Title: Forgotten Feelings

Author: LilAzNGuRLY

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Eli sees an old crush from high school. What will his reaction be and what will he do about it?

It's Tuesday morning in the Sammler/Manning household and everyone is up and busy preparing for the first day of school. Everyone that is, except Eli and Grace. Eli is still in bed with his head stuffed between his pillows while his alarm clock is ringing madly. He finally wakes grabs his alarm clock to throw across the room. Once the alarm clock hit the wall and stopped ringing, Eli sank back into his comfortable bed and tried to fall back asleep again. Only to find out he couldn't.

*Great, now back to getting up before 9 and driving back to work .Why did summer vacation have to end so early?* Eli thought while walking to the bathroom to get ready for work.

Upstairs in the house, Grace was just getting up the exact time Eli threw his clock across the room. She instantly climbed out of bed and headed to the bathroom. Glad she didn't have to wait for Zoë or Jessie to get done. She was really happy today because it was her senior year. The last year of high school and then she was free. Free of boring teachers and the demanding homework; free that is until college. She couldn't wait for this year to fly by. She finally finished up in the bathroom and headed into her room to go change. She rummaged through her closet looking for the perfect outfit to wear on the first day. She didn't notice that Jessie had come in to call her down for breakfast.

"Hey Grace, what are you doing?"

"Ahh! Oh Jessie it's you. You startled me."

"Sorry I didn't mean to, just came to tell you breakfast is ready."

"Thanks Jess. I'll be down soon. Just got to pick something to wear."

"Ok."

Once Jess left for some breakfast, Grace went back to looking for something to wear. She finally found it her black skirt that goes just below her knees and a baby blue top. Now all she needed was the right hair and accessories. She finally decided to primp her hair and use her black handbag to hold some make-up and other things. She put on her favorite black pumps and grabbed her book bag making sure she had everything.

Everyone was already eating breakfast when Eli came in. After finishing his coffee, Rick got up and kissed Lily on the cheek before leaving for work.

"Bye everyone," he called while walking out he door.

"Later," everyone said before the door closed.

"Grace!" Lily exclaimed not realizing she was already downstairs.

"Don't have to shout Mom I'm already downstairs!" She said entering the kitchen and then headed to the refrigerator to get some juice after kissing her mom on the cheek.

*Wow!* Eli thought as she entered the room. *She looks great! Wait! What am I doing? She's your step-sister Eli and besides you haven't given her a second glance before. Just look away and go back to eating your breakfast.*

"Oh honey, you look nice." Lily commented.

"Thanks Mom. So is everyone ready to go." She said while finishing her juice. "Oh yeah, Jess don't forget your tennis shoes and racket. Try outs are today."

"Thanks Grace almost forgot!" Jessie said as she went to go get them.

A year ago Grace wouldn't have cared if Jess forgot something she needed but after living together for a while they soon became friendly and even acted like sisters sometimes.

"What tryouts?" Lily asked, unaware that her daughter and step-daughter had not mentioned anything about tryouts until that moment.

"Oh we are trying out for the tennis team this year." Grace said grabbing her own tennis shoes before she forgot them.

"Grace and Jessie on a tennis team, now that is a laugh." Zoë laughed.

Grace and Jessie both shot her an evil look.

"The tennis team?" Lily asked a little confused about why they suddenly wanted to play a sport.

"Yeah, Grace and I have been thinking about it this summer. We talked about it a couple of times we thought you would've heard us." Jessie said while trying to find a place to put her shoes in her already full bag.

"No, I didn't. Eli did you hear them?"

"Yeah Lily, Grace even asked you if she could borrow the car so they could go buy some tennis equipment. You even asked why they needed the car. Don't you remember?" he asked while finishing his toast.

"No, I think this pregnancy is really getting to me."

"Mom, how can the pregnancy get to you, you've only been pregnant for 3 months." Grace asked.

"Well honey being pregnant is really stressful."

"Well I'm ready to go." Zoë said.

"Ok, so can I borrow the car or is Eli dropping us off? Mom? Mom?!?!? Mom, are you okay you seem really out of it today. Maybe you should stay home or something."

"No Grace I'm fine," she finally said while taking out a bottle of Tylenol. "I need the car today so Eli can you take them to school?"

"Sure Lily, no problem. Ok let's go."

Everyone got in the car. Eli and Grace in the front and Jessie and Zoë in the back. First they dropped off Zoë and then headed for the high school. The car was unusually silent after Zoë got dropped off so Eli decided to break the silence.

"So you two are trying out for the tennis team. Don't you need to have some experience?"

"No E, actually if you don't you can take some lessons from a tennis player that was on the team or is now."

"Yeah E, get with the program. Boy didn't know I had such a clueless brother."

Jessie and Grace both started laughing.

"Ha-ha Jess, I heard that. You are forgetting that I was only on the basketball team and you had to know how to play to be on the team." He shot back with a smirk on his face.

Still laughing a little, Grace said, "Well we do know how to play just not well that's all."

"Yeah E, we have been reading about tennis and watching it on TV."

"Well that's good to know." He said as he pulled up in front of the school. "Ok here we are. Later guys."

"It is GIRLS E not guys," they both said as they got out of the car and headed toward the school. Chatting about who would give them the lessons and if they knew them. Then Jessie left to go find Katie while Grace headed for her first class.

Eli was starting to pull out of the school's parking lot when a certain car drew his attention. It was a silver Porsche that seemed so familiar to him but he couldn't quite remember who owned it. *Oh well, I'll remember later.*Eli thought as he pulled out of the parking lot unaware that the car belonged to someone who would become a part of his life and change everything.