Crooked Halos Ch. 7
by LilAngelGirl
 

 Chapter 7....
Chad looked at Theresa and smiled. "I've missed you."
Fear shot through Theresa. "You can't be here." She said almost bitter.
"Resa I've been everywhere looking for you. I love you." Chad told her looking around the store.
"Chad, I told you its over, why didn't you just leave it like that? Why couldn't you just let me go." Theresa pleaded.
"Resa just hear me out. I'm not here to force you into anything. I just wanta talk girl. Give me that much."
Looking down Theresa chewed on her bottom lip, "Well you have come all this way." She sighed.
"Yeah. Look I'm not asking nothing out of you, just wanta talk about things." Chad reasoned looking at her."Can you at least hear me out?"
Theresa thought for a moment, her mind yelling run but her heart was telling her to listen."Fine. I get off work in a few minutes. We can go talk then."
Chad smiled. "Great." He said his voice joyful.
"I said talk Chad. That's all." Theresa said flatly. "I owe you that much I guess."
"Well my friend Bray is outside waiting, I guess I should tell him something."
Theresa smiled, "Tell him I'll give you a ride home, I have a car outside."
Chad nodded."Yeah OK I'll do that." Chad said running back out to his car.
Theresa frowned as she watched him. "What are you doing?" She questioned herself. "He's too good for you." She scolded herself as Chad bound back into the store.
~*~*~*~

Charity looked in the mirror frowning at what she saw, her light pink tank top was nice, as was the pink makeup she wore, the white jeans she had on were a favorite of hers also, so why did she hate every little piece of it? Why did she feel like a powder puff?
"I loved this outfit back in Harmony." She sighed. "So why do I feel so strange in it now?" She questioned herself.
She forced the feeling to leave as she flopped down on the bed and flipped on the TV
"Today On "TESSA" Teen piercing and why its a growing trend." The woman announced with a fake smile.
"Talk Shows I hate talk shows." Charity complained as a flash hit her, her mind taking over.
Flashback
"Charity Standish, you will remove that thing." A woman yelled.
"Mother I'm keeping it! Its my body, my tongue!" Charity yelled.
"And would you explain why you had that,that thing put in it?" Her mother yelled back flinging her arms in the air.
"Its a tongue ring mother chill! And I got it because it was cool. "
"You have a hole in your tongue, what is wrong with you Charity? What happened to my little angel?"
Rolling her eyes Charity spoke, "Maybe I don't like being an angel, I hate who you want me to be. Don't you get it? I'm not perfect and I'm not an angel, in case you haven't noticed my halo is a little crooked." Charity shouted as she stomped up the stairs.
End Flashback

Charity blinked several times. Shaking from fear of what had just happened. She rubbed her face and then in a impulse touched her tongue. "A Tongue ring?" She whispered. Her hands shaking she stood up, "What just happened to me? I've never had a tongue ring.And me and mother got along. I know we did." She cried.
Pacing Charity raked her hands through her hair. "Am I remembering? I can't be. I wasn't like that. No. I was good. I was a good kid." She rattled.

"You Ok in here?" A voice asked. Looking around Charity saw Bray looking at her.
"I'm fine." She whispered.
Walking closer to her he looked at her, "You've been crying." He stated.
Wiping her eyes she shook her head. "I was watching some dumb show on TV."
"A show made you cry? Nope not buying it." Brayden said watching as Charity gulped.
"Look it was a show. I'm fine really."
"Must have been some show." Brayden said eyeing her.
"It was just real sad. Can we drop it?" She questioned.
"You know what? I don't know why I bothered. You've got this chip on your shoulder and it's not budging." Brayden say turning to leave.
"You wouldn't understand." Charity whispered.
"What?" Bray said turning around his blue eyes searching out Charity's face.
"Nothing. I've just got allot of stuff to deal with." She sighed.
"Fine." Brayden said throwing his arms in the air. "Oh Chad found his woman today." He added.
Charity looked up again her eyes wide, "He found Theresa? Where at?" She questioned.
"The quick mart. Kind of odd how she was working there. Anyway the went to talk. Now I see why he traveled this far, the girl is hot." Bray smirked.
"You are such a guy." Charity scoffed.
"Yeah I know." Bray laughed walking out of the room.
Charity sighed. "Did I really act like that before?" She whispered falling back on the bed. "Who was I ?"

~*~*~*~*~

Chad smiled as he entered Theresa's apartment behind her. "I can't believe I found you." He said as she shut the door.
Theresa took a deep breath,"Chad you shouldn't have come." She said looking up at him.
"Theresa don't say that, of course I had to come."
"No Chad. I said it was over. "
"Resa you ain't trying to say you don't love me are you?" Chad asked looking at her.
Theresa lowered her head. "I'm trying to tell you that we can't be together. We don't work well together Chad." She lied watching as his face grew pale and his eyes lost the glow they had just had.
"No girl. You ain't gonna play it like this. I know you love me. Something just don't make sense." Chad told her as he paced in the small living room.
"Chad I said we would talk, but I don't know why now. You need to just go back to Harmony."
"And you need to be real." Chad said eyeing her.
Theresa gulped. He knew her so well, this man in front of her knew everything about her. He knew her lies, the little looks she gave and most of all he knew she loved him. "Chad it won't work. I can't agree to spend forever with you and that is what you want." She said her hands going to her hips. "I can't be who you want me to be."
Chad shook his head taking a few steps toward her. "I'm not looking for forever and a day right now girl. I just want the woman I love to admit she loves me too. I know you ain't ready for a huge thing. I just want you Theresa, thats all."
Theresa stared up at Chad his eyes focused on her. "Even if I can't promise you anything?" She questioned.
"I won't ask you to promise me anything. Girl I can see you've been hurt. Just don't shut me out." Chad begged.
Theresa shook her head. "Chad you deserve so much better than me." She cried.
Chad let out a slight laugh. "Theresa don't go there. We've been there before. I love you, and I can't stop loving you even if you wanted me to. And you don't want me to Theresa. I know you don't."
"I just don't want you to get hurt." She said taking in a breath.
"Then don't give us up yet." He replied. "If you don't want me hurt don't let us go."
Theresa wiped a tear from her eye. "I can't do this tonight. I'm taking you back to your friends house Chad. I can't deal tonight." Theresa said heading to the door, a very disappointed Chad following behind her.