"wait, wait. Look around for a second. Notice?" Lorelei questioned her daughter as they looked intently and earnestly around Chilton Private High School. "Notice what?" He daughter asked looking at her mother as if she was crazy. "It's not so scary anymore is it." Rory smiled and let out a cool breath and replied, "No, it's not."

It was taking place at the season finale of Gilmore Girls and Charlie watched this episode at least fifty times but her heart always broke. But although the "Gilmore girls" were talking about something less sexual, to be precise the ending of Rory's high school career, Charlie found a way to apply this quote too many things.

At this precise moment then ground of the house was shaking against the music that just seemed to proceed to get louder and louder as the minutes passed by. You could hear chatter if you were actually listening but Kale and Charlie weren't even particularly aware of their surroundings anymore.

The two of them were laying horizontal on the bed one on top of each other. Their moist lips were meeting constantly and in this instance no oxygen was needed, not now. Kale laid on top of Charlie as their tongues danced inside of their mouths together.

Their legs were wrapped around each other as Kale slowly inched his hand up her dress and unclipped her bra. And as she pulled it out from her dress herself Kale suddenly wished he was drunker then just a little tipsy. He wished his intoxication matched that of his current sparring partner, his best friend.

They rolled over on the bed as Charlie began to slowly unbutton her brother's top that Kale now wore. She kissed lightly along his chest as she slowly unbuttoned each small one white button down the shirt. Kale laid there his eyes shut, he wasn't sure anymore.

Could he stop? Not now, he couldn't bare it. Charlie was forceful and pulled Kale up to a sitting position on the bed by his shoulders as she pushed the shirt off of his back and he lifted her dress off of her soft skin. Kale reached his own hands lower and unbuckled his jeans and she quickly pulled them off. Kale's hand moved up and down holding Charlie's thigh as he kissed her neck.

Charlie as did Kale, kept her eyes closed. She reached down and pulled the covers over them, and quickly felt sorry for who ever bed this was as her panties were pulled off. These mischievous and confusing acts continued. "…oh Kale" She groaned.

It was quite a while later that then now laid quietly in the bed, Charlie resting her head lightly on Kale's chest that slowly moved up and down, his lungs grabbing all the air that he could not have or wanted before. Charlie was relatively sober now, but she wasn't sure what to make of this. Kale wasn't sure either.

What would happen after this? What would change? What wouldn't. As thoughts ran through both of their minds, Charlie's heart began p beat faster and ache. She remembered last year, she remembered the heart ache. And after sitting there in silence, just there bodies touching Charlie arched her neck and looked at Kale and spoke "did you use protection?" she asked quickly and almost out of breath.

"yeah Char-Lie." He said quietly as she turned away. Charlie laid there quietly and tightened her arms around Kale's chest. Because that's what she was worried about. While Kale laid there ingesting over their future relationship, Charlie did the same but praying for something different and not a repeat of the year before.

Charlie couldn't be pregnant, she couldn't deal with it. But knowing that Kale had done what Ian hadn't made her feel safe, made her feel at ease, as if nothing else that happened that night, no matter how crude and unusual it all was, that was the only thing that mattered, for now.

There was a knock on the door and Kale quickly pulled the over themselves further. "Sorry guys." Nicholas said walking in. "Jesus." Charlie muttered as she closed her eyes after seeing several people popping there heads in the door. "What do you want?" Kale said angrily. "My neighbors called the cops…better leave." He said not slightly embarrassed at all which made Kale think his has seen too many naked bodies.

"Shit." Charlie muttered as the two friends leaned off the bed facing opposite directions as they quickly got dressed. Charlie was just pulling on her shirt as Kale walked to the front side of her and red and blue lights flashed inside of the room as the sirens came to a close. Charlie hated cops. She hated every word they said every movement they made.

It was like there was her worst enemy when in reality worse thing has happened, but Kale knew this. "Come on, I'll get you out of here." He spoke bravely as she grabbed her shoes and grabbed his hand that he held out for her.

The ran down the stairs holding hands, the house was mostly deserted but as the swung open the front door it was amazement. Lights were flashing and the lawn was a mess. A couple kids were getting arrested for possession of illegal drugs and Nicholas was getting interviewed by the police. "hey!" a deep voice said but Charlie didn't have to turn around to know who it was.

"you two, wait!" another police man said. But Kale stilled held on her hand as he got in the driver seat of Charlie's car and started it and sped off the street not slowing down till they reached a main road.

"thank-you." Charlie muttered looking a Kale. "no problem." He replied with a smile and letting out a cold hard breath. Something about speed and danger, took a liking to Kale. The rest of the car ride was silent, Kale drove back to their street and pulled into the Radin's driveway and handed back the car keys to Charlie slowly.

It was strange now, the awkwardness hit them like a ton of bricks. It wasn't like they just got drunk and made out. She got drunk and they had sex. Best friends, none the less. There was silence as they stood in front of Kales own car for a few moments and she finally leaned in and hugged him tightly. There bodies stayed intertwined and suddenly Kale found himself softly smelling the tips of her blonde hair. He slowly nuzzled her neck, she felt her hand rest on the back of his own neck and he pulled away slightly only to have her rush forward pressing her lips against his.

He pulled away and kissed her cheek and there embraced came to a stop as they looked at each other both smiling mischievously. "I'll see you tomorrow?" Kale questioned. "your house?" Charlie asked back. He nodded. "bye…then." He said softly walking to his car and drove away.

A tugging feeling heaped inside of Charlie as she walked into her house. "who was that?" Her twin brother Kevin barked at her. "Radin, it's none of your business." She said boldly. Kevin was known through the families last name. That's how we was introduced as and was always refereed to as so even his own family picked up, oddly enough.

"The Twins" were hardly that. Besides the color of their eyes and hair, they were hardly alike. They actually use to be pretty close, had the same friends, did same things and at one time Kevin was the only person that Charlie would share her television experience with. But then last year happened… when many things changed so did the twins relationship.

Slowly but surely Charlie got pushed into a new "friend circle" leaving her brother behind. And of course their parents were too busy with Charlie to pay any attention to Kevin and he resented her for that. "was that Kale?" he asked standing up following his sister to the stair case. She shrugged sarcastically. "did you sleep with him?" Radin asked still following her.

"probably did, probably have been for years." And the rasp in his voice only increased making him harsher and only making Charlie angrier. "how come you were at the dance?" Charlie asked whipping her head around to look at her older brother, by two and a half minutes.

"I have better things to do then hang around that shit hole." He said. Charlie turned around and continued walking. "mom wants to talk to you." Radin finally spurted out when the two of them reached the top floor. "where's dad?" Charlie asked with a hint of worry in her voice. Radin rolled his eyes and created as cup in his eyes and pretend to sip it, motioning that their father John Radin was drinking, yet again.

Maybe that's where Charlie got her taste for alcohol. John Radin often walked out on the back porch with a bottle of scotch in one hand and a cigar in the other and would sit out there alone, doing nothing but smoking and drinking. He would wait, how ever long it took to be fully intoxicated and come back inside and wreak havoc on the family.

-Mean while Kale was walking into his own house to see his father sitting on the couch looking at the television screen with complete intensity. "where the hell have you been?" he burned at his son just as soon as he closed the door. "I was out with Charlie." He said harshly.

"ohm." he replied mutedly. Zachary Manning was someone over protective of his only son. Although when it came to Lauren Manning, Kale's younger sister, of fifteen he couldn't care less. Anything Kale did was scrutinized under a bright light, details always needed and disapproval usually unwittingly handed out.

"hi Lauren." Kale sung as he popped his head into his sisters bright room, there was something in Kale's voice that had changed. Lauren Manning was slightly naïve to say the least. But her sarcasm ran deep and her vindictive and evil comments were usually sprung. But sadly since last years events were passed around throughout the town, Lauren grew a great understanding and respect for Charlie Radin… sadly the only person who could earn that from Lauren.

Lauren was sitting at her computer instant messaging several people and finally turned around after she heard her older brothers voice. "hey." She said with a grin as she crossed her legs as she sat on the spinning chair.

"Didn't go out tonight?" Kale questioned sarcastically. "Nothing worth my time." She continued to look at her brother Kale with a smirk and her eyes slimming but not saying a word. "What?" he asked crossing his arms as he leaned his body against the doorway?

"Who'd you fuck tonight?" she said with such angst. Kale immediately stood up off the wall and loosened his arms. "none of your business Lauren." He said. "ha, so you did." She smiled and turned back around typing away at the keyboard.

Kale walked into his bedroom and laid across his bed alone, and in his boxers. Something had changed that night, who could feel it in the way the wind hit your skin. The way that the birds now seemed to sing. Charlie remembered a time when she had a crush on Kale. They were ten and things were much simpler.

And one day she told her best friends to kiss her, she told him to know what it was like. But secretly she just wanted to know what it would be like to kiss him. And as they got older and things changed Charlie use to think about what it would be like to make love to Kale. And unknowingly and strangely enough Kale thought about the same things about Charlie.

Neither knew what the other thought about them because their relationship was always purely platonic. Until tonight. And there was a night in earlier years, that they could have had sex, but maybe it was because they were too young, only thirteen or because only a week earlier Charlie had been raped or maybe just because Charlie was too scared to recuperated Kale's first move.

But now that it had happened, now that they had done it, it wasn't so scary anymore. At one point it was too hard to think about but now it over with, it wasn't scary anymore. Listen to the sounds of the birds and feel the wind cross you skin because something that night changed.