Hey guys. Listen, that page I told you about- Polyvore, where I made edits for the characters. That page has been taken down- and yes it's the whole page and not just my account. Anyway, since you can't go there anymore, I'm putting a short list here of who the characters' portrayers are so you can still find pictures of them if you want to.

Emma Geller-Green- Savannah McReynolds
Ethan Geller-Green- Davis Cleveland
Lily West- Jade Weber
Poppy West- Princess Estelle
Keena Capanee- Kia Pegg
Troy Capanee- Nick Robinson (He comes into the story in this chapter)
Michelle Peralez- Alessia Cara

If there are more OC's brought into the story I will put the portrayers' names in the author's notes to that chapter.

Enjoy.

"EMMA. ETHAN."

When mum and dad came home from their jobs I was upstairs in my room and only staring into the ceiling. It might have been a minute, an hour, or a year since I moved at last. But one thing I did know- if they were home it would mean I'd have to face my brother.

I didn't really feel like meeting him right now. And especially knowing that I was the one who had done something wrong.

"I BROUGHT THAI FOOD. YOUR FAVORITES."

I sat up at dad's voice sounding through the house. Thai, and every sort of Asian food was my all-time favorite and Ethan's too. Now I couldn't help but to slowly stand up and with heavy steps walked out of my room.

Ethan's door was just on the other side of a small hallway from mine. Thai food was as much his favorite as mine, and being late for dinner for any food wasn't like him. But the door remained still and untouched while I, one step after the other walked down the stairs and faced my parents.

Now, how was I supposed to explain this to them? And how disappointed would they be in me for denying ever knowing my super-smart, well- behaved, perfect little brother.

"Had you fallen asleep?"

I didn't get a chance to start anywhere or find any words to use before dad asked and questioned why I had taken so long and put knives and forks by the food boxes he had brought from our favorite restaurant.

"Yeah." Mum put a jug of water on the table. "You took a while to get here. And now, so does Ethan."

"I didn't fall asleep but…"

I ran my hand through my hair where it had been ruffled by the pillow. Then shook my head and sighed deeply sitting down by the table and reaching for the food dad had brought for us just as Ethan came into the kitchen.

"But what?"

"Nothing." I answered mum's question. "Let's just eat. I am so hungry and tired after school. Aren't you too Eth?"

My brother only glared back at me.

"Ethan. Your sister asked you a question."

"Yeah. I know mum. And yeah, I am too but. I have a lot of work from school already. Can I eat in my room?"

"Already?" Mum asked. "It's only two days into the new school year."

"Yeah I know. But it's like every teacher have decided that we should start this year off with everyone giving us as much homework that could be possible and I've got heaps of it. You know I like doing all of it right away so it's not left hanging until the last minute."

"Don't you have any homework Emma?" Dad asked and I held back a moan. Both I and Ethan knew very well we didn't have a smidge of homework yet. The only thing he wanted was to get away. "Emma? You won't spend this year putting off all homework… again?"

"No of course I won't."

Of course I will, I always have.

"Ethan has advanced classes and they get homework before we do."

Well, that wasn't a lie all the way through. He did have advanced classes. But that I knew off he didn't have any homework yet.

"You may go." Mum said at last to answer Ethan's wishes. "But don't think you can spend all day up in your room. We want to see you too. And wonder about how it's going at the new school with you two together?"

"It's going okay."

"Have you two had a fight about something?" Dad asked when we could hear Ethan's heavy footsteps up the stairs. "Why was he glaring at you like that? And none of you spoke a single word to each other!"

"Now I think about it." Mum continued and sat down on the opposite side of the table next to dad. "You seemed cold and rude to each other yesterday too. Is there something happening in school? Something in between you two?"

"No." I lied. "Everything's fine. But I haven't seen Ethan with anyone. Maybe he's got some trouble finding new friends. I mean, it's got to be hard when he's younger than everybody else and everything. But of course, we're both tired after school. I can sit here with you and eat and then I think I'll go have a nap."

Only talking, talking, talking. Especially about Ethan made mum and dad forget about what they had asked and I started telling them some about what Poppy had said earlier about what was smart and not.

"I… I guess I'll go have a nap or something then. See you later."

A nap that turned out to last until four a. m. the next morning when I had slept through all of the night. Well at least, up until two hours later I could do nothing else but think. And really see that the only one to blame in all of this was myself.

Typical Emma!

It was in loneliness I walked into school on Wednesday. On the bus of course, Ethan had sat down as far away from me as possible and riffled through more of his new books the whole way. Then he was gone from the school yard before the moment my sneakers hit the asphalt outside. Lily was nowhere to be seen and inside there was not a sound of Keena's constant singing.

Well, at least she had always been singing until Michelle came here.

But Keena wouldn't just stop singing because one person said something about it, would she? The whole school had learnt about it and Keena Capanee didn't change for anyone or anything.

"Hey Emma."

I jumped high when, through my thinking about wherever Keena was heard her greeting me. Ten span around and saw her.

But this wasn't Keena, was it?

I had never seen Keena wear much else then jeans or sweatpants with a T-shirt or a hoodie, as for now she was wearing a freaking dress. And I blinked hard several times while she only stared back to make myself sure that I was seeing the right person here.

"You're wearing a dress."

"Yeah." Keena looked down towards the black and white, stripy dress she was wearing. "Do you like it? I bought it yesterday when I was out shopping with Michelle."

"Since when do you care what anyone thinks?"

Keena only shrugged and fixed a couple of invisible wrinkles in the fabric of the dress. Before she reached back into her locker and took something.

"I like it anyway. It looks okay."

"I didn't mean it didn't. It does but…"

Keena didn't say anything more. She just looked back at me, and there was something in her eyes that I didn't quite recognize.

I hadn't known Keena as long as I had known Lily. Lily I had known all my life, Keena we'd only met last year when we started High school. But I still cared for her as much and she was never this quiet. She was a rebel and she let her voice be heard all the freaking time- she was annoying. So annoying. And this was frustrating and had me missing the annoying, regular Keena Capanee.

"This isn't like you. You don't ask people what they think. You wear what you want and just don't care. And you don't wear dresses." I said, looking Keena up and down once again to really check if it was her. "You wear ragged jeans and T-shirts. With prints of your favorite bands or feminist quotes that you like."

Keena just shrugged again and pushed the books for our next class into her backpack before she threw it over one shoulder- at least one thing that was still the same.

"Hey Emma." Suddenly, Keena's brother from Senior year came up and greeted me, then frowned towards Keena as Michelle came up and started talking to her. Keena turned and tried to say something to Troy but was brought back to Michelle and I could do nothing but watch him as he watched his sister and that freaking new girl walk away.

"Something's up with my sister." Troy turned and leaned down so he could talk without everybody in the hallway hearing and I couldn't help but to nod back at him. "She's all quiet and… weird. And there's something to do with that new girl. What's her name by the way? Do you know that? Who is she?"

"Her name is Michelle and she just moved here from Hawaii. I, Keena and Lily were told to show her around during the first day. She seems nice and everything although maybe a bit… controlling. And she thought Keena was embarrassing for singing, I was embarrassing for wearing a shirt printed with dinosaurs. I and Lily were for having friendship bracelets and we've only known each other for two days. Hey Lily."

"Hey guys. Sorry. I saw you a second ago but I just had to get something in my locker." Lily came up to me and Troy. "Am I seeing right? Or is our friend Keena wearing a dress?"

"Our friend- the ever so tomboy, Keena is wearing a dress."

"Can you two find any reason to why my sister is wearing a dress?" Troy asked, honestly looking quite scared and freaked out. "She came home yesterday with more shopping bags than I have ever seen her with before. Then she just locked herself in her room and now she's wearing… that! She even stopped that singing. She has sung that pretty much twenty four, seven for years and now she's just… stopped it. That singing was so annoying and it always annoyed me but…" Troy sighed deeply and hung his head looking after Keena and Michelle. "I don't want to keep them away from each other since they're obviously becoming friends. But they've only known each other for a couple of days and it's just like Keena isn't… Keena anymore."

This day was unbelievable weird, and it had barely even started yet.

Keena wasn't really Keena anymore. And Troy looked mostly like a puppy where he stood and made me want to hug him tight and promise this would all be okay. But what was it that would have to be okay? Really?

The fact that ever since we had met the first time through Keena a year ago, I had had my life's so far biggest crush on him didn't exactly get that feeling of wanting to hug him tightly go away.

"It's only been hours… I don't even get why I'm like this about it but… I just have such a bad feeling about that girl and when she is with Keena." Keena and Michelle suddenly disappeared around a corner. "You know. It was always the four Capanee- brothers and their tomboy little sister. We all just kind of fit. And now this new girl's around and… I don't know. Mum and dad told me not to worry about it. Teenage girls… But I just… Anyway. I have to get to class now."

With a last deep sigh Troy adjusted the backpack he had over one shoulder, turned and walked towards the stairs. I couldn't help but to watch after him. But he didn't turn back.

"Hello-oh." It was at last Lily's voice who brought me back to reality. "Earth to Emma Geller-Green. I know you're looking after Troy Capanee the one you have got a crush on and you wish he has too. But we've got to go now too or we will be late for our class."

"Yes of course." I finally turned and Lily followed me when I started walking. "I only have to go by my locker and pick out my books. And oh, by the way. I forgot it this morning but... You have to take that pillow and give it back to Poppy. Ethan doesn't want it back." Lily only glared back at me. "What?"

"I and Poppy had a fight this morning before we had to leave for school." She told me. "About you and Ethan." I raised an eyebrow at her but I wouldn't have had to since she was already continuing. "She says that if you're not wise enough to tell your parents about this, or doing something about it. Then she will call them up and tell them herself what you're doing."

Of course she does.

"Typical Poppy West!"

"I told her not to. But she still wants to. Of course, keeping a secret when you're four years old. And she is right though. If you can't sort this out somehow they're going to have to know sooner or later. Either it's Poppy or tell them or yourself. And somewhere about then I might not be angry with my sister anymore because she's such a snitch. So I might be on her side and not yours."

Well then, first me and Ethan, then Keena and Troy, and now Lily and Poppy.

And all of this had started with that new girl.

"And if you think about it Em. Really, none of this wouldn't have started if Michelle had never come here."

"I guess she has a way with tearing families apart."

Random fact

I know this story is actually very boring and everything. But it's also my first try to a friends-fanfiction. And I hope you like it even though it's not the most interesting or dramatic one. I think there should be about three or four chapters left now.