Do You Know?

Hey guys, guess what? We're nearly done with We Are One! I can't believe it but we're nearly done, about four more chapters I think. Gosh this has gone by freaking fast hasn't it? Wow, but hey it's been fun and I plan on writing a sequel and maybe making it into a trilogy. What do you guys think?

Anyway in this chapter, we're going to have Billy and Andie exchange some words. They may not be nice words but it's a little too soon for a fight don't you think? Even though I know Taylor is long over do for an ass whooping. Don't worry she'll get one, I promise you she will. Oh and we've still got to get back at Tuck and Billy for the video don't worry Alex has a plan. Hey maybe they'll talk about that in this chapter, who knows?

A/N-This one is named after Enrique Iglesias's "Do You Know? (The ping pong song)".

Disclaimer-Don't own Step Up 2, but I'd love to own Rob Hoffman.

Andie thought Chase was going to explode. He looked so pissed about what Billy had just done that Andie could only raise her eyebrows at him. Billy smirked at the three of them before turning back around in his seat.

"Chase you gotta calm down." Andie said quietly.

"But he—he—did you see—?"

"Yes Chase I saw what he did." Andie said calmly.

She put her hand on his arm and rubbed it. Chase's anger seemed to drain from him and Andie smiled. She still had that affect on him and she wasn't his girlfriend. As Ms. Jones droned on and on about something, Andie glanced sideways at Moose who was trying his hardest not to glare at the back of Billy's head.

"I'll tell you like I told Chase." Andie whispered. "Calm down."

"How can I?" Moose whispered back. "He's caused so many problems."

"I know he has." Andie replied. "But you gotta ignore him."

Moose huffed before crossing his arms over his chest and sinking down in his seat. Both he and Chase were glaring at the back of Billy's head and Andie could only shake her own head. She put her head in her hands and sighed.

When class was over Billy glanced back over his shoulder and Andie would have sworn he was checking her out. She noticed Chase move closer to her and she turned and started to push him towards the door.

"Just go," She said when he looked back at her questionably.

As they all walked down the hall Andie listened to Chase and Moose talk about Billy. She rolled her eyes, they were worse than girls.

"You two sound like a couple of girls." Andie commented as they cut across the courtyard.

"We do not." Moose argued.

Andie chuckled. She noticed that people were still staring but it wasn't as bad as first period. Did they honestly think that Chase would hit her? The bruise that she had on her forehead from hitting the floor was nearly gone now and today Andie had hid it by making her bangs fall over it. But still that wasn't the point, Chase didn't look like he'd ever hit a girl in his entire life. And how could people believe that he had just suddenly started?

"Andie?"

She blinked at looked up at Chase who standing kinda close to her now that Andie really thought about it. She thought about taking a few steps back but decided against it.

"Yes?"

"You're in your own world again." Chase said chuckling.

"Sorry, I tend to do that nowadays." Andie said shrugging.

"It's fine, it's just you shouldn't do it while you're walking." Chase said as they sat on the dance floor with Moose and began to stretch.

"Yea we don't want you running into any walls or doors do we?" Moose asked smiling.

Andie rolled her eyes and stretched out her right leg. When Blake entered the dance room and everyone got quiet.

Andie glanced over her shoulder and looked at Taylor who was talking furiously with Madison and Courtney. Andie rolled her eyes before returning her attention to Blake who was talking about the end of the year show case.

"Auditions will be held the week before Christmas break." He said. "So if you want to try out then sign up for it."

He and Chase looked at each other and Andie saw Chase smirk. She'd forgotten that Blake asked them to do a piece with just her, Chase and Moose and he wanted the entire crew to do something. So as the lesson began, Andie tried her hardest not to let her mind wonder.

Chase watched Andie all of class and was never far from her side. She was energetic today and Chase knew it was because she hadn't danced in a while. He could tell that she missed it because she was giving each move everything she had. But not so much that she tired herself out easily.

"Chase and Andie can I have a word?" Blake asked when the bell rang.

Chase and Andie shared a look before hanging back and Blake waited until all the students have left before talking.

"Chase, Alex wants you to bring Andie by the house tonight." He said simply.

"Why?" Chase asked.

"He says they need to talk about his plan." Blake replied.

"Plan?" Andie asked confused. "What plan?"

"Oh right, Alex says he's got a plan on how to get back at Tuck and Billy for the video they made about Chase." Blake explained.

"Will mom and dad be home?" Chase asked.

"No, they've got business meetings tonight." Blake answered.

Chase nodded and turned to Andie.

"Do you want to come over after school and discuss getting back at Tuck and Billy with my little brother?"

Andie laughed.

"Sure, it sounds like fun." She replied grinning up at Chase.

"Okay," Chase said. "Is that all you wanted Blakey?"

"Yea that's all I wanted." Blake said rolling his eyes at his brother.

"I've got a question though." Andie said smiling.

"Yes Andie?" Blake asked.

"When do I get to meet Brandy?"

Blake smiled.

"Well I was hoping you'd stay for dinner tonight and we could all have dinner together."

"Why wasn't I told about this?" Chase asked. "I bet Alex was told about it."

"It was Alex's idea wasn't it?" Andie asked Blake.

"Yea it was, he's got Mark cooking something special I think." Blake said shrugged. "But more of that later, go to lunch."

Chase and Andie nodded and headed out to the courtyard. The crew was waiting for them, Sophie somehow got to Andie before Moose and Missy.

"Andie, will you have lunch with me?" She asked.

Andie raised both her eyebrows.

"Just us?" She asked.

Sophie nodded.

"Um—okay." Andie said slowly.

"Come on we can take my car." Sophie said.

"Hey what about us?" Chase called after them.

Andie turned around to look at them and she saw that Moose was smiling why Chase looked as confused as she was.

'What's going on?' He mouthed.

'No idea.' Andie mouthed back.

She and Sophie walked out to the parking lot and over to Sophie's silver Mercedes. Sophie unlocked the doors and the two girls climbed in.

"So um why did you want to have lunch?" Andie asked as Sophie pulled out of the parking lot.

"I wanted to talk to you." Sophie said quietly. "Just us two."

"About?" Andie prompted.

Sophie laughed softly.

"Just to talk. I know that when you first got to MSA I was madly jealous of you and I didn't make things easy between you and Chase." Andie watched Sophie as she drove. "And I've got to say that I'm sorry for that—."

"Sophie that's in the past." Andie said waving her hand. "Besides you're actually not that bad."

"Thanks." Sophie said.

"But that's not all you wanted to talk about is it?" Andie sighed.

Sophie shook her head and pulled into a fairly fancy looking parking lot. She and Andie got of the car and Andie followed her into the restaurant.

"Sophie what are doing here?" A middle aged woman asked. "And who's your friend?"

"Mom this is my friend Andie." Sophie said. "Andie this is my mom."

"Hi it's nice to meet you." Andie said.

Sophie's mom smiled and shook Andie's hand.

"Let me guess you're here for lunch?" She asked looking at her daughter.

"Yes," Sophie nodded. "Is my table open?"

"Yes dear, so you and Andie go sit down and I'll bring you out some food."

Sophie motioned for Andie to follow her and the two girls moved their way through the slightly crowded restaurant. They sat down at a table near the window and Andie couldn't help but stare at all the buildings and people dressed in suits.

"So you're mom owns this place?" She asked.

Sophie nodded.

"What does your dad do?" Andie asked.

She noticed Sophie's face fall slightly.

"I'm sorry," Andie said quietly. "I didn't mean to be nosey—."

"No you're fine." Sophie assured her. "My dad left us when I was ten. My mom had just had my little sister Eliza and he decided that two children were too many and he couldn't handle us. So he left, my mom had to work three jobs just to keep us in a house and I had to temporarily stop going to school so I could take of Eliza. Then my mom lost one of her jobs and we got thrown out of our house, we lived on the streets for two months. My grandmother took us in the moment she found out. My mother didn't want to tell her or go ask for help because my mom is like that. But my grandmother wouldn't stand for us to live on the streets, I went back to school and she made my mother stop working cause she was literally fading away from exhaustion. My grandmother used to own this restaurant, but she's too old to work here now so my mother owns it and runs it. She's had to work hard but we're finally back to where we were when I was ten. It's taken her six years to do it and even though she won't admit it I know my grandmother bought our house."

Andie didn't know what to say. She lived in the streets but she'd never live on the streets. She always had a roof over her head and a bed to sleep in. Sophie didn't seem like the person to even know what it was like to even sleep on the floor. She didn't fit with her story but Andie could tell she wasn't lying.

"No one ever believes me." Sophie said smiling slightly. "They tell me that I'm just making it up."

"Well you don't exactly fit with the story." Andie said quietly.

"That's because I told my mom the first day that we started living on the streets that I was going to find a way to get us back on our feet. I promised her that I would take care of her." Sophie smiled again. "She says that promise doesn't matter anymore but it does to me, I became a triple threat because I want to make it and take care of my mother and grandmother along with my sister. I want my mother to never have to work again."

Andie nodded, the two girls looked at each other.

"I've not seen my dad since I was six." Andie said quietly. "He left my mom when I was six, didn't even give a reason. I came home from school to find my mom crying on the kitchen floor. I did the same you did Sophie, I promised her that I would take care of her. I told her we didn't need my dad, that we'd make it, just me and her. I was taking care of her too, I learned to cook and clean and shop for food. By the time I was nine I could cook a full course dinner and be able to wash dishes afterwards." Andie broke eye contact with Sophie and looked out the window. "But when she got cancer I felt like I failed. I felt like I failed at taking care of her you know? And then when she died I felt like I could have done more you know? I felt like I could have stopped going to school and taken care of her around the clock, but she wouldn't let me."

Sophie was watching Andie carefully. She wasn't crying, she didn't even have tears in her eyes. But Sophie supposed Andie was so far in grieving for her mother that she was past tears.

"She told me that I had a life to live and it didn't include taking care of my sick mother."

They both looked out the window and watched a bus go buy advertising a new story that was about to start selling Christmas presents.

"It'll be my first Christmas without her." Andie said quietly.

Sophie opened her mouth to say something but her mother appeared with their food. She sat the plates in front of them before smiling at the two of them and heading off to tend to more costumers.

"Okay what is this?" Andie asked.

Sophie smiled.

"It's a kind of casserole. Um there's chicken, broccoli, cheese and bread crumbs. It's really good I promise."

Andie looked skeptical but picked up her fork and began to eat. After a few mouthfuls she grinned up at Sophie.

"This is actually pretty good."

Sophie laughed.

"See I told you."

Andie took another bite and looked up with Sophie.

"Okay so we've talked about you're past life, my mother dying, is there anything else you wanted to talk about?" She grinned at the girl.

"Well originally I just wanted to tell you that I know what you're going through." Sophie said quietly and at Andie's confused look she went on. "When I was dating Chase, Taylor did the same things to you she did to me. Minus the websites, but she called me fat and a slut and all other kinds of things. The last three months of me and Chase's relationship was hell, he was so busy trying to keep me safe from Taylor that he was forgetting about me. I mean it was like we were together but he tried to stay away in order to keep Taylor from opening her mouth. And so I started to believe that there was something wrong with me, I started to believe Taylor."

Andie's eyes widened at that last sentence.

"You became Bulimic?" She asked.

"Yea," Sophie nodded. "I thought that if I stayed skinny, Chase would stay with me."

"But—you eat and I know you don't purge." Andie glanced under the table at Sophie's stomach. "You look like you're healthy."

"My mom caught me purging. Three days after Chase and I broke up. I was trying to get rid of everything in my stomach cause in my mind if I did then Chase would take me back" Sophie said quietly. "That is the one time my mom has ever hit me. She hit me in the back of my head while I was throwing up and I nearly chocked on the toothbrush. She told me that if I didn't stop that she'd personally kill me herself."

"Damn." Andie muttered, Sophie nodded.

"So I had to stop. I didn't want to be killed my mother and Eliza would be traumatized for life if she knew that her mother killed her big sister and went to jail for it. But I also realized that destroying my body because of what one person said about it, wasn't worth it."

Andie nodded.

For the rest of lunch the girls talked about happier things. They talked about Sophie and Moose's relationship and Sophie told Andie that Monster and Missy had been flirting quite a lot with each other.

"That's Missy for you." Andie said shaking her head.

"Well we'd better head back to school." Sophie said glancing down at her watch. "We've got twenty minutes before class starts."

Andie nodded and the two girls stood. Sophie left the money on the table and after saying goodbye to her mother, they headed back out to her car.

"So Sophie I gotta ask you something." Andie said as they climbed into the car.

"Yea?" Sophie asked starting it up.

"Can you dance like me?"

Sophie smiled before shrugging.

"I don't really know." She pulled out of the parking lot. "I've never tried it."

"You and me are gonna have to get together so we can figure it out." Andie said laughing.

"As long as it's just you and me." Sophie said. "I don't want to make a fool of myself in front of everyone."

"They wouldn't laugh." Andie said. "I would but they wouldn't."

"Andie!" Sophie exclaimed laughing. "Aren't you supposed to be the teacher?"

"Doesn't mean I can't laugh at the pupil." Andie countered smirking.

"You're horrible." Sophie laughed.

"I know." Andie replied laughing as well.

When they got back to the courtyard of MSA the crew was still there. Moose and Chase both jumped up from their seats and ran over to them.

"Where have you two been?" Chase questioned.

"Having lunch." Andie replied.

"Where?" Moose asked.

"Somewhere." Sophie answered.

The two girls looked at each before laughing and walking around the boys.

"I never thought I see it." Chase muttered to Moose as they followed them over to the table.

"What?" Moose asked.

"Andie and Sophie getting along."

Hey guys! Perfect place to end it don't you think? Besides Sophie's character has grown on me for some reason or another and I had to give her a background and some history. Plus I need her and Andie to bond so that was like the perfect opportunity don't you think? You guys will most likely get another chapter cause it's only eight ten here and I've got plenty of time to write another one plus it's Friday.

A/N-I like Sophie's past quite a lot.

Reviews keep my fingers typing chapters!

Danyi