Chapter Twenty-One

Sorry it's taken so long for me to put a new chapter up. Thanks for all the reviews.

"So, Hailey has a good voice doesn't she?" Josh started the conversation with his brother. Drake was driving them home, and Josh had grown tired of the silence.

"Yeah I guess so." This was not the response Josh was looking for.

"But the way she just took the audience. It was so amazing. I was shocked."

"Yeah, what's this all about Josh? I know it's not about her singing." Drake looked at his brother with a give-it-up look.

"I am astonished. What makes you think I would have anything other than music on my mind after a performance like that?"

"Well, I told you how good her singing was when Mindy had asked me before we dropped her off. So what is this really about?" Josh forgot about that conversation with Mindy.

"Well I thought you were just being nice since they're friends. Besides didn't' she look hot in that outfit?" Drake looked confused.

"Okay I'm not commenting on how hot your girlfriend looked. Especially Mindy…gross." Josh rolled his eyes.

"Thanks, but that wasn't who I was talking about. Hailey looked hot, didn't you think?"

"I guess, but it wasn't that great. It was jeans and a tight t- shirt. She'd wear that when she babysat Megan."

"Hey, I don't like the word babysat, she watched me okay." Megan yelled at her older brother from the back seat. He looked back and gave her a weak smile because he had forgot she was in the car.

"Come on Drake, she's a hottie. What's wrong with you?" Drake rolled his eyes, and turned up the radio. "Fine, ignore the question. It doesn't matter anyway." Josh shouted over the load music.

The rest of the drive was silent, except for Drake's music. Megan watched her two brothers, and knew they were really mad at each other, but she just wanted to know why.

"Boys, the phone!" Audrey yelled at them. She was helping Megan with homework, and Josh and Drake were ignoring each other in the living room.

"I got it." Drake got up and walked into the kitchen to answer the phone. "Hello?"

"Drake?" Hailey's voice came over the receiver.

"Hailey, what are you doing calling so late?" Drake asked, hoping she would start a conversation with him.

"I wanted to talk to your mom, is she around?" His face looked disappointed.

"Yeah she's here, hold on a second." Drake placed the receiver on his shoulder and turned to his mother. "Hailey wants to talk to you." He said in a soft tone. Audrey got up and walked over to the kitchen door.

"I'll take it in here." They all watched as she disappeared behind the swinging kitchen door. Drake looked as though he was going to hang up the phone when Megan ran over to the side of the couch.

"Wait we're not going to listen?" She looked at both her brother's like they were the stupidest people she had ever seen. "Give me the phone!" Megan took it out of Drake's hand and put it on speaker.

"So Hailey what did you want to talk about?" Audrey asked in her usually pleasant voice.

"I just wanted to let you know that I won't be looking after Megan anymore." Hailey said solemnly.

"Oh, why not? I hope it has nothing to do with the boys." Audrey said the last part with a bit of concern, as if she already knew what had been happening in their lives, and she knew it had everything to do with the boys.

"No, my dad just got a promotion, and Kara is moving to UCLA, so I'm going with them up to Los Angeles."

"I'm sorry to here that I'm really going to miss having you around, and I know Megan is going to be really upset to here this." As if on cue Megan pulled in a sharp breathe.

"I can't believe you! This is why I didn't want you two to see each other ever! You ruin everything!" Megan screamed at her older brother. Drake looked at her with tears in her eyes and her face flushed a bright red, he had never seen her this upset before.

"Megan, I didn't mean…" She didn't' want to hear his apology. Instead she ran up the stairs, slamming her door when she reached it.

"Great now she hates me even more." Then Josh spoke up for the first time since the car ride home.

"You know you're still on speaker right?" Drake looked at the phone with wide eyes. Josh shrugged his shoulders and headed up to his room.

"Great!" Drake said with the most sarcasm he could possibly use.

"Mrs. Nichols, can I talk to Drake?" Hailey asked trying really hard not to let her voice sound as annoyed as she really was.

"Sure, Drake…" Audrey came out of the kitchen and glanced at him, "Come in here, and don't say anything that you'll regret later. I'll go check on Megan." With that she was gone. It was just him and Hailey on the phone.