Charlie's POV

I know I suck at singing, but let's hope I'm good at acting. I walk out of Zander's room and look for his dad. I look around in the living room to see him on the couch snoring away. Man, that man has got to do something besides snore on the couch.

"Hey... Pops?" I ask. It's so weird acting like I have parents. Like I never went through all that crappy abuse Arthur gave me during my childhood. Let's hope he's not so mean.

"Yeah Sport?" he asks with a deep voice.

"Sport?"

"Yeah Sport. So... anything you wanted to talk to me about or something?" he asks.

"You and I never really got to talk-"

"Yeah we did. You always talk about your band and Stevie," he says. "Why don't you just make her your girlfriend? You two are already close enough." he jokes.

Zander and Stevie? They do seem nice together. Maybe I should help him. After all Stevie told me about Zander being a ladies man, he didn't do such a good job flirting when it came to Stevie.

"Pops, I told you-"

"Yeah. I know the jibber jabber. She's only just a friend." he says. Wow.

"Anyways, we never talk about you. Tell me about your past life."

"I think I told you about my old wife. We had a baby, that's you, and then we divorced. You ended up with me and we have your new mom. End of story."

"What was her name again?" I ask.

"Lexi Prince," he says. "I don't really talk about her anymore. Sometimes I miss her, but I think of you and your new mom." he says. So Zander's mom is not really his mom?

"Are you sure Lexi just had one baby?" I ask.

"I'm pretty sure. I mean, she told me about you and all."

"So why was it so easy for her to give me to you? Didn't she love me?" I ask.

"Of course she loved you Sport. She just didn't want you to grow up living with her. I don't know why though." he says.

"Do you still keep in touch with her?"

"No. I sometimes wonder what she's doing. Maybe she's happier now living without me." he says.

How could she be happy? She ended up living with that man Arthur and she ended up dying from cancer.

"Why did you two divorce?"

"For many reasons... Anyways, besides my old wife, want me to tell you about my try out for the baseball team?" he asks.

"No thanks. It's getting a little late. I'll be in my room." I say.

"Good night son."

"Good night." I say and head over to Zander's room. I open the door, and enter closing the door behind me with a sigh.

"So... what did he say?" he asks me.

"I think that guy is my dad." I say heading over to the blue couch plopping myself onto it.

"Not possible." Zander says.

"Really? Fine. Is that lady really your mom?" I ask.

"No. She's just my stepmom. She's really nice though."

"As far as our dad thinks, he only had one kid with Lexi Prince. My mom."

"So he doesn't know anything about Charlie Prince?"

"Sadly, yes." I say. Dad doesn't know anything about me? But I'm his son. Didn't mom tell anything about me to him? Why?

"So your mom had both of us, but she gave me to him, right?"

"Yeah. End of story."

"I'd do the Parent Trap thing, but... he's kind of already taken, so..."

"Hakuna Matata. Mom's dead anyways." I say.

"Really? Wow. I was hoping to meet my mom. How did she... you know..."

"She passed away from cancer when I was eight." I say.

"I'm so sorry."

"Don't be sorry. But if anyone's sorry, it should be her. Why didn't she let me have a dad? Why?" I ask.

"I don't know. Didn't she have something like a note for you to read when she passed or something?" he asks me.

"Hmmm... She didn't have a note for me to read when she passed, but she did leave me a few journals of hers. Maybe they'll explain." I say rummaging through my backpack.

"Now I know where I got the urge to write in a jounal." Zander mumbles. I take the journal and rummage through it.

"Just to make sure... what day were you born?"

"October 2." he says.

"Wow. Okay then." I say, and then check the book. October 2...

"It doesn't say anything about us on this page." I say.

"Check the next day then." Zander says.

"Okay. Let's see... Oh my fudge."

So... I just gave birth to two loving boys. Zander and Charlie. They are so adorable! Too bad I have to give one of them to Al. So since no one's probably going to read this, here's what happened. Al and I got divorced. For many reasons. We still try to keep in touch, but that just makes it kind of awkward. We didn't know we had twins on the way. Ughh... I tried to tell him about the baby, but I had no idea what to tell him over the phone. That "Hey! How's it going? Just letting you know that we had a baby. Actually, we had twins." Al's probably going to hate me for it. I love the guy, but I don't know what happened between us. We just aren't close like we used to be. I think he's always wanted a son. Besides, I can't take care of two boys all by myself. Al has some money. He's able to take care of one of the boys. The boys will never understand what I'm going through. Maybe one day, they'll meet. Someday...

Love,

Lexi

"I miss mom." I say impulsively.

"I don't get it. Why couldn't she just send both of us to dad? And why didn't she love him anymore? This is so confusing." Zander says.

"Someday... Haha..."

"Wow. That's so funny, I can't even laugh at that."

"I know it's not funny, but I kind of need a laugh. They say that smiling helps you feel better, even if it's a fake smile."

"How come you never read that journal?"

"Back at New York, I never really got a chance to read it. I was too busy working, or I was at the pawn shop playing my mom's piano."

"Our mom had a piano?"

"Yeah. My stepfather Arthur sold it to a pawn shop after mom died. He hated the piano. I talked to the person working at the pawn shop, and he said he would keep the piano for me to buy someday." I explain.

"How could mom like a man like that?" Zander asks me.

"Well, I asked her once. She said that he could support us both. She thought she was doing what was best. He was nice at first, but after she died, he became so mean. He just wanted The Palace."

"The Palace?"

"The Palace was a karaoke bar my mom used to run. Arthur runs it now, although it's a 'dump' to him." I say.

"That's too bad. One day, you'll have to go back to New York and face the music." Zander tells me.

"Face the music? What if Kadee and Andrew are dating? Or worse?"

"How worse?"

"What if Mom's piano was sold? I don't want to know. It's bad enough Andrew's living out my dream."

"If it makes you feel better, no one likes Andrew's songs."

"Really?" I ask.

"Oh yeah. Everybody knows he's using autotune. His first song was amazing, but it could've been sang better, and the second and the rest were awful." he says. That makes me feel a little better.

"That's because I wrote the first song." I say.

"You wrote that song? That was amazing! Too bad you never got your credit."

"It's totally fine. I'll find my way back to the top."

"How?"

"I don't know yet."

"So... since you're still awake, I have another question to ask you."

"Sure. Go ahead."

"How did you and Stevie meet?"

"Well, I was playing my uke on the streets. She thought I was you, so we talked and stuff. After a while, we went to Danny Mangos and she gave me her free smoothie. She's super nice! I helped her clean at Danny Mangos, and I think she might have helped me get a job. When the Perfs came, she spilled smoothie on them. On her break, she even played my uke and started singing."

"I knew she could sing... And you took my free smoothie?" he says.

"What?" I ask.

"Okay, I'm guessing you know about Gravity 5?" he asks.

A/N: I shall now rename you Darlington! Nah... I'll call you jiggles.

So that was a bit random. My first day of school was on the 21st. I forgot to mention that in my last chapter. So it was pretty good. Until Mr. V. brought out the bedpan he makes us use as a hall pass.

"IT'S A JAIL TOILET!"

I just wanted to share that. Anyone start their first day of school? Was it exciting? Well, go on and tell me in your review.

And this ending to the chapter might've not made sense, but maybe that will be cleared up once you read the next chapter? Stay tuned!