A/N: Ok so I'm really new at this, but I hope you guys enjoy my stories. Please review, let me know your thoughts on whether I should continue this or not. Thank You halsteadpd on Tumblr for helping me out, as I've said before I really appreciate all your advice. Thanks babes and I hope you have a great weekend. This is just the Prologue. Enjoy :)
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Hank and Camille Voight had been married 22 years. Hank was a Detective with the Chicago Police Department, and Camille was a middle school teacher. They've lived in a three bedroom house at the end of the block in a quaint neighborhood just within the city limits of Chicago for 21 years. They have always been very close to their next door neighbors. The Halsteads, Patrick a pharmacist, and Linda a nurse had been married for roughly the same amount of time as the Voights, and had moved in next door just months after them. Given that the Voights and Halsteads were so close; their children formed a close friendship from a very young age. The Voights had twins Justin Scott and Erin Lindsay who had just turned 13, and the Halsteads had two boys Will who was 15, and Jay who was just a few months older than the twins. They did everything together good and bad. One of their favorite things to do was go down to the neighborhood park on their bikes, and play any kind of sport imaginable. As they grew older Will, grew more distant. Leaving the younger three to become the best of friends. Life was good for them, all of them on their little corner of the world, for now.
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That pure bliss didn't last for much longer though. Camille had been diagnosed with terminal cancer about 11 months ago. She had gone through chemotherapy and radiation just to prolong the inevitable. There was no more prolonging it now, Camille was dying. She fought as hard as she could. She wanted to there for her babies. She wanted to be here, continuing to guide them, and watch them grow. See Justin score a game winning point, and Erin fall in love. She wanted to hold them, when they get injured in a game, or get their heart broken for the first time. She wanted to watch them graduate high school, and college. Watch them get married, and give her grandbabies. She wanted to be here for all of that, but she couldn't. And that broke her; it broke her more than the idea of her dying. She didn't want to leave them, or miss anything. She with the help of her husband made videos, and wrote letters for her babies for each big occasion she could think of that she would miss. And just 15 months after she'd been diagnosed Camille Voight had passed away. Justin and Erin both took the death of their mother hard, understandably so. She was the glue in their family, and now that she was gone, and there was no one holding them together, Hank buried himself in his work, and Erin and Justin just grew apart, the three of them were still present, but there was a distance between that wasn't there before.
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It was the end of the May, and just over a year since the death of their mother. Both of them had submersed themselves in school, sports, and their friends. Their freshman year was just about to come to an end. It went well for Justin and Jay, and how could it not, when you're the stars of the soccer, basketball, and baseball teams. They were even both promised to be on Varsity as sophomores. Both were extremely popular, and each had girlfriends. They were living every high school guys dream. Erin played volleyball and was on track and field. Her best friends were Kim who also happened to be Justin's girlfriend, and Annie, both of them were on the volleyball team with her. Erin was also pretty popular; she just hung out with a different crowd than her brother. She had a boyfriend Charlie, he was 17 and in the same grade as Will. Erin knew he wasn't a good guy, but the fact that her dad and brother didn't approve of him, made her want to be with him even more. Plus he got her nice things, and for the most part treated her well. Little did she know it would all come with a price. Which Charlie intended for her to pay over the course of their summer vacation.
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So far Erin was enjoying her time off, doing normal teenage things. Hanging out with her friends, going swimming at the neighborhood park, and going to the drive in. She'd even hung out with Justin and Jay one day. A week after school had ended, Jay and Justin had asked Will to take them to the Navy Pier to meet up with a big group of friends. There was the Dawson's Antonio, and Gabby, Kim, Annie, Kelly Severide, Matt Casey and Jay's on-again off-again girlfriend Allie. Right now they were supposedly taking a "break". Just minutes before they were going to head out, Justin popped his head in her room and asked if she wanted to come with. She was supposed to be hanging out with Charlie, but he blew her off. So she accepted her brother's invitation. It was nice catching up with them. Erin hadn't realized how much she missed hanging out with them. Even though they went to the same school, Erin and the two guys that she once considered to be her best friends had really drifted apart. And she could get use to doing stuff with them again. But Charlie had other plans for her.
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Charlie was becoming increasingly possessive and controlling. She thought about breaking up with him, and actually came really close. Before Charlie said he would ruin her if she left him, saying was the one calling the shots. So being naïve and scared of what he would do she stuck with him, until she could find her way out from under him. She thought about talking to her dad, but that would mean owning up to the fact that he was right all along. So she kept her head down, until she could pay off this invisible debt to Charlie. Or until she could get help, but she would have never guessed who would be the one to come, and give it to her, when she needed it most.
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I'm already starting the first chapter I hope to have it done by Monday, but I have a really busy weekend ahead so we'll see. Please Review :)