--Two--

--It's Time for a Change--

Cassie pulled up behind Tyler, in the woods. They got out and saw Lisa and Tyler leaning against the Hummer.

"What took so long?" asked Tyler.

"I had to put gas in my car." Cassie said, looking at her cell phone. "So where's this party?" then she started walking with the rest of them behind her.

When they got closer, Reid made Cassie walk behind him, Tyler, and Lisa. Which was followed by Caleb's voice. "What took so long?" Lisa grabbed Tyler's hand, then Caleb glared at Tyler. "Who's she?"

"This is Lisa." said Reid.

Caleb and Pogue smiled, then Pogue said "So... what took so long?"

"Oh... we ran into an old friend." Reid smirked, as Caleb and Pogue exchanged glances. Then Reid pulled Cassie's arm, to stand in front of him.

She smiled. "Hello, Boys." Caleb's jaw dropped as Pogue almost tackled her to the ground with his hug. "I missed you too, Big Brother." he held her tighter. "Pogue. I. Can't. Breathe."

He let go to look at her. "When did you get in?"

"Earlier... me and my best friend, Lisa."

"Does mom and dad know you're here?"

"Yes, they do."

"Okay." he nodded. "How 'bout everything that happened in the past... let's keep it in the past."

"Works for me." then as Pogue let go, she looked over at Caleb and smiled. "Hey... Cal."

He didn't say anything, he just pulled Cassie into his arms, and hugged her. Two minutes later, Reid was getting pissed, he cleared his throat, then said "Damn, Caleb... quit hogging Cassie."

A minute later, they all heard a girl clearing her throat, followed by. "Caleb, what's going on?"

He quickly let Cassie go. "Hey Sarah... Kate."

"I thought you two were staying at the dorms tonight?" asked Pogue.

"We got bored." Kate glared at Cassie. "Who's she?"

Pogue put his arm around Cassie's shoulder. "This is my little sister, Cassie." he paused as Kate's frown turned into a smile. "Cass, this is my girlfriend, Kate and Caleb's girlfriend, Sarah."

Cassie nodded. "Oh and this my best friend, Lisa."

"Hello." Lisa waved at everyone.

"Hi." Kate and Sarah said, at the same time.

Kate gave Cassie a hug, catching her off guard. "It's nice to finally meet you."

"Yeah... I wish I could say the same." then they let go.

"So where have you been all this time?" asked Caleb.

"San Diego."

"How is it over there in San Diego, Cass?" asked Pogue.

"Fun... weather's nice, we went surfing all the time, and chilled on the beach." she took out her phone to look at it. "Oh... look at the time. I'm gonna go to bed early." she looked at Lisa. "What are you going to do?"

"Hang out... I mean, I'm all dressed up."

"Okay." she nodded. "Bye... we should have breakfast tomorrow or something."

"Yeah." said Caleb. "At Denny's at eight am."

Cassie nodded. "Sounds good." she gave Pogue, Tyler, and Caleb another hug, then started walking away.

"Hey, Cass!" Reid yelled.

"What?"

"Can you give me a ride to the dorms?"

"Yeah, come on, Garwin."

"Bye, guys." he told everyone, then he caught up to Cassie. They got into her car and she drove off. "Well, that was easy."

"A little too easy." she agreed.

After five minutes of silence, Reid spoke again. "I was going to say something."

"When, Babe?"

"When Caleb wouldn't let you go."

"But you did say something."

"I know, but if Sarah and Kate hadn't got there in time, I would have said something."

"And what would you have said?"

"I would have told him to get his hands off my woman."

She laughed. "Reid Joseph Garwin... no, you wouldn't have."

"Cassandra LeighAnn Parry." he mocked. "Yes, I would of."

She laughed again. "I highly doubt it, Reid."

"Okay fine... maybe I wouldn't have said anything, but I came close."

"Reid... we've kept this quiet for over a year."

"Actually fifteen months." he pointed out.

"Fine, fifteen months." she paused. "But you were gonna let the cat out of the bag, because Caleb was hugging me too long?"

"You damn right."

Cassie pulled up to her parents and parked the car. "Come on, Goofball." then both of them got out and walked inside. She saw her dad sitting and looking at the newspaper. "Hey.. Daddy."

"Princess." Wayne nodded. "Reid."

"Hello, Mr. Parry." Reid waved.

"Where's mom?"

"Her and Daisy fell asleep while they were playing pretend."

Cassie nodded. "Okay, Daddy... well good night."

"Good night." he told them, then Cassie and Reid went up to her room.

After a long, over-due love makin' session, Cassie was just laying in Reid's arms. Reid kissed her shoulder blade. "I'm scared, Cass."

She turned around to face him. "Of what?"

"Once Caleb finds out about Daisy, then you'll be hanging out with him all the time, you'll forget about me, and get back with him."

"You really think that?"

"Yeah."

"Reid..."

"And situations like that always happens, so we should quit while were ahead."

"What are you saying?"

"I think we should break up."

"What?!" she kind of yelled. "You came here tonight to fuck me, then break up with me?!"

He frowned. "I think it would be for the best." he started to get out of her bed.

She grabbed his arm. "The best for who? Not me or Daisy." she said, tears were falling down her cheek.

He ripped his arm out of her grasp. "I'm sorry, Cassie." then he got dressed and walked out of Cassie's room.

As Reid walked outside, Lisa was getting out of the Hummer. "Is everything okay?" she asked, seeing the frown on Reid's face.

"No... you might want to go up there. I broke up with her."

"What? Why?"

"She'll tell you." then Reid got inside the Hummer as Lisa went inside.

Tyler drove off. "I'm not even going to ask why you're here at the Parry's instead of the dorms."

"Well, then don't." Reid said, looking out the window.

Five minutes later, Tyler spoke. "So what were you doing over there?"

Reid sighed. "Breaking up with Cassie."

"What?!?!"

"Me and her have been dating for almost... over a year and a half. So when the whole 'Chase' thing went down, she knew about it."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"So why'd you break up with her?"

"It's very complicated and I'm sure you'll find out why, tomorrow."

"Okay." Tyler nodded and left it at that.

Lisa finished getting ready for bed, when she took a listen by Cassie's door. She heard her crying and walked in. "Cass... what happened? Are you okay?"

"Reid broke up with me."

"Why?" Lisa said, sitting next to her.

"Because he said that once Caleb finds out about Daisy... I'll want to be with Caleb."

"Awe, Cass." Lisa started rubbing Cassie's back. "I'm sorry."

Cassie sniffled, then said "Enough about me... did you and Tyler have fun?"

"Yeah. He's pretty cool. We were hanging out at the cliffs talking."

"Cool." Cassie giggled a little. "I think Tyler would be a good guy for you."

"Really?"

"Yeah." she nodded. "He's the opposite of Reid, so that's a good thing."

"We'll see." Lisa smiled. "So are you gonna be okay?"

"Yeah, because I think... it's time for a change." Cassie giggled. "See you for breakfast tomorrow."

"Okay. Good night, Mama."

"Good night, Lisa." Cassie told her. After Lisa walked out of her room, Cassie cried herself to sleep.