Lucy Chambers glared at herself in the mirror of the girls' bathroom in school. She seemed to be doing that a lot, and frankly she hated it. Why did she have to be the oddball, weird, sardonic Chambers child? Charlotte was so beautiful with her long, blonde locks and crystal blue eyes. Charlotte was so tiny and petite and feminine. Lucy was taller, and had curves. She had long, dark tresses that fell past her shoulders, and large chocolate eyes. She looked like Charlotte in the face, but their colors were completely different. Charlotte was paler with lush, pink lips and rosy cheeks. Lucy was darker with slightly thinner upturned lips and a chocolate complexion.

What was wrong with her? Chris was beautiful as well in his own empowering way. But what was Lucy? Just another friggin' trophy girl for Teddy DuChamp.

"So why am I moping around here?" Lucy thought, utterly perplexed. She really did like Teddy. But what was happening? At Gina Milechy's party on Friday night up on Franny Hill, Teddy, her boyfriend of four months, had gotten so drunk and ended up making out with Gina herself, the town Harlot, and much to Lucy's dismay she got stuck walking home alone on a cold Friday night.

Teddy had called her that evening explaining his actions and apologizing. She missed how he used to be.so nice, so kind, so gentle. So what happened? She hadn't broken off her relationship with Teddy just yet.too many people had given up on Teddy, and she wasn't going to do that. Even if it killed her.

Which it just might.

Susan sucked on her pen cap as she made her way through the dusty old school library, in search of her book she was to read in English. She loved reading, she really did, but what book was she supposed to read?

Tucking her hair behind her ears, she pulled her sweater closer to her. It was freezing in the library, and while opening up an old paper back the dust and cold got to her and she sneezed.

"God bless you."

Susan looked up from the stack of books she was examining in one of the isles, and grinned at Teddy DuChamp. He looked upset and sad, like his heart was broken. She made her way tentatively towards him.

"Hey Teddy," she said. Susan never really talked to Teddy before, but her brother and Teddy were pretty cool so she was merely being polite to him, and being that he was her best friend's older brother, she liked Teddy somewhat.

"What's up Susan?" His blonde hair was sticking up on end. He looked oddly cute, and despite her broken heart, Susan got butterflies in her stomach.

No! She told herself. This is Megan's older brother! Are you mad? He's going out with Lucy Chambers!

A single tear slid down Susan's beautiful face. The face of Gordie flashed before her. Teddy felt her heart broken pain; he was ashamed of the way he had acted on Friday causing Lucy such pain. He needed a way to get out.

As he kissed the youngest Tessio, he found he couldn't help but love the taste of her sweet lips; they were much different than Lucy's.

Megan walked stiffly down Castle Rock High. What was she doing? She hated herself.she still hadn't talked to Chris about Friday night; she was too ashamed to show herself. Chris now knew she had given herself to drunken fools many a time to help pay the bills and the fact that Chris Chambers now knew she hadn't been a virgin since the age of thirteen sincerely scared her.

As she sucked on a cigarette, her back against the brick wall of the courtyard, she couldn't help but cry in pain.

Chris Chambers watched sadly from his classroom window. He thought then that Megan DuChamp had never looked so beautiful.