Chapter 2

Home Sweet Home

A/N: I don't mean to sound rude and if this doesn't apply to u and it doesn't most of u, just 1 of u who review last time, who accused me of stealing which i did not, i do not steal from people, if u have the guts to accuse me at least leave ur email so i can confront you about it, because in my oppion this is not the place for this, if u got beef with me take it up with me through and by emailing me whichis diva0148 at yahoo For the ones (every1 else) ty for review and here's the next chapter and hopefully this won't happen again. Jess.

Fox Crane sighed, it had been 14 long years since he'd step foot in Harmony. From what he could hear the place hadn't changed, it was still the sleepy little town, that was basically controlled by his grandfather, the rich and powerful Alistair Crane. His eyes glanced over the newspaper article, his older brother was getting married, not just any woman. He was marring Theresa, his Theresa. The thought of that was like hearing nails on a chalkboard. He studied her picture she looked nothing like the little girl he use to play tag with, use to play cowboys and Indians with. He knew things were going to be complicated, he hadn't been to town in years, and no matter how many times he wrote her or emailed her or called he never could get in contact with her, it was like someone was intercepting his calls. He'd heard the stories of how his grandfather, Ivy father would intercept Ivy and Sam's letters, he wonder if that was what his grandfather done made it impossible for him to get in contact with her, he had wrote her numerous times, but, no reply came so eventually he gave up and dropped all contact with the town, except his birthday cards and Christmas cards that came with some cash and a simple love Ivy, he wondered why that he'd even got an invitation? It wasn't like his father and mother cared about him being at family gathering, he often wondered if it was his brother's sick way of laughing in his face.

"Fox?", he heard Ethan call from a distance, Ethan his older brother, the golden boy, Mister do good.

"I'm so glad that you could make it.", Ethan told him, walking over to him.

"I wouldn't have missed it for the world.", Fox replied simply.

"Okay, enough chit - chat.", Ethan replied. "Let me help you with your luggage."

"So tell me Ethan…", he begin, biting his tongue, he was so tempted to call him Ethass the name him and his friends often referred to him as. "How'd you get to be engaged to Theresa?"

"Well, she's always been like apart of the family.", Ethan told him.

"I guess mom and pops are so ecstatic that you and Theresa are engaged.", Fox asked.

"Yeah, well dad made me promise to let him hit that, when I get tired of her.", Ethan joked, Fox clinched his fist, anger rose in him but, he wouldn't act on it, he had came there for a soul purpose and he wouldn't let his stupid childish, prick of a brother ruin his plans.

They walked quickly to the car and got in, the next stop his destination the Crane Mansion, to her.

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"Theresita.", Pilar asked, walking in her daughter's room, Theresa had been unusually quit and seemed to be in deep thought about something or someone.

"Mama.", she asked turning to her mother. "Has Ethan called yet? Has Fox arrived?", she felt anger and fright stir up in her nearly choking her to death.

"You're nervous about seeing Nicholas I see?", Theresa asked.

"Not nervous, mama. I'm angry, how dare he show up here after 14 years, how dare he come back here 3 weeks before my wedding. He never wrote me not once, I called him I guess 50 times the first month he left and he never returned my calls, I email him and wrote him I guess 20 letters and they never came back, he got them, mama, I know he did."

"Theresa, I know all that but, you were kids, I'm sure Fox thought about you now and then, you and he were always close since the day you meet him.", Pilar told her.

"Mama, he was just playing nice with me because I was so good to him, I mean a lot of the kids didn't like him because of who his family was.", Theresa told him. "He found some people who were treated the same, so he quit fouling with the hired help."

"Theresa…", Pilar began, before she heard her phone rang ,she checked the caller I.D. , it was Ethan just like she had expected

"Ethan, hey…is he in?", she asked, she couldn't help but smile, she wanted to see him, she'd seen several pictures and she also wanted to tell him what she thought of him and his lying ass, how she was over it and how she loved Ethan and would marry him and have his children and…

"Yeah.", Ethan told her, waking her from her thoughts.

"Okay, I'll be over in a few.", Theresa replied, smiling to herself, she was going to give Fox Crane a taste of his own medicine, she'd show him that she was not just the hired help, that she was a person and that she was worthy of Ethan and his last name.