Chapter 1

"Spencer, Freddie's driving so I'm gonna go grab some breakfast with him. Don't worry about cooking anything," Carly said as she came down the stairs while combing her hair and into the kitchen where Spencer was about to crack an egg into the pan.

"Okay Carls, no problem," as Spencer just stopped in time before cracking the egg.

"So you excited lil' sis, last year of high school?"

"I guess so." Carly said a little unenthusiastically.

"You don't sound too excited there." Spencer said back.

"No its not that, its just that...it's the last year and I feel like things are going to change."

"Well yeah, Carly. Change is part of life. You can't really stop that."

Carly knew her brother was right but still didn't want to accept that so for now she changed the subject. "So is Rachel coming over later?"

Spencer smiled at hearing Rachel's name. Rachel was his girlfriend of almost 3 years. They had met at an art museum where Spencer worked at. Rachel was a doctor over at Seattle Memorial Hospital. When the two had first met, they almost clicked instantly though Spencer was bit wary at first. His past girlfriends were either weird or full of drama and Spencer did not want to deal with that crap once again. At 26, he started to feel a little bit lonely because he had not found himself a steady girlfriend yet. That is until he met Rachel. Rachel had taken her sister for a tour of Seattle and one day they visited the art museum.

As they were studying one of the paintings trying to figure out what it meant to them, Spencer noticed how enthralled they were by it. He then casually walked to them and said, "Beautiful isn't it?"

Rachel turned to her side and smiled, "It is. I've never seen anything so graceful yet stunning." Spencer who got a good look at her this time was awed by her beauty. She was about 3 inches shorter than his height, but her face and smile was very captivating. Rachel who also got a good look at Spencer was also impressed. He seemed genuine and sweet. She thought his appearance to her was cute also. He was wearing a dark green dress shirt with a tie. Very professional yet good looking, she thought to herself.

Spencer was first to introduce himself and brought his hand up, "Hey, I'm Spencer."

Rachel smiled and bought her hand up too to shake his, "I'm Rachel." Rachel's sister who was already noticing something going on between them smiled and decided to leave them and look at other paintings within the exhibit.

Spencer who was still smitten with Rachel's beauty was quick to ask, "So Rachel, if I were to ask you to join me for lunch when I go on my lunch break, would you?

Rachel who definitely was overwhelmed with Spencer by his boldness to quickly ask her out on a date smiled and said, "Yeah no problem but let me just tell my sister so that she doesn't think I left her hanging." Spencer smiled at that and said, "Ok."

The lunch date between Spencer and Rachel went by with no problems as they got to know each other a little bit more. After their lunch date, they met up with Rachel's sister and Rachel mentioned that she had to help her sister pack before she had to take her the next morning to the airport as she was going back to Los Angeles. After Rachel did that, her and Spencer went out a few more times and hung out on many occasions for the next couple of months until finally Spencer asked Rachel to be his girlfriend. She gladly accepted.

"Yeah she's coming over for dinner later tonight. You're welcome to join us."

"No its ok, first day of school and knowing that I'm in honors classes, I'm gonna probably hit the books up in my room and start reading."

Carly then said her goodbyes to her brother and her little puppy who just happened to come out of the hallway from Spencer's room. She picked it up, kissed her, put her back down and headed out the door. She was already heading downstairs to the garage to meet up with Freddie who texted her that he would meet her there by his car.

"Fredward dear, now did you put anti-tick lotion around your body?" Mrs. Benson asked.

"You know mom once again, I'm 17 years old. I can take care of myself." Freddie said getting annoyed at his mom constantly reminding him about these motherly orders. "I'm heading out to school, Carly's downstairs waiting for me by my car. See you later."

Freddie went down to the garage to meet Carly by his car. They would then pick up Sam, get breakfast and then head to their high school for one last year.