A/N: I'm back, for now. Honestly, when I started this sequel, I knew what I was doing for the beginning and the end. So, I don't know about the middle. I'll try.

Chapter 3

Weeks had passed. Katey got a job as a secretary at the local school. She finally broke down and told her parents about Javier leaving, and got the responses she was expecting – she should have never gotten involved with him in the first place. She refused to live off her parents, and denied that Javier had been a waste of time.

"Without him, I wouldn't have Dominic and Julie," she had said, knowing all the while her parents were right. But they respected her wishes. They did their best to help Katey, but she was a stubborn one.

"Susie, can you please watch the kids tonight?" Katey asked over the phone.

"Sure, where ya going?" Susie asked.

"I have a date."

"With who?"

"One of the teachers at Winnbrook asked me out."

"Over Javier so soon?"

"No," Katey replied hesitantly, "but I think its about time I started trying."

"Good for you," Susie replied. "See you tonight."

"Later Susie."

Ben Shields picked Katey up at her apartment. He was tall with dark hair and eyes. Katey thought he was good looking, not as good looking as Javier. No, I have to get over him, he left me, Katey tried to push him out of her mind. Ben smiled sweetly as he escorted Katey into his car.

"What did you have in mind for dinner?" he asked, looking in Katey's bright blue eyes.

"Oh, I don't know," Katey replied. "I don't get out much."

"How does Johnny's Castle sound?" Ben asked, winking. (A/N: Look at my creativity!)

"Oh lovely!" Katey smiled. They drove off to a large restaurant in the shape of a castle. Katey gawked at everything. The waiters were made to me like jokers and the chefs were kings and queens. Katey caught a glimpse of them through the swinging doors. They were seated almost immediately at a small table by a window overlooking a river.

"It's lovely here," Katey said, smiling. Javier and I could never afford this, she thought.

"I thought you'd like it," Ben said, showing Katey a toothy grin. She smiled back. She enjoyed one of the best dinners of her life with Ben, although he was not as romantic and charming as Javier. She thought she might be able to love him, so she invited him up to her apartment, not expecting to see Susie sitting with an unexpected visitor.

A/N: Hooray for me, I figured out what to do with this story.