Wow, I finally finished this chapter. It's been about 4 months since I posted another chapter. I'm really sorry about the long wait. Just been doing homework and stuff, but I hope you like it! The ending is not what you would have expected.

I tap my fingers on the armrest excited to go home. I waited shifting uncomfortably around making me more anxious to be home. It seemed like hours before my dad finally got here. He pulled up in his burgundy jeep stepped out looking refreshed. Once I saw him I grabbed my ruined bag and ran out to him. I hugged him so tightly he could only pat me on the back. I let go and smiled to him feeling great that he looked so cheerful. I hopped into the front seat while my dad got into the car. He started the engine and we drove off. It was silent in the car for a while. " Sweet heart, the doctor called me about your mom. She is going to have surgery because of her knee. It turns out they wanted to x-ray her body because she took the most impact in the car accident. They said something I don't know how to pronounce, but in my wording her knee is messed up." told me in a calm steady voice. I thought I would be worried or scared, but I know my mom is tough and would get through this. All I said to him was ok. We finally got to my house which seemed like forever. I jumped out of the car before he could even stop and ran inside the house. I heard my brothers yelling at each other, so I carefully snuck in that direction. I found them by the TV playing games. I jumped on the Ryan, my oldest brother. They all stopped and looked in my direction. " Stevie!" all of them yelled in unison. They paused their game and hugged me. Michelle asked me " Hey, do you want to play?".
" Sure, are you losing?" I laugh.
" No..." he looks down and scratches behind his ear. I jump into his spot as he ruffles my hair then gets up rooting me on. I was really into the game until my dad yelled to me.
" Stevie, tomorrow you have to go to school!".
" Do I have to?" I questioned.
" Yes!".
I groaned not wanting to go back to school until I thought of something. " Hey dad! Can't you just tell the school I'm sick?"
" No." he said flatly as he walked in our direction. I slumped down feeling unhappy, but continued to whoop my brothers butts. I laughed at them dropping my remote after I won by a mere five thousand points. " I call for a rematch." My brother Michael calls and the others agreed. " Sorry, but the winner has to get some rest." I simply tell them slipping off toward my room. I climb up the stairs two by two and reach the top of the stairs quickly. I go to my room suddenly feeling exhausted. I lay down on my bed closing my eyes wanting to fall asleep, but to great full to be home. After a while I finally began to drift off into a sleep.

I was at the school waking up on the chilly grass . I frowned and then my phone starts ringing. I answer it and it's my mom talking to me. After she was done speaking I said bye then hung up. I sat there for a moment then got up and walked to the front of the building. My mom was already there and she runs to me and gives me a hug. We both head off to the car and get in. She starts driving and in the distance I could see lights coming closer and closer until they were engulfing us into darkness.

I opened my eyes and started panting. I feel the sweat rolling down my forehead slowly. I bite the inside of my cheek not wanting to go back to bed afraid to have the same dream again. I look at my clock that reads 2:45 a.m., so I just sit up in bed not knowing what to do. I hear clinking on the outside of my widow repeatedly making it more annoying than it was. I get up rolling my eyes then opening the window, but as soon as I opened the window a rock the size of a baby's fist hit the middle of my forhead. " Ow." I sharply whispered rubbing the spot of an unformed bruise.
" Sorry." the figure whispered back.
" Zander, is that you?" I asked squinting down. He coughed and says no in a deeper tone which indeed made me laugh. " What are you doing here?" I ask him.
" I was going to see you. Kacey told me that you were coming home."

" How did Kacey know?"

" Well, your dad told his friend John that you were coming home today when he was at work, then John told his son, Marcus, that you were going to be home and that you should have a welcome home party, then Marcus went to a pizzeria and told his friends, Lily and Brian, that his dad wanted him to have a welcome home party for you, but Lily didn't want to since she doesn't like you very much after that one incident that shall not be named, and Nelson and Kevin were also at the pizzeria and they were throwing pepperoni slices at each other until Nelson heard them say your name so he started listening to their conversation and which then Kevin threw a slice of pizza at his face which cause Nelson to go crazy and grabbed the whole pizza and shoved it in Kevin's face and smothered him in the cheesy grease. Nelson got up and was about to leave until Kevin threw ice cold water down his back. Nelson ran and grabbed a random persons pizza then flung the pizza as hard as he could at kevin, but he ducked down and missed and hit some old lady in the face then that created a huge food fight. They got kicked out, so they didn't know what else to do but to go to Kacey and tell her about you coming home. Then she then told me about it, so that's how she knew."

" Wow, so who won the food fight?

" That old lady. They said she shoved corn cobs in their mouths and actually kicked them out. She is a mighty strong lady if I do say so myself." he chuckles. I laugh along with him until I'm out of breath.
" Hey, can I come in?" he asks me.

" Sure, only of you climb up here." I say to him giving him a grin. I knew he could climb up since I have large tree sitting a foot away from my window. Instead he just had to say, " Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your long hair." I roll my eyes at him and say, " Sorry, I just got it cut." he smiles at me and then starts climbing the tree. I go away from the window and sit on my bed and wait for him to climb up.

Zander's POV

I grab onto a branch trying to reach Stevie's room. I pull myself up onto another branch bouncing on a medium thick branch to make sure it's sturdy and jump up into higher level, but I scratch my cheek in the progress. I finally reach Stevie's window and then I take a daring leap and land onto the ledge jumping off panting from so much work. " There's my prince charming." Stevie joked. I gave her a sarcastic laugh and then she asked me " Why did you want to come in?".
" Well it's pretty cold out there plus I wanted to see you." I responded.
" Oh that makes sense. No one wants my prince to get a little whittle cold." she says talking in a baby voice. I roll my eyes at her then jump on the bed laying flat on it. She turns on the lights in her room and grabs the remote control to her tv and goes back to her spot on the bed. I take my jacket off and throw it on the ground I start crawling up to lean on the backboard like Stevie was doing with huge comfortable pillows supporting her back and I put my arm around her and pulled her closer to me. She leans in and puts her head in the crook of my neck and asks " What do you want to watch?".
" I don't know, but I'm feeling for a movie."
" Ok." she starts flipping through the channels and lands on Harry Potter.
" How about this?" she turns her head toward me with her eyes glistening.
" I'd rather watch Dora the Explorer." taking the remote control and switching to SpongeBob Square Pants. She smirks and reaches for the remote, but I remove it from her reach. She scoffs then hits my chest and grabs it right out of my hands. I put my hand in the spot that she punched me " Ouch.". She doesn't respond, but changes it once more to a movie called Music and Lyrics.
" No more changing the channel." she orders me while tossing the remote close to the window. She gets off the bed and under the covers prepared to watch a 2 hour long movie with me.
" Oh ya, it's freezing in here. Better get in the covers with you." I smile. I get in the covers bumping her hip on purpose. She smiles back then gives me a little shove. I'm tempted to put my arm around her again, but she doesn't seem in the mood. Her eyes were fixed on the tv watching everything that came together.
" So..." I fiddle with my thumbs.
She hushes me keeping her gaze on her tv. I look around the room not feeling too interested in the movie. I get up yawning and go down stairs to search for some food. I sneak down the stairs since Stevie hates the fact that her parents think we're dating whenever I come over. I saw a soft light when I turned the corner and sitting around their table. I walk into the room with two of them glaring at me. I grab a soda, pop open the lid, and take a swig before I grab microwave popcorn. I toss in Stevie's favorite kind then take doughnuts from the top shelf of the pantry. I grab a few more items and wait for the popcorn to finish. I reach in taking the popcorn and ran up the stairs while it burned my hand. I threw the bag of popcorn at Stevie then her eyes got really big as she felt the heat of it then threw it back at me and I dropped the belongings on the bed. I catch the smoking bag of popcorn and give her a sheepish smile. She rolled her eyes which seemed to be her signature move. I blew on the bag a few more times than hoped onto the bed making Stevie bounce from my weight. I offer her a doughnut and she grabs it from my hand and then says thanks.

2 hours later

I open one eye finding myself with Stevie. My hand was still in a chips bag. I roll out of the bed leaving Stevie laying there. I take my jacket and climb out of the window.

Stevie's POV

The sun light stood at my window awaiting to come in. I smile and turn over expecting Zander to still be there. I sigh because this is how he always leaves; when I'm still sleeping. Oh my gosh, it's 7:55; 10 more minutes than I'm late for school. I snatch a ripped shirt and try to pry my legs through the skinny jeans. I fall over and screech a little. I jump back up and put a beanie on my head for good luck. I grab my bag and run out the door.

Kacey's POV

I pace back and forth with my heels strutting against the sidewalk waiting for Stevie to come. I look and in the distance I see a figure bobbing up and down. I squint to see if I could get a better look. I sit down on a bench to see who that could be. I wait for a few minutes then finally see Stevie breathing heavily. I don't jump up to greet her to show I knew she was going to come.
" Hey, you going to get up?" Stevie exhales.
" Why don't you sit down?"

" No thanks," she points to a sign by the bench, " wet paint." she reads aloud. My eyes expand and I'm just disgusted.
" Not again." I sigh. Stevie start laughing at me. She clutching her side right now so I give her a little push then grab her hand and always her to the band room.
" You're going to make me late." she wines.
" Oh, get over it; they'll cut you some slack since you got into a car crash."
" What about you?"
" I'm always late, or what I call it going on my own time."
She rolls her eyes. " Now help me get into something." I say.
She checks my back and says my skirt is fine, but my top is definitely not. She takes out a baggy shirt with some lettering on the front and gives it to me. I give her an unflattering smile than turn away to put it on. This time she grabs me and drags me out of the room.

( lunch )

I walk into the lunch room with Nelson digging into his cheese sandwich while Kevin stirs his whatever it might be stew. I sit down putting my purse on the table fixing the baggy shirt. " So you guys, aren't you happy that Stevie is back?"
" Ya." They both said in unison as Stevie walked in. He smiled broadly at Kevin and Nelson. She hugged them both tightly. She sat down and then frowned, " Where's Zander?". Just as she spoke that we all saw Zander hand in hand with the one monster we all hate, Molly.

So weird right? You guys did not expect that, right? ;)