Chapter2:

A few weeks of school went by and Katie didn't have to see Jack as much except for first period, but she moved to a different seat. He noticed but he decided to let it go. Right now Katie was sitting in her empty house again all alone. She was sitting by her ballet bag lacing up her gym shoes when the doorbell rang. She looked at the clock which read 6:20 she had 10 minutes until she had to be at the studio. She stood up and answered the door to see Jack.

"What do you want?"

"Is that how you really greet your neighbors?" Jack asked coming inside her house again.

"Well to the ones I can't stand, yes."

"Ouch, that hurt." Jack said turning towards her with a fake hurt expression.

"Seriously what do you want?"

"Serious?" Jack asked, standing up and looking at her. Katie nodded her head looking at him.

"You." Jack said before smirking. Katie looked at him and said.

"Get out." Jack smiled and said.

"Hey, I was serious!"

"Out!" Katie said as she pushed him out the door. Jack smiled as she shut the door. Katie sighed and shook her head as she made her way over to the couch and grabbed her bag. She then walked outside and towards her car. Jack heard her and turned around in her driveway.

Katie threw her bag in the passenger seat and got in the driver's seat and started the car. Jack smiled and walked up to her window and knocked on it. Katie sighed and looked at him as she rolled down her window.

"What?"

"Let's go out tonight." Jack said leaning on the window.

"Um no." Katie told him.

"Come on."

"No!"

"Why?"

"Can't."

"Can't or won't?" Jack asked her. Katie sat there and thought about and looked back at him and said.

"Won't." Jack backed away from her window and smiled.

"Just wait, you'll be dying for me to ask you out again." Katie rolled her eyes and backed out of the driveway and drove down the street.

Jack on the other hand was smiling to himself as he walked over to his house. He looked at the silver key in his hand, She dropped her house key.

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An hour after dancing Katie was driving home listening to Guns & Roses in her radio. She pulled up to her house and grabbed her bag and walked up to the door. She dug around in her bag looking for keys since her dad was working overnight. She kept digging around it had to be in there somewhere, it just had to be.

"Looking for this?" Katie jumped at that voice, she hated that voice, it wasn't just any voice it was his voice.

Katie sighed and turned around to see Jack standing there holding her house key.

"Give me it!"

"No." He said while holding it up higher then she could reach.

"Yes!"

"What's in the bag?" He asked nodding his head towards her bag.

"Stuff. Give me it!" She said jumping up and down trying to reach it.

"What's in the bag first?"

"My shoes and clothes for ballet."

"Ballet?"

"Yes ballet!"

"Fine." He said while handing her the keys, she sighed and turned around and made her way towards the door. He followed her inside.

"So why are you so interested in ballet?" Jack asked which caused her to jump.

"Gah! Don't you have some band to practice with?" Katie asked getting irritated.

"Yeah."

"Well shouldn't you be there?"
"You never answered my question." Jack stated walking towards her. Katie looked up at him and said.

"I like to dance because, it's beautiful and has full of energy."

Jack just scoffed and leaned against the wall.

"So what's so great about being in a punk rock band? Huh?" Katie asked.

"Well, it's my escape."

"Escape?" Katie asked

"Yes escape, you don't have to be insulted for making music with lyrics on how you feel because people will appreciate it."

"Ah, so write your feelings into lyrics." Katie said with a sly smile.

"Yeah, and you forget everything when you dance?" Jack asked.

"Oooh, The punk rocker boy is smart." Katie said.

"What'd you think I was stupid?"

"Well you don't participate in class."

"That's because I know all of that stuff they're teaching. Ballet is dull and boring."

"Well rock is loud and obnoxious." Jack smiled this was what he wanted.

"Yeah, well ballet is for uptight freaks like yourself."

"WHAT? Rock is for self-absorbed freaks like you!"

"Self-absorbed freaks like me? What's that supposed to mean?" Jack asked usually girls would be crawling at his feet right now, but no she's different, she's got spunk.

'Yes, you think every girl wants you! You think you're the hottest thing to ever hit this town! But guess what? Your not! You're far from that! You're an annoying little boy who's very arrogant!" Jack looked at her and shook his head he was smiling to himself inside but he couldn't show that to her.

"Well I am kind of right about the every girl wants me part." Jack said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Katie asked. Jack smiled and leaned down to her level.

"Do you want me?" Katie snarled and pushed Jack towards the front door.

"That's it! Get out!" She said while pushing him. Jack had his hand on the doorknob and smiled and looked at her.

She twisted his hand for him to open the door and she pushed him outside and slammed the door in his face.

Jack smiled and asked, "Is that a yes?" Katie shook her head and kicked the door. Jack smiled and walked back towards his house.

"I got you." He said to himself facing Katie's house.

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Jack walked into his house to see his brother's car. He figured it must be a family dinner again.

"Where you been Jackie-o?" A 30-year-old Bobby asked standing up from the couch.

"Out." Jack said hanging his coat up.

"Jackie? Were you on a date?" A 24-year-old Angel asked surprised.

"No." Jack said coming into the living room and sitting down.

"Figures." Bobby said. Jack just glared at his older brother.
"Man quit ragging on Jack." A 21-year-old Jerry said coming inside.

Just then their ma came into the house.

"Bobby, Angel! I'm glad you came for dinner." Eveyln said setting her purse on the table.

"Ma, Jack went on a date." Angel said. Jack glared at Angel too.

"Who's the young lady Jack?" Evelyn asked.

"It was not a date! I was just talking to the girl across the street."

"Speaking of her, why don't you invite her to dinner, it'd be a nice thing to do Jack."

"Ma."

"Jackie do what Ma says." Bobby said before smirking.

"Bobby quit teasing him, Jack go and invite her over for supper."

"Fine." Jack said grabbing his coat.

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Katie was watching TV when she heard the doorbell go off.

"What?" She asked greeting Jack at the door.

"Come over for dinner." Jack said. Katie looked at him and shook her head.

"So you want to eat all alone in this big old empty house?" Jack asked. Katie sighed she had been eating by herself for along time.

"Come on."

"Fine. But don't think I'll go out with you just because I'm eating at your house." Jack smiled as she closed the door behind her.

"Got it."

"So don't go bragging to your friends that you went out with me."

"Okay."

"This is not a date."

"Yeah."

"If you tell anyone about this-

"Here." Jack said opening the door to his house. Katie took a deep breath and walked inside.

She scanned the room to see two black males sitting on the couch a white male who was walking into the living room he had brown hair slicked back. The black male in the red shirt had a buzz cut and the other one had a small Afro.

"Guys, this is Katie Taylor she lives across the street." Katie smiled as the all waved to her.

"Katie, that's Bobby, Jerry and Angel." He said indicating to each of them.

"Dinner." Jack walked towards the dining room with Katie following.

Evelyn sat at the top with Jack sitting on her left, with Jerry next to him, then at the end was Bobby and on his right was Angel. Katie took the empty seat, which was next to Angel and across from Jerry.

During the prayer Katie noticed that all the guys were different not just by skin tones, but they were all different by interests but you could tell they had a very strong family bond and they would die for their family if they had too.

"So Katie, where did you move from?" Their mother asked.

"I moved here with my dad from Australia."

"Wow Australia. That's pretty far from here." Evelyn stated.

"Yeah, it is." Katie said.

"So why'd you move to Detroit? This place is dead." Bobby stated.

"Well, my dad he thought he could fix it up get more attractions here."

"In a dead city like this?" Angel asked.

"Well, my dad didn't realize that until we moved here." Katie said.

"So how you adjusting to the move?" Jerry asked.

"Well the sleeping pattern was a big change for me. But it's going good so far."

"Are you a junior?" Evelyn asked.

"No, I'm a senior."

"You look awfully young to be a senior." Evelyn stated.

"Yeah, well when I came here the junior and sophomore classes I've already taken back in Australia so, they bumped me up to senior."

"Wow a 16 year old senior." Angel said.

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"Let's go play some hockey!" Bobby said standing up.

Jack was sitting next to Katie and looked at her.

"You know how to play right?" Jack asked standing up and getting his coat.

"Of course." Katie said a little unsure of herself. Jack smiled and said. "Alright."

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"You sure you know how to skate?" Jack asked Katie who was wobbling on the ice.

"Yeah. I just haven't done it in awhile." Jack smirked and skated over to her and said.

"Really?" In a sly tone and Katie instantly knew what he meant

"Perv!" She said as she turned around and skated away. Jack just smiled and watched her until Bobby called him for the game.

Katie skated around for awhile and she kind of got used to it on her own. She was going slow, extremely so. So slow that a grandpa skated faster than her. Katie saw this and got mad so she decided to skate faster.

She skated around and around but she soon was heading for the wall.

"Jack!" Jack turned around and saw Katie skating towards the wall with her arms flailing around the place.

"How do you stop!"

"Katie!" Jack called skating over towards her but too late she just did a flip over the wall. Jack skated over to the wall and looked down to see Katie sitting there.

"Ow!"

Jack climbed over the wall and looked at her. "What? Are you okay? What hurts?"

"My arm. Really bad. I probably just sprained it." Katie said standing up. Jack stood up and watched her to attempt to stand up. "OW! Jesus!" Katie said. Her arm was to weak to push herself up.

Bobby, Angel and Jerry came over and saw Katie sitting on the ground.

"You broke it." Bobby said looking down.

"How you know?" Jack asked. Angel looked at Jack and said.

"Look at her wrist asshole!" Jack saw her arm her left wrist was crooked. Bobby sighed and skated over and grabbed his and Katie's shoes Jack, Angel and Bobby skated over and grabbed their shoes.

Jack helped Katie put hers on.

"It can't be broken!"

"it is." Jerry said looking and grimacing at her wrist.

"Maybe I just bent it wrong or something." Katie said as she reached over and tried to fix her wrist. Jack saw this and grabbed her hand and looked at her and said.

"Leave it alone. You're going to make it worse." He said standing up.

"What? No I won't!" Jack helped Katie up and they all piled into Bobby's car.

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Hospital-

Bobby, Angel and Jerry were in the waiting room. Bobby lied and told the nurse they were her brothers so they could see her.

Jack was sitting with her in the room.

"So you skated before?" Jack asked knowing she never laid a foot on a skating rink.

"Fine! I never did ice skate before! Happy?" Jack smiled as the doctor came in and asked. "What color do you want your cast to be?" Katie smiled and said.

"Purple."

"Your different." Katie looked at him and glared.

"And you're a punk." Katie said.

'What is your dad going to say when he see's your wrist?"

"Nothing. He barley, says anything to me."

"Really?" Jack asked.

"Okay, ready?" The doctor asked coming in with the proper stuff for putting a cast on. Jack sighed and stood up and walked out of the room and sat with his brothers.

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Katie came out with a lollipop in her mouth and smiling. Bobby looked at her weird, Jerry shook his head, Angel was hitting on the nurse, and Jack was laughing.

"What?" Katie asked.

"What are you 5? Did the doctor give you a lollipop because you were good?" Bobby asked.

"Look, I can't help that I'm a good patient." Bobby looked at her cast while standing up and asked.

"Never skated before, huh?" Katie looked at him and she exclaimed.

"What does the whole world know now?" Jack smirked and stood up next to her as the walked out of the hospital.

"Well it was pretty obvious when you flipped over the wall." Bobby had to drag Angel away from the nurse. When they were in the car Jack looked at Katie and smiled and said.

"So Aussie, have any more bad qualities you need to tell us about?" Katie glared and turned towards him.

"1. I don't have bad qualities and 2. My name isn't Aussie! You know if you say one more thing I'll hurt you."

"Hurt me with what? Your cast?" Katie glared at him and leaned over Angel and smacked Jack with her cast on her left wrist.

"Whoa! Aussie! Sit down!" Angel said pushing her off of him.

"Hey! Don't start getting freaky in the back seat! I just cleaned my car!" Bobby said. Katie looked at all four of the boys and asked.

"Is that the only thing you boys think about?"

"Yeah." They all said at the same time. But then Bobby looked in the rearview mirror and said.

"That or revenge." Jerry looked at Katie and saw the scared look on her face.

"Damn, Bobby don't scare the girl."

"Yeah, wouldn't want to scare away Jack's girlfriend." Angel stated. Katie looked over at Jack who was looking at her. She quickly looked away and out the window.