Authors note- I do not own the clique.

Julia

Julia was dressed in her floral print dress and her golden blonde hair was curled to perfection. She wanted to make a good first impression. Her mother always told her that first impressions are everything so make a good one.

Nervousness and excitement filled her stomach. Part of her wished that she could call her mom and ask her what she should do. What if these people don't like her? Her mother would know how to handle this situation. She hated admitting it but she missed her mother.

Derrick's phone started buzzing on the dashboard of his car. While he was driving, he picked up his phone and flipped it open.

"Hello," He said and made a left turn down the road.

Julia wanted to tell him to stop talking on the phone while he was driving, but she bit her tongue. It could be an important call.

"I know, I'm sorry." He sounded mad. "I have been a little busy."

Julia could hear a woman yelling at him through the phone. She looked down at the plate of cookies on her lap and pretended not to listen.

"I can make it up to you." Derrick pulls into a driveway.

There are a couple other cars here, which makes Julia even more nervous. She's unsure whether she should get out of the car and decides against it. The woman on the phone is still yelling.

"Dinner tomorrow at six," Derrick sighs. "See you tomorrow, bye."

He hangs up the phone and unbuckles his seat belt. Julia does the same and gets out of the car.

The house is nice and cute. It has a porch swing and there are purple flowers planted in front of the house. Compared to her apartment in Boston, this house was huge. Bigger than Derricks house and his was pretty big for someone who lives alone. It seems like a dreamland with mansion sized houses and expensive cars. Julia was not used to this. This dreamland must be where her mother grew up.

She always wanted to ask Derrick where her mother lived when she was young. Julia guessed she lived in one of these mansions, but her mother never talked about her past. How could her mom leave this kind of lifestyle?

Derrick is already walking up towards the door. "Come on, Julia."

How can he not be terrified? Julia feels like she is going to throw up in those purple flowers. She takes a deep breath and follows him to the door.

Derrick opens the door and a woman comes running to greet him. She is older, probably in her fifties and Julia assumes this must be his mother. Julia hides behind Derrick, scared of what she is going to say. She seems like a lovely woman, but Julia doesn't trust it.

"Your Grandma and sister are already here." She gives Derrick a hug, not noticing Julia. "Dylan and Chris are coming, later. Where is your dessert?"

Derrick moves aside to reveal Julia standing there with a plate of cookies in her hand. Julia tries to give a small smile while Derrick introduces her just like he promised he would. "This is my daughter, Julia."

His mother gasps and covers her mouth with her hand. "Derrick, don't joke with me."

"I'm not, Ma." Derrick takes a deep breath and Julia knows this must be hard for him to explain to his family. "She's my daughter."

Julia decides to introduce herself since Derrick isn't doing the best job. "I'm Julia Block."

Right after Julia says her name, Derricks mother starts to cry. She reaches over and touches one of Julia's curls. "I knew it. You have your mother's eyes."

XoXoXo

After Julia's grandmother stopped crying, they went to the back yard and explained to the family the story of Julia Block.

Surprisingly, Derrick did most of the talking. It was a big change from him at the supermarket with Dylan and Chris. He told his family about how Julia found him and came knocking on his door. That he called Massie and told her that Julia could stay with him as long as she wanted too. His family didn't ask many questions, they listened in shock as Derrick explained. It seemed like her mother had a close relationship with Derrick's family. They seemed to love her.

Dylan and Chris came just in time to listen to the story and they were happy to find out that Julia was not Derrick's very young girlfriend. Also they were one of the few who now knew that mysterious story of why the famous Massie Block fled the city. It seemed that her mother was popular at her school, so why did she leave?

It must have been all because of her.

There was no other explanation. Her mother fled the city because she wanted no one to know about her. Knowing this, made Julia a little sad. Why didn't her mother want her to meet all these wonderful people?

Derrick finished the story and everyone was quiet. They all stared at her in shock that something like this could happen.

Julia's great-grandmother broke the silence. "I'm happy I have the chance to meet my beautiful great-granddaughter."

Julia smiled and hugged her. "I'm happy too."

"Now let's eat, Derrick be useful and start up the grill."

Derrick

Julia seemed to fit in with everyone. Derrick wondered to himself why he was afraid to tell anyone in the first place. Most everyone was comfortable with Julia being there and wanted to get to know her.

The only person that seemed upset was his sister, Sammy. She didn't say anything to Julia and barely spoke to anyone else. It seemed like she was about to cry at any second.

Acting on his big brother duties, Derrick pulled her aside to talk to her in private.

"What's wrong, Sammy?" Derrick asked. "Is it about that blind date you went on?"

"No, that was great." Sammy talked quiet.

"Then what is it?"

"You really have to ask," Sammy started to cry now. "Massie was like my big sister and I needed her. She left us and now we find out that she kept the biggest secret of all from us. How could she do this?"

"I don't know." Derrick didn't have any answers to give her.

"Why did she leave without telling us?" Sammy cried harder.

"I don't know."

"That's my niece out there and she is already a young adult. We missed her growing up, heck we missed her entire childhood."

"I know," Derrick started to get mad.

Didn't Sammy know that he already knew all of this? After all, Julia was his daughter and he missed her childhood. He just didn't like to think about it. He wanted to appreciate the time that he had with her now and then figure out the rest later.

"Massie owes us some answers and so does Julia."

"Look, don't blame Julia for any of this. She had no idea and we should be happy that she had enough courage to come and find us. None of this is her fault." Derrick started to walk out. He wasn't in the mood for this.

"Wait, I'm sorry." Sammy sniffled. "I know it's not her fault. I'm just upset."

"I understand," Derrick sighed. "Let's just try and have a good time."

They walked back outside and Sammy sat next to Julia to introduce herself. Instantly they began laughing at Grandma Rose trying to figure out how to use the new stereo. Thank god, Sammy doesn't stay upset for very long. She just needs someone to talk too and then usually she is okay again. Massie used to have calm her down all the time.

Thinking about Massie still made his heart ache. Sammy was right she owes everyone answers. Massie never did anything without a reason and Derrick spent many sleepless nights trying to figure the reasons.

XoXoXo

It was three in the morning when Derrick heard his cell phone ringing on his bedside table. Groaning, he reached his arm over to check the caller ID. Once he saw Massie was calling him, he immediately answered.

"Why are you calling me at three in the morning? What's wrong?" Derrick rubbed his eyes.

"I just-" Massie sniffled, "I'm worried."

It sounded like she had been crying, her voice was shaky and her breathing was off. A part of Derrick felt bad for her because he hated the sound of her crying, even today the sound broke his heart. He knew he shouldn't feel bad because Massie brought this on herself and he should be angry at her.

"Couldn't you wait until morning to talk?" Derrick pretended that the sound of her crying didn't break his heart to pieces. He wanted to stay angry with her.

"Sorry, Julia hasn't called me once and I just remembered calling you in the middle of the night when I was sad and I thought. . ."

Derrick remembered in high school Massie would call him when she couldn't sleep because she was home alone and she thought people were breaking into her house, or when she had a fight with Alicia or her mother. He never used to get mad when she called, but that was such a long time ago. How could Massie think that things were the same between them.

"What did you think? That I was going to comfort you and make you feel better." Derrick snapped.

"Your right, I don't know what I was thinking. I haven't been thinking right at all. I want things back to normal." Massie sobbed into the phone.

"Normal? When was normal? When you hid my daughter from me, or when you and I were together?" If Massie was going to call him at three in the morning then he wanted answers from her.

"I was just trying to protect her!"

Derrick started to lose his temper. What was Massie protecting her from? Derrick would have stuck by Massie's side and they could have raised their daughter together. She ruined that and she caused this giant mess.

"Did you think I would hurt her?"

"You don't understand." Massie whispered.

"Then make me understand, Massie. Please help me understand all of this because I sure as hell have no idea what you were thinking!"

"You won't understand because you have never had someone you love just walk out of your life and make you feel like they never cared about you at all!" Massie cried.

Even after spending so many years with Massie, Derrick had no idea who she was talking about. Although whoever it was, they broke her. Didn't Massie realize that she did the same thing to him?

"What did you think you did Massie?"

Massie was silent on the other end. He must have got to her by what he said. After a couple minutes of silence, Derrick heard the line go dead.

Author's note-

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