Yay! Update time…Sorry it's taken me so long! There was a new addition to my family (Welcome to the world Baby Matt!) so yea…the story.

But actually I do have a few things to establish before the actual story. By the way this is a super long Authors note so just bear with me here…

1! The answers to the question and riddle of the Day

Question: When is Brad Kavanagh's Birthday?

The Answer was: August 21st 1992 (It was ok if you didn't put down the year)

Question: Some months have 30 days while others have 31, which month(s) have 28 days?

The Answer was: ALL months have 28 days!

I knew I wasn't going to stump you guys with that riddle, it was fairly easy. I'll try and make the riddles in the future much MUCH harder.

Now, I have to announce, not one, not two, but three dedications!

So congratulations to:

-Hoajlmtsdlsgfan for correctly answering the question of the day first!

-Fabina4eva for being the first to correctly answer the Bonus Riddle! You win a one-shot! If you have an account let me know so I can PM you!

So if you're reading this, Congrats!

For those readers who decided NOT to read my last authors note, please check out the end of chapter four to figure out how this works (:

2. I recently won pieface98's contest with my One-shot 'My Prince'! So you should check that out!

3. I recently created my own challenge! Go check it out on my profile if you're interested! The winners get some awesome prizes!

4. I have a polyvore! I'll put the link on my profile and you can just look at the outfits I have, I think I have every outfit I've mentioned between the kids, not so much the adults. I don't think I'll do the adults outfits unless I have too (Because I'm already thinking that there are a few cases in which I may really want too) My name is guitarchick27 so if you want to see some of the outfits look me up!

Now…

Onto Chapter 5!

I felt a cool shiver run down my spine even though the hot summer sun was shining brightly in the clear skies. Looking up not a single white wisp of cloud could be found and there was barely a breeze in the air.

"Suzy, I thought we said not shopping. Just a walk. Besides, I don't have a lot of money with me," I complained. Walking through what would probably be tons of stores filled with frilly pink dresses and over-priced make-up didn't exactly sound like a fun time.

"Oh please, you act like it's the end of the world. I have a credit card, I'll pay," She flashed her pearly white teeth at me. I smiled back at her shaking my head.

"I just met you and you're already offering to pay for me?" She rolled her eyes at me.

"Our parents were friends, it doesn't count. Besides, I love a good fashion cause. And you, Melanie Martin, are one in need of Susan Lewis Fashion advice," I laughed at her as she whistled holding up her hand and a cab immediately pulled up to us. I admired how in control she was of everything around her.

"Thanks Suzy, but I've been dressing myself since I'm 4 years old, I'm pretty sure I know what looks good and what doesn't," I laughed and she just looked me up and down and raised her eyebrow. She climbed into the cab without another word and told the cab driver to take us to a store called 'Levels', she then proceeded to pat the seat next to her, motioning for me to join her. I sat down and the cab took off.

"C'mon Melanie don't worry, I won't force you to wear anything you don't want to," She assured me, and I prayed she would keep her word. I wasn't exactly the kind of person who loved wearing skirts and frilly blouses. I was more of a jeans and t-shirts kind of girl. I liked being comfortable.

"Promise?" I asked. She held out her pinky and I laughed at the childish gesture, but wrapped my own pinky around hers.

"The Sacred Pinky Promise Mel, I will not force you to get something you don't want, but I'm at least going to have you try things on," She grinned at me with an award winning smile and removed her pinky from mine digging her hands in her probably designer bag. I looked down at my blue knap sack bag that held my iphone, Camera and about 20 American dollars (or about 13 pounds). Her bag probably held all her credit cards, make-up and who knows what else.

"Alright, I can live with that I guess," I sighed defeated and looked out the cab's window, watching London pass before my eyes. I saw a few simple interesting things, like intricate water fountains and statues as well. I saw a music store and decided I'd go there on my own later.

Music was I guess a big part of my life, whether my mother knew it or not. I swear the moment she'd see a music note she'd run in fear. At school, we had a whole music room which I got sucked into during the third grade when I heard somebody playing a soft guitar melody. Unfortunately when I entered the room nobody was there, as if the song were in my head. I was able to figure out the notes and I taught myself guitar. I never got a chance to practice at home in fear that my mom would find out and never let me near the thing.

"We're here!" Suzy sounded excited as the cab pulled to a stop and dropped us off in front of a small boutique with a maroon colored awning and swimsuits and sundresses displayed in the window. We walked inside and the store was bigger than it looked.

"What do we do now?" I asked her and she smiled at me whipping out a plastic silver card.

"Mel you should totally get this for my party! You'd look so good!" Suzy exclaimed pulling a long shirt that was red and white stripped. I did actually kind of like it, plus I could match it with something blue to embrace my American-ism.

"Alright cool, I'll try it on," I grabbed it from her as she continued to dig through racks of clothing.

"I can't find a dress anywhere!" She exclaimed throwing her arms p in frustration. I walked around the rack to where she was standing and saw that she was looking at all different types of dresses.

"What do you mean no dresses? There are so many right here!" She looked at me like I had grown a

third head or asked her to recite 50 digits of pi in thirty seconds.

"Melanie, I'm not looking for just any dress. I'm looking for the dress! The one to wear to my birthday on Saturday," She turned back to the rack of dresses.

I suddenly heard a BANG and looked up in search for the noise to find a woman who had knocked over a pile of boxes. I then noticed something in the rack next to her. A pink dress with black trimmings hiding behind a display of plaid shirts. Somebody must have hid it there, hoping no one could find it so they could buy it later.

"What about that one?" I tapped Suzy on the shoulder and pointed to the hidden dress. She ran over and pulled it out. Then she squealed, quite loudly, right into my ear.

"Melanie it's perfect!" She then let out yet another squeal bouncing excitedly.

"I think you just shattered my ear drum," I held onto my ear, wincing in pain. I then pointed to the dressing room "Why don't we go try this stuff on in there?"

"Alright! Melanie you have no idea this is SO exciting!" She was grinning from ear to ear and I grinned right back at her. Probably not as wide though. I tried on my shirt and I really liked the way it looked, though I would probably have to wear leggings underneath, not my grey jeans.

"Thanks so much for taking me shopping," I thanked her as she paid for our purchases. She handed me a small black bag and she held onto a slight larger white one.

"It was really no problem, we had fun!" She replied as we walked out of the store. She linked our arms together "If we walk a few blocks, there's a really good place I know where we can get a cup of tea and some snacks,"

"I don't really drink tea…but sure let's go!" I laughed and Suzy rolled her eyes at me.

"You don't have to get tea. I'm just saying we can grab a bite to eat," She smiled and saw something coming up ahead. She tilted her head to the left and stopped.

"Why are we stopping?"

"I think I know him," She pointed to a tall dark haired boy across the street, who had pale skin and blue eyes that were so piercing, you could see them from across the length of the road "Noah!" Suzy called out and the boy turned his head, smiling and crossing the street.

"Hey Suzy, and friend," He acknowledged us, smiling at me; he asked "You are?"

"Melanie. Melanie Martin," I stuck my hand out and he shook it before kissing it gently. I laughed and Suzy crossed her arms over her chest.

"Stop it Noah, leave the poor girl alone," She sighed pushing him back and he grinned holding his hands up by his head as if he were being called out by the cops.

"I'm just treating her like a gentleman should!" He defended himself.

"There's nothing gentle about you," Suzy retorted scrunching her nose up. She then grinned and tapped his arm lightly with her delicate fist. He hit her right back a bit harder, but she made no effort to hit him back.

"Whatever," he rolled his piercing blue eyes and turned towards me "I'm Noah, Noah Clarke."

"Mel, this is another one of my parents' friends' sons," Suzy explained "Why are you out anyways Noah? Don't you and Charlie have something to blow up?"

"I was just out for a walk. I was actually headed to your house now," He explained himself "But I might just join you two lovely girls."

"Please, go right ahead Noah, you can carry our bags," Suzy smiled at him and he took a step back and made a face as if he had just tasted something bitter.

"No thank you. I'll go to your house," he turned towards me "Nice meeting you Melanie. Maybe I'll get to see you sometime in the future, yeah?" He winked before walking back down the road.

"Ignore Noah. He's such a flirt," Suzy warned me, but I wouldn't be too quick to judge him. He seemed nice.

"Why do we keep running into all these old friends?" I asked, confused at the concept that we had ran into two people in one day. The statistics were highly illogical.

"Well, we all live fairly close to one another, and this town isn't all that big. We tend to see each other around a lot," Suzy explained as we walked into a small café looking place. We sat down in a booth and ordered off a little blue menu.

"Alrighty then, anyone else I should know about?" I asked curiously "Maybe you should just give me a list of 'Need-to-Know' people.

"Let me see," she replied in deep thought "Well firstly, there's my parents, Amber and Alfie Lewis. They had me, and my brother Charlie," I nodded. That much I knew.

"Then, there's Patricia and Eddie Sweet. They have twins, Jason, who you met earlier, and Kate, who'll you'll meet at my party on Saturday. They also have a daughter named Analie, but she's four so you don't really need to know about her,"

"How many kids are our age?" I questioned.

"Including Charlie and I, 5. I think," she answered "Now the boy you just met, Noah Clarke, he's the son of Jerome and Mara Clarke who also have an 8 year old boy named John. There's also another man, I don't quite remember his name, because we never get to see him. The last time I saw him must have been two years ago!"

"That's strange," This was the man Mrs. Lewis was referring to as 'You-Know-Who' "Okay so, most likely at the party we'll be around Jason, Kate, Noah, and Charlie?" I attempted to clear my thought process. Suzy nodded and I sighed. I was super bad with names, I would probably forget their faces in seconds.

"It seems like a lot of people, it really isn't. You'll know them all in no time!" She exclaimed happily, understanding what was going on in my brain. I had barely known the girl for a whole day and she could already read me like an open book.

"Thank you Suzy," I smiled genuinely at her.

"For what?" She asked puzzled. Her nose scrunched up again like it had when she saw Noah.

"For being a friend, I know you for what? A day?" I laughed at the thought.

"Time doesn't matter Melanie, I can already tell, you and I are going to be very good friends,"

I smiled.

I had no idea where to end this, so I came up with that sappy ending…

OMG OMG OMG .KAVANAGH REPLIED TO ME ON YOUTUBE! I'm like legit crying as I'm writing this which is probably WHY that ending was so sappy.

But anyway, I won't rant to you on how amazing I'm feeling.

A few things I'd like to point out before the questions:

A lot of you thought that the rude man from the hotel was Fabian. I'll let you know, he isn't. But the man DOES have a role in the story you probably wouldn't expect…

Jason AND Noah? Somebody already came up with a name for Jason/Melanie: Mason If anyone has ideas for Noah let me know! I smell a love triangle coming on… Let me know who you like better so far!

Let me know if I'm going to fast about introducing the characters. I don't want to throw them in all at once and get you guys confused. I probably won't introduce Kate for a few chapters and I won't bring Charlie back for a few either…

If you haven't seen it, I started my own challenge! Go to my profile and check it out!

That's it; I'M DONE AUTHORS NOTE RANTING! Jeez, there's just SO MUCH I could tell you guys!

Here's your question of the day:

What is the cover Brad Kavanagh has most recently put up on YOUTUBE?

(I promise every question won't be about him, but I'm just super excited he replied to me!)

Riddle:

You're in a mansion and the power's out. You see a green door and a red door. Choose One (It doesn't matter which). Now you see a purple door and an orange door. Choose One (Again it doesn't Matter)

Now you see a door with a golden handle and a door with a silver handle. Choose one of them again. You finally come to some signs on three doors. One says 'Death from Drowning', another says 'Death from electric chair' and then you see a big sign off to the left that says 'Or stay in the mansion and starve to death." What door do you choose to still live, and why would you survive?

Try to figure THAT one out ;) And when you review, I'd really appreciate it if you left a comment about the story, and not just the answers to the questions.

Thanks guys! Review!

~FabinaxJara-SiBuNa