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Lucas walked up the driveway of his girlfriend's house. They had been going out for a year and about a month. They were completely in love with each other and were close friends. Luke thought it was dumb when two people dated and just thought of each other as boyfriend-girlfriend and nothing more. He and Danni thought of each other as friends first. They were introduced to each other by Jay about two years ago and became fast friends and then they decided to go out.

As Luke rang the doorbell, he knew exactly what Danni would be doing write about now. She would be upstairs, scrambling to get her shoes on while she ran down the stairs to try to prove to Lucas that girls could be ready on time, even though they both knew that it was impossible in her case. It would drive a lot of guys crazy that she was never on time, but Luke just looked at it as one of her annoyingly cute habits. It drove Charlie crazy though. She was used to throwing on the first thing that she stepped on on the floor of her messy bedroom. Danni did usually take a while to get ready, but as Luke saw it; it was all worth it. She was gorgeous. She wasn't the kind of girl that wore clothes two sizes too small or wore way too much make up. No, she wasn't like Brooke. She was the kind of girl that made you look twice. And she never looked like she took forever. Most of her clothes were completely casual.

She opened the door and, as usual, she looked beautiful. She was wearing a black t-shirt and jean short with her hair down in its natural state: down past her shoulders with waves that framed her face perfectly and natural highlights.

"Hey, you," he said after he kissed her.

"Hey. See girls can be ready on time," she replied matter-of-factly.

"Actually, I'm fifteen minutes late and it took you a while to open up the door," he friendly shot back, putting his arm around her and leading her to the car.

"Well it serves you right for being fifteen minutes late. I mean what kind of boyfriend are you?" she said, trying to act like she was serious. She couldn't help herself, though, when Lucas broke out into laughter. Defeated, he sighed and opened the car door for her.

Nathan paced up and down his room. He's gonna want to be on the team. He can't be. I'm not going to let him take that away from me, he thought. Nathan had seen the kid play. The guy was good, but not better than him. He probably wouldn't have any friends. Nathan would be sure of that. Nathan was going to make his life a living hell.

Karen parked her car in one of the few spots outside the auto shop. She hadn't seen Keith in sixteen years. He was sitting at his desk, probably working on paper work. She knew that it was going to be hard but he had a right to know everything that had gone on since she had last seen him. They were friends. At least they used to be. She opened the door to the shop and the door made a cling sound. Keith immediately looked up. At first it was as though he didn't recognize her. Why should he? Karen thought. It wasn't as though she had tried to contact him within the past sixteen years.

"Long time no see," she said awkwardly. She had no idea what his reaction would be.

"Karen," he finally was able to say. He looked shocked. It was as though he thought he was delirious. Karen Roe couldn't possibly be standing in front of him. He hadn't seen her since she left over a decade ago.

"Hey, Keith." He got up and they walked towards each other, stopping where their paths crossed. He pulled her into a hug.

"I missed you so much, Keith" He pulled away and looked at held her at arms length, just looking at her.

"Apparently no one told you I was back in town," she laughed.

"Apparently not," he laughed back. "Here. Why don't we sit down." He led her to his office that was extremely cluttered, but had a comfortable looking chair opposite of the chair that was sitting behind his desk. There were papers all over his desk, scattered and randomly tossed aside. Keith was never the organizer, she thought. She remembered how his room looked back when they were younger. He never cleaned it. Looks better this way, he used to say. The more Karen thought about it, the weirder it would seem if his desk was clean. She was glad that he hadn't changed. Of course, she didn't really know if he had changed or not. She barely said two sentences to him since she got there and he hadn't said much more. They sat down across from each other and were silent for a few seconds. It was as though neither of them knew where to start.

"Wow." Keith was the first one to break the heavy silence. "I haven't seen you in almost sixteen years," he continued. It was as though he was just coming to realize how long it was since they had seen each other.

"I haven't seen you since… Well since before Lucas. Wow." Karen had also just realized how long it had been. She hadn't seen Keith since before Lucas. Lucas had been her life since he was born. She had trouble remembering what it was like to not have him around.

"Lucas?" It just hit her. She knew that things would be weird, but it was just now coming to her how weird. They knew nothing about each other. They had nothing in common anymore. He didn't even know what her son's name was. And as far as she knew, he wasn't even positive that she had kept him. And what about him? Was he married? Was he happy? Did he have kids? The questions flooded through her mind.

"My son," she said snapping back to reality.

"Oh yeah. Wow." It seemed as though that word was going to be through around a lot in the next few hours. "So how did that go anyway?" he asked, still not sure on what to say.

"It's great. He just turned sixteen. He's a really great kid. You'd love him."

"That's great. So how long are you in town?"

"Actually we just moved here."

They talked for hours. Each minute seemed to shrink the tension between the two people who were practically strangers, turning them back into the good friends that they once were.

Karen told him everything from Lucas to the café to getting married. She also mentioned that Lucas had no idea who his father was nevertheless that he lived in the same town. Keith told her about how Dan was married to Deb know and that they had their own son who was almost seventeen. Karen knew who that was. That was the reason she had left in the first place. He was the reason why she wasn't married to Dan and living in a huge house with him instead of Andy, the man she loved.