Glad you liked the last chapter and I'm sorry it took so long but I got some studying to do for a few weeks cause I have this huge exam in about three weeks. I guess you can call it the Swedish version of the SAT's and I need to do great if I want to get in to the program I want, wish me luck! Here's chapter 14.

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Nora was on the phone when Max got home later that day, she seemed tense and upset from the call as he got closer to her.

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Nora: "I get it, we'll make sure it won't happen again. Thank you for letting me know. Bye." She said before she hung up the phone and got even more upset than she was earlier.

Max: "What's wrong honey? Something about the wedding?"

Nora: "No, I could have handled that.."

Max: "What's wrong? You're making me worried here." He said as he put his arms around her waist.

Nora: "It was the school principal letting me know that the kids skipped half of their school day today. Both of them."

Max: "They did what? I don't get it, things seemed to be going fine? Or am I missing something?"

Nora: "I don't know, Loren really seemed to be coming around about the whole moving and us getting married thing."

Max: "Maybe there's more to the story, let's wait for the kids to come home and talk to them before we start to jump to conclusions."

Nora: "There's more.." She started of before she took a breathe and continued. "If they don't get their grades up and stop this skipping school thing they might not graduate this semester."

Max: "What? God, these kids. How did it come to this? I mean while they were grounded they were doing great when it came to homework and school assignments."

Nora: "I know.. I just think that there's more going on than we know about. We're just gonna have to talk to them seriously about this and find out what's going on with them."

Max: "You made it sound like they were a thing or something Nora. That's just wrong."

Nora: "I don't know Max, they are teenagers. You never really know and they went from hating eachother to actually enjoying the other ones company. There has to be something more to that."

Max: "I just don't think that that's it, maybe they just understand eachother. They are a lot alike.."

Nora: "I guess, just keep an eye out okay. I have this feeling."

Max: "I know not to mess with that feeling." He said as he started to kiss her neck.

Loren and Mel and went to Melissa's place after the beach to have some real girl talk.

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Mel: "So we were interrupted before.." She started out.

Loren: "What?" She thought she had escaped that one so good.

Mel: "You know what Lo! Have you slept with Eddie yet or not?"

Loren: "You know I would have told you if I had Mel."

Mel: "I always thought that but since you have hidden your whole relationship from me for the past weeks I'm starting to wonder."

Loren: "Well I haven't and I'm not going to for the moment being."

Mel: "Why? I though you really, really liked him Lo?"

Loren: "I do, it's just that.." She started to feel her eyes tear up. She felt so bad about not telling her the whole story about Tyler and let alone her father. She had never thought she was gonna have to do this.

Mel: "What is it Lo? You know that you can tell me anything." She said as she put an arm around her to show her some support.

Loren: "I know, this is just really hard for me Mel."

Mel: "What Lo? Did Eddie do something?"

Loren: "No, Eddie's been amazing about this whole thing. I'm still amazed that he has stuck around so far."

Mel: "Through what thing Lo?" Loren took a deep breathe before she answered Melissa's question.

Loren: "I never really told you the whole story about my dad.."

Mel: "What else except his horrible drinking habits and the fact that he used to abuse you and your mom has that creep done?"

Loren: "He.. He used to ra.." She couldn't finish her sentence before she broke down.

Mel: "Lo, you're starting to freak me out!" She was on the edge of tears at that moment.

Loren: "He raped me." She let out quietly through her sobbing.

Mel: " He did what?" She was getting so upset about Trent's actions, how could someone do that to their own daughter. Her face filled up with anger and it was like the tears never happened. "I'm gonna kill him!" She went from sad to angry in seconds.

Loren: "Don't.. cause there's more.."

Mel: "Lo, I don't know if I could take more.." She said and went back to crying.

Loren: "At the party, you remembered I told you about an incident with Tyler."

Mel: "Oh, no he didn't!"

Loren: "He didn't get that far until Eddie came in. Not for lack of trying.." She said the last part quieter.

Mel: "I'm gonna kill him next time I see him.. too! I swear to god!"

Loren: "Mel! Don't he's not worth our time or effort."

Mel: "But Lo, he can't get away with this."

Loren: "I know but not like that. I just can't deal with it right now."

Mel: "Fine, but let me know when you are up for some ass kicking and I'll be right by your side."

Loren: "I promise, you and Eddie can kick his ass as much as you want then." She said trying to leave the subject of Trent and Tyler.

Mel: "Good, so speaking of Eddie.. He's really cool with all of this?"

Loren: "He's been amazing about it from the beginning. I mean he always knew that there was something but not that drastic. Still, I'm impressed with how he's handled it all."

Mel: "I know, I'm impressed too.." She felt the tears roll down her face once again.

Loren: " Are you okay Mel? it's been a long time since you've been this emotional."

Mel: "I'm fine, I think it's all just hitting me. And you told Eddie before you told me, I don't know if I'm suppose to be happy or upset about that."

Loren: "I know I should have told you, I just couldn't before. And to be honest, I don't think that I would have told you if I hadn't opened up to Eddie. I don't know but he just brings the confidence out of me."

Mel: "You've always been confident Lo and don't think otherwise. I'm happy you found someone that you could put your trust in."

Loren: "Me too." She said and pulled her best friend in for a tight hug. "Speaking of trust and guys.. I never got to ask you about Ian."

Mel: "What about Ian?" She asked, trying to act all innocent and unknowing.

Loren: "How was it? I know you guys slept together at the party and I'm pretty sure that it's been happening more than once. Am I right?" She was happy for the change of subject.. or at least a part of it.

Mel: "Fine, it's been amazing. I think that waiting a while was a part of why it's so good. Not to mention that he got some killer moves. I mean, he does this thing where he..."

Loren: "I didn't ask for details Mel! Please."

Mel: "Your fault that you asked about it in the first place."

Loren: "I just wanted to be in the loop of your relationship not being a part of it!"

Mel: "Fine.. be boring."

Loren: "Hey! I'm not boring, but I do have to leave to record some songs."

Mel: "Okay, are you gonna be okay?"

Loren: "Of course! I have Eddie with me to the studio and if there is anything I'll call you."

Mel: "You better!" Loren just giggled a little before she responded.

Loren: "Bye Mel." She said as gave her friend a hug before she went out the door.

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Eddie was pulling up just as Loren was getting out of Melissa's house to take them to the studio. Today was the day that they were to record their final vocals for 'All that I am'. It only took them a few takes to get what they needed, everything was perfect. So Loren got to start putting down some tracks for her song 'Catch me'. Loren could feel Eddie's eyes on her the entire time and she could feel that smile on his face too on some weird level. She couldn't even see him through the window but she had the feeling that he some how was watching her and smiling at every word she sang. Their entire day had been kind of amazing, it had been their day together. No sneaking around, no looking over their shoulder to see if anyone is looking, non of that. Only them and their best friends for a day with nothing in the way.. or at least for now. Once they were about done in the studio Loren got a text from her mom telling them to get back home directly after they were done and she had a bad feeling about it.

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Eddie: "What's on your mind?" He asked once they were in the car on their way home.

Loren: "I just got a text from my mom telling us to go straight home.." Eddie looked over at her, still wondering why she was distant. "I think they know Eddie."

Eddie: "Know wha.." He started out before he understood what she was talking about. They knew about them. "ooh..." He ended up with.

Loren: "Yeah.." she had to ask, "Should we tell them?" There was silence for a minute before Eddie answered.

Eddie: "I don't know. It's not that I don't think this.. us could work" He took her hand in his and squeezed it for a second. "It's that if they found out right know their wedding might not happen. And I finally wrapped my head around the idea.."

Loren: "I know what you mean, I hated the idea of mom remarrying but I'm happy she found Max. He's kind of perfect for her, they're kind of perfect together." She offered him a smile.

Eddie: "Yeah.." He took a deep breathe. "So we're not telling? at least not now?"

Loren: "I think it's better not to, after the wedding we both will start promoting our albums and maybe do some touring so things will be different."

Eddie: "I guess so."

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They pulled up at their driveway and walked through the front door, only too be approached by two angry and upset parents. They were both thinking the same thought, they had been caught. Someone must have seen them together and told their parents. And we're talking together-together and not like we're going to the studio together to record a song. They were busted.

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Nora: "Something you guys wanna explain?" Eddie and Loren just looked at eachother before turning back to their parents. They were denying this to every extent there was, to give their parents the chance they both deserve.

Loren: "What?" She pulled off a pretty good, I-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about face and tone in her voice.

Max: "You guys really didn't think we would find out?" They exchanged another look, there was no more hiding things. Truth time.

Eddie: "We were gonna tell you, it's just that we didn't mean for it to happen and couldn't really stop once we started." He didn't want the response to be other than happy and kind words about it but he knew that it wasn't a possibility of that. Not one.

Nora: "I don't wanna hear any excuses. And Loren I thought we had talked about this, if you do this one more time there would be consequences."

Loren: "I know mom it's just that.. Wait, what are you talking about?"

Nora: "I told you a month ago that if you skipped any more classes it would be more than your grade that would suffer." Loren let out a sight of relief with Eddie joining in once they realized that it wasn't what they thought it was about.

Loren: "Right.. it's just that with everything that happened lately we all needed a few hours to ourselves and it wont happen again."

Eddie: "We promise."

Max: "That doesn't give you the right to skip class. You could have gone to the beach house for the weekend or something to get away not on a school day."

Loren: "We know... Sorry." She looked down at the ground, she couldn't help but feel partly happy that it was about skipping class and not about them.

Nora: "I get that it's been a hard time with the moving in, engagement and wedding planning but don't let it happen again. Okay?"

Eddie: "We were actually talking about the wedding today." He gave his father a warm smile.

Loren: "Right, we finally realized that you're kind of perfect for eachother.."

Eddie: "And we're happy for you. Both of you."

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Their parents just stood there in shock about what they had just heard. This was a total turn around from just a week ago. There wasn't gonna be any more of the negative words or tones about the wedding.

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Max: "That wasn't something that I expected."

Nora: "I don't think anyone expected that."

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Loren and Eddie just stood there and tried to hold back some small laughs at their reaction. They just stood there for a moment until Loren's phone got everyone attention. She got the phone out of her pocket and saw Mel's name on the screen. What could she want? I saw her just a few hours ago..

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Loren: "Hey Mel.. what's up?" there wasn't an answer, she just heard heavy breathing on the other end. She walk to the other room the get some space from the others. "Mel, you there?"

Mel: "Yeah, I'm here." She said quietly and she could heard the closed up throat from crying on her voice.

Loren: "Mel you're freaking me out what's going on?" She said as she closed the door to the music room behind her.

Mel: "I need you to get here" She sobbed. "Now Lo."

Loren: "Just tell me what's going on and I'll be on my way."

Mel: "I'm not sure but I think..."

Sorry for the short chapter but the cliffhanger is so much fun! The next chapter is a serious one but after that things start to heat up. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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Love S