After school the guys and I walked up to the corner where it turned up to the street where my apartment was. "Where you guys heading?" I asked Ray. "Over to Bob's house a couple blocks over, you want to come?"

"Don't know if I can…I'd have to ask my aunt. And I have homework"

"Well, why don't you go ask and meet us later at the park? You know where that is?" Frank piped up. "Yah, I remember passing it on the way to school."

"Great, here's Bob's house number, just call when you have an answer." Ray handed me a piece of paper with some numbers written across in neat hand writing. "Cool, I call you when I know." I gave them each a smile before heading up the street to where my aunt was waiting inside. "Aunt Macy! I'm home!"

"In the bedroom dear!" I walked to where she called from and saw her sitting on her bed with a bunch of papers scattered around her. "Hey, how was school?"

"It was good. I met a group of guys there that seem nice, they wanted to hangout later if that was ok with you?"

"Do you have much homework?"

"Just some reading I need to do for science."

"Why don't you go do that and then you can meet up with your friends." She looked up at me and smiled widely; I smiled back and gave her a half hug "Thanks Aunt Macy!" I ran to the phone and quickly dialed Bob's phone number waiting. "Hello?" came a female voice after the second ring. "Hi, I'm a friend of Bob's is he there?"

"No, he- oh wait! He just walked in the door hold on…" I waited till I heard a dull voice "Hello?"

"Hey Bob!"

"Oh hey Casey! What did you aunt say?"

"She said I could after I finished my homework."

"Cool- wait hold on… GET OFF ME!!! YOU CRAZY SON OF A-" I could hear laughing and more yelling in the background as well as some crashing noises. "Bob?" I asked after the commotion continued for a moment. "Right sorry about that…Um, yah just walk down to the park after awhile and we'll meet you there."

"Cool, I'll see you then."

"Alright bye."

"BYE ODD-TOPSY!!!" I heard someone in the background yell. "Who was that?" I asked laughing. "Oh that was just Frank."

"Oh, ok! Well tell him 'hi' and I'll see him later."

"Ok bye Casey!" we both hung up and I went to my room to start on my homework. Leaping onto my bed I flipped open my science book and began my reading. After a while I looked up at my clock and decided to start walking to the park. Putting on my jacket I slipped out my door and ran down the street towards the park. As I neared the park I noticed that the guys were already there by the swings. "Hey, guy's!" I waved at them as I jogged over to them. "Casey! There you are!" Ray said holding up his arms. "Hi!" I gave him a quick hug "sorry, am I late?"

"Not at all! We just got here anyway." Ray smiled warmly at me. "Oh, that's good." I returned his smile easily. "Hey where's my hug!" Frank yelled pouting and crossing his arms. "Right here!" I hugged him around the waist, picking him up in the process. "YAY!" he yelled happily hanging onto me like a starfish. "So what's on task for today?" I asked putting down Frank. "Well, did you still want to look up the warehouse outside of town?" Gerard asked. "That'd be cool! How far is it?"

"Not that far if we drive."

"Ok, do we have a car?"

"We can take mom's" Mikey said speaking since I had gotten there. "Yah, we could…" Gerard and Mikey continued talking about transportation as I stood between Frank and Ray. Bob just stood off to the side looking alone. "We'll be right back!" Gerard suddenly announced as him and Mikey ran up the street towards what I assumed was their house. "So Casey" I looked up at Bob and Ray "what was your team like?"

"Well…" I thought for a moment, smiling to myself as I thought of all the crazy ass girls on my team. "Well I was only really close to three of the girls on my team, Mattie, Jill and her sister Mina. They helped me out with my dad a lot more than the other girls did."

"They had names too I assume?" Bob inquired. I smiled wider "You assumed correctly, Jill and Mina were Sister Fear and Sister Regret, while Mattie is Gladi8her." Ray and Bob both smiled. "Seriously? Glad-I ate-her? That's possibly the best I've heard!" Ray laughed to himself. We eventually moved to the edge of the sidewalk to wait for Gerard and Mikey with their mom's car. Soon we saw an old black car come around the block. "Come with us if you want to live!" Mikey yelled out the car window. "Well I don't want to die!" Frank stated jumping into the backseat. I laughed jumping in beside him, Ray followed me and Bob stood on the street having nowhere to sit. "Aw poor Bob! Here, Ray move over." I got up and sat on Ray's lap when he scooted under me. Bob got in the car and slammed the door shut. "Ok you do know double-buckling is illegal right?" Gerard asked looking over his shoulder from the driver's seat. "Yes Rardy I do and it's your fault if you don't do anything." Gerard shrugged and drove off down the street to where I guessed the warehouse was. "So…What are we going to do when we get there?" Frank asked turning to me. "Well, I would presume, see if there's a team there and if so, ask when the next tournament is."

"Ok, sounds good to me!" Frank smiled and leaned back into his seat with his eyes closed. Then we hit a bump in the road causing me to almost fall over onto Bob, but Ray put his arm around my waist to steady me. "Thanks Ray-Ray!" I smiled over at him. Ray blushed slightly "no problem…"

"Yo! Let's play a game!"

"No Mikey! Car games are retarded!" Bob said hitting the back of his head through the head-rest. "OW! Bob! It was just an idea!"

"Funderuks!" everyone turned and looked at me, "what the hell?" Ray asked. I smiled "sorry I had to say something to break the tension" Frank and Bob started laughing hysterically at my random outburst. I smiled wider, I always loved making people laugh. eH