(Thanks for all the reviews to my last chapter, and I hope you enjoy this chapter just as much so remember R&R! Oh and katieluv, you are a great idea person;))

Nathan and Trinity both sweet talked their way out of punishment with their mother, softening her up with the line, 'Missing you was the most punishment,' followed by those big puppy dog eyes. Dan knew how to cheer up his wife too. He told her that the two of them were going off for a romantic weekend, just the two of them. They were to leave tomorrow morning and come home Monday afternoon, which wasn't a problem because the kids had no school on Monday thanks to a Civic Holiday.

Now that Nathan knew his parents were going to be away, he had the perfect idea.

"Mom, dad, since you guys are going away this weekend and I won't be playing in the game tomorrow anyway, can I have a after party at the beach house?" he said calmly, in a respective way.

"Since you put it that way, you do need to show support for the team, so yes you can but there will have to be some rules." said a now smiling Deb, with Dan's arm around her shoulders.

"No outside alcohol, no people in the bedrooms upstairs and your sister will have to be there too since we'll be away," said Dan now, laying down the obvious rules, as usual.

"You're kidding!" said Trinity, "I am not going to be at the beach house with all those drunken teenagers!"

"It's either that or you stay with Grandad Scott," said Nathan slyly, referring to their old boring grandfather, whose house smells like dead cats.

"Ok, fine, whatever, just remember Nathan, I am not helping to clean up!" she said, in a harsh yet sarcastic way.

"Trinity, it will be fine, you can stay up in your room" said Deb, reasoning.

"And you can go rent some movies tomorrow because you should remember we just put the DVD player into your room and you have cable too," said Dan, in a very knowing way.

"Ok, I get it," she said, getting up and pouring herself some juice. Her mom then disappeared from the room, as Nathan and Dan started talking about basketball. Moments later, Deb came back into the room with a present.

"Here sweetie, this is your birthday present!" she said placing it in front of Trinity. She ripped of the wrapping paper to find a brand new Toshiba laptop.

"You're kidding! Thanks!" she said, still looking in awe at her present.

"It's the best thing out right now and I now that computer of yours is looking bad so there you go, happy birthday!" Deb smiled, seeing her daughter smiling. She sat there in the kitchen, talking to her mom about it while the men of the house left to the living room.

"Oh and this is for you too," Deb said, pulling a red velvet jewelry case out of her bag. Trinity opened it, confused because her mother had never given her any jewelry before. Inside was a silver chain, and in the middle of the chain was a pink diamond incased in silver. Trinity looked at it in awe now, and Deb smiled on.

"My mom gave this to me when I turned 13 so now that you're 13, it's yours!" she said, helping her put it on.

"I think it's beautiful, thanks mom!" she replied to her mother, her fingers running over the necklace.

-....-


Deb and Dan left for their 'romantic weekend' at about 10 on Sunday morning. Trinity was up to say goodbye but was kind of relieved it was a parentless couple of days. It was about noon and Trinity was sitting in the living room watching MTV when there was a knock at the door.

"I got it!" she yelled through the house even though Nathan was in the kitchen. As she opened the door, she was very surprised to see Haley there.

"Hey Haley, you here to see Nathan?" she asked, thinking of reason to why she would be here.

"Yes I am actually, I'm his tutor..." she trailed off as Trinity let her into the house.

"Oh Hey Haley," spoke up Nathan, breaking Haley out of a this-is-a-niccceee-house look, "We're gonna be in the kitchen studying, okay Trin?" Trinity nodded and went back to the living room.

"Nice house by the way," Trinity overheard Haley say as she went into the kitchen. She knew Haley tutored kids younger than her at school sometimes but she didn't know she tutored her brother. Moments later, Trinity couldn't stand all of the overheard laughter coming from the kitchen. She hurried upstairs and threw on her rollerblades and put her shoes in her packsack. She walked downstairs and into the kitchen, grabbing some money from the pile their parents had left.

"I'm going to rent some movies, I have my cell phone if you need me," she said to her questioning brother. He nodded and went back to Haley and his math homework. As Trinity rollerbladed over to BlockBuster, she still couldn't help thinking about Haley and Nathan at home. She knew that Nathan and Peyton had broken up recently and she knew he didn't have a thing for Haley anyway but still, it was different. After renting a couple of movies, she headed back home. But on her way there she stopped at Karen's. She knew for a fact Lucas had a shift at that very moment. Before she went in though, she slipped out or her roller blades and into her shoes. She slung her bag back over her shoulder and went in. She took her seat at the counter.

"Hey, Ms. Roe," she said to Karen who smiled.

"Hello Trinity, Chocolate milk?" she said as Trinity nodded and she added, "And please call me Karen, Ms. Roe sounds...."

"So old?" Trinity finished, laughing with her. Every time she came in she insisted she called her Ms. Roe but it never stood.

"Do I get to call you Karen then?" joked a familiar voice behind Karen. They both looked over at Lucas, and they laughed.

"No, it's still mom to you and you're late!" Karen said, handing her cloth of to her son and giving Trinity her milk.

"Can I start with my break then?" he said, sitting down next to his sister. His mother looked around and said sure because there was almost no one in the café anyway.

"So what brings you to the café on this wonderful Sunday afternoon?" he questioned Trinity who shrugged.

"Can't I just show up to visit my tied-for-first-favorite-brother?" she joked and he raised his eyebrows smiling.

"Ok, I was on my way from BlockBuster and hey! I need my daily intake of chocolate milk!" Lucas laughed at her and headed behind the counter.

"Anyway, what's with the party good old Nathan is throwing?" he asked, starting to wash the counters.

"Well, he sweet talked our parents into letting him have it saying that since he couldn't play for the team he could show his support by throwing the after party! And of course, he's allowed and I get to go and stay in my room for the evening on account of my parent's going on a romantic weekend which started this morning and since tomorrow is a holiday..." she said, almost all in one breath.

"Whoa, so If I get bored tonight I can come and watch some movies with you?" he stated with more sarcasm then needed. She smiled.

"Of course, but that would of course only prove the loner you are," she said laughing. She finished up her chocolate milk and handed Lucas some money but he gave it back.

"It's on me, you are probably the only one who still orders chocolate milk anyway, so was there any other reason you stopped by?"

"Well, kinda... actually Nathan was brooding in his room like all morning because of Peyton until Haley showed up to tutor him and he was all happy, he is so weird these days..." she trailed off seeing Lucas utterly confused about the Haley thing.

"Haley came over to tutor?" he said, obviously shocked.

"You didn't know? Aw man....." she trailed off again, bringing her hand to her forehead, "If you talk to either one of them about please do me a favor Luke and don't say you heard it from me!"

(Thats it! R&R! Tell me if you like this format please becuz this one was typed on WordPerfect! So R&R! Good or bad comments accepted!)