Disclaimer: No pretty boys for me...

Okay so I reread my first three chapters and I know htey kind of suck...anyways I'm in the process of picking out the types of parts that suck and don't suck so that I can tailor my writing to what you guys will enjoy better. I decided to put in this chapter so you can get a feel of everyone's personalities and some of the types of interactions. I want you to get to know the OCs because they have three very different personalities, which are based on some of my friends and I.

This is the fourth chapter, please read and review, if you don't like something or if you do let me know because it will help me to make the next part better.

I had my friend read the first three chps and she said that there are a lot of random sentences in there that aren't needed, so I might get rid of a few and change some because I realize you guys aren't stupid and don't need to be told everything.

"They want us to come stay with them in Ipswich, Massachusetts." Sophie told her.

"Cool, road trip!" Beth said excitedly.

"No not just a road trip, they want us to quit work, give up the apartment, switch schools and live in their house!"

"Can I bring my stuff?" Cassie said looking up from her food now.

"Yeah, you can bring everything." Caleb quickly said although he looked around the room with uncertainty.

"Fine, I'm in."

Sophie looked helplessly at her sister and her friend…she didn't think they'd be so compliant.

"Well, I guess it's decided." Sophie said sullenly.

The Struggle Against Babysitters

Bethany gasped as they pulled up to Caleb's house.

"HOLY SHIT!!!!" She jumped out of he car the second it slowed down enough and ran the rest of the way up the long drive way. She stared up at the monstrous building she would soon called home and then rolled around in the grass for a bit. The others laughed as they parked and began to unload the hummer.

"For such a huge car, you really can't fit much in it…" Cassie grumbed as she put all of her weight into yanking her duffle bag out of the trunk. Tyler looked miffed and Caleb chuckled, helping her out.

Beth ran up to them, "God do you know how long it's been since I've seen a patch of grass that wasn't unsanitary or occupied by a hobo?"

"Well that's something you'll see a lot of in Ipswich…grass. It's exciting really." Tyler answered sarcastically.

Beth beamed, "And why didn't you tell me you lived in a castle?" She stretched out her arms and began to spin around, her face turned towards the sky, as if she was trying to soak up as much sunshine as possible.

"Ooooh!" Beth ran up to the group as if she just remembered something extremely important. "Does your house have a name?"

"What?" Caleb asked completely taken aback and giving her a full on 'are you crazy' look.

"Oh you know how really really big houses…manors and stuff have names. Like Rose Red!"

"No, we never named it."

"That's silly, I think it's big enough."

"Well feel free to name it if you like." He said as he shouldered a large suitcase.

"I don't know if I like this." Cassie muttered.

"What's the problem?" Tyler asked walking with her, both carrying boxes.

"It's all the trees. I hate trees. Do you know how easy it is to hide in foliage like that? And plus you're miles away from another house, it's like an ivitation for an ax murderer to come in the middle of the night!"

"You're a tad paranoid, aren't you?" Tyler laughed.

"Maybe a tad." Sophie scoffed behind her as she struggled with a particularly heavy box.

"Umm Reid sweety?" Sophie said softly. Reid was at her side in a moment.

"Yes m'lady?"

"Do you think you could help me with this box?"

Reid eyed the box suspiciously, not wanting overwork himself (yeah, right!). "What's in it?"

"I think there's a lamp, an alarm, a stereo…" She saw Reid's face and decided he needed an incentive, "And you know…underwear." Reid perked up instantly and graciously took the box, huffing under it's weight.

"There better be a lot of underwear…and bras…and naked pictures…and sex toys in here." He mumbled to himself.

"What was that?" Sophie asked beside him.

"I'm glad to help."

"Right."

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After an hour they finally managed to bring everything inside. It had taken all of her will power to keep Sophie from just zapping everything inside…it would be so easy…so harmless. She decided not to for the sake of the boys…she didn't want to set a bad example for them…at least that's what she told herself.

They were now all eating sandwiches around the kitchen counter.

"Sorry we don't have a proper dinner, my mom wasn't feeling up to leaving her room today and I guess she let our maid go home for the day."

"That's okay, is your mom sick?" Sophie asked casually. She noticed that Caleb got visibly tense.

"Yeah."

"Oh I'm sorry." She truly was, she could tell it was a sore subject for Caleb and she empathized with him.

Beth suddenly appeared at the back door.

"Your backyard is AMAZING!" She turned to Cassie, "He's got an inground pool, it's GINORMOUS!"

Everyone laughed.

"Finally a proper place to tan, in our old apartment, Soph and I used to have to lay out on the roof of the building." She continued.

Cassie nodded in agreement, "At least you wont have to worry about the neighbors seeing you naked anymore."

Caleb blushed profusely and began to busy himself with straightening the napkins, Pogue choked on his sandwhich, Tyler chocked on his soda, and Reid gawked. Sophie blushed and cleared her throat at the silence.

"You sun tanned on the roof of a building in Manhattan naked??" Reid said incredulously, his voice cracking.

"Strippers can't have tan lines silly goose!" Beth answered while trying to fish an ice cube from her cup.

"That's indecent exposure, how have you not been arrested??" Tyler asked.

"Have you seen where we lived? The cops didn't seem to mind." Beth joked, now crunching on the ice loudly.

"And do you partake in this illegal act of nudity?" Reid asked Sophie.

"Ha! Wouldn't YOU like to know?" Reid smirked at her response.

"So where are our rooms?" Cassie cut in.

"Oh I'll take you now if you're done eating." Caleb said. Everyone agreed and finished up quickly.

Caleb showed them their rooms, which were all along the same hallway on the third floor. While Caleb went to go find his girlfriend to help her move in, the girls sorted through their things and brought them up to their rooms. Pogue, Tyler, and Reid stayed behind to help although Spohie knew it was really because they were worried about her safety. It annoyed her a little bit, she came here, didn't she? Wasn't that enough? If this was the way it was always going to be she didn't know if she'd be able to handle it. But she took it silently and without protest.

Beth continued to gush about her room and as Sophie and Reid went up the stairs he bragged, "You know, my summer house in the Hamptons, is way bigger than this."

Sophie nodded and he continued, "We had an indoor and outdoor pool. A grotto. AND plenty of backyard privacy for naked sun tanning." He wiggled his eyebrows at her and she rolled her eyes, "I'm not impressed."

"Why not??" He asked indignantly.

"Back in France we were affluent too."

"How affluent?"

Cassie came up behind him and seeing an opportunity to put him in his place piped up, "We used to have six ponies and horses!"

Reid looked unconvinced, "Then why are you a stripper??"

"Things are just…complicated." Reid took the signal and backed off.

Soon they had finished moving everything to their respective rooms.

"You guys should really be getting your stuff if you want to move in tonight." Sophie told them as she helped Cassie fold her clothes.

"We'll wait until Caleb comes back."

"Look we don't need a babysitter. I've been taking care of myself all my life, besides Chase wont come tonight. He doesn't know what he's dealing with yet." The guys exchanged glances and then agreed to go.

After a while Caleb and his girlfriend Sarah came back. Beth and Cassie went to help her move in her things while Sophie decided to make it an early nighter.

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The next morning, Sophie woke up at 10:00 and went downstairs in her pajamas (sofee shorts and a tank top) to find that everyone was already there.

"I didn't know I was the last one." She mumbled as she sat at the table.

"You're not, Pogue is." A woman she didn't recognize said with a smile as she flipped pancakes.

"Oh you must be Mrs. Danvers! Thank you soo muh for your hospitality, we appreciate you opening your lovely home to us." Sophie said.

"Don't worry about it honey, it truly is my pleasure. The house hasn't been so alive in years." Sophie automatically felt she liked the woman, she got a good vibe from her.

Caleb walked into the kitchen,

"You're in." He said to Sophie, Cassie, and Beth. Cassie and Beth nodded approvingly while Sophie looked confused.

"In what?"

"Spenser, I got you in. You start tomorrow."

"Tomorrow???" Beth whined.

"Yeah well you have to catch up with the four months you missed and tomorrow is Monday." Caleb shrugged.

"Spenser Academy? The school from the brochure? I thought you were joking!" Sophie said.

"No, why would you think that?"

"First off it's a prep school. Keyword, PREP. I'm not sure an ex-stripper from New York will fit in with the yupie youth of America." Sophie said sarcastically.

"Actually, Cassie's transcript was impeccable and the Provost agreed to give her a scholarship. You had the grades of a typical Spenser kid so he agreed to let you in too. I had to do a little haggling to get Beth in but he agreed to let her in on academic probation. I didn't tell him about the stipper thing cause I didn't think that's the kind of thing that would win him over." Caleb said with a joked.

"Is that where you just came from? A meeting with the Provost? Didn't he want to meet us?"

"No he just needed your transcript."

"Really? Or is it just that you paid him off so he'd let us in?" Sophie asked suspiciously.

"I already told you."

"Caleb, you and your mother have already done so much for us, I don't feel comfortable with you paying for our schooling too, especially when it's this expensive." Sophie said pleadingly. She felt like a charity case, she hated it. She had always managed to make ends meet on her own and she didn't need a sugar daddy.

"Don't worry about it, Cassie's got a full scholarship, you have a partial one and plus it's not as much for you and Beth since you guys have missed like half of the year." Sophiesighed knowing she wasn't going to win…again. She had only been in Ipswich a month and she already felt as though Caleb was her father.

"But I don't think Provost Higgins would appreciate to know that you guys were strippers so I'd keep that quiet." Caleb said turning to Beth.

"Alright, I guess I can't wear my pin that says 'I'm a stripper, ask me how!'"

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After breakfast, everyone went into the pool except Cassie, Sarah, and Sophie who refused because it was the middle of January. So they decided to take a walk and take in the scenery.

"They are going to catch pneumonia." Cassie shook her head as they strolled down the driveway.

"I know! I'm wearing two shirts and a sweater! I don't care about the pool's eating system, they wont last TEN minutes." Sarah laughed.

Sophie smiled and shook her head along with them.

"So how long have you been going to Spenser?" Cassie asked, she was excited to finally go to a real school.

"I just transferred in this September."

"Where did you go before?"

"Boston Republic." Sophie nodded her head.

"Wow, Boston, so you were staying in the dorms then?"

"Yeah."

"That must be soo cool! I've always wanted to sleep in dorms…like in college!" Cassie said with wide eyes. "It must suck that you have to come and stay at the house now."

"No…actually it hasn't been the same since what happened to Kate." Sophie was interested, she saw Sarah's saddened expression but decided to pursue it anyway.

"Who's Kate?"

"Kate's…Kate was Pogue's girlfriend, she was my dorm mate." Sophie noticed the way she used the past tense and decided not to push any further…Cassie however didn't.

"She was? What happened." Sophie shot her a look which she didn't see since she was looking at Sarah.

"She uh…Chase killed her. With a spell. For some reason the spell was never lifted off of her in time. It makes sense now I guess, since Chase never died."

"Yeah." Sophie wanted to ease Sarah's apparent pain but felt that she was still to unfamiliar to offer any comfort. Instead she changed the subject. About an hour later they decided to head back and found, much to their surprise, that Beth and the boys were still in the pool. Thankfully Mrs. Danvers ordered them out shortly after.

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"I can't believe you guys were in there for an HOUR and a HALF!" Sarah scolded. They were all sitting in the upstairs den, the four boys and Beth all had a towel wrapped around themselves and were shivering.

"It wasn't cold until we got out." Beth said meekly.

"Yeah well you're lucky you don't have frost bite or anything." Cassie snapped.

Sarah, Sophie, and Cassie were inspecting them to make sure they weren't sick.

Sophie bent by Reid, who for the first time since she met him wasn't being cocky, to check his condition. She placed a hand on his forehead and check his throat…normally she would have been wary of getting this close to him, knowing that he would tease her to no end, but she figured he was embarrassed enough to keep quiet. She continued to check his pale complexion before he swatted away her hands.

"You don't have a fever but I don't know, Reid…you seem a little pale…" Sophie said with a worrying tone.

"Reid's always that pale." Tyler quickly answered, earning himself a glare from Reid.

"I'm fine." He said gruffly.

"Really? Yeah I guess I didn't notice before but you really are that pale. Wow…you're the palest person I've ever met." Sophie said lightly.

"Are you kidding? Reid's the palest person in Sweden!" Pogue laughed.

Reid snapped, "Well not all of us have access to a sky rise apartment building for a little naked tanning."

"Or MAYBE you're just the type that hides in the shadows and watches the naked sunbathers?" Sophie sneered. The others laughed but Reid walked off angrily to his room. He stayed there for a while and at night when the others were gathering around to watch a movie Sophie began to worry that she might have hurt his feelings. In her line of work she had met a lot of jackasses and she just assumed that that was the kind of person Reid was, just another horny asshole. Perhaps she misjudged him.

Went they were about to go to bed however, Reid came out dressed in jeans, a tee, and his fingerless gloves.

"Where are you going?" Caleb asked blocking the stairway from him.

"Out."

"Out where, Reid? It's ten o'clock. We have school tomorrow and you might still get sick."

"Just because I'm staying in your house doesn't mean you're my mommy. I'm not sick and I don't need to you to wake me up for school."

"Yeah, well you're not going anywhere alone. Chase is out there." Tyler, sensing an incoming fight, stepped in.

"I'll go with him." He assured Caleb.

Caleb shook his head in annoyance and walked away.

"Alright Baby Boy, let's get plastered and pick up some chicks." Reid said putting his arm around Tyler.

"Nope. I wasn't wrong about him, I was spot on." Sophie mumbled to herself.

"Goodnight Sarah! Goodnight Sophie! Goodnight Caleb! Goodnight Cassie!" Beth shouted out a goodnight to everyone as she passed them in the hall on her way to her room, "Goodnight Pogue! Goodnight Rupert!"

"Who's Rupert?" Pogue asked turning to Cassie.

"It's what she named the house."