Okay, I think I'll just warn you here, this is a sequel to What's In A Name which is a purely Bade fanfiction (by, yep you guessed it, CANON 24 aka me)... I think this works on its own as well, but you might want to read WIAN first to understand some things. And pairings are Bade mostly with Tandre and Cabbie and some minor Trinjiin

I thought I was one step ahead of the game.

Amber's POV

I combed down my black hair, the hair my dad had been complimented on again and again. I wasn't sure if it was good thing on not, to have a man's hair, even if it was nice hair. And my friends had confirmed that it was nice hair. We were all getting ready for the kickback tonight; apparently they had been happening since my mom and dad were at school at HA twenty years ago. It was funny how I had ended up friends with the kids of their friends, well everybody except Josh, he's mom was nice, but our parents had only met her once we started to become friends.. They had all been sorted in couples perfectly. My dad always tells this story of how my mom entered the school and all the boys turned to look at her. He always says he fell in love with mom then, at first sight, I'm not really sure if I believe him. I know Madi doesn't.

Slowly I began to look around the room, looking them over, there was Libby Valentine, every inch like her mother searching through the clothes, desperate to find that perfect pink dress, that made her eyes just 'pop'! Lia and Meg, were a bit more relaxed in the corner, Andre and Tori had decided to lift the kid's dress code, the trusted them to look after themselves. It wasn't as if they could have inforced it anyway, they weren't even here tonight. And I could see Josh in the corner, sliding away from the rest of us giggling girls, well maybe not giggling, but this wasn't quite the right place for a guy to be.

Libby held up her pink dress in front of her. "Is this all right on me?" She asked and I heard a groan come from the other side of the room. Madison, Lia, Meg, Libby and I all turned to glare at him.

"You don't have to be here!" Lia yelled at him. I began to smirk.

"Yeah, we're about to get changed anyways." Josh was the only one of us to think to change before we all came over to Claudia's house. It was a good thing Lia had a big house or there would never be enough room.

Josh raised his eyebrows, "Then maybe I ought to stay." This time, (although he was joking) we stopped groaning at him and proceeded to chuck things at him. It wasn't until Madi picked up her high heeled shoes, (that were really too high for my little sister to be wearing), that Josh actually got out. I looked straight at Madi's shoes trying to get my point across, and I think she got it.

"Oh, don't go all mom on me. She already caught me doodling a guy's last name on my planner." We all laughed at this.

"Lol." Meg remarked, who I guess knew exactly how it felt, Claudia was her older sister. "What was it, Madison Hart?" Jason Hart was a really fit guy in our class. Madi nodded.

"You guys ever done that?" She asked as we all got changed into our assorted outfits. I am happy to say that I have never done that… well almost never done that.

Libby spoke up though, "Um… Libby Lewis." We all groaned again. I mean Josh's brother was her boyfriend but none of us really saw what she saw in him. He was… evil, and I really mean evil. How him and Josh were related I really didn't know. And every time Carter saw him with his sister he looked like he was going to lose all control.

"So we haven't had a… Claudia Shapiro then." Meg joked.

"Or a Megan… Sikowitz" We all stared at Libby and she laughed, "joking…"

"Don't forget about Amber Lewis." I blushed bright red at that, although I don't know why. I didn't like Josh in that way, did I…?

But actually that brought me back on a subject I wanted to discuss. I brought it up as we finished changing and did the last of our make-up.

"What about Amber West?" I said hesitantly… Madi looked at me shocked.

"What's wrong with Oliver?" She asked.

"It's just that Amber Oliver doesn't quite sound right. And you know dad will be fine with it. He knows to get anywhere in this business you need to have a recognisable name and this way people will connect me to mom."

"And they'll still connect you to Beck because you look so much like him, especially if you make it know you and Madi are sisters." Lia said nodding along.

"Have you asked Beck yet?" Meg asked. I shook my head, I was going to do that tonight after the kickback. That reminded me, Josh was probably bored as hell at the moment. I related this revelation to the others and we all headed downstairs to find Josh in his tux, yes he went so far as to rent a tux, chatting to Tori and Andre.

"Josh!" Libby called out.

He spun around, "Time to go?"

But suddenly Lia burst our bubble, "Um… how are we getting there?" We turned in shock to look at her.

And suddenly we were all shouting.

"We thought you were driving!" aka Meg.

"What do you mean!" from Libby.

"You mean we're stuck!" that was courtesy of Madi

"What the hell, Lia!" and I'm not ashamed to say I was getting pissed off at this moment. I did inherit bits of my mom after all.

Josh was the voice of reason though, "Carter?" Libby now looked extremely depressed to have to spend more bad news, but he was her brother, nobody else knew.

"He's already there. He had to go early to set up some stuff with Eve." Carter hates parties, and he really had to be there on the one night we really needed him.

Unfortunately an idea came into my mind. I really didn't want to say it though. Bryce, Josh's brother, really creeped me out but he was my only option, our only option at this point.

"Bryce…" I whispered and the others groaned as they realized I was right. Well, all of them but Libby, (even Josh) who had a massive smile on her face. So Libby called him… and we sat there for fifteen minutes waiting for him to show up. So when he did we were desperate to get out the door.

As he entered Libby ran over to him and kissed him, screaming "Bryce!" I think I was about to be relieved off the contents of my stomach at this point so I redirected my vision to the TV.

The newsman's voice read out, "Scandal has been unleashed this morning as Parker Lewis has escaped from jail for the second time. He was convicted of murder and attempted murder but was not given the death penalty, even after his first escape. The police fear for his initially targeted couple and their two children, Be…." Quick as a flash Bryce turned off the television and smiled at me.

I winced and stormed off to the van, the girls followed me, but Josh and Bryce were left behind arguing massively. I heard a punch and Josh ran out into the van and in the driver's seat.

"I caught him by surprise, but we need to get moving." He said and hit the gas, storming into the distance. Josh hated his brother but this was unusual for him. He left me wondering what the hell was going on.

Oh and obviously this is set in the future but this isn't the point of the story so I'm not going to set a time zone.