The next morning, Bridget got up and dressed by 6:30. Even though it was Saturday morning, she had trouble sleeping at all last night. She walked outside and up to the beach. She sat on the dune, wearing an oversized shirt with a bathing suit underneath, and holding a big mug filled with hot chocolate. She felt someone behind her, and turned around. "You're up early." She said to Peter with a smile.

"Couldn't sleep. There's was some yelling last night when Clay got home." Peter said, sitting down next to Bridget.

"They never fight. I mean, I just can't believe that this is happening." Bridget ran her fingers through her hair.

"Hey Bridg, thought I'd find you here" Clay walked up to Bridget and Peter "Hi Peter."

"Hey Clay." Peter said, not making eye contact.

"Sorry I was an ass yesterday." Clay said to Peter.

Bridget stood up and patted the sand off her shirt "Wanna go grab some breakfast at the pier? We can pick Kylie up on the way."

Clay and Peter agreed, they picked up Kylie and went to a little diner for breakfast.

Kylie and Bridget followed the boys into the diner, but Bridget slowed down, taking Kylie's arm "You okay?"

"Not really." Kylie shrugged "Let's just eat breakfast, we can talk later."

Bridget watched sadly as her best friend sat down next to Clay, and Bridget sat next to Peter.

The waitress came up to the table "Hey you guys, the usual?"

Bridget and Clay nodded, and Peter told the waitress what he wanted.

"I'm not gonna have anything." Kylie said "I'm not feeling well."

The waitress smiled and walked away. Every was silent though, all knowing that she had morning sickness. No one knew what to say.

"So Peter." Clay tried to avoid the silence "Are you leaving today?"

"Yea, probably." Peter said "It was nice of your parents to let me stay."

"Yea, well sorry about last night. We aren't usually like that." Clay told him as a kids, around their age walked up to their table.

Clay, Kylie, and Bridget all sighed at the same time "What are you doing Brian?" Bridget asked.

"Well, I just heard the Scott here got his little girlfriend knocked up." Brian said loudly.

Kylie kept her head down, but Bridget and Clay both stared at Brian "Leave Brian." Bridget said sternly.

"So, did you do it on purpose Scott? So she wouldn't leave your scrawny ass?" Brian asked.

Clay stood up "Get the hell out of here." He said, getting into Brian's face.

"Chill out, I was just gonna say congrats on ruining your little girlfriend's life just because you don't want her to leave you." Brian said innocently.

Clay was done with this conversation, he punched Brian right in the face.

"Clay!" Bridget yelled, jumping up to grab him.

Clay ignored Bridget and punched him again. This time Peter jumped up and grabbed Clay, dragging him outside, Bridget ignored Brian, who was still laying on the ground, and she sat down next to Kylie, putting her arms around her.

Peter dragged Clay far enough away from the diner and finally let him go "What the hell was that?" Peter asked.

"Did you hear what he was saying!" Clay yelled.

Peter ignored Clay and continued to walk back to the house. Clay stood by himself for a second before following Peter back home.

Bridget held Kylie for a moment and stood up "Let's get you home okay? You didn't need to see that."

Kylie didn't say a word, she just stayed next to Bridget, who walked her home and said goodbye.

Bridget walked to Nathan and Haley's house and walked inside. Nathan and Haley were sitting with peter and Clay at the kitchen table.

"Um hi." Bridget said, hoping she wasn't interrupting anything important.

Haley smiled "Hey sweetheart."

"Am I interrupting something?" Bridget asked.

Nathan shook his head "Actually, we were just talking to Peter about his living arrangements. It's gonna be hard to get him into another foster home after the accident, so we invited him to stay in the pool house."

Bridget smiled at Peter "Well, are you staying?"

Peter looked at all of the Scott's "I really couldn't impose like that."

Haley took a deep breath, still unsure about Peter "You wouldn't be imposing. We'd be more than happy to have you here."

Bridget walked over to Peter "You should stay."

"Yea, you should." Clay agreed.

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Bridget ran next door and into the pool house, knocking lightly on the door.

"C'mon in!" Peter called from the guest bedroom.

Bridget opened the door and walked in "Morning." She said as Peter walked out, she had two cups of coffee in her hand.

"Thanks Bridget." He said with a smile.

"Ready for your first day?" she asked, sitting on the couch as Peter buttoned his shirt.

"As I'll ever be." Peter said.

"Did Clay leave already?"

"Yea, he went to go pick up Kylie."

"Do you want a ride?" she asked, hoping he'd say yes.

"Yea, that'd be great." He said, grabbing his bag and following her to her Lexus, parked in the driveway.

Bridget pulled up to school and parked. Her and peter got out and walked to the school. There were tons of kids out front, waiting for the first bell to ring.

"So, this is it." Bridget said "Why don't we get you signed in at the main office."

Peter followed Bridget into the office and he got his schedule. Before Peter had a chance to read it, Bridget snatched it out of his hands, making him laugh.

"1. 2. 3. 4 classes together. And lunch." Bridget said happily.

"Yea?" Peter asked, trying not to let her see that he was pretty happy about it too.

"Mhmm." Bridget nodded , as she started to walk towards the lockers.

"Here, I'll carry your books." Peter reached for her books and took them out of her hands.

"Thanks."

"Okay, so this officially sucks." Clay walked up to Bridget's locker, where Bridget and Peter were talking.

"What sucks?" Bridget asked.

"The entire football team is gonna kill me. That's what sucks." Clay whined "Peter, you can have my room. Bridget, you can have whatever you want. I'm not gonna be alive much longer"

"They're not gonna kill you." Peter laughed "You're the one that punched Brian on Saturday.

"That's was one person Peter. We're talking about the entire freakin' football team!" Clay said

Peter laughed and put his arm around Clay "Yea, you're right. You have a plasma in your room, right?"

Bridget laughed and followed the two boys to their first class, which happened to be together. Bridget sat in front of Peter, and Clay sat next to Bridget.

The teacher came in and took attendance "Peter Brady, you're new?" the teacher asked.

Peter nodded "Yea."

"Did you just move here?" the teacher asked.

"Yea, I'm living with the Scott's." Peter answered.

There were whispers around the class, especially from the girls, about the new hot boy.

The next two periods were normal, except for the talking about Peter Brady. At lunch, Peter walked up to Bridget's locker "Wanna grab something to eat?"

"Yea. Let's wait for Clay." Bridget said with a smile, putting her books in her locker.

"He left early. Kylie wasn't feeling well and he didn't want her to be home by herself. He wanted me to tell you." Peter told her.

Bridget and Peter walked to the cafeteria to get lunch. Peter got a turkey sandwich and a cookie, and Bridget got a salad. Bridget brought him to the seating out back, which overlooked the ocean, there were a lot of kids there, but they found their own small table to sit at.

"My school was nothing like this….when I went." Peter said to Bridget.

"Yea, it's a bit over the top I think. But it's Orange County. All the rich kids go here, and they wouldn't if it didn't look like this." Bridget explained.

"You're talking like you're not a rich kid." Peter said to her, hoping it didn't offend her.

"I am. But not like most of them. I mean, I'm not a self-absorbed bitch."

"Most of the time." Clay said down next to her.

Peter laughed "Good point."

Bridget looked at Clay "I thought you were with Kylie."

"Her mom was there….and she sorta hates me right now, so I left." Clay explained.

"So you came back here to die?" Peter joked.

"Oh no, I have a plan." Clay said, sure of himself "You see Peter, you're the new kid, that everyone around school is talking about. As soon as word gets out that you've been in jail, the football players will be scared of you."

"And how does that help you?" Bridget asked.

"You see Bridget, if Peter never leaves my side, they'll never both me." Clay told them.

"Good plan." Bridget said sarcastically, standing up as they bell rang.

Bridget and Peter said goodbye to Clay and started to walk away.

"Woah! What about the plan!" Clay ran after them.

"I want your room."

"And I want everything else."

"And I don't wanna die!"

Bridget and Peter laughed and Clay followed them back into school.

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