"Okay Phoebe. I don't want you to do anything you don't like, ok?" Phoebe looked up at her sister "Don't worry sis.", she smiled back at her and was somehow looking forward for the shooting. They went to the hotel room in which Victoria was in and knocked at the door. "Glad my daughters are finally here.", Victoria said to them and gave them a kiss on the cheek. Phoebe had imagined that she would do this and was very happy. This was going to be a fun day.

Brooke and Phoebe sat in front of their mother on the couch and looked questioning at her, "Okay, the photographer and everyone else are coming in one hour. I want you to behave.", she looked at Phoebe and Phoebe nodded while smiling "and please don't make a scene. After that I will leave you alone, like promised."

Brooke could not believe that Victoria just had said that. Normally her mother did not care whether it was a promise or not.

"Okay, so why are we here...an hour earlier?", Brooke asked stunned and could see that Victoria was confused by the answer but what confused her more was that Victoria was struggling to talk.

"Okay...I...made an album for each one of you." She gave the red one to Brooke and the purple one to Phoebe. Both of them were stunned, "There are some photos in it and I want you to just pretend that we are the happy big family." Victoria stood up and took a sip from her wine. Brooke and Phoebe opened their albums and did not know what to say. There were photos from their birth until now. But what surprised them the most was that there were photos of both of them together up until Phoebe was about three years old.

Brooke suddenly had tears in her eyes, "Mom, don't tell me that...that..." but Victoria interrupted her.

"Yes. The cousin I took care of for three years was not your cousin but your sister.", Victoria looked at Phoebe and Phoebe from Brooke to Victoria. She did not understand a word, "You were with me, Phoebe, when you were younger. I had told Brooke that you were a distant cousin and you two had a great connection back then. That's why there are some photos of you two together in the album."

Brooke was now crying, the tears just came out of her eyes, "And...and you never told me that she was my sister. God Victoria. Why are you such an evil bitch?" This was too much for Brooke.

"Sometimes there is more than meets the eyes.", Victoria whispered, almost sad and looked out of the window. Phoebe took Brooke's hand and squeezed it a little. "Well, it does not matter. Let's just get through this day.", she said calmly. There was nothing that could surprise her any more when it came to Victoria. Brooke nodded and stood up. "You know what Victoria?"

"What?"

"I always believed that I could not hate any one. But I really hate you.", Brooke left the room sobbing while Phoebe still sat on the couch and looked at Victoria. Suddenly she went over to Victoria and looked up into her eyes. Victoria looked down at her beautiful daughter and felt so ashamed.

"He hurt you, right?", Phoebe asked softly. She did not understand it herself that she suddenly felt pity with Victoria. She was a bitch. She ruined her life and she definitely did not deserve to be treated nice. Victoria did not disagree nor did she agree. But Phoebe already knew the truth. She had thought about it a while ago and now everything made sense to her.

Finally she left the room to look for Brooke. She found her sitting on a chair and went to her and hugged her. "I am glad I have you now.", Phoebe whispered and made Brooke smile a bit.

"I am glad too. But I am sorry that you had to go through so much Phoebe." Phoebe felt a bit ashamed at first and then smiled, "It's not your fault." Of course Brooke knew that it was not her fault but everything could have been so different if it weren't for her mother and all her stupid lies.

A bit later they went into Victoria's room again and were shocked. Victoria was not there.

Only a letter: "My beautiful daughters. I know I am not the mother you deserve and I am sorry for that. I will leave you alone from now on. The shooting is canceled. Have a great vacation. Victoria"

Brooke and Phoebe looked shocked at each others, "There is a plan behind this. Trust me.", Brooke whispered but Phoebe shook her head.

"No, I think this time it's real." Brooke looked stunned at Phoebe.

"You don't know our mother. She is a bitch Phoebe.", Brooke was sad that Phoebe had hope in her eyes. Of course she did not want to take her hope but Victoria was definitely a bad person and no one that cared for others.

"I know. I know but...I know something you don't know and...I...think...she is not only evil.", Phoebe said trying not to cry but her emotions were going wild.

"What do you mean by that?", Brooke was surprised but Phoebe just shook her head. "Nothing important.", she lied. It was just a clue and she did not want to talk about it right now.

"No. It seems like it is very important to you and Victoria."

But Phoebe did really not want to talk about it "I'll tell you another time, okay? Please don't force me."

Brooke nodded "I would never force you.". She wiped away some tears and both of them started walking to their family.

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A little later all of them were at an amusement park. They had decided to take the kids there to have some fun. Brooke was holding Julian's hand and Haley Nathan's. Lisa, Phoebe and Jamie were walking in front of them and eating the sweets. Everyone was smiling happily; they felt like a big family and cared for each other's.

"I still cannot believe what Victoria did.", Julian whispered to Brooke. He did not want to catch Phoebe's attention.

"I know. But Phoebe knows why and she won't tell me. God. Why is everything so messed up right now?", Julian kissed her on the mouth and then hugged her tight.

"I love when you curse and you make sad look pretty.", he smiled at his wife while she rolled her eyes but smiled back.

Meanwhile Jamie saw the attraction he loved: The haunted house. It was a house where you had to go through and some creepy creatures were scaring you, "Let's go in there.", he smiled at Phoebe. "Mom, can we go into the haunted house?", Jamie asked but Haley disagreed.

"Well, you can go but there is no way I am going nor Lisa." She looked at Brooke and Julian who did not want to go either and shook their heads.

"Dad?"

"Nope. It's too scary", he laughed when Phoebe screamed loudly when he took his hands on her shoulder without any warning, "Take Phoebe with you. She surely is brave enough."

The older ones suppressed their laughs. Phoebe always pretended to be the bravest and had said before that she loved the haunting house to get Jamie's attention but now she looked a bit helpless. Brooke realized that maybe it was not the best idea. Especially because she still had her nightmares, "I can come with you if you want.", Brooke suggested although she hated it as well.

"Nope. It's just a haunting house. Nothing big. C'mon.", Jamie and Phoebe got two tickets and went in.

"She will hug Jamie to death.", Haley laughed and the others nodded.

"C'mon Phoebe. It's just a haunting house. It's not real.", Jamie whispered.

"But I swear something was touching my shoulder." It was so dark that both of them had difficulties to see each other's. Suddenly Phoebe hit something with her head and when this thing began to scream she screamed as well and jumped into Jamie's arms. Jamie could not help but burst out into laughing and took hold of her hand. She was just too cute. She shivered and tried to be brave but somehow she failed. "Ouch. Phoebe. I would like to use my hand after that again."

"Sorry, sorry, sorry.", she whispered and went through her own long hair.

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Outside the older ones were laughing so hard. There was a hidden camera, so people outside could see what was happening inside. They just had seen how Phoebe screamed like the tenth time and how Jamie burst out into laughing and held her tight.

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"Why aren't you afraid? Well...not that I...I...am but...", Phoebe asked and Jamie laughed.

"I am a man." Phoebe rolled her eyes.

"You're a teenager. And men can get afraid as well."

"Well, I have to protect you.", he smiled down at her and suddenly both of them turned red.

"Can I ask you a question?", Jamie said a bit shy but he just had to ask it.

"Yeah. Sure."

"Umm...are...you still with Joshua?" Phoebe looked up at him and then turned red again. "No...he...kind of dumped me.", Phoebe answered sadly.

"What? Why?", Jamie asked honestly.

"Well...he told me that he feels more like a big brother to me and there is this other girl he likes. She is fifteen and like a head bigger than I am and a fucking whore.", Phoebe cursed while thinking of that new girl.

"Well, I am glad he dumped you, cause he did not deserve you at all."

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"Did you see that?", Nathan and Julian were looking at the screen and could tell by the way their two kids were talking that it was an intimate talk.

"Guys. Would you stop overreacting."

"No...we are not overreacting. We are guys. And we know what Jamie is going to do." Nathan looked stunned at Julian, "Don't make it sound like he is evil."

"He's not but he is not supposed to kiss my Phoebe.", Julian said back to Nathan. Brooke and Haley shared a funny look while Lisa did not understand anything.

"Jamie is too young as well. And he has less experiences than Phoebe."

Brooke entered the subject "What do you mean by that?"

"Well, Phoebe has Joshua who is way older than she is and you two even allowed that. I don't want Jamie to rush into anything", Nathan said.

"Are you saying that Phoebe is spoiling him?"

"God no. I am not saying this. They are just both too young.", Nathan tried to defend himself. "Well...look at the screen. Looks like Jamie is the dominant one, not Phoebe." Nathan looked at it again and was shocked.

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"Umm...thank you.", Phoebe said while still holding Jamie's hand. Her stomach was feeling like she had thousand butterflies in it and she was suddenly very excited. Jamie took his arm around her shoulder and suddenly stopped her.

"What is it?", she asked shocked because she thought another ghost was about to come. But then she felt his warm lips on hers and her eyes widened in shock. They stayed like this for a moment.

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"Oh my god.", Haley and Brooke said in unison and looked after their husbands who ran into the haunted house.

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"Did you hear that?", Phoebe asked shocked and broke the kiss. Then she saw two figures running after them and they started running as well in fear.

Brooke and Haley could not help but laugh at the image. Their husbands running after Jamie and Phoebe. Finally Julian caught Phoebe and took her on his shoulder. Luckily Phoebe recognized that it was him. Nathan on the other hand took Jamie over his shoulder as well and ran outside with them.

"What in hell are you doing?", Phoebe and Jamie screamed. They let them down again and Lisa came towards them.

"We saw you kissing." Neither Jamie nor Phoebe could say anything any more. They turned red in embarrassment.

"Yes we did. What do you have to say Jamie?", Nathan looked at his son but Jamie did not know what to say. "Umm...", he stuttered.

But Phoebe would not be Phoebe if she had not her big mouth. "I don't want to be rude or anything. But I heard from Brooke that you and Brooke had your first kisses when you were eleven. And Julian you just did not have your first kiss that young because you were a nerd but you always dreamt about it and you Haley had your first kiss when you were twelve at a party. So don't you scream at us because we...we...", Phoebe looked at Jamie and blushed immediately.

"Yeah. She is right. First of all it is not even our first kiss. Phoebe had Joshua and I had Sally.", Phoebe suddenly looked at Jamie jealously.

"Sally. Like in Sally of my cheer team?" Jamie nodded and blushed again. Haley was shocked. So her little boy-soon to be 14 years old-already had his first kiss.

"You two are grounded.", Haley said strictly. She did not want Phoebe and Jamie go any further than kissing.

"What? We did not do anything wrong.", Phoebe screamed at Haley but Brooke interrupted her.

"Phoebe stop yelling at grown-ups. And you did do something wrong. You are not supposed to kiss"

"Who says that? We can kiss whenever we want.", suddenly she realized what she had said and hid her face. This was just too embarrassing for both of them.

"Okay, I think we need to have the talk. But at home.", Julian suggested and the grown-ups agreed while Phoebe and Jamie shook their heads in embarrassment. Their faces were totally red. Sometimes grown-ups behave like idiots.

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Some hours later when Lisa was sleeping the grown-ups decided to talk to their teens now. They knew that they had to have THE TALK sooner or later and they thought that it would be better sooner than later.

Jamie and Phoebe were playing basketball outside when Julian and Nathan called them. Jamie rolled his eyes and went to them. Phoebe on the other hand stayed on the playground and threw the ball into the basket again. She was just not really looking forward for talking about sex with four adults and especially not in front of Jamie. It would be embarrassing and she could not understand why they made such a big deal out of their kiss. It had just been a short kiss. She had not even known that Jamie wanted to kiss her and right now she was confused as well.

"Phoebe. C'mon.", Julian screamed after Phoebe but knew that it would be harder with her. She was too stubborn and he probably would have to carry her inside to get her to listen to them.

"No way. I am not going to listen to your shit."

"I am sorry lil one but you have to."

"I don't have to do anything.", she threw the ball again but was shocked when Julian picked her up and carried her into the living room. There he sat her down on the couch besides Jamie. Haley, Brooke and Nathan and Julian were sitting in front of them and looked excited as well. Of course it was a little weird for them too and it was not like they could not understand that their children did not like the idea of having to talk to them about such a theme.

Haley began, "Okay. First this is not a punishment. We just want what is best for you two. We realized that you are growing up so fast and this talk is necessary.", Phoebe rolled her eyes and laid down on the couch with her arms crossed in front of her. Her gesture, her movements and her face showed that she was pissed and did not like the situation at all. Jamie on the other hand was totally calm. He found it kind of cute how Phoebe behaved and just looked at her.

"Yes little miss. I see how you roll your eyes and I know you don't like it but we don't want you to make the wrong choices in life.", Haley pointed at Phoebe and remembered the thousand of arguments she had had with her in class.

Phoebe burst out and talked back, "It's not like you can get pregnant by a kiss."

Jamie had to laugh and nodded, "Mom. I think Phoebe and I know everything we have to know."

"Okay, then please tell me everything you two know. Maybe we are wrong and don't treat you fair.", Haley answered. Phoebe and Jamie were stunned and did not know what to say.

"About what?", Phoebe played dumb. Brooke immediately answered, "About sex. Tell me everything you know about sex."

The word "sex" made Jamie and Phoebe blush immediately and Phoebe took a pillow in front of her face but Julian pulled it away. Somehow he felt a little pity for both of them because he could see how embarrassed they were just by hearing the word "sex".

"Mom. Don't make us. This is embarrassing.", Jamie whined.

"You are turning 14 and I just heard that you had a girlfriend called Sally and you two just kissed. So there is no way you're getting out of it.", Nathan answered and Jamie knew that there was definitely not a way out.

"Okay. If you want to know everything. Trust me I know everything.", Phoebe decided to fight them with their own idea and started without thinking that Jamie was still besides her. She was so furious at the moment.

"Sex is something very, very brutal and it makes people scream in pain. I've heard people doing it and when daddy had a woman at home again and she pleaded him not to be so hard, he always said "All women want it hard." You don't have to worry cause I won't do it ever in my life because it's brutal and disgusting. I don't want to have someone inside of me. So fuck off and get out of my life and leave me alone."

Phoebe looked at Jamie who looked shocked at her and then just ran with the tears falling down her cheek. She had not wanted to react that way but sometimes the words just came out of her mouth before she had time to think. So the only way of getting out of this situation was running. She ran out of the house and far away from it all.

Nathan, Julian, Brooke and Haley were shocked. They did not know what exactly had been on Phoebe's mind and suddenly felt very ashamed and shocked by her outburst. Everything had been so fine lately. The idea of the talk had obviously been a bad one. Definitely. Jamie looked at them.

"I am not going to yell at you too. But I knew all that stuff. I know about her past and I knew that when I kissed her that there was a chance that she would not let me because she was too afraid getting hurt. Did you even realize that Joshua broke up with her? Yeah, she told me that it was because she was too young but I know the real reason. He broke up with her because she cried when they were about to have sex. Everyone is talking about it at school and it is horrible for her. It was just a kiss mom. Just a kiss. Why do you make us feel so bad?", with that he ran out of the room as well looking for Phoebe.

Brooke was crying already "We have to look for her.", all of them nodded and went outside as well. Only Haley stayed at home to watch over Lisa.

"Phoebe", all of them screamed after her but she was nowhere to be seen. An hour later they were still looking for her but then Brooke received a message.

"Your sister is with me but I think it is better if you leave her alone for today." Brooke was shocked. Phoebe was with Victoria? How come? She would definitely not leave her alone with Victoria.

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"Why. I don't understand why? Did you hate me that much?", Phoebe screamed at Victoria and threw the wine bottles around the room and other things. She was in such a rage that she could not control herself any more. Victoria looked shocked at her outburst and like a wonder a tear came out of her eyes, "I...I...don't know why."

Victoria looked down at her little and beautiful daughter. She loved her but on the other hand she hated her. This three year old kid reminded her what he had done to her. She made her feel weak and unloved.

"Mommy.", Phoebe woke up in the back of the car and looked out of the window. "Where we going?" It broke Victoria's heart what she was about to do. She was a bad mother. She knew it. But she had to protect herself. And she tricked herself by saying that this was a good choice for Phoebe. "You are going to meet your daddy.", Victoria said coldly and flinched when Phoebe smiled at the thought. They stood in front of the house and Victoria knocked at the door.

"Yeah.", he opened the door and was stunned to see the woman standing there with a toddler in her arms.

"This is our product. I don't want it any more.", Victoria was surprised by her own coldness. "It reminds me of how you forced yourself into me." He looked smiling at her.

"I think you liked it.", he laughed, "But I don't want to have her.", he pointed at Phoebe who was still in Victoria's arms.

"Well, me neither. But now it's your time to take care of her.", she pushed Phoebe into his arms.

"Mommy. Noooo. Mommy...", but Victoria was gone. Phoebe could not see how her mother cried.

Phoebe stood unsure in the room of the stranger. He looked down at her while she still sobbed, "I want my mommy.", she was getting on his nerves and that's when she received her first slap in her life.

"Stop whining."

A year later Phoebe had forgotten her mother totally, "Hey princess. I've brought you something." Her dad was trying hard to give her everything she needed. He still had his outbursts and many women at home but Phoebe was his little princess and he loved her. "Wow daddy. That's a castle. For me?"

"Yeah, only the best for my daughter.", He gave her a kiss and realized that Phoebe was one of the best things he had in life.

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I know this chapter is a bit hard and reveals some bad stuff. But I wanted to make sure that you know why Victoria acted so mean towards her and why Phoebe, who is eleven and a kid, sometimes seems older and has her outbursts. Of course there will follow many nice chapters. Ups and Downs like in the real world! And Sam will be there soon! I am really excited what you think and love hearing ideas and suggestions! Thanks for taking your time!

CaseyJr.