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It's been a while everyone. A while being like a year and a half or something.. Maybe even two years cause the last update I posted (that's gone now) was me saying that this was coming but it never came. So regardless, I'm sorry :(... I'm sorry that's it's been a long time. Some stuff has gone down in my life and in my head and writing this stuff was not where it was at. But one of my goal of the new year (I don't make resolutions cause they always fail) is to get my mojo back on my writing. And that starts with getting back to sitting myself down in front of a blank word document and letting my mind just do it's thing. So I'm gonna stop rambling here (I'll ramble more at the bottom A/N) but for now, enjoy the beginning of Chapter 5.

Chapter 5a

Coming back from Paris at the end of the summer was honestly something that Kelsey had dreaded from the second she stepped on the plane. For her, it meant saying hello to all her friends and loved ones again only to say goodbye weeks later when they all went off to college. It truly signified the ending of an era and Kelsey was sad for it to be over.

"Stop dragging your feet." Brooke said exasperatedly. "We're still going home whether you like it or not." She said as the two of them left luggage claim and began heading out of the airport and towards the town car that had been sent for them to take them back to the Danver's mansion. "I am not dragging my feet. This place is just crowded." Kelsey replied with slight hesitance. She knew that Brooke wanted to get home to see Tyler and she wanted to oblige her friend but, another reason she was hesitating on going home was seeing Reid. She hadn't seen or spoken to him since he came to see her off at the beginning of her and Brooke's trip and she didn't really know what she was going to say to him. "Don't be a pussycat. Face him like a woman." Brooke said to her friend, practically reading Kelsey's mind and making her laugh in the process. "You confuse me, B. I thought you didn't like Reid anymore." Kelsey pointed out as the girls walked outside and spotted a driver holding a sign with their names on it, wheeling their luggage over so they could start packing it into the car. "Me and Reid have a... special bond-" Brooke said only to be cut off by Kelsey. "You mean the one where you both bicker and despise one another but you bond over your love for me?" She replied boastfully only to have her bubble busted quickly. "Actually, we bond over Baby Boy but what you said is kinda true too." Brooke said before letting a smile come to her face. "Actually, speaking of Baby Boy..." She said and Kelsey smiled and finished her friend's thought process. "I know, I know... I'm gonna get you to your boy. You don't have to keep dropping hints." She said with a fake exasperated look as she got in the car with her friend to go home.

If Reid had told you that he had been fearful about seeing Kelsey after being apart the entire summer, you would've shit bricks because It was actually the truth. Ever since their kiss she was all he thought about but the one person who didn't know that was Kelsey. He agreed to give her space, to set her free and let her see the world and let her come back to him on her own but because he didn't know what she had done or if it would jeopardize things. Sure, he heard from Baby Boy who got nightly Skype calls from Brooke, but he didn't know if it was fully true or not, mainly because he didn't know how deep Brooke's hooks were in his friend and he wasn't sure if she'd get him to lie for her. Considering that he and Brooke started the summer on good terms, she really had no real reason to keep things from him. Granted, they hadn't spoken the entire time she was gone either, he considered Brooke to be on his side when it came to Kelsey, regardless of the stunt he pulled at graduation.

"When do they get in again?" Reid asked impatiently, shifting on the couch in the foyer of the Danver's mansion with Tyler, Caleb, and Pogue. "They should be on their way here." Tyler said, looking down at his phone for the time, being one of the few who had actually spoken to the girls while they were away. "Brooke said something about calling Mathew to be here. Sarah too. Do you think we should have done that?" He asked and Caleb instantly shook his head no.

"We'll get Mathew to come out with us later or something and I'll be the bad guy and tell them no about Sarah." He said before moving from the couch. "That means I get to see them first though." He said with a knowing tone, knowing full well that Reid and Pogue would probably trample one another to get to Kelsey and Tyler wanted to get to Brooke as fast as he could. Hell yeah, it was selfish of him but at that moment, he didn't care. He missed his sister and really wanted to see Brooke and getting to her before Tyler had the chance to just felt right to him, despite the complete wrongness of the situation.

"You get five minutes and not a second more, you hear me? Or else I won't be held responsible for my actions." Reid said, making sure the seriousness in his tone rang through. "I second that." Pogue agreed, never being one for many words but the ones he said were almost always important. "And for once, I agree with them both." Tyler finished. He knew that his opinions or final thoughts were usually a deal maker or breaker or a tie maker between his brothers but for once, they were all on the same page because of the only people they actually agreed on: Kelsey and Brooke. "Fine. Five minutes is good for now." Caleb agreed with them, not wanting to fight with them. He was clearly outnumbered and that automatically meant that he'd lose if they actually came to blows and he didn't want that no matter how much they deserved it at times. Besides, it wasn't like he wouldn't get some time alone with them anyway after this little welcome home thing anyway; his sister lived there and since Kels was there, that usually meant that about eighty percent of the time, Brooke was too.

"Do you think I should say something about it or do you think he bragged about it already?" Kelsey asked her friend as they looked out the window of the town car, passing all the familiar surroundings. "Pogue hasn't said anything about talking to you to Reid. And according to Ty, they've been getting along lately so maybe they've matured about the entire situation." Before Kelsey even got the chance to respond to what she said, Brooke instantly began laughing at her own words, realizing how farfetched that seemed. "I'm glad you realized how stupid that sounded and I didn't have to say a thing. This is Reid and Pogue we're talking about." Kelsey said and Brooke stopped her laughing and shook her head. "This is boys in general. They will forever be dumb no matter how old they get and will always fail in comparison to the amazing mind of a woman." One of the things Kelsey adored about her best friend was that she always knew exactly what to say to make her feel better; whether it was a biased judgment or her honest opinion on something she knew that would make her smile, Brooke would blurt it out on the spot and worry about the consequences afterward. She was fearless that way and it gave Kelsey the strength to be that way as well. It was also one of the things she'd miss the most with Brooke at Yale.

Brooke began to snap her fingers to break Kelsey out of whatever zone she had went to, briefly startling Kelsey as she refocused. "Earth to Kelsey Danvers." Brooke said loudly and once she was back in the moment, Kelsey chuckled lightly at the confused and slightly annoyed look on her friend's face. "Where'd you go just now?" Brooke asked right as the car pulled into the all familiar long driveway that they hadn't seen in months, causing them both to fall into a friendly daze as they looked out the window. "I went home."

A/N: So this is a two parter... I did have more written at this point but I personally felt that this was a good place to end this and pick up the next part with them seeing one another and coming together. And honestly, I broke it up to force myself to be motivated to write more. I don't like having it unfinished so it's gonna make me keep going with it.

Then, I'm gonna kinda go for what is planned out at this point and see if my plans now match with my plans then and rework them if I need to... Basically this update is me telling you guys that I'm working on getting my shit together and getting more updates out for you guys.. Feel free to yell at me on Twitter NayeNaye91 to write more cause the motivation will be appreciated.

Thank you soo much for sticking it out with me and holding on to hope that I will finish this, or if you just began reading this in the two years that I haven't been updating, welcome to the journey and get used to these long author notes. Cause I do them all the time.

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