Disclaimer: belongs to Tom

Rating: M to be safe

Summary: A tear slowly runs down her cheek as she stands there holding onto her bouquet of flowers as she painfully watches her two best friends seal their love with a kiss.

Chapter one:

It was the spring of 1990 in the fourth grade when a little blue eyed blonde girl transferred from being a country girl to a city girl. Her mom passed away when she was born and she kind of always blamed herself for her mothers death and leaving her father to raise her and her two older brothers all by himself. He's done an okay job but it's difficult to spend all that quality time when he's hardly ever home because his boss always sends him to Sunny California on business trips. So she's been practically raised by her oldest brother, Clay, since she was five.

Ten years before the blonde was born, her mother always wanted to adopt a kid from Africa and her father wanted her to be happy so they hopped on a plane and flew out to Kenya and they just fell in love with this baby boy who's mother also passed away during birth. His father died of malnutrition six weeks after Clay was born. So the Carlin's signed the papers and Clay was their first child. They had planned on telling him about his parents when he was old enough to understand the meaning behind life and death or whenever he asks why he's so different than his new family. They were also given a photograph of his parents shortly before he was born and they kept it safely to give to Clay the first night he asked why he was a different color than the Carlin's; Paula and Arthur.

Clay was there for everything Arthur couldn't make for his younger siblings. It was in his nature to take care of others. To give and not worry about receiving. He was well liked by everyone around him. So on that first day that the Carlin's moved to Sunny California from Little Rock, Arkansas, Clay was there to say goodbye and good luck to his youngest sister, Spencer. He brought her into a giant reassuring hug at the front doors of her new school, King Elementary as their other brother, Glen, stood there watching the two, waiting to walk over to the Jr. High with Clay.

Glen was the middle child and the last boy which meant he would never get spoiled like his youngest sister and he wouldn't ever get anything new, only the hammy down's from his oldest brother, Clay. When their father was home, he would always fight for his attention, usually succeeding. He would do anything for attention, whether it hurt others or not, he craved to be in the center. When their mother was alive for those short seven years, he never had to worry about fighting for attention. But when Spencer came, he slowly but surely started to always feel out of place.

Spencer let go of Clay, her biggest comfort and looked over at Glen, "Good luck today, Spence. You'll do fine. We'll be right out here waiting for you at 3." She looks back over at Clay who spoke sincerely to her.

She smiled goodbye and watched as her brothers walked down the front steps and through the parking lot and started down the street towards the Jr. High. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes and she turned around. She slowly let out the breath and slowly opened her eyes and looked through the open door and saw kids running down the hallway and then disappear behind the corner. She was completely terrified of meeting new people, she didn't know what to expect. The only thing she did know was that she had to walk through these doors and make her way to the principles office. Where was that? She had no idea.

She stumbled into room after room, being let down by each of them. She had no idea which direction she had to go. She read the numbers above the doors, 101, 102, 103, Library, Restrooms, 104, 105, 106. Wall. She was defeated by the giant building she wasn't used too. Her other school had a total of 300 students… this school was doubled it looked like so far. So she hung her head and sighed and turned around to start looking for the office the other way but bumped into a raven haired boy. "Oh sorry." She spit out quickly.

He laughed and stared at her amused, "You new here?" And she nodded, "Yeah I could tell by the accent." She smiled shyly, "You looked a little lost.."

She looked at him now instead of the ground, maybe he could help her. She nodded, "Yeah… im uh.. Im looking for the office."

He laughs again and puts his arm around her shoulders and turned them both around and started walking down the hallway, "You missed it as soon as you walked in, it was on your… right." He smiled over at the blonde but it fell as she shook his arm off of her.

He walked her to the office and there they stood, she smiled at him and thanked him and he nodded and watched her until the office door shut. He couldn't believe how adorable the new girl was. Her southern accent just made him crazy. He shook his head and he just had to tell his best friend, Ashley.

He walked down the hallway that he had just walked with the blonde and he walked into room 106 and spotted the brunette sitting at her desk playing on a gaming device. He walked over and hopped up on her desk and she didn't take her eyes off of her game, "What Aiden?" and he just sat there, waiting for her to look at him to tell her all about the new girl. He thought about just taking the game boy out of her hands, but she could beat him up, she he decided against the idea. She finally looked up, "What's with the stupid smile?" She looked at him disgusted.

His eyes beamed with joy, "You won't believe it. There was this blonde girl, so cute, and she was this southern accent. We bumped in-" And everyone became quiet as the Principle of the elementary walked through the door of 106. Ashley quickly hid her game boy inside of her desk and Aiden quickly jumped up off the desk.

"Class? This is Spencer Carlin," The blue eyed blonde girl walked in through the door now and appeared by the side of Principle Carey, "She's a new student and will be joining your class. So please welcome her and make her feel like she belongs." Principle Carey exit's the room, leaving Spencer standing there, completely filled with embarrassment. She fidgeted with the hem of her shirt and her eyes darted across all of the students in the room and finally landed on the raven boy.

"That's her." He whispered to Ashley and she too was in complete awe.

So let me know if I should continue?