Once I finished eating, I invited everyone back to Aunt Ry's apartment so we could discuss what I had planned for Saturday. No one objected to the idea of a beach party, but no one agreed to the idea of letting me plan the whole thing.

"Hey, sorry, New Girl, but we don't know you or what you like. Our music taste is most definitely different than theirs." Castiel threw his arms around my shoulders and led towards Ambers' car. I was told that Amber and her lackeys freaked out when I passed out. Iris was coming down the street as I was falling down and called out my name. Amber told Nat and Cas to carry me to the car and told her lackeys to meet her at The Restaurant. Cas carried me to the car while Nat picked up my stuff and opened the car door for Cas. Both guys rode in the back while Iris rode in the front with Amber. They all argued the whole way here.

"I like all types of music, by the way, and my name is Irene." I pushed Castiels' arm from my shoulder and stalked to the car door that led to the back seat."The least you can do is remember my name."

Before Castiel could muster a reply, my phone started to ring. I was a bit surprised to find my phone still in my pocket and even more surprised when I looked at the called ID. It was my ex-friend, Kastie Charmichael, the biggest ***** at Wantanbe (Wan-ton-be) High. I now call it 'Wanna be" High because you are either a wanna be, you wanna be high, or you wanna be drunk. I debated whether or not I should answer. I decided I would but I would put her on speaker.

I held my phone out in front of me and answered. "Sorry it took me so long to answer. I was hanging out with some cool cats I met. Lets make this convo snappy so I can get back to a good time."

"Oh, I see I'm not missed."

Kasites voice did not come through the phone. Instead, I was greeted by my ex-boyfriend, Jonathan's' voice. He sounded a lot like Johnny Depp, but looked nothing like him. The last time I saw Johnny, he had shoulder length, dark brown hair, green eyes with flecks of golden brown, and his eyes were surrounded by gorgeous, long eyelashes. I fell in love with him and I thought that he loved me too, but he betrayed me with my ex-best friend. I never thought I would hear his voice after I moved.

"Hi, Johnathan. How are you?" I could hear the sadness in my own voice and I knew that everyone else could hear it too because the conversations around me started up again. The only one who didn't participate was Castiel. Now that I think about it, I never saw Castiel talk to anyone other than me.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't sound so sad. You know what happened that night. Kastie even admitted to that. She's right here if you want to hear it again, and if you're wondering why I'm in a car with Kasie, she's driving us to and after school show."

"Johnathan, you don't have to do that. I already saw the start of the video, so no need." I wanted anything to get away from this topic so I switched the subject. "What is this after school show about?"

Johnathan started laughing. "Take a random guess and you'll get it right."

I thought about it for a moment. "Whoa! You don't mean to tell me that that darn school finally got the Teen Pregnancy show? The one I proposed when I was 16?"

Johnathan laughed again, but Kastie was the one to peak. "WAIT! She's the reason I have to go to this thing? She's the reason this show is even happening!? You got to be ******* kidding me!"

I leaned against Ambers' car and hope that this wouldn't start an argument.

"Don't talk **** about her, Kastie. She's still my girlfriend." I could hear the anger rising in Johnathan's' voice.

"Your girlfriend!? You ruined that relationship!" Kastie laughed and I heard other voice join hers in the laughter.

Johnathan laughed right back at her. "I didn't ruin this relationship, you did. Everybody saw that, Kastie!"

On the other end of the line, everything exploded into an argument. I signaled to everybody on my end to get ready to leave. I moved away from the so Castiel could get in. Instead of getting in the car though, Castiel followed me. "Shouldn't you also be coming with us?"

Car doors slammed on my end of the line, but the worst sound you could hear in the car happened on the other. I heard screeching tires, screaming, and metal on metal. Time froze as I tried to process what just happened. "Johnathan? Johnny, is everything alright?"

Frantic talking began on the other end before Johnny got back to the phone. "Sorry, Iri. Someone cut Kastie off and she rear-ended him. I have to go, but I wanted to tell you this: Wantanbe High is closing so we all have to move. I heard Kenny already moved there so me, Kastie, Emily, Brit-Brat, and some others are moving to Sweet Amoris to attend the High school there with you. We will see you soon! Love you! BYE!"

I stared at the phone then looked at Castiel. I don't know why I expected him to say something. Instead, he shook his head and walked back to Ambers' car. I followed him and he opened the door for me. I scooted to the middle so I could be in-between Iris and Castiel. Everyone was silent all the way to my place.

I stepped out my bedroom and entered the living room. Nathaniel had is not pad out and was sitting on the couch, Castiel was sitting at the counter looking at everyone else, and Iris and Amber were sitting on the love seat talking about something. Castiel was the first one to talk. "Irene, how are you doing?"

I looked at him sadly. "I;m doing fine. Hearing from Johnny after so long and the accident. It just...got to me, you know?" I went to sit down in the armchair. "So lets get started. Who's bringing what?"

"I'm bringing refreshments." Nathaniel scribbled down Iris' request.

"I'm bringing face make-up, so don't complain." Everyone grumbled at Ambers' request.

"Well, since I counted on you for something else, I'm bringing snacks then." Everyone stared at Nathaniel. "And you can't say anything about it."

Castiel grumbled and said something under his breath. "I'm bringing games and what not." Nathaniel just stared at Castiel. "What!? I have games you can play at the beach."

I shook my head and stood up. "Well, that only leaves me with one thing to bring." I looked around and everyone just stared at me. "I'm bringing music and you can not tell me what to bring. I listen to all types of music except country."

Everyone exploded and kept complaining that I tricked them. Castiel just laughed. I told them that it wasn't my fault they forgot all about music and they planned on bringing other things so I was the one who was bringing music by default. We kept going back and forth on this subject for a while, even when the phone ranged. "Castiel, can you answer that for me?"

[Castiel POV]

I got up from laughing and went to answer Irenes' phone. I would have liked it better is she would have let it ring so I could laugh some more at her and the others about the music thing, but I knew she would be worried if it was and important call and she missed it.

When I answered the phone, I realized that I didn't know Irenes' last name. "Hello! Sorry that the owner of this place is not in right now and the younger resident is in the living room entertaining her friends."

An old man spoke up on the other end of the line. "Oh. That's okay. This is news that I can tell to anyone as long as it gets to the young one. I have news pertaining to Irene Casanovas' mother."

That's a big name for a little girl. "Yes. Okay. What about Irene's mother?"

"Earlier today, Mrs. Casanova was in a fatal car accident with some teens who were arguing. The teen who was driving apparently turned her attention from the road during the argument which caused her to run a red light and hit Mrs. Casanova on the driver side. The teens did the right thing and stayed at the scene as they called the police and ambulance. The police got a full statement from every one in the surrounding area as well as from the teens and decided not to charge them since they were not drinking while Mrs. Casanova was rushed to the hospital. Mrs. Casanova hit her head, hardly, on the steering wheel, she was almost suffocated with the air bag, and her driver side window broke. Some of the glass landed in her neck and her chest. She didn't make it. I'm so sorry for Ms. Casanova and her lost."

The dude hung up the phone and I put down the receiver, stunned. I didn't how I would tell Irene any of this. I headed back to the living room and looked at Irene. She smiled at me then frowned. "Castiel, what's wrong?"

I move forward and knelt in front of her. She stood up and looked at me, worry starting to creep across her face. I took a deep breath. "Irene, I'm very sorry, but...your mother passed away in an accident today caused by that girl Kastie. I'm so very sorry."

Irene stared at me. I stood up just as she started swaying towards me.