Ok, so I really really like this idea so it's kind of like my baby, don't get me wrong I love my story Lucy Cullen, but I feel much more confident in this one. And I love Whitley, she is great. Now I don't know a lot about the Simms family from the movie so I just made some stuff up. And the story starts before the start of the movie but I will be using some of the movie wording in later chapters, just forming it around my OC.

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Disclaimer: I own nothing but Whitley.

Prologue

It was a Saturday afternoon and 14 year old Tyler Simms sat in his room reading a book because all of his friends had abandoned him. Yep that's right, left him high and dry. Caleb, the leader of the group and 'Mr. Grump' as Reid liked to call him was out with his mom doing some last minute school shopping. Pouge, the peacemaker and Caleb's right hand man, was at his aunt's house for a little family reunion. And Reid, the bad boy and Tyler's best friend, was out with his newest girlfriend at the movies.

"Tyler can you come downstairs for a moment?" Tyler's mom asked. He put down his book and ran down the stairs. His mom looked sad and also a bit shocked.

"Mom, what's going on?"

"I have to go to a will reading this afternoon; I will be back at six." She started to go back upstairs but Tyler stopped her.

"A will reading? Why Mom? Who died?"

"One of my best friends from college and her husband, you remember when you were younger Stephanie Mathews? She used to visit all the time and bring her daughter?" It took Tyler a minute but finally he remembered Ms. Stephanie and her daughter Whitley. They were both very nice and over the years Tyler had grown close to Whitley.

"Yeah, I remember, but then they moved to New York and we kind of lost touch." After they moved Tyler had e-mailed Whitley a lot and she had always responded, but over time the e-mails came less frequently and then stopped.

"Yes well, last week Stephanie and Rob, her husband, and Whitley got into a car crash; both Stephanie and Rob died but Whitley is fine. I got a phone call just now telling me that I am in the will and my presence is expected at the reading."

"Would you like me to go with you?" He didn't think that she would want to do this by herself.

"Yes, okay dear, why don't you get ready. Wear that suit I bought you last month, you look very handsome in that. We need to leave in half an hour." She said all this in a daze as she began to walk up the stairs again.

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When they arrived at the office where they would have the reading Tyler's mom looked loads better, or so she seemed, she had on what Tyler and his buddies had dubbed her 'People Mask', she let nobody know how she felt; she looked perfectly content with everything around her, completely unaffected.

They went to the designated room, walked in and found some empty seats. Tyler took the chance to look around. There weren't many people here and those that were older people; all looking very business like, very much like his mother, so they probably were rich. He knew this because rich people never liked to show their real feelings in public. Finally his eyes rested on a girl, a very pretty girl, he thought to himself. She was sitting at the edge of the table furthest from him and was wearing a long-sleeved black v-neck shirt with a lacey gray undershirt. Her black hair was up in a loose bun near the top of her head. She had very soft features, very inviting, she was tan with smooth pouty lips, her brown eyes were surrounded by a rim of red and the end of her cute little button nose was light pink, her cheeks flushed; she probably had been crying.

He sat there trying to figure out who this girl was. Why would she be here? When he figured it out he fought the urge to smack his forehead. This beautiful girl in front of him had to be Whitley, but he didn't understand how this was possible, she looked so different, so grown up.

One of the very old men went to the front of the room and started to read the will. Most of it was pretty simple. He had to admit, the Mathews were pretty loaded and had a lot of money and estates to give out, but most of it went to Whitley. He noticed that the people in the room weren't related to Whitley. She probably didn't have any other family. When he had known her he had found out that she had no aunts or uncles and he didn't believe that any of her grandparents were alive. That would mean that the only family she had would be her parents and they were gone. Where would she go?

"And for the matter of the custody of our daughter Whitley Naomi Mathews, if we pass before she has reached the age of 18, since we have no remaining family to take care of her, we would like for her to go with our dear friends the Simms family, if they accept. Is the Simms family present?" Here Tyler's mother gasped and Whitley looked up at her a bit nervous. Tyler was reeling, what would his mom do, would she take her in? Tyler's mom shakily raised her hand and nodded.

"Yes, we are." Her voice was shaking.

"Do you take the guardianship of Whitley?" The man asked her. She took a moment to look at Whitley and Whitley looked down at her lap. A look of compassion came over Mrs. Simms and then one of determination.

"Yes. I do."

Now Tyler was always told that gaping was a rude thing to do, especially in public, but there are some situations were he believed that gaping was the only proper response that a person could come up with. So, now, as his mother did this, accepted this, brought this girl into his family, his life, turning his world upside down, that is what Tyler did, he gaped.

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"Mom, are you crazy?" Tyler whispered fiercely to his mother. They were waiting for the paperwork that she had signed to be processed and for Whitley to come back from her house where she got some of her belongings.

"Well what was I supposed to do? Let the poor girl go to an orphanage? I think not. Stephanie was my dearest friend, we may not have been in touch lately but we were extremely close and I care a great deal for Whitley. This is a good thing I am doing and you will have to respect that." She said in her 'that's that' voice.

"Fine." With that he folded his arms over his chest and pouted like the very mature young adult he was. 'Just wait till the boys hear about this' he thought to himself.

"Mrs. Simms the paperwork is finished and Whitley is waiting out front, when you are ready you can leave." The women that helped the paperwork said as she went back into her office. Tyler's mom grabbed onto his sleeve and pulled him outside where Whitley was waiting. She was looking at her feet and seemed very uncomfortable with the situation. Tyler felt like smacking himself again, if he felt weird about this, he couldn't imagine how she felt; her parents had just died for goodness sake. The driver put Whitley's things in the trunk and they all got into the car.

"Whitley you are going to be a freshman this year right?" Mrs. Simms asked from the front seat. Whitley nodded. "That's good; Tyler is going to be attending Spenser Academy. He will be living in the dorms and everything, would you like to do the same?" Whitley looked uncertain for a moment and then nodded and small smile forming on her lips.

"That would be nice." She said in a quite voice.

"Don't worry you will love it, my friends will be going to. You and the guys are going to get along great, I just know it." Tyler said enthusiastically. For the rest of the ride Tyler and Whitley talked about Tyler's friends and what they thought high school would be like. They quickly fell back into how it used to be, it was like their friendship hadn't changed at all, like they had never fallen out of touch. By the time they reached Tyler's house and Whitley's new house, he was starting to like the idea of having a sister.

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