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Chapter 2

Mitchie. Mary Jane, sighed as her "grey" eyes looked out of the passenger window watching the houses in her new neighborhood go by.

"It's so nice to see you again after all these years even though it's not exactly under the best circumstances, but you have grown into a gorgeous woman Mi-Mary Jane, no matter if this is really your normal appearance or not. Now I should probably warn you ahead of time the boys can be a handful sometimes." Spoke Denise Grey from the drivers seat.

Mary smiled over at her. She might not be happy about this whole situation, but that doesn't mean she held a grudge against her or her family…after all, it wasn't her fault she was in this situation and she and Mr. Grey were nice enough to take her in. "I'm sorry too. Thank you so much for taking me in."

"Oh nonsense Mary Jane." She said waving her off. "When we heard what happened we didn't even hesitate. Ah, we're home." She smiled pulling into a gated driveway. Mary gawked. She knew that they had a huge house (courtesy of magazines) but their house was huge!

Opening the door she grimaced as she felt the Texas heat, having been outside only for a minute or two when going from the airport to the car she hadn't really felt it yet. Putting a smile on her face she walked around to the trunk and grabbed her bags before following Mrs. Grey through the front door.

Stumbling back she went wide – eyed as Shane and Nate ran by in front of her.

"Shane! You are so going to get it!" yelled Nate.

"Boys!" shouted Mrs. Grey. "I thought I asked you to please behave because we have company staying with us. Now get over here and say hi!" she scolded them.

"Yes mom." They replied with sheepish looks on their faces.

"Now boys, this is Mary Jane, Mary, this is Shane," she said pointing to the one with the darker straighter hair, "and this is Nate." she said pointing to the curly haired one.

"Hi." "Hey." They responded.

"Hi." She said quietly. She was never good with meeting new people.

"Now where are your brothers?"

"Jason and Frankie are out with Dad." Nate responded.

She sighed. "Okay. Can one of you show her to her room please?"

"I will." Said Shane stepping forward. "Here, I'll take these." He said grabbing her bags and heading towards the stairs. She followed him up the stairs and to the end of the hall on her right. "I hope you don't mind but we didn't have much warning so it's kind of plain, but we figured since you were going to be here for awhile you could customize it how you wanted to." He told her pushing the door open.

She smiled, it was a simple room she had to agree, but they still made it very homey. It had light hardwood floors and light blue walls, and there was light wooded bed set with a matching desk across from the foot of the bed and a dresser against the wall opposite the bed. There were pictures of the beach, and white curtains that framed the window to the side of the head of her bed and the French doors. Gasping she ran over to the French doors and threw them open.

"Oh my god! I have a balcony! This is so awesome." She laughed. Turning around she saw him smiling at her enthusiasm. "Thank you." She smiled back. "I guess I should unpack." She sighed walking over to the suitcases he'd placed next to the bed.

"Do want any help?" he asked her.

"Sure." She said. Pulling up one suitcase she opened it and grabbed a couple stacks of cd's before handing them to him. "Can you put these on the desk for me?"

"Of course." He smiled taking them.

The two continued on in silence for awhile until Joe turned smiling to her. "You like Switchfoot?"

"Umm yeah, they're my favorite. Why?" she looked at him curiously.

"No way!" he laughed. "They're my favorite too." He said.

She laughed, but it died quickly as she looked down at the picture of her and her brother in her hands the tears coming to her eyes. That was probably the hardest part of this all, she has to leave her brother and couldn't talk to him until it was all over. How was she going to survive without her best friend?

"Are you okay?" he asked her gently coming up and resting a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just miss by best friend. That's all." She said pushing the picture towards him. "He's like a brother to me." She lied. It was close to the truth, but she couldn't tell him he was really her brother, part of her cover-up was that she was an only child.

He smiled down at her. "I'm sorry about what happened to your parents. It must be rough. If you need someone to talk to I'm here."

Looking up at him the smile returned to her face. "Thanks."

They continued on in silence until it was interrupted by footsteps pounding up the stairs.

"Frankie! Get back here!" Nate shouted.

"Slow down!" Jason followed.

With a bang the bedroom door flew open causing the two to break their confused trance and look at Frank standing in the open doorway.

"Umm…hello?" Mary questioned.

"Hi! I'm Frankie!" he greeted walking enthusiastically up to her with his hand out.

Smiling she bent down so she was eye level and reached her hand out to his. "Hi Frankie. I'm Mary. We're going to be living buddies!"

"Yay!" he smiled.

Standing up she turned to Jason who was standing in the doorway. "Hi. I'm Mary" she waved slightly.

He smiled. "Jason."

"Kids! Dinner time!" Mrs. Grey shouted up the stairs.

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