(A/n) I won't bore you with my useless blabbing. Here's the new chapter. Just btw bold italics are thought.
I would like to thank Lady Azura for giving me tips on how to make the character less OOC.
Disclaimer- I own nothing. Except the Conservation Centers of Canada because I made that up (and if by some coincidence it is real then I don't own it.)
Recap:Lizzie woke up to the low light of dawn. Yawning she stood and stretched. She looked around thinking about what to do. She wasn't going to school and she sure as hell wasn't going to go home. She sighed and walked over to a swing set that was still slightly wet from the morning dew and sat down. This was going to be a long day.
Edwin's POV
Casey had been telling Derek any places Lizzie might be, from the soccer field to the Conservation Centers of Canada, London office and Derek had been driving to each location with no luck. They had been driving around for almost 3 and ½ hours and it was 1:30. Since none of them (excluding Marti) ate a full breakfast and neither team had any luck finding Lizzie they decided to meet at Smelly Nelly's for lunch to discuss anywhere Lizzie might go. Casey had enlisted the help of Sam and Emily and they were both happy to help. Unfortunately, other than noticing that Derek and Casey had enlisted the help of Sam and Emily he had been completely zoned out. As soon as they parked, Casey went into the diner to get some tables for the whole family plus Sam and Emily so they could all sit together.
Derek got out then noticed Edwin was staring off into space.
He opened the back door and said "Edwin?"
Derek snapped his fingers in front of Edwin's face a couple times.
"Huh?"
"We're here."
"Where? What?"
"Ha Edwin doesn't even know what's going on. Not surprising, since he is a complete idiot." Derek said laughing and poking fun at his little brother.
"Shut up Derek. I'm not in the mood." Edwin said icily before shoving past Derek and exiting the car.
"No need to get your panties in a bunch Ed. I'm just trying to lighten the mood. Geez"
"Yeah our stepsister has run away and all you can think of is making jokes..." Edwin said as he walked towards the dinner.
"Yeah just because I'm not in love with her makes me care about her less."
"What?" Edwin said halting and turning around
"You really think I'm that stupid? That oblivious? I mean I see the way you look at her sometimes."
"I am not in love with her.Am I? First off she is my stepsister! And second I'm dating Nicole for god sakes!"
Derek put his hand on Edwin's shoulder "It's alright little man your secret is safe with me." Derek said smirking.
"I am not in love with her!" Edwin said trying more to convince himself rather than Derek. He shoved Derek.
"What the fuck is your problem lover boy?" Derek said angrily shoving him back.
Edwin had snapped. He punched Derek in the face after he had shoved him and Derek, who didn't expect it took it full force and stumbled backwards before standing up and tackling Edwin to the ground. Derek was able to punch Edwin once in the face in before Edwin kneed him hard in the stomach. Edwin rolled on top and began to punch Derek in the face. Suddenly he was jerked backwards.
"What the hell." Edwin said still reeling with anger.
"Son I think you might want to calm down." A burly voice said he didn't recognize it.
"What the hell is going on?" Casey said angrily as she came out of Smelly Nelly's
"Excuse me ma'am I would like to ask who you are."
"These two dunces are my stepbrothers unfortunately."
The man that was holding him released his shirt. Edwin turned and saw a tall, burly black police uniform.
"Edwin are you okay?" Casey said worriedly.
"I'm fine whatever." Edwin said shoving his hands in his pockets and beginning to walk towards the door of Smelly Nelly's.
Derek who was still lying on the ground dazed from the punches to the face that Edwin gave him sat slowly clutching his nose. Casey crouched by him and said some stuff that Edwin didn't hear and then he heard Derek say "it's not my fault."
He sighed went inside and sat in a booth close to the door.
He watched as a car pulled into the parking lot and stopped abruptly. Then Edwin recognized it was his dad's car he paled oh shit.
Lizzie's POV
It was almost 1:30 and she had been sitting in the same spot thinking. About why no one cared about why everyone acted like they did (the only reason she had hoped Casey didn't tell everybody about her crying was because she didn't want to be showered in fake caring and love.) About what she was going to do. About why she was alone. And the one question that stood above all the rest the one question she didn't have an answer for was: Was it really what she thought it was? And if it was why did she felt the way she did? Was it because of there close proximity or was it something more?
She was brought out of her thoughts when a soccer ball rolled to a stop in front of her.
"A little help?" A girl called. She was about 20 yards away and she had and some friend behind her. She had brown hair and was about her height and had green eyes. Lizzie kicked the ball full force and it went sailing past the girl and her friends.
"Wow. Nice kick. You want to join our game we are one player short. My boyfriend was suppose to come but he isn't here."
"Sure I guess…"Ah good soccer the only thing that never lets me down in the world. Lizzie stood from the swing and stretched a bit before grabbing her bag and jogging over to their makeshift field.
"Don't I know you from somewhere?" the girl commented.
"I think so. What middle school do you go to?"
"Sir John Sparrow Thompson Middle School."
"I go there to. I guess we don't have any classes together. Otherwise we would be friends because you seem like a pretty cool girl."
"Thank you."
She put her bag down on the outskirts of the field and joined the game. She was on the team with the girl, another girl that was a bit taller than her and had red hair and brown eyes that she knew her name was Samantha, and a boy that was a good bit taller than her with brown hair and blue-green eyes and she also knew him because she was Samantha's boyfriend.
The other team was composed of 1 black girl, an Asian girl, and 2 guys both with brown hair. None of which Lizzie knew.
They played 3 games (all of which Lizzie's team won) and were in the middle of a 4th when the girl's parents called them over to eat.
"Um would it be okay with your parents if you ate with us?" The girl said
"Sure…" Lizzie said a bit hesitantly
"By the way I'm Nicole. That" Could it be…? Na Nicole is a common name there are like 4 in my grade and like 15 in the entire school. Motioning with her finger "is Samantha," pointing to the girl with red hair. She learned the rest of the grounds names. Xavier was the boy with the blue-green eyes. Bree was the black girl. Susan was the Asian girl. And Jeffery and Nick, the two other boys on the other team.
"So what's your name?" Nicole began before her phone went off. "Hold on… It's my boyfriend."
"Hello." Nicole said sadness clear in her voice.
"Where are you? And why aren't you at my birthday party? You forgot didn't you? What kind of boyfriend are you?" A couple of tears began to roll down her face as she hung up the phone not even waiting for a response.
Edwin's POV
"I want to know why you two were fighting in the parking lot. I mean I pull in here and expect to park get out and have a nice orderly lunch and discuss a plan to find Lizzie and I find my two sitting next to a police officer telling me that my sons were fighting." George said clearly pissed he was sitting across from Derek and Edwin. Edwin wasn't paying attention. In all honesty he didn't care what happened. The only thing he cared about was Lizzie. And what Derek said. Am I really in love? Do I really feel that way about Lizzie? And was that why I had that empty feeling this morning?
"Now we are gunna eat and after we find Lizzie, we are going to discuss this!"
After the entire family (minus Lizzie) and Sam and Emily finished eating they all went back to searching. Casey had gone with Emily giving some excuse about having to deal with too much testosterone and needing some girl time. So Derek and Edwin were stuck alone.
"Derek… Look I'm sorry… I don't know what came over me."
"Edwin… its alright… I understand what you're going through. I went through the same thing when I fell in love with Casey…"
" Oh crap! I was suppose to go to Nicole's birthday party today shit! She is never gunna talk to me again." Edwin groaned
"Call her then."
"Thank you Derek."
Edwin dialed in the number and waited for Nicole to answer.
"Hi Nicole."
"Where are you? And why aren't you at my birthday party? You forgot didn't you? What kind of boyfriend are you?"
-click-
"Ouch."
"Derek can we go see her she is at a park like 5 minutes away from her I need to get this sorted out…"even though I'm in love with Lizzie I don't want to lose Nicole… she has been a best friend to me, more than Lizzie at least recently.
"You're the boss little man." Derek said then mumbled "Although you are in love with Lizzie."
"What was that?"
"What was what?"
"You said something after 'You're the boss little man'"
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did."
"I said nothing."
"Fine whatever."
The rest of the short car ride was quiet and before they knew it they were at the park.
Lizzie's POV
Nicole had been crying on Samantha's shoulder for a while and Sam and her mom had tried to comfort her saying he wasn't worth her tears if he couldn't even show up at her birthday party.
Lizzie thought she was being way too overdramatic, even more so than Casey and that is an accomplishment. I feel sorry for her loser of a boyfriend. I mean she didn't even let him explain.
Lizzie felt like odd not being able to anything except sit there, sure she knew these people from school well enough to recognize their faces but she didn't know their names.
Nicole had calmed down and now was sitting back next.
No one said anything. They just sat and ate in silence.
"Umm Nicole…" said Jeff
"Yes?" Nicole said lifting her head up
"You're boyfriend is over there and he is coming this way."
Edwin's POV
Edwin exited the car quickly and spotted a group of his friends sitting at a picnic table.
As he jogged over and saw who he thought to be Nicole had stood and went in the other direction upon seeing him. Sam had stood up and came up to Edwin and slapped him hard.
"What kind of boyfriend are you? You don't even have the decency to show up on time to your girlfriend's birthday party."
"Well maybe if someone let me explain why I wasn't here!" He yelled.
"Fine tell us why!" Sam yelled back.
"My stepsister ran away last night I have been trying to find her and the party slipped my mind."
"You expect me to believe that?" Nicole said from the table.
"Huh?" Edwin said a bit surprised.
"What?"
"I thought you had left as soon as you saw me coming."
"I don't run from my problems Edwin."
"I know… who was that other girl?"
"What you think this is the best time to talk about random girls from our school?" Nicole yelled angrily
"Who was she?"
"I think her name is Lisa or Lizzie or something like that I've seen her at school." Susan commented.
"That was his stepsister? I didn't know Edwin and Lizzie were step-siblings." Xavier commented.
Without another word Edwin took off in the direction of Derek's car.
"You fix-" Derek began before he was interrupted by Edwin.
"She is over there, I saw her run. Call everyone tell them to get over here."
Edwin slammed the car door shut and ran past the confused group of his friends.
"I'll tell you what's going on later." He called back over his shoulder continuing to sprint in the direction Lizzie went.
(a/n) There you go I hope you liked it. I may not be updating anytime soon because I have work to do over spring break (its great isn't it stupid teachers…)