"You don't always know who your going to fall for, or if that person you want is the same person you need." Carly Corinthos – Jax said looking at her cousin in romantic parcel. "Sometimes you need the guy who'll spend all his money on you, or the guy with all the looks in the world but with out a touch of class." She smiled slightly. "or maybe the guy who's made with stone on the outside but with a heart of gold, so once you break through that core you knew what it was all for" Carly smiled as Lulu Spencer looked over her shoulder too see her best friend Spinelli smiling at her.
"Or sometimes Lulu, you need to have that guy who you always have known and who has always been there for you, the one you can trust… but you know if he is the one if you can't live without them." That was all true, that was all the truth for every single man and woman out there.
Once you couldn't live with out another person, you knew who the one was for you. But first you had to decide who was that one guy, man, boy, girl, woman that you couldn't live without. In the end it doesn't matter what all the people around you are saying, or warning you about, or pressing you into.
Charlie walked down the stairs of her house the next morning and into the kitchen where her brother sat smirking the same way he had been doing for the last few days. Charlie swiftly ignored him. Mr. Radin had already left for work and Mrs. Radin was sitting in the living room with the nurse.
The doorbell rang and Charlie cocked her head to one side. "Is it your girlfriend?" She muttered as she took a bite of the apple in her hand. "Not today." He grunted as she walked towards the front door of the house. It rang again as she wasn't even half way there yet. "I'll be right there." She called across the house angrily.
She chomped again into the red shinnying fruit as she pulled open the large wooden door looking at the ground as she pushed open the glass door after it. "Hello Charlie." That deep familiar voice said as she looked up. At first it was the same sensation that it had been the day before. Complete and utter amazement and disappointment and anger. It was like Charlie Radin had forgotten that Ian Rowland had turned up at Scrathmore Academy yesterday, like she still hadn't seemed him for a year.
She shook her head, her lips pursing as she tossed her apple at his chest and he back away. She looked inside of the house as she grabbed her bag quietly and quickly to make sure no one had seen Ian standing on their front porch and closed the big wooden door behind her again as she stepped out next to him.
"Thanks?" he questioned tossing the half eaten apple to the ground. "What the hell are you doing here?" she cried. "You can't come to my house, your cant be here." "But I am." He said quietly. He hadn't changed at all and he didn't care.
"I thought maybe…" He said softly peeking inside the house windows but Charlie protectively pushed him away from them. "See it." "What?" She questioned angrily. "Then house no." He shook his head but somehow nothing comprehended with Charlie. "If you have to be back in this god forsaken town Ian, it doesn't mean you have to be near me." Charlie moved off the porch and walked down the walkway.
"Aren't there things were need to figure out?" he asked quietly. "No!" She cried. He rolled his eyes and followed her. "You can't come to my house Ian, or my school, your not allowed in my life, got it?" Charlie Radin was completely serious as she crossed her arms avoiding looking at Ian whenever she could. But he laughed slightly at her. "I haven't seen you for a full five minutes, yet I'm in your life?" She looked at him with fury.
"Do you know what I'm thinking Ian?" She called looking into his eyes only to profess her fury. "Do you know what I do when I go home at night, or who I talk to?" He grunted looking at her. "Do you know what people say to me when I walked into those school buildings? Do you know who my friends are or anything has happened since last may?" He shook his head silently. "Then you don't get to spat sarcastic comments at me, or come to my school or my house. Get it? I won't let you control me anymore."
"Charlie… I just want to see" She quickly cut him off. "see what? Huh Ian Rowland, the boy who knocked Charlie Radin up? The one who fell in supposed love with a jailbait?" Kale Manning's car drove into the driveway but Charlie didn't stop as she picked up her bag off the ground. "The little boy who left her pregnant at two months? The one who broke her heart? The little fucking asshole who left me here by myself to drown in my own mess!" Charlie Radin's voice was cracking it reached such a high volume, her anger was rising as Kale came out of the car towards her.
She screamed at him but it was like no one had noticed. No one came out from the house, or the neighbors, the cars didn't slow down or calm as Charlie screamed her bloody head off at the scum who left her alone and didn't seem to care.
At first Kale was walking towards Charlie, but she turned around and gave him a loving look but made Kale stay still as Charlie turned back around. "And until you know what I've been through in the last year, don't call me, or look at me, or come and see me, because you will never understand." "Charlie." Ian protested. "What Ian? What could you possibly say?" He frowned a little as he looked at her sternly. "Where's our baby?"
Charlie's feet where planted firmly on the ground but her head was spinning. She could feel her stomach reach up into her mouth and her body slowly sway and the on coming darkness became clearer as her eyes rolled to the back of her head at the same time as it smacked hard against the ground making a deep rumble of noise as Kale came running to her side and Ian stood above her with a shocked look upon his face, a little frightened but Charlie knew none the wiser, she was out cold.
The ambulance came quickly down the street, Charlie was hosted up into the back of the ambulance the lights flashing. Radin and the nurse came rushing out just as Charlie was being driven away and Ian Rowland was already in his car the engine started. Kale was still standing there though telling the story but easily and simply leaving Ian out of it.
The nurse claimed that Mrs. Radin was too ill to set foot in a hospital for a purpose other then her own health, because of her mental physic and Radin had to get to school. Mr. Radin was no where to be reached and after an half hour of wasting time Kale hurried to her car, dropped Lauren Manning off at Scrathmore Academy and proceed to rush to his girlfriends side.
Charlie's room was small and quiet. It laid with a large glass window in front of it leading out into a short hallway filled with people rushing in and out, back and forth. As Kale Manning walked up to the windows glare of Charlie Radin laying on a hospital bed hooked up to IV's her eyes still closed, a nurse walked out and up to Ian Rowland who was also standing there silently.
"Are either of you family?" She asked anxiously. "Well no…" Ian trailed off as Kale interrupted him. "I'm her brother." She nodded with a brief smile. "She's going to be fine, she's still asleep but she should be able to be dismissed this evening." Kale nodded with a jerk of his neck and looked into Charlie's window again, to make sure everything was okay.
"Are you guys dating?" Ian asked as he stood next to Kale both facing the window. "Yeah." Kale said shortly. "For how long?" "A day Ian, a day." Kale said with a slight snicker in his voice. "Where's the baby?" Ian asked with a crack in his voice.
But both Kale Manning and Ian Rowland knew it was neither of their places to tell. Kale shook his head and began to walk towards the row of seats down the hall. Ian grunted and Kale quickly turned around staring him down. "You need to leave."
"You're ridiculous if you don't think I'll be back." Ian scowled. "And you're just as ridiculous if you don't think I'll still be here." Ian smirked as he shook his head and walked down the opposite direction of the hallway.
Kale Manning sat on the uncomfortable plastic chairs of the hallway with low hanging lights above him. The smell of death hung through the hairs as his eyes trickled across bad magazines and his feet fell onto the dirty floor, as time just ticked by. At first it was seconds, then minutes and then hours.
Near the end an excited nurse and doctor continued to walk in and out until the nurse walked up to Kale who was still sitting on the plastic chairs anxiously. "You can see her now." The tall nurse said before quickly walking away.
Kale walked in Charlie Radin's room and stood a few feet from her bed, her eyes were still shut and he was questioning himself if the nurse was mistaken. "Hey." Charlie said softly as her eyes fluttered open. Her voice was slightly horse and cracked constantly. "Its from the tube they fucking jammed down my throat the nurse said." Charlie added when Kale jumped at the sound of his voice. He smiled slightly.
"So how are you feeling?" He asked crossing his arms. She didn't answer. "What time is it?" Kale looked down at his watch and answered: "four o'clock." "Did you go to school?" she asked softly to stop the croaking of her voice. He shook his head. "Kale…" she said but her throat hurt too much to continue.
"Is he still here?" Kale shrugged. "he might be somewhere around here…I don't really know." Charlie nodded. "The nurse said you can get out of here today." "Wonderful." She grimaced. "What happened Charlie?" Kale Manning asked with a sarcastic sense in his voice. She wiggled around in her bed. "I don't want to talk about it."
Kale shook his head. "Okay pretend I am me and you are you and…" "And what are we now?" she added quickly. He grunted but continued anyway. "and were not this messed version of us." He cracked a smile and Charlie understood, he wasn't being mean or rude.
He just meant before, before a week ago when everything was the same and they were just friends. But maybe even a deep part of her knew before last year, when everything changed. "Seeing him creeped me out Kale, and he had to ask me, he had to badger me and questioned about it… I mean." Charlie's aching heart was beating faster had she gave it away, the secret she had been keeping to close to her away from Kale, slipped from her mouth like some bad song lyrics.
And for a moment Kale had even forgotten that he wasn't suppose to know the truth. He forgot about the conversation Charlie forced with him explaining the "rumor" of her being pregnant last year and who it was started by and why… she made it all make so much sense except it was exceptionally fictional just like Charlie's television characters. A blind bat could tell she was pregnant.
Kale's face turned warm and he turned around as he continued: "what you never told him the rumors were fake?" "He left before I could." Charlie lied and yawned fakly. "I hope I didn't keep you too late on the phone last night." Kale said in conclusion although his voice was faint. "no, it wasn't you." There was awkward silence as Kale walked across the room his hands in his pockets.
"do you know where my clothes are?" Charlie asked. "I mean, why do they have to take them off to treat a patient then they put us in these ridiculous dresses no matter what gender you are, and they have your ass hang out then have the audacity to hide my damn clothes." Kale picked up the folded pile of clothes in the corner and handed them too. "What it's true." She said sheepishly her voice still cracking as Kale left the room shaking his head sarcastically.
Sometimes it was harder to find that person you couldn't live without. But its obvious that love triangles stand strong in the world and for many reasons that choice is harder then searching. Because to choose between two people give you a choice, you immediately know you don't have to search or wait, but you hold your fate in your hands.
That deep pressure that's heart break. But sometimes the pain you cause yourself touches more than one person. You cant choose one and not hurt two. You cant love and not hate. In Dawson's Creek In the end Joey realized and made the decision that although the on going love triangle was about her, she also realized that she was never the one to settle, she wasn't suppose to the be the person who ended the friendship that never succeeded.
Well what happened when choice one and choice two were never friends, but the triangle still existed and the hurt lingered in the air? The choice has to be made, and its just a question is who will be hurt?
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