A few months had passed since Josh's father had confronted him about his growing relationship with Vicki. Everyone was pretty much settled in the new couplings.

Anna and Vicki had gotten past the awkwardness as so had Jeremy and Vicki.

Jeremy had also forgiven Vicki for her cheating but both people agreed they were better as friends.

They were also all basically friends now. Though after the big blow-out, the only times Josh now saw his dad was when he was reporting the news on the local channel.

Joshua didn't know what he wanted to be yet, but he knew as a Fell ,the family career was in news reporting, as the Lockwoods had almost always been the mayors.

Joshua was still scared of meeting Vicki's brother and her absent mother.

Vicki's brother, Matt Dovonan was on the football team so Josh didn't want to anger him.

Vicki sent off a text

"Coming soon. Big news."

Soon there was a doorbell ring.

"Why,hello Vicki."Elena said.

Vicki pushed past Elena ,ignoring the whole greeting all together.

"My brother Matt is dating that girl ,Amber Bradley."she said

"That's the big news?"Josh asked

"No,but I think it's because he's on the football team. Amber makes the rounds of the football team. I heard she spelt with Tyler,Kevin,Gavin..."Vicki answered

"So she's like the official football whore or slut or groupie for the team? I thought Tyler and Caroline were like ,in total love."Joshua said. He might not be a gossip-king but he was quite up-to-date on the comings and goings of the founding families. The fact that two Founding Heirs were dating was bright and happy news,a ll around.

"The Amber-fuck pre-dated Caroline and me. Apparently it happened sometime in our sophomore year. Basically yeah, she is the official football groupie."Vicki said

"And...you're concerned because?"Josh asked

"Well, my brother's acting like she's his next Elena or the one or some shit like that..and I'm afraid he'll get hurt because Amber wanted to put another notch on her football player belt or because she wanted-just wanted-to be the Golden Boy's girl."Vicki answered

"I never got the whole Matt and Elena thing."Josh said

"Well, our moms were BFFs so we knew each other since birth and Elena had Matt whipped for fifteen years until her parents died and she dumped him seemly out of the blue. Now she's Damon's girl."Vicki said.

Damon Salvatore was a newcomer. He was twenty years old and wasn't working or even in college for god's sake. Despite the obvious three-year difference, they worked well .Damon also had a broody, loner brother named Stefan.

"Just to clarify, I'm on the official business of discussing Josh's cudosty, not on pesto-date with you."Jenna said as she sat down at a table at the Grill.

"Okay."Logan says.

"So what did you want to talk about, regarding Josh's cudosty?"Jenna asked