I cannot thank everyone enough who has been saying such wonderful things about this story. Also, one reviewer pointed out that I called Brooke Mrs. Davis when it should have been Mrs. Baker, very sorry about that. It's weird not to think of her as being B. Davis.

Anyway, here is the next chapter, please enjoy!

Chapter Two – We Used to Be Friends

"Knock, knock." Alex stood in Sawyers door way, she spun around from her desk chair and couldn't help the smile that took over her face when she saw him.

"Hi, friend." She rose from her chair and gave Alex a hug. "I missed you."

"I missed you too. How was you, trip or getaway or whatever it was?" Alex asked as he took a seat on her bed.

"It was good; I did a lot of sailing and got to see some really cool places." Alex nodded. "I did miss it here though. You know what they say, there's no place like home. But anyways, what have I missed, I need you to fill me in."

"Well, we won state, obviously. I'm still with Jenny, Casey and Davis are like a real couple now and Lydia and Jude are still together."

"What about Johnny, I saw him and Lydia at the record store together, what's that about?"

"They're kind of friends now. I guess she just made him feel better after you left."

"That's like really random."

"Sounds like someone's jealous." Said Alex, teasingly.

"I am, of both of them actually, Lydia took my boy and Johnny took my best friend."

"So, I take it you're still in love with Johnny?"

"I thought maybe being away from him would make it go away. But I didn't forget about him, I just missed him. I mean not a day went by where I didn't sit and stare at my phone for an hour and debate whether or not to call him."

"And now that you're back, I take it you're going to try and get back together with him?"

"That's the plan. Well, part of it anyway. I have a lot of making up to do if I want my friends back. I think I'm going to start with Lydia; a girl needs her best friends. Although she did seem pretty pissed off."

"Yeah, according to Jude she didn't take the whole you leaving thing very well. She was kind of mad, and that's putting it gently."

"What about you, how come you're not super pissed at me for leaving, or for coming back?"

"I don't like that you left, but I can why you did. I can't that if I was in your position I wouldn't have done the same thing. In the long run it wasn't a very good idea, but you didn't screw me over in the process, besides, I'm the only one you kept in contact with. It's just easier to forgive you when I know that you were going through something really tough."

"But Johnny was going through something tough too, and I just bailed. Wow, I am such a bitch. They have every right to hate me, what I did was terrible."

"Johnny and Lydia are both good people,"

"You don't need to make me feel even worse." Sawyer chimed in.

"You didn't let me finish. Johnny and Lydia are both good people, and good people always forgive the ones they love. They're just going to make you work a little harder because you're family."

"I really hope you're right. How does your girlfriend feel about me being back?"

"I don't know yet, I'm actually going to go see her when I get done here."

"You're going to sit around and talk about me, aren't you?" Sawyer asked, smiling.

"Of course."

"I feel like all I've been doing lately is shopping." Jenny said, as she took a seat across from Casey at a small table in the food court of the mall. The two girls had spent the morning browsing through all of the stores hunting for good deals.

"I am completely wiped out, I need a drink." Casey said, placing her bags on the chair next to her and removing her wallet from her purse. "It has been a long couple of days, and we needed some retail therapy."

"Please, things have only just started to get stressful. Just wait until Sawyer stars making her rounds, trying to apologize and showing up whenever were hanging out."

"You sound bitter," Casey observed "I thought you didn't care what Sawyer did or didn't do."

"That was before I started dating Alex, they're really good friends. Before I could just avoid her, and then she left and I didn't have to worry about it. Now that she's back she and Alex are going to be hanging out all the time, and he's going to want her to come to parties and things."

"You're thinking about it too much, just relax. She may cause some drama, but it will probably just surround Johnny. And maybe Lydia." Casey said. She pushed her hair back out of her face and took a deep breath before dumping all of her change out onto the table.

"Are you okay?" Jenny asked, noticing that Casey was beginning to look a little green.

"I'm fine; I'm just not feeling very well all of a sudden. I think I just need something to drink." Jenny picked up the change from the table and stood.

"You stay here and watch the bags; I'll go get you a diet coke."

"Thanks." When Jenny was out of sight, Casey placed her head down on the table and tried to will herself to feel better. She counted her breaths and tried to think happy thoughts, but she felt sick to her stomach. At times she was perfectly fine, then all of a sudden the room would start to spin and she would feel nauseous. Jenny sat back down and placed a diet coke and straw in front of Casey. She picked up the cup and began sipping the cold liquid.

"You're right," Jenny said "I'm overreacting, I just need to relax and see how everything plays out, I'm happy and that's all that matters. What about you, how are you and Davis doing?"

"We're great actually. We will have been dating for one month next week. It's weird having a boyfriend and not being able to hook up with anyone else. I mean I'm not saying that I want to, but I've just always had the option."

"You and Davis are adorable. And if anyone can tame you, it would be him and vice versa."

"I guess you're right, I'm really glad we're together." The thought of Davis brought a smile to her face, however the upsetting feeling in her stomach soon took over and her smile disappeared.

Lydia dragged a 30lbs bag of dog food across the animal shelter floor. Once she made it to the food bowls she began to scoop out the kibble. She hadn't been to the shelter in a while, and thought it was about time she got back to see her beloved animals. Jack was doing well, he had gotten so big. Lydia heard the front door chime and wiped her hands on her KISS tank top and went to see who it was. She stopped in her tracks when she saw Sawyer, standing in front of a cage full of kitten, attempting to pet them through the cage.

"Hey." Said Sawyer.

"Hi."

"I'm sorry to just drop in like this, I know you're working, I just really wanted to talk to you."

"It's okay, it's not like they pay me anyways."

"So I know I've said this before, but I feel really awful about what I did. And if there was anyone who deserved to know what I was planning it was you. You're my best friend and I would really love it if things could just go back to the way they were. When we were dressing up and sneaking into clubs with our fake ID's." Despite herself, Lydia smiled. She didn't want to Miss Sawyer, but the truth is she did. And while others wanted her to stay gone Lydia was glad that she was back.

"Those ID's are shit by the way, we over paid for those by a lot." Sawyer smiled. "I'm glad you're back, and I want to be friends again, I do. But it's just; it's going to take some time." Sawyer nodded.

"How's Johnny?" Sawyer asked quietly.

"He's doing better; he was a mess when you first left. Always getting into trouble in school, smoking and skipping class. He just felt like you didn't care as much as he did. And it was hard, having you there one day and then gone the next."

"I messed up bad. But I am really glad that you two have become friends." Lydia gave Sawyer a doubtful look. "I'm serious, that would make one good thing come out of my leaving. You guys bonding over your hatred for me."

"We don't hate you Sawyer. Or at least I don't, who the hell knows what's going on in Johnny's head right now. But we didn't become friends because I felt bad for him, I needed him just as much as he needed me. It just kind of sucks that our friendship had to come out of something so, shitty." When Sawyer remained silent Lydia went on. "Why did you leave?" Sawyer bowed her head and tried not to cry, however she couldn't stop it and now tears were falling.

"I just, it was too hard. I messed up so bad, and all I wanted to do was pretend it didn't happen so I left. I thought if I left it all behind I would just forget about it and then I really could pretend like it just didn't happen." Sawyer wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.

"Okay, so why did you come back?" Lydia asked, now blinking back her own tears.

"I thought I could forget about it, but all I did was miss it. I missed Johnny and all the guys and the river court, tric, the café, and I missed you. I missed my best friend." Lydia made her way around the counter and wrapped her arms around Sawyer, who tightly hugged back. Lydia couldn't just forgive her like that, but she also knew how much pain her friend was in, and if she could help ease the pain she was going to. When the two girls finally separated, Lydia wiped Sawyers tears away and smiled.

"Don't be sad, okay? Everything's going to be fine, he'll come around."

"You think?"

"Yeah, I really do."

"I just, I can't even look at her without it hurting. I just think of all the bad things she did and how much she hurt me. I mean how can she fix things when I can't even be in the same room as her?" Johnny asked Davis as the two stood on the river court, shooting hoops.

"If Sawyer is one thing it is persistent. I mean she got you before when she wanted you, who's to say she can't do it again?" Davis asked, as he tossed the ball to Johnny, who took a shot and sent the ball swishing through the net.

"I didn't really know her before. She tricked me, with her long legs and shiny blonde hair. Before I knew what was going on, we were making out and causing a shit load of trouble."

"There must have been something about her that you fell for, and not the legs or hair."

"Even if I did fall for her as a person, she's not that person anymore. She's changed, the girl I fell in love with never would have left me like that."

"So, are you just going to avoid her for the rest of your life? Or are you going to try and be friends or something?"

"I can't be her friend man; I could never just be her friend. There's way too much sexual tension." Davis laughed and took a shot from center court, the ball went off the backboard and in. "I'm just trying to get back to being me, the me I was before we screwed everything up."

"Yeah, we haven't really seen him in a while."

"Well if I have it my way he'll be back, and soon. But this whole reappearing act that Sawyer's doing has really thrown me for a loop. I don't know what to do man, I don't want to be a jerk to her, part of me still cares but an even bigger part of me is still just pissed off."

"These things take time man, you're not just going to forgive her in one day. You have a right to be pissed and she knows that, but you also can't hold a grudge forever, at one point you did love the girl." Johnny took in what Davis was saying, knowing that he was right. He couldn't stay mad forever, but he still wasn't quite ready to just let her back into his life, even if he did love her. Johnny knew that he still cared, but he had to think to himself just how much he still cared.

"Yeah." Johnny said "I guess I did."

Lydia sat in the dark theatre, sipping her drink through her straw and debating whether or not it was rude to remove her shoes. She had just decided to go for it, when she felt him sit down next to her.

"Here's your popcorn." He said, handing her a bag of extra buttery goodness.

"Thanks." She leaned over and placed a kiss on his cheek before diving into the popcorn. "Was the line very long?"

"Nah, it was alright. Oh hey, there releasing the new Batman movie tomorrow, a bunch of people are lining up at midnight for the screening, did you want to go with me?"

"I can't tomorrow, I'm going to a concert downtown with Johnny." Jude didn't say anything he just nodded his head. "You don't mind that I hang out with Johnny do you?"

"Why would I mind?" Jude asked.

"I don't know, I've never really hung out with him before, and my only other male friend is your brother. I just don't want it to be weird for you; I mean he's just my friend."

"I believe you, and it doesn't bother me that you two are friends."

"Good." Lydia snuggled into Jude's side as the theatre darkened and the movie began. Jude was left to sit and ponder how much of what he just told her was true. He didn't mind her and Johnny being friends, as long as that's what they were. But Johnny wasn't exactly known for being the guy with the highest morals, and he had gotten two other beautiful girls to fall for him before. He wanted to just trust his gut and believe that they were just friends, but he couldn't silence the little voice in the back of his head that told him to watch his back, and his heart.

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