"Casey!" a gorgeous punk rock queen squealed as she was greeted her best friend.

"Angel!" The brunette shrieked in response. They enveloped each other in a heartfelt hug for they haven't seen each other since Casey had moved to Toronto.

These two have been friends since they were in diapers and had grown up together. Though they had grown up together didn't mean that they were the same personality wise. Casey was more secure and structured while Angelina was a risk taker, laid back, and always got in trouble- though usually it wasn't intentional, it was merely a reflex.

"I missed you! School became a bore without you there to keep me in line," Angel told her best friend as Casey led her inside her humble home.

"I missed you too. My life isn't as sparky as it used to be without you, though there are a few unwanted sparks that I was to singe," she said a little coolly.

"Does this have anything to do with this brother you have told me so much about in your emails?" Angelina asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, he is just so annoying! There isn't a day that goes by without him ruining or annoying me somehow. But I forgot to ask, why are you hear? It's not that I don't want you here, it's just you didn't tell me,"

"Well my Aunt just recently got me a record deal here on Toronto and didn't want to waste plane and train tickets back and forth from here and BC, so moving was the best option. I get to go to your school but I might miss a few days because of the music junk I have to do," Angel informed her. All of a sudden the sound of doors opening and closing, footsteps, and muffled voices were heard. The girls looked up from the sofa that they were sitting on and looked in the direction of the kitchen.

"Angel!" the familiar young voice of Lizzie shouted.

"Lizard!" Angel jumped out of her spot next to Casey and hugged Lizzie.

"Angelina, it's so nice to see you again," Nora greeted and gave the girl a hug.

"It's nice to see you again Mrs. McDonald, or should I say Mrs. Venturi," Angel gave her a smirk. She got out of Nora's embrace and greeted the man behind her.

"Hi, I'm George," He greeted and stuck his hand out to shake. She took his offered hand and introduced herself as well.

"I'm Angelina or Angel if you like. I've known the McDonalds my whole life," she introduced.

"Well I'm going to start dinner, will you be staying Angelina?"

"Are you sure I won't be intruding on anything?"

"No, we usually have too much," George said with a comforting smile. So Angel agreed and sat back beside Casey while Nora and George had left in the direction of the kitchen and/or the basement.

When they had left a boy around Lizzie's age approached Angel with a sly smirk on his face.

"Hi, I'm Edwin, and might I say that you are one pretty lady,"

"Well hello there Edwin, I'm Angel, and I'm too old. Sorry, maybe in a few years or so?" She shot him down but did bring his hopes up.

"Can't wait!" with that he ran up the stairs to do something.

Casey and Angelina laughed and got back to talking.

"Wow, Case, seems like almost nothing has changed, except for the new fam members, but I would love to have a family like yours," a sad glimmer was cast through Angel's eyes.

"Aw, it isn't always like this. Wait till the lord of all there is annoying comes through the door. But what do you mean nothing has changed? Last time I saw you, you would never dare to think of wearing the whole punk rock chic,"

"Case, that was because we wore out uniform most of the time and we barely hung out after school because of my detentions and your extra curricular activities," Angelina pointed out.

"True," then a little girl around five and six skipped by but stopped when she saw a new face in the house.

"Well who is this little cutie?" Angel asked picking up the little one and sat her in-between herself and Casey.

"Hi! I'm Marty and you're pretty," Marty introduced in a very cute voice.

"Aw, thanks, Sug. I'm Angel, and you're pretty cute yourself," she cooed to the little girl which made the little one giggle.

"I'm going to be right back; you and Marty play here for a while, while I go get the phone," I don't think Marty and Angel heard the phone since they were have fun tickling each other.

"Family, I'm home!" a voice called from the front door. When he had called out, Marty and Angel put a pause on their little game and turned to face the caller.

He had thrown his coat on the coat rack, chucked his shoes someplace, threw his bag somewhere, jumped into the chair beside where Marty and Angel were staring and flicked on the TV.

"Hey Smarty, I don't think he noticed us here yet, so you want to play a little trick on your older brother?" Angel whispered in Marty's ear. Marty nodded eagerly and listened to the plan.

When Angel told her the end of the plan, it had quickly gone into action. Marty had jumped into Derek's lap which caused his focus to gone of trying to get her off so that he could watch TV, and Angel had quickly scrambled beside Derek. She carefully lowered herself so that her lips were so close to his ear.

"Hey there stranger, and my, aren't we a mighty fine stranger at that," she whispered seductively that caused shivers that ran from his neck down and cause the hairs on the back of his neck to stand on end.

The guy was about to turn and see where the voice came from, but Angel had quickly ducked behind the chair. Marty had jumped out of Derek's lap a while ago to go and play, while Angel had positioned herself on the other side.

"Aw, can't seem to find me? Well that's a shame; I thought we could have a little fun before I had to leave you here. Pretty darn shame that someone as pretty as I am would go to a waste, well I'll just leave you to picture what I look like, bye!" She taunted with the same sexy voice before she dashed into the kitchen where Casey had witnessed the whole thing happen.

"Well I see that you still like to taunt and prank people,"

"Yup, but if he was smart, he would have followed the sound of footsteps into the kitchen,"

"Yeah, right, Angel. The day Derek is smart at something is the day the world ends," Casey said with an eye roll and poured two glasses of orange juice.

"Well I think the world is coming to an end right now, because here comes Derek. I think I'm going to act out my last minutes on earth overly dramatically dying. Ahem. Why! Oh why! I never got to ride the waves in the Gulf of Mexico! Get my record sent out to the music stores! Or even got to record the last few songs on it! Dude! I never even got my guitar fixed! No! Casey! Why did you have to jinx my life and cause this much misery to bestow upon me! Why!" Angel cried dramatically and pretended to faint only to be caught by Derek. "Oh! Hi there, I'm Angel,"

"That you are. Derek. You wouldn't happen to know anything about a girl whispering in my ear right?"

"Um… in a tone like this: 'hey there stranger,'" she said in the same that she had used a few moments ago. When the look of realization flashed through his face both girls began to laugh.

"So you're the tease?"

"Yup, thought I would make a lasting first impression, and it clearly it worked. I just hate the formal greetings,"

"Well, Angel and I are going to go in my room, so try not to bother us," Casey grabbed a hold of Angel's arm and dragged her out of her step-brothers grasp and lead her upstairs.

Right before they had left Derek's line of vision, Angel blew him a kiss and plastered on a smirk.

This girl intrigued Derek. She was unpredictable, interesting, and a total babe in his eyes. He made a mental note to get to know her a little better before he changed his line of thoughts to getting something to eat.

"So Angel, how's your life been back in BC?" Case asked casually as she and her best friend lounged around her room.

"My gosh has it been busy. I had been doing all the sets I could grab. I went to tons of festivals and rock concerts to try and get a gig with a better well known band. Boy, that wasn't easy at all, but I did meet and befriend a whole lot of great guys. Do you know the Band My Chemical Romance? Billy Talent? Three Days Grace? Marianas Trench? Faber Drive? Well I've met and got to know those guys pretty well. They rock and M.Trench and Faber Drive actually helped me with getting my big break.

"We hung out a few times and they got permission for me to go on tour across Canada with them. So I came along and had to bunk with the guys on Marianas Trench, and you know that every chance I get to bring my guitar along I do, so on a few times that we were on the road I had taken it out and played a couple songs that I wrote and they liked it and gave me feedback.

"On a few stops, I actually got to play on stage for their fans! Picture that, me, on stage, with my guitar and them playing the rest of the positions. It was a dream come true for me, even if it were only for a couple moments and stops.

"The reaction I got from their fans gave some dude an idea. The next few stops that they had, the same guy was there. I later found out that he was a search guy for this major label; actually it's the same label that Avril Lavigne was signed with. He thought that I could actually be the next Avril. So he approached me and we got talking. I had a few meetings with him and the label and also played for them a few times, and they signed me almost immediately.

"So after I had toured with the guys, I went back home to tell Aunty Lyn about this and she actually liked and agreed with all the things they had put in the contract and was on board with the idea, the only set back was that their recording studio was here in Toronto while we were situated back in Vancouver. It was my summer break still during that time- that was the only way that I could go on tour- so as I hung out with the guys and kept in touch with you- keeping this slew of information away from you- Aunty had started packing and found us a home here.

"And that is my whole story. Well just a summary of why I'm here,"

"Wow. Your story makes my life look boring and normal, though I was the singer in Derek's band,"

"Whoa, I thought you didn't like him, let alone agree to sing in his band,"

"Well it was only a one time thing of course, and I think it was one of the only times that I agreed and got along with him,"

"Ah, I see now. Music tends to bring people together, usually for me, its rock. Why what the name of this band? Give me a little insight on your musical world,"

"Well it is nothing compared to yours. The band was called D-rock, and by just looking at the title gives away who named it and what music we played. So far we had only played at our school talent contest thing, but we lost to Sheldon,"

"Sounds like fun,"

"Casey! Angel! Dinner's ready!" Nora called from downstairs.

"C'mon we better get down there," Case said getting off her desk chair and walked towards the door.

"Oh joy, dinner talk!" Angel remarked sarcastically and got out of her laying position on the bed and followed Casey down to the dinner table.