I have gotten so many good reviews for the first chapter! Thank you so much! I wish I could thank you all personally, but I'm not that good with words. and yes, Cheyenne, it is Ashley from 911 boards! I'm glad you liked the chapter, I wasn't planning on the part to be a flashback, but I decided to put it that way in the end. Also I love your stories, they are really great and if you guys haven't already, go and read her stories too! They are wonderful.

DISCLAIMER - I do not own the song in this chapter, Boston by Augustana. Again I do not own the One Tree Hill characters or New York. Any other characters in this story are fiction, and are figments of my imagination. Charlie's character is based loosley on a girl I know, but most of her will come from me.

I have decided to go out of order. I know, bad. I originally decided to do the chapters after the kids in order of their age, but because Charlie's came to me so much easier than Meghan's I decided to switch Meghan and Charlie's chapters around. So now, Charlie and the next chapter you will get some Brucas!

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In the light of the sun,

Is there anyone?

Oh it has begun.

Oh dear, you look so lost,

eyes are red and tears are shed,

This world you must've crossed

She didn't remember how she got home. She had went out with Justin, had a good time, but the rest was just a blur. She rushed through the door to her house in New York, her vision was getting foggy, and could barely see the stairs as she made her way up to her room.

"Charlie!" she heard her little sister, Stephanie call out her name, but ignored it.

She finally made it up to her room and slammed her door," Damn it!" She had just stubbed her toe on some random box, later realizing it was Justin's guitar case he had left there. There was something about having eleven other brothers and sisters and living in New York, oh yea, the small space to live.

Charlie slumped down against the bottom of her bed. She now realized the 3 layers of eyeliner she had took so long to carefully apply this morning were smeared under her eyes. The tears stated falling faster now, she was in her own space, her own world. That was until the door squeaked open.

"Charlie?" someone whispered. She could hear the footsteps coming closer now, she didn't even bother to look up. The footsteps were to graceful for any of the kids littler then her ten year old sister, Kelly's, and she was at a friends tonight.

They were also to light for her dad's footsteps, and she knew her mom was on a business trip somewhere in the Maryland. Charlie also knew that Erica despised her, so she wouldn't bother to follow her. That only left one person.

"Charlie," Meghan whispered again," what's wrong, did Justin do something to you?"

"No!" Charlie replied at once," yes...sort of." She didn't know, and she really didn't want to talk about it.

You said,

You don't know me,

And you don't even care,

oh yeah,

She said,

You don't know me,

And you don't wear my chains,

oh yeah. yeah.

Meghan just didn't get it. Charlie and Justin had been going out for over three months, and she was head over heels for him. But sometimes he could be so closed up, so to himself. Sometimes he wouldn't let her in. To the rest of the school, they fit together like the last two peices of a one-hundred peice puzzle. Justin was an eighth grader though, Charlie was only in seventh. She didn't see how he acted with his friends or in his classes. And lately, the way he had been acting...

"Buddy, what's wrong?" Meghan had begun to walk out the door, seeing that Charlie was lost in her thoughts, but the thought of what was going through Charlie's head. They used to be really closed sisters and best-friends when they were littler.

So she decided to use her nickname for Charlie, knowing the last time she called her that was when she was nine years old and Charlie was six, and still thought she could get cooties from boys.

When her sister didn't answer, Meghan decided to finish her way out of the closed in room.

"Why did you decide to keep the baby?" Meghan looked back, startled, when her sister finally spoke.

"What do you mean?" she asked as she backed out of the doorway once more and into the room, sliding the red door shut behind her," are you...?"

Charlie looked up at Meghan from her seat on the floor," Of course not! It's just Justin, something he said, it's really nothing I guess."

"Nothing, Charlie, you know it's something, if he hurt you..." Meghan never got to finish.

"I told you! He didn't hurt me, god, I just wanted to know why you decided to keep the baby," Charlie raised her voice, she had stopped crying along time ago.

"I don't know, Charlie, I really don't. Maybe it was the fact that I was once in love with Jared, maybe it was because I owed something for my life or because I was just meant to be in this position." Meghan tucked her blonde hair behind her ears," are you okay?"

"Yea, now I am, thanks," Charlie replied. This obviously meant she didn't want Meghan in the room anymore.

"Are you sure?" Meghan wanted one last assurence, but she didn't get one. She then realized Charlie was leaning her head back against the bottom of the bed where she was sitting, half asleep. Not wanting to cause her sister anymore anger, she quietly slipped out of the room.

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Charlie open her eyes wearily. She glanced at the sun streaming through her window. She got up, she knew it was sometime after 12pm. She also knew that there was school today. She walked down to the kitchen the see if it was really the time she guessed.

On the island in the middle of the kitchen laid a peice ripped out of a notebook.

Hey Charlie,

Mom's still on her business trip in Maryland and dad's left for his and won't be back until next week. I thought I would let you sleep, besides I didn't think you wanted to talk to Justin. Erica will be home at noon to bring you something to eat, and I will be home after my appointment around 4pm. Just try not to drop any tears for awhile, k? Anyways just take care of yourself and be home when I get there.

MMeghan

Charlie smiled, realizing that she had written the note on one of Lauren's 'Hello Kitty' notebook papers. She thought about all the things she could do in one day. She grew up in New York, she knew every passage, every secret alley. She knew where she should avoid and where she shouldn't.

But then she thought about what Meghan wrote about her being in the house when she gets home and Erica would be here in a few seconds. She didn't know what to do. The first day she has been alone in this house for a long time. with nine brothers and sisters less then ten, there was bound to be some hectic explosion, or some massive break-out fight.

"I'm all alone," Charlie whispered to herself.It echoed slightly of of the whitewashed walls and bounced back to her ears. She made her way back to her room with it's tan walls. She hated that colors, but right now it felt like a warm and safe color.

She wanted that warm and safe life to go with it, but she could never have that kind of life. She was lost in her thoughts, as she made her way to the bathroom to apply her three layers of make-up back on, and brush her hair. She wasn't now style freak like Erica, but it took her along time to get he look just right.

Alot of people would prefer to the look as Goth or Emo as such call it. It wasn't at all though. Unlike Goths, Charlie's hair was not black and did not have any black in it. It used to be blonde, but is now a mixture of blonde, caramel, and brunette strands.

She heard the downstairs door open and shut. She figured it was just Erica, just like Meghan had told her. But little would she know, her life and her family's would be just about ruined today, when she found out who came through the door, baring news that was the weight of a thousand pounds, she would never be the same.

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Hey, I know this chapter was alittle depressing of some sorts, and I promise, that is not at all what Charlie is like. The girl she is modeled after isn't like that either, but I can see her going through something of this sorts, and this was the best way to describe her.

I'm not sure if I would consider this chapter long? but I did work all night on it, um... I originally, like I said up top, wanted this chapter to be about Meghan, but I have been thinking about Charlie's chapter all day, and what seemed would be so hard to write at first, came out so easy. Unlike how Meghan's is coming along. Anyways I have decided to have 6+ chapters dealing with Brooke and Lucas, so after every 2 kids, there is one Brucas chapter. So just to let you guys know, Brucas is coming up!