back to work" Now another vehicle had pulled up and this was more like it! The driver, if possible was even hotter than Geoff. "Hey sweetheart haven't seen you round here before" He hollered at Nicole, eying her up and down.

"That's because I haven't been around before!" Nicole sauntered over to the car, throwing a quick smile back at Geoff before hopping into the new guys car. "Sweet ride, I had one once but I crashed it." If the guy was taken aback by her forwardness he didn't show it.

"So what's a gorgeous thing like yourself doing in Flagstaff, Arizona?" He asked intrigued.

"Jail time" She answered bluntly. At his questioning glance she elaborated, "Well feels like it anyway. Mum couldn't handle me so shipped me off with Grandma Dearest."

"Why can't you phone someone to come and get you?" He asked.

"My mother cut off my cell service. She's a gem" Nicole answered sarcastically and threw her phone into the bushes. He didn't reply just watched her.

"The names Nicole" She offered, feeling slightly uncomfortable under his intense stare.

"Aden, Aden Jeffries" He told her as he started the engine on his yellow Mini Cooper, "So Nicole, where you goin'?"

"West Cherry Avenue if you'd be so kind, Aden" He revved the car which made her laugh. As they sped away she waved goodbye to a still watching Geoff.

"So, what are you gay or something?" Nicole asked, adopting an innocent voice.

"What are you talking about?" he asked back.

"Well, we've been driving for ages and I've gone the whole way with my legs up on the dashboard and my dress very high up my thigh, yet you've barely glanced my way." Nicole told him with slight amusement in her voice.

"Well, I have been driving, and to answer your question no I'm not gay. Ask any girl in this town, he gestured around the buildings they were approaching.

"Ok, I may just do that." She laughed and sat back in her seat.

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Aden Jeffries wasn't the type of guy you messed with. He had a reputation, especially with the ladies. He could be a bully if pushed but otherwise kept to himself, he was definitely not the type of guy you would brand nice. Geoff, on the other hand, was a typical nice boy. He and his sister Anne lived with their uncle near the town centre and Geoff worked for the local farmer. One of the things about Flagstaff was that it was so small, everyone knew everyone. So that, depending on the type of person you are could be classed as good thing or a bad thing.

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Lily Franklin had never really surrounded herself with people, so she tended to keep even her family at arms length. But now she was paying the price, she was turning 60 and no one to look after her. Which is why she was so delighted to hear Nicole was coming to stay. But sitting here now waiting for her to come, she was reconsidering being alone, she never had to think of anyone else's wellbeing while she was alone. Finally after endless hours of waiting, she grabbed her coat and set out to look for her. But just as she stepped off her porch she came face to face with the spitting image of Natalie at 17. She had beautiful long blonde hair, the same mouth, and nose, even the same beauty mark in the exact same place as her mums, on her chin. The only difference was the eyes, they were crystal blue, the kind that if you looked too much you could feel yourself drowning in them. They were the only things that she inherited look-wise from her dad.

"Nicole" Lily whispered, truly stunned at how alike her and her mother were.

"Yeah I'm here, unfortunately." Nicole smirked and pushed past Lily into the house. Apparently her looks weren't the only thing she inherited from her mother. Oh boy, this was going to be fun!