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This is the first story I have ever made, so any constructive criticism would be very much appreciated, don’t bash me or anything, but let me know your comments and thoughts on the story. I have tried writing stories in the past (not for the Sims, but in general) and my problem is always how to get to the ending I want and always changing my mind about things. Sorry if it bores you, etc. Let me know if you’re out there and reading it, too.. please. =]

There may be some [adult subjects, violence, cursing etc] in this story, later down in the line, so you're warned.



Chapter 1 - Slumber Party


          Sofie had been waiting anxiously at the front door for her best friend Stacey, she couldn’t help but get excited when she hadn’t seen her best friend in a week. Sure, maybe they talked on the phone every night, but she could still be excited, couldn’t she?! Stacey walked up to the door, and before she could even ring the bell Sofie was outside to greet her.

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        “Hi, Stace!” Sofie said as she gave her best friend a huge hug.
      “Sofie!!” she said as she hugged her friend back, “It feels like I haven’t seen you in absolutely forever!”
        “I know! Oh gosh, I missed you so much. And so did Jake!”
       “Aww! I missed both of you guys so much TOO!”
They stood outside chatting for a little bit before going inside to meet with Jake.


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 After about ten minutes, Sofie led Stacey into the house. Jake smiled as he seen his friends walk into the room, and greeted Stacey excitedly. Jake, Sofie and Stacey have been best friends since freshmen year in highschool.
   Jake and Sofie decided to move in together two years ago when Sofie’s mother had died in a horrible accident. Her life insurance gave them enough money to buy a house, and since her father was extremely abusive, she wanted to get away from him as quick as possible. Since Jake and Sofie moved in together they had become a lot closer. Nothing had ever progressed further than best friends because Jake wasn’t interested in girls. Not because he was too into his job, or too into school, it was because he liked guys. Oh my!
   “Hey Jake,” Stacey said giving him a hug, “You are looking quite snazzy, you heading out?”
   “No girl, I’m all snazzy for you, of course!” Jake chuckled a bit, “was that a disappointed tone I heard in your voice?”
   “Yes, of course it was, I wouldn’t want you to run away when I just got here. I missed you both, a lot!”  

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Sofie smiled while her friends talked, joining in occasionally.
   “Maybe we should order some pizza and make it a TRUE get together!” Sofie exclaimed.
   Both Jake and Stacey had smiled and nodded in agreement to the idea.
“What kind of pizza should we get?” Sofie asked.
“Well, Stacey is a vegetarian, so maybe we should just get plain old cheese,” Jake said with a disgusted face.
“Okay, cheese it is,” Sofie said.
“Thanks guys,” smiled Stacey.
 Sofie then walked into the kitchen to order the pizza.
   “It should be here in about 20 minutes,” she said in a very happy tone.
Nothing could seem to get any better while she was sitting there with her two best friends. What more could she ask for?

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   They heard the doorbell ring, and knew it was the pizza delivery man. Jake got up excitedly to answer the door because he was starving as usual, and he loves to check the guys out.
“Boys,” scoffed Stacey and Sofie.
The girls sat at the kitchen island, waiting for the pizza. Jake seemed to be taking quite a while, they were starting to wonder what was up after ten minutes.
Jake then ran in with the pizza and had a huge smile on his face.
“What took you so long, Jake? Gosh!” Sofie said.
Stacey giggled, knowing what kind of smile he had on his face, “does Jake have a date?”
Jake nodded, “Oh yeah and man was this guy hott!!”
Both girls looked at each other and laughed, “Oh wow, Jake.”
“What? Can’t a guy just get another mans number and not have his friends poking at him about it?”
They shook their heads with a smile on their face, “Yes, Jake.” They said in unison as they all dug into the pizza.
They sat there enjoying their pizza and chit chatting as if they hadn’t seen each other in years.

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“So..” Stacey said and paused a little bit.
   “So..?” both Jake and Sofie looked at Stacey awkwardly.
   “I don’t know if this is the exact right time to let you know this.”
   “To let us know what, Stace?” Sofie said, skeptically.
   “I just don’t know if right now, while eating pizza, it’s the best time to tell you my big news.”
   “Oh GOD! You’re not pregnant, are you?!” Jake threw in.
   “No, no, silly..” laughed Stacey.
“Well? Oh come on, just tell us!”
“Yeah, come on, Stace just tell us already!”
Stacey smiled big, “Andrew asked me to marry him last night!!”
   “Oh my GOD!” They all jumped up and hugged her.
“Wow, it’s about time.. it’s only been about 3 years of you guys being incredibly serious,” said Sofie.
   “Yeah, I know, you’re telling me, I had been waiting for this moment, forever it seems!”
   Jake ran to get the champagne, “I knew we would be opening this up tonight!”
   Sofie smiled, “Yes, lets celebrate!!”
   They all grabbed a glass of champagne and started to celebrate, happily.
“We’re so happy for you, Stace!”

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“Are you spending the night, Stacey? Please do!” Sofie asked.
   Stacey didn’t even have to think about it, “Yes yes! Of course I will!”
They all went and got their pajamas on, they couldn’t wait to start their amazing slumber party, they always had so much fun. They all met back up in the living room with some popcorn, glancing at the movies.
   
         Stacey had told Andrew that she might not be coming home tonight, but she still wanted to give him a call. Looking at the clock, she realized it was 10pm, and knew that it was getting late, and that Andrew was probably already going crazy worrying about her, she decided she needed to give him a call.
   “Hey guys,” said Stacey, “I’ll be right back, I need to let Andrew know about my plans for the night.” She smiled as she walked into the kitchen to use that phone, and dialed her house number.
   Andrew picked up after three rings, “Hello?”
   When he heard it was Stacey, he lit right up, “Hey babe!”

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“Hi, hunny,” she smiled, “what are you up to?”
   “Oh nothing, just chilling with Clayton, we’re having a few drinks.” He said.
   “Cool, I’m glad! Tell him I say hi.. Babe, listen, I’m planning on spending the night over here with my buds, is that okay?”
   “Oh.. okay,” he said sounding disappointed.
   “Don’t have too much fun with Clay, I love you, sweetheart.”
   “I love you, too.”

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Stacey hung up the phone and stood there for a few minutes. She could not help but think about the life she had to lead with this perfect man, she kept going back in her head about how she needs to find Sofie a good man, she was sick of watching her best friend pretend that she was happy all the time. It’s not like she had to worry about finding Jake a man, he was just boy crazy and didn’t want to settle down just yet.
    “Hm,” She said outloud, as she walked into the living room. A huge smile appeared on her face as she spotted Jake and Sofie having a pillow fight. No matter how old they were, things never seemed to change.

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Once the craziness of the pillow fight died down, Stacey had offered the idea of watching a movie. Jake started singing, “Grease lightning” in a very loud tone, he even threw in a few dance moves.
   Sofie and Stacey slowly glanced at each other and giggled. Who were they kidding, they knew that was coming. Jake was obsessed with that movie, even in high school, it was almost as if things hadn’t changed at all between any of them.  

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Sofie went to the movie display case and searched for “Grease.”  While she was doing that, Jake got up and stole the comfortable seat that Sofie was sitting in. When Sofie had turned around with the movie she sighed and rolled her eyes, “we should’ve just bought two of those,” she smiled as she put the movie into the dvd player. She then took the seat next to Stacey, happy to be closer to her anyways.
   Jake was mesmerized by the movie, so Stacey took this as a signal to start girl talk. She whispered over to Sofie, “Psst.. Sofe,” when she noticed she got her attention, she continued to whisper, “guess who is at my house with Andrew right now?” As she had finished that one little sentence, she could see Sofie’s face turn red.
   Sofie could feel that her face was turning red and she giggled a little bit, “..uh, let me guess.. Clayton?”
   “Yes ma’am,” said Stacey.
At the murmur of Clayton’s name, Jake snapped his head over to the girls. “Clayton? Did I just hear the name Clayton? Ooo! He is HOTT!” Jake then turned back to the movie, “Lets pay attention to the hotty with a body, that’s right! John Travolta!” The girls both laughed at Jake and then turned back to the movie.

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 Lets get pretty

              Sofie rolled over in her bed, slowly reaching over for the alarm clock that was going off, ‘why do I always forget to shut this thing off?’ she said to herself as she looked over to it, ‘oh snap!’ she said surprised that it was 11am. She was never the kind of girl to sleep in, but she shrugged it off knowing it was because of the amazing night she had with her best friends. Speaking of, she realized that Stacey was in the extra bed in her room, normally Cleo, her cat would sleep on that bed, but when Sofie offered Stacey to sleep there, she didn’t seem to mind, either did Cleo. Sofie slowly glanced at the extra bed to see that Stacey was still sound asleep, not wanting to wake her up, she slowly stood up and stretched and quietly went downstairs to start some breakfast.

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         Stacey had heard someone quietly shut the door, and knew that it must’ve been Sofie trying to be quiet so she wouldn’t wake her up, ‘how did I end up with such caring friends?’ she smiled to herself as she rolled over. She was an incredibly light sleeper, and just with the sound of the door shutting, she was up. She decided to lie in bed for a few minutes before getting up completely. Thoughts appeared in her head about the night before; she couldn’t believe they hadn’t had a slumber party in over a month, man how life goes by.
   When she finally looked at the clock, it was about 11:30am, she knew she should go see what was going on downstairs, so she got up and made the bed. She looked over to Sofie’s bed and noticed that she hadn’t made her bed yet, so she decided to be nice enough to do it for her. As she finished that up, she wondered if she should change out of her pajamas, but decided against it, since she was more than comfortable at her best friends’ house.

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As she slowly made her way downstairs, she could hear noise going on in the kitchen. She rubbed her eyes as she followed the noise. She spotted Sofie at the stove making some breakfast. “Morning, Sofe,” she said.
   Sofie wasn’t paying too much attention to what was going on around her, she was zoned out as usual. She liked to goof off and dance while cooking, or doing anything really, that’s just how she was. So of course, hearing someone say something from behind her shocked her and made her jump a little.
   “Oh my gosh!” she giggled a little bit, “Hi, Stace. You scared me!”
   “Sorry,” Stacey laughed, “what are you making?”
   “Some pancakes!” she smiled, “I made plenty.”
   “Do you need some help?”
   “No, I’m all set, just sit your little fanny down, they’ll be ready in about 5 minutes.” Sofie said smiling.

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Stacey took a seat at the table as they continued to talk.
   Sofie had finished making the pancakes, and sat down at the kitchen table to enjoy them with Stacey. She was glad it was a Saturday and she didn’t have to work, she liked a day off every once in a while, especially when she worked as a Convience Store Clerk, thankfully the pay of $210 a day was sufficient for her way of living these days.
   “So, how did you sleep?” Sofie decided to change the subject off of work.
   “It was alright, that bed is pretty comfortable, Cleo has got it pretty nice, huh?”
   “Oh, you bet, I love my kitty,” she said smiling.
   “So where is Jake this morning? Wouldn’t he want some pancakes?”
   “Oh, he’s working today; he started a new job, great huh?”
   “Woah, really?” Stacey said shocked, “it’s about time! Where is he working?”
   “I guess he is starting out in the politics career, he figures that’s got to have good money in it. And hot boys, as he says,” she said rolling her eyes. “I’m not too sure there will be hott guys working in a politician’s office.”
   Stacey giggled, shrugging it off, “good luck to him, I guess.”
   Sofie looked at the clock, “wow, it’s already noontime, and here we are in our pajamas. Do you have any plans with Andrew today?”
   “Oh. No, he was with you know who last night, he’s probably really hung over. Do you have any plans?”
   “Nope, did you want to get together later on?”
   “Sure, let me just shower and stuff at home and see what Andy is up to then I’ll give you a call.”
   Sofie smiled, “that sounds great.”

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They both stood up to put their dishes into the sink and Stacey went upstairs to change into her clothes she had from yesterday, she hadn’t planned on sleeping over, so she had to borrow Sofie’s pajamas, oh well. When she got back downstairs, Sofie had already packed the leftover pancakes up and put them into the fridge.
   Sofie walked Stacey to the door and they hugged their goodbyes.
   “Talk to you in a bit!”   

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After Sofie had shut the door, she rubbed her hands together while deciding if she should relax and watch some TV or if she should go get ready. She decided to relax and watch TV, she could get ready a bit later, Stacey wouldn't be that quick, and plus she had a 15 minute drive still. Since it was lunchtime, she wasn’t sure if anything good would be on, but remembered that Jerry Springer was normally on around that time, and she always got a kick out of that.
   A half hour had passed and she didn’t want to continue to be lazy anymore, not only that but Cleo had sat next to the seat she was in and started to meow at her. This was normally the time she would feed her, so she figured she just wanted some food. Shutting off the TV, Sofie went to the kitchen to feed Cleo, at least that made her happy.

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Sofie wasn’t sure what she was going to wear yet, but she knew she had to take a shower. So, she walked into the bathroom and shut the door behind her, Cleo loved to follow her in there sometimes, and she would even walk into the shower with her if Sofie would let her. She got undressed and right as her clothes hit the floor, and she turned on the water, she heard her cellphone ringing upstairs. She wasn’t about to run up the stairs naked, even though she was home alone, she figured they’d just leave a voicemail if it was that important. Then, as she stepped into the shower, the house phone rang, she just shrugged it off. ‘oh well, they’ll call back.’
   She took her time in the shower, she always seemed to do that, why was she being so lazy today? It was 1pm and she had just finished up in the shower, she put her bathrobe on and ran up the stairs quickly. She still wasn’t sure what to wear, so she just glanced through her dresser trying to find something comfortable. ‘oh ha!’ she said as she spotted a nice outfit, ‘I’ve been looking all over for you’ she said to herself, or was it.. to her outfit? Man, she is crazy.

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She was finally all done getting ready, meaning she did her make up, she did her hair and she got dressed. Remembering that someone had called, she picked up her cell phone to see who it was, it was Stacey, of course!
   Stacey didn’t leave Sofie a voicemail though, kind of strange for her, anyways, she called her right back. “Hello?” Stacey said as she answered the phone.
   “Hey Stacey!”
   “Sofie! I tried calling you an hour ago,” she smiled at the sound of her best friends voice.
   “I know, you know how long it takes me to get ready, what’s going on?”
   “Nothing, Andrew and I were wondering if you wanted to hang out with us?”
   “Of course, maybe we should have a barbeque or something here at my house, does that sound good?” offered Sofie.
   “Yes, that does sound good, we’ll bring some food over, can we bring a friend with us?” pleaded Stacey.
   “Who? Not Clayton, right?”
   “Nope, not him,” Stacey smiled with her fingers crossed, she knew Sofie secretly wanted Clayton to be the one they bring with them, so she just went along with it.  
   “Okay, well .. when can you be here?”
   “In about an hour, see you then!” said Stacey.
   “See you.” They both hung up the phone.

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                                         Lunch time.


   Sofie was up in the bathroom checking herself out when she had heard the doorbell ring. She wasn’t about to worry too much about what she looked like, she definitely wasn’t trying to impress Andrew or anything.
   When she got to the door she had noticed that it wasn’t just Andrew and Stacey, they had brought along.. dun dun dun! CLAYTON. ‘Oh god,’ her heart just about went crazy inside of her, she was afraid everyone could hear her heart beating super fast. And they were in their bathing suits already, what a sight!

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Sofie played it off cool and hugged Stacey, while waving to Andrew and Clayton. ‘Smooth, Sofe, smooth,’ she thought to herself. She didn’t know what she was going to do for lunch, she didn’t think that Jake and her had enough hamburgers left over in the fridge, and she didn’t want to look like an idiot infront of Clayton.
   Andrew and Clayton didn’t waste one moment, they were in that pool with a blink of an eye. But first, Sofie couldn’t help but notice how sexy Clayton looked in his bathing suit. “Oh my,” she said shaking her head and pulling Stacey into the house. “WHAT were you thinking, missy!?”
   “I was thinking that we’re going to have an amazing day today,” said Stacey smirking.
   “I can’t even believe you!..
   … Now what do I do?”
   “You go get into your sexy bathing suit and meet us outside, little lady.” Stacey said as she walked to the kitchen to make some lunch. She knew that she didn’t want to bother Sofie with making lunch for everyone, so she just wanted to throw together some sandwiches.

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Sofie walked up to her room and wasn’t sure what to think. ‘oh man, oh man, oh man. What am I going to do now?’ She just kept worrying if her hair was alright, if her bathing suit would be sexy enough, she wanted to impress him so badly. She hasn’t felt this way for anyone physically, and if she had it was never returned in favor, she was worried that he wouldn’t like her.
   She thought back to the very first day her and Clayton had ever met. The boys were at Andrews apartment playing some pool, when Stacey and Sofie had walked in, right away Andrew ran over to Stacey and scooped her up. Sofie had no choice but to just stand there bashfully, ‘Man, I could kill Stacey for this’ she thought to herself at that very moment. Right after they had gotten their mushy stuff out of the way, they had introduced her to Clayton. She couldn’t think of anything too impressive to say and he seemed to just brush her right off, after saying hello of course, and calling out to Andrew, “lets finish our game already, yo.” Sofie found that incredibly rude and wished she could have gotten to talk to him a bit longer, she felt like that would be the end of it.

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Just then she had heard a knock at her bedroom door, as she opened it she had seen Jake standing there. He looked a bit shocked, “Hey, uh.. what’s going on outside?”
   “Oh, we’re having a small get together.. did you want to come and join us?” she asked.
   “Naw.. I might go check out the guys downtown and go shopping with my first days pay, you know how I roll,” he said smirking.
   Sofie smirked, “Well at least come and say hi, you know who is down there.”
   She couldn’t help but laugh when his face automatically lit up, she knew he would never turn that down, she finished tying up her bathing suit as Jake ran into his room to grab his license, apparently he had forgotten it this morning. Then, they had made their way outside.

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Jake had waved hello to everyone, and smirked at the sight of Clayton, “hey there,” he said.     
   “Jake!” Stacey yelled from her lawn chair, “Hang out with us for a while!”
   “No, no, I’m heading out into town, I’ll be back tonight, call me later, girl,” he said turning back to Sofie, “you have yourself a grand ole time,” he said while giving her a little wink and a tap on the butt as he walked away.
   Sofie then walked alongside the pool as she went to join Stacey on the other lawn chair. God, she wished that Clayton’s eyes were following her to her seat, but she knew that they weren’t. She sighed as she took her seat, “what am I supposed to do, Stacey? You invite him over here and he isn’t even interested in me.”
   “Stop that, Sofe, you’re gorgeous, you know he’s just crazy, he probably doesn’t even notice that you’ve been checking him out.”
   Sofie just sighed and looked away, crazy thoughts going through her head.
   Stacey shouted to the boys, “we made those sandwiches, is anyone ready to eat them?”
   The boys looked at each other and raced to the ladder, as if there wasn’t enough food for both of them. The girls just shook their heads.

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As they all sat at the table, Sofie realized that Clayton had taken the seat right across from her. ‘Great, now I need to eat and look at him at the same time, how will I ever pull this off?’ she was going to have to do it eventually, she was never this childish when it came to guys, what was her problem?
   She kind of just zoned out and stared at Clayton, when he looked up and seen her looking at him, he smiled, but at the same time, he was a bit creeped out, wouldn’t you be?

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About an hour of chit chatting later, they were all still sitting there at the table outdoors. Andrew gave a mischievous look to Stacey and she nearly died laughing, “what are you thinking, Andy?”
   He then got up and grabbed her hand, helping her up from the seat, once she had gotten completely out of her seat, he had picked her up and ran to the pool with her. The whole time she was in his arms she was kicking and screaming, “no, Andrew, you better not, YOU better NOT!!’ Sofie and Clayton busted out in laughter as Stace continued to scream and laugh a lot, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t serious, she clearly stated “I’m so serious Andrew, seriously I’m SERIOUS.” And that didn’t seem to stop Andrew, as he looked over at Clayton and I. He then just simply threw her in, that was when all the noise ended and a huge splash filled the air. Sofie couldn’t help but laugh as Stacey came back up for air, “I can’t believe you just did that, I’m GOING to get you!” she exclaimed as she got out to chase him around the pool a few times.

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Here she was, sitting there with Clayton, not knowing what to say.. or what to do for that matter. She stood up, and he looked at her, “where are you going?” he asked curiously. “I’m going to go in the pool for a quick dip,” she said smiling.
   Then, the most unthinkable thing happened, he got up, took her hand in his and they walked to the pool together. She was so surprised! This was really happening? Gosh! Then all of a sudden, he pushed her into the pool and then jumped in right after her.
   There was a lot of splashing and goofing off going in the pool. Of course there was, all four of them were in there. Sofie wasn’t too much of a swimmer, but she was enjoying the time she was spending with Clayton, he sure was funny.

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After about an hour of being in the pool, Sofie decided it was enough and she wanted to go relax a little bit on the hammock. So she slowly climbed the ladder out of the pool and made her way to the hammock. It was about 4pm already, and it didn’t look like Andrew and Stacey were planning on getting out of the pool anytime soon. Clayton surprisingly followed Sofie out of the pool, ‘what is up with him?’ She thought. Hell, she wasn’t about to complain as he took a seat next to her on the hammock.
“So…”  this was awkward.
“Hi,” Sofie said after about 5 minutes of silence, “are you having fun?”
“Of course, the pool feels great, it’s definitely a summer day.”
They both were sitting there relaxing with their heads leaned back when he looked over at her and laughed a bit. Could he have possibly been feeling as awkward as she was? Oh, if she only knew.
“Um, so what do you like to do?.. You know, for fun,” he asked curiously.
“Well, I like to party, dance, sing, and write,” she said shyly.
“Really..? That’s it?”
“No, there is tons more, I just can’t stand that question,” she giggled.
“Oh,” his gaze slowly moving to his watch to check what time it was.
“What about you? What kind of things are you into?”
“Well.. I like to play guitar, I love tattoos, and I love partying. Oh.. and I love girls.” He winked at her.
She couldn’t help but to let out one of her little girly giggles out right then.

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Andrew and Stacey decided to finally come out of the pool, and Stacey sat down in the lawn chair. Andrew explained that he’d be right back, as he noticed that Clayton was motioning him to come over and talk. They went away from the girls and could tell the girls didn’t think anything of it as they were mixed up in their own little conversations.
   “Dude, we need to get out of here,” said Clayton, “I have a date tonight.”
   “Well, alright, let me see what’s up with Stacey.”
Andrew walked back over to his girl and took her hand in his, “Babe, do you think we could get out of here? We have some plans for tonight, me and you,” he said winking at her.
   “Oh, so soon?” Sofie said playfully.
   Stacey smiled at her friend knowing that she would understand if they took off, Sofie had other things that she could do around the house, of course and she wouldn’t be completely alone.
   “Sure, hunny, we can leave. Just give me a few minutes with Sofie,” she said.
The boys said their goodbyes to her friend and thanked her for the great afternoon, and Sofie couldn’t help but notice that Clayton kept looking back as they both walked to the car.
   “Sorry, are you sure you don’t mind? I don’t want to leave you all alone,” Stace said.
   “I’m fine, you know I can go do some writing, I haven’t done that in a while, and plus, maybe Jake will be home soon, I’m fine, I promise.”
   “Okay..” Stacey said after letting out a sigh, “if you’re positive.”
   “I’m cool, I promise, don’t worry about me, but hey.. don’t be a stranger either. I had fun today.”
   “Me too, I’ll talk to you later, though, okay?” Stacey said as she started to walk away from her best friend sadly.
   “See you.”

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After she had watched her friends leave in their car, she got up and picked up the plates from lunch, no leftovers and no cooking on the grill today, that was nice, she thought to herself. Bringing the dishes into the kitchen to wash them, she realized that it was now 6pm. She figured that she wasn’t all that lazy today; she had a very enjoyable day and couldn’t believe that Clayton asked her on a date for this Friday. What was she going to wear? “Heck, it’s only Saturday, stop worrying girl!” she said out loud, knowing she was alone. She let out a little bit of a laugh.
   She climbed up the stairs and went into her room; she was going to work on her story. She loved to write, and she did a really good job writing children’s books, and she wanted to make money some day publishing them. She hadn’t really told anyone about that, really, but Jake had found out when he noticed her writing them, he loved to read them, he’s basically a kid himself.
   After changing into her clothes for the day, Sofie sat down with her book and started looking through it, what more could she add into it? She hated when she had drawn a blank.

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Three Days and Encouraging words

It was now Wednesday and three days had gone by since that great Saturday afternoon with her friends, she hadn’t heard from Clayton about their date, and she was beginning to get worried.
   Sofie had just walked through the front door exhaustedly when the phone began to ring. She wasn’t sure if she wanted to even answer the phone, she had just gotten home from work and she just wanted to relax. She decided to answer it anyways, she never wanted to be neglectful to her friends, besides what if it was important?

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“Hello?”
   “Hey Sofe!”
   Boy was she glad to hear that it was Jake, she knew he wouldn’t keep her on the phone for too long. When these thoughts were going through her head she couldn’t help but wonder, does this make her a bad friend?
   “Hey, Jake, what’s up?” she asked curiously.
   “Oh.. nothing, Sofe, I just got out of work.”
   “That’s cool, how was it?”
   “Good, good. Listen, I was going to stop and get a bite to eat, did you want me to pick you up something? Or did you already eat?”
   “I  haven’t ate dinner, no, I could go for some chinese food, if you’re going to China One,” she said.
   “Oh, yeah.. Chinese food actually sounds great!”
They hung up the phone, she hated to admit it but somehow she had forgotten to eat all day and it was already near 7pm. How did she manage that one?
After she and Jake had hung up the phone, she went upstairs into her bedroom and changed into something a bit more comfortable, then she walked over to the bookcase in the living room and slowly glanced up and down at it, trying to decide which story to read tonight. She then carefully picked out a fancy little romance novel. This one was titled “Morning Comes Softly.” She couldn’t ever get enough of reading romance novels, though it tended to make her expect more from men.

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It was nearly 8pm and she was starting to worry about Jake. ‘What is taking him so long?’ she thought to herself. She decided to give him another half hour before giving him another phone call.
   Fifteen minutes had passed and finally Jake walked into the frontdoor, saying excitedly, “Honey, I’m home!”
   Sofie chuckled and instead of asking him what took him so long she greeted him with a big smile. They slowly made their way to the kitchen and started to pig out.
   “Looks like you haven’t ate all day, Sofie.”
   “Oh, that’s silly,” she dismissed the subject. If he had known, she would never hear the end of it.

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After dinner  she climbed the stairs and sat up in her bedroom, it was already 9:30pm and she was exhausted. It’s not like her job was that draining, what was going on with her? She glanced up to her door as she heard someone approaching it, and then heard a knock. She smiled knowing that it was Jake, why did he still bother knocking?
      “Come in, Jake.”
   He whistled as he slowly walked in and then ran and jumped on her bed next to her. “Whatcha doing?” he said smiling.
   She couldn’t help but to giggle at her best friend, leave it to him to bring her spirits up.
      “Better question.. what are you thinking?” he asked curiously, “WHAT is going on in your pretty little head?”
      “Oh, nothing.. I’m just going through some thoughts.. you know, typical Sofie stuff,” she said.
      “Like.. thoughts about a certain fellow?”
      “Yeah.. Clayton asked me out on a date for this Friday, it’s almost Thursday and I haven’t even heard from him,” she said sighing.
      “Oh, babe,” he said as he put his hand lightly on her thigh, “don’t you worry about that, he’ll give you a call, you know that.”
   Sofie just sighed and shrugged a bit, “He doesn’t seem that interested in me.”
      “Well, that’s his problem, he asked you out, didn’t he? That means he is interested in you, don’t you sweat the small stuff, hun.”

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Just as Jake walked out the door, the phone rang and he ran down the stairs to answer it. “It’s for you!” He called up the stairs.
   ‘Why don’t we have a phone upstairs,’ she wondered to herself as she slowly went downstairs to answer the nearest phone.
         
"Hello?"
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 Mixed up - Part 1

“Hey, there, Sofie,” a male voice had said at the other end of the phone.
“HOW did you get my number?!” Sofie demanded.
There was a dreary silence, as if he wasn’t sure what to say to her.
      “Why are you calling me, James? I told you I didn’t want anything to do with you.”
      “Sofie, listen, I really need you right now, I need to talk to you, I need you in my life, please,” James pleaded with her gently.
      Sofie didn’t say anything after that plea, she wasn’t sure what he was calling her for and what he is talking about when he says he needs her in his life, screw that, he had his chance. She would’ve taken him out of that shithole if he had just come with her to begin with.
      “Listen, I know you’re mad at me, but can you just meet up with me for some dinner?” he kindly asked.
      “When? Right now, you’re insane!”
      “No, no, no.. how about Friday night at Garden Le amour,” he offered.
      “What for, James? Seriously, what for?”
      “…I just need to talk to you, please?”
   She caved in because she could sense a hint of desperation in his voice. She felt bad for him, after all, he didn’t know exactly what he was doing before, he was just afraid. They had made plans to meet up around 8:00pm, she wasn’t sure if it was that smart of an idea, but she definitely couldn’t take him off her mind in the last 7 years, and she was sure she had to see him if not for just one more time.
   She couldn’t help but just stand there looking at the phone silently for a few minutes, she was zoned out, and it wasn’t her normal zoning out, this was a bit more serious. The sound of beeping from the phone had snapped her out of it, and she quickly hung up the phone.

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After that she made her way up the stairs, taking each step one at a time, not rushing, it was as if she was still absorbing everything that just had happened. She was already in her pajamas, so she shut the light off and then crawled right into bed. She looked over at the alarm clock wondering what time it was, seeing that it was 10:15pm, she was pleased. Not so pleased when she couldn’t get to sleep, she kept rolling around in her bed, she just couldn’t seem to get comfortable. Why was the thought of James getting to her this much?
   She could hear Jake still awake and on the computer downstairs, she wanted so badly to talk to anyone right now, to get some of the thoughts in her mind cleared up. She thought seriously about going down there and talking to him about it, but she wasn’t even sure if he’d have any answers for her, and she didn’t even know what she wanted to hear. She just decided to try and clear her mind herself, around 1:00am she seemed to finally get some restless sleep.

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When Sofie woke up she didn’t feel as if she had slept at all, she hated those kinds of nights, and she was hoping that last night wouldn’t have been one of them, of course she was out of luck. How come her alarm clock didn’t go off yet? She looked over at it curiously and noticed that it was only 8:00am, she didn’t have to be in work until 11am, and she normally didn’t leave the house until 10:30am so she had plenty of time to rest some more if she wanted to, but she decided against it. As she stood up out of her bed she shut the alarm clock off so it wouldn’t be going off in an hour, and then walked downstairs to the bathroom.
   Sofie was hoping that a shower would make her feel better all together; last night seemed to put a damper on her completely. ‘I just hope that having dinner with James will make it better,’ she thought to herself as she hopped into the shower. Today, she took an even longer one than normal, it was 8:45am when she had finally gotten out of the shower and looked at herself in the mirror. ‘Man, what am I going to do?’ She sighed as she took her toothbrush and applied toothpaste on it, she started to brush her teeth when she heard Jake’s alarm clock going off. She continued to brush her teeth, figuring he’ll get up on his own.

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Sofie didn’t feel like taking her time doing her hair so she just threw it up in a pony tail, it’s not like she had to look that great for her job. It was 9:00am, and she wasn’t really that hungry, but she knew she didn’t have a lunch break at work so decided to eat something now.
   She grabbed a quick bowl of cereal, although she had plenty of time to make something better, and even had some leftovers in the fridge still, oh well. She took a seat at the table, and didn’t really care that she was still in her bathrobe, who was looking anyways?
   Storming down the stairs came Jake, Sofie almost got up to make sure he was okay because of all the noise. He quickly ran into the kitchen, grabbed an apple and kept running all the way out the door, “Sorry, Sofe, I’m running late, talk to you later!” he called back to her.

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After that burst in, she put her dish in the sink and went upstairs to pick out something to wear. By the time she had picked out something comfortable to wear, knowing that her boss would never yell at her for anything she decided to put on, it was 10:00am. She glanced at the mirror and let out a soft sigh, “another day at this endless job,” she said out loud.

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On her way out the door, the phone rang, luckily she still had five minutes to spare. “Hello?” she said as she picked up the phone in a hurry.
   “Hey, Sofe!” Stacey said excitedly, “I’m glad I caught you before you left. Can you pick me up on your way home from work tonight?”
   “Sure! I’ve been hoping you’d stop by. What’s wrong with the car?”
   “Oh.. Clayton’s been borrowing it,” she spat.
   “I can’t believe you’d allow that.”
   “Well, if Andrew asked me, it wouldn’t have been allowed. Anyways, I’ll see you when you get here later, hun.”
   “I’ll be there around 6:30pm, bye Stacey,” smirked Sofie as she hung up the phone and headed out the front door.

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Mixed up - Part 2

   Sofie looked at the clock at work, five more minutes until her shift was over. She couldn’t wait to see Stacey, she had so much she wanted to talk to her about, or to talk to anyone about really. Amber, Sofie’s co worker, walked in the front door. “Hey there, Sofie,” Amber said smiling.
   “Hey, Amber. You’re the one taking over for me?”
   “Yep, have any cool plans tonight?”
   “Oh, not really.. chilling with Stacey.”
   “Cool, Listen, if you’re interested there is a party on oak ave Saturday night. Give me a call, if you want to come,” she offered.
   Sofie had gone shopping with Amber a few times; she was pretty neat for an 18 year old, although she wasn’t sure if she would want to go to a party with someone who is underage. Ah well, she told Amber she’d give her a call if she ran out of things to do Saturday night, then she hit the road, she just couldn’t wait to see Stacey.
   When she had arrived at Stacey’s house, Stacey came running out before Sofie could even beep the horn, man what was her rush? She was ten minutes early and Stacey was ready? That’s odd. She just shrugged it off, and watched as Stacey had climbed into her car.
   “Hey Sofie!” Stacey smiled to her friend, “I couldn’t wait to get out of that house. Clayton’s there again, it’s almost like he lost his apartment or something,” she complained.

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As they arrived to Sofie and Jake’s house, Sofie thought about making some dinner, although she wasn’t sure what she was in the mood for.
   “Are you hungry?” asked Sofie.
   “Yeah, I could go for some dinner,” said Stacey.
   “I could make some spaghetti or something,” she offered.
   “Okay, sounds good.”
   As Stacey followed Sofie into the kitchen, she spotted Cleo sitting in the corner, so she went over to give her some attention. “Man, I love this cat,” she hummed as she picked her up to hug her.

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After dinner, Stacey picked up while Sofie had wrapped up the leftovers, “Jake would love some of this when he gets home,” she said smiling. Stacey had agreed as she washed the dishes.
   “What should we do now?” asked Stacey, the girls never really had anything exciting to do but to talk, and although Sofie had a lot to say, she wasn’t sure how to talk about it just yet.
      “Well, we could see if we can finally beat that level in SSX,” offered Sofie.
      “Sounds great!” Stacey exclaimed all excitedly.
   They made their way into the living room and picked up their controllers, who ever said girls couldn’t enjoy video games, too?! And plus, Stacey couldn’t seem to get enough of this game, it got so bad that she sat 2 inches from the television itself.

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They both ended up getting a game over, playing SSX for 2 hours and not winning one level was ridiculous, this game had cast a spell over them and they were cursed. “Man!” they both laughed as they put away the controllers.
   It was already 9pm and Jake hadn’t come home yet, Stacey looked at Sofie curiously, “Does Jake normally come home really late?”
   “Well, not all the time, but you know how he is,” Sofie winked.
Stacey couldn’t help but become worried, “Well, he hasn’t even called.”
   “This is normally how it is, we don’t get to hang out that much, living together you know.. things have changed.”
   “Changed? What do you mean?”
   “For the first year we seemed to be inseparable, you know that, but now, we’re both just mixed up in our own lives,” she sighed softly.
   “It’s okay, it’s not like you guys aren’t friends anymore, that’ll never happen.”
   “I know, friends ‘til the end, it’s just scary to see that we’re all growing up.”

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As they were talking the phone began to ring, Sofie hesitated a bit before answering it, could you blame her?
   “Hello?... Oh, yeah. Hi, Andrew,” she said as she passed the phone to Stacey. As soon as Stacey got onto the phone her tone in voice changed dramatically, you could tell she was angry with him for his stupid actions in the past few days. As Sofie had heard that change in tone, she didn’t want to be rude and listen in to the conversation, so she quietly walked out of the living room and made her way into her bedroom. Once she got her comfortable pajamas on she heard Stacey walking up the stairs, so she glanced at the door as she stormed in and started ranting about her fiancé.

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Stacey went on to explain that Andrew was being a jerk and wanted her to come home because they needed to have a “talk.” Sofie sighed and said, “Alright lets go.”
Stacey stopped her, “No, no, I told Andrew to come and pick me up, he should be here in 15 minutes.”
   Before you knew it, Andrew was at the door, and the girls were still upstairs. Stacey just had to vent about Andrew, how could he be acting the way he is? What was wrong with him? It was almost as if Clayton was his lover or something, god, she huffed and puffed.
   They hugged and said their goodbyes, promising to talk later on, and Sofie watched Stacey drive away with Andrew.

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How was Sofie going to deal with everything going on when no one seemed to take the time to ask her what was going on in HER head? She could’ve easily talked to her friends about it, why was she slacking in this subject? Maybe it was because she was so used to being independent, maybe she just didn’t want to have everyone else worrying about her business. Who knows, either way, she is still alone.

Comments are very much appreciated, this chapter was basically a little something to get to something bigger.

Blast From The Past - Part 1

It was 6:30pm as usual when Sofie walked through her front door. The day she had been dreading has finally come, it was Friday, not only did this mean she had to sit down and have dinner with the incredibly missed James,
   But also that Clayton had officially stood her up, not that she didn’t expect it or see it coming, she just hoped that he had a good excuse.

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She had to keep her mind set on Clayton because it was the only way to keep the horrid images locked up in her head. She knew thinking of James would cause those to come out and that wasn’t necessary. She didn’t want to hurt herself at all, and remembering the night that led up to the most horrible day of her life had to be kept locked up, or else, how would she go on?
   While she picked out something a bit nicer to wear and slowly did her hair so it would also look nice, she couldn’t help but to think of the person she missed the most.

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Once that image had come out of the locked door in her head, she couldn’t help the others coming out either, she fell back onto her bed suddenly feeling a loss of energy.
   ‘My mom always loved to paint, once me and my brother were off to school she would just sit at her easel for hours and hours. It seemed to take all of her worries away.’

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   ‘One horrible horrible night my parents were screaming and yelling, I didn’t know what was going on, all I could hear was my dad saying something along the lines of “You will never leave alive, I won’t let you, the only way you’re getting out of this is DEAD. You won’t be able to leave, I promise you that.” I heard a big thump and went to peek into the living room, there my mom was…’

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‘I heard a lot more yelling after that and I wasn’t sure what to do. I didn’t want to be caught witnessing what he did to my mother, so I  went to me and my brothers room and tucked him in carefully. I just loved him, so much and would do anything to keep him safe.’

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‘Once I had climbed back into my bed, I heard my mother walk into our room, I pretended to be asleep while I heard her kiss my brother on his forehead, and then move over to kiss me on mine, she must’ve been on her way out of the room when she turned around and whispered, “I love you both, and I always will, I’m doing this for you,” she turned and walked out of our room. Right then, I started to cry in my bed.’

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‘ The next morning’ fighting back her tears, ‘was the worst morning of my life, no one was around, we couldn’t find my mother or him anywhere, and it was eerily silent all throughout the house. I went to check in my mothers bedroom, maybe she was still sleeping I had thought, but when I had opened the door, I hadn’t expected to find what I had found…’

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Blast from the Past – Part 2.

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‘There my mother was, laying on the ground, lifeless, in her own bedroom. She had bruises all over her face, and she was laying in a puddle of blood, how could anyone have done this to my mother? There was no guessing who had done it, I had to get my brother out of here, before he got him.’
‘So I grabbed a suitcase and I got our stuff together before he even got out of the shower, I threw some clothes on and I knew I had to be the responsible one. My brother walked into our bedroom and looked at me confused, I didn’t have time to explain I told him, We had to get out of here, and he needed to come with me. All he could do was ask what was going on, and I just didn’t want to tell him, I couldn’t tell him, how could I be the one to break his little heart? I had to react as fast as I could, so I hugged him and grabbed the suitcases, I asked if he was going to come with me, because we needed to get going fast. There was no saying when he was going to be back.’

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‘Once I got to safety, meaning to our nice neighbor Ben Rivers’ house, all I could seem to do was fall to my knees and sob uncontrollably,’ and still to this day that is what Sofie does whenever her mother came into her thoughts. She tried her hardest to not think about the murder, she knew she had to do something with her life, she needed to make her mother proud, to make something out of this life that she led. To do something her mother never had a chance to do, although it was incredibly hard to push the thoughts of her own mother out of her mind. She knew all these thoughts would be coming pouring out tonight, she just had hoped that it wouldn’t have been until later. Since she was thinking about it right now, of course she was sobbing uncontrollably, luckily Jake wasn’t home to hear her. She realized that everytime the incident had played back in her mind, it was almost as if she was telling a story about it, narrating it herself.

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When she finally got herself under control the phone started to ring. She took a deep breath before answering it, “Hello?”
“Hey, uhh.. Sofe,” the same male voice said into the phone.
“OH crap!” She said looking to the clock, “it’s 8:15pm!”
“Are you standing me up?” he joked with an easy tone.
“No, no. I’m on my way!” she said as she hurriedly hung up the phone and ran out the door.
‘How could I have been so careless?’ she thought to herself. ‘Thank GOD taxi’s are always driving by my house!’ It was incredibly easy for her to catch a ride.

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When she had arrived at Garden Le Amour, she had been 30 minutes late, and she was sure that wouldn’t make James too happy. She glanced around and couldn’t see him anywhere, she was worried he had run out on the idea, until she walked inside, and there he was. How could she have missed it?
                  Her mouth dropped open.
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Blast from the Past - Part 3.

   There he was, Sofie thought to herself, James was standing right infront of her, and it was almost like she wasn’t even sure how to react, should she go up and hug him, or wave from a distance? I guess that all depended on how he reacted, right?
   Once James glanced towards her direction and seen the expression on her face, he knew then that was her, that was his sister who he hadn’t seen in seven years. Man, how much he missed her, if she had only known. He couldn’t even help but run up to her and pull her closely into his strong arms. It seemed as if Sofie still didn’t know what to do besides to place her arms around his body gently.

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   “Oh my god, James,” she cried softly. “What was I thinking all these years?”
   “Don’t blame yourself, Sofe… I didn’t give you a way of contacting me.. lets get a seat first, okay?”
      “Okay,” she sniffled.
   “Although I must say, I already have a table for us,” he said, looking up to their table and taking her hand in his as they walked to it. He took her over to her side of the table and helped her into the seat, and then walked over to the other side of the table and sat down in his own. He had imagined the day where he would contact his sister and actually be able to see her again, he just didn’t imagine it would be so soon, heck.. Who’s to say it was that soon, he had been searching for 2 years now. He just couldn’t help but to stare at her. “Wow,” is all he could spit out.

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   She giggled, and then they began to talk and catch up on everything that they’ve been missing out on. “Where are you staying?” she asked him curiously.
   “I’m bunking with Eric, you remember Eric, right?” Who was he kidding, he knew she would remember him.
   “Oh yes, I remember him,” how could she not remember him? They had dated for over two years, the only reason they had broken up was because Eric had to move to florida to take care of his sick grandmother. “Still living in Florida?”
   “Nah, we moved back up here, actually to Veronaville,” which was only 20 minutes from her house. “It’s a crappy little apartment, but it’s working for now, we’ve only been here for two weeks.”
   She sighed, shaking her head, “that’s no way for my little brother to live, if you want to, you could always come shack up at my place,” she smirked, knowing he wouldn’t accept that kind of help from his sister.
   “Don’t be silly,” he said as he had noticed his sister glancing to another table and her facial expression changing dramatically. “What is it?”
   Sofie’s mouth had dropped open, what was she going to do? “Oh my god…
               …Clayton.”

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   “Uh.. James, do you think it would be okay, if we change our plans?”   
“What do you mean, Sofe?”
   Sofie stood up and grabbed James trying to hide behind him until they got out front, then she turned to him, “we need to get out of here, or atleast I do,” her eyes shot back and forth around the area.
   James looked at her with the most confused look on his face, “Do I need to beat someone’s ass for you?”
   “No, no. Lets just go to my house, I’ll cook us up something good, if you’re hungry. We can do anything I promise!” she said hurriedly.
   “Okay, okay, Lets go then, if you’re in such a rush,” he said looking around as they made their way to the car.

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   The whole way in the car they had been silent, Sofie didn’t know how to explain her actions, and she wasn’t sure if it was the correct time to fill him in on how she feels for Clayton. And plus she felt like such a teenager when it came to that boy.
   ‘What is James thinking? He is probably thinking that I’m crazy’ she thought to herself, ‘damn it, I should’ve just walked right up to Clayton, why let him have the satisfaction of screwing my night up?’ Ah, the things that popped through Sofie’s head.
   James wasn’t sure what to do when his sister panicked and wanted to leave, he wasn’t exactly hungry, he just wanted to see her and be able to talk to her, he didn’t even care about the past, he just cared about the future and he wants her to be a part of it.
   
   As they reached Sofie’s house, James was shocked and surprised at how big it was, he hadn’t expected this. “Wow, Sofe.. you’re really successful, huh?” he said.
   “Ha. No, this is because of the” her eyes started to turn towards the ground and her voice went suddenly quiet, “.. you know.”
   “Oh, right.. yeah, I guess if I stuck around I would’ve had a piece of it, too,” he tried joking, but knowing this wasn’t a joking matter he apologized.
   
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   They walked into the house and sat down at the kitchen table, just to talk, they had a lot to catch up on, from the incident itself to the future now, but they weren’t sure exactly how to get to it, so they started right from the beginning, what better of a place to start?
   James explained to Sofie that when she had told him to come with her, he was so confused, and as she was in a rush to get the heck out of the place he had no choice but to freeze up and look for his parents. He had said that he had seen her body, too, but since he was still young and looked up to his father completely, he didn’t want to admit to himself that his father would do something like that. “How could anyone have that little of a heart? .. They were in love at one point, you and I both know that,” he stated with a matter of fact tone. He nodded as Sofie went on to say that obviously something had changed in their relationship, their father had changed, he didn’t see their mother the same way he had used to, and that was what caused things to slip and fade the way they did.

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   He had gone on to explain to his sister that after she ran away and he found their father, that they both had made a run for it and he didn’t know why. Their father had told James that he didn’t do it, that there was an accident with their mother, that she had a miscarriage, and she was so depressed. “He told me that she killed herself, Sofie.. that’s what he told me, what was I to believe?” She had sensed how sad he was about this, as she reached her hand over to place it on his, letting him know that she didn’t blame him anymore.
   When they had all gone to court for the matter at hand, and her brother had stuck up for their father, after he had known the fights that were going on, she was furious, but furious at the wrong person, she wasn’t supposed to be mad at her father and her brother, just her father for brainwashing her brother and for killing their mother.
   Now that they had talked about it, they had both hoped they could put it behind them, she didn’t want to be pained everytime she sets her eyes on James, she wants to be happy now that he would be a part of her life, and she had hoped that that is what it would be like for him, too.

After about two hours of that conversation, she realized it was getting late and asked him if he had wanted to stay the night, he had told her that it wouldn’t be necessary, but he did want to hang out with her for a bit more. As she heard this, she agreed, she didn’t seem to want this night to ever end. and that’s when they started to playfully punch eachother like they used to do when they were kids.

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   “So.. are you seeing anyone right now?” she asked curiously.
      “Uh, I just moved back here two weeks ago, so not anyone around here,” he smirked, “Why, you got any single friends?”
   She thought about Amber, then shook her head, she was so not right for him. “No, no, not really..”
   Then the question she had hoped he wouldn’t ask came out, “What about you? I thought you would’ve been married with five kids by now,” he joked.
    She sighed, “No, to be honest, I haven’t gotten over my last boyfriend, and I’m kind of acting like a child when it comes to Stacey’s fiancés best friend,” she blushed a little bit.
   “Oh? Your last boyfriend.. as in Eric?” he asked and noticed her blushing a bit more and nodding in answer, “Well, he actually told me he couldn’t wait to see you again. Last I knew he was talking to some Kayla chick,” and as he seen her expression sink, he threw in “but, they’re not that serious…
   … And don’t you worry about acting like a kid when it comes to crushing, I know how you feel, who is this guy?”
   “..His name is Clayton. And I just seen him at dinner, with another girl, after standing me up tonight,” she sighed.

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   When they noticed it was 1:00am, she thought it was best to take him home already, after all they had plenty of time to catch up now that they had eachother back. So, they piled into her car and continued to talk as she drove, when they had reached his apartment, he had asked if she wanted to come say hi to Eric, but she declined his invitation and they had made plans to all meet up sometime soon, again.

Just uhh catching up

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Sofie didn’t even remember falling asleep last night, she didn’t even remember walking through her house door, maybe it was because she was so enthused about seeing her brother. Maybe it was because her mind was side tracked replaying the events of the evening in her mind.  Everything went even better than she had expected, and she was happy for that. She couldn’t help but be excited for the future years she was going to share with her brother, she finally felt like she had a family, or atleast the beginning of one.
   It was 9:00am when Sofie woke up naturally, but when she realized that she hadn’t even gotten to bed until 4:00am last night, she decided to go back to sleep, she couldn’t last throughout the day with only five hours of sleep. When she finally woke up again it was 11:00am and it was to her cat, Cleo. Sofie sighed loudly as she looked at the clock, ‘Cleo must be hungry,’ she thought to herself. Automatically, she turned around and made her bed, then glanced around her room gracefully.

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In her pajamas, Sofie walked down the stairs and put some food into Cleo’s dish, and then walked into the bathroom. She was hoping that her brother would come over today, or maybe she should go out and try to meet someone new since Clayton had screwed her over. ‘Should I call him and ask him what was up with last night? Or should I just let it go and not worry about it?’ She wasn’t sure what the right choice of action was, but she knew she had to do something about it.
   Taking her clothes off, she put on her robe and brushed her teeth, and then hopped into the shower quickly, she felt very heated, maybe it was because she was angry with the thought of Clayton, but she needed to cool down.

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When she got out of the shower, it was about 11:30am and she wanted so badly to talk to Jake, so she went up the stairs, still in her bathrobe, and knocked on his door. She could hear him snoring, and she walked into her room disappointedly. She picked out something nice to wear, and then did her hair nicely. It took her a bit to straighten it, and when she had finished it was around 12:45pm.
   Jake had just woken up and was walking out in the hall, he still had his clothes on from last night, but he was starving, so he wanted to make some lunch. He knocked on Sofie’s door to ask her if she wanted some as well.
   “Come in!” she called out to him, and agreeing to lunch, she had followed Jake downstairs to the kitchen. They decided on grilled cheese sandwiches and while he was grilling the sandwiches up, she had started to tell him about the night before.

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“So, your brother and you are going to see eachother a lot more now?” Jake asked.
   “Yeah, we plan on it.. in fact I kind of would like to talk to him today and maybe see a movie, are you interested in coming along?”
   “No, Sofie, that’s okay, you guys need your time to catch up. But hey, have you thought about asking him to move in here?”
   “Not really, he seems like he’s alright with where he is for now, why?”
   “Uh, well.. I’m dating this guy Jeremy you know, the pizza delivery guy I met last weekend,” he smirked a bit, “anyways, we’ve gotten a bit serious, and we’re thinking of moving in together.”
   “Are you sure that’s so smart, Jake? It’s so soon.. we haven’t even met him,” she tried being a good friend to him and hopefully have him change his mind.
   “I know it seems really fast, but I feel like I’ve known him forever already.”
   “How about he just comes and moves in here for a while, and if it works out then you guys should move out? That sounds like a bit smarter to me,” she offered.
   “Well, we’ll have to think about it, hun.. that’s so great that you’d do that for me.”

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Sofie and Jake had finished up their lunch and as they were cleaning up, Sofie picked up the phone and decided to give Stacey a call, she wanted to make sure her friend was alright.
   The phone rang three times before Stacey had picked up. “Hello?” she sounded like she was in the middle of something or just waking up, but that couldn’t be at 1:35pm, could it?
   “Hey, Stace, it’s Sofe.”
   “Oh hey, hun, what are you up to?”
   “Nothing, are you in the middle of something?”
   “Andrew and I were up really late last night, so yeah, I was just waking up, actually,” she sounded a bit embarrassed.

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“Awe, that’s fine, I hope you guys had a nice talk”
   “Oh, it wasn’t just a talk,” Stacey said letting out a little giggle.
   “Oh gosh, you guys are back at the mushy-ness, huh?”
   “Yeah, actually, we are.. back to acting like newlyweds, right hunny?” Stacey said and Sofie figured she was touching his leg or face, she could just picture it right now.
   Sofie made fake gagging noises and then let out a small laugh, “Well, I’m glad to hear that.”
   “Yeah, we talked about the whole Clayton thing.. and I guess he is seeing someone right now. I was hoping it’d be you.. since I thought you guys had a date.”
   “Oh, yeah, we had a date.. and he completely blew me off, but yet he was good enough to be at the place I was last night, so I got to see him and his lovely date,” Sofie huffed angrily.
   “Awe, hun, I’m so sorry that you had to go through that, that’s not fair, he’s such scum, you are better off without him.”
   “Yeah…”
   “Actually I met his girlfriend last night, probably after their date or something, I wish you could’ve seen what she looked like,” she giggled.
   “Was she ugly? Disfigured? I hope so!” Sofie sighed, “Okay, I know I shouldn’t hope such a thing, I’m just angry with him…
   Anyways, are you busy or can you talk for a little bit?” she asked.
   “I can talk! I can talk! I’ve missed talking with you,” Stacey said with a smile on her face.
   They caught up on all the events in Stacey and Andrews arguments, and what they did with Clayton and his new girlfriend, and also talked about Sofie meeting up with her brother who she hadn’t seen for 7 years, and how all those events had played out and how excited she was. Stacey was also very excited for Sofie, how couldn’t she be? It was about time !

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   Right after Sofie had hung up the phone with Stacey, the phone started to ring which of course caught her off guard. She jumped a bit at the coincidence and Jake started to laugh as he was on his way out to catch Jeremy.
   “Hello?”
   “Hey, Sofie. How are you doing?”
   She was so excited to hear James’ voice on the other line, “Great! How are you?”
   “I’m alright, do you have any plans today?”
   “No no, do you?” she was excited, hoping he’d want to hang out.
   “Well, more like today. I was wondering if you wanted to come out with me and Eric tonight, we were thinking of going bowling.”
   “That sounds good, but Eric.. wouldn’t you think that might be a bit awkward?”

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“No,” he said, “why would that be awkward, Sofie? Kayla might be meeting us there though, if it’s too awkward for you, we don’t have to do it.”
   “Well, I definitely want to see you, I suppose I could deal!” she said smiling.
   “Are you sure? Because it could always be just me and you, you know that.”
   “Oh, I’ll be alright, I promise. It’ll be fun, and if it isn’t we will make it fun!”

   So that was it, they had made plans for 6:00pm sharp at Deleo’s bowling alley, it was the place they went to as kids with their mother, so they had figured it was a good idea to reminisce.

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Bowling Alley

6:15 pm, Sofie had finally arrived at Deleo’s bowling alley to meet up with her brother. How could she be running late? Well, she was expecting to see her ex boyfriend who she was still in love with, so of course it took her a very long time to make herself look as good as she wanted herself to look. Although, she still hadn’t felt she looked good enough, and she knew Eric had a girlfriend, so what was the point?

 She wanted to keep her mind on spending quality time with her brother, so she had to keep shaking her head away from the thoughts of Eric. She needed to prepare herself for meeting Eric’s new girlfriend and actually finding out what he’s doing with his life right now.

Sofie walked into the bowling alley, after taking a deep breath. The first person she spotted was James right at the door, he must’ve been waiting for her. Sofie didn’t see Eric or his girlfriend around, and that brought her stress level down a bit as she ran up to James and hugged him tightly. “I hope you haven’t been waiting too long,” she said genuinely.

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Unfortunately for Sofie, Eric and his girlfriend had already saved the lanes while James was waiting for his sister. She had hoped when she didn’t see them, that maybe they had canceled, but James quickly clued her in on where they were. Sofie couldn’t help but have another look at herself worriedly, and that’s when James looked at her, noticing that she seemed unsure of herself and smiled, “You are beautiful, Sofie.”
   Sofie blushed, “Thank you, James.”
   “Alright, well..” he said smiling, as he led her over to their lanes, “this will be fun, I promise.”

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Sofie gulped loudly as she spotted Eric and his girlfriend, much to Sofie’s dismay, she was gorgeous. As they had approached the lanes, Eric had glanced up and watched them walk over towards them, he grabbed his girlfriends hand and smiled, he whispered something to her as they were walking over, she could hear Eric’s laugh a mile away.
   Sofie looked at them both as they had arrived next to them. “Hey, Eric, how have you been?” She asked and reached her hand out for his, but he didn’t take that, he took her right in his arms and gave her a big hug. “Hey Sofie, I’ve missed you,” he said, and paused for a few minutes just looking at her. His girlfriend then cleared her throat as she felt that he was looking at her a bit too long, and wanted to be introduced. “Oh right,” Eric said, clearing his head, “Meet Kayla, and Kayla this is Sofie.” They shook hands, gently, and it seemed as if Kayla wasn’t too interested in getting to know Sofie. They stood around and chatted for a little bit, before they started bowling, as well.

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As they had all been bowling, they realized how the time was flying, it was already 9:00pm and she was beginning to hear her tummy grumble, but she felt bad saying that she was hungry, so they kept on bowling.
   Just then, Kayla’s cell phone had rang and Sofie was up bowling, she didn’t want to seem like she was listening, but she had heard that Kayla was sounding a bit excited. When Sofie came back from her turn at bowling, Kayla was talking about how her friend was having an amazing party, and she wanted to go. James had offered to give her a ride, and said he’d be back soon.
   So there she was, alone with Eric, ‘oh my,’ she thought to herself.
   “Uh.. well, how are you doing, Sofie?” he asked curiously, as they sat down at a bench.
   “I’m alright, kind of hungry, what about you?”
   “I’m hungry as well, maybe we should go get something to eat?” Eric had said.

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“Luckily this place has some amazing food,” Sofie said, standing up, “Lets go find a table. I could use a drink,” she giggled. Eric nodded in agreement as he got up with her, and they had made their way to the host. “Two,” Eric said to the host, as he led them to a nice table.
   They both sat down and looked at the menu, Sofie had ordered some lobster, and Eric had ordered himself a hamburger, she couldn’t help but let out a small laugh at him ordering a hamburger, he didn’t see anything wrong with it, it wasn’t like it was a fancy place or anything.

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Before the food had been done, Sofie had already had three beers, and she was feeling pretty buzzed, she wasn’t a big drinker, but she wanted to have a good night. Surprisingly she felt pretty comfortable with it just being her and Eric, their conversation just kind of flowed, and she couldn’t help but laugh and smile the whole time, her face was lit up as the food arrived, she was famished.

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While they were eating, she had some more beers, why stop now? Eric wasn’t sure what to think of that, maybe she had turned into some alcoholic, but he knew he wasn’t about to let her drive home by herself.
   “So, why isn’t your boyfriend here with you, Sofie?” he asked.
   “Well, why isn’t your girlfriend here with you?” she snapped back, “..I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that, it’s just a tough subject for me…”
   He was taken aback with her first answer, and almost scared, “No, I’m sorry I brought it up, I didn’t know it was like that..”
   “I don’t have a boyfriend, right now..”
   “Well, me and Kayla are pretty new, I think she needs me more than I need her.”
   “What do you mean?” she asked curiously.
“I just think that she is mixed in the wrong crowd, I almost feel like I need to help her on her feet,” he had said with a sigh, “Anyways.. are you sure you should be gulping down those beers?” At this time they were all done eating, and they were just sitting at the table talking.  It was 10:30pm.

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   They had paid for their dinner, and Sofie was stumbling all over the place, she was trashed. ‘What am I going to do?’ Eric thought, ‘James is going to kill me!’
   Eric had helped Sofie onto a bench, and spotted James walking in, finally.
   “Hey, James!” Sofie said very loudly, trying to stumble up to go see him, but after much effort continued to sit in the bench.
   James looked right at Eric with a questioning face, “What did you do to her?!” he exclaimed.
   “Oh, she just ordered her own beers, she’s old enough, I just didn’t know she was going to take it this far.”
   “Well, that’s just great, Eric, I have to be up early, I guess I should take her home, and stay the night or something.”
   “No, no, James, I got it, I promise, you go on home, I’ll see you tomorrow.”
   “Are you sure?” James said lightly, and when Eric had nodded he made his way over to Sofie to say goodnight to her, and told her he’d give her a call later. James told Eric how to get to Sofie’s house and then walked out the door, he was exhausted.
   
   Eric then scooped Sofie up in his arms and walked his way to her car, “We’ll take you home now, where are your keys?”

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 Safety

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Arriving at Sofie’s house, Eric felt a bit uncomfortable. He shouldn’t have offered to take her home, what was he thinking? He knew that he was only doing it because he was a good friend, and perhaps he did still care for her, how couldn’t he? But, what if Sofie thinks something differently? What if Kayla thinks something of this? “Shit,” he accidentally said.
   Sofie was definitely still a bit drunk, but she hadn’t gotten to the pass out phase, just yet. “Sh-sh..itwhat?” she managed to spit out, slurring her words.
   “Oh nothing – lets get you into bed,” Eric had said, letting his eyes look down at the woman in his arms, with a hint of caring in his voice.
   “No, no I don’t wannnaa sleepy yet, iz early,” again with slurring her words together.
   “Come on,” he pouted, she was so adorable when she was drunk, heck she was adorable all the time, and he remembered that. ‘What more does she want me to do?’ he thought to himself.
   Eric turned the doorknob before walking into the house, it was unlocked! At 11:30pm?! Does someone else have a key to her house? Does she live with a boyfriend? Did someone break in? Should he be worried? He had to do it, so he took a deep breath and slowly walked into the house carrying Sofie in his arms. He glanced around, and was very surprised at what he saw. She used her money well, and of course he knew where she had gotten the money from, he knew Sofie’s family past.

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They were already in the living room, and Eric didn’t know his way around the house, but he could feel himself losing some energy, he couldn’t carry her around right now, he needed to have a rest. So, he placed her down on the couch, and told her to relax a little bit.
   “I don’t wanna go to sleep, Eric!” she said very loudly.
   “You’re on the couch, not in bed, relax, little lady,” he smiled over at her, “I’ll be right back, stay right there, alright?”
   “Where do YOU think you are going, Misstaaah?” she screamed as she tried getting up but fell back onto the couch.
   “Listen, just don’t try to get up, stay there, I’ll be back in 5 minutes, I promise,” he said as he walked into the next room, which happened to be the kitchen. He looked around and was pretty impressed with the decorations and at the size of the room, but he had to keep looking. He was searching for her bedroom, the sooner she got to sleep, the better!
   So he walked up the stairs and he heard noise coming from one room, it sounded like a television, he wasn’t sure what to do, but he decided to knock on the door, hopefully whoever it was wasn’t a burglar and didn’t think HE was a burglar.
   Jake came to the door in his pajama pants, “Uh.. what the HELL are you doing in my house?!” He said angrily, “Get out!” he screamed.

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“Hey.. uh, listen, calm down,” Eric pleaded.
   “What, are you deaf? WHO are you?!” Jake exclaimed.
   “My names Eric, I used to date Sofie..” he tried to explain to Jake, but Jake kept interrupting.
   “So what are you doing here? I remember you, you left and made her cry her little eyes out, scum.”
   “No, listen, we all went out tonight, she got a bit drunk, and I brought her home, she’s downstairs in the living room, I was looking around trying to find her room, okay?” Eric finally spit out and turned around to go back down the stairs.
   “Oh, Eric, I’m sorry, I just..” he stopped Eric from walking down the stairs, “alright, listen, you can go home, I’ll take care of her, I’m good for that.”
   “I don’t really want to do that, I can’t leave her, I had promised I’d take care of her, and that’s what I am going to do.”
   “So what does that mean? You’re going to stay overnight?.. Oh no you don’t, you’re not getting any tonight, Eric,” Jake said in defensive of his friend, he knew Sofie wouldn’t have wanted to do anything with Eric, especially when she was drunk.
   “No, I’ll sleep on the floor in her room, I’m not like that, stop it, please.”
   Jake sighed and walked back into his room, and Eric could hear him talking to someone, hopefully not himself.
   Eric walked back downstairs and went into the living room, to see Sofie sleeping on the couch, passed out, ‘It’s about time,’ he thought to himself.

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He walked over to the couch and picked her up, he couldn’t let her sleep the night away on a couch, no matter how comfortable she looked, he knew she would be comfortable up in her own bed. When he had gotten upstairs, Jake was up there waiting.
   “Her room is over here,” he pointed and led him into the room.
   “Thanks man, she passed out, do you think we should get her into her pajamas?” Eric asked innocently.
   “Here, stay here, I’ll help her into them.” Jake said as Eric walked out into the hallway.

Ten minutes had passed and Jake walked out of the room, “Alright, I’ll be coming in to check in on her in the night, but if you want to stay, she has an extra bed in there.”
   Eric walked into the room and had spotted Sofie under the covers of her bed, comfortably sleeping, he wasn’t sure if he should stay the night, but he felt bad since he had made a promise, even if she was drunk, he didn’t break promises.
   
He decided that it would be a smart idea to give his girlfriend a call, but he wasn’t exactly sure what to say to her, how do you explain that you’re staying at your ex girlfriends house for the night? He hoped Kayla would understand that he is just a good person. He went into the hall and picked up his cell phone, and dialed Kayla’s number.
   “Hey baby,” he said into the phone.
   “Where are you, Eric?” she sounded a bit angry, but he heard laughing and loud music in the background, she was obviously still at that party. It was midnight, and she obviously wasn’t planning on coming home anytime soon.

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“Listen, Kayla, I know you’re not going to be too happy, but Sofie got kind of drunk when James was driving you to your party, and James has to get up early, so I offered to take her home…” he paused.
   “Oh, great, she wants you, I told you, Eric, she shouldn’t have gotten drunk, it’s a trap, she wanted you to come to her house and she has you right where she wants you. I can’t believe you!”
   “No, listen.. I’m only staying here because I promised her and James that I would take care of her, I’m good for my word and I don’t go back on those things. I’m going to make sure she is alright through the night and then I’m coming home tomorrow bright and early,” he said.
   “So you’re going to sleep in the same bed with your drunk ex girlfriend? Sorry, Eric but I’m not happy about that.”
   “Who said I was sleeping in the same bed, Kayla? Stop that, I’m sleeping in an extra bed, don’t worry about it, I’ll call you in the morning. Have fun at your party.”

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Eric hung up the phone, that didn’t go as well as he had planned. “Dang,” he said outloud, ‘I just try to be a good friend and this is what I get, we’ve only been dating for 2 weeks now,’ he thought to himself. He shrugged it off and went back into Sofie’s room, and looked over at the extra bed, and then glanced to her bed…

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He chose to lay down and relax in her bed, was this a bad idea?

   It was Sunday morning, at 10:30am, when Jake knocked on Sofie’s door, he wasn’t sure if Eric had gone home last night, or even if he had gone home earlier this morning, but he wanted to see his best friend and make sure she was alright.
   Sofie heard some knocking on the door, and moaned a bit, “come in” she said softly with her eyes still shut. As she opened up her eyes and sat up in bed, she realized that someone was in her bed with her! She looked over and there was a passed out Eric! “OH MY GOD,” she screamed.
   Jake ran in, and Eric jumped up. “What, what?” Eric said distraughtly, falling out of the bed and quickly getting to his feet, he was still in his clothes from the night before.
   “WHAT are you doing in my bed?” she yelled loudly.
   Eric didn’t know how to explain it.. “I must’ve fallen asleep here.. I meant to go to that bed..” he pointed to the other bed in the room.
   “We didn’t.. do anything, right?” she asked, hoping she wasn’t that drunk.
   “No, of course not, I was just making sure you were okay throughout the night, you were really drunk, Sofie.”
   With that cleared up, Jake let out a laugh, which was then followed by Sofie and Eric laughing as well. “How are you feeling, Sofe?” Jake asked caringly.
   “I feel like crap, my head is so heavy, and of course me screaming didn’t help my headache much.”
   “Well, I have some Tylenol set up downstairs with lots of water, and some very strong black coffee made if you want some. That goes for you too, Eric.” Jake turned and walked out the door, leaving Sofie and Eric alone together.

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“Listen, Sofie, I’m really sorry about that,” Eric said nervously.
   “That’s alright, Eric,” she said with a pause and hesitated before speaking again, “ I made a fool out of myself last night, huh?” she blushed a bit.
   “Oh, don’t worry about it, I thought it was cute,” he winked at her, “but listen, I really can’t stay, I promised my girlfriend I’d be home in the morning.”
   “Oh.. right,” she couldn’t help but sound a bit disappointed. “Well, thank you so much for taking care of me.”
   “It was no problem at all, hun, anytime.”
   She led him out towards the front door and Eric pulled her into a big hug, like he always did, and he held her there for a few minutes. To her, it felt forever, and she definitely wasn’t complaining, then he turned around and walked out the door. He forgot to make a phone call for a ride, so he just decided to walk home.

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After Sofie watched Eric walk down the street, she wondered if she should have offered him a ride, but she shrugged it off and walked into the bathroom. She took a quick shower, and went upstairs to get dressed. She threw her hair up and threw some clothes on. Since it was Sunday and she had no plans, she wasn’t too worried about what she looked like.
   When Sofie returned downstairs, Jake wasn’t there, he seemed to have disappeared. “Oh well,” she said as she petted Cleo, “What have I gotten myself into, Cleo?” she sighed as she picked her up and took her upstairs. Cleo just kept meowing at Sofie, and she missed spending some quality time with her, so she had placed Cleo down in her room and grabbed a book to read. She felt like she needed to relax in bed, she still had a major headache.

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About an hour later, she was still reading, but could hear the phone ringing downstairs, she was too lazy to run down and answer it, so she just shrugged it off. Ten minutes after the house phone stopped ringing, her cell phone rang. She got out of bed and answered the phone,
   
 “Hello?...

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...You're kidding, RIGHT?"

Unfortunate Events


   The phone hit the ground with a loud thump, and Sofie covered her eyes with her hands as the tears filled them. How could this happen? She couldn’t seem to get control of herself as she fell down onto the ground sobbing very loudly.
   “WHY?!...
      This CAN’T be happening!!!” she screamed to the empty bedroom.

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A police officer had called her, and explained that there had been an accident involving a car that was traced back to her address. The first thought in her head was Jake, he had the car, and she had no idea where he went off to. The officer had explained that at approximately 11:00am, there was an fatal car wreck, and there was only one survivor. The car that was registered under their address was coming out of the grocery store and had it’s nose out a bit too far when a huge truck crashed into it. This happening had tapped the car and in turn, the car had spun underneath the truck. The truck had then rolled over the car. The accident had instantly rendered the victim lifeless, meaning the victim did not suffer. But, they needed her to come down and identify the victim, around 6pm tonight.
   Of course the first thing in her mind was Jake, she freaked out but she needed to calm herself down, there was a chance that it wasn’t her best friend. Maybe somebody had stolen the car, just maybe God didn’t throw this big of a punch to her. ‘What do I do now?’ She continued to sob loudly.

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   Sofie picked up her cellphone off the ground and dialed Jake’s number. The phone rang about 5 times before the voicemail came on,
   “Hey, you’ve reached Jake, I can’t come to my phone right now, please leave your name and number and I’ll get back to ya, hollaaa.”
   She couldn’t accept that, he must’ve not been around his phone, maybe he left it in his room and he was walking to his friends house. She dialed the number again.. after 4 rings, “Hey, you’ve reached Jake—“
   Sofie screamed loudly and ran into his bedroom looking around frantically for his phone, but couldn’t spot it anywhere. With his cellphone not in sight, she dialed it again, “come on, Jake, pick up your phone,” she said in between crying. Again, after 4 rings came his voicemail, “Hey, you’ve reached Jake—“
   She couldn’t handle it anymore, maybe Stacey had heard from Jake, maybe he went to her house when someone stole the car. So, she dialed Stacey’s number.
   “Hello?” Stacey picked up the phone, and heard a bunch of crying, but no words. “Hello? Who’s there?” she said again, but still no answer just sobbing.
   “Stace…” Sofie had managed to get out finally, “I.. is Jake..?” she broke down, and hung up the phone on Stacey.

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About a half hour later, Stacey stormed into Sofie’s house, no knock, nothing, but she was surprised to see that the place almost seemed empty. She wouldn’t have thought that Sofie was around except for hearing some noise upstairs. As she made her way to the staircase, she heard that it was someone crying uncontrollably.
   “What the heck is going on?” Stacey said to herself as she raced up the stairs and found Sofie crying, and she looked as if she had been crying for hours and hours.
   “Sofie, what is wrong?” Stacey had said and Sofie just jumped into her arms, she needed her friends comfort, and Stacey was willing to be available for that. They hugged and hearing her best friend cry had made Stacey start to cry as well.

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About an hour later they were both laying down on Sofie’s bed relaxing, it was 1:00pm, and Sofie hadn’t stopped crying for that whole hour. She seemed to have gotten all the tears she could out for now, she felt like she just couldn’t cry anymore. Her face was all red from the crying that she did, but she finally could talk. She hadn’t told Stacey about the news that she heard, and nor did she want to, but she knew she had to. Jake and Stacey were just as close as Sofie and Jake were, they were all best friends.

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It was 5:00pm when they had both finally gotten themselves together. Stacey had taken the news just as well as Sofie did. Seeing as Jake hadn’t returned their thousands of phone calls and he hadn’t returned home, and it wasn’t like him to disappear for the day out of nowhere, they were incredibly worried.
   “Sofie..” Stacey had said, “What if we go to this morgue place and it really is Jake that we see?”
   Sofie had asked if Stacey would come along, there is no way she was going to be doing this by herself, it was such a big deal to both of them.
   They had gotten into Stacey’s car and started their way to the morgue. This could be the worst day of their lives.

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Stacey and Sofie had pulled up infront of their nightmare, when would they have ever wanted to drive to a place like this? It was 5:45pm.
   At the sight of it, Sofie broke down once again, and Stacey started to comfort her. Stacey had always been the stronger one, and almost as if she was the big sister. The two of them walked in and looked around. Sofie was very shaky, and couldn’t really hold her own weight, so she sat down in a nearby seat. Behind the desk was an older lady, she had grey hair, and was wearing a nice looking dress. Stacey wasn’t too sure if that was something someone behind a desk of a morgue should be wearing, but heck she wasn’t about to say anything.
   “Hi, ladies,” the older woman behind the desk had said. “Can I help you?”
   “Uhh.. yes, we got a call this morning telling us to come here.. to.. you know… around 6:00pm.” Stacey had said nicely, trying to stay calm.

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The old lady nodded her head, “One minute, ladies.” She said as she disappeared into the door behind her. Stacey then took a seat next to Sofie, she was then in shock on the reality of things, but she had to keep her composure, for Sofie’s sake.
   The older lady came out of the door and walked up where the girls were sitting. “Alright, Mr. Radcliff is ready for you.”
   The girls stood up from their chairs, they just wanted to get this over with. Sofie was trying to suck it up, she still believed that her best friend was at his boyfriends house or something of the matter, he was not in this morgue, not right now.

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But he was, and seeing him laying on that table was the worst thing that could’ve ever been imaginable. They were too upset to drive home, so Andrew came in a cab, and drove them both back to their house, not Sofie’s. They both decided it’d be best if they had eachother tonight, and didn’t want Sofie going back to that house. Andrew promised that he’d go and feed Cleo for her.

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I don't really know much about the process of Identifying a body, etc.. so I apologize now if this chapter didn't come out well, but I tried..