A/N: So I noticed in the last chapter I said that Spencer hasn't seen Charlotte in 3 years. Spencer and Charlotte had contact after she left for school but Charlotte hasn't had contact with anyone else from Rosewood including Melissa in 5 years. She was sent away when she was eleven and now she is 16. She is Mike Montgomery's age (Just for a reference point…) Thanks!
~Carter V.
Once again… I own nothing except Charlotte and the idea for this story…
Sporadic
Spencer and Charlotte walk downtown to get a cup of coffee and run into Aria.
"Hey Spence!" Aria shouts from behind the girls
Spencer turns around to see Aria standing with a cup of coffee in each hand
"Hey Aria! What's going on? Going to see Ezra?" Spencer gestures to the two coffees. Aria laughs and nods.
"Who's the new girl?" Aria points to Charlotte who hasn't moved from her place in line.
"Charlotte?" Spencer smiles and Aria's eyes bug out and her mouth drops.
"That's Charlie? Last time I saw her she was what? Eleven?"
"Hey Charlotte, C'mere!" Spencer calls to her sister and Charlotte walks over holding their coffees. "Do you remember Aria?"
Charlotte thinks about it for a minute "The girl with pink hair right?" Aria smiles and nods
"Yeah," Aria lets out a small, slightly embarrassed giggle and continues "oh my God, you are so grown up!" Aria looks at Charlotte in disbelief
"Yeah, well when you're sent away for five years, something's gotta happen." Charlotte gives Aria a reassuring smile and looks at Spencer. Spencer smiles back and looks back at Aria
"So I'll let you get to your date. We'll talk to you later okay?" Spencer and Aria hug and they all go their separate ways.
Spencer and Charlotte go back to their house and Melissa is in the main house, something that doesn't happen all that often.
"Shit. I was hoping she would disappear too." Melissa is in the kitchen making a salad and they both walk in and bee line for the stairs but she looks up and has the fakest voice possible
"Charlotte! You finally come home for a visit and you don't even stop to say hello to your oldest sister?" Melissa looks at Charlotte with a smile and then it fades when she turns to Spencer.
With extreme sarcasm "Oh my God, how could I? What is wrong with me? You don't write or call or try to make any contact with me for five years but I don't say hi… what? How rude of me!" Charlotte runs up the stairs into the guest room.
"What is wrong with her." Melissa says in her typical snobby voice. Spencer looks at her in complete disbelief, as always, and runs up the stairs after Charlotte.
"Charlotte?" Spencer lightly knocks on the door and opens it quietly and walks into the room. She sits on the edge of the bed next to Charlotte. "What was that?" Spencer has never seen Charlotte lose her temper so easily.
"What was what?" Charlotte replies and Spencer realizes she's crying but doesn't say anything.
"Why did you freak out like that? You've never done that before." Charlotte looks Spencer in the eye, sighs and sits up on the bed.
"Is it too much to ask that when I come home, for the first time in 5 years that my parents are home, and they may even want to see me. Or that my oldest sister give me a genuine hello and maybe ask me how I've been? I know we've never been close but it's just hard to realize that I haven't even been missed around here." Spencer starts to tear up a little too and she sits there for a minute trying to think of something to say to comfort Charlotte and thinks… Would anyone miss her? "I've been trying really hard to pretend that it doesn't bother me, but it does. I don't want it to but I guess I can't help that." Spencer hugs her sister for a long time until her phone bleeps. One New Text Message:
Just think…. That could have been you. Say' hi' to the black sheep for me…
Xoxo
-A
I figured I would upload two chapters as a little teaser… If I get any reviews I will post a third chapter in a little bit. Thanks for reading PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review!
