A/N Again the 2nd ½ of the last chapter was kinda random, but don't worry, the background on Emily will make sense eventually. Thanks for the reviews, they always make me happy! And so…
"Bradin?" Emily yelled as she gasped to catch her breathe. "What the hell are you doing walking on a dark road at 10:30 at night? You're asking to get hit!"
"Well if you were looking at the road you wouldn't have to worry about hitting me." Was it destiny to meet her again, with no one else around? He wondered NO, I love Callie, its just a coincidence he reassured himself, just a coincidence. He got up off of he ground. "No offense but you don't look old enough to drive"
"I turned 16 last week thank you very much." A sound of throwing up came from behind them. "Oh Missy, I can't bring you home like this" She rolled her eyes as her friend continued to throw up over the side of her car. (Not the side Bradin was on)
"Is she ok? She looks pretty wasted." He replied noticing her for the first time
"Yea, she's done it before, actually, if I hadn't been with you guys tonight I'd probably look like that too. Stupid school, we're like a bad version of The OC. And the saddest thing is that we're required to go to these stupid parties, they call them 'Team Functions' Its so stupid."
"Yikes, sounds pretty stupid. Why do you do it?" He looked deep into her eyes.
"Cause I love to dance" She shrugged. Bradin began to say something up was interrupted
"Emmy I gotta get home, my step-dad's gunna kill me!" A weak voice came from the back of the car. Missy had stopped throwing up and was now hanging over the side of the car.
"And your step-dad's gunna kill me for letting you get like this." She handed Missy her cell phone. "call him and tell him you're staying over my house. I can't let you go home like this." Missy took the phone.
"Hi Rick…I'm staying over Emmy's ok?... Ok, I'll be home by noon… K, Bye."
"Thanks Em, I owe you one. Who's the hottie" She looked right at Bradin
"This is Bradin, and FYI he has a girlfriend so don't waste you time."
Missy looked upset. "So I take it he's not the one you've been running off to meet. When do I get to meet the mystery boyfriend?"
"Soon enough, soon enough." She looked at Bradin "Do you want a ride? Since I've now delayed you from getting to wherever you were going"
"Guess it's better to be in your car then under it, huh?" He laughed and opened the passenger door.
"Exactly. Where do you live?"
"Up here by the beach"
The rest of the ride was quiet, with only the sound of Emily's radio. She pulled up to Bradin's house and he got out. "Thanks" he said as he closed the door. "Oh, yea, nice car." She smiled as he turned and walked up to the door. She waved as she pulled out of the driveway. He watched as she drove out of sight. Wow he thought as he unlocked the door and went to bed, she's NOTHING like Callie.
The next day Bradin and Lucas were walking down the pier with a bunch of guys from the Surf Team.
"Look, here comes trouble" Lucas said as an equally large group of guys walked toward them.
"Who are they?" Bradin asked, confused.
"The St. Seb's Surf Team" He replied quickly and under his breath "Their captain hates me."
"Oh, if it isn't the Playa Linda boys. The team with a reject coach and talent to match him" One of them said smugly. He knew that would push at least one of them off the edge. Just on cue, Jake lunged toward him. Lucas grabbed him.
"He's not worth it Jake" Lucas said. "He's just pissed because Emily chose me over him, right Chris?"
"Ass" He replied as he flung toward Lucas. Just as Lucas had done with Jake, one of his friends stopped him. "Dude"
Just as the two were ready to lunge toward each other Emily and Callie walked toward them.
"What the hell's going on here?" Emily asked in a really pissed off voice.
"Why don't you ask your boyfriend?" Chris asked. He looked at Emily with a glare.
"Oh my God, this again? You're an ass-hole. I'm with Lucas,I picked him,get over it!" she replied, giving him a matching glare as she walked toward Lucas, who looked pretty content with himself as he put his arm around her waist
"Well then, I'll just take her" He looked straight at Callie.
"Ew" she said and walked over to Bradin. He put his arm around her shoulders. Now he was glaring at Chris.
"Why don't you get outta here, no one wants you here" Bradin said.
"No one wants him anywhere" Emily replied with a matter-of-fact look on her face, the PL boys all laughed.
"Well we came to get you actually. Brittany wants to see you about skipping the party." He looked right at Emily.
"And it took 12 of you relay that one message, wow I guess I really did overestimate y'all." She turned to Lucas. "Duty calls, I'll call you later." She kissed him, it was long and passionate. Then she turned to Callie. "Sorry to bail out on ya, we can go shopping another time. K?"
"No problem" Callie said. She was still deciding on whether or not she liked Emily. This would give her more time to decide.
"Ehem" Chris cleared his throat.
"What do I need an escort? I have a car ya know!" She looked quite annoyed
"Brit told us to get you, so that's what we're doing." Chris replied, walking toward Emily.
"Ok, 5 feet rule." She put out her hand so he didn't come any closer. "Bye Babe" she said to Lucas and kissed him on the cheek. He smiled and hugged her. She turned toward the kids from her school. "Well let's get this over with." She said rolling her eyes.She started walking down the pier with the group of boys a step behind.
"Don't count on a call for a while" Chris said to Lucas before turning away. "Brittany's really pissed at her and that show she just put on won't go over well" He turned and walked toward the group.
"Ok, I don't like them" Callie said as she and the boys started walking toward the beach.
"Yea, Me either" Lucas replied, "But I think that confrontation may end up doing Em more harm than good" He shook his head. He knew that defending him was a big betrayal to her school, and she would have to pay for it.
