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I was totally shocked... I hadn't seen that tall, dark man in about a half year.

"Dad?" Finally the words came!

"Hey honey," he replied with a smile and gave me a big warm hug. Suddenly his face became very serious. "Just keep on doing what you was doing, I need to talk to your mother while you're gone." He said as he walked past me. I was totally confused. Usually he was so warm around me, and now he wants to talk to my witchy mother? Something was up. I had to get his attention somehow.

"Dad!" I blurted, running up to him.

"Not now honey, I gotta talk to your mom real bad." he replied, brushing past me again.

"I'm pregnant!" Now that shocked me. Not that it was true anyhow. At least I'd gotten his attention. Now his mouth dropped open and his eyes immediately went to my stomach. Oh crap. I hadn't expected him to actually believe me. "Dad, you've just been Punk'd." I said in an overly cheery voice.

Now he looked pissed. "That was not funny, do you hear me?"

"But Dad," I whined, wringing my hands in front of him, "I wanted to get your attention. We have to talk."

"Relax. We'll talk later." he smiled.

"I just hope that you and mom don't..." I couldn't finish my sentence.

"No fighting, I promise." he said and gave me a quick hug before he went into the house.

I slouched behind, finally going out the front door. What the heck was wrong with my dad? Wasn't he glad to see me? I rolled my eyes once more and started jogging towards Central Park, the only place to go for peace of mind... Not to mention, hot guys.

~Meanwhile~

*Third person POV for the moment*

"Hello? Anybody home?" Dad called. Mom almost dropped the glass she was holding at the sight of her husband.

"What do you want?" She asked. His smile was gone.

"I want to talk about Amy." he stated, slowly walking into the living room and sitting on the couch, keeping as much distance between himself and Mom as he could.

"What do you want to talk about?? Suddenly coming back into our lives just like that?" Mom said heatedly. "Her grades have been dropping, she's been less social... And do you care??"

"Honey, calm down. Let's just talk about it." Dad said slowly. "I'm sorry I haven't been around lately, you know how things are with work and all the business trips I have go on to support this family."

Mom scoffed at the words "business trips". She knew what he was up to when he left.

"No! You say you love us but you don't show it. Our daughter needs a father in her life. Who is going to chase all the boys away that come knocking on the door? It won't be me. I really don't like this boy named Jack that she has been hanging around with." She scoweled when she mentioned Jack's name. "He's too... Shady, and cryptic... And - and he's involved in all sorts of offenses like vandalism, drug possesion, alcohol... And where were you? In Rome that's where. This boy is going to get her into the kind of trouble that could cost her her life!" Mom sighed. "She is only 16. She wants to go this concert but she wouldn't tell me who was going with her, who would bring her home..." Sharon was openly crying now and sunk to her knees. "I'm so scared that something will happen to her and I don't think I could live with that."

Steve knelt on the floor and comforted his wife. It was obvious that his leaving had left her emotionally unstable. He vowed as he embraced her that he would find a way to make it better. He looked around the place and made a decision: he had to get his family out of this enviroment. Luckly he had been relocated to California. That was clear across the U.S.. He'd made a deal with his superiors that relocation ment no more business trips. He was going to get his daughter away from Jack and his wife some help. He looked to his left and saw divorce papers on the table ready to be signed. It hurt that she wanted a divorce and that she and his daughter had been hurting so much and he hadn't even noticed. He vowed once again to change that once they moved to California.

Besides, he happened to know for a fact that this Aaron Carter person Amy wanted to see was having a concert in California in a few weeks and with the connections he had, he could get backstage passes. Amy would only have to wait a few weeks to see him. He had heard that this Carter guy had moved there as well. He bet that Amy would rather wait a few weeks to see him face to face rather than go to this concert here and see him through binoculars.

The one thing Steve didn't know was that their houses would be right across the street from each other.