Disclaimer: See chapter one
A/N: Here chapter 5. I know I said I wanted 5 reviews but I have already started writing ch6 so i thought oh well! Its dedicated tomy wonderful reviewers UFOhelena, freakzoid247, Laura and Zara. Thanks to UFOhelena for putting this on fav stories list. Big thanks to freakzoid247 and Zara for explaining the school sytem to me. This wasn't written in one go like most chapters, see if that's better or worse? xx

Kate's POV

It's never fun starting a new school. I remember my first day at school in England. It was the first day I was introduced as Kate Cooper.

It says Katherine Rebecca Emma Sampson on my birth certificate- ridiculously long I know. It's only ever used on official documents like passports, school applications and exam papers. And when I was little I was Katie, Katie Sampson. Then my parents split up and I moved to the other side of the world. I was mad at dad for what he'd done and I wanted to separate myself from 'his little Katie' so I changed to Kate. Cooper was just convenience really, it was never officially changed, it was just to stop confusion when my mom changed back to her maiden name. Now I'm back with my dad so Sampson has returned, but Kate stays. The third me, Kate Sampson.

My first morning at school was okay; I met a few new friends. I'm glad that I had quite a few classes with Andrew, I hated not knowing anyone. I ate lunch with Andrew and some of his mates, including Justin, the guy I'd met at the mall. I agreed to meet Andrew at my locker after school. Before going off afternoon classes. I had math last period – not what you want on Monday afternoon. But being quite good at math I coped okay and almost felt at home.

I met Andrew afterwards and got a lift back to his with one of his mates. 'You wanna come in?' he asked I thought why not, all I'd be doing was sitting at my dad's. We went into his house and into the kitchen for a drink. His mom was in there when we walked in. She was reading a cookbook while having a glass of wine, she looked up. As she did so she straightened up.

'Hello Andrew, Katie.'

'Kate' I corrected

'Yes sorry Kate, how are you?' she was still stood behind the counter.

'I'm well thanks'

'Good now what would you two like?'

'We were just getting a drink' I told her

'Let me-' she said

'Mom we just want water' said Andrew 'And besides we don't care you're over halfway through a bottle of wine at 3:30' he said going to the fridge

'Andrew!' she said 'I haven't drunk all this today'

'Whatever' he said pulling out a couple of bottles of water and passing one to me 'Just I seem to remember there wasn't an open bottle this morning.'

'Are you monitoring my drinking now?'

'Why, does it need monitoring?' challenged Andrew

'No!'

'You keep telling yourself that then' he said turning to leave 'C'mon Katie, it reeks of wine in here' I threw an awkward glance at his mom before turning and following Andrew.

Andrew's POV

I left mom to her drinking and headed up the stairs, Katie following. We passed Danielle on the landing.

'Is mom downstairs?' she asked me?

'Yeah. Good luck if you want something though, she's nearly had a whole bottle' Danielle sighed

'Make that two I saw her putting one in the bin at about 10:30' I rolled my eyes

'If she wants to get wasted, I don't care'

'Are you not worried about her?' she asked me

'No.' I told her bluntly but honestly and ended the conversation by opening my bedroom door. Katie silently followed me in shutting the door behind her.

I moved towards the TV and switched it on, flicking through to see what was on. Katie moved to stand in front of the TV. 'Hey!' I said trying to lean past her. She turned around and switched it off.

'Andrew, what is it between you and your mom?'

'Nothing' I insisted again. Why couldn't she drop it?

'Well I know something's wrong. What's with this 'drinking' thing? Is that it?'

'Yeah' I said. 'Yeah that's what it is. Her drinking' I expect she could tell I wasn't sincere but she didn't say anything she just looked at me. Her eyes flicked to the floor for a second and then returned to me before she said.

'We were best friends weren't we' I nodded 'And what kind of things did we tell each other?' she asked I thought for a moment, I mean what a weird question.

'Everything?' I said finally, she nodded

'Everything' she echoed 'then what changed?' I remained silent 'You promised me nothing would change. I clung onto that when I moved. It was like my lifeline, knowing I always had friends here. And I have never kept anything from you in my life, ever.'

'Yeah, so you've told me about everything in your life in England have you?'

'Have you asked? What do you wanna know? 'Cos I'll tell you' her voice was now above normal speaking level.

'I dunno' I said backing down

'Ask me!'

'Okay' I said defensively. I thought for a moment. 'Okay, who's your best friend? Honestly.' She thought for a moment eyes on the ground before raising them to me.

'Honestly? In all the world? You.' I didn't know what to say so I said nothing 'There's never been anyone else who I trusted and could talk to like I can you.' She stopped and there was silence. 'You can tell me anything. I know you've probably got a new best friend. I have been gone 6 years! But I'm back now. And I wanna be part of your life again. I wanna go back to how things were. Before my parents started fighting. Before I left. Before my mom died' A tear rolled down her face. 'Oh fuck now I'm crying' she said angrily wiping it away and taking a breath. Her voice was still on the verge of tears. 'Andrew I just wanna know what it is. Something's obviously wrong. Why can't you tell me?'

I sat down on my bed. I don't know what's wrong with me. With anyone else I would just come out with it. "Well there are a few things causing problems. One, my mother hates me and keeps sending me away to brat camp. Two, my mother's boyfriend killed my dad. Three, my mother is an alcoholic but won't admit it, although that's quite amusing, but she doesn't think so. And four my mother doesn't like that I'm gay and thinks I'm going to hell. So yeah that's pretty much what's wrong with our relationship." But I couldn't say that to Katie. Because she's not anyone. In fact, she's one of the few people whose opinion actually matters to me. But she's been gone so long I don't really know her. For all I know she might take my mom's side. She might hate me. Suddenly a thought gripped my throat. Katie, at least when she was younger, was quite religious, what if she, like my mother, thought I would go to hell. I don't know if I could stand for her to hate me too.

She was still watching me waiting for an answer. I didn't know what to say. I will tell her. When I can. But right now? It's just too damn hard. 'There are some issues between me and my mom, and I will tell you. But not now yeah?' She still looked really upset.

'So this is the only thing you'll hide from me?'

'Yeah'

'Promise?'

'Promise' she nodded,

'Okay. And I'm sorry about the whole almost hystericalness. Emotions running high, first day and that. I just wanna be here for you, like you were always there for me.' I nodded to show I accepted what she was saying. 'Look I'd better go. I'll cya tomorrow' and she turned to leave. Before she shut the door behind her I called after her.

'Hey Katie?' she stuck her head back around the door

'Yeah?'

'You still go to church?' she nodded

'Every week. Why?'

'No reason, just wondered' she nodded

''K. cya.'

Justin's POV

Andrew came over to mine late Monday night. I opened the door to find him standing there. 'Er hey' I greeted 'What you doing here?' He looked troubled but still hot as ever. He shrugged 'You wanna come in?' I asked. He nodded and I stepped back to let him in, closing the door behind him. He sat on the sofa and I sat down next to him. He still hadn't said anything. 'Is everything okay?' he shook his head.

'I had a fight with Katie. It's all made up now.' I just sat there waiting, hoping he'd open up. 'She's known me since I was little. She knows when something's wrong. She keeps asking what's going on between me and that anal, murderous, alcoholic, homophobic bitch.' By that I guessed it was his mom. 'But I couldn't tell her. My life's so messed up. And I actually do care about her. If she hated me I wouldn't know how to deal.' See now that's bizarre he can cope with his mom hating him but not the girl he hasn't seen for 6 years. Sometimes I don't understand him.

'Why would she hate you?' I asked softly

'Because she goes to church and believes all that shit like my mom.'

'You think she'd hate you because you're gay?'

'My mom does'

'Well you know I don't believe she does but let's not get into that again. How do you know she even believes that?'

'I don't. I just don't want to take the risk of messing my life up more.' I put my hand on his thigh and rubbed it with my thumb.

'You can't hide it from her forever.' He put his hand over mine.

'Ya'know, sometimes I think you're the only thing in my life that makes sense.' I smiled sadly at him and he leaned towards me. He kissed me deeply and I fell back against the couch. I put one arm around his waist pulling him closer and moved the other up to run my fingers through his hair. He pushed up my shirt running his hands up my chest as he kissed me. We broke apart long enough for him to slip it over my head before bring his lips back to mine. Still kissing me his hands moved down to my belt and started to undo the buckle. Unfortunately we were rudely interrupted at that point by John coming into the room.

'Woah' he said as he came in and saw us. Andrew stopped kissing me but for some reason decided not to move from on top of me. 'Yeah, I'm still here' said John. I slipped my arm out from around him and tried to get up.

'C'mon man' I said. As he slowly got off me I looked around doing up my belt and looking around for my shirt. John looked at me.

'Good job I came home when I did. If I'd come in a bit later…' he said

'Shut up John' I said locating my shirt, moving towards it.

'I thought that after last time we agreed that you two would STAY in Justin's room and that I would always knock. ALWAYS.

'Yeah well we forgot' I said pulling on my shirt.

'I'd better go' said Andrew

'You don't have to' I protested 'We could-'

'Nah I gotta go. She's probably passed out on the floor by now, don't wanna miss that. I'll cya later.' I saw him to the door

'Night' I said as I opened the door. He gave me a kiss. Just as he started moving away I pinned him against the door frame prolonging it as long as I could. Eventually he pulled his head away and I released him.

'Night' he said before walking off.

I went back to where John had turned the TV on but was looking at the sofa warily. 'Thanks John thanks a lot' I said as I went in.

'You should have kept to the deal' he said absentmindedly. I walked towards my bedroom. 'Oh get over it and just sit down.' I called behind me knowing he was still staring at the couch. 'We've done it there before' I said opening my door.

'WHAT?'

'Oh and the kitchen table' I called back over my shoulder shutting the door. I heard his reply through the door.

'JUSTIN!' and the bang as what sounded like the remote hit my door. I smiled, laughing to myself as I drew the curtains.

A/N so thats chapter 5. I hope it wasn't rushed. I have loadsa ideas and I just wanna get them down! Please review it costs you nothing but brightens up my day, (or is that smile?). Hope you like it. Please review, love you all xx