Author's note:
A lot of people have been getting confused with the story, and I'm sorry that I didn't put more explanations down for them.
Someone asked me when did Casey's father come into play-
Allen and Marla's older sister, Cassandra, or just Sandra started to have an affair with Casey's father when she was around twelve that's why Nora broke up with him. So when Casey went to spend the holidays with her friends, she gets to spend it with her father. And yes, Nora despises him with every fiber of her being.
Someone else asked me what was up with the blood in the shower? Yes, Casey has cancer, more specifically myeloma, which will come into detail in the next chapter. But for the latter it's a pretty rare blood disease. I was just sick of people using leukemia for every one of these kind of stories.
I'm going to add this it might not come into play, but anyways. Unlike in the show Fletcher's was made into a coed school when Casey was around five. So all her friends met there. I thought it would be easier than somewhere else.
I added Allen's character, because I wanted a jealousy rival between him and Derek. They're both her stepbrother so I thought it made the story a bit ironic.
Some questions about Charlie and Mary. When Casey was born Nora wasn't ready to become a mother she was a successful lawyer on top of everything. So she turned Charlie who was ten at the time, and her gardener into Casey's nanny. He bonded with her since he never really gotten to be with his parents since they died two years before. He come to think of them as brother and sister. Then when she was five and him fifteen Mary moved in both Allen and Marla. And Sandra had already gone to college.
I kind of feel Casey's relationship with Nora is almost cut throat, I've tried to combine the mothers of White Oleander, and the one from Uptown Girls into this. Also maybe with some of the situations.
I believe most of you have read the part about Casey being molested, and it will be a bigger part later on.
I know it's a lot for one story, but I've never been the type to settle for mediocre lol.
But if anyone else has any questions I'll be glad to answer them.