New York City, New York.

March 25, 2011

10:05 PM

"How come I offer to take you anywhere you want to go and you choose New York?" Sam asked me as I took in the glow of the big apple. We were standing in Time Square and I suddenly knew why Casey chooses this place, it was amazing.

"What can I say you only turn twenty once." I said as I looked I pulled out a set of pictures from my pocket. I looked at the one taken on the stairs behind me. I looked at the back of the picture and read the words to myself. 'You would love it here. – Love C.'

"Dude what you are looking at." Sam said as he took the pictures from my hand. "Oh no, you came here to find her." He said as he looked at me.

"I have to talk to her." I said as I looked at him. "I just have to dude." I said as I took my pictures back.

"It's been two years." He said. "What is going to happen if she found someone new?" He asked me.

"She told me she loved me and then left. I have to try." I said as I looked around. "If she has moved on then we saw this." I said as I noticed a street vender with Justin Beiber and Taylor Swift posters. "Do you know where this is?" I asked the woman as I held up the next picture to her.

"I will tell you if you buy something." She said as she looked at me.

"Smart woman." I said as I looked at her table. A black and white picture caught my eye. "Marti will love this." I said as I picked it up.

"Ten dollars." The woman said. I handed her the money and she handed my picture back. "Soho, that's all I know." She said. I took my pictures and walked away.

"Okay Sam where the hell is Soho?" I asked him.

"I have no fucking clue." He said as he looked at me. "But, can we go in here?" He asked me as we stood in front of the Disney store.

"Do I want to know?" I asked as I looked at him.

"Emma." He said with a laugh. Sam had met a girl right after graduation and managed to knock her up. So, he got Emma. Who I might add is the cutest baby since Marti.

"Oh yeah, she is with Mary this week isn't she?" I asked as we walked into the store.

"Yeah, when I dropped her off yesterday morning she cried." He said as he looked around. "It broke my heart, but she has to learn to like her mother." He said as he picked up a pink princess dress. "This is too big for her isn't?" He asked me.

"Yeah, I think so. What about a Perry stuffed animal?" I asked as I looked at him.

"She does love that show." He said as he picked up the stuffed platypus.

"See that wasn't hard at all." I said as I looked at him.

"Maybe I should get her a Mickey too." He said as he picked up a stuffed mouse too. "Okay we can get out of here." He said as he looked at me. We walked up to the counter to check out. There was a girl about our age standing there after Sam had paid I had the thought to show the girl the pictures.

"Do you know any of these places?" I asked her.

"What tracking down a lost love?" She asked with a laugh as she studied the pictures.

"He actually is." Sam said.

"Oh sorry." She said as she looked up for a minute. "This place is a club called Pixie's, I think. Don't hold me on that." She said as she looked at me. She took a piece of paper and wrote down an address. "It is just down the road from here." She said as she handed me the paper. "You will know the building because as you approach it there is a poster with a girl on it. Young, brown hair. She sings there on the weekends. I think her name it Masey… no Casey." She said.

"Casey?" I asked as I looked at Sam. "That could be her." I said to him before I practically pulled him out of the store. We caught a cab to the address that the cashier had given us. It wasn't long till I saw the poster she was talking about. I smiled at the familiar face. She looked the same with her hair curled and her blue eyes staring at me.

"Wow, she looks great." Sam said as he looked at the poster as I snapped a picture of it.

"I don't know why you seem surprised." I said as we walked to the front of the building. I noticed there was a line.

"I can't believe I am standing on a street in New York City waiting in a line just so you can try to hunt down a girl you haven't seen in two years. Oh not to mention she is your fucking step sister." He said as he looked at me.

"Right, because you could be watching Cinderella and picking up juice boxes." I said as I looked at him.

"Dude, that is cold." He said as he looked at me.

"So is dissing on this." I said as I looked at him. "I work my ass off in a record store I built up to success in a year. I have wanted to do this for years." I said as I looked at him. "Nothing will stop me from seeing her."

"It's going to be a long week." He said as he looked at the line.

"Yeah well I don't think it helps your image carrying Disney store bags." I said as I looked at him.

"Well, I asked you in the cab if we could just come here tomorrow and you jumped down my throat." He said.

"What if she isn't here tomorrow?" I asked him.

"What if she isn't here tonight?" He asked back.

"Shut up." I said as we moved forward. I tried to listen really hard to see if I recognized the voice inside, but I couldn't hear hardly anything. I looked up at the sky I tried to find a star to wish on, but there wasn't any there. Nope there were just street lights, very bright street lights.