Lucas had already spent an hour and a half reading his classes theme song, laughing at the random ones and smiling at the ones people actually put effort into. He cracked up at James' paragraph about how he really was bringing sexy back, and proud of his sister for writing the plain truth, and not going into unneeded detail. He read October's paragraph last and thought it was fairly well-written. He filled in all of the marks in his file for report cards, and then something in October paragraph suddenly clicked in his head.

"We've gone through worse together, from her going through anorexia, to me finding out I have a heart condition, to our other best friend dying in a car accident."

October had a heart condition, was it HCM?

Lucas felt himself begin to panic. He had never thought about the possibility of passing the disease down to her. He then didn't quite feel like laying around for the rest of the night, so he drove back to the school, to grab some more work to mark. As he pulled into the parking lot, he could see all of the cheerleaders practicing by the picnic tables.

If October has HCM, why is she being a cheerleader?

He decided to watch for a second. He noticed October couldn't really keep up with the other girls, and he suddenly remembered how he had never been able to keep up with the rest of the Ravens.

"October!" he yelled, as he walked along the sidewalk.

"Yeah?" she called back.

"Come here," he shouted back.

She hesitated for a second before walking over to join him.

"In your paragraph, you said you had a heart condition, what's it called?" Lucas asked.

"HCM," she replied, "I shouldn't have said anything about it, that was stupid of me."

"No, it wasn't stupid," Lucas replied, "Is that why you're having trouble?"

"On the squad? Yeah, the medication slows you down, it sucks," October pouted.

"Yeah, I know it does," Lucas replied.

"So, I got it from you?" October asked, "My mom hasn't ever really talked about it to me."

"Yeah, I found out when I was in highschool, I got it from my dad," Lucas said.

"How did you deal with it?" October asked, "I hate being slowed down, I love dancing, and I used to be on the soccer team at my old school, I played forward, I love running, I like basketball, and I'm not bad at it, cheerleading is fun, but since I found out about my HCM I can't really do any of that."

"I honestly don't know how to deal with, but I know how not to. Keep taking your medication, I made the mistake of not taking it for awhile, and I could've ended up hurting a lot of people if I had died," Lucas replied.

"Yeah, but if I keep taking my medication, can I be a cheerleader still? Or will I die?" October asked, "Cause' I don't really want to do that yet."

"There's always the possibility, but just be careful okay? No Pyramids or anything," Lucas laughed, "Go have fun, bye."

"What was that all about?" Lilly asked once October had joined them again.

"He just wanted to know if school was going alright," October lied.

"Okay," Lilly said, "I think we are pretty much done here, do you want to hang out or something? Or do you actually have plans on this awesome Friday night?"

"I have nothing," October smiled, "What do you want to do?"

"Wanna camp out in my backyard?" Lilly asked excitedly.

"Yeah, sure," October replied.

"We just have to stop at the grocery store to grab some food first," Lilly said grabbing her things.

Half an hour later, the two girls dropped their shopping bags on the back porch of Lilly's house, as Karen came outside.

"What did you two buy for your big camp out?" Karen asked.

"Well, we got grapes, and salt n' vinegar pringles. Chocolate, gummy candies, coca cola, 10 apple juice boxes, two bags of m and m's and lifesavers." Lilly laughed, "And..."

"A pie!" October exclaimed whipping it out.

"If you two barf in my backyard, you're cleaning it up," Karen laughed shaking her head.

October and Lilly began setting up the tent, laughing at every little thing each other did. Karen couldn't help but stand there for a minute, wanting the moment to last forever. Lilly had always been bubbly and outgoing, but she had never seemed truly happy until now. October brought something out in her that Karen had never seen before. Sure, Karen had always noticed that Lilly's had the same glittering eyes as Keith, but never had she once noticed until that very moment, that Lilly had Keith's laugh. Definately not as masculine but still, his laugh. Karen laughed as Lucas came onto the porch, his eyes widening at all the food.

"They're camping out," Karen said to Lucas.

The tent was then standing up and October ran inside. As Lilly let go of the string she was holding to join her, the whole tent collapsed, causing October to scream then burst into laughter.

"Helllp me," she cried.

"God they are goofs," Karen cracked up, as Lilly helped October out.

"Uh, yeah," Lucas replied, as Lilly randomly did a cartwheel.

"I'll be right back, I'll go get some music," Lilly said excitedly.

"Hello," October said walking over to the porch, grabbing a juice box, "Thanks for letting me stay the night."

"No problem," Karen said, "You two are fairly amusing together."

"I'm a freak, I know," October laughed, as her cell phone began to ring, "Hello?...What? No way!.. Congratulations, I'm so happy for you guys..Yeah I wish I could be there too..Of course, talk to you later."

"Who was that?" Karen asked.

"My friend Olivia, we were on the same soccer team last year, and we're both the forward players, and she was mad when I didn't play this year but our team won championships for the 3rd year in the row now anyways!" October said excitedly.

"Why didn't you play this year?" Karen asked curiously.

"Practices, were the same day as dance practices," October said quickly, not wanting to tell Karen about her HCM, "But the two years before I played, we won championships together, and our coach even put us two eighth graders in forward position over the grade 12's. We were a good team."

"Well that's awesome," Karen replied,"So, you're also a dancer?"

"Yeah, since I've been three years old I've taken dance classes, I love it," October replied, "I don't have much in common with my mom, but I got my dance skills from her."

"Yeah, you definitely didn't get your booty shaking skills from Lucas," Lilly said coming back outside.

"Hey, I am a good dancer," Lucas replied.

"Ah, yes your signature bobbing up and down move will completely win in a dance off Luke," Lilly laughed, "I've only taken ballet classes."

"I tink I've taken almost everything," October replied.

"Can you dance gangster?" Lilly asked.

"You mean hip hop?" October asked, "Yes, I can."

"Prove it," Lilly replied.

"Fine, but you have to a) put music on and b) dance with me," October laughed.

"Okay," Lilly said.

Karen began laughing as both girl began acting stupidly, doing the chicken dance, macarena and other random dances.

"Okay, now seriously show me your moves," Lilly shouted.

"Have you ever seen 5 feet, these group of girls, they have a video on youtube, my class learned the routine," October shouted back.

"Seriously, you can do that whole dance, your pro man," Lilly replied, "But I'm going to need you to prove it."

"I don't feel like dancing in front of my grandma and father Lilly, it's awkward, I don't even let my mom come to my recitals," October laughed.

"We will go inside," Karen said standing up, Lucas following her.

"Wahoo!" Lilly yelled, as October starting doing the dance.

Karen and Lucas' cracked up as they started watching from the window in the living room.

"She sure can move," Karen laughed, as Lucas watched October carefully.

Be careful kid..