AN: So I got a Beta! This chapter will be ten times better.

It's been 2 months, but now schools out so I will be updating once a week. I promise it'll stick this time. Not going to bother with a disclaimer.

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Logan's POV

It had been two weeks since the big fight and the kids were at school full-time. Caroline hadn't acted out since, but I have a feeling she will soon. She is just like me when I was in high school, scattered, unsure, and rebellious.

I can tell that Rory's having a hard time connecting with her right now. Rory is close to all the kids, but Caroline is pulling away and getting attached to her new friends Tiff and Alex.

The fight was bad. It took three days of me sleeping on the couch, and us working it out, for her to forgive me. I think she is still angry, but knows that what I said I didn't mean.

Rory brought Logan out of his thoughts.

"Hey Logan when is the board meeting?"

"It's next week. Don't worry I remember. I'll ask about the competition, and yes we can get Chinese for dinner tonight."

"How did you know all that?" Rory asks with a playful smile.

"Oh you know, good ole mind reading."

"Logan…"

"Ace, I have known you for 23 years, I think I know the face of curiosity, and Chinese food face."

"Chinese food face? I have different faces for hunger?"

Logan had now gotten up and was by her side.

"Oh yes. See your eyes get a little greyer and your forehead scrunches a little bit when you want Chinese."

"Oh really?" Rory said.

"Oh yea. It's very interesting you know."

"I bet."

Logan leans in to kiss her. After a peck Rory pulls away.

"What about other foods?" Questions Rory.

"I've revealed too much – can't tell you about others."

"Oh come on you know you want to." Rory pushes.

"You know, come to think of it, I need to get to a meeting." Logan says looking at the clock.

"Bye Ace, and I'll pick up dinner. Didn't Lori say something about dress shopping for homecoming."

"Oh shoot. I'm going, but don't think this conversation is over mister."

"I love you." Logan calls out as she's leaving.

"Yeah, yeah, you too." Rory playfully calls out.

Lori's POV

Ryan had asked me to homecoming a few days previous, not that it was a shocker. We have been dating since Christmas of last year. Today had been really weird. Everything was just off.

I walked up to Derek, wondering who he was going with.

"I'm planning on asking Sasha, the new girl, but I don't want to scare her."

"Why and how would you scare her?" I asked and laughed internally at my twin's irrational fear.

"I don't know, Chris has put in my head that I can come off too serious, and she is such a playful person that I might be too serious when I ask her, so I'll scare her off."

Now I really had to laugh out loud.

"What's so funny?" Derek asked.

"It's just that you are only serious at school. You have the sarcastic jokes outside of school. Ask her, and I bet you she'll say yes."

"Yeah, sure."

"I'm serious. You had one girlfriend. You had to have been able to talk to a girl to be with her for two years."

"Please don't bring Carrie up. It was my freshman and sophomore year, and was just bad. I was so awkward. I don't even know how we stayed together for so long."

"Because you guys had the perfecting joking relationship, you guys always joked with each other. Just tap back into you jokester personality."

"Actually we stayed together for so long because of the sex, but that's a different story."

"Wait what. I didn't know you guys were sexually active. You were so young." Lori was shocked.

"Oh yea. Dad was that young. He actually gave me the condoms. Don't tell mom, because mom has no idea. Does she know about you and Ryan?"

"Oh we haven't yet. I haven't ever…"

"Oh, didn't know that. Anyway, I think I'll ask dad about this."

Derek left and Lori was left just thinking.

Despite how mush Derek denied how alike he was to dad in his player days he was in more ways then everyone ever thought.

I walked into the bathroom before my next class and saw Tiff, Alex, and Caroline.

Caroline's POV

We heard the door open and immediately hid the cigarettes, but anyone could probably smell the smoke.

I noticed it was Lori and, sighing with relief, I started smoking again. She shouldn't care.

"Seriously, do you know how bad that is for your lungs? What if the headmaster walked in?" Lori said.

"Why would he walk into the girl's bathroom?" Alex countered.

"Maybe he would smell it." Lori tried to reason.

"Lori, I love you, but please don't try and be mom right now."

"I'm being your sister."

"Lori, you'll be late to class if you keep talking." Tiff said.

"You know that you guys have class too." She tried.

I was over the whole sister act. I had my own business I did not need her to be doing this right now.

"Yea, we'll be there soon."

"Caroline, you can't be slacking off, smoking, and drinking. You have your whole life ahead of you to do that, especially when it's legal." Lori argued.

"Look Lori, you're my sister, but that does not give you an invitation to butt in my life, and try to control it."

Lori stood in disbelief.

The bell rung through the speakers and Lori turned to leave the bathroom.

"Bye Lori." Tiff and Alex said in sync, I just waved as she walked out.

After 5 minutes Tiff, Alex and I walked out of the bathroom, when we go to class we make sure we're fashionably late.

I walked out and ran into Jay. He is a junior, and the hottest thing on earth. We had run into each other, and majorly flirted. He was older, but I didn't care. I liked him, and he liked me.

He had brown hair, and the deepest hazelnut eyes I had ever seen. He was about 6 foot and he knew how to party.

"Jay, haven't see you in a while." Jay turned at the sound of my voice.

"Right, I was thinking we need to hang together sometime."

"I agree, what did you have in mind?" I asked Tiff and Alex where behind me smiling like the little schoolgirls their parents tried to raise.

"Well homecoming is coming up next week, and if you aren't already going with someone, then maybe we should go together, and yeah it's a dance but my brother is having a party afterwards at out house, and all the cool people are invited."

I smiled at this.

"Definitely, here let me give you my number." I wrote it down and handed it to him.

"Cool, I gotta get to class." Jay said putting my number in his pocket as he turned and continued running down the hall.

I turned around to the girls and we all screamed in excitement.

"Now we all have dates." Tiff said. They were both going with fellow sophomores.

"Maybe we could go dress shopping today." I suggested.

"Actually we already have our dresses." Alex answered.

My smiled disappeared a little.

"Okay. I'll go with Lori then."

We headed our separate ways toward classes, and we all earned our tardy slips.

Rory's POV

Rory jumps in the car. Caroline was still wearing raccoon makeup, and had the unnaturally long hair. Logan had convinced her to let her be, but being the mother she is couldn't stop thinking about it.

Suddenly Rory was brought out of her thoughts as she waited for Lori at Chilton. The rest of the kids were going to hang out with friends after school. What surprised her was that Caroline was next to Lori. She looked scared, but really excited.

"Hey Girls," I said once they got in the car. "Not that I don't love you, but Caroline I thought you were hanging out with Tiffany and Alex?"

"I was, but today I got asked to Homecoming, so I decided I needed to come get a dress too."

I slammed on the breaks and pulled into a coffee shop. I needed coffee to help the shock. My fourteen year old daughter was going on her first date!

I didn't say a word but just listened to the story of my little girl and this "Jay" guy.

Something was off about her story, she made it to be a casual thing, but I bet she freaked out. I learned he was sixteen years old, and that was a little off-putting to me, all I knew was that Logan wasn't going to take it well.

Rory's POV Continued

We headed to the mall and immediately headed for dresses. Lori informed Caroline and I that it wasn't a long dress event, and to pick out shorter ones. I began looking and after about 10 minutes the girls had dresses, and I was ready to see them.

Lori came out in a light yellow strapless dress, covered in rhinestones.

We looked at each other and then the mirror.

"Too sparkly." I commented.

"Way too sparkly." She concurred and ran back into the dressing room to change again.

Each girl had chosen two dresses to try on at first; they didn't want to get overwhelmed.

Caroline came out in a black halter body-con dress. It was beyond revealing and super short, and had a few rhinestones.

"I really like this one!" Caroline comes out squealing.

Lori comes out to see.

"No." Lori and I both say. Sometimes she is so much like me it scares me, and Caroline is so much like my mom and Logan it scares me.

Was she trying to be a slut?

"Why? What is wrong with it? I absolutely love it." Caroline replied.

"It's just too sexy." Lori answered for me.

"So…what's the problem?"

"You are not an adult, you are fourteen, and you look like all you want is sex." I replied, putting an end to this. Caroline went back into the dressing room. Lori was out here in a blue dress. It wasn't strapless it was a lace neckline that had a few rhinestones on it.

"I really like this one." Lori said.

"Me too. Do you want to keep looking?" I asked.

"No, I think this is the one."

"Are you are absolutely sure?" I wanted to clarify.

"Yes, can I get it?"

I looked at the price tag. We have plenty of money, but that doesn't mean I want to spoil them.

It was $300. I gasped.

"What is it?" Lori asked.

"It's the price." I said.

"If it's too expensive, then I'll keep looking."

"No, this is your last homecoming, and I want to treat you."

"Thank you so much mom!" She turned around and hugged me. Being a mom of four teenagers it was rare I got hugs from my kids.

Caroline comes out in yet another tight black dress. It had a little rhinestone embellishment. It was getting better, no revealing neckline, but was still too tight.

"Caroline, turn around and find a dress that isn't too tight." Caroline rolled her eyes and went to change.

"If you want I can go and pick out some dresses for you?" Lori suggested.

"Only black." Caroline told her.

"Why black?" Lori asked.

"Because it's classic, and I like it."

I could argue with that but decided to let Caroline choose her own dress color. Lori went and grabbed one dress. Only one, probably hoping it would be a good choice. It was black, and was not as tight this time, thank god. It had a lot of sparkles and a sheer lace top, but no big rhinestones.

Caroline took it, with a huff.

"Isn't that a bit old for her?" I whispered to Lori.

"She's growing up. If she likes it let her get it, or else we'll be shopping all day. Besides, that was the only other black dress out there." Lori tried to reason.

Caroline came out with a smile. She looked beautiful, and definitely not fourteen.

"You look amazing." Lori complimented.

"Wow!" was all I could say.

"Thanks. I like it, can I get it?" She asked.

I checked the price, and was thankful it was on sale for $100.

"Yeah, come on. Do you need shoes?" They both nodded and we headed towards the shoe department.

Nate's POV

The girls came home, both with a new pair of shoes and a garment bag with their homecoming dresses.

Derek and I had just finished hatching our plan to ask Amelia (for me) and Sasha (for Derek) to homecoming. We were going to perform a full out high school musical scene in the cafeteria at lunch to ask them together.

"Wow, go shopping?" Dad asked the girls.

"Yeah, for homecoming." Lori answered.

"Why did you get a dress?" Dad directed to Caroline.

"She was asked to homecoming." Mom answered for her.

"She's too young to date." Dad countered. I just looked at Derek, and knew this could get ugly quickly so I jumped in to help my sister.

"Dad we all went to our freshman homecoming with dates." I said, trying to open his eyes.

"Nate that was when I knew I had one left to protect." Dad answered. We all rolled our eyes.

"Logan, that's not fair to Caroline, we have the dress, she has a date, and she has her siblings, and friends to look out for her. Drop it, you'll meet him. I bet Nate even knows him." Mom argued thinking she would end the conversation.

"Why would Nate know him?" Dad asked.

"Because he's in the same grade." Lori spoke up.

"HE'S A JUINOR!" Dad screamed.

"Chill, dad. It'll be fine. Two years is not a big deal." Derek tried to reason.

"It is a big deal."

"You and mom are two years apart." Caroline counters.

"That's different." Dad said.

"How?" Mom asked.

Dad was not winning this fight, it was five against one.

He ignored the question; I jumped in and asked who it was.

"It's Jay Summerton." Caroline answered proudly.

I kept from cringing; he was a major partier, and a player. I just hope my little sister doesn't get her heart broken.

"Yeah, he's cool, a fun guy." I didn't want to ruin this for her.

We all went our separate ways.

Derek's POV

One week later.

Nate and I went to pick up our dates while Lori and Caroline waited for theirs to pick them up.

I was nervous to pick Sasha up. She said yes to my homecoming proposal. I just didn't want to fuck it up.

I went and knocked on her door, she was absolutely gorgeous, and had these eyes that looked like they belong in the sky with the stars.

"You look absolutely beautiful." I complimented.

"You don't look so bad yourself Derek."

We drove to stars hallow and the conversation was light, I made her laugh a few times. Lets just hope there isn't any drama with the pictures. We had Me, Sasha, Nate, and Amelia, Lori, and Ryan, Caroline, and Jay, Becca, Tiff, Alex, Chris, Jonah, and all their dates. Not to mention our parents, Nana, Chelsea, Finn, Steph, Colin, and Casey.

Let's just hope we don't run into Taylor.

I drive into the square and there was Taylor, Mom, and Kirk arguing. Nana was walking up to them.

I spoke too soon.

"Derek, who's that?" Sasha asked

AN: So that was that. Sorry for the cliffhanger. It would be really long if I added in Homecoming, hey something to look forward to for next week. A Big THANK YOU to Angela for the editing.

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