"It's not something we should do." Lucy said hesitantly
"It's stupid is what it is." Kit spoke up
"Okay fine. You know what? You can just forget all your past!" Mimi said angrily kicking the box over in her haste to get up, causing an old picture to fall out.
"Oh wow" Lucy said picking the picture up and looking at it with Kit and Kylie, Mimi came back over and looked at it with them smiling
"Oh my goodness. Look at us!"
"Let me see."
"I was so chubby." Kit chuckled
"We were singing." Kylie stated
They all looked at it a bit more before Kit stood up, "I have to go meet my friends."
"Yeah it's getting pretty late." Lucy said also standing up with Kylie beside her
"Hey, you guys." They all turned back to look at Mimi, "We're leaving Sunday at 7:00 a.m. if ya'll wanna come."
Kylie was busy in her room, finishing up packing her giant duffle bag while Lucy stood in the doorway watching her with a forlorn expression on her face.
"So, nothing I can say will make you stay will it?" Lucy asked her softly, "You're really leaving, huh?"
Kylie sighed and turned to look at her baby sister, "Yeah, I have to. The life pop has laid out for me isn't the future I want for myself."
"You're so much smarter then what pop gives you credit for." Lucy smiled at her big sis, "Well, c'mon lets go see the shop one more time together before you leave." Kylie finished packing and zipped up her bag before turning to her sister with a bright smile as they both file out the door heading towards the auto shop where their father works.
When they got there they see their father with his head under the hood of a truck and begin walking over to him.
"Hey girls." He said when he saw them coming up
"Hey pop." Lucy replied while Kylie just smiled and waved
"Dr. Johnson called today. Good news." He told Lucy
"Got me a job at the hospital?" Lucy asked
"Mhm, all those discounts I gave him finally paid off." Their father said still focused intently on his work
"Cool… Pop can I ask you a question? It's about mother." Lucy said shyly, her question earned Kylies attention from where she had been staring at the truck engine. "Has she ever tried to see us?"
Pop looked up at them and sighs before answering while wiping his hands on a greasy rag. "No, she hasn't."
"I was thinking, maybe she's afraid to visit us." Lucy said hope filled her voice
"Girls we've talked about this neither of you have to feel any guilt about your mother leaving us. This is not about us. She was the one who walked out on a four and three- year- old. She's the one that should feel guilty, all right?" Pop told both girls
"All right."
All weekend all Ben had been able to think about was the beautiful girl in the blue dress that was at the prom he played at. He tried real hard to get her off his mind; after all he'd probably never see her again. He was leaving today, and he was taking some girl he had met at the trailer park and her friends with him to Los Angles. Right now he was packing his car listening to Mimi and her friend Kitty or Kat, something like that, argue about how much luggage the girl brought.
"Nobody brings four suitcases on a road trip." Mimi said to the other girl, and she was right, the most he had was a duffle bag and his guitar.
"Look, Dylan asked me to visit him in LA, and I can't go looking like a skank." The other girl snapped at her
"You better hope it all fits."
"It will, okay?" He wasn't so sure
Ben had just finished putting the rest of the luggage in the trunk when he heard another voice, "I'm not going to the audition. You can drop me off in Arizona."
"Fine Lucy." He heard Mimi say in reply, he looked over and saw all three girls looking at one another
"Fine." The other girl said
"Shotgun!" He heard someone yell from the other side of the girls
"Dear god Kylie what took you so long?" Mimi asked the new arrival impatiently
"I, um, I slept in…" The beautiful voice told the others bashfully and soon they were all laughing at her.
"Well I see some things don't change." The darker skinned girl said, "You're still a sleepoholic." The girls continued to laugh at the girl whose face he had yet to see
"You are all still so mean to me." The girl mumbled to them trying to contain her own laughter.
"Well alright let's get the road on the show." Mimi called out, "Lucy, Kyles you guys can put your bags in the trunk."
The blonde, Lucy came around first, "You must be Lucy."
"Yeah, so you're taking us to LA."
"Yup." He told her putting her bag in the car
"Luce move over I need to put this bag down before it breaks my arms off." The other girl, Kylie said
As soon as Lucy moved to get in the car, Kylie was in front of him, and as soon as they made eye contact his mind went blank and he felt like he couldn't breathe for a few seconds. He didn't feel like too much of an idiot because it looked like she was in the same state that he was.
When he was finally about to breathe properly again he said, "So, you're Kylie."
"Mhm, and you're the sexy guitarist from prom." She replied with a bright smile
Ben smirked at her, "Name's Ben, so you think I'm sexy?"
"Did I say that? Oh no I was talking about your guitar being sexy." She answered him jokingly with a wink thrown in causing him to let out a small laugh.