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Even Ethan, who was quiet around everyone else, came out of his shell around his family.
    A lot has changed since I first met Ethan and his family, but we ’ re still just as close as we were that first summer, and Ethan is always the first person to have my back no matter what. Even when he can’t fix the problem, he always tries.
    “You’re mom sucks,” Ethan said then, causing me to look up from my magazine.
    “Yes, I know,” I said , before looking back down, uninterested in talking about my mother who I noticed was gracing the page in front of me , sparkling in a glittering ball gown at a benefit she’d attended the week before . I quickly flipped the page.
    Ethan leaned forward on the back of the desk chair and sighed loudly. He was broody , which was totally unlike him. I stuck my tongue out at him , h oping he’d snap out of his crappy mood .
    “Hey, ther e it is,” I said , sitting up on his bed.
    “What?” he asked , leaning forward to see what I was referencing.
    I jam med my finger down on the magazine page in front of me. “ Garrett,” I said, having found the picture my dad had told me about the day before .
    I cringed inwardly as flashbacks from the night in Garrett’s hotel room in Mi ami assault ed me all at once. I’d tried time and again to wash the mem ories from my brain, but they did n’t seem to want to go away. I looked at the picture again and tried to refocus my mindset. Nothing happened, or rather, nothing noteworthy happened. It was not a big deal. Okay, moving on.
    Examining the picture again, I realized my dad had fa iled to tell me that Garrett had ended up on the weekly worst dressed list , and that, at least, helped me to push past what I didn’t want to recall. He was dressed i n a pretty ridiculous emo outfit, so it was pretty easy to laugh instead of freak out.
    “I told you he’d be in here,” I said to Ethan. “He’s been in every issue since Earthbound came out.”
    “And you’ve been right ther e beside him for the past month, ” Ethan joked.
    “Not anymore,” I said, looking down at the guy who looked like a more chisled version of his younger brother . Four years his elder, Garrett had a slight build and a more angular face, but they both had the same nose, same blue eyes , and same blond hair. Garrett’s hair was just spikey where Ethan’s was chin length.
    “Oh Garrett,” I said. “ Red s kinny jeans are so not you. What were you thinking?”
    I slid the magazine close r to Ethan who shook his head in dismay before leaning back again.
    “He loo ks like a douchebag,” he said , not holding back, but I knew it was in jest bec ause h e truly loved his brother and was proud of his success .
    Garrett had spent his first two years post-high school at the UCLA film school and doing lower budget movies before getting cast to play Lucas in Earthbound , the extremely popular teen trilogy about two fallen angels who fall in love with a human girl. When the movie premiered the year before , I’d come out to L.A. to attend the premiere with Ethan and his family . At that time, Garrett had been a virtual nobody. The fans were more focused on Donovan Collins , who played the sexier lead fallen angel, Eli , who ’d won the heart of the girl in the first book.
    Donovan was already well- known for his work in several other teen dramas , so his fan base was extensive, although Garrett won the hearts of many females after the first movie. His character actually gets the girl in the second book, so his fans have been widely anticipating the next film due out later in the year. Just like with Twilight, teams had formed, and you were either Team Lucas or Team Eli . I was Team Lucas , simply because of Garrett.
    When Garrett first called to let me know he’d been cast as Lucas, I thought he was joking , and so did his family for that matter . It wasn’t until he sent a picture of the front of the script that we all realized he was serious. Then I’d s pent the next