Chapter Two: Making New...Friends?

"I guess this is it." Taylor said to Kaitlyn. Summer and Marissa had left town a few days before, and Taylor was set to leave that day, Kaitlyn the day after.

"Remember the hair tie." Kaitlyn said giving a tug on the red scrunchie around Taylor's wrist.

"Remember that it's kiss a boy, not kiss a hundred boys." Taylor teased.

"No promises." she shrugged, then hugged Taylor tightly, "I'm gonna miss you Townsend."

"I'll miss you too Little Cooper."

"Remember the most important rule, Scrunchies equal love, Love your sisters and love yourself." was the last thing Kaitlyn said as Taylor got in line to board the plane.

Generally Taylor hated traveling. Although it wasn't really traveling's fault. It was more that her only traveling experiences were with her mother professional ball buster.

Taylor played with the red tie around her wrist. She wondered what Summer, Marissa, and Kaitlyn were doing without her. Without each other.

"...please proceed to the front of the plane." was all Taylor heard as the flight attendant shook her awake.

'This is it.' Taylor thought after claiming her baggage, "Dad is gonna come around that corner any second and I'm gonna meet his other family.' Any second seemed to be lasting for a long time. She decided to call him to see what was taking so long, 'probably traffic.' she added in thought.

But when she pulled out her cell phone, it was beeping that she had a voicemail, "Maybe it's Summer, or Marissa, or even Kaitlyn." she said out loud. It wasn't.

"Hey Tay, sweetie, it's dad. I'm sorry but I can't meet you at the airport. Take a cab and I'll reimburse you when you get here. You know the address," her dad informed her.

Taylor closed her phone and nodded, "Yeah, dad, I know the address." and she went to hail a cab.

"Summer, it's Taylor, call me when you get this. I landed twenty minutes ago, it's beautiful here, oh yeah and I wanna go back home." she said leaving a message on Summer's phone.

Instead of taking her directly to her fathers home she decided to have the cabbie drive her around the town a bit, on her first impression Taylor decided the town was small. Like Gilmore Girls Stars Hollow small, "Oh can you stop at the ice cream place?" Taylor asked, "Do you want anything?"

"Uh sure Miss. A chocolate cone, if it's not too much trouble." the confused cabbie said, letting Taylor out at Dairy Queen.

"No trouble at all." Taylor grinned, well that's something she's never done before, "One chocolate cone and one vanilla." she added to the person at the window. As she went to wait for them to get her order she sat down on a bench. So this was the place she was going to be living for the next three months. At first glance she supposed it was alright. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed something move. Or rather at second glance someone move. She gasped. There two feet away was the hottest guy she'd ever seen. Not just regular hot but like the kind of guy Marissa (who was a very picky dater, not as picky as Taylor but close enough) would date. Blonde hair, blue eyes, white wife beater, clinging in all the right places, and jeans FADED in all the right places. But that wasn't all. The next part was the clincher for Taylor. He was reading. An actual book, not just comic books like most of the guys in her grade.

Taylor was aware she was staring now, and prayed he wasn't.

'Well this would be something you'd never done before.' a voice that sounded like Kaitlyn pointed out in her head.

'Plus he's really cute.' another voice that sounded like Summer said.

'And would you look at those muscles?' the Marissa sounding voice asked.

Before Taylor had the chance to call her therapist Dr. Sullivan back in Newport cause she was fairly certain hearing voice that don't belong to you, even if they belong to your best friends still qualify you as crazy, she found herself walking up the blonde guy "Um hi."

He looked up from his book, looked Taylor up and down and nodded, "Hi." He then turned back to his book.

"I'm Taylor." she said.

He nodded again not even bothering to look up from the book this time.

'Rude.' Taylor thought.

"Your ice creams gonna melt." he said.

"Excuse me?" she asked, they hadn't called her yet to tell her the cones were even ready, what was this guy talking about.

"Your obviously new here," he said closing his book and standing, He grasped her shoulders and turned her back towards the counter where two ice cream cones in dishes where sitting, "Your ice cream is melting."

"But they didn't tell me..." she trailed off grabbing the dishes embarrassed.

"They don't." he said turning to leave.

"Thanks." she called.

He didn't respond and Taylor could have sworn she heard him laugh as she headed back to her cab.

After she settled in the back again, she snapped the hair tie and her wrist like it was a rubber band, "Well that's done."

"Taylor!" her dad said as she pulled into the driveway.

"Hi dad." she responded and took her bags from Andrew, the driver, "Thanks Andrew."

"No problem Miss Taylor." he said getting back into his cab.

Taylor took in the house she was in front of with shock. Sure she lived in Newport Beach where mansions were every second house, but this was like she'd said before Gilmore Girls Stars Hollow. As far as she knew no one in Stars Hollow had mansions, so what was her father doing with one? What was the whole neighborhood doing with mansions, when their town's park benches were rotting away? When the fountain she'd passed earlier had so much mold growing on it that it looked like it was a green statue with gray spots. How could her father be living like this when the whole town was falling apart?

"Well come on in. Your brothers and sister are eager to meet you as is your new mo- step mother." he said grabbing a couple of her bags.

"Welcome!" A blonde woman with the biggest breasts Taylor had ever seen said hugging her as she stepped over the threshold. Kaitlyn would never believe her, when she wrote that her new step mother had boobs bigger than Andrea Wilks (Plastic Surgery Queen of Newport).

"Thanks." Taylor managed to squeak out.

"I'm so glad your staying with us this summer. Now come over her, " she said leading Taylor to what she presumed was the living room, "I want you to meet my darlings."

"Um okay."

"Now Taylor, this is Jake, he's the oldest, 18, and this is Marie she's your age, and this is my baby boy Christopher, he's 10. Kids you've heard your dad talk about Taylor right?" the woman who Taylor still didn't know her name, asked.

"Yep." Jake answered boredly, obviously he wanted to be somewhere else.

"So so so much!" Marie said excitedly, she ran up and impulsively hugged Taylor.

"Oh, wow. I guess we're huggers here." Taylor said awkwardly.

"Now there is one more member of our family I want you to meet but unfortunately he's not here right now." her dad said.

"Um dad if this is your way of telling me about the baby, mom already broke the news." Taylor said.

"Oh no, no. Ryan. He's my sisters best friends son. He lives in our guesthouse, well you two will be sharing it for a couple months, but he's a really nice kid. He just got into some trouble and Belle, that's my sister, she asked if I would mind doing her this favor." Taylor nodded along to her new stepmothers tale.

'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air anyone?' Taylor thought to herself, "So I'm gonna be sharing a place with a stranger?" she added to her father.

"Well yes, but only because we don't have any spare bedrooms in the house." he said.

Taylor looked down at the red scrunchie on her wrist, 'Bet you think this is funny.'

"Aunt Stephanie?" A boy called from another room.

'Stephanie!' Taylor thought finally.

"Ah this is Ryan." her father said.

Taylor nodded and turned towards the entrance to greet the boy she was going to be spending the next three months with. When he stepped into the room he saw her and looked a bit confused but then grinned. Taylor on the other hand went from a polite smile to her eyes bugging out and her face draining of its color.

"Ryan this is my daughter Taylor." her father said.

"Nice to meet you." Ryan said walking closer to her with his hand outstretched.

An hour ago Taylor wanted nothing more than to touch these hands, now it was all she could do to squirm out of his vice like grip. This was gonna be a long summer.

Please review. I know it was kinda short, but I'm still trying to figure out where this story is going. I think the next chapter will be Summer, but I'm not sure. Oh and I already know who the girls love interests are gonna be except for Kaitlyn, if you guys have any ideas please let me know cause I have no clue.

-Em