If you are reading this story for the first time welcome! This first part is not really a chapter but more of some background information. After I started this story I had some confusion on some of the character relations, so I wrote this to hopefully clear some of that up. If you have been reading the story I hope that this clears some stuff up for you. As always reviews are appreciated but not mandatory. Enjoy!

Brianna

Elias Huntzberger and his wife had four children, two boys and two girls.

The oldest child is a girl named Amy. When Amy was in college she met and fell in love with Andrew McCrea. They got married and had twins Colin and Katie. When Colin and Katie were about two or three Amy caught Andrew cheating on her. In the divorce they split everything right down the middle including their two children. Colin went with Andrew and Amy got Katie. Soon after the divorce was final Amy went to work and live in Ireland taking Katie with her. Colin and Katie spent every summer together and most holidays. They asked their parents to send them to boarding school so they could spend more time together. Which is why they are so close despite living on two different continents their whole lives.

The second oldest child is Mitchum. Mitchum met and married Shira while he was in college. Soon after they were married their only daughter Honor was born. Not too long after that they had Logan. Now Mitchum is a workaholic and sometimes cheats on his wife who pretends not to know about it. Mitchum took over Huntzberger Group after his dad retired and has every intention of leaving it to Logan. Honor is married to Josh Chase and she is very close to her brother. Logan works at Huntzberger and normally is a very good boss. Lately his dad has been giving him more and more control. Logan is not married but he had hoped to make Rory his wife someday.

The third oldest child is Amanda. Amanda met Jacob DuGrey when she was on a trip to Europe with her friends. What she thought would be a fling turned into love and she and Jacob married a year later at her family's home in Maratha's Vineyard. They have one son, Tristan. Tristan was kind of a wild child and his parents sent him to military school in his junior year of high school. That seemed to straighten him out and he went onto go to Harvard, where he graduated with a degree in architecture and now he works with a firm in Hartford. He has never been married but he was engaged once. They met at Harvard and fell deeply in love. He proposed and then she learned that she was pregnant. About two months after their daughter, Elizabeth, was born his fiancé was in a fatal car crash. Since then it has just been Tristan and his daughter.

The baby of the family is Marshall. Marshall and his wife run a bed and breakfast in France. They moved there shortly after getting married and don't really see the rest of the family that often. Marshall doesn't like to get involved in what he calls 'family drama'. He is not close with any of his siblings and prefers it that way. That doesn't mean he wouldn't be there if something tragic happened. He just likes his quiet life in France.

That is the Huntzberger background. This next part is some of the other characters.

Stephanie Vanderbuilt has lived next door to Colin and his dad since before his parents' divorce. She is best friends with Katie and has been since the day they met. They have stayed close friends despite Katie living in Ireland. Stephanie and Colin have always had this flirty, competitive relationship. So when they got their act together and started dating in their senior year of high school, no one was really surprised. In fact Katie has been waiting for them to call and announce their engagement since the she left.

Colin and Logan are best friends and have been since they decided that hanging out with each other was more fun than hanging out with their sisters.

Finn moved to the states with his mother when he was about six. He met Logan when his mother and he moved in to the house next door to the Huntzbergers. Soon after that he met Colin and the three of them became inseparable. Finn went on trips to Australia a lot when he was younger. He went to visit his father and stepmother. Finn has two siblings. One brother named Jordan and a sister named Amelia, who most everybody calls Mia. Most of the time Finn uses his mother's maiden name of Morgan, but sometimes when dealing with work he uses his father's name Rothschild.

Growing up Katie had two best friends. One of them was Stephanie and the other was Rosemary. Steph and Katie met Rose in grade school about the same time Finn came on the scene. Steph and Katie have always been closer with each other than Rosemary but they were all friends just the same. Katie stopped speaking to Rosemary five years ago after Rose did something to betray her and their friendship.

After her parents divorced Katie's mother took the McCrea off of her name and made her start using her maiden name, Huntzberger. When Katie started working at the Chronicle she went back to using McCrea because she didn't want her employees to treat her like the only reason she got the job was because of her being family. When she most defiantly earned her job. So most of the time out of the office she uses Huntzberger and at the office she uses McCrea.