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Later that night Ryan was off with Susan, again he left me all alone in the break room with these strangers. To come to think of it though, over the 4 hours I have been here these strangers weren't really strangers to me anymore. I knew a lot of things that I didn't know about them.

Like Jeff was having problems with his girlfriend, Beth. They were fighting all the time and it got on Matt's nerves. Cody and Ted were a little to close to be other than friends. I mean they stayed together at all times. Mr. Kennedy was getting married and had already gave Vince his notice that he was leaving at the end of the year. That mad me sad. Mr. Kennedy was one of my favorites.

"Are you ok? You've been staring at the same spot on the wall for about 10 mins now." Randy let a small laugh out.

"I'm fine, i was just thinking about things."

"Anything i can help you with?"

"No, not really." I turned to look at him, face to face. I jumped a bit, he was right there in my face.

"Sorry." He leaned back a bit, but just a tiny bit.

"It's ok." I looked around the room and noticed that only Jeff, Matt, and Randy were in there. Randy had a bag at his feet. "What time is it?"

"Um," Randy looked down at his hand. "I'm not quite sure."

"It's 11:45. Where's your brother at?" Jeff asked.

He was surely listening to the conversation that we were having. I looked at Randy and saw the glare he was giving to Jeff. That made me wonder something. I glanced at Jeff, his fist were clenched in a ball, Matt had his hand on his brother's shoulder. Oh no, I started something between these two.

"I'm not sure where dear old Ry is. I should call him and see."

I pulled my cell out and watched the boys in private as i got up off the sofa i was sitting on to pace the room. Ryan's ringback tone came on and i rolled my eyes. When was he going to replace Face Down By The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus with something else. The sound of his voice made me jump.

"Yes Anna?"

"What are you doing, Everybody's almost gone out of here and i don't feel like staying in an empty room when these three leave."

"Oh, um, about that..."

I cut him off before he could finish his statement. I had a feeling that i already knew what he was going to say.

"Did you leave me here?"

"Well..."

"You moron."

"I kinda forgot that i went there with you, Ann."

"Question, did you take the car?"

"Kinda of, yes."

"Ry, HOW AM I..." I took a deep breath and remembered that three other pepole were in the room. I looked around and noticed that they were listening, so i lowered my voice to a whisper. "What am i suppose to do?"

"Call a cab i guess."

"Mama would kill you."

"Mama's not here Ann. You're 18 now, figure out things on your own."

"Ryan Michael Anderson, what has gotten into you?"

"Anna Eliza Anderson, you've been in your own house for two years, i would think that you have grown up by now."

"You were my ride though Ryan." I was hot and it started to show. Ryan only thought about himself.

"That's your problem now." He hung up on me.

"Butthole," I shut my phone.

This was a problem. I looked at the ones in the room with me. They heard every word that i had said. Nothing i could do about that. I just shook my head and walked out the room. If Ryan was going to be that way towards me. Him and Susan must of got into another fight. He's only like this when they get into it.

"Anna." Matt had obviously followed me. I didn't stop though. "Anna." He was jogging down the hall. I only stopped when i felt his hand on my shoulder.

"Isn't it dangerous to leave those two in that room alone?" I asked turning around.

"They can handle the problem they have. Besides, what are you going to do?"

"What do you mean." I was acting stupid now.

"You know what I'm talking about." He just looked at me. So i caved.

"I'm walking home. I don't trust the cab drivers and besides, it's only an hour to walk to my house from here."

"No you're not. I can't let an 18 year old walk out of here and walk home. It's almost midnight. If i let you do that then my mama would tare my ass up." He smiled as he put his arm around me.

"I'm not going to call a cab, that's out of the question."

"Besides it's your birthday, you need to have a celebration."

"What do you have in mind?"

"Come out with us, we really know how to party. Its the after party pretty much." He was giving me those puppy dog eyes.

"Fine," I gave in.

We walked back down the hall and into the room. Randy had his hand around Jeff's neck whispering something to him. Jeff had his hand balled into a fist and it looked like Randy had a fist mark on his face. What had those two been fighting about. Matt just looked at me and shook his head.

"Children," he whispered under his breath. I don't know if this was something he wanted me to hear or not. "Guys," Matt spoke louder.

Both of them looked over at us. Randy released his grip of Jeff while Jeff unballed his fist.

"Where are we going exactly?" I finally asked after a couple of minutes of silence.

"To the Two Doors Down." Matt said with a smile.

"Have you ever been?" Randy asked.

"No, I just turned 18. I really shouldn't go there now." I looked away as i brushed my hair out of my eyes.

"It's your birthday, that's where we are going to go." Matt said as he began pushing me out the door a little.

"Whatever you say Matthew." I said with a little giggle.

This was going to be a long night. And boy was i going to pay for it in the morning.

Ok, sorry its been ages. Tell me how i did. Thanks, Love you all.

Mandy