'Cause you crossed my mind, you crossed my mind
Made my blood thump Saturday night
Make my heart beat double time
Now I'm only sour cherry on the fruit stand, right
Am I the only sour cherry on the fruit stand

Chapter One: Sour Cherry

I sat on Tyler's bed, one leg tucked under me, the other curled around it, my eyes cast down on the Honors Nine text book in my lap. A groan made me look up and Reid, who was at the foot of Tyler's bed, had thorwn the book on the floor.

"I seriously fucking give" He said throwing his hands in the air and I chuckled, he had said that about a hundred time's since I had become his tutor. I grabbed my book and scooted over to him, my back resting againts the wall, my body next to his. I opened the book and spread it out over both of out laps.

"What dont you get?" I asked, my breath hitching in my throat as he scootched closer and re-adjusted the book, the left side of my body pressed againts the right side of his.

"I seriously dont get anything, Charlie. Like what the hell is this Poe guy trying to say?" for a second him calling me Charlie was all that my brain could process. The nick name bounced around in my head and made it heard to speak, my mouth would'nt move. Your his tutor, so help him! I thought to my self

"He's trying to show the way that sometimes even the best, the most loyalist of people can turn on you, and that even one's best intentions, can be killer" I explained, pointing to the lines that backed up the meaning, highlighting them with my fingers. I was tryig not to look at him, knowing that I'd just lose my cool. I felt his fingers tuck a peice of hair behind my ear and I opened my lips, letting out a shaky breath. He had been doing this alot lately, touching me in ways that I never thought he would...he liked tall, beautiful perfect blonds. I wasnt that, not even close. I finally grew a pair ant looked at him. Hie crystal eyes were hypnotizing, and really much closer then I had expected them to be.

"So it's saying...never trust anyone?" He asked, his fingers sliding down my shoulder. Pull away, get your things and go the thoughts in the back of my head yelled and I nodded and leaned my forehead againts his.

"Yeah" He smelled like cigaretts, and spice. And cinnamon.

"Do you trust me, Charlie?" His eye lashes framed his eyes as he looked at me through them, rubbing my arm, leaving tingles on the skin. The look he gave me was like nothing I had ever seen, no one had ever looked at me like this.

"I think so" I replied as his other hand threw the book on the floor, it landed close to his.

When his lips met mine, I almost passed out. Like no joke. My head started spinning and my heart started racing so fast that I thought it might burst. His tongue slipped into my mouth and he layed me down, his mands slipping under my shirt...

"Reid..." I pulled away and he pushed himself up on his arms, his lower body pinning me down.

"You okay?" He asked, worry in his eyes, or at least what I thought was worry. I was about to lose this moment..I was about to make him stop...He liked me. Reid Garwin liked me! I reached up and kissed his full lips, one of my hands threading through his platinum blond hair.

Everything seemed to go so fast after that. My shirt, then my jeans, my under wear and bra. I was nervous, being around him naked. I knew that he had been with alot of girls, he sure had a reputation for it and I wasnt the skinniest girl. He kissed my right breast, then sharply rammed into me. I cried out in pain, at the burning streching sensation of him being inside of me and buried my face in his shoulder. He didnt stop though, he kept going in and out of me until he found a fast speed, pounding me until I wasnt crying out in pain, but in pleasure. In the kind of pleasure that made my eyes snap shut and made all of the muscles in my body tighten until I gelt like they might rip. My arms wrapped around his body as I came undone, my legs tighting around his waist and a yelp leaving my lips. A couple of powerful thrusts later he came too, his seed spilling inside of me. Good thing I was on birth control, I had thought my mom was crazy when she hs suggested it, but now I was happy that I was on it. He rolled off of me and we layed there, side by side, naked for a couple of minutes. I looked over at him, and turned on my side, and rubbed his arm, much as he had rubbed mine. He didnt react like I thought he would, he jumped out of the bed and began pulling on his jeans. I sat up and pulled the comforter tighter around myself. What was going on, my head span almost as much as when he had kissed me. When he was fully clothed he looked at me and then handed me my shirt. I took it and slipped the cotton crewneck over my head, then shimmied into my jeans and shoes. He went to the door and opened it.

"Where are you going?" I asked him, a tremmor in my voice.

"I have plans...umm, this was fun. I'll call you later, kay?" He said, and it felt like I was stabbed in the stomach. Call you later. Call me never...I had been another of Reid's conquests. I pratically ran out of the room, pushing past him with out looking at him, What had I been thinking. When I made it back to my dorm I crawled into my bed, not even taking my shoes off and curled my self into ball. I had just lost my virginity to the boy that I had been pining after since the second grade! You'd think I would have been happy...but he just pushed me out of the room...like I was trash. The sobbing didnt stop until I was asleep, and even then, I think it might have continued. I didnt wake up until my roomate, Laura Crawford came in, not bothering, as usaul to be quiet.

"Oh, so it is true" She said as she took off her sweater and tied her blond hair up into a pony tail.

"W-whats true?" I hiccuped, sitting up in the bed. She looked at me and her mouth fell open, then she sat on her bed.

"You had sex with Reid Garwin!" She said and I gasped and shot all the way up.

"What are you talking about? How do you know that?" I asked, shakily and she laughed.

"Everyone knows. You were him and Abbot's latest bet. The latest wajor" I always knew that Laura was a bitch, but the way that she was saying this...the coldness and amusement in her voice.

"No, Your lying" I glared at her and she just shrugged and put her headphones in her ears and layed back into bed. I jumped up and went to the door, pulling it open, desprate to find Reid. To have him tell me I wasnt a bet, that Laura was a liar, and that she had started a horrible rumor. The looks I recieved as I walked through the wall made me wrap my arms around my self and I sucked in the screams that I wanted to let out. They wouldnt see me cry because this wasnt true. I saw the back of a head full of flaxen blond just around the corner and began walking twoards it, needing him to tell me that it was okay...that none of this was real. He was surrounded by his friends, and a tan girl named Kate Tunney that I had in History.

"I cant believe that you guys had sex on my bed" Tyler yelled at him, socking him on the shoulder and the rest of the group laughed. I stopped in my tracks.

"It was all worth it, baby boy. I got three hundred dollars just for fucking her" He held up the money and Tyler grabbed it, snatching some of it for new sheets. They were all laughing at me...I had never thought of the 'Sons' as the stuck up pricks that every one else had made them out to be, the ass holes. I thought that they were just private...I was so, so wrong. I let out a sob and Kate saw me first and her face fell and I saw her lips form the world 'oh god'. No there was no god, and if there was, then I dont know what I had done to piss him off this much, to make him do this to me. They all turned to me and I could fell the tears rolling down my cheeks. Caleb looked regretful, Pouge's face schrunched up and he looked at the floor. Tyler opened his mouth, as if a sorry was dying to escape...but Reid, he looked like he felt...Nothing. His eyes widened for a moment, but he didnt make any attempt to do anything. I glared at them, wishing that I could brake each one of their noses...Then I turned away. And he, not surprizingly, didnt follow me.

Three Years Later

The car pulled to a hault and I took a deep breath through my nose. Breathe, breathe, dont pass out and breathe I kept telling my self. Just being back on school grounds made me feel like I should have frizzy dull brown hair, acne and be ten pounds heavier...I was not her anymore, I tried to tell my self. I was not some insucure freshman, I was not anyones toy. No one would fuck with me, I'd make sure of that. I grabbed my phone that was sitting in the passenger seat and exited the car. Its not like my car stood out, or was even the most expensive. There were mercedes, Lexus's and Porches, every one trying to out do them selves...God give me stregnth to make it through this year. I walked through the tall, brass doors and everyone seemed to give me fleeting looks, wondering who the new girl all dressed in black was. I smirked and kept my head held high and my sunglasses on even though it was dim inside. Fuck it, these bad boys were expensive as hell anyway, I was going to keep them on for as long as possible. I made my way into Provos Higging's office. And sauntered to the chair.
"" He started and I just put on a smart ass smirk.
"Yes, Provos?" I asked innocently, crossing my leg over the other, and relaxing into the chair, as if I owned the office.
"Please remove your sunglasses" The fustration began to seep into his voice and I kept the smirk and slid off the glasses. I knew that he was gaping at the black eye that I had, but hey, I kind of liked it. It made me look like a fighter, and if they could only see the girl who had given me this, they'd thing the yellow and blue swelling was really nothing.
"I've recieved your teanscript, you have exellent grades, exelling in your english and history classes...but your behivior problems will not, and I repeate not be tollerated here" He warned me and I wondered how much daddy dearest had payed them to let me come back here. I was going to raise hell, Dad knew it, and im pretty sure Provos did too.
"Did I give you any problems the last time I was here" My voice, stickly sweet and toxic and he just closed my file and put it down on his desk.
"No you didnt, but I realize that you've had...a tradgey-" I usaully tried to respect my teachers, tried not to snap, and tried to be decent, but I wasnt about to get onto that subject.
"Im fine. Now if you'd give me my room and schudule, I can go" My voice had taken on an edge, one of pure no bull s***. He looked at me sadly, as if I was a puppy that had died. I was used to these looks. He handed me my schudule and I got up, put back on the aviators and began to leave.
"Please, try to enjoy your year here" He said, before I shut the door behind me. I ignored the stares, and the feelings that came with being back in these hallways. The way that they used to make me feel small, unseen... I pushed the thought away and began down the hallway that my room was in. It was in the east wing, which was new for me, but I was glad for that. I didnt want to be back in the same wing, that would have sucked ball sack. When I got to my room, I heard music blasting, vibrating the door. Huh, Sour Cherry. At least my new roomate had some taste in music. I entered the room and smirked at ths scene infront of me. A short girl, probably only a couple of inches taller then me with curly blond was jamming out to the Kills, dancing around the room in small shorts and a tank top, cleaning. She saw me and almost jumped out of her skin, hitting the desk and knocking books off the table.

"Jesus fuck, you scared the piss out of me!" She cried in a southern twang, holding her chest. I just kept smirking and muttered a sorry.

"I'm Cathy Lyle, nice to meet you" She offered me her hand and I took it, shaking it. She didnt seem like a bitch...but I would stay on gaurd.

"Charlotte Asher" She didnt gape at the name, didnt call me a slut. Her eyes did'nt even change, she just kept on smiling. She musn't have been here freshman year.

"Nice to meet ya'!" She said and I nodded...it seemed nice to meet her too. I went to my bed and saw that my boxes had already been delivered and sat there.

"I hope we can be friends. My last roomate was a bitch from hell" She said, and I could tell that the last part was true by the edge in her voice.

"So was mine" I laughed, plopping down in a small empty space and letting my self breathe. I was so tired it wasnt even funny. The last couple of weeks had gone by in a drug induced daze. I pulled out a cigarett and went to light it. She gaped at me.

"You want one?" I asked and she shook her head.

"No, if the monitors smell that shit they'll be on our asses for the rest of the year" She warned, putting all of the books back on the desk. I got up, even though I really didnt want to, and opened the window. I gestured to it with my head and she gave a nod and a grin.

"So, Charlotte-" She started, sitting on her bed oppisite of mine.

"I go by Asher" I corrected her and she didnt seem phased by it.

"Okay, so Asher bad ass, what's the story?" She pointed to her own eye as an aknolodgment to my black one. I laughed at her bad ass comment, then light the cig.

"Story?" I asked, taking a long drag, then blew it out of the window.

"Yeah, whats the story.?Why are you here, not that I'm not happy your here" She added the end with a scarcastic smile and I chuckled and looked at the ground, this girls wasnt bad.

"Can I trust you?" I asked and she nodded.

"Im serious" I said again, my tone harsh, looking her strait in the eyes. She held two fingers over her chest.

"Scouts honor" She said and I muled it over...she already didnt seem like a Spencer gossip, but that didnt mean I was about to give her my life story.

"I got into trouble one too many times back home" I told her, my tone cocky.

"And home is where?" She asked, not nosy, but curious.

"Portland" I answered honestly and she signialed for me to continue.

"So my dad got fed up, and sent me back to this hell hole" I finished, putting the cigarette out and then flicking it out of the window.

"Wait? Back? You've came here before?" She asked and I crossed my arms and my feet and grimanced. Might as well tell her this now, get it out. She had probably already heard about me.

"Yeah, freshman year...I moved away after a rumor about me started" I said and she looked oblivious.

"I didnt get her til' like september of last year. My grandma died, and my momma didnt want to take care of me so I got booted here" She twanged and I began looking through my things, giving her a that sucks and an I'm sorry for your grandma...I knew how hard it was when someone you loved died.

"People here are total Prisses. All they do is gossip and make up rumors so that they can have something more to gossip about!" She said changing into new clothes. Yep, I definatly liked this one, you could tell she wasnt one of the stuck up bitches.

"True that" I laughed as I began unpacking. She ended up helping me unpack, and we chattered on about both of our home lives, and about how she didnt really fit in here, she had a couple of people she talked to, but no real friends. She was sure a chatter box, that accent I learned came from Georgia where she had lived all of her life with her three older brothers. She missed them terribly, and she hated being at this school about as much as I did. When we were done, and I was laying down, texting friends from back home whole fingering through a magazine Cathy came back fromn the showers.

"Hey, there's a party at the dells tonight, you up for it" Her blond hair was wrapped up in a towl.

Ahh, the anual before school starts party down at the dells. I had never gone, I was always too scared.

"Hell yeah" I smiled, grabbed a towel and headed to the showers. Tonight, I would make an apperance of a life time

So I'm in a Covenant mood, this story will probably be short, ten, maybe fifteen chapters. Im almost Finished with the final chapter of my I am Number Four story, so I'll be posting those chapters soon. Tell me what you think? Thanks!