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Katie sat in her office getting her laptop and the things that went with it. After she found the charged she picked up the phone and called Sydney. She was getting ready to hang up on the fourth ring when she answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey. What are you doing?" Katie asked at she put the charger in it's bag

"Packing." she said.

"Oh. So how are we going to do this? Are you gonna come down here and we drive from there, or do you wanna meet somewhere in Panama City?"

"I guess I'll fly down there and we'll drive out."

"Ok. That'll work. I'm going to have Shane help me pack my car for right now. I guess I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah. Bye" Katie laughed before hanging up. She then sighed. It was going to be a long three days for her. She walked down the stairs. She saw John and Shane sitting on the couch. She walked over and sat between them. They was watching The Scorpion King. It was only around 2 and she didn't really feel like watching movies. She got up and walked into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water and walked back upstairs.

She decided she needed to get the rest of her things ready. She walked past her art room and stopped. She thought for a second if she should take her art things. She walked in and looked around the room. It was a white room with paint splattered over the walls. She laughed. Her and Shane had gotten into a paint fight one day while she was drawing. She walked over to where her sketch books were in a cabinet and pulled them out. Some had pictures she had drawn, others were car designs she had done. She had put models of the car designs on toy cars. She had shelves of them in the room. She put the sketch books in a

bag along with her colored pencils. She was leaving her oil pastels and spray paints here.

When she got all of her art things she walked to the bathroom and got everything in there that she needed. So right now she had four or five bags and basically everything she needed. She now needed to get them to her car. Katie then walked back to her room with the other bags she had just packed

"SHANE!!" she yelled throughout the house. A few minutes later he came walking up the stairs.

"What?" he growled.

"I need you to help me get my things to the car." He nodded and sighed. He was really going to miss his sister. He carried two bags and rolled a suitcase while Katie took the rest out to her brown and blue Eclipse. She loved that car, but it wasn't her favorite. They packed that car and Katie sighed. It was now around 4. Katie decided that swimming would be good right about now. She went and got on her suit, which was white with pink and blue hearts on it, and put shorts on over it. Then she found a wife beater that she hadn't packed and slipped it on over her top. She got the keys to her Supra and headed out to the store. Luckily, it wasn't too crowded. She got a couple cases of Watermelon Smirnoff and Coronas. The she headed back to her house. When she walked downstairs to the pool room, she found Shane and John. They waved to her and motioned for a corona. She waved back and flipped them off and laughed.

She took off her shorts and shirt and pulled her hair up. They spent the whole night swimming and talking about random things.

Sydney sat in the floor of her parents house, finished with her packing. She was listening to a Black Sabboth song. Just then her cell phone rang.

"Hello?" she said into the phone not bothering to see who was calling.

"Hey bebe." the voice on the other line slurred. She immedeintly stopped what she was doing and her eyes were wide in shock.

"C.C.?" she whispered. She honestly felt like crying. A million things were flying through her head.

"Yeah. Surprised?" He asked. She could tell he was drunk because C.C. would never act like this.

"Umm yeah." She said finding words in her. Sadness, depression, happiness, and surpriseness ran through her body.

"I want you back " he slurred once again. Suddenly she felt anger run through her.

"You want me back?" she asked her voice sharp.

"Yeah. Is it that hard to believe.?" She sat there getting angrier and angrier. She felt like slapping the taste out of his mouth. He wanted her back? She should be the one wanting him back. And she was. But she wasn't whining about it.

"Yeah it is actually. You're the one who left me, and YOU WANT ME BACK? I should be the one here crying and calling you, but no. I haven't called once because I was giving you time. And to top it all of. YOU'RE DRUNK YOU PROMISED ME YOU WOULD NEVER DRINK AGAIN !!" She yelled tears running down her face. It had been four days since C.C. had told her to leave. She couldn't take talking to him right now. She shut her cell phone shut and started crying. Her mom had heard the yelling and went to check on Sydney. When her mom walking in the room she found it to be completely dark, Music playing and Sydney on her bed face down. She walked out and left Sydney there, not knowing that Sydney was crying.

Sydney woke the next morning and walked into the bathroom. Her eyes her swollen and puffy. Tears stained her face. She took a shower and changed. Her face looked somewhat better. She got on the computer and updated her myspace and left a blog. She decided today she would fly down to Katie's. She packed her stuff into the car and her mom drove her there. Sheila could tell that something was bothering her daughter, she just didn't know what. When they got to the air port Sydney hugged her mom goodbye and called Katie. Katie would be there to pick her up off of the plane. The flight wasn't that long, 3 hours. Sure enough, Katie was there. Katie helped her get her stuff and they went out to the car.

Katie could tell that something was bothering Sydney. She didn't think she should push the issue though. Wait for her to talk. It was usually the best thing to do anyway. The radio was on, one of those MTV stations. They were flying down the road but not too fast. Katie turned off of the interstate to get some gas and they still had about 6- miles to get back to St. Augustine. She filled up the car and paid and asked Sydney If she wanted anything to drink. She said no. Katie came out with a bottle of Gatorade. They soon continued their trip, weaving in and out of cars. There were turning off of Interstate 95 when Katie finally said something about it.

"So what is bothering you?" She asked glancing out of the corner of her eyes.

"Nothing" came her reply, barely above a whisper. Katie let it drop, for now anyway. They drove down to Crescent Beach. A little father then needed to. But it was a nice sunny day. A good day for a cruise around town. It took them about fifteen minutes from there to get back to Katie's house.

"I had your car put into storage about a month ago. I kinda ran out of room for it here." Katie said. This may have been the first time Sydney had been at her house. She heard noise coming from the living rom and walked in. It was spacious. A HUGE TV was on the wall to her left as she walked in. A black leather couch was on the opposite wall to her. White plush carpet was on the floor and the Walls were purple. ' Typical Katie' she thought to herself. There were black and white pictures on the walls, mostly of couples. Sydney sighed.

"What's good boys?" Katie asked going and sitting beside John. Sydney gave her friend a look. She only shook her head. She got muttered responses to her question. Lord. How can she put up with this?

"Give me about five minutes to get the ting I need to get you car and then we'll go and get it." she said. Getting up after a minute of watching the guys play Madden. Sydney went and sat beside Shane. He was always like an older brother to her. Katie came back downstairs. She had pulled her hair up into a poney tail and was wearing a short pair of light blue shorts and a turquoise tank top with light green lace. Sydney looked at what she was wearing. Jeans and a tee shirt. Probably a little hot for Summertime in mid Florida. Katie noticed this and smiled. She threw Sydney a pair of black terry cloth shorts and a white tank top with light blue lace, like the one she was wearing. Syd smiled gratefully and went into the bathroom beside the stairs and put it on. She came out and pulled her hair up and walked outside with Katie. The got back into the supra and left the driveway.

Katie got on highway A1A and drove about five minutes going south. They soon came to a blue and white building. A lot of blue and white buildings. Katie parked her car and got out. Sydney followed suit. They then walked up to what looked like the main building. They walked in and Katie told the guy what she was looking for and where it was. The guy then gave her discharge papers to get the car out. They then drove five buildings back and finally reached the place. Katie unlocked the door and turned on the light. There was her car. Sydney's car. It had a nice ring to it. The Jetta was the first car Sydney had bought. It was black and had blue and silver graphics around it. It was shaped as a skull with flames around it. The flames were silver and they traveled up the side of the car. Katie checked the car over and was still good to drive

Katie gave Sydney her keys. Syd got into the car and started it. She backed out and followed Katie. Katie had took her to an auto parts store. They walked in and got looks. Sydney rolled her eyes.

"Can I help you ma'am?" The guy at the front desk asked. He was running sarcasm through his words like butter.

"Actually now, no." Katie said and left the store with me following her. What was up with that?"Looks like were running to Miami now for a bit. Hope you don't mind. We can take The guys with us if you want. It will be like a day ting. Go down today and then we leave tomorrow afternoon and comeback here, or we can just take our stuff with us and leave Saturday." she said walking back to her car.

"Sure." Sydney said no knowing what to say. She still wanted to know what was up with earlier. They got back to the house and She told the guys to get ready, that they were leaving in a half hour. Sydney packed her car with her things in about ten minutes. Shane was riding with Sydney and John was riding with Katie. This was going to be a little trip