School started again which means I got overwhelmed with work. I also went to Paris for a whole week (with school) and you can't really write while you are there can you. I hope you guys aren't mad or anything. I would apologize, but like I always say, school comes first!

Disclaimer: I do not own the lying game or any of his characters.

While Ethan was working I had been hiding behind a tree, I had just seen Alec coming in with Thayer, I wonder how Ethan reacted, I guess he didn't punched him, because well, he was still walking. So while I was sitting behind my tree I start to draw. Only landscape, I wasn't feeling like doing anything big, anything emotional. I let my mind wonder around, how my life has turned out, what it used to be, Lexy. I hadn't thought about her in a while. She did cross my mind, often, but I didn't thought about her very long. She doesn't know anything about my life in Phoenix. Anything. I took my cellphone out of my bag and dialed her number. I didn't even go into my list, I know her number like if it was mine.

"Lexy speaking." She said as she answered in seconds.

"Hey Lex, with Emma…" I tell her like if I had just called her yesterday. Like if it hadn't took me weeks to finally do what I was supposed to do every day.

"Emma? I don't know any Emma's. I use to know one, but I guess she forget about me…" Okay, that I deserve. That and way worse.

"I'm sorry Lexy… I had too much on my mind. But I'm calling you now." I told her like if that wasn't a lame answer.

"I do not forgive you, yet." If she says that, she already did. "So, I'm I finally going to hear about that double of yours? How is life back there?" Incredible.

"Sutton, well she's Sutton. She's not like me, at all. You know those girls we couldn't stand in Vegas?" Those girls with blond hair, too much make up, little tiny skirts and shirts that show way too much skin. Well that's more like the Sutton type, but at least Sutton has style. Unlike those girls.

"No way? She's a prostitute?" Not really. She's not a virgin, that for sure.

"Let's just say, she's Sutton."

"Okay, so the sister isn't really like you dreamed she would be. But how's the rest of the crowd?" The Mercers? They're simply amazing. Laurel is just, well she's more like the sister I always dreamed of, and Ted and Kristen, well they are even better than how I thought parent's would be. I told her about every single thing that had happened since I was in Phoenix, even the Thayer-Sutton episode. She was insulting Thayer like if she actually had met him or like if he was standing next to her. If she already didn't like Sutton, now, it was even more obvious she hated her. She couldn't believe the fact that she did that to me. But I quickly change subject as I told her about my adoption, and of course, the car that went with it. She was like amazed that I finally got adopted. Like me, she was thinking I would never be. Well, I'm turning 18 in a few weeks, so no one would have thought this to happen. She asked me more about my new friends. She wanted to know more about Ethan, like if he was the only one that matter to her. She was talking about him like if she thought I was into him or something like that. She forgets about Thayer pretty soon! Ethan is a friend, just a friend. I told her about the dance that was coming and how he was teaching me to dance. She couldn't believe I was actually going to dance. I was never much of the dancing type, so I had to promise to send her pictures about it. The only pictures she's going to have, is the one where I'll be wearing my dress. I can't wait to let her see my dress.

We talked on the phone for like two hours or something. Actually we were still talking when Ethan found me behind my tree. I have no idea how he found me hiding out here. I guess he somehow figured I would be hiding outside. Not that hard to figure I guess, since Thayer is inside, I'm outside. Easy one.

"I've got to go Lexy. Talk to you soon!" I say as Ethan is standing in front of me. I hadn't noticed it was that late already.

"Who where you talking too? If I may ask." If he may ask? Who does he think he's talking too? I'm not the queen of England.

"Lexy, my best friend, from Vegas." I told him. I can't remember if I ever talk to him about her. Maybe he doesn't even know who she is.

"No way! You had friends back in Vegas!? Unbelievable!" He joked and helped me to stand.

"I know right! Unbelievable right?"

"Don't look at your feet Ems!" Since I had had the great idea to wear high heels today, I had taken them off so I could dance without falling or stepping on his feet. Ethan had taken a radio with us to a big empty room and told me that it was all going to happen in here. So at least I would know where I'd have to dance.

"I know, I'm sorry." Don't look at your feet, when I don't, I step on his. Not that easy. But it's easier than the first time he tried to teach me how to dance. He lifted up my chin and made me look right into his eyes so I wouldn't look at my feet anymore. Somehow, looking into his chocolate brown eyes made me uncomfortable. It made me want to look at my feet again, but that wasn't an option.

"Yes, like that." He said as he made me make a pirouette. I wasn't too bad at it. Look into his eyes Emma, not to your feet. Look into his eyes. Maybe if I keep repeating that to me that I will not suck at the dance. "See, you're making great progresses. Nobody will noticed that not that long ago you couldn't even ballroom dance." I hope so. I don't want the Mercers to think they adopt an idiot.

"You think so?" I ask him just to make sure he isn't playing a joke on me.

"Yes, you will do just fine. I'm sure about it." He says and gently squeezes my hand that's in his. I still was looking into his eyes, when the music stopped, we were still holding each other, my hand in his and the other on his shoulder and his other hand on my hip. Somehow, we got closer and his face was just a few inches away from mine. His eyes were like locked on mine. I could feel his breathe on my skin. Just a finger more, and there would be no space between us. My heart was bouncing like hell in my chest. Our lips were about to touch when, my cellphone rang. Thank god. I have no idea of what we were doing. I walked backwards towards my bag and took it out of it.

"It's Sutton." I tell him kind or relieved my phone rang off. "Hey sis." I say as I answer it. I was doing my best not to look at Ethan.

"Where are you? I thought you would have come home by now. Even without a car you should already be here…" That's how she sounds when she's worry? Don't really know how to think about that.

"I'm at the club. I was feeling like doing some more exercise, for next week's game you know." I lied, since I got here, I learned how to lie. I don't know why I didn't just tell her the truth. I'm here with Ethan. "But I'll be home for dinner." I tell her to make sure she doesn't worry too much. Actually, I should let her be worried, maybe that way I'll find the strength in my to forgive her. Trust takes a lot of time to earn, but only a few seconds to destroy.

"Yeah, well be sure to be there! Maybe Ruth will have sent you an address or a number" Oh, sure that's why she's calling. She wants to know if maybe we have a lead on our birthmother.

"See you later." I tell her and hang up. And there I was back alone with Ethan. Things where kind of awkward right now.

"I should bring you back home." He said like if nothing ever happened. He shut off the radio and walked towards me. I took my bag and put on back my shoes.

"Yes, that's a great idea. Thanks. But I can call Sutton or Laurel to come pick me up if you prefer." I say not really knowing if I would rather go with him than with Sutton. Actually, I know that I prefer to get a ride from him than from Sutton.

"yeah right. Let's go."

"Thanks for the ride, and the lessons." I tell him as I get of his motor and give him back his helmet. I was trying to act natural, not that easy.

"My pleasure." He replies. "Emma, maybe we should talk about it?" Talk about it? I know what IT is, but I'm not sure I want to.

"Ethan, no. We, we can't. You were with Sutton, and I already gave into a guy that wanted to be with her but had to settle for me instead." Too much information. I could have just ask him what he was thinking about and pretend that nothing happened, which is the truth, nothing happened. But something was about to happen. He was going to add something but I never let him the time to do so. "I've to go. I'm sure Kristen is going to serve dinner and I she doesn't like it when we're late for it. I'll see you at school?" Of course I'll see him at school, what a stupid thing to ask.

"Yes, sure school."

"Need a ride?" I ask him, not knowing why I did so.

"I can't, I need to go at the club afterwards and I'll need my bike. But we'll see each other at school." He adds and starts his motor. "But I still do think we need to talk about this." He says as he rides away.

We were all sitting around the table eating dinner. Nobody had said anything about what happened at school, and I was grateful for that.

"So, who brought you back home?" Ted asks as we were talking about our days. They had avoided the whole Thayer story, but they knew I had spent the rest of my day at the club.

"Ethan, Ethan Whitehorse. He works there." He is also the one who brought me there. He's the one that drove me to school before I got my own car, he's the one guy I'm sure I can call a friend.

"Ethan? Dan's little brother?" He continued. How many Ethan's are there in this town?

"That's the one." I say. Laurel looks at me like if she kind of thinks I made a mistake telling him. I thought she had accepted that he was my friend. Maybe she has, no I'm sure she has. Maybe she just wants to tell me that Ted isn't like her.

"I'm not sure you should be friends with that guy Emma." Ted continued. I laid down my fork and look at everyone's face. Now I get Laurel's face.

"Why T… Dad?" Not calling him Ted, but dad, still not use to it.

"He's not a nice guy, that's all." Not a nice guy? Really? I can't be his friend, because he's not a nice guy? "Let's just say he have had some troubles with the law…" Troubles with the law?

"I have had too. And more than once. Does that means I'm a bad girl?" That's exactly what he's saying.

"That's not what I'm saying Emma." He continues.

"Sweetie, that's not what he means. You are one of the nicest girls we've ever met." Kristen adds sensing that this conversation wasn't going to end well.

"What you mean, if I get it right, is that because Ethan had have some troubles with the law he's not a good guy? I've had way more problems with the law than he has. You have no idea about all of the troubles I've been through. You know what, I'm not hungry anymore. I think I'll just go to bed early today. Goodnight." I say as I push my chair away and leave them all around the table. They tried to make me come back but I locked myself up in my bedroom.

They all give up knocking on my door after an hour. Kristen told me that when I was ready to talk, she'll be in the living room with Ted. Laurel tried to come in my bedroom trough the bathroom, but I had locked that door too. And Sutton, well she tried all the doors and windows, she even called my phone. But I neither opened nor answered. I was angry. They were judging Ethan so quickly, they didn't even know the guy. I can't even imagine how they would have judge me if it wasn't for Sutton. I had put on some music on the laptop. Ted didn't need it, since he was using his office laptop and gave it to me, knowing I wasn't going to agree to let him buy me a new one. And he was damn right. I was dancing around my bedroom like a crazy person, just to change my mind of things. I was cleaning up my bedroom and choosing my clothes for tomorrow when I heard some knocking on my window again.

"Sutton, go away!" I yelled from my dressing, but she kept on knocking. I decided I had shut them out long enough and went back into my bedroom to open the window for her and let her in, but I was surprised to see, it wasn't Sutton in front of my window, but Ethan.

So I know you had to wait for this chapter, and you'll probably have to wait for the next too. I'm really busy doing my end work for school ( in my country you have to do a really big assignment if you want you degree, like really big over the 200 pages…) and I still have a lot of work to do on it. So forgive me for the possible mistakes in this chapter and I hope you'll like this chapter as much as the others! Don't forget to review!