Okay I want to thank you all for the replies they really means alot to me!! In case some of ya didn't know probably because I never really talked about it but I have my own mailing list! It's at E-Groups (YES I WILL STILL CALL IT THAT!!) but unfortunately you'll have to find it through www.groups.yahoo.com I think! It's called KarensStoryBook! I know I advertise alot I'm a nut like that, and to think I'm gonna get my own personal site soon!! Anyways here's the newest chapter of this I don't know about any of my other stories because this one got alot done and as alot of my feedback told me to SEND IT! So here is Chapter 8, there is an exceprt/flashback to the story Swear It Again which this story is the sequel of!! Enjoy!! :o)

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Chapter 8

"Ladies, come on! It was just a joke Steph all the newbie's get it." Jamal reasoned.
Stephanie glared at Rebecca "You better watch your back."
She then turned and ran off towards the science lab.

"She has a major problem." Rebecca stated to the group. Troy spoke up.
"Maybe she's just homesick, you don't have to rag on everyone here ya know. All the newbie's are like that at first."
"Excuse me I was not like that." Rebecca said. Jamal laughed
"Oh you were so like that, worse I think."
Clyde spoke up "I know Stephanie's story guys."
"What?" Wendy asked.
"I overheard David and Peter talking the other day and they were talking about her parents who went here!" he whispered.
Rebecca rolled her eyes "So that's it! She thinks she's special because she's like a generation to go here. So she thinks she'll get away with anything."
"How do you know that? If her parents were so special in being here than she shouldn't be here." Ryan blurted in.
Jamal glared at him "Was anybody asking you?"
"Do I look like I care?" He replied.
Troy butted in before a fight broke out "Okay guys like chill-out! We should just let her be, she's a newbie. Don't judge a person unless you want to be judged." He finished. They all went back to work.

Peter leaned against the wall watching his clock as Stephanie ran in grabbing some food quickly sitting down and eating it. She then got up and walked over to Peter. "What now?"
Peter thought a moment "Well now that I have your attention you can rest, you will go take your shot and come back to the lodge and wait until you start group." He looked over at a young black guy "Roy, I need to you walk with Steph here over to the infirmary for her insulin." Roy agreed and walked with Stephanie.

She had taken her shot and walked through the lodge looking around remembering the last time she had been here. She had actually smiled for the first time when she was outside and all the trees, the scenery.

~*~Flashback~*~

Shelby chuckled watching Stephanie look around she looked up at Shelby "This is where you went to school?"
She giggled nodding "Yup, see these mountains? I climbed some of them too, hiked over the forest a lot."
"The forest is scary though! What if a bear had eaten you! What if you fell off the mountain?" she asked showing her shock.
Shelby laughed, "Well if I had fallen or got eaten by a bear would I or even you be here right now?"
She shook her head smiling "I guess not!"

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She glanced at the couch remembering the first time she met her father.

~*~Flashback~*~

Scott smiled "Who's your friend?" Daisy chuckled
"Her names Stephanie, she's Shelby's little girl." The little girl looked up at Scott smiling. "Hey I know you! You're Bob's friend!"
Scott chuckled "You're right I am, and you're a very good ball player."

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She turned the corner remembering how he had found her.

~*~Flashback~*~

Scott turned the corner, bumping smack into her, he squat down. "Hi there." She smiled "Hi!"
He chuckled at her "What's your name again?"
She blushed and giggled she was definitely Shelby's little girl. "Stephanie." She said quietly.
"Well Stephanie, you know how I'm a friend of Bob's? I'm also an old friend of your mom's. But we can't tell mommy that I'm a friend of Bob's or that I live by you okay?"
She smiled nodding "Okay!"
He chuckled "Okay I'm going to take you to find your mom now." She grabbed Scott's hand walking with him.

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She leaned against the wall smiling at the memories. She felt a tap on her shoulder turning around coming out of her daze, she saw Ryan smiling.
"For a newbie you seem to be happy here now why is that?"
Stephanie scoffed back at him "What's it to you?"
"Don't think that I don't know about you, your parents going here. I know that you think you're just going to be some little girl who is just following a family tradition."
Stephanie hauled of and slapped him whispering to him menacingly "You don't know a thing about me or my parents!" She turned on her heel and walked off. Ryan chuckled rubbing his cheek.

"Okay we're going to talk about careers tonight. What careers do your parent's have and what career are looking towards having?" David said starting group he looked to Jamal "You start."
Jamal thought a moment "Well my father is a pilot, but I do not like to fly at all. I'm looking more towards a veterinarian, I've always had this thing for animals especially wildlife."
"So you want to take care of your family!" Ryan commented. David gave him a look. Jamal glared at him,
"Fine then if you're so smart what is your career goal?" he asked him.
Ryan shrugged "Bartender, that way I can have access to all the booze in the world. What about you Rebecca?"
She smiled slightly "I want to be a photographer, my mom used to be a painter but I never got the feel for it. Wendy you go."
Wendy spoke up "I want to be a school teacher, work with little kids it was always one of my crazy dreams when I was a kid. Clyde?" She asked him smiling. He gave her a slight smirk.
"I wanna be in my own band like I used to be. Troy?" He looked at him. Troy laughed, "I wanna be a drag queen! It's totally different from my dad the baker and my mom the drunk!" He smiled cheerfully, everyone was laughing slightly. Even Steph giggled he smiled at her asking, "What about you Steph?"
Peter had walked in by the time it was Rebecca's turn just listening Stephanie shifted her position speaking up "My mother is a lawyer and my dad works in my old school as a PE teacher and the football coach, though sometime before he used to be into stocks and stuff like that like my grandfather but that was a traveling job and he wanted to stay home to suck face with my mother!" She said sarcastically in a fake cheerful voice then continued. "I however don't really care for a career." She stated.
Peter spoke up "Why is that Steph?" She rolled her eyes "Because I don't plan to be around by the time I'm supposed to get one, that's my life goal!" She then stood up and walked out of the room. Her remark had actually scared some of the cliffhangers making them realize that they didn't know her.

~*~On the next 'For Dear Life'~*~

Steph continued into the forest it then turned into a jog and then a run not even caring what her father had said to her about never making it.

"She's her father's daughter for sure. Fast runner." Peter commented to David and Sophie after they couldn't find her on campus.

Scott showed up getting out of the car jogging over to Peter. "Where is she?"
"We don't know yet Scott, it's dark but Gracie has people out looking and I'm rounding up the cliffhangers to go look for her, even though I'm breaking my own rules."
"I'm going too."

Scott, Ryan and Jamal were looking around but not finding her. They continued to look. Ryan spoke up, "Is it true you used to go here?" he asked.

Steph had finally got to the top of the cliff and was just looking down...remembering the dreams of Billy...She then turned and stepped back but the ground fell from under her, she screamed grabbing onto something...

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