They really wanted me to tell everyone, especially Troy. They thought that if Troy new about my dancing he would be even more psyched to ask me out. Not that it happened anyways. After "Twinkle Towne" he did ask me out. Only twice though. I always thought that we would get together, get married, he would play basketball, and I would teach or something.

But life isn't always perfect. I learned that the day after our second date and the day that the whole school was telling me that he was going to ask me to be his girlfriend. I was just about to leave when Kelsi asked me to help her with some thing in the auditorium. I, being the good little girl that I am obliged willingly enough. When we got there, there were strange noises coming from backstage. We got to the dressing room where the noises where and my first thought when I looked in was that whoever it was, totally trashed the room, then I noticed the couple that were knocking everything around... WITH THEIR HIPS!

I mean these people were going AT IT!

I was about to ask them to calm themselves when I started noticing the familiarity of the male half of the twosome. Black and white addidas, dark jeans, red and white number 14 jersey, blonde hair, and the same blue-green eyes.

Troy.

Feeling my heart break I was going to just turn around and let them be, but why was I running? He wasn't my property, though the signs pointed to him asking me out, they were apparently all just rumors. So I lightly knocked on the side of the opened door until I got there attention.

"Umm, Ms. Darbus will be back here soon, you might want to clean up." What else was there to say?

Troy looked at me like he wasn't sure if I was there or not. I finally noticed the female half of the same twosome. It was some blonde cheerleader. I really didn't care who it was. She looked a little embarrassed if anything. I walked away as composed as possible. I think Troy might have tried to come after me. Or it could just be my imagination that wanted to believe it.

Things were awkward over the next couple of weeks. I didn't try to talk to Troy, and he never tried to talk to me directly. Chad told me a couple of times that Troy just didn't want to make me any angrier and really wanted to talk to me and have me in his life again. But those were probably just rumors and I was not going to listen to those anymore.

It didn't matter though. At the end of the year my dad was let out of rehab, and was granted custody. He lived in California so that meant I would be moving again.

I was sad to be leaving my friends, but the fact that I was getting away from Troy out weighed that sadness. My mom got me for holidays and any other time I had more than 3 days off from school.

The summer I left, Taylor, Chad, and Kelsi stayed two weeks with me in California. They met all of my new friends. Kelsi even almost hooked up with my friend Tyler. Chad, the goofy one back home, seemed sort of father like when he stayed with me. Every time we went out he'd have in dept conversations with the males of the group. Conversations, threats, which ever you prefer. But it was nice. My dad didn't take the time to meet anyone or even look after me. So that left a lot of free time to do whatever I wanted.

Pretty soon I had a routine going. During the week I would go to school and dance lessons. On Friday nights at 5:30 (or 12:30 if it was basketball season because of games) Chad would call and make me tell him everything I had done the previous weekend and school week, and I would make him do the same. I never noticed that he never mentioned Troy. Which I was grateful for. I had a new life now, no reason to bring bad blood into it. Yup. Everything was going great. Little did I know that my life was about to take a whole new direction. A direction where I could possibly stay forever and never be able to return back home.

Wow! Just so you know, this isn't my story. I didn't write it. Someone else wrote it and didn't know how to post stories on fanfiction. So I posted it for her. Her name's theaterfreak. I'll give you the link to her page on my profile. So, yeah. THIS ISN'T MY STORY! Thnx! REVIEW!!!

Rachel :)