Disclaimer: Nope… they're not mine… cry, cry… hey, wait… they are;) At least Lee and her friends… Yay… now, that made my day…

Authors note: So… here it is: the sequel to 'Dear John'… it is (as you might know) about Abby and John's daughter, Lee. She is a teenager in the US and seeing as I'm from Denmark, I'd like some of you to tell me, what a normal 15-16-year-old girl, in the US, does in her spare time. I don't really think it's gonna be much different from what I do, but I'd still really like to know… so please tell me, when you review…!

Lee sat in her room drawing, as usual. It had been a rather uneventful day of school, and she only wanted to relax and forget about all the homework she was supposed to be doing. Therefore she tried to concentrate even more on the picture forming in her hands. It was a woman, a beautiful, yet mysterious woman. She was staring out through some poles, leaning her head at one of them, her eyes fixed on something unknown that clearly amazed her.

It was a beautiful picture, but Lee wasn't happy. It was like she couldn't get it to be just right, no matter how hard she tried. Instead of getting angry on the drawing, she thought it best to put her work to a rest. Then she rose from her bed and went to her stereo, which was placed on an old beer case, in the corner of her room.

"Desperate for changing, starving for truth, closer where I started, chasing after you…" Lee started singing along.

The music on the record wasn't what you'd normally find in the collection of a fifteen-year-old. Just the fact that she owned a CD-player, when everyone else had long since gone over to playing their music digitally, told that Lee wasn't just an ordinary teen. She'd been digging a bit too deep in especially her mothers CD-collection from when she was young and she'd found that it was music that much better suited her temper than a lot of the newer stuff.

Right now she was listening to Lifehouse, playing the song Hanging By A Moment, which (according to her mother) was her parents' special song. Other than that she liked almost all rock, punk and heavy metal music made around the millennium.

Whilst she'd been listening to the music, Lee had allowed the melodies to consume her so much that she hadn't even discovered that she was lying on the floor, just trying to really feel the sound, which was floating around her. It was how she usually ended… floating on a cloud of thoughts far, far away.

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Later that very same day, Lee was sitting on the el, on the way to visit her best friend, Anna, who lived about twenty minutes away.

'It is strange,' she thought, eyeing the angry-looking old man sitting opposite to her. 'All these people sitting in the same space, trying to ignore each other. It never occurs to any of them to try and make any form of contact. They just sit there. All of them going somewhere, all of them being bored by the wasted time they have to waste in the process of getting there. Sometimes I don't get it.'

As she'd been thinking that, the train had come to a hold and so she went out of the train and made her way towards her friend's house.

She only had to knock once on the big wooden door, before she could hear her footsteps on the stairs coming in her direction. Soon after, the door was opened

"Hey Lee! So… what's up?" Anna rose from her former position on the bed, and went towards the room to give Lee a hug.

"Well… you tell me," Lee said, passing it along.

"Yea!" Anna said in triumph. "There's going to be a big party over at Peter's this Friday… Oh, man we're gonna be so drunk, look," she went to her closet and drew out a large bottle of vodka. "I got my big brother to buy me this yesterday. You can have some too. There's plenty for the both of us."

"Yeah… well, I don't think so," Lee sat down on the bed. "Remember who my parents are? They'll freak out, if I as much as think about touching alcohol. I probably won't even be allowed to go to the party…"

"Oh, shoot," Anna said sounding really upset for her friend. "I totally forgot. I'm really sorry, hon," she said, patting her friend on the back. "Can't you like talk to them? I mean… you are fifteen…"

"Can we just talk about something else?" Lee suggested. She really wanted to take her mind of that subject. As late as last week she'd had the biggest fight with her mother, when she confronted her with the area of alcohol. There was nothing Lee would like more than to be able to go out with the friends to parties and the like and be able to get just a little drunk. Of cause, seeing as both her parents were recovering addicts, there was no chance in the world that they would allow such a thing and so the conflict just got worse and worse as Lee kept pushing harder to make them allow.

"Sure…" Anna said deciding to give her friend the space that she needed. "You know what? Chrissy wrote to me that she has got a new boyfriend in New York… she says that he's just amazing," Anna enthusiastically. "She also asked me about you and Peter," she added mockingly.

"HEY! I thought we had agreed to drop that topic!" Lee could feel the heat rushing to her face.

"Aww… now your face is all read! Well, if you like him that much, then why don't you do something about it?" Anna asked, knowing the answer perfectly well seeing as they'd had that very same conversation about a million times before.

"Because… you know… it's just so hard… I mean what would I say?" Lee asked blushingly and hid her face in a pillow.

"Oh, shut up! I don't wanna have this conversation again. Let's watch some FRIENDS instead," Anna said, standing up and moving towards her laptop to start the movie.

"I've gotten some new episodes," she continued "It's the ones where Ross and Rachel are on a break!"

"Oh, wow! When did you buy them? Why haven't you told me!" Lee yelled mockingly. Anna of cause knew that she was only kidding around, and that she really loved it.

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Later that night, when Lee was lying in her bed, sleepless she thought that maybe she wounldn't have to confront her parents about the drinking thing. Anyway, she'd deal with it later…

A/N: So… First chap… what did you think? PLEASE PLEASE hit the button!