Two Chapters Of Her Life

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Her name is Charlotte. She has beautiful light brown hair and sparkling blue eyes as how she taken care in much of love from her parents. She had been so thankful about her life, her friends, her family…that she used to had. She had the parents that had given her so much of love along with her in every step of her life, ever since her first sight of the world. She had this brother who really cares and love her with all of his heart. He’d always to be the one who give her protective care from anything harmful around her. So how it is used to went in her life. Everyone knew that wherever charlotte gone, Charlie would be there as well, as how he gave her so much of love of being a brother. The Simpson family known by the people as a well welfare family. They have most of their relatives outside of UK, especially in us of a. But they had just been still living in London because of the family business that needed to be taken care of. But although they’re known for that reputation, they always steady to keep their feet on the ground. They’d never been getting so high about what people said about them. And neither for the two little Simpsons.
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CHAPTER ONE

July 11th, 2001

“For god’s sake, Charlotte! It was like just last week your parents bought you new sneakers, and now they bought you again? Cant imagine how many sneakers you have in your room, jeez.”
“They aren’t that many though, Tyra.” She giggled as she tried to hide her new sneakers with her bag on the floor from the little crowd around her table in the class.
“But…really, it’s obviously you’re the luckiest child in the whole world! I wish I was born in your family.” She put her head with her cheek planted on the table, stared at charlotte. It was tyra, tyra sweets, charlotte’s friend. She was the closest one of her friends.
“So, charlotte new sneakers huh? nice…”. The other girl named Brittany Moore said as she walked over her table with her fingers twirled her prefect long half curly blonde hair and the other hand on her perfectly shaped hips. She was one of the popular girls in school, in fact she was the leader of the populars of 10th grade.
“Piss off, Brittany. Charlie’s not here.” Tyra spoke up as she quickly put her head up again, gave her the meanest look. This girl Brittany, likes charlie and always tried to get the chance by approaching charlotte as his sister that spent most of times with him. Charlotte had never got carried away with the way she approached her, and she didn’t gave a damn about that either and so did Charlie. “O yeah, I know that Sweets. urgh, I hope you don’t get so much itchy to having thousand of ants crowded your name, honey.” She said whilst still twirled her hair down her shoulder calmly but very sarcastically deep inside.
“Oh yea. but I don’t think it should be something that you can take the pride of by mentioning Moore-on and on. Mine’s better then!,” she said with the words of Moore and on mentioned in one line, so it spelled ‘moron’.
Brittany shrugged and put her finger back down from her hair, and stared at Tyra. Her eyes looked very calmly but evil inside. But then she turned round again to Charlotte, with her hand put on her shoulder, tried to be so friendly. “So, honey I don’t think this would be a great time for us to have a chat because of this little nasty bugger beside you. Well, we’ll meet again later yeah?”.
“Sure.” She replied with her smile in one corner of her lips.
“Au revoir, honey. I’ll wait for the right time to talk over about us.” She winked with her perfect shining deep blue eyes and waved her hand femininely to charlotte as she walked through out the class door.
“I cant believe you still talk to her. I mean c’mon, she’s just approaching you for your brother!”, tyra shouted at her with her eyes widened.
“Oh tyra, don’t you understand. I’m just trying to be polite to the people around us, especially Brittany is a year older than us. But you just know I don’t actually care of anything that she said to me about charlie. Well, I mean if she likes him, why don’t she just approach him. It would be lots worth it than approaching me, wouldn’t it.”
“The point is you’re just gonna let her to grab your brother’s arm to pull him to the empty class in the school end corner and flirt!?”.
“Well, I have no right to tell him what he should do, do I?”
“Jeez, you’re understandable, Charl!”, she shook her head and planted her head back on the table when suddenly Mrs. Robinson rushed through the door as how she always comes late to start her Biology class.
“Sorry, for the late children,” she said awkwardly whilst put a very thick book that she brought on the table and sat down. “Today we’ll just repeat our last week lesson for the final exams of the first semester. Now, open up page thirty seven and I’ll give you some questions about the subject. Come one, chop chop!”, she said as she clapped her hands twice.
Tyra moved her head a bit closer to charlotte as she tried to whisper in her ear, “She will come late again next day, I bet for six pounds, how much you have?”
“Yeah, right.” Charlotte laughed and hit her stomach friendly as she looked down to the book on her table.
“She’s just the silliest teacher that I’ve ever met. I mean come on, she even calls us ‘children’.”
“Miss Sweets.”
“Yes, Mrs. Robinson.”
“I see that you have learned about our subject today as how you can spend your time by talking in my class. I’m sure you can explain all about the subject to the other students, miss sweets. Come to the front.”
“But Mrs. Robinson…”
“Oh, is there any problem? I’m afraid that I should send you back to the principal like what happened last week, miss sweets?”
‘No way!’, she whispered to herself.
“Miss sweets.” She gestured to ask her out of the door to the principal room for her detention.
“Yes, Mrs. Robinson.” And as how she has told, she walked out the door with her face a bit looked down but smiled once she got really out the door and no one saw her. it was just much better for her to get detention than spending a long time of hers on a boring biology class.

“So, charlotte we’ll meet later at three yeah?”, Tyra said whilst stuffed the book into her bag when the school ended.
“Sure. I’ll prepare everything.” She replied and spun to grab her bag that he put on the table behind her earlier.
“Great. And I’ll bring all the DVDs, we’re gonna have a laugh tonight.”
So they planned to have a sleep over that night. Tyra would stay in charlotte’s for the night as her parents went out the town for two days “Charly, time to home. Come on we don’t want to home late for the movie.” Charlie leant on the class door frame waiting for his sister to come out the class and walk home with him as how it was always be. Charlie and charlotte were students in the same school, because the school has this junior and senior high at the same area.
“Yep. Tyra, wanna have a walk to the gate with us?” She nodded and followed behind her as she swung the bag over her back.
“How you doin, charlie?”, she greeted him right when they’re about to walked through the door.
“Fine, hows yourself?”. He replied as they walked through the corridor straight to the main school gate.
“I’m good, thanks to ask. By the way, I’m gonna have a sleep over in you’s house tonight.”
“O I already knew about it, charlotte told me last night. Well, hope you can enjoy stay in our house for one night.” He smiled.
“Yeah, hope so. I need to have some sort of fun after one full hour detention.” She replied with a big grin plastered on her rosy red lips.
“Detention? Again?”, he lift his eyebrows as he kept looking to her.
“Yeah, she had a talk in Mrs. Robinson class. She was talking to me, so I was actually involved but fortunately she didn’t concerned about me.” charlotte grinned at her and followed by a light hit on her stomach.
“Yeah, sadly.” She grinned back at her.
“Ah, I see that and Mrs. Robinson again. You seem be to her favorite student though by that. She puts much of attention on you.”
“Do you think?”
“Yeah. I mean she didn’t even concerned about charlotte when she decided to give you another detention, but she knew that charlotte was involved in your illegal chat in her class. It meant something isn’t it.”
“Well, if you think so.” She clutched her black blazer and looked forward with thought about what charlie just said to her. It just might be true.
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“Hey you little smelly pit, where are you going?”. Again gang of the popular girls caught Melissa on the way her through the corridor.

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“Get off sara, get out of my way!.” She held her books in her arms tightly as she pushed one of the girls in front of her, sara away backwards, but sara pushed her again and caught her back.
“Oh, I thought you had nowhere to go. Or…was that tiny dirty restaurant where I chucked my chips bag to cuz I thought it was the place where people throw their trash to is your house?.” She said with her hand on her hips and one finger pointed to Melissa in sarcastic sense.
“Yes, it is. Now just let me go!” She walked past over the girls in front of her but then they pushed her away backwards.
“Not that easy, jones.”
“Oh pleez, sara. I feel like I’m gonna throw up just soon if I see her for longer time.” The other girl, tiffany spoke as she giggled girly beside her.
“Well, yeah I guess I’m starting to feel the same, tiff. Piss off you jones, we don’t wanna see you not now and forever!”. She pushed her shoulder away until she dropped to the floor with her books spread around the floor.
“Eeww sara! Clean your hands quick! The virus could spread up into you very quickly.”
“Eeww I forgot that! Come on we gotta hurry to clean my hands up!”, she said with a disgust look to her and left her lied on the floor.
She got up and tapped her skirt a couple of times and picked the book up the floor one by one. It always happened to her no matter when she walked through the corridor, canteen or anywhere else in school. She’d been a kind of a loser in her school. She had nothing. Not the look, friends, money, in fact she didn’t even have a normal family that she always wanted.
She straighten up and turned her head round to stared at three people who just walked past over her. She had always wanted be like her. She had always wanted to have a normal happy family like charlotte’s. it would be just so much grateful for her if she was charlotte and she would be the one who was in the middle of the other two of charlie and tyra. She felt so much sorry for herself for born in ruined family. She did have a brother, but he wasn’t the one like charlie who loves her sister with all of his heart and would give protection from anything harmful for her. He’d never been staying at the house at least just for a couple of hours. He’d always gone somewhere for days and her mother would get a call from police that he was caught did something against the law. She didn’t have a father. He left his family when she was only 3 months old in her mother pregnancy. She never figured out how would that feel to have a father because of that.
She looked down desperately, she had never expected to be that way. Couldn’t she just have a nice family like charlotte’s, she just kept wondering why she was born in her family. She shrugged and looked back up. Stared at charlotte and charlie until they’re gone from her sight and walked back forwards to the school gate.
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July 12th, 2001

The phone rang in the simpson family’s house. A figure of a 30-ies year old woman appeared walk out from the kitchen that was placed just right next to the living room. She picked up the phone whilst putting the napkin in her hand on the couch. “Hello.” She greeted.
“Good afternoon, could I talk to Mrs. Simpson?”, came out the reply from the other end.
“I am Mrs. Simpson. Who am I talking to?”
“Oh, Mrs. Simpson. It’s me doctor Grandt, if you still remembered.”
“Oh, sure doc. You’re the one who helped me to gave birth to my daughter aren’t you?”, she said as she sat down on the couch putting the napkin on her lap.
“Yes, that was me. Such an honored for me that you still remember.”
“Sure, doc. How could I forget you. How are you?”
“I’m just fine thank you, how yourself?”
“I’m fine thank you. Just a bit busied by the kids. They’re growing up so fast. So what’s the matter, doc?”
“Well, Mrs. Simpson there’s something that I need to talk over with you and your husband. Do you have the time to come to the hospital today?”
“I’m afraid we dont, doc. My husband is still working, and the children haven’t come home from their school yet.”
“I really need to talk this to you and Mr. Simpson. This is very important. Can you come to the hospital after your husband and children get home. I’ll wait at the hospital at anytime today.”
“I’ll try, doc. It sounds to be very important.”
“Sure, it does. I’ll be at the hospital until 10 pm.”
“Alright, doctor. We’ll be there but not sure about the time when.”
“Sure. Thank you, I’ll wait here. Good afternoon.”
“Good afternoon, doc.” She put the phone back to the cradle and silent for a while. She tried to figure out what would the doctor say to her and her husband until 14 years past over from the time she gave birth to charlotte. She just didn’t realize that at four hours afterwards, everything would be changed in her family forever.
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“So what do you want for your birthday, charly?”, charlie questioned her when they were in his room. She lied on his bed, listened to charlie played the tunes on his guitar.
“Err…I don’t know. I’m not expecting for presents though”, she replied whilst curled up to the pillows and blanket.
“Oh, come one charl! I’ve been asking you for about a week now, and you still haven’t told me what you want for your birthday. It’s just 5 days left. I’m starting to run out the time to look for your present. Come on just tell me. I’ll do my best to get it don’t worry.” He stopped playing with the guitar and dropped himself next to charlotte and stroke the hair from her face with his thumb.
“I’m serious, I’m not expecting presents for my birthday. You’ve given me everything, charlie. What more should I expect to have?”. She rolled over and planted her head on his chest.
“Well, what about another pair of sneakers?”. He said whilst caressed her hair.
“No! can’t you see I have too many sneakers, and now I have to think where I should put them. I don’t see any space in the house that would fitted with the sneakers.” She looked up and her eyes widened to him.
“So what then? Dolls?”
“Jeez, charlie I’m not a little girl anymore!” She pushed him away and sat up looked down at him.
“I’m confused! I cant give you nothing for your birthday.”
“Just don’t think about it too seriously. I wont mind if you give me nothing, but I will if you forget my birthday.”
“No! How could I forget your birthday. Sure, I wont let it slipped away from my brain, you’re my little lovely sister and I wont get you out of my head, babe.” He sat up, moved the guitar from his way and hugged her tightly.
“Oh, what a sweet my brother!”, she giggled.
He looked into her eyes for a while and pushed her down on the bed, held her to be that way with one hand while the other hand tickled her. She laughed uncontrollably and kicked her feet everywhere in the air, clutched charlie’s shirt tried to stop him. “Stop, stop, charlie! I cant…I…stop!…I cant…breathe, stop!”.
He let go off his hand from charlotte and let her free from his tickles. He laughed and dropped himself back on the bed. “I always love to do that to you.”
“Right. I hope they would throw you down to hell when you’re die!”.
“What! what a mean you are!”.
“Haha…no, I was kidding.” She said with her stomach up and down breathing quicker. “What time will mom and dad come back home?”
“I don’t know. maybe just for a couple of hours.”
“What are they doing in the hospital?”
“I don’t know. Mom said doctor grandt, he was the one who helped mom to give birth to you, needed to talk to them. She didn’t know what he would talk about but we’ll find out.”
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It was 11.30 at night. Charlie and charlotte planned to wait for their parents no matter how late would they get back home. Charlie still lied on the floor in front of the tv flicked through the channel while charlotte couldn’t stand to shut her eyes because it has already too late for her. She did really wanna wait for her parents to come home and find out what happened. But she just couldn’t stop when her eyes became so heavy and shut by itself. She fell asleep on the couch. Charlie got up and picked his sister up to her room after he turned off the tv. He wanted to have his sleep after he put charlotte on her own bed. He thought they still could find out the next morning.
He dropped himself on the bed as soon he fell asleep. He was exploring his dream when suddenly there was a sound strictly came from the living room. He woken up and quickly got up from his bed, walked and kicked the door open. He found charlotte has already stood in front of her room door.
“What was that?” She shook her head and walked towards him. She grabbed her hand and together they walked down to the living room.

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They found their parents hugged each other tightly in the living room. They couldn’t see their mother’s face because she planted her face on their father’s chest, but they could see her body shivering. Their father wrapped the mother in his arms as he stroke her back, tried to calm her down. After 5 minutes stared there, finally they noticed that their mother was crying. She was crying sobbed her heart out along with the name of charlotte mentioned in every single minute. Then their father turned his head round and found that his children stared at them silently.
“Charlie, charlotte, get into your rooms.”
“But, dad what’s the matter with mom?”
“Charlie, please. Just get into your room and bring charlotte along with you ok?”
“Ok, dad.” He said half heartedly and walked upstairs with still his hand grabbed her hand. She was just silent at the time until charlie opened the door of her room for her and led her inside. She slowly dropped herself on the bed with charlie pulled the cover up to her chin and kissed her on the forehead, saying good night. She replied back. He turned off all the lamps and closed the door back shut. But she still couldn’t sleep. She just couldn’t stop to think what was the matter with their mother. She kept listening to the voice of her father and mother downstairs. She was still crying, even louder and deeper. She could hear her mentioned her name a couple of times.
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July 13th, 2001

“Dad?”, charlotte stared at her father and mother back and forth. She ran out of idea what more to think after the whole night wandering what would just possible to be happened the night before.
Charlie sat next to her, looked not so much different than charlotte. He couldn’t sleep too last night. He held her hand in his as he saw their mother still a bit sob, rested her head on their father’s shoulder.
“Mom?”, charlotte said a half whispered to her after she got no reply from her father. But she just kept sobbing on her father’s shoulder and not looked up to her.
“Charlie, bring your sister upstairs.” He finally spoke until a long silence between them.
Charlie still confused about what happened, but eventually he pulled her up and led her upstairs. She squeezed his hand once they got at the top end of the stairs. He spun and made an eyes contact with her. He knew what she wanted to do by looking into her eyes. He took her closer to the wall so no one could see them from below. Then they sat on the floor, listened to the voice downstairs intently.
“No, I cant let go off Charlotte and I wont!” her mother said still a bit sob to the father.
“Sure, we wont. But how about her? We have responsibility on her too. We cant just leave her behind.”
“But I cant. I don’t know her, all I know is just charlotte!”.
“Charlotte will still with us, and so with her.”
She still didn’t understand what their parents talked about downstairs and neither charlie. What was it all about? It has something to do with charlotte and another ‘her’ that she didn’t really understand. They kept listening intently with charlie leant on her back, tried to figure out what was their parents talking about.
“We’ll see for her tomorrow. She doesn’t live so far from here.”
“But I’m not ready. Please, cant we jut keep it this way. Just forget about all that doctor Grandt said yesterday. We will just pretend that it had never happened.”
“We cant! We cant just leave her behind like that.”
“But how about charlotte? Our family will change so drastically, and that wont be a good thing to happened in the middle of our family. Especially for the children.”
“I told you, we have responsibility to her. We cant leave her alone with that family that she doesn’t belong to.”
“You mean Charlotte doesn’t belong to us!”
“That’s not what I mean. I mean she may just need our help this time. We don’t know in what kind of family she is now. You know that we all love charlotte with all of our heart but Melissa is our truly child!”
Everything blur in her eyes for what her father has just said. Now everything’s clear for her of what her parents talked about. Charlie quickly catched her when she suddenly collapsed. Tears streamed down her cheek. No expressions showed in her eyes as she didn’t know what to think about this. Charlie wrapped her body so tightly with his arms. He leant his head with hers as he couldn’t stop the tears to roll down his cheek as well. She clutched his shirt and planted her face deeply on his stomach as the tears kept pulled out from her soaked eyes.
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July 14th, 2001

“Are you sure you want to do this? But charlotte…”
“Shh…we have to see for her. I told you charlotte wont go anywhere, she’s with us. But we have responsibility to our own child no matter how much we love charlotte.”
They walked past over so many little houses in a rumpled area of London. They were on the way to look for their child, the truly one. Charlotte and Melissa were exchanged at the first day when they were just born. They were born at the same year, same month, same date, same hospital and even with the same doctor. This one that they would never expect to be happened in their lives. What should they do about this. They had given charlotte all of their love as with their own child, because they thought that she was their own child. But things are changed after those few words, that Melissa and charlotte exchanged. Her mother couldn’t take it, she had fallen for charlotte and would never change her with anyone else. But Melissa is her truly child. She was the one who gave her birth. She was the one who suffered for 9 months pregnancy for her. Would she let go off charlotte? No, she wouldn’t but everything would be changing eventually.
After about 10 minutes looked for the right house, they parked the car at a space in the middle of little houses stuck in one narrow area. They walked through the corner and stopped in front of a little restaurant. It was like the other houses in the same area, the restaurant itself wasn’t so much bigger or more little than the others. The different is the restaurant used as the house too for the owner.
Then a woman in 30-ies year old came out the house ran after a boy in the same or around age of charlie. She handed a pan in her right hand while the other held her long patched sleeping gown. She yelled after the boy while the boy just kept running around yelled her back and ran away left her who was still yelled for his name. Then she put her hand back down to her side and turned her head round to the couple who was standing stared at her. She stared at them for seconds but then turned around and headed to get into the house.
“Wait, Mrs. Jones.” Mr. Simpson walked after her with his hand held his wife’s hand tightly.
She turned back round and replied a bit confusedly, “Yes?”
“We…we need to talk. I mean we know that you don’t know us, but we do. And we have to talk.”
She didn’t reply but they could see it in her eyes of ‘come in’.
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“No! You couldn’t of saying that to me! Melissa is my child! My truly child!”, She screamed after she heard of what the Simpson couple told her that their children are exchanged. She didn’t believe it as well as Mrs. Simpson. She didn’t get the news because of she didn’t have the phone, so no one can call or contact her for. She shrugged with her eyes looked down confusedly. Tears started to fill in her eyes.
“I know. and charlotte is my truly child, so cant we just forget about this!” Mrs. Simpson got up with hand covered her mouth as the tears rolled down to her cheeks. But then Mr. Simpson grabbed her hand pulled her back sat on the chair.
“We know this is kind of unexpected for all us. But we…we offer you the best option for Melissa. We want to take care of her, as her parents. We can give her a better education and life…”
“You mean I cant afford her life properly, is that what you’re trying to say!” she interrupted him with her a bit of anger in her eyes as the tears kept rolling down to her cheeks.
“No, I mean…we’re going to move to America. So we expect you would allow us to take Melissa along with us. She would get a better education there.”
“No! you wouldn’t get my permission! She’s my child, and I should be the one who concerned about her life!”
“But this is the best for her.”
“You mean you’re going to take Melissa and charlotte with you? Both of them?”
“Yes, but we’re…”

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“Get out of my house! I wont accept any of your offers! She’s my child, and you cant take her away from me!” she yelled at them and pushed them away out through the door and got inside, left them stared silently.
Mrs. Simpson back burst into tears, she was almost collapsed if only Mr. Simpson late to catched her in two more seconds. He helped her back up and held her shoulder so she wouldn’t fall again then back headed to the car.
Melissa was there since the first time Mr. And Mrs. Simpson walked in through the door. She was just got back from school when she suddenly saw Charlotte’s parents came to her house. So she hid in an empty narrow space between her house and the other house beside. She could hear everything that they talked about there. She was shocked and didn’t know how to feel to the fact that she is the truly Simpson. She stunned for minutes and snapped herself back. Then she smiled, a winning smile. She had always wanted to be like charlotte. Now she knew that she supposed to be charlotte and charlotte supposed to be her. Everything would change for her and she doesn’t mind about it. She thought that it would be a better change for her. She hated to be in her poor family anyway. She hated her brother, her life, and even her mother! Now, she got the chance to exchange her life with charlotte.
She walked headed to the house acted like she didn’t know what happened the time before. “I’m home.”
“Go do the dishes.” Her mother said with her back on her so she couldn’t see her bloody shot eyes and soaked tears face.
“But I’m just arrived!” she yelled at her.
“I said go do the dishes!” she yelled back whilst she wiped the table that seemed to be clean enough, but because of another reason she kept wiping it on and on.
“Do it by yourself! I’m not your slave!” Then she left her, walked headed to her own room…well, actually their room because Melissa and her mother slept in the same room as there’s no more room in the house. Mrs. Jones fell on her knees and tears rolled back down her cheeks. She tried to wipe it off, but it didn’t help so much because the tears couldn’t stop flooding into her eyes. She cried silently as she didn’t want Melissa to hear her sobbing.
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“I told you to do the dishes! What’s wrong with you.” Mrs. Jones walked through the shelf curtain that separates the restaurant with the house.
“Not me, but what’s wrong with YOU! I’m just arrived from school and do you think I was having fun there! I’m tired. That’s a part of your job, so do it by yourself!”, Melissa got up from the place where she was and shouted back at her. Stood in front of her like she was gonna challenge her for a fight.
“Melissa…” she didn’t realize when suddenly her hand raised up and strictly slapped melissa’s cheek.
She looked back at her and looked up to her eyes deeply and very sarcastically. Showed a big anger in her eyes as she touched her cheek where her mother had slapped on.
Mrs. Jones stared at her hand which had slapped her cheek in shock. She quickly grabbed her shoulder and looked into her eyes, but then she dodge it harshly. “YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THIS TO ME!”
“Melissa, I don’t…”
“YOU THINK I’M SO STUPID TO JUST LET YOU ASK ME TO DO THIS, DO THAT ALL THE TIME! YOU THINK I’M THAT STUPID TO JUST LET YOU SLAP ON MY CHEEK SO MANY TIMES! YOU’RE NOT EVEN MY MOTHER!” she screamed with tears of anger rolled down to her cheek.
“Melissa…how can you…”, she stunned in shocked look at the girl who was yelling at her and told her that she wasn’t her mother. She stared at the girl who she had taken care of from she was still a baby until now. Never crossed her mind that this kind of situation would ever happen in her life.
“I KNOW YOU’RE NOT MY MOTHER!” she shouted again. “IS IT EVER CROSSED YOUR MIND HOW SUFFERING I AM TO LIVE WITH YOU. EVERYONE IN SCHOOL HAS EVERYTHING THAT I DON’T! THEY HAVE FRIENDS AND I DON’T, THEY HAVE FAMILY WHO LOVE THEM BUT I DON’T! THEY HAVE PROPER SCHOOL EQUIPMENT BUT I DON’T! I JUST HAVE A POOR MOTHER AND HER PATHETIC LITTLE RESTAURANT AND A STUPID DRUNKEN BROTHER!!! ALL THAT I HAVE IS JUST BAD TIMES OF BEING WITH YOU! I DONT WANNA BE LIKE THIS ANYMORE. I’M LEAVING!” she walked past through on her left the house.
Mrs. Jones still in emptiness when Melissa walked past over her, but then she snapped out and ran after her. “No, Melissa don’t go! I’m your mother! You’re my daughter, please don’t go!” but Melissa ran faster than her and left her lied on the ground screamed for her name. Melissa didn’t care for her and kept walking headed to the Simpson’s house.
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“Charlotte…” charlie sat next to her on her bed with his arm round her shoulder as tears streamed on her cheeks.
“I’m ok, charlie. Really, I’m just fine.” She responded the way charlie looked concerned at her. She looked up to him and smiled but the tears kept pulled out from her eyes.
“You’re my sister, my truly sister no matter what happened you know that.” He leant his head on hers as he wiped the tears off her cheeks with his thumb.
She again replied by a smile. “Charlie, do you remember you asked me what did I want to be if I could change everything?” she said after a long silent between them.
“Oh, it was a long time a go wasn’t it. When you’re about 10.” He replied as he kept staring into her eyes, tried to figure out what she was trying to say.
“Yeah. You still remember what I answered to you?”
“Yeah, you said you wanted to be a tree, but you didn’t tell me why. It was such a silly answer you know.”
“Yeah it was. Well, It didn’t cross my mind of the reason why I answered that but I think I know what it is now.”
“Really?”
“I wanna be a tree cuz I think a tree wont go anywhere from home. It wont leave the place where it was born, where it grown up, wont leave the family. It will just still be there no matter what happened even the situation could be just impossible for the tree to stay. The tree will always be there, it will grow old and die on the place where it was born, it just wont move anywhere.” Tears kept streaming down her cheeks as she said the words calmly. Charlie stared at her with tears filled up his eyes. He tried to blink it away but it couldn’t stop flooding in. He moved as close as he could to her and held her in his arms very tightly.
“Charlotte, you’re my sister I know that.” He kissed her forehead while she rested her head on his chest.
~~~
It was 6:30 pm. The Simpsons all together in the living room for their family gathering night. Charlie was always beside of charlotte wherever she went. Not like the previous family night, they all stared at tv silently. No one bear to say a single word. When suddenly there was a knock on the front door. They all at the same time turned round to the door that placed not so far from the living room. No one got up to answer the knock for a couple of minutes or so. But then Mr. Simpson got up as how he could see no one but him self stopped to stared at the door.
He slowly opened the door to reveal a girl outside with her face tears sticky and slight red eyes. As the tears kept rolling down her cheek she stared at him. He stared at her as well for seconds with thoughts in his head and finally he could manage to break the silence, “Melissa…”
She nodded and walked in through the door as she could see of ‘come in’ in his eyes. It was raining outside so every inch of her body soaked with the rain. She looked down with her body shivering. “I know everything.” She said as she kept staring down the floor. “I…”
“Come in, you’re wet. We need to dry you up quickly.” He interrupted as he dragged her to the living room with the others still stared. But then Mrs. Simpson quickly got up and walked towards them, “No, we cant…”she stopped and thinking again of what she was gonna say. “We cant let her here, Mrs. Jones still…”
“Tessa, please. Look at her, she’s wet. she can just get ill by this.” He quickly interrupted her.
“But, but we…we cant let her st…we cant let her…she…we’ll take her back home after…”
“Please, it’s ok if you don’t want to take me as your daughter. But I don’t wanna get back there.” Melissa suddenly spoke up looked up to her. “I don’t want to get back there. I’ve been suffering for 14 years and I wont let it kept dragging me deeper in suffer. I know everything that happen to you and I. You just don’t know how much I feel so dying to be there. No one care about me that’s ok. But at least I don’t want my own mother refuse me when I need her.” She burst out into tears and dropped on the floor with her hands covered her face and tears rolled through her fingers.
Mrs. Simpson stunned with tears streamed down her cheek. She stood there acted nothing for seconds. She dropped her knees on the floor and quickly grabbed her shoulder to her and hugged her very tightly. “Melissa…my daughter…melissa…!”, she leant her head on melissa’s and hugged her tighter as they cried together on the floor. She quickly got back up and grabbed a towel for her. She wrapped it around her and held her tightly as she helped her to back up. “I’m sorry, Melissa…my daughter …”

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“Mommy!”, Melissa suddenly grabbed her and sobbed her heart out on her shoulder. “Mommy, mommy, mommy!” she said along with her sob on Mrs. Simpson’s shoulder.
Charlie squeezed charlotte’s hands as how he could see tears rolled back down to her cheeks by the moment in front of her. She didn’t say anything with emptiness in her eyes. She didn’t know what to do about this. She felt so strange and suddenly for the first time in her life she felt like she didn’t belong to be in the middle of them.
~~~
July 15th, 2001

Charlie and charlotte were on the way to school the next day. They walked hand in hand silently. They still couldn’t believe that it was really happened between their family. Charlie would always force himself to believe that it was just a dream, a nightmare. Even if it was true, he would always take her as his younger sister no matter who was the real one. Their eyes still a slight red caused of the tears moment the night before. They slept together in his room because Melissa took over her room. He couldn’t leave her alone. He felt like he was gonna lose her but he force himself to be convinced that he wont lose charlotte. He just loves her too much to encourage himself to face the truth.
“I’m fine really. I can hold it, don’t worry. And I hope you can do it too, charlie.” She smiled faintly on him as she noticed the way charlie concerned about her. he just worried if she couldn’t hold it to face the people at school who had already knew about what happened between Simpson and Jones family. Charlotte was the one who seemed to be the strongest of the others, although she was the one who got hurt the most. He squeezed her hand and nodded as he kept walking with his head looked down on the way to her class.

They stopped at the door of charlotte’s class. Charlie still held her hand in his and looked deeply into her eyes.
“I’m ok charlie. Don’t worry.” She smiled and let go off his hand from hers and kissed his cheek lightly. He nodded and headed to his own class. She walked slowly past over the students in the class stared at her. she tried to not show any respond of that situation. She headed to her table and looked slightly to the chair in the corner. There was Melissa put on the evil smile to her. She folded her arms on her chest as she stared back at her and winning smile across her face. Charlotte turned away from her and sat on her chair. She turned her head round to tyra who was planting her face on the table sobbing. “Tyra, are you ok?” she said as she put her hand on her back.
Tyra straighten up, showed her soaked tears face to the people around her. “This shouldn’t be happened to you, charlotte. This is not fair!” she said out loud which made the other students put their eyes on her.
Charlotte pulled her down to back sat on her chair. “It’s ok, tyra. I’m fine.” She stroke her back with tyra sobbed in her shoulder.
“I feel so sorry for you, charlotte. I wish I could do something for you.”
Charlotte smiled slightly as she kept stroking her back. “Thank you. but I’m fine really. I can hang on.” She leant her head on tyra’s. Tyra has been her best friend since they knew each other on the first year. They shared everything together. She will always be there for her when charlie couldn’t give her company in certain times. They two are almost like one body. If any part of it hurt, the other part would get hurt as well. So Tyra know how charlotte felt at the time. And she felt so sad for her.
~~~
Charlotte and Tyra walked together through the corridor on their way back home after school ended. Charlie didn’t get with them because he needed by his school band at the time.
“Hey, where are you going?” Melissa suddenly stopped their way with evil smile crossed her lips.
“I’m going home.” Charlotte answered as she looked down. Tyra held her hand in hers and looked back sarcastically on Melissa.
“Home? Where’s you’re house Charlotte Simpson? Or should I call you Charlotte Jones?”. She moved closer to charlotte with her arms folded on her chest. Charlotte still looked down calmly on the way Melissa talked to her. She didn’t reply anything to Melissa to prevent anything worse happened between them.
Tyra moved forward to Melissa and pushed her away from charlotte. “Don’t you dare to think you could hurt her you pathetic git!”
“What’s your problem!” Melissa moved forward back to her looked up to her sarcastically.
“You are my problem. Now fuck off!”. She pushed her away again. But this time Melissa dodged it and moved to charlotte. She quickly grabbed her hand and dragged her through the corridor.
“I’ll tell you where your house is.” She said as she dragged her past over the people around them.
Tyra was too late to do anything to help her away from Melissa. She dropped to the floor when Melissa dodged her. she shouted for her name and stopped. She thought for a while of what she should do. Once she got the idea, she ran as fast as she could to the opposite way.
~~~
Melissa brought her to her home, the house where she used to live. The house that she put behind as the past. They stopped once they arrived in front of the tiny restaurant. Melissa was still clutching her shirt as she dragged her right in front of the door.
“This is your home! You said you were going home weren’t you, so now this is your home. The place where you should be!” she let go off her shirt harshly until she dropped to the floor. She slowly got back up and stared at the house. No expression showed in her face. She just scanned all over the house was like she was trying to recognize it.
Mr. Jones walked out through the door as how she heard the noise outside the house. She slowly looked forward and melissa’s face was the first that she saw. “Melissa!” she spoke but not moving anywhere from where she stood on. Melissa rolled her eyes to somewhere else around her to prevent an eyes contact with Mrs. Jones. She was just standing there stunned at her and after a couple of minutes or so she noticed that there was someone else there. She stared at charlotte as how charlotte did on her. They both looked into each others eyes silently.
Then the eyes contact between Mrs. Jones and charlotte cut off by someone shouted behind them. “Charlotte!”
She turned her head round and saw charlie ran towards her and Melissa with Tyra followed behind him. He quickly grabbed her hand and pulled her to the opposite way. “Come on, we’re going home.”
Charlotte didn’t act anything on that but kept staring to Mrs. Jones. She turned her head round so she could still stare at her. They still connected in an eyes contact when suddenly Melissa yelled at charlotte and grabbed her other hand pulled her back.
“No! she supposed to be here! This is where she belongs!”
Charlie turned round to her and slapped her on the cheek. No expression of sorry in his eyes as he kept dragging charlotte away from that house. Melissa stopped her way and stood there watching them for seconds with her hand touched her cheek where charlie had slapped on. After she snapped out, she ran past over charlie, charlotte and tyra, back to the house, the Simpsons house. Charlotte turned her head back round and looked down as charlie kept dragging her to their house. Mrs. Jones didn’t do anything although she saw Melissa were slapped by charlie. She just kept staring at charlotte’s back until they’re all gone from her sight.
~~~
“Charlie, you shouldn’t do that.” Charlotte looked up to his face as they kept walking on their way back home.
Charlie stopped and grabbed her hands. He looked into her eyes deeply. A bit of anger that seemed to be caused of what Melissa done and love to charlotte showed in his eyes. “She deserves it. What was her purpose to did that on you. I wouldn’t of do that if only she could show some respect on you. who does she think she is.” he said calmly with his hands held hers tightly. He pulled her closer to him and kissed on the top of her head. “I wont let anyone hurt you, charlotte. Not Melissa, not anyone.” He pulled her closer.
She slightly pulled away from him and looked up to his face. An expression of ‘I’m not sure’ crossed over her face. But she knew that all that he did is because he loves her. He loves her too much and so does charlotte. They back walked ahead to their house with silence between them until they’re both arrived at the house lounge. Mr. Simpson stood in front of the door waited for them. charlie and charlotte stopped right in front him with their faces looked down. Their hands still held in each others tightly.

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“Dad…”. She broke the silence that seems to rolled for ages between them.
“Charlotte, get in the house.” He interrupted with his eyes still locked on charlie’s. Charlotte slightly turned her head looked at charlie. Charlie looked back at her with ‘get in’ showed in his eyes. She nodded and walked towards the door with her head still a bit looked over her shoulder to see her dad and charlie looked into each others. She walked through the door that had already half opened and closed it. She thought for a while and decided to stay at the back door so she could hear the voice of her dad and charlie outside. She leant her back on the door and listened intently to every single word that she heard from outside.
Silence rolled over for ages. Mr. Simpson was the one who said the first words after he felt sure that charlotte has gone to her room and not listening to their conversation. “What did you do to your sister?” he asked.
“I didn’t do anything to charlotte!” he replied with a bit of anger burned inside him.
“Charlie, you should face it. You can’t be like this forever. We all love charlotte and you know that, but…”
“What should I have to face? I see the truth in front of me, clearly, very clearly! Charlotte is my sister no matter what you and people say about her.”
“I know you love charlotte so much and so do all of us. But Melissa needs you of being her brother don’t you understand.”
“No, you don’t understand! You don’t know what she did to charlotte! And you shouldn’t of saying that about her cuz she doesn’t deserve it! Our family is just you, mom, me and charlotte! And that’s it, it will never change forever, not even with her presence in the middle of us!”
“But charlie, you don’t…”
“I wont take her as my sister and that’s a final! My sister is charlotte and you cant force me to take that fucking girl who…” his words cut off by the moment of Mr. Simpson slapped his cheek. Charlie stunned with his hand touched the cheek where his father slapped on. Then he turned looked deeply with anger in his eyes to Mr. Simpson. And anger showed in Mr. Simpson’s eyes as well. They looked at each others for a quiet long time.
Charlotte slowly dropped her self to the floor with tears rolled down to her soft cheek. She couldn’t stand for it if it would keep going for longer time. She pulled her knees until they touched her face. She leant on her knees with tears dropped by from her tired eyes. She felt like the whole world weight dropped on her shoulder all of sudden. She didn’t feel like she was in her house or in the middle of her own family anymore. She felt like she was a stranger who lost in an empty island far away from the other people and no one could stand to help her. The pictures of her family broken in pieces right in front of her. She didn’t know what she should do but cry. Cry is all that she could do cuz she knew that she didn’t deserve to complain or say anything about what happened. The sounds of people stepped ahead towards the door heard by her. She quickly wiped the tears off of her cheek and got back up. She ran upstairs to charlie’s room as how her room being taken over by Melissa. She dropped her self on the bed and pulled the cover up to her head. She sobbed her heart out with blanket covered all over her body so no one could see her sobbing.
She could hear Charlie walked headed to the room. She put her sob in silent as the tears kept streaming down all over her face. She could feel that charlie sat on the bed edge beside her. He touched her legs and shook it lightly, “Charlotte, you awake?”
She kept in silence for a while and thought that he might be just suspicious on her that she listened to his conversation outside if she kept pretending that she was sleeping. So she rubbed her face to wipe the tears off from her face and slowly pulled down the cover from her head. She rolled over so charlie could see her face. She smiled and nodded. “Yea, I’m awake.”
“Are you ok?” he asked her as how he noticed that her eyes slight red and moved closer to her, stroking the hair from her face.
She nodded and smiled again. She raised up her hand and touched his cheek. “I’m fine, just a bit unwell. Maybe just tired I need some sleep.”
Charlie leant his forehead on hers and kissed her. “Yeah, I see that. Maybe you shouldn’t go to school tomorrow. I’ll tell mom to get the doctor.”
“No, don’t! I’m not that ill, just a bit tired don’t worry. I’m fine really.” He nodded and a smile crossed over his lips. The smile that always comforts her and makes the situation warmer every time it gets worse. He got up and took out another blanket from the closet. He spread it out on the floor and dropped a pillow on. He turned off the lamp on the bedside table and lightly kissed on her cheek. “I love you”, he said to charlotte and she replied back with ‘I love you too’. He lied him self down the blanket that he had set out on the floor. He slowly closed his eyes and peacefully fell asleep.
~~~
July 16th, 2001

Charlotte walked back home from school alone. She convinced Tyra that she could go home by her self. And charlie still needed by his school band. She just needed to be alone at that time. She thought that it might be better for her if she kept thinking about what she should do next on the way home. She kept walking with emptiness keep fill in her mind. She didn’t even know what to think or which one of her problems that should be thought. She knew that she wouldn’t stand to live without her family, especially charlie. She just way too much loving him and didn’t know what to do if she was ever gonna lose him. And she knew that it would happen sooner or later. She doesn’t belong to the simpson family. But where does she belong to then? To her truly family? The family that completely different than where she used to belonged. But she knew that she wasn’t ready for that but when she’d be ready then, she couldn’t answer for that either. More and more questions flooding in her mind but she didn’t get the answers. Maybe Melissa was right that Jones family is where she belongs. But she couldn’t even move one step ahead to leave her simpson family behind. She felt like her head could just explode by the questions that she didn’t know where it came. She really wanted to be somebody else so she shouldn’t have to face the reality that she didn’t even dare to see.
Thoughts kept coming in her brain with no solutions could stand to solve the troubles. She didn’t realize that she wasn’t actually walking ahead to her house. She walked straight to the house where Melissa took her the day before. She just snapped her mind back to where she was when she had arrived in front of the jones’ house. She stared at the house and suddenly all the thoughts in her head just gone. She looked at the woman who was watering the rose plants outside the house. The woman turned around as how she noticed that someone stared behind her. she stunned still with the water bucket in her hand, scanned every inch of charlotte intently. Yes, charlotte has her deep sea blue eyes, her husband’s light brown hair, her rosy red lips, her nose, her jaw outlines and even her face spots. She had noticed that from the first time she met charlotte the day before. This crossed her mind that ‘this girl is my daughter’. They stared at each other until Charlotte encouraged her self to face the reality in front of her. She walked towards Mrs. Jones with blankness in her eyes.
“Mrs. Jones?” she said awkwardly whilst still looked into her eyes. Somehow she didn’t feel like the woman in front of her was a stranger, she felt like she knew her but don’t know when and where she’d ever met her.
Mrs. Jones didn’t reply her but kept staring at her. They stared at each other for ages, let the people past over them until a woman, her neighbour tapped on her shoulder.
“Mrs. Jones, what are you doing?” she said looked at charlotte and Mrs. Jones back and forth.
Mrs. Jones snapped and shrugged. She looked down for a second and smiled at her. She didn’t reply of what her neighbour asked.
“Melissa’s friend I see. Where’s Melissa by the way I haven’t seen her for two days now?” she answered her own question and gave out another question. But Mrs. Jones kept in silent didn’t reply back. Charlotte still stared at her with no expressions crossed over her face.
Then suddenly she heard someone called her name behind her. Before she could turn her head round to see who was calling her, the person grabbed her hand and pulled her the opposite way of the house.
“Charlotte, what are you doing here! You shouldn’t be here I was worried about you!” it was charlie. He knew that charlotte went to that house. He knew charlotte more than anyone else so it’s not that hard for him to figure out that charlotte was going to that house. He kept dragging her away from the house, left Mrs. Jones stared at her as how charlotte did.
~~~
“Charlie let go off me!” she pulled his hand from hers and walked backwards.
“Charlotte?” charlie stared at her as charlotte walked towards a closed grocery. The rain started to pour let them soaked with the water. Charlotte sat under the grocery’s canopy with her body shivering. She pulled her knees until they touched her face and leant on it. She cried silently. Charlie walked towards her and sat at the other end of the space. They sat in silence for ages. No one could say any single word to break the silence. Charlie not even dared to see her crying at the other end. Until about ten minutes he turned his head round to see her. Her white shirt had soaked with the rain reveal a bit of her underwear inside. Her body still shivering and even more.

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“Charlotte…”
“Charlie, please. I cant…” she said still with her head leant on her knees.
“Charlotte, you are my sister you know that.”
She quiet for a while. “I knew it since a very long time a go that I noticed that we’re not look alike. Mom, dad, and you are talented in music but I’m not. I cant play guitar or piano not even after you taught me for ages.”
“Charlotte…”
“Mom has light brown eyes, you and dad have hazel eyes, and how come I can have these blue eyes. None of our family has blue eyes, not even grands. Melissa has hazel eyes…” she interrupted.
“Charlotte, please. It’s not a matter of what color of your eyes is or a music talent in us. It’s a matter of heart and I know you’re my sister. I don’t care what they say about you. Melissa’s not my sister, you are my sister.”
“No, charlie you just cant admit it.”
“I don’t care whether I can admit it or not. All that I know that the girl who’s sobbing leant on her knees beside me is my sister. I don’t know the girl who takes over your room in our house. She’s not a part of our family, and we’re still like how we used to be. Just mom, dad, you and I. She’s just a stranger called her self that she’s my sister. Everyone knows that you are my sister, and that’s how it always be. It would never change.” He moved sat next right close beside her. He wrapped his arms around her, tried to keep her body warm.
“I don’t know, charlie I…”
“Shh…there’s nothing you should know. We’re never changed, You’re still my little lovely sister and I’m still your brother. We’ll just keep it that way ok?”
He stroke her hair from her face with his thumb and leant his head on hers. She nodded but still sobbing leant on her knees. They sat there for a couple of minutes or so until charlie grabbed her hand and pulled her up.
“We’re going home.” She nodded and they walked ahead to their house let the rain fell down soaked their bodies and wipe the tears away.
~~~
It was 11 pm and everyone in the house had fallen asleep. Charlie still slept on his blanket that he’d set out on the floor while charlotte slept on his bed. She didn’t really asleep, she just couldn’t. Every time she tried to close her eyes, they always flickered open not letting her rest her eyes even just for a brief second. She heard footsteps of someone walked towards the door. She briefly saw the person’s shade through the gap of the half opened window. She quickly closed her eyes pretend to sleep. She could hear the person walked towards her and slowly sat on the bed edge. She heard a slight sob beside her. it was Mrs. Simpson. She caressed her hair lightly so she thought she wouldn’t awake her. She just sat there for a couple of minutes or so until charlotte felt soft lips touched her forehead. She got up and walked to the door. Charlotte touched her cheek to found some drops of tears on. She let the tears slowly rolled over her cheek. She could feel her heart wrecked by the moments that she’d been through about her and her family. She covered her face with her hands as she tried to muffle the sob. And just somehow she felt like there was a light at the end of her dark long tunnel. She wiped the tears off of her cheek and slowly pulled down the cover over her body. She slid onto the floor quietly. She bended right beside of charlie’s face. She lightly touched his cheek for a minute or so. She kissed him on his cheek as the tears caught up her eyes. She blink it away and slightly whispered in his ear, “I love you” and charlie still fallen on his peaceful night dream. She quietly stepped towards the door and looked over the room outside of charlie’s bedroom for a while to make sure that no one would see her walked out the door. After she assure her self that no one was there, she walked over to the stairs and went to first floor. Still walked silently, she groped the rose vase on the table next to the door. There was the key hidden. She took it out and quickly but still in silent stuck the key on the keyhole and slowly walked out the house. It was just something that she thought was right for her and the others. She really should be back to where she belongs, to the Jones family.
~~~
She kept walking ahead alone to Jones’ house as the tears streamed rapidly all over her face. She still wasn’t ready to leave charlie and her parents. But she felt that this is the best for all of them and anyway sooner or later she would have to leave.
She arrived at the house, and walked towards the door. She tapped lightly on the door. She heard someone muttered a muffled voice inside. Then the door quickly opened to reveal a woman with rather tired face at the back of the door. Her eyes quickly wide opened after she found the girl who was knocking on her door. Charlotte slightly looked down to the floor for a couple of minutes. Then she slowly brought her face up to see her with a smile across her face.
“Mommy…” she calmly said. Mrs. Jones who heard the word that just came out from her mouth stunned looked at her. But then she snapped and pulled her shoulder hugged her tightly.
“My daughter…” They hugged by each other for ages as the tears rolled down to their cheeks. But this time the tears came along with smiles on their faces. Mrs. Jones pulled away lightly from charlotte and looked into her eyes proudly. Then she brought charlotte inside of the house with her arm still round her body. Not so many words they said that night, cuz they already could see what they wanted to say in their eyes.
~~~
July 17th, 2001

Charlotte didn’t go to school the next day. She just didn’t want to meet up with charlie at a moment. She still couldn’t stand to see charlie when she knew that he’s not her brother anymore. But anyhow she started to feel comfortable with the reality that now she stays with her own mother, even though she couldn’t get the simpson family off her mind. She felt like this is where she belongs.
“Happy birthday, charlotte.” She said to her self and landed her soft lips on the rose that planted outside of her house. It was her 14th birthday, the first birthday she gone through without her family, her former family. And without all the party stuff to celebrate the day. But she kept smiling to face the reality in front of her. She got up the courage to be brave to move to another chapter of her life.
She watered the rose plants and cut one of the roses. She put it on her pocket and smiled to her self. She picked the water bucket and was about to walked inside the house when suddenly someone called her. She turned around to found that Charlie was there walked towards her. Anxiety drawn on his face as he quickly grabbed her shoulder and hugged her very tightly.
“What are you doing, Charlotte?” he said whilst still wrapped his arms round her.
“It’s just something that I should do.” She said calmly.
“But you don’t know what you’re doing.” She lightly pulled away and looked into his eyes.
“Charlie, I know what I’m doing and I have considered about this before with my head clearly. It’s the best for all of us and this is where I belong.”
“No, you belong to us, you belong to our family.”
“No, charlie this is my family. I know you love me and I love you as well even more trust me” she cupped his face with her hand and looked deeply into his eyes convincing him that he got to face the truth. “I know I cant stand to not seeing you even just for an hour. I’ve been going through all the moments in my life with you and I wont forget that. I really love you and I want you to be brave.”
“But charlotte…”
“Charlie, please do it for me I know you can. Besides I don’t live too far you still can meet me everyday at school or anytime you want”
He shrugged with tears caught up in his eyes. They stopped to say a single word for the time that seemed to be rolled in ages. Then he blinked the tears away and brought his face up smiling. “You haven’t told me what you want for your birthday.”
She smiled and looked down stared at the ground for a second. “You remember that blue mickey watch you gave me for my 9th birthday?”
“Yeah.”
“I forgot to bring it with me when I left the house. I really like that watch you know so maybe you can bring it back to me.”
He kept in silent for a while and smiled back. “Sure.” She nodded and hugged him back.
He pulled away and grabbed her arms. “You’re not going to school?” she shook her head. “Why? Please I want you to go to school today. It’s still early in the morning and you still have the time to dressed up yeah?” she thought for a while. Well, the only reason why she planned to not going to school was because she didn’t want to meet charlie. But now she’d met charlie so it wasn’t really an excuse for her to not going to school. So she nodded in agreement. “Well then hurry up. I’ll get you your mickey watch and we’ll meet at school ok?” she nodded again. He kissed her cheek before he left her back to his house.
~~~
Charlie tapped on the door of Charlotte’s room, her former room that now become Melissa’s room. Melissa opened the door with her sleepy face. She rubbed her eyes to make her eyes see clearly of the person in front of her. But charlie quickly walked past over her towards the bedside table.

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“Hey, what are you doing!” charlie didn’t reply her but kept looking for Charlotte’s watch on the shelf.
“Did you see a blue mickey watch in here?” he asked Melissa after several times looked for the watch but he didn’t find it.
“Oh, yea I found it the first day I’m here.”
“Then where’s it.” Charlie quickly got up and walked towards her.
“Hey, what you gonna do with that watch anyway?”
“That’s charlotte’s and you better give it to me now.”
“Charlotte, charlotte, charlotte and charlotte! You just mention that name every time cant you see me that I’m here!”
“Where’s the watch” he said calmly, didn’t respond of what Melissa said.
She quiet for a while looked a bit sarcastically on him. But then she turned away and walked to the closet. She took a bag out of it and groped inside. She pulled out the watch and walked towards charlie. “Here, this is what you’re looking for right?”
“Yeah.” charlie quickly grabbed it and a smile slightly crossed over his face.
“What are you gonna do with that watch?”
“None of your business!” he turned away from her and was about to left the room.
“I’ll tell dad if you don’t tell me!” he turned round again and looked at her for a while. Melissa does it all the time that if charlie didn’t do any of what she wanted him to do, she would tell their father. And that exactly one of his
weakness.
“I’m gonna give it back to charlotte. This is the present I gave her for her 9th birthday and she really likes it. She wants it back for her birthday.” He finally answered.
“Great. You gave everything that she wants and you just left me aside. This is my birthday too you know.” Charlie didn’t reply but kept staring at her. “Anyway, if you want to give it back to her just let me do it.” Melissa grabbed the watch but charlie dodge it. “Hey, relax I wont do anything to the watch. I know you think that I hate charlotte but that watch is hers and I wont break the thing that’s not mine I’m not that impertinent. Besides charlotte is my class mate so don’t you think it will be faster if you let me give her the watch?”
Charlie thought for a couple of minutes or so. Well, maybe she’s right. he didn’t really know about what kind of person Melissa is, but does it mean he should trust her or not? He thought maybe Melissa wasn’t such a mean girl that he thought she was, maybe he just should give her the chance. So he gave the watch to Melissa with a slight of suspicious in his mind.
“Don’t worry just trust me, I’ll give her the watch.” she smiled but charlie didn’t respond. Then he turned round to his own room and prepare him self for the school.
~~~
“Hey people! Listen, this is my birthday and there’s gonna be a party in my house. So if you wanna have some fun tonight, just come over!” Melissa announced around the class followed by the other students yelling in festivity.
Tyra put a comforting hand on charlotte’s back. She brought her face up and smiled at her faintly. “I’m fine.” She said.
And once again another day of Mrs. Robinson’s class. Not as usual, this time she got into the class right on time. Everyone stopped yelling and sat back to their chairs as Mrs. Robinson started her biology class

“Charlotte, you wanna go get some lunch?” Tyra asked her on their lunch break. She nodded and they got up walked through the door to the school cafetaria.
Everyone had gone out from the class to get their lunch, except Melissa who was still stayed in the class. She looked around to make sure that nobody was there. She slowly got up from her chair whilst still looked around anticipated if someone walked in. She walked a half bending to charlotte’s table with the blue mickey watch in her hand. After she arrived at Charlotte’s table, while keep look around, she grabbed Charlotte’s bag and put the watch in the front bag pocket. Then she quickly placed the bag to where it was and walked out the class.

The bell of the end lunch bell went. Everyone got back to their own chairs in the class. People still noisy and talked about whatever when suddenly Mrs. Stephen the principal walked in. Every one stopped talking and turned away to Mrs. Stephen.
“I’ve got the report that Melissa lost her watch. I cant believe that this kind of situation happened in the middle of us and I hope it doesn’t mean that there’s one of you have taken the watch in purpose. I’ll forgive for anyone who confess that she or he has taken Melissa’s watch now.” Every one kept in silence with each of them looked around to figure out who just could be the person who’s taken Melissa’s watch. After about five minutes Mrs. Stephen waited for a confession but no one respond. “Ok, I’m sorry that we have to do this, but this is for our own good. Put your bag on the table please.” Then right away the students put their bags on the table with Mrs. Stephen walked slowly from one table to another to check the bag whether she found the watch. Melissa slightly looked at charlotte and smiled evily at her. Then came the time for Mrs. Stephen to check Charlotte’s bag. Not took a long time for her to found the watch in the front pocket. Charlotte’s eyes wide opened after she saw of what happened. She just didn’t know anything about it.
“No, Mrs. Stephen it cant be charlotte, there’s gotta be someone who did this on her!”, Tyra suddenly spoke up.
“Miss Sweets I know that this is unexpected for you but we have seen the prove.”
“No, Mrs. Stephen.” Melissa got up from her chair and spoke to her. “It’s ok. That’s actually her watch and I was just going to give it to her. It’s just a bit surprised me that she has taken it before I get the time to give it to her, but it’s fine really I understand.” She said with her fake wise expression.
“Well if you say so, we can forgive her with one condition. You have to promise that you wont do something like that anymore and apologize to Miss Simpson to get the watch by yourself with no permission although it’s yours Miss Jones. You should know that we still can called that as a kidnapping you get that?” charlotte nodded as the tears started escaping from her tired eyes.
She turned over to Melissa, “I’m really sorry, I wont do it anymore.”
Melissa nodded with a winning smile across her face. Charlotte sat back down with the other students put their eyes on her sarcastically. Tyra put her hand on her back and stroke it calmingly.
~~~
“Tyra, you seen Charlotte?” Charlie rushed over Tyra after the school ended cuz he couldn’t find charlotte anywhere in school.
“She’s gone out about 10 mins ago why didn’t you see her?”
“Why do you think I’m asking you”
“Well she said she wanted to be alone for a while. Why are you so worried anyway you’ll see her at home
“No, you don’t understand”
“Do I miss something?”
He shrugged thought for seconds whether he should tell her or not. But he knows that tyra is charlotte’s best friend so she has the right to know. “Charlotte moves out to Jones’.”
“What! What made her decide to? And you just let her left?”
“I’ve talked to her this morning. She said that this is what she wanted and best for all of us. I just cant do anything with her decision you know I cant stand to not having her beside me but she’s right, I gotta face the truth but I still love her she’s my sister.”
“I know. but she didn’t even tell me that she moves out! what do you think she doesn’t think that I’m her close friend anymore?”
“No, ‘course she doesn’t she just needs to keep something for herself until she could sort it out and decided to tell someone.”
“But I hope she could trust me that I can help her at least just be there when she needs someone around.”
“I understand, I feel the same way though. So, you know where’s she possible to gone?”
“Her house I think I’ll go with you.”
“No, I just need to talk to her privately if you don’t mind.”
“Erm…sure, just tell her if you made it to find her that I’ll be there anytime she needs me k?”
“Sure.” Then he walked off left Tyra stared behind.
“Charlie, wait!” He turned round to see Tyra ran after him. “I gotta tell you what happened after the lunch break and I think this is why charlotte gone out the school not telling you.”

“Mom, let me.” she took over the plates from Mrs. Jones’ hands.
“Charlotte, you shouldn’t…” She was just going to grabbed the plates back but charlotte just past the room earlier than her. “Honey you don’t have to do this, you’ve been helping me a lot.” She walked towards her while charlotte grabbed the napkin and wiped the restaurant tables.

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“No mom I’m fine, I know you need some help.” She briefly turned to Mrs. Jones and smiled to convince her that she really wanted to help her. she smiled back and caressed her hair lightly.
“So I think I gotta hurry to deliver the food to uncle Farrel.”
“See what I mean you work so hard, please don’t force yourself into it”
“No, mom I’ll be fine. I know he really needs the food right away, I’m going now before it gets dark.” She put the napkin on the cupboard at the room beside the restaurant and took the basket with some foods in it.
“You sure you’ll be ok?”
“Don’t worry, I get the address note I wont get lost, I’ve been traveling a lot.”
“Ok, but remember to call after you get there just to make sure you arrived safely.” She nodded and quickly kissed her on the cheek. She left the house with the food basket in her hand. Mrs. Jones sighed with relief as she looked at charlotte slowly gone from her sight. She is just the best child that she’d ever had. Charlotte has been helping her a lot since the previous night she walked in the house. It’s all getting better for her and somehow she could slowly over Melissa, though she knew that it’s impossible to forget the girl that she had taken care of for 14 years. But Charlotte can make everything brighter for her and get up her courage to face the truth and face her new life.
Then just after about ten minutes Charlotte went out, Mrs. Jones noticed that there was someone ran straight to her house. it was charlie.
“Excuse me, Mrs. Jones is charlotte here?”, he said under his breath.
“No sorry, she’s just gone out about ten minutes ago.”
He stopped for some breath for a while. “I’ll wait.”
“Sorry but she will just get back home tomorrow.”
He slightly shocked and looked down at the ground. After a quiet long time he paused he brought his face back up.” At what time?”
“Around seven.”
Then suddenly this time he dropped himself on his knees down the ground and put his head in his arms desperately.
“What’s the matter?” Mrs. Jones looked concerned.
“No…I ca…I cant tell you…I’ve gotta tell right to charlotte now.”
“I’m sorry I cant help, she may just get far already from here.”
He let him self sat on the ground as the sweat streamed down from his forehead. He kept staring at the ground with emptiness in his eyes. His hands fell weakly on the ground. He acted nothing for ages until the sky started to pour the rain down on earth.
“Come in, it’s gonna rain.” Mrs. Jones who was still standing beside him pulled his hand up. But after he got back up he shook his head still looked desperate. “You sure you don’t want to leave any massage for her?” she asked but charlie seemed to didn’t hear of what she said, in fact he didn’t hear any sound around him or even noticing the rain that started to get so rush. He just faintly looked down as he turned away and walked off.
~~~
July 18th, 2001

“Now tell me about it.” Melissa quickly turned her body to charlotte while she just opened the book from one page to another although she didn’t actually read it.
“About what?” charlotte briefly looked at her.
“Oh c’mon charlotte I know what happened! Charlie looked for you yesterday after school I thought you both would walk home together as usual but you wouldn’t and he told me that you move out. charlotte, please is there something wrong with what I’ve done or anything that caused you don’t tell me your problem anymore? Am I still your best friend?”
Charlotte opened some pages for a while to gave her some time to thought what to answer. “Sure you’re still my best friend Tyra and always but it’s just…” she shrugged and stopped the words.
“Yeah?” Tyra gestured her to carry on.
“I just…I just think that I should sort it out before telling it to anyone.”
“But at least you should tell me I mean I’m not like ‘anyone’ that sounds to be someone else for you, charlotte I’m your friend I thought we didn’t have secrets between us.”
“Tyra please…I’m sorry I didn’t mean to. But I’m just not sure about it I mean I cant over my family that easy especially charlie.”
“Well if so you should have told me from the first time I might could help you to give some opinion.”
“The opinion that might just make me more confused? I mean Tyra I’m not sure about the decision but I know this the best for all us and I have to do it sooner or later and I decided to make sooner so I or anybody else wont get so much in suffer for longer time.”
“Yeah I understand I’m sorry to rush you about this, but sometimes later if something happened with you again you should tell me ok? I just wanna know if you’re ok you know some things shouldn’t keep in yourself.”
“I know, yeah I’m sorry too I didn’t think about you before.” she smiled and moved her chair a bit to charlotte so she could get closer and hugged her.
She pulled away and moved backwards to where she was. “So you met charlie yesterday?”
“No.”
“He went to your house”
“Oh really I didn’t meet him I went to my uncle’s to bring him some foods and stayed the night there. Well he probably arrived the house after I’m gone out.”
“Oh ok. He was just seemed to worry or something on you I see that from the way he ran looked for you, he was in rush.” Charlotte looked down to her book seemed to didn’t get so much concerned but inside she has lots of questions. “Charlotte!” Tyra suddenly hit lightly on her back.
“Yea?” she replied a bit shocked.
“You seem to……” she stopped and thought for a while. “Argh, nothing. I never knew that Biology could be so interesting.” She shifted.
“Oh, I just need to learn more I don’t really get it.”
“Ah I know sadly we got Mrs. Robinson to teach us Biology, she doesn’t really that pro on teaching I don’t even understand every single word that she taught.” Charlotte stared at her and smiled. Tyra, her best friend that always cheerful no matter how mess the situation she even can be so cheerful when she’s bored.
“Listen students.” Suddenly the voice of Mrs. Stephen came out from the front. They didn’t notice before that Mrs. Stephen got into the class. “I just want to announce to all of you that starting from today Melissa and Charlie Simpson are no longer of the students in our school as their family moving to New York this morning. So if any of you noticed that Melissa and Charlie aren’t at the school this is the information. And Mrs. Robinson is getting ill and will be absent for a week so I hope you use this blank time by learning the lesson by your self. That’s all thank you.” And she left the class. The noise spread around the class quickly, some glad cuz they’re free from Mrs. Robinson for a week and some talked about the Simpson family that moved to New York.
Charlotte from the first second after she heard Mrs. Stephen said that Simpson family moves to New York stunned with blankness in her eyes. She clutched the table edge harmfully, she didn’t even realise that the table slightly wrecked by her nails. Tyra looked at the corner to Melissa’s table, and yes she didn’t see Melissa there as she didn’t notice it before. she quickly turned to Charlotte to found the tears rolled over her face as she kept looking forward.
“Charlotte…” Tyra was just gonna put her hand on her shoulder when suddenly Charlotte got up and very quickly ran out the class. Her chair even dropped to the floor because she ran really fast and didn’t care that the chair dropped or Tyra who was calling after her.
Nothing more on her mind but kept running leave the school. She didn’t stop to run not even feel something like tired of running through a long road straight to Simpsons house. She didn’t know that they would move out the country and why didn’t they tell her. Or was that why charlie looked for her in her house the day before. Why should they move out, cant they just stay in London. Did they really wanna leave her. these questions crossed briefly in her mind but after then only one thing that she thought about…’I really wanna be with them’. She ran as quickly as possible and didn’t care even though it would just possible that if she arrived at the house and find they had gone. After several miles non stop running she was just almost arrived at the house when she saw the Simpsons’ car driven left the house lounge. She ran faster to catch them up.
“Mom!!! Mom…dad!!! Charlie!!! Don’t…don’t leave me…please, don’t go!!!”. She shouted whilst still running after them as the car slowly getting faster. She shouted out loud hoping that they heard it but they didn’t. she kept running after them until the car really got fast and impossible for her to catch up. A small rock on the ground that she didn’t see stopped her feet to proceed the chase. She dropped harmfully to the ground as the tears streamed quickly all over her face. Everything went blurry in her eyes except for the car that she still stared at as it slowly gone from her sight. She lied in the middle of the road and fortunately it wasn’t some kind of busy road so not many cars past over. she let her self collapsed on the ground with the tears mixed with dust around her head. Her wound on the knee because of the sudden fall on a high speed running kept pulling out some blood but she didn’t care…the persons that she loves the most has just gone out from her life right in front of her face.

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CHAPTER TWO

July 11th, 2006

“Charlotte can you help me a bit.”
“Gosh Tyra what are you doing with this heavy box whats in it anyway.”
“Some beer cans.”
“You mean some tones of beer cans? A ‘some’ cant make the box this heavy.”
“Well you should blame Josh for this.”
“Yeah right. so is it just me or are we really walking like a snail?”
“The box, blame the box! Drop it!”
“Huh?”
“I said drop it!”
“What are you doing?”
“Wait here I’ll go get Matt to get this back there.”
Tyra went half ran way out through the door left charlotte with a quite massive beer carton box beside her. she briefly stared at Tyra’s back as she gone over the road across. She tightened the red ribbon that tied her long brown hair together neatly. she pulled the chair that placed right some inches behind her and sat on, rested her hand on the box as her mind started to explore everything that she could reach to think of.
It was only 6 days left before she turned to 19 while charlie has already being a 21 a month earlier. Yes, 5 years has passed pretty quickly and peacefully for her, not to mention the first year she gone through without charlie and the others and it was the hardest year of her life, ever. But now everything went smoother and better than before though she didn’t really get over her Simpson family and she knew that she wouldn’t even though they were way half round the globe or they might be just have forgotten about her. They never got in touch with her ever since they gone away left her lied on the ground cried for her life. but she knew that she couldn’t blame them for this, cuz she didn’t even have a phone in her house. Mrs. Jones and charlotte has moved out from their restaurant house. Now they have a flat, just an ordinary and small one but cozy compared with their former house. They got better and better as the time past and as they always support each other to face their new chapter of life. Mrs. Jones even now runs a small grocery down the street of their flat and charlotte got this job in Tyra’s uncle restaurant as they both still best friends. She is really so thankful about her new life even though deep down inside she couldn’t forget anyone from her past, especially charlie. Shes just way too love him to get him over.
Before she realised, someone tapped on her shoulder making her jumped over the chair to the floor. She quickly felt the person grabbed her hand helping her back up.
“Jeez sorry I didn’t mean to…”
“No, it’s ok my bad.” She smiled at him as she hang on his hands to stand up.
“Matt! What are you doing to my mate! You should’ve to pick the box back there and I don’t think I asked you to get her down the floor by your…”
“No Tyra, my fault. I shouldn’t get too carried away by this random thoughts in my head.” She interrupted.
“Yeah sure and I think I’ve told you to stop being like a total stupid imaginer. Hey, Matt I told you to move the box back there! Jeez what more should I do to make do what I order you to”. He lightly shouted on him. He was just being quite for a while with ‘I’m really sorry’ look to charlotte whom replied by a smile and a slight nod, then moved the box out the room.
“God, I’m tired to talk to that guy he’s such an idiot sometimes.”
“And a nice guy most of times.” She slightly looked down twiddled her thumbs.
“Oh really? I don’t really know about that bit.” Tyra rolled her eyes and hit lightly on her stomach teasingly. “Well I know Matt has hazel eyes as they’re your favorite colour of eyes, and he has a perfectly dyed dark hair, perfect height, and ermm…you think there’s something more?” they both laughed shaking their heads.
“Well I guess there’s something more in his that we don’t know I mean he is a nice guy but I told you that not meant to…”
“Saying you like him?”
“Yeah oh no! I mean no I don’t mean to say that I like him!”
“Oh Charlotte I was just adding your incomplete sentence.” She smiled making her looked down nervously. “Oh sure you’re not how could you be anyway. You deserves more!”
“Gosh Tyra stop it!”
“Why? You don’t want him to hear that we’re talking about him? That you just said that he’s a nice guy? Who knows if…” she stopped carry on the words as she noticed the way charlotte looked down her feet still twiddling her thumb and was like she didn’t hear of what Tyra said. “Charlotte?” she said in concern.
“Hmm…”
“You’re thinking about…” before she finished charlotte has nodded. She moved closer to her and put her arm round her shoulder. “Charlotte it was like 7 years a go and I thought you’d over that.”
“How can I? They’re my family…my former family. But though they still the persons that I love the most.”
“In your past.” She added quickly. “I mean charlotte, they’re not the only that you love the most anymore. And I think in present times that persons is your mother, Mrs. Jones.”
“Yeah…”
“Charlotte, just let the past gone through your life as the past. Just don’t open back your previous chapter, not worth it cuz the moments wont back anymore. I mean look at everyone who are around you now.”
“I know you’re right, completely right. I don’t mean to open up back the last chapter that I’ve closed but it’s just flooding in my brain without me planning to. It was like…I don’t know. The hardest thing that I cant get over is charlie. I just don’t know why I cant hardly wipe his picture and the moments I’ve got through with him.”
“Charlie? Yeah I know that he has to be the closest person since you was born and I understand. Well you can prevent all this things to caught up your mind.”
“How?”
“Don’t let your mind explore somewhere else. Just focusing on your job and you’ll have no time to think of these sort of things cuz you get busied by something else. Cuz I know that you’d just think about it when you don’t have something to do or think”
“Yea you’re right. thanks”. She smiled as she got back up and tapped lightly on her shoulder. “Well, I’m going to help Matt back there ok?”
“Oh sure I wont mind.” She winked in purpose to tease her.
“What do you mean by that!”.
“Nothing just go get that nice idiot guy I know he needs your help there.” She pushed lightly on her back making her a bit forced to walked to the opposite direction.
~~~
“Hey Matt!”
“Oh yea hey Charlotte!” He smiled realising that was charlotte behind making him slightly jumped over. “What are you doing here? Don’t you meant to be at the hall wiping all the stuffs?”
“I’ve worked it all out earlier so now I’m here whether you need a help?”
“Oh no I’m ok. Doesn’t she order you to do something else out there?”
“Who? Tyra? No she doesn’t.”
“Well just me then.”
She laughed as she bent over the box helping him move out the beer cans into a large refrigerator. “No, she’s just out of the mood.”
“Well I’ve just heard for the first time that there’s someone if she’s out of the mood she becomes a really annoying boss.”
“Yeah I know what you mean.” she replied along with a muffled laugh kept working on her hands move out the cans. “Well she’s actually kinda nice girl and friend and she’s not out the mood so many times.”
“Yeah hope you’re right. I mean this supposed to be my break time but she keeps asking me to do everything! I don’t even get my lunch yet!”
“Well you can get your lunch now I’ll get this done for you.”
“Oh no! you don’t have to, not really use to have a lunch while there’s still something that I should do down here.”

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“Ok.” She said running out of idea what more to say which making them both stuck for a while in an awkward silent.
“So…” he took out a simple word just in purpose to break the silence.
“So…” she replied rolled her eyes still didn’t know what to say.
“So what’s up!” he said followed by them laughed at each other. “Well…charlotte.”
“Hmm?”
“Err…I’m really sorry about what happened out there. I didn’t mean to drop you down the floor, I’m such an idiot am I?”
“No, course you’re not. It wasn’t your fault, it was mine. I got too drowned by the things in my head.” She said without replying his gaze on her as she kept working on the cans.
“So what were you thinking about?”
“Well…some random things in the past that supposedly forgotten.”
“Something happened?”
“Yeah, some bad memories and some of others I’ve gone through with Charlie.”
“Charlie?” he said in curiosity.
“Oh…” He briefly looked over to him realising that he didn’t have any idea of who Charlie is as it’s only Tyra and others of her school mates who know about what happened to her and her family. “Just someone that I knew.”
“Oh ok.” He said not really content of her answer. They both back caught up in silent until she put the last can on the fridge and straightened up.
“Right it’s done!” She said smiling and walked to the kitchen door.
Matt kept pulling his head down stared at the box for some seconds and straightened up looked at the direction of charlotte. “Charlotte!”. He called out behind.
She turned around looked over at him with box in his grip. “Yeah?”
“Well…I…Erm…I just wondering if…if we could walk together after work? I mean just to have a little chat, it’s just kinda boring to walk home alone…so could we?” he said very awkwardly but he could speak out the full sentence eventually.
She didn’t say a single word as she slightly looked down the floor. Matt rolled his eyes to everywhere he could reach to see to hold his nervous inside as he clutched the box tightly. He was so nervous waiting for her answer that seemed to be like forever for him. He acted to be so cool as he moved his hand backwards and accidentally touched the pans that hung on the wall making them dropped down the floor with a loud and clear sound. He jumped forwards in reflex. Charlotte quickly brought her face up and saw all the pans has spread around the floor and laughed. Matt laughed as well realising his stupidity as he quickly bent down picking up the pans.
“Sure Matt.” She suddenly said.
“Wha?” He surprisedly looked up widened his eyes to her.
“Sure we could walk together after work but if only you’ll wait for me, you know Tyra will just hold me up in here for a while.” She confirmed.
“Oh yeah…yeah sure! Sure I’ll wait!” He said as a smile quickly spread over his lips.
“Well yeah. see you later then.”
“Yeah sure.” He said as he stared at charlotte walked out the kitchen. He bit his lips still tried to hold the feeling inside but eventually he jumped around the room grinning to him self.
~~~
“Hey Matt!”
“Oh hey charlotte!” he straightened up from his lean on the wall and looked up to her face with a sweet smile plastered on his lips.
“Sorry Tyra and I had something to talk over.”
“Oh don’t worry I haven't waited long though.” He said as they started to walk along the side road. “So are we gonna catch a bus or just walk?”
“I don’t know, it’s up to you.”
“Well, how about just a chatty walk?”
“Sure.”
“Yeah…so how’s your mother?”
“My mother?” she replied with her eyebrow lift up at him.
“Not a kind of a great first line huh?”
“Yeah, anyway she’s ok. Just still runs on her grocery.”
“Cool. I know I’ve heard that your mother runs a grocery but not really know where it is.”
“Well just around the flat, she just doesn’t wanna get too far.”
“I see. So if I may say I don’t really know about this guy.”
“Who?” once again she lift her eyebrow.
“The one you said named Charlie. I thought I knew all of your mates.”
“He’s not really a kind of my mate.” She simply said looked over her feet.
“Not a mate? Sure I bet he was your boyfriend then?”
“No, he wasn’t my boyfriend.” She said again unexcitedly. Matt realised the way charlotte looked down expressing the feeling of his question so he quickly added more. “We don’t have to talk about it if you want. I’m just looking for a good one to talk about.”
“No, it’s ok. I’m just trying to forget evertyhing in the past.”
“Yeah, I understand, sorry. I’m starting of being such a retarded now.”
“No, not your bad, you just didn’t know.” she slightly laughed at him. Matt stared at her as he laughed along with her and stroke his hair nervously. “You know what, you’re such a funny person.”
“Me? Funny? You cant be serious cant you?”. he felt it by himself that his face was getting so red.
“I am serious. I mean you’re funny in the way you act, and you’re the clumsiest person that I’ve ever known.”
“Well I take that as a compliment. And you know what you’re the only girl that I know who can make me so clumsy.” He laughed but then he realised what he just spoke and was about to adding more when charlotte spoke earlier before he could barely open his mouth.
“Well I take that as a compliment.” She laughed making him blushed even more. “But actually I don’t really understand of what you said, that make you so clumsy bit? Your clumsiness because of me?”
“Just leave it please.” He quickly replied as he couldn’t stop to blushed beside her.
“Yeah ok.” She said tapped lightly on his shoulder. “So you live alone?”
“Yups, live all alone with my parents live all the way in Molesy.”
“You plan this?”
“Yeah, just look at me, I’m a big guy and I shouldn’t of still living with parents anymore.”
“Well, I still live my mother.”
“Oh that’s different, hunky! You’re a girl and sure you supposed to be still living with your parents until your prince come pick you up with his cool posh stallion.” He said.
“Hunky?”
“Oh, it’s just what Betty Boop always said it means like ‘honey’.”
“Betty Boop? Gosh you’re weird sometimes!”
“Oh haha yeah sorry accidentally spoken! I didn’t mean to say that actually!” he laughed nervously. “Shit, why did I say that!” he muttered.
“What?”
“Oh nothing!” he smiled.
“So how could you get to be here anyway?”
“Well cuz I lived in Finchley for two years when I was ten, so I guess this is the only place that I know. I just don’t wanna go to somewhere that I’d be a completely stranger, besides I have some relatives in here. And you?”
“Me what?”
“How could you get to be here?”
“Matt, Finchley is my origin!”
“Oh yea I forgot!” he said as he hit his own leg annoyed by his own stupidity. “Oh well then how could you get a job in the restaurant?”
“Tyra offered me . she said that she took over her uncle’s restaurant as he moved out to Amsterdam. I didn’t really have enough money to pay all the fees especially I was still in college and all, so I take it to decrease my income.”
“I see, so you’ve been working at the bar for a quite long time then.”
“Yeah.”
“I understand why Tyra put so much more attention on you than me then.”
“Well she’s my bestfriend so we care of each other. Why?…oh I know…” she hit his stomach teasingly.
“What?” he said responded the way charlotte looked at him suspiciously.
“’I understand why Tyra put so much more attention on you than ME then’…so you expect her to give MORE of her attention on YOU I guess!”
“What! No, no that’s not what I mean! charlotte listen…” he said shaking his head tried to explain but charlotte interrupted him.
“Well now I know why you want to walk home with me. don’t worry I support you on this and I wont tell her just yet if you want me to.” She put her hand on his shoulder smiling over to him as he kept trying to speak but he couldn’t cuz charlotte really thought that matt liked tyra. Just before he could barely explain to her, she turned around. “Well, we’re arrived. Thanks to walk me home it’s fun we should do this again sometimes later. And yeah just trust me I wont tell her and good luck, bye!” she smiled waved over to him and walked in the building left him behind with his mouth hanging open.
~~~

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July 12th, 2006

The next day was just like the days before. charlotte still couldn’t get over the moments in the past to rush into her head. It was hurting so badly that she couldn’t find some way to forget. Rain poured so rapidly outside with the cold air sent shiver through her skin. She likes it that way. She loves cold better than hot. So she didn’t really mind to walked along the side road with rain droplets sliding down her see through umbrella. She dropped her feet lightly on the pudle making her shivering even more caused of the water seeping through her sneakers, the only pair that she brought from hundreds of sneakers that she had. some light drops of the rain brought by the wind touched her already cold skin. She speed up her steps realising what time it was. Five minutes later she arrived at the restaurant. She put her umbrella on the hanger on the side corner of the space.
“Let me.” matt suddenly appeared behind her helping her took off the coat.
“Matt you always surprised me!”
“Woops, sorry I thought you knew I’m here.”
“Yeah, thank you.” she said replied by a small nod and smile from matt and brought her coat to the kitchen. Charlotte followed him as she kept on rubbing her hands by each other to make it warm. “Where’s tyra?”
“I don’t know she was here when I arrived.”
“Oh.” She grabbed the napkin and walked outside to wipe the tables. It was still so early in the morning so the restaurant wasn’t open yet. She was actually wiping the tables but her mind was exploring somewhere else. She looked forward blankly as her hands kept moving back and forth on the same space of the table. she shook her head realised she had to snapped out and looked downwards at the table when she suddenly felt something moved on her hips making her jumped aside. She turned over and found matt grinning at her.
“You did it again!”
“Sorry I didn’t mean to. What should I do you seemed to be somewhere else out here.”
“Yeah, I didn’t realise I was thinking about these past memories again.”
“Charlotte, are you ok?”
“Huh? Yeah I’m ok why?”
“Nothing you just seem to cant stop thinking about your past, I mean you said that it supposedly forgotten.”
“Yeah…” she again gazed at the table wiping it on and on.
“Charlotte…” he bit his bottom lip as he put his hand on the table, looked up to her eyes.
“Yea?” she replied.
“Well…..I just wanna…..well I need to talk to you so…..can we walk back together after work?”
She briefly looked at him and nodded. “Yea, sure.”
“Ok cool” he smiled putting up his hand from the table and tapped awkwardly on her shoulder. “Well I’ll wait after work like yesterday ok?”
“Ok.” She said smiling over at him. He smiled back and looked at her hair and down her face until tyra walked in and dropped another box on the floor with a heavy sound.
“Matt, pick this up back there!” she said.
“Ok.” He walked over the box and lift it up brought it to the kitchen.
Tyra walked towards her as she looked briefly to matt until he gone through the kitchen door. “What were you guys doing?”
“Hmm?”
“Matt and you what you were doing?”
“Oh we were just talking.”
“Really just talking?” she nodded. “Oh well I just saw that he was staring at you while you wiping this already clean table. c’mon charlotte just tell me.”
“Tell you what?”
“What happened?”
“gosh tyra nothing happened!”
“Oh well I know there’s something happened. I know I gotta trust you but I just want you to know that I’m happy for you two.” She cheekily grinned.
“Tyra!” she lightly hit her stomach with her elbow and shook her head as tyra laughed at her.
“Oh well I gotta see for the fridge you know just to know whether we need more supply.” She nodded so tyra walked off to the kitchen left her still wiping the table on and on.
~~~
“Charlotte could you please give this to table four?”, Valerie, the other restaurant employee asked her as she kept checking out the other salvers.
“Sure, table four.” She took the salver with a cheese burger and chips that had been ordered. She walked out the kitchen to table four. A middle age man was sitting there as he stared at charlotte with a sly smile over his face. She put the salver on the table and moved out the food one by one. The man on purposely pushed the napkin over the table when she didn’t see. She bent down to picked the napkin up the floor when she suddenly felt a light pull on her ass. She quickly straightened up and stared at the man with a slight anger on her eyes. But she knew that she couldn’t do anything to him so she picked the salver and walked off. Right on her seventh step she heard the sound of a dropped chair. She turned round and found matt was on top of that man raising his right hand while the other clutched his collar.
“No matt don’t!” charlotte half ran towards him grabbed his right hand which on the air ready to fist.
“No this bastard will pay of what he did!”
“No matt just let him go, please.”
“No!” his hand struggled in her grip tried to release a fist.
“Please matt, he wont do it anymore just leave him I’m fine.”
He stared angrily at the man for a minute or more until he finally settle down. “Now you leave before I change my mind and you better don’t come back!” he let go off his clutch on the man’s collar and straightened up. the man got up and quickly ran out the restaurant in frightened.
She turned over and walked off but then matt quickly grabbed her hand and turned her round. “You ok?”
“Yeah I’m fine.” She said, smiling faintly. “You shouldn’t do that.”
“And he shouldn’t of grabbing your ass! Who did he think he is!” he said with a slight anger still left in his eyes.
She smiled and touched his cheek softly sent shiver down his spine. “But thank you anyway.” She smiled and turned round walked off back to the kitchen left him stunned behind.

“Charlotte you ok?” tyra suddenly rushed over the people on her way to charlotte.
“Yeah I’m fine.”
“Ergh, that old guy better don’t come back here anymore or he’ll pay of what he did!”
“That’s what matt said to him.”
“Matt?”
“Yeah, he just almost hit that guy a couple of times.”
“Right, now this obvious.”
“Obvious what?”
“Oh nothing.” she shook her head with something that charlotte knew tyra hid inside. “Well I’m sorry I was looking out for Josh around the market and didn’t know this would happen.”
“No it’s ok he wont come back here anyway will he?”
“Sure he wont!” she smiled at charlotte as she stuffed her hands deeply in the side pockets of her jeans. “Well I’ve gotta go back out there whether Josh has arrived with our supplies.”
“Yeah.” she said with a nod smiling over her.
~~~
The night was even colder because of the rain that didn’t stop pouring down. Wind brought the cold air whipped around her making her light brown hair flew everywhere around her face. She walked headed to matt who was leaning on the wall stared the cars passing over the road didn’t realise that she was walking over him.
“Matt.” She said snapped him out, making him slightly bumped from the ground he stood on.
“Oh charlotte.” He said, clutched his chest under his breath. He looked into her eyes, they were reflecting the lights around them, sparkling perfectly. She smiled making him blushed and rolled his eyes back to the road.
“What’s interesting on the road?” she said laughing at him. He laughed as well and stroke his hair nervously.
“Nothing, so can we go now?”
“Sure.” She nodded and started to walk along the side road just like yesterday. But this time they were being so much in silent than before. matt seemed to dying that he wanted to say something but didn’t know why he held it inside.

[chaslee7]

“You ok?” charlotte for once broke the silence. He glanced to her and nodded.
“Yeah, don’t you think it’s very cold tonight?” he said shifted the situation.
“Yeah, in fact it’s already cold since this morning but I love it anyway. I love cold.”
“You love cold? How come?”
“Just because its better than hot. But I don’t really like when it’s snowing actually, I love rain. It just looks so peaceful when you looked out the window and found some drops sliding down the glass. It takes you bad feelings away and my head, my mind and everything become so clear by that, don’t you think so?”
“Yeah, I never thought that way before but yeah I realise that now.” he said whilst stuffed his hands deeply in his coat pocket. He took a deep sigh as he kept looking over down his feet. “Charlotte I need to explain about yesterday.”
“Yesterday?” she looked over at him as the cold air blew out of her mouth every time she breathe.
“You get misunderstood about what I said.”
“Really? About what?”
“About you thought that I liked tyra.” He calmly said. “I didn’t mean to say that I like tyra, it was just meant to be a crap chat lines nothing serious with it.”
“O really?” her eyes widened as she kept looking up at him who still pulling down his head.
He nodded and rubbed the back of his neck, took another sigh. “I need to tell you something.”
“What is it.” He sighed again. “You sigh a lot don’t you?”
He laughed looked up to her eyes for a small second and stared down again.
“Well if you want to say something you should do it now cuz we’re arrived.” She pointed to the flat building behind her. She turned over and so did matt so they were standing face to face. “So what is it?”
he still looked down and rubbed his face didn’t know whether he should tell her or not. The rain wasn’t so rushed anymore but it still drizzling as the wind kept blowing the light water drops around them, making his hair a slight wet and darker. His face got a bit paler because of the cold weather that night. He bit his bottom lip nervously and stroke the back of his neck, thinking of the good first line he would speak up.
“Matt you ok?” she said in concern.
He nodded and encouraged him self to look up into her eyes. They were still reflecting the bright lights perfectly. He took a long deep breath and opened his mouth was ready to speak out the words. But then he shrugged and shook his head disappointed of him self.
“Matt?” she once again concerned.
He licked his lips for a small second and nodded. “Yeah.” he once again looked down twiddled his thumbs and took a deep breath. “Charlotte….. I need to tell this to you that I……..” he cut off but still tried to spell the words. “Well I know that you may think that I’m such an idiot and clumsy and whatever but I ……. I just want you to know that…….I was serious when I said that you’re the only girl that I know who can make me so clumsy……..well yeah I’m being such a clumsy just when I’m nervous. And………well you’re the only girl who can make me so nervous…..”
“What is actually you wanna tell me matt?”
“Erm……….well I ……” he once again took a deep breath. “….. I love you.” He finally could speak out the words that he hid deeply down inside for a long time since the first time he knew charlotte. He bit his lip nervously looked up to her eyes, waiting for a single word at all. She slightly stunned, looking down over the asphalt ground. Something rushed into his mind, making him quickly added more. “You don’t have to answer now, I wont rush you. you can give me the answer just anytime when you ready ok?”
She kept in silent for a minute or more but seemed like forever to matt until she slowly brought her face up, smiling. He knew the way she looked up to him so he smiled back and nodded. “I’ll wait.” He calmly said, clutching her arms. She nodded and turned around, walked off inside the building with him stared at her back, smiled to him self that he has said what he really wanted to say.
~~~
July 13th, 2006

He sighed, his mind explored out of the window. His arms folded behind his head as he kept watching the clouds movement from the window right across his bed. He grinned to himself. Relief showed in his face as he didn’t stop to mention her name in every single minute. He loves her, he definitely loves her more than he thought he would to a girl. It was the first time he really felt the thing such a true love in his life. the wind blew over his hair, making him closed his eyes for a small second. He could still remember how it felt when she touched his cheek. He thought that the feeling as if stroke by a thunder bolt through the spine was just in some stupid fiction stories, but now he knew that it’s true. He raised up his hand, muffled a low growl and rolled over when the phone on his bedside table rang. He picked up the handle and released another growl before he greeted the one on the other end.
“Hello.”
“Hey, matthew!”
“Jeez, I told you don’t call me with that name!”
“I thought it was ok if I call you that down the phone, no body would know.”
“But still I hate it.”
“Ok, ok then I wont call you matthew anymore, matthew.” He could hear the person giggled.
“So what do you want.”
“Err…I just wanna inform you that we’ll gather at my house.”
“Gather? None of you say that we would gather today!”
“Well now you know so I think no reason for you to not coming! And remember don’t be late, seven o’clock tonight!”
“Ergh, alright. seven o’clock at yours, got it.”
“Alrighty, I’ll wait here, bye matthew.”
“Shit, you….” just before he could spoke out the whole sentence, the person giggled and hung up. he shook his head, mumbled to him self and back stared out the window again. He once again smiled before he got up, preparing him self to face the day.
~~~
He stepped out of his flat building, clutching his coat tighter. The cold air slowly creeping through his skin, making him slightly shivered as he kept watching the cars passing over when he crossed the road. He walked over to a small grocery. he pushed the door along with the cringing sounds of the bells.
“Milk, milk, milk.” He mumbled, putting his finger on his lip as he walked along the stacks. When he suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around to found the sweetest smile he’s ever seen.
“Charlotte!” he said, biting his bottom lip as if he felt butterflies flied around in his stomach. “What are you doing here?” he asked.
“This is my mother’s grocery.” she answered.
“Really? Oh this is great, now I know where your mother’s grocery is.” he laughed, infecting her.
“Yeah, so what are you looking for I can help you.”
“Oh I’m…..” he cut off by a smile that crossed her face, making him stunned. Until she widened her eyes, snapped him out. “Erm, milk….yeah, I’m looking for some milk.”
“Milk is over there around the right corner.” She said pointed to the direction.
“Oh yeah, thanks….” He said, stuffing his hand in his coat pocket, thought for the next lines.
“Come on!” she said, broke the silence as she gestured him to follow.
“Err…charlotte.”
“Yeah?” she replied whilst she took a bottle of milk and gave it out to him. “Here.”
“Thanks.” He said and thought again for the next action. He looked down, twiddled the bottle and looked up again to found her looked at him concernedly. “Well, erm….i think I’ve told you that I was in band have I?” she nodded. “So…..well actually me and the other guys will have a practice tonight, so I’m just wondering if you………….if you would like to go with me and meet my mates?” His head still pulled down as he rolled up his eyes to her and waited for the answer.
Wouldn’t take a long time, she smiled. “I find that you always terrified every time you want to ask me out don’t you?” he smiled embarrassedly. “Sure matt.”
He quickly brought his face up as his eyes widened to her. “Really?”
“Yeah sure why not, I don’t plan anything to do tonight anyway.”
“Yeah………..yeah, ok! So I’ll pick you up at….err, six just only if you interested to look around at my flat for a while before we’re going to my mate’s.” she nodded, smiling over at him.
“So you need something else, then?”

[chaslee7]

he shook his head, still smiling excitedly. “No, I just need some milk.”
“Oh ok, so now follow me.”
“Where?”
“You stupid, we need your milk counted!” she grinned. And as how he’s been told, he followed her.
~~~
she picked the clothes from one to another out of her closet. She sighed, moved backwards until she felt something soft at the back of her knee. She dropped her self down on it, realising that it was the bed.
“Matt.” She mumbled. She rolled her eyes to a picture frame on the bedside table. there were her and Charlie on the picture. She knew that she shouldn’t keep the picture, it always reminds her of everything he past through with him. But she realised or not, she didn’t want to forget anything in the past. There were some good memories along with the bad though. Was like she couldn’t stand to live without those memories, though some of them hurt so badly.
Matt, the name she mentioned through her thoughts. He definitely such a nice guy for her, she knew that. But she didn’t really know how she felt on him. The idea of matt could help her passing through her life without reminded of the past crossed her mind. A headache suddenly stroke her, making her slightly clutched the sheet. This happened since last week. She wouldn’t of thinking something was serious with it. She rolled over, took out some aspirin from the rack. She got up, still clutching her head and took a glass full filled of water on the bedside table. She put an aspirin down her mouth and took a sip. She lightly shook her head and stood up, taking out the clothes she decided to wear.
~~~
The knock on the door breaking the silence in her flat. it was four so she knew who was out the door. she took a glance once again on the mirror, just wanted to make sure that she looked ok. She took a deep breath once when she was about to open the door to reveal a really well looked guy stood in front of her. That was the first time she saw the real of matt. He wore a gray baggy trousers, matched with his fit top and a cap with some random black tape around his wrist, making him looked perfect. A small black earring on his left ear showed the ‘bad boy’ side of him, he looked perfectly boyish.
“Wow, you look great!” she said, not hiding her amazement.
“Not as perfect as you!”, he replied, moved closer and hugged her as the smell of his aftershave disseminate around them. he pulled away, stared at her from head to toe.
“So can we just go now before you really melting me by your gaze?” he grinned as he bit his bottom lip and nodded. He grabbed her hand without asking and led her through the side road, on the way to his flat.
“So what is actually on your mind. We’re not even gonna go to your mate’s yet but you dressed up so perfect already!” she asked him.
“Well I just wanted to know what would you think about my outfit. You know just to show you off my style, just if only you said ‘jeez, matt it’s terrified me!’ I would change it when we get to my flat. but I think you like it this way don’t you?”
“Yeah, it’s obvious isn’t it.” They laughed and talked about random things as the cold air still whipped around them, relaxing their mind.
Ten minutes they walked along with the light water drops hit lightly on their skin. Matt put her hand on his side pocket as it still in his grip. He glanced over her to see her expression and smiled as she did so. They walked through the flat building’s lobby towards the lift on the corner. He led her walked in after the lift came stop and the door opened. He pressed the seventh floor button as the door slowly closed. he squeezed her hand even tighter though it wasn’t so cold inside. She smiled, watching their reflections on the mirror of the lift sides. Amazed as how he looked so great. A completely different of matt she used to know. her mind cut off by his hand pulled hers forward out of the lift. They walked along the corridor and stopped right in front of the door with the number of 37 written on the tag.
“We’re arrived!” he said, let go off her hand for a while to grope his side pocket and took out the key. He stuck the key on the key hole right until he grabbed the handle and opened the door. he back grabbed her hand again, making her felt so secure by.
“Wait here, just a sec” he said as she slowly dropped her self on the couch right across the half opened window. He walked towards the door on the right corner of the front room, that she thought that it was gotta be the kitchen. She turned her head around to every space that she could reach to see. the flat wasn’t so big but it’s cozy though. Not very neat but not so messy as well, just a normal boy’s flat type. She stared at the window right across her, as she could see some drops of morning dews slowly sliding down the glass. She got up and walked towards it, closing the window frame as the cold air blew in through the gap.
“What is it?” matt’s voice suddenly heard without noticing behind her.
“Oh, nothing it’s just so cold so I closed the window, you left it half opened.” She replied and took the can of coke that he gave out to.
“I thought you loved cold.” He said, leading her sat on the couch.
“Yeah, but I didn’t say that I love a freezing kinda cold.” She smiled as so did him.
He took a little sip of his own coke and put it down the table. he took off his cap, revealing his professional touched messy dark hair. His cheeks a slight rosy because of the cold air that still blowing in even though the window’s closed.
“So, what part you take in the band?” she asked, cut off his gaze on her.
“Oh, I’m the bassist and I have some part of vocal too. Well, we three actually are the vocalists.”
“I see, you’re with the other two in the band.”
“Yups!”
“So how was it formed?”
“Well, I met this guy in a gig I was in, he’s cool and has the same taste as me in music so we decided to make a band. And we met this guy right when…….erm, you still remember when I took the whole week off for the christmas?” she nodded. “Well, yeah I actually gone in holiday with him and met this guy. We found that he can play some instruments that we don’t really pro on it, and he has a nice voice as well. So we got him in.”
“That’s cool, I really think it’s just so fun to have a band though you don’t get really famous, just to have fun and releasing your music spirit out!”
“Yeah, you know it, that’s cool! well we’re actually trying to get a record deal though. And yeah we sometimes got little showcase around the town, just to show the people who we really are and what kind of music we play.”
“It’s great! I’m actually dying that I really hope I could play guitar or bass.”
“Well I can teach you.”
“No! I used to taught to play the guitar by someone for ages when I was younger, but I don’t really have the talent so it was no use!”
“No, anyone still can play the guitar or bass even though he doesn’t have the talent at all!”
“Well, yea maybe sometimes I’ll take your offer after I get assured about it.”
“Ahh, when would it be?” he said, slowly moved his arms, wrapped around her shoulders.
“I don’t know, it could be tomorrow just if only you could convince me.” she replied and grinned, making him slightly stunned.
They’re quiet. She let him looked deeply into her eyes as she did so, explored the feelings inside. Silence rolled for a couple of minutes between them still gazed at each other until matt made a sudden and slow move. His arms wrapped tighter around her shoulders. She stared, letting him gently pulled her head closer to his. He leaned in as she could feel his warm breath blew over her face every time he got closer and closer. She surrender as she felt so secured in his arms. Was like everything bad blown out from her head, felt the comfort all around her. she could feel his soft lips touched hers. Cold replaced by the warmth of his skin touching hers. He opened his mouth, gently touched her lips with his tongue, making her had to give in. slowly and passionate, she felt love inside him. No lust, just love. He ran his hand through her hair, not missing any strain as the other hand held her right hand tightly as if he would say ‘don’t worry I’m here, I wont let anything hurt you’. he pulled away, with their eyes stared at each other.
“Charlotte, I ……………..” he cut off by her putting her finger on his lips. “I love you.” he continued. She bit her bottom lip, thought for what she should speak out as her brain was like suddenly stop running on. He grabbed her shoulders, pulling her down his chest. Once again she felt the comfort. She closed her eyes, enjoying every second she felt secured in his arms.
~~~

[ilovejamessomuch]

hey this story is AWESOME!! pls continue, i know what's gonna happe though.... about the band members...ya know... who they're gonna be, anyway plss continue it's great!!