Faye sighed heavily as she flopped down onto her bed. Her day had been exhausting and coming home to four older brothers got on her extreme nerves. She hated being the only girl, and the youngest of that. Her mother was always working and she hadn't seen her father in over several years, nor did she mind. He was married to some French model in Paris..Faye had two baby half-sisters whom she never saw and a part of her always regretted never knowing them. But she got over it soon enough.

Faye grimaced as she heard someone pounding hard on her door. She sighed exasperatedly and shouted, "It's open!" before sitting up on her bed. Gabe, her older brother by only a year who was a senior at Castle Rock, came in and stood his lanky body before his baby sister. Faye looked up at him and grinned to herself. He was just under six one and she was only five four. It was quite humorous to her.

"Can I help you Gabe?" She asked, tying long hair back into a ribbon.

Gabe glared his gray eyes down at her and smirked. "Yeah..it's the phone. It's for you."

Faye rolled her eyes. "Um, yeah. And who-is-it?" She asked slowly as if Gabe was a two year old toddler.

Gabe smirked even more maliciously. "Some dude uh-Terry or Timmy or something."

Faye frowned. "Give it here!"

Gabe threw the phone onto Faye's lap and left the room.

"Hello?"

"Hey Faye it's Teddy."

Faye sounded puzzled as she replied, "Oh, hi Teddy."

Teddy chuckled into the phone. "Don't get too excited now," he said sarcastically.

"Sorry, it's just...didn't expect YOU to call me."

Teddy scoffed. "Don't flatter yourself Faye, I'm calling on behalf that you're my tutor."

"Oh, right. Yeah, so um, what am I supposed to do now that I am your 'tutor'?"

Teddy sounded thoughtful on the other line. "Um..well our first sessions is next week so where do you want to meet?"

Faye groaned into the phone. She hated this part of life..having to make plans. "Grrr..um how about at my place? You can just come home with me. Gordie gives me a ride since we live a few houses down from each other."

"Cool. See you then."

Teddy hung up before Faye could say so long. She didn't bother questioning how he got her number so she hung up the phone, quite puzzled. She was bored so she decided to take a walk down to Gordie's home.

**

Chris laid down on his couch reading a magazine, not really doing anything. His father had been locked up for almost two years now, finally getting called on his abusive state. Ever since his father left his family, his mother was quite a different person. She was more positive, quite happier..but less home. She was always working and it made Chris upset. He would never quite have that feeling of having two parents.

Sighing, he threw down the magazine. He had read that one about five times in three weeks, and it was getting quite old. The old house was quiet. He hadn't seen Eyeball for almost four years, just after he and his friends had discovered Ray Brower's body. Eyeball, finally getting fed up with being abused, left town and Chris hadn't heard from him since. Chris's younger sister by ten months, Halle, was so close in his age and he usually got along quite fine with her. She sure could be a bitch sometimes, most of the time in fact, but otherwise was true to her word and he loved her. He had another little sister too, Geri who was fourteen, but she was hardly ever home and it made him sad to never really have known her.

So where WAS everyone? He got extremely bored by himself and decided to pay a visit to old Gordo.

**

Faye patiently knocked on Gordie's door and waited for an answer. She had been there almost a minute and was starting to get bugged. The car was in the driveway, so where was everyone?! She was getting severely pissed off and was about to pound the f'n door down when she heard someone cough behind her.

Faye turned around and blushed when she saw it was Chris.

"Hey..." she said.

He grinned. "Looks like you're about to knock that door down there."

She laughed softly. "Uh, yeah. I'm trying to get Gordie but he doesn't seem to be home."

Chris thought contemplatively. "Yeah, I think he might of said he was hanging out with Grace today. Not sure though." He frowned and sat down on Gordie's porch. Faye took a seat next to him also.

"So...we mine as well wait here until he gets back," Chris said glancing over at Faye. He never really looked at her before. Her hair was long, about to her elbows and somehow almost perfectly straight, but quite thick. It did have some wave and curl to it, but very few. She had half of it tied back into a ribbon and it made her look so elegant. Her gray eyes were so stormy, so fierce, he was captivated by them and couldn't stop staring at them. Her skin was so pale, milky white, but her usual natural blush gave her a porcelain doll look. But she was far from perfect. Her eyes might have been big and her lips might have been full, but her cheeks were adorably full giving her a youthful look. She wasn't drop dead gorgeous, maybe not even beautiful to a passerby. But once she smiled and her eyes came alive, you couldn't help but want to be apart of her natural glow.

Faye was now staring and Chris too, but her stare was one of looking at a madman. Chris blushed...he must have been staring at her for quite a while.

"Sorry," he murmured. "I didn't realize I was staring."

Faye grinned a bit, blushing furiously. "It's okay." She chuckled softly.

She had never notice Chris before, until now. He seemed pretty nice and as the two of them sat there, talking about anything and waiting for Gordie, she was happy she had found a new friend.

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*StormShadow21* hope this is long enough for you!! I'm working on it....trying to make 'em shorter. Haha : ) adiOs