"People in love aren't known for their rational behavior." Nicholas Casadine of Port Charles, New York said talking to his strung out half brother Lucky. When your in love its like having blinders put on you permently and all you can see is you and him or her. That one person shields your judgment from the rest of the world. But on General Hospital what are you suppose to do when your strung out on drugs and sleeping with another women but still in love with your wife? That isn't quite understandable.

But for Charlie, how was she suppose to act when she wasn't sure if she was in love, not in that way, she wasn't sure if she ever fell out of love with the boy who ruined her life, although she claims that she had long time ago, but then again he was her first time. Let's just say she was confused. Because when she wasn't around Kale Manning, Charlie had a clear view of what to do and what to say. But once he came around, once her friend came around she had these very friendly feelings, and her blinders came on binding to her mind.

The clanging of the metal pole hitting another sounded throughout the school on Tuesday morning as Charlie Radin sat quietly in Mr. Smith's classroom as others walked through the classroom door. Charlie hadn't seen her brother last night, or this morning for all she knew he didn't return home, yet he showed up here, the one place she would have ignored if possible.

As Charlie sat silent looking down at her desk, Radin walked in leaning against the classroom walls wrapping his arms around Amanda Hilfiger's hips, their lips pressed against each other. "Hey Charlie." Emma said walking around the bend and sitting in the desk in front of her.

Emma had short, straight brown hair. Her tall and curvy body disappeared as she sat down. "Anything exciting happen yesterday? I had to go to Boston for the day." Emma Watson continued. "Not especially." Charlie said quietly. "Jesus, are they going at it." She said looking up at Radin and Amanda for a short moment.

"Of course they are." Charlie grunted, smiling slightly as Emma looked at her strangely, wondering about her harsh attitude this morning. "anyway, Nicholas's party was pretty good." And a light came on in Charlie's head and she lifted her head from its bent position. "I was just coming in, but I saw you walking upstairs with your friend Kale." Charlie nodded and couldn't help but smile. "I have to finish some calculus homework… see you lab." "Yeah, okay!" Charlie said with heightened spirits as Emma turned around in her desk and the second bell of the morning ran and Mr. Smith rushed in the doorway, Kale shortly behind him.

Charlie began to look down again at her desk as Radin and Amanda both took separate seats. She could feel Kale's beautiful eyes staring at her and for a moment she thought he might not say anything until: "hey Charlie." He said quietly looking at her nervously as she turned to look at him. "I need to talk to you." "Yeah, okay!" She grunted and turned back around as the room was hushed with the morning announcements. "Hello Charlie." Amanda Hilfiger said leaning up from her chair. "Yes Mandy?" She asked sarcastically turning her blonde head only slightly to face her ex-friend.

"I have something for you." She sung as Charlie reluctantly held out her hand, Amanda slipped a small plastic wrapper in. Charlie pulled her arm to the front of her body and unfolded her hand. Trojan man:: pleasurable for all. The colorful round wrapper read. And the embarrassment of yesterday had left Charlie and she returned to her strong, sarcastic and sexy self as she turned around to Amanda who was snickering.

"Yeah so, Mandy if you're such an angel virgin why do you obviously have an open packet of condoms?" Charlie asked flipping the condom back and forth in her hands. Her faced reddened for a moment before she reached forward and took the condom from Charlie's hand. "you're right its much better to just wing it and have an abortion later right? I think I'll keep this." She tossed it over to Radin's desk and opened her mouth once more.

"Besides, Kale seems like the responsible guy, I'm sure he has it covered, but then again he is with you." Charlie's insides burned and this unknown feeling roared inside of her. "Leave Kale alone, you can screw around with me because I know you're still holding a grudge or jealously whatever you want to call it, but Kale was always nice to you." She was quiet for a moment but still smiling.

"Jealous?" She cackled. "Of you? And what the hell would cause such insanity" Charlie waited a moment because it killed her to talk of him, in front of other people, but she couldn't run away now, she had to finish her point, bring some humiliation upon Amanda as she had done to Charlie so many times.

Charlie smirked sarcastically. "come on, we all know you wanted Ian Rowland last year, you practically threw yourself at him, you told me you wanted to lose your virginity to a man, since he was nearly twenty. As soon a I moved in him you turned against me, get over it Amanda, it's pathetic." "Charlie…" Kale warned behind her.

But Charlie had succeeded. The people in the room were laughing slightly and whispering around and Mandy Hilfiger's face was red and full of anger, and luckily the bell rang. The room began to exit as Charlie grabbed her stuff Kale, waiting for her. "I don't hate you because of Ian." Amanda said softer now, still standing behind Charlie as she picked up her bag. "I hate you because you ended someone's life when they never had a choice, you're a selfish bitch."

Amanda paused and looked over at Kale. "and its about time your saw it. I warned you Kale." Amanda walked out before another word could be spat. Charlie raised her eyes brows looking at Kale, what did Amanda mean, she warned him?

It meant that Amanda was the one who told Kale the truth. The one who sat him down two weeks after Charlie reveled to Amanda that she was pregnant and told Kale straight out why Charlie was acting so strange. Charlie Radin and Amanda Hilfiger passed as best friends back then. Although it was Kale that Charlie had grown up with, it was Kale who she saw everyday and loved to death, it was also Kale who couldn't stand Ian and it was Kale who Charlie was pushing away, and it was Kale who Charlie was embarrassed to talk about her problems with, which is why Charlie pushed off talking to Kale about anything dealing with Ian, and in the end she never did tell him.

And that was the last time that Amanda told anything that was nice and or truthful about Charlie Radin. The day that she told Kale everything was the day she got rid of her friend Charlie. Because by telling Kale the truth she thought he would take care of her and she could stop being talked about and scrutinized for being friends with Charlie Radin and Ian Rowland. Her planned worked, for Amanda and no one else.

Kale grunted ignoring Charlie's odd expression and tugged on her hand as they walked through the crowded halls and into another side hallway. The bell rang and it was completely empty. Now only Charlie and Kale stood together at the end of the hallway.

"You said you wanted to talk?" She questioned looking slightly up into Kale's eyes. They were ignoring what had happened in homeroom and now focused on them. They were missing class but neither of the friends cared. We could be more then friends.

The voice, the sentence, the truth of it lingered in both Charlie's and Kale's minds. He grunted as if he had forgotten what he was going to say, it was something Mrs. Radin did often in her mental state. "You look really pretty today." He said awkwardly. And even though Charlie heard it often she blushed and said: "thanks Kale."

They stared at each other for a long time in this empty hallway and it came to the conclusion that Kale never really had anything really important to talk to Charlie about, he just wanted to see her, talk to her, perhaps touch her.

The world was spinning around them and games were being played all over the place. Kevin Radin was out for revenge of some sort. Amanda was rolling along for the ride. Kale was playing his own game against Charlie for the truth. And now Kale and Charlie had their own game going, it was only for them, a two player if you would.

The game was rather a will they, won't the situation similar to that of Dawson's Creek or any other love interest television show of Charlie's but it was much deeper. Charlie swallowed and opened her mouth but it was hard to ruin the moment. "About yesterday…" She trailed off. "What you said."

Kales heart beat was racing, and it couldn't stop. Yesterday he blurted things out that maybe he would have held onto other wise, and he was afraid to pay the consequences. "Chase… I" He said softly as she inched towards him. "no Kale, it's just that in less then a week the way I think about you has changed and when I see you my heart tugs… your suppose to be my best friend." She smiled and reached for his hand on an instinct. "I'm just thinking of I lost you… I would have no one if you haven't noticed." The tone of Charlie's voice had changed. She sounded softer and kinder. "you wouldn't lose me." He grunted but Charlie Radin was already leaning up slightly on her toes and pressed her lips on his.

As she pulled back, he tugged on her hand and slammed into the swinging girls bathroom door and closed it behind them. Charlie's back was slammed against the bathroom wall as Kale pressed his body against hers their lips meeting continuously. Kale's hand slid down the side of her of body and pulled her thigh around his waist as their tongues dances at one.

Charlie closed her eyes as a creak to the right of the two sounded as Kale slid his lips down towards her neck, slowing kissing her long neck inching farther from her lips. Charlie opened her eyes for a split second and nearly jumped off the floor. Emma Watson stood in the doorway scrunching up her noise. "Wrong room." She muttered as Charlie tugged Kale off of her regrettably.

"Umm yeah." Emma said again once no one said anything and slowly entered the room. And a strange sensation ran through Charlie and she was embarrassed and slighted but she was tickled. She stroke a bright smile across her face in which Charlie hardly ever broke. Charlie's smile was a flirtiest move, but she hardly had enough feeling or energy to smile but she did, she burst out into a purely white smile.

She was still holding onto the elbows of Kale's arms as he still held her waist but he began to laugh as well. He kissed her cheek as she pressed her forehead slightly against his, their eyes locking deeply but the sound of laughter was still lingering between them.

"Kale." Charlie said quietly after a moment of silence. "I can give with you said a try." She was very careful to never repeat what he said, or consider the words boyfriend or girlfriend, it made it too weird, to familiar, too heartfelt, too involved. Although that's what they both were, involved.

But in the back of her mind, she was worried, because Dawson and Joey never got their relationship back after they became more then friends. And once Lulu and Dillon slept together it was hard to be less. And Topanga and Cory had to have it all or nothing.

It was strange to have this feeling inside of them. Charlie found her self happy and smiling while Kale did the same even though the school was still talking about the party on Saturday night, Charlie didn't recognize it.

Charlie waited a few minutes inside the school after the last bell of the day to see if Radin would walk out to her car, hoping Kale or Lauren would deal with him, but she never saw him. So in the end Charlie Radin walked out of Scrathmore High's school doors, smiling because somehow Kale's face was stuck in her mind. As she walked happily with the sounds of her name being thrown around in gossip muffled a cold shiffer ran up her spine. "Hey!" a loud, familiar voice called. Charlie was walking through the parking lot passing back the last brick wall of the school when the voice called out again. "Charlie Radin!" She stopped for a moment and didn't even turn around as she heard footsteps walking towards her. Charlie bit her plump bottom lip as she turned around her blonde hair floating in the wind. "Hey baby."

Charlie Radin has made some radical decisions in her life, and these decisions were life altering. And many of these decisions were shielded by love, interruptions and sex.