Sorry for the delay but ive been snowed under with coursework!! (Pathetic excuse I know!!)

Massive thanks to: XEmma-KeaneX, Leamy Alone, Anadry and Krissy who reviewed the last chapter - this is again for you!!

Here's chapter 4...

By the time Tyler had finished the rehearsal he was ready to fall asleep on his feet but despite that he refused Nora's offer of a lift and decided the walk home would help him clear his head. The practice had not gone well, in fact it went terrible. He was out of step a lot and didn't even bother to try and lead any of it, questions in his head distracted him.

On the way home he made a detour to the dock Nora took him too soon after they first met and he agreed to be her dance partner, this is where she had first thought of the dance they had performed at least year's showcase. He sat on the roof and gazed into the deep blue water below. Somehow it was therapeutic. Tyler had been thinking about the number his "parents" had left on the front door. They had left a piece of paper on the front step underneath a plant pot holding a dead plant, on it was a phone number.

Tyler took the paper out of his pocket and read it, he sighed, unsure of what to do. If he ripped it up and ignored it then he would surely regret it all his life? But did he really want to meet the couple who abandoned him at birth? What if they left him behind again? He didn't even know if how he felt about them. Part of him was angry. Angry that they left him like that, never to be seen of or heard of again. If they didn't want him then why would they want him now? Part of him was curious, wanting to know what they were like and why he had been put into care. Did they love him? Who knows. After an hour Tyler left the dock and decided it was time to go back home. It was quite late but it didn't bother him after all Lena would still be at work and Bill would be half way to being drunk now. It surprised Tyler how someone like Lena, who was kind and hard working ended up with the likes of Bill, a lazy waster.

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Later, Tyler entered the house. Malcolm ran up to him as soon as he entered the house.

"Hey big-shot! Did you have fun at Liam's?" Tyler asked, putting effort into sounding and looking happy. He picked up Malcolm and swung him round.

"Yeah! It was really fun!!" Malcolm giggled.

"TYLER!! What time do you call this? You're over an hour late!"A voice yelled from the living room.

Tyler sighed, he knew that Bill would react like that. Sighing he put Malcolm down and walked into the sitting room, he didn't even know if Lena had told him about what had happened yet, not like he would really care. Bill and Tyler didn't exactly see eye to eye on anything.

"Sorry I got held up after rehearsal." Tyler said shrugging, it wasn't completely a lie, he had gone to rehearsal and was held up at the dock even if it was his decision.

"You better not be lying and getting up to your old ways." Bill said suspiciously, although Tyler had calmed down lately and seemed settled but he still didn't believed he had completely changed.

"I'm not, yet you seem to be stuck in yours." Tyler mumbled, he really couldn't be bothered for an argument.

"What?"

"Nothing." Tyler forced his tired body upstairs and into his room where he lay on his bed listening to music and fell asleep.

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"Tyler you're missing din..." Lena stopped as she entered his bedroom and saw him sprawled on his bed sleeping, his headphones over his ears.

Tyler woke up with a start, his CD had stopped so he heard everything Lena had said.

"Sorry, I didn't realise you were asleep." She apologised, silently kicking herself.

"It's ok." Tyler said groggily, rubbing his eyes.

"Do you want to talk about this or are you going to act like nothing has happened?" Lena asked him.

"Dunno, be easier to forget about it." Tyler shrugged

"For who? You or them?"

"Neither." Tyler sighed, exasperated. "I just can't talk about it, talking about it just seems weird and pointless. It's not going to change anything."Tyler said quietly, looking at his bed.

"Well you don't have to and you don't have to talk about it to me but don't shut out your friends or Nora. It may not help the situation but you may feel better." Lena advised, she had only met Nora once but she seemed really nice and Lena suspected she was the main reason for the sudden change in Tyler's behaviour.

Tyler just nodded, she was right.

"I left dinner under the grill for you if you fancy it." She told him before leaving Tyler to think about her advice.

Tyler just said a quick ok and lay back on his bed, thinking of everything and what he was going to tell Nora.

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It turns out that Tyler didn't have a lot of time to think as Nora stood in front of the door of his house, she was nervous and odd feeling for her. She was normally confident with people and when she was on stage nerves didn't affect her anymore, it was her release, her escape. The only reason she was there was to see if Tyler was ok. Lucy had also noticed how he behaved at dance and school. Lucy suggested maybe there was something else going on.

She took a deep breath and knocked on the door. Camille answered it.

"Hey Nora!! Tyler's upstairs in his room if you want him?" Camille told her, stepping back to let her in.

"Hey Camille. Thanks" Nora smiled.

Nora said hi to Lena and Malcolm on her way upstairs, and also nodded cautiously to Bill too. She wasn't comfortable around Bill really. She knew he was a drinker, well it was obvious as he was sitting nursing a bottle of beer but also from what Tyler had told her, he wasn't a very nice drunk or person for that matter.

Nora knocked on the door of Tyler's room and then entered it.

"Hey!" Tyler said, obviously surprised yet happy to see her, that relieved Nora.

"Hey. I just came to see if you were ok after everything at school." She told him

Tyler decided it was now or never, he needed to tell her what was going on, he couldn't stand upsetting her or worse loosing her.

"Nor... my real parents came round last night... they left a number for me to call. I don't know what to do." Tyler said, trying yet failing to hide the emotion building up inside of him.

"Ty," Nora sighed, not really knowing what to say, she was still in shock. She pulled him into a tight hug. As far as she knew Tyler never knew who his real parents and head never met them. Knowing Tyler would hate showing this kind of hurt she stayed silent, he would talk when he was ready.

"When they came to the door and told me, all I did was slam the door in their faces. I'm so angry at them. Why come now.. when I'm grown up, I don't need them and yet after all these years now they're back?" Tyler said, looking at the floor.

Nora felt her eyes well up, it was horrible to see the guy she loved like this, so torn and confused.

"Don't you want to see them? Talk to them?"She asked softly, taking his hand, tyring to give him some kind of comfort.

Tyler shrugged, not really sure. "I feel so conflicted, like I want to know about them but I don't know why? I mean, they abandoned me Nora, they left me behind."

"It's ok to be curious Ty, it's natural you want to know why they left you, who they are. If you don't take a chance you will regret it for the rest of your life." She said.
Knowing she was right Tyler took out his phone and dialled the number...

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