Like We Never Loved At All

Hey guys, another chapter tonight cause I feel like I owe it two you guys. Lol. Um didn't really do anything today. It was a very boring day but at least tomorrow I go in late. Don't have to be to school til nine and I get to sleep in!

In this chapter um I think Andie's getting out of the hospital just cause I'm tired of her being in the hospital. Plus it'll be interesting to see how the school reacts to her returning. And we've gotta see how Chase is going to act around her.

A/N-This one's named after Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's "Like We Never Loved At All" which is a really, really, good song.

Disclaimer-Don't own Step Up 2, if I did I'd own Rob Hoffman. But on a good side I do own Brandy and Alex lol.

By Friday Andie was pretty sure that Lydia, her nurses and Doctor Smith were all more excided about her leaving than she was. Andie hadn't been a pain exactly but she asked questions, lots of questions. She wanted to know exactly why she had to have an IV in her arm, why she had to stay there so long and why she had to continue to go talk to Lydia when she already knew why she was in the freaking hospital.

But Andie had learned to talk to Lydia. By Wednesday Andie and Lydia could have a full conversation without Andie getting angry. Lydia considered that to be a huge improvement. They talked about why Andie had thought Chase would have dumped her for someone better. That was the one question Andie could never answer. Why had she thought Chase was going to leave her? Everyone said he loved her to pieces but why hadn't she been able to realize it? Maybe it was because he never told her he loved her. Lydia had asked Andie if she loved Chase and Andie didn't answer at first. She had loved him, back when they were together but Andie wasn't so sure anymore. She could love him again, if they gave their relationship another try but Andie highly doubted that was going to happen. So she lied and said she didn't love him, and by the look that Lydia gave her she knew she didn't believe her.

Andie kept everything she ate down, unless someone she didn't know was watching her eat. Then for some reason her stomach got nervous and threw everything back up, even when Chase was sitting right next to her. Doctor Smith said with some work though, she'd be back to normal.

Chase had convinced Blake to let him be there on Friday morning when Andie got out. Actually everyone was there, Sarah, Blake, Alex, Moose, Sophie and the crew. Andie smiled at all of them but instantly went to Chase's side. It was out of freaking habit.

"So Andie." Sarah began as they headed out of the hospital. "What's it like to be free?"

Andie didn't answer. Instead she ran out the hospital doors and in the grass she did two back flips and landed on her feet. She smiled at them with her bottom lip held between her teeth.

"Andie are you trying to give us a heart attack?" Missy asked.

"No," Andie shook her head. "Just happy to be out of there."

Chase chuckled and shook his head. If she had of fallen he'd have picked her up and went right back into the hospital.

Andie walked back over to Chase and smiled at him. It'd been so long since Chase had seen that smile on her face that he nearly scooped her into a hug. Moose draped an arm over Andie's shoulder while he held hands with Sophie.

"Can I go to school today?" Andie asked Sarah.

Sarah opened her mouth and closed it. She looked very skeptical and Andie gave her the saddest face she could muster.

"Please Sarah?" She asked. "Chase will take care of me, won't you?"

Chase looked down at Andie. She winked at him and nodded towards Sarah.

"Yea Sarah, I'll look after her." Chase nodded.

Andie grinned at him and looked back at Sarah.

"Fine you can go."

Andie smiled and out of instinct hugged Chase. She felt his arms slip around her waist gently and he hugged her back tightly.

"Come on you two." Blake said smiling slightly.

Andie and Chase stepped back and refused to look each other in the eye. Andie put Moose and Sophie between them as they all headed to their cars.

"Andie, will you ride with me?" Chase whispered in her ear as he passed by her.

Andie looked at Moose. They stared at each other before Moose smiled gently and nodded.

"Okay." Andie said quietly. "But what about my backpack?"

"I kinda figured you were going to want to go to school today." Chase said. "So I picked them up before I came to hospital this morning."

"Oh." Andie said quietly.

Chase smiled at her and opened her door for her. Andie climbed in the car and took in a deep breath. Was Chase going to ask her back out again? If he did what would she say? She couldn't say yes, not this early. It was too freaking soon to be dealing with being in a relationship.

"Earth to Andie."

Andie jumped and looked at Chase.

"Huh?"

"You're in your own little world here." Chase said smiling.

"Sorry." Andie muttered.

"It's okay." Chase said. "I just wanted to know if you're sure about going back to school."

"Yea, I wanna show Taylor that she hasn't got the best of me." Andie replied softly.

Chase nodded.

"You want me to talk to Blake and see if I can stay with you all day?" He asked gently.

"Yea," Andie said slowly. "I'd like that."

Andie flexed her hands in her lap. It'd been long time since she and Chase had been in his car. And it was like her hand just wanted to reach over and take his in hers. She wanted to hold his hand and fell him squeeze back.

"I'm nervous." Andie muttered.

"Why?" Chase asked glancing at her.

"I'm not sure." Andie replied.

Chase watched out of the side of his eye as Andie's hands ran over her stomach slowly and thoughtfully.

"Andie." Chase said quietly.

"Yea?"

"I—I know it's not my place," Chase said slowly. "But you don't have to worry, you're perfect and don't let anyone tell you different."

Andie tilted her head to the right slightly as she watched Chase. He flexed his fingers on the steering wheel. He didn't like her watching him with such intensity, it made him feel like she was scrutinizing him.

"Thanks." Andie said after a moment or two.

Chase nodded. He had considered for a moment or two asking her back out. But it was too soon. She'd just gotten out of the hospital for crying out loud.

When they pulled into the MSA parking lot, Chase noticed that Andie had gotten extremely tenses in the passenger seat. He touched her shoulder and Andie turned her head to look at him.

"It'll be okay." He said softly.

Andie nodded.

Seconds later something hit Chase's window. Both he and Andie looked to see a bunch of curly hair.

"Moose get off the window." Andie said laughing as her best friend made faces at her through the window.

"Get out of the car!" Moose yelled.

"Chase he's making finger prints on the window." Andie said smirking.

Chase looked at the window and his eyes widened.

"Moose!" He yelled. "Get your grubby fingers off my window!"

Moose laughed and drew a smiley face.

"That little." Chase grumbled as he opened his own door.

Andie watched Moose's eyes widened before he turned and took off. She smiled and opened her door before climbing out. She closed the passenger door and opened the back door. Her bag was sitting next to Chase's, Andie picked them both up and slung her bag over her shoulder. She held Chase's close to her chest and closed the back door.

"Andie get him!"

Andie turned to see Moose still running from Chase. Both of them were laughing but Moose was careful to make sure he stayed out of Chase's arm length.

"Chase leave him alone." Andie called.

"But I've almost got him!" Chase yelled.

Andie laughed even more and sat on a bench to watch the two boys run around the parking lot. They didn't stop until about five minutes later when Blake's SUV pulled up into the parking lot.

"Did they just leave you here?" Blake asked sitting next to Andie.

"Sorta." Andie replied smiling at him.

Moose shot by them with Chase getting closer to him.

"Chase, leave him alone." Blake called. "Don't you want to get Andie back into class?"

But Chase had caught Moose, he'd tackled him in the grass not ten feet away from Blake and Andie. They heard Moose laugh as Chase picked him up and pretended to slam him onto the grass.

"Chase you hurt him I'll kill you." Andie called.

"I won't." Chase called back.

Blake and Andie watched as the two boys wrestled until the bell rang. Chase stood and glared down playfully at Moose.

As he dusted off his pants and shirt Chase made his way back over to them.

"Alright," He panted. "I'm ready."

Andie laughed and stood,

"You've got grass in your hair." She commented smirking.

"Get it out." Chase whined swiping at his own head.

Andie smiled and grabbed his head, then she pulled it down to her level and began to pick the grass out of his hair. She looked at Moose to find Sophie doing the same thing for him.

"There we go." Andie said after a few minutes.

"Thanks." Chase said straightening up.

"No problem." Andie replied handing him his bag.

They all turned to see Moose and Sophie share a kiss before Sophie went off to class. Andie smiled slightly, it was nice to see Moose so happy. He waved to them before hurrying off to class.

"Hey Blake, can you right me a note saying that I'm allowed to stay with Andie all day?" Chase asked.

Blake looked surprised for a moment before nodding.

"So is Brandy going to show up in your office today?" Chase asked.

"Brandy." Andie said. "You're old girlfriend Brandy?"

"When did you tell her about Brandy?" Chase asked.

"One day she was in the office next to mine." Blake said shrugging. "And I don't know if she'll be coming by or not."

"I hope she does." Andie said. "I'd like to meet her."

Chase smiled, Andie and Brandy would get along wonderfully.

"Alright you two." Blake said once they reached his office. "Let's get you back into class Andie."

Andie smiled and took a seat, so did Chase. Blake watched them out of the corner of his eyes. They didn't seem to fit together right, it was like you expected for them to hold hands or share an occasional kiss. It was weird to think that they weren't together anymore.

"Okay Chase." Blake said handing him a note. "Show this to all the teachers."

"Thanks Blake." Chase said.

"Thank you Blake." Andie said smiling at him.

Blake watched them leave his office. As he picked up a stack of paper Blake smiled to himself. There was still hope when it came to Chase and Andie.

Andie was starting to get even more nervous as they got closer to Mr. Valentine's class. Chase could tell because she was slowing down, he slowed down as well. He wasn't going to say anything though, Andie could do this, he believed in her.

"You ready?" He asked quietly when they reached the door.

Andie looked at the door before nodding. Chase grabbed the handle and turned, then he pushed the door open and let Andie walk in first.

She glanced at the class before smiling at Mr. Valentine who seemed ecstatic to have her back. She could feel all the kids watching her but when Chase came in right after her, their eyes went to him.

"What can I do for you Mr. Collins?" Mr. Valentine asked.

Chase showed him the note and a smile appeared on Mr. Valentine's face.

"Alright, why don't you two take a joined desk in the middle of the room?" He suggested handing Chase back his note.

Chase nodded and put his hand on Andie's lower back to guide her to the middle of the room. They knew everyone was watching them as they did so but Chase could have care less and Andie found better to just look at the ground.

"Okay class." Mr. Valentine said once the two teenagers were seated. "Warm up, you know the drill. This time I want a paragraph about love, we'll be doing Romeo and Juliet soon so I want us to get started now."

Andie rolled her eyes. Showing writing she could do, but showing writing about love was not her thing. That was more of Missy's thing. But none the less she took out a piece of paper and a pen. Then after thinking for a moment or two she set to work, after all they only had ten minutes.

Chase watched Andie write. He'd never seen her write before. She was completely absorbed in her paper and pen. And he could see the tip of her tongue sticking out just past her lips. Smiling, Chase looked back down at his own paper and began to write.

"Andie, would you like to share with us?" Mr. Valentine asked.

Chase watched Andie bit her bottom lip and look down at her paper. Then she nodded and stood. When she reached the front of the class she cleared her throat before taking a deep breath.

"I'm sitting under my willow tree. It used to protect me and keep me hidden from danger. But now it's such a mystery to me that I can only call it a stranger. Its long poisonous snakes no longer hang low to protect me. They flare up and I'm out in the open for everyone to see. Now they can all hate on me. My sturdy tree has given up on me. It's my fault he's all his faith. It's my fault he no longer watches over or believes in me. I let the birds of prey pick on me. When I hit the ground, I hit it hard and stayed down. I didn't have the courage to get back up. And because I was so weak, my willow tree left me to stand on my own two feet. The animal I call my best friend is here for me. But it's not the same as my wonderful willow tree. I don't feel as safe in its arms as I do in his. I can't believe I let the birds of prey win. But I don't want to feel safe in the animals' arms. I want to feel safe in his. I want my willow tree to set me free. I want him to give me another chance. I want him to take me back. I want my willow tree to say he loves me. And I want him to make it a fact."

Chase could only stare at Andie. Was that paragraph about him? Or had Andie simply done the assignment and not meant for it to be about anyone she knew? As she sat back down next to him Chase tried to catch her eye but she wasn't looking his way.

"Very good Andie, you've still got it." Mr. Valentine said.

"Thanks." Andie muttered.

She could feel a certain pair of eyes on her. Andie looked over her shoulder and met a pair of ice blue eyes. Those same glaring, ice blue eyes. But Andie smirked, Taylor hadn't expected her to be back this soon. She'd been hoping probably that Andie never came back. And Andie couldn't let her win, so she had to come back to MSA. She had to prove she was better than Taylor and her friends.

When the bell rang Andie and Chase both stood. Taylor however walked by them and bumped shoulders with Andie.

"That chick is asking for it." Andie said glaring at the back of Taylor's head as she strutted out of the room.

"Not yet Andie." Chase said. "For one you're not well enough and another I don't have a camcorder."

"Why do you need a camcorder?" Andie asked as they headed towards Geography.

"So I can record you whooping her ass and post it on Youtube." Chase said grinning.

"Of course." Andie said.

She shook her head at Chase and sat next to Moose. Chase sat on her other side and Moose started a three way note. Andie answered first before passing it to Chase who answered then passed it back to Andie who passed it back to Moose. As Andie waited for Moose to reply to what she and Chase had said she sighed and looked around the room. People were trying their hardest not to look back at her. It was going to be a long day but Andie had a feeling that as long as she had Chase and Moose along with the crew at her side she'd be just fine.

That was until she saw Billy walk into class. Andie's eyes widened and she looked at Chase. His eyes had widened as well and they both turned to look at Moose. The curly haired boy had stopped moving completely to watch Billy. His large eyes had turned to slits and they could see a slight smirk on Billy's face as he took a seat a few rows in front of them.

Once Ms. Jones had returned to the chalkboard Billy turned around to face them. He smirked at Chase and Moose before looking at Andie. He smiled at her and Andie raised an eyebrow, then he did something that Andie thought was going to make Chase jump up from his seat. He winked at her and kissed the air.

Billy's back! I know you guys aren't too happy about that but I am cause he adds to the drama and boy is he about to cause some drama. Um, I'm not sure if I like this chapter or not. But it's not my opinion that counts.

A/N-I wrote the little paragraph thingy and got an A on it! Go me! LOL.

Reviews keep my fingers typing chapters!

Danyi