Half an hour or so after, Stef was lightly shook by Lena, still holding Ivy, Stef looked up and smiled to her wife
"Hi, love" she whispered not wanting to wake Ivy who still had her arms wrapped around Stef's waist "Hey honey, how long have you been here?"

"Erm I don't know, why what time is it?"

"Nearly five I'm just about to put tea on"

"Okay" she whispered back, Stef looked down to Ivy and smiled as did Lena. She kissed Ivy on the forehead and rubbed Ivy's arm to try and wake her up gently, Ivy slowly opened her eyes and looked up to Stef "Wakey wakey baby, tea is ready soon" she softly mumbled. Ivy shuffled up and stretched with yawn, she rubbed her eyes and took a deep breath sitting up on her bed. Stef stood up and walked around the bed and stood next to Lena

"You coming?" Lena asked her niece and she slid her hands in Stef's "Yeah just, just give me a minute" she mumbled with a small smile. They both nodded and turned away, when they got out of the garage, Lena looked to Stef. Asking with just her eyes what is wrong. Stef noticed and simple stated
"I'll tell you in a moment"

"Milo? For god sakes Milo!" Nate opened his apartment door and saw his roommate spread out on the couch fast asleep, snoring away. Nate took his bag off his shoulders and launched it to his head "Get up you lazy git"
Milo groaned and sat up rubbing his head
"No need to be so bloody violent, Nate"

Milo. Roommate and Bestfriend of Nate. Grew up with Nate and Ivy since being 10 from moving to San Diego with his family. Originally he used to live in England, as everyone could tell from his Chelsea accent. He was smaller than Nate in height but not by that much. He had light blonde surfer style hair with piercing green eyes, he had no problem with women. No such problem he has various ones in majority of the nights. Nate blames the accent, Milo blames his charms.

Nate crashed next to him on the couch and sighed deeply. Milo didn't take notice and smacked Nate on the knee "You saw Ivy today right?"
Milo stood up and put his plan white t-shirt on, Nate nodded "Yeah"
"Ah and how is our lovely Ivy, still hot?"

"Still beautiful..." whilst his tone was sincere, his face read sadness and guilt. Milo bit his lip and sat back down on the couch and faced Nate.

"What happened? What did you do?"

"It wasn't me exactly, it was Lauren" Milo groaned and knocked his head back not believing what he just caught on
"Nate Nate Nate I told you to end it with that bimbo, it proves you should have ages ago because look who has ended back on your doorstep and you can't do anything about it because Ivy would never be a mistress and you don't have it in you to cheat"

"I know, God has many ways of screwing with my head"

"This isn't God, mate, it's Ivy...she has always been in your head even after she left" Milo pushed Nate's head in a joking way as he stood up and went into the kitchen.

Ivy stayed sat on her bed as soon as Stef and Lena had left, she put her knees back up to her chest and looked down to the bed. Ivy couldn't help but think about the worst day of her life. Well one piece of it, that had to do with her separation from Nate

August 20th 2009

"Let go of me! AUNT STEF PLEASE, AUNT LENA"

"Quiet Ivy!"

"NO!" Ivy ripped her arm away from Kath grabbing her "You can't pick me up after all these years and then take me away, you're not my mother, you've never been my mother from the day I was born they have been! Stef has been-"

"Stef is your aunt not your mother, she's my sister who has always had a reason to judge me you are coming with me, I have all the rights and they have none" Ivy shook her head crying, Kath dragged her even more and told her that they were leaving in the morning and for now they were staying in a hotel. She took Ivy's phone off her. She had so many text come in from Nate that it was a surprise that her phone didn't explode.

Where are you? I thought we were having a fire on the beach with your family? Let me know how you are, I love you x

That was just one of many texts that he was sending from not understanding why she wasn't responding.

"I need to talk to him"

"Who is he?"

"My boyfriend okay now let me speak to him"

"No, Ivy, we're starting a new life together"

"I love him and I'm not going anywhere before speaking to him" Ivy stood up crossing her arms. But still Kath refused. The whole night, Ivy spent her time in bed looking at two pictures. One was of her and her family, Stef, Lena, Jesus, Mariana and Brandon all sat together on the day out they had on the beach, and the other was of her and Nate taking a picture of themselves together when goofing off outside at school. They were the only pictures she kept in her jacket.

Earlier up in the morning the next day, Ivy was forced out of the hotel by Kath's boyfriend as they waited for a cab to the airport.

"Ivy?" Ivy turned back around to see Milo walking up to them with his hands held up not understanding what was going on

"Milo..." she mumbled as she got up and hugged him tightly "Ivy what's going on?"

"This is my 'mom' she's taking me away"

"Away? She can't-"

"She can she has all the rights on record" Ivy cried, a car pulled up "They're taking me to San Francisco" Milo's eyes widened, and she was called and demanded to hurry up and get in, Ivy turned around for a moment and glanced to Kath and her boyfriend and then pulled out a piece of paper "Give this to Nate"

"You haven't spoken to him?"

"No she took my phone just please, give it to him and tell him I love him" Ivy's voice ended the sentence in a whisper from her crying, she slid the paper into Milo's hand and held onto it for a moment "And tell my Aunt Lena when you see her in school, that I love them all so much"

"I will...g-goodbye Ivy, you've been the greatest friend apart from Nate that I could ever have and I'm going to miss you so much" Ivy nodded and hugged him tightly again "I'll miss you too" she let go of him at the beep of the car "Goodbye Milo" Ivy let go of Milo's hand and got into the car. Tears streaming down her face, she lent her head against the window and closed her eyes and yet tears still ran down her cheeks.

Nate crossed his arms and remained sat on the couch, thinking.

Nate turned up in school that day and looked for Ivy straight away, but couldn't find her. For the obvious reasons that he wasn't aware of yet. Nate asked all of Ivy's friends if they knew where she was, he even asked people who weren't Ivy's friends. She was very popular.
"So no-one has seen Ivy?" They all shook their heads and answered no as they all walked in English class. Shortly after, Milo walked in with a sad look on his face, Nate turned around and held his hand out to him "You're her bestfriend, have you seen Ives?"

"Erm, Nate look" Milo stuttered out as he gripped tightly onto his backpack strap. He gulped heavily, Nate pushed Milo to spit whatever he needed to say out. By now everyone was listening.
"She's gone, man"

Nate laughed confused "Gone what do you mean gone?"

"Look I saw her this morning...her mom came and took her out of her home, she took her phone off her so she couldn't contact anyone, she said they're taking her to San Francisco"

"SAN Francisco? Milo if this is some kind of sick joke I swear-"

"Would I joke about this?! She's my friend, look she asked me to give you this and that she loves you" Nate slowly took the piece of folded paper out of Milo's hand and stared at it. He didn't open it. His thumb pressed down hard onto it, making it crumble slightly. "They were staying at Midwest hotel"
But he still refused to believe, he looked up from the paper and still shook his head "No, no she's not"

He mumbled, he began to run, he knocked through Mr Kay, the old English teacher before Timothy.
"Nathan Troit get back here!" But he ignored. He carried on running. Nate ran out of school and went straight to the Midwest Hotel which wasn't that far of a run at all. No-one was in sight. But still in disbelief, so he ran down the streets to Stef and Lena's house. He ran and stood infront of the house and looked through the window. He saw Stef pacing up and down on the phone, yelling it was mumbled but she looked sad and angry he got closer and heard her scream over the phone "Just give me her back!". She hung up and threw the phone on the couch and broke down crying. Nate still shook his head, he was believing now but he didn't want to believe, now Nate began to cry. He collapsed on the curb and pulled the letter out of his jacket, with tears dropping on the paper as he unfolded, he began to read.

Nate,
By the time you're reading this you will have learnt or you are learning right now that I'm gone. That I've been taken away from my family, friends and you. I want to believe that I will come back, but the truth is I don't see that happening, at least not now. Kath has took my phone off me for the mean time so I won't phone anyone to try and get them to sneak me out or something...yes she is that pathetic. I don't want you to cry, I don't want you to go off track, please because I care about you too much for that to happen, you made me laugh all the time, you were the person I could always run too when I couldn't talk to my family, I know we planned on this life together, I know we said we were going to be together forever as cheesy and as stupid as that sounds as we are 15, well at least I still am for a two months, but I know we were and maybe that can still happen. But for now it's goodbye. Please understand and know that I love you and I always will, and I'm sorry this has happened. Goodbye Nate. Happy Birthday.
Your Ivy X

"Poor Ivy" Lena sighed as Stef has just finished telling her what had happened between her and Nate as they were both setting up dinner.

"I know, I thought Nate had more brains than that"

"Honey, Ivy is probably the love of his life, he is very confused as I would be if it was you" Stef smirked and then looked back down at the plates as she placed them all down "Is it possible for all that to happen at fifteen"

"You know it can and it does, it has with Ivy"

"I just don't want her to get hurt, which is why him having this girlfriend may get her hurt"

"I remember the day that Ivy had officially left and it was the day that Nate had found out and tried to run after and find her, and when he finally returned back to school..."

"Nathan Troit! When I tell you to stop you STOP"

"Bite me old man!" Nate growled back to Mr Kay as he opened his locker, you could tell that Nate had been crying from the redness around his eyes, but you could also tell he is taking no crap. Not today.
"What did you just say?!"

"You heard me!" he growled again then slamming his locker shut hard again. Milo came down the corridor and asked Nate to calm down
"Calm down? Ivy is gone you expect ME to calm down, NO screw you" he pointed to Mr Kay. Lena came out of her office from hearing the shouting, she had also been crying. She sniffed up and saw Nate standing with Milo trying to hold him back.

"Nate, come on" Lena whispered holding her hand out to him. Nate was breathing heavily through his nose and tried his best to calm down. He walked over to Lena and she wrapped her arm around him and led him to her office.

Nate sat in one of her office chairs and looked down to the letter. His hands were shaking. Lena stared at him, leaning against her desk.
"I take it you've heard"
Nate said nothing and just nodded "Nate, honey...I know this is hard, believe me it is for us too but there's nothing we can do"

"Call the cops" he looked up with tears in his eyes

"We can't, Stef is a cop you don't think we haven't thought about it? There is nothing that we can do, Kath has all the parental rights it's like a antelope fighting a lion"

"It's total bullshit...sorry for the language but it is"

"I agree, it is but we have no choice but to let her go honey"
Nate sighed and covered his face "If this was a mutual breakup then I guess I would feel different I guess but this wasn't a breakup, we'd never breakup, her bitch of a mother made us"

Lena sat down next to Nate and rubbed his back, she gently took the letter out of his hand and read through it. It even made her cry. Nate looked at Lena and put on a small smile, he couldn't help it he didn't know what else to do, still thinking about her made him still smile, sighed and asked Lena not looking at her
"What are we gonna do?"

Lena sighed and shrugged "We carry on with our lives, until she may come back"

Lena shook her head from her little flashback gaze

"I know what he's like Stef, I spent five years with him in that school, I gave him the advice and kick up the ass he needed and employed him, you know he's a good kid turned to a good man"

"I'm sure, honey...but I just want her to be careful, Nate will really make an effect on her"

"What kind of effect?" Jesus butted in coming downstairs

"Were you eavesdropping?" Stef whined widening her eyes, Jesus shrugged and nodded taking a seat on one of the table stools "So?"

Stef scratched her forehead and licked her lip "Ivy met up with Nate today...did you have any idea he had a girlfriend?"
Jesus scratched the back of his head and cleared he throat "Kind of"

"Jesus!"

"Look I didn't know it was serious, I didn't even know she was his girlfriend?! They were just seeing each other except that what she told me"

"Who told you?" Lena asked confusedly as she chopped up some carrots, Jesus bit his lip and mumbled out "The girl he is dating is Hayley's cousin"
Stef laughed and laid her head in her hands, leaning on the counter shaking her head, under her breath she said "Another Hayley clone"

"Stef" Lena warned giving her a nudge, but Jesus heard. Jesus heard loud and clear. "Are we going to have this argument AGAIN"

"No because we're just going to leave it-" But Lena was ignored as Stef took a shot back to her son
"Jesus we both know why we have this discussion...because the relationship you two share is not right, it's unhealthy"

Lena closed her eyes and sighed. Jesus bit his lip and shook his head. Jesus hopped off the stool and walked off "Jesus get back in here!" Stef yelled just as Ivy came into the kitchen through the back, she slowly stopped and pointed to Jesus storming upstairs

"What was that about?"

Stef glanced to Lena. She extended her arms and mumbled "Honey come here"

"Uh oh honey and an embrace" Ivy went into Stef's embrace. Stef sighed and rubbed Ivy's back for motherly comfort "You know Hayley"

"Yeah that peach"

"Yes that peach" Stef chuckled and then added with no humor in her tone "Well she has a cousin, and that cousin is Lauren...the girl who's dating Nate" Ivy rolled her eyes and took a deep breath, she pulled out of Stef's embrace "Great...a clone" Stef glanced at Lena and smirked, it was baffling to them both. Stef and Ivy are literally clones.

Stef had told Ivy about the little bust up to do with Hayley and she decided to go see him. They said they would hold of dinner until they spoke.

*KNOCK KNOCK*

"Jesus?"

"Yeah, come in" he coughed clearing his throat. Ivy walked in to see Jesus sat on his bed with his feet flat on the floor and his hands clutched together in between his legs. Ivy slid onto his bed and nudged him with her shoulder "So, she told me"

"Did she tell you that she is being an ass-"

"Whoa, monkey, don't swear about your mom or at least do it in Spanish when no-one can understand"

Jesus sighed and smirked, he repeated his sentence "Did she tell you she is being an agujero de culo (ass hole)"

"And why is she being an agujero de culo? ¿Qué fue lo que dijo que era tan malo (What did she say that was so bad?)"

"She just has a bad attitude to Hayley, she is always on my back on how Hayley isn't right for me"
Ivy took Jesus hand.
"You've heard of the phrase, Mother Knows Best, right?"

"Come on Ivy-"

"No you come on Jesus, I've met this girl, she thought we were sleeping together for me just wearing your JUMPER"

"Yeah but that was just...she is like that"

"Exactly, which is why your mom isn't a fan of her and quite frankly she didn't make the best impression of me"

"That's just because you and mom think alike"

"Maybe, or maybe it is because I know something wrong when I see it...or hear it...what about that girl you are on the team with, I saw sparks there"

"Emma? No she's a friend, I mean we dated but-"

"Who ended it?"

"Her, then she wanted to get back up I was already seeing Hayley I suppose, I mean I thought Hayley was just a hook up but she didn't"

"So you didn't even want a relationship" Jesus shrugged. He didn't, he knew he didn't. It was all rushed so much with Hayley that he never got the chance to think about it logically.
"I don't know, but trust me no matter what you think of Hayley and how clingy she is...Lauren is worse" Ivy let go of his hand and returned it to her own lap and looked at the wall straight ahead of her "Yeah, just my luck "

"Be careful with Nate, Ivy, I love you too much to get hurt"

"Thank you baby, I love you too, but don't worry about Nate I'm always careful with him, always have been ever since I was six"

Jesus's eyes widened a little bit, he wasn't aware that knew each other for that long. That apart from relationship history they had a lot of friendship history behind them. Jesus got up and took his shirt off to change into a vest as he felt hot, as he did. Ivy looked up to say something to him. And she then saw him. Her eyes widened, she lifted her hand up and lightly pointed to him and asked in a rather forceful tone

"What the hell is THAT?"

Please leave thoughts/reviews on the flashbacks of the relationships and what you think Ivy has seen.