It had been a week and a half since I had been home. In that week and a half Dad had gotten out of jail and mom escaped rehab. Landon called every time before he would come over to hope to avoid Nathan. I didn't blame him after I saw the bruise that Nathan had left on his back. Moxie came over everyday with my homework so I didn't fall to far behind on my classes. Lucas was always there to make sure I had everything I needed. Anytime I needed water or something to eat he would be there to get it for me. I swear he would have gone to the bathroom for me if it were possible. I was sitting on the couch flipping through channels while Peyton, Brooke, and Moxie sat on the floor next to me planning my sixteen birthday which was in a couple of days.

"Karen said that she would set that Saturday aside for the party." I heard Peyton explain.

"I have decorations all ready." Brooke said scanning down her list.

"Don't worry about food. I have that under control." Karen said walking into the living room to hand me my glass of apple juice. The front door clicked open. Lucas walked in carrying a small brown bag.

"Hey five of my favorite girls." He said smiling looking at each one of us. Moxie smiled back her cute flirty smile that she used when she like a boy. Moxie had a crush on Lucas that was no secret. It thrilled her to know that he was still single. She found out early on that her and Tim were just not going to work out. Karen left the room to continue some paper work for the café and Tric in the kitchen.

"I got something for you." He said extending the bag to me. I grabbed it and opened it.

"Score! A chicken finger sub! You are officially my favorite brother!" I exclaimed pulling out the sub.
"I figured you like it." He said taking a seat next to me on the couch. The party planning continued. From the sounds of it, it was going to be awesome. I saw Landon's car pull up from the window. It took about fifteen seconds for him to reach the door. Landon let himself in. He froze when he was Lucas sitting next to me glaring at him. Nathan had told Lucas about what had happened. Lucas in return turned around and gave me the same talk that Nathan did. Every time Landon came over we would end up making out and "exploring each other" as Lucas had put it ever so nicely. I knew he wanted to go farther with me. The truth was that I wanted to go farther with him. I really did but I wasn't sure if I was entirely ready for it. I had told Landon that I wasn't completely ready. He had said that he would wait for me but sometimes I wasn't sure if he was telling the truth.

"Hey Lucas." Landon said stiffly. He wasn't making any sudden movements.

"Landon." Lucas returned. Lucas was not going to move from his spot on the couch. In fact he moved closer to me giving Landon room to sit on the couch next to him. It wasn't as if we were going to start making out in front of everyone. Landon slowly made his way over to the couch. He carefully sat down next to Lucas and folded his hand in his lap.

"Alright were leaving to get the final details for your party." Brooke announced jumping up breaking the awkward silence in the room.

"That give me time to talk with the two of you alone." Lucas said looking at Landon then me. Landon looked at me and gulped. Both Lucas and Nathan has cornered him at school and gave him the "If you hurt my sister I hurt you" talk.

"I'm coming with you." I said jumping up grabbing my crutches that Brooke and Peyton had redecorated for me. They were now blue with sparkles and stars. I shot Landon a sympathetic look back.

"You're not going anywhere." Lucas scolded.

"Luke the doctor said it would be good for me to get out and move around." I shot back. "Besides I just want to go to Nathan and Haley's" I left the house behind Moxie leaving Lucas and Landon alone.

Brooke had dropped me off at the apartment and said that we would swing by to pick me back up when they were done with everything.

"So what's on your mind?" Haley asked sitting across from me.

"Nathan isn't home is he?" I asked looking around.

"No he's at the Rivercourt. What's going on?" Haley asked becoming concerned. I sighed and looked down at my hands.

"Landon and I have gotten really close lately. I can really open up to him now. We really do know each other pretty well." I stopped when I saw the confused look on Haley's face. "You see the thing is I have been thinking about going farther with Landon a lot lately." I spit out.

"Farther how?" Haley asked still confused.

"Like all the way. Taking it to the limit. Having him hit the home run." I rambled. Haley threw her hands up.

"Ok I get it." She said stopping me from my rant. "Are you sure your ready for this. Your still young."

"Only about a year younger then you were." Haley gave me a slight glare. "Sorry." I mumbled.

"Aidan are you really positive you are ready for this. Sex is a huge deal. It can change a lot of stuff in your relationship." Haley asked me.

"I think I am." I fumbled.

"Think? Aidan you have to be 100 positive. No questions. He's not pressuring you is he because if he is I am will make that he will never be able to have sex again." Haley rampaged.

"No he's not pressuring me." I defended Landon.

"Just don't do anything that you're not ready for." Haley gave my hand a gentle squeeze before starting her dinner.

I didn't get back home until about seven. Haley had invited the whole gang over for dinner. Lucas ended driving me home after.

"So what did you and Landon talk about?" I asked on the drive home.

"Just guy stuff." Lucas said not taking his eyes off the road.

"Guy stuff? That's a little vague." I replied looking out the window.

"I just wanted to make sure that he was treating you right." Lucas answered taking a moment to look in my direction. I rolled my eyes at him.

"He treats me fine." I shot back at him.

"You see that's why I don't like the guy." Lucas said raising his voice slightly.

"What? I said he treated me fine. It's better than bad."

"But not as good as wonderful." I slammed my head against the headrest. "I just think that you deserve better. This guy treated you like crap in the beginning then came crawling back when he couldn't find anyone else."

"No! He fought for me! That's all any girl wants." I said defending my boyfriend for the second time that day. I needed to give Landon a lesson on how to impress my family. Not even Karen liked him. We pulled up to the house and I got out of the car as quickly as I could.

"I'm just trying to protect you." Lucas yelled from behind me. I turned to face him.

"Do me a favor and stop. I'm happy Luke. I really am. Landon proved himself to me. He really does care about me." Lucas got that look on his face like he wanted to tell me something but he wasn't sure if he should. All us Scott's have that look. "What?" I asked.

"He doesn't care about you." Lucas whispered. I rolled my head back and let a slight frustrated yell escape my lips.

"Just stop it! You and Nathan need to stay out of my relationship. I get that you guys are trying to be the heroic big brother but you need to stop!" I rushed into the house and slammed myself into the couch. I saw my new cell phone waiting for me on the table where I had left it. I picked it up to notice 15 missed calls and four voicemails. All but one of the missed calls was from Landon and the other from Moxie. The first voicemail was from Moxie and the rest Landon. Lucas brushed past me, probably to brood in his room. I listened to my first voicemail.

"Hey girl it's me. I know your not home but I have to tell you that we changed the theme of your party. It's more of a formal thing now. Brooke said that she would pick you up tomorrow around eleven and all us girls are going shopping. Of course your dress will be on us. Talk to you later chica!" I laughed when I heard this. They had changed the theme of my party about six times. It went from being a beach theme to a summer in Paris to a masquerade ball. The last time I checked it was a black and white theme. I told them to do what ever they wanted because it would probably be awesome anyways. The next three messages were all from Landon.

"Hey. Give me a call when you get this." Normal enough. Message two from Landon. "OK your still not home? Call me back." Last message from Landon. "Seriously its like six. Where the hell are you that you're not answering your phone? You need to call me." I frowned at my phone. This was not how Landon was suppose to act. My ring tone startled me out of my thought. I looked down to see Landon's name on my caller ID.

"Hey." I answered.

"Why the hell didn't you call me back?" He demanded. I was taken back by his shortness.

"I just got home and finished listening to your messages." I answered.

"Where the hell were you?" His voice was getting louder at every sentence.

"At Nathan's. You knew that." I was trying not to get angry with him but was failing miserably.

"You left me all alone to be interrogated by Lucas. Do you have any idea how that made me feel?" He was full on yelling now. Anger boiled through me.

"I'm sorry." I said through clenched teeth.

"Whatever. We will just hang out tomorrow." He said quieter but not any less annoyed.

"I would love to hang out with you but I have already made plans with the girls tomorrow. Were going shopping for my party." The truth was I didn't want to hang out with him. Not if he was going to act like this.

"You know what forget it! If you don't want to hang out with your boyfriend that's fine!" Landon slammed his phone shut. I looked at mine in dismay. What the hell just happened to the sweet guy that fought for me and brought me flowers and a bear when I was in the hospital? The guy who waited for me to sort through my personal issues and apologized for being a complete asshole. Sighing I turned off my phone and made myself comfortable on the couch to watch an episode of Miami Ink.

A/N: Yeah what happened to that guy? Next Chapter: Aidan's sweet sixteen at Tric and will Landon's jealousy push Aidan over the edge?