Ren couldn't help but stare at Charlie as he walked into the group huddle, she was at the sideline cheering for the team next to Peyton and Brooke who noticed the brunettes helpless glances.

"Hey, can I catch a ride with you to Nathan's party?" Brooke asked Ren, pulling her out of her daydream.

"Yeah, yeah, sure"

"Didn't think you were going. Figured you'd be hiding out in Lucas back seat again" Peyton looked over at her friend with accusing eyes.

"Jealous"

"No"

"What? I could see it. You're both so broody, you could brood together" Brooke joked.

"I could definitely see it" Ren chuckled when Peyton raised her eyebrows at the girl.

"Now the ravens in bound the ball. Looks like they're tying to isolate Nathan Scott on the baseline. The masenberg defense tightens on him, Scott battled through, still working hard to get open down there. Now, Charlie Archer with the ball, working on the wing. He's dribbling, looking for an open shot but he's boxed in. Oh! Oh! A cross court pass putting Lucas Scott over the basket so much for the putty grip on that one"

"What was that?" Nathan yelled at Charlie from across the court.

"Don't use me for your petty shit, Scott. I'm just tryna win" Charlie smirked at Nathan, knowing he was getting under his skin. Running over to Lucas, he gave him a high five and then looked over and winked at Ren.

"Did you see that? Lover boy was winking at you" Brooke elbowed Rens side and smirked.

Ren didn't say anything, going back to cheering for the Ravens so she didn't have to think about how her stomach was fluttering.

"And I tell you what, Lucas Scott is really starting to gel with this team"

The game had ended and the ravens had won, the cheerleaders were getting ready to pack their bags and the players were in the locker room getting changed.

"Do you think Charlie will be at the party tonight?" Brooke looked over at Ren, smiling secretly at something.

"I don't know, Brooke. Why?" She dropped her bag with a sigh and turned over to her friend, "It's over, I'm done"

"I'll see you at the party, right Rena?" Charlie walked you to the three girls but only looked at the one.

"Oh, yeah. You'll definitely see her, she'll be wearing black jeans that make her ass-" Ren held her hand up to Brookes mouth, forcing her to stop talking.

"I look forward seeing you" Giving her a another wink and his signature smirk before he walked away, Brooke let out a gasp.

"I cannot let you be over him. I mean just look at all the amazing babies you'll make and the wedding and him in a suit and tie. On second thought, can I have him?" Brooke joked, her mind flashing to the future and it was definitely clear that Ren and Charlie were going to end up together.

"You can't have everyone, Brooke. And she's right, Rena. You and Charlie would be the poster couple for all of Tree Hill. It'd be hot" Peyton told her with Brooke nodding her head along.

"I swear, you guys suck" Ren groaned making her two best friends laugh, swinging their arms over Rens shoulders, they began to walk out of the gym.

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Ren sat in the back seat of Peytons Comet as they drove to Nathan's party. The blonde pulled into the driveway and stepped on the breaks making her two passengers jerk up from the sudden movement.

"Jesus, Peyton. I'm going to end up getting a concussion" Ren complained, placing her hand on her neck.

"Every time I ride with you, I swear I'm never going to do it again" Brooke chuckled, getting out of the car she folded the front seat so Ren could get out.

"Keys?" Brooke asked, looking at the ignition and noticing that Peyton didn't take the keys with her.

"Tempt fate"

The three girls looked up when they noticed Lucas Scott signature car pull up, "What is he doing here?" Tim asked.

"I invited him. I mean, since you guys are such great friends now" Nathan told his friend, his tone sounded smug and his face looked the part.

"What are you trying to pull?" Peyton asked him.

"Nothing" Nathan told her, walking over to meet Lucas, "I wasn't sure you'd come"

"Makes two of us" Lucas said, not bothering to greet him any further.

"Hi, I'm Nathan Scott" He stepped in front of Haley and said, sticking his hand out for her to shack.

"Uh, yeah, I know. I'm Haley" Ren could tell how awkward the encounter was and that made it confusing.

"I know"

The group walked up the stairs and headed inside, it wasn't hard for Ren to spot Charlie because he had been waiting at the door and as soon as she walked in, he said "Rena, how are you?"

As if they hadn't seen each other a couple of hour earlier.

Not bothering to reply, she continued to walk with her friends but she felt his presence close by.

"Have you guys seen this?" Theresa walked up to Brooke and Ren, holding a newspaper.

"The 'High School Fearleader?' A comic strip. Wait, this is insulting, right?" Brooke grabbed the newspaper and looked it over.

"My dog can draw better that this"

"I don't know, I think it's pretty awesome" Ren grabbed the newspaper and smile, "It shows how systematic High School really is, showing up and doing exactly what people expect out of you, out of everyone"

"You're a cheerleader, Verena. You can't think this is good" Theresa sassed back.

"Just because I'm a cheerleader doesn't mean that I can't realize that they're building us like robots and if you don't see the flaw in the system then you're the problem, Theresa" Ren gave her a sweet smile, "Your insecurities are showing"

"Who is this Saki person anyway?" Brooke said disregarding everything that Ren had said.

"Yeah, I wonder"

"It's just a stupid comic strip. Who cares, right?" Peyton let our a nervous chuckle.

"It's more like 'sucky' whoever it is doesn't know the first thing about it, they make it seem so..." Brooke began, struggling to come up with a word.

"Shallow?" Lucas helped.

"Meaning less?" Charlie stepped in and said.

"Where's the keg?"

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Ren stood in front of the kitchen island with Peyton on her left and CharlieOn her right, there group of friends were playing some childish game called 'I never'

"Lucas, come play" Brooke called out for the blonde.

"What's the game?" He asked, turning back around to stand with the group.

"I never"

"And yet, apparently, you have" Vegas joked, looking at Brooke seductively.

"Shut up, Vegas" Brooke laugh with the group.

"Alight, so the game is; we all take turns saying things that we've never done and everybody at the table who has..."

"They have to drink" Lucas finished, taking the drink that Nathan had poured for him, "Yeah, I know"

"Alight. Theresa, you're up" Nathan looked to his right.

"Okay, let's see. I've never... had sex with anything made out of plastic" Theresa looked directly at Brooke, watching her take a drink while everyone let out a shocked noise.

"Okay, my turn. I've never...No, I did that. Um" Brooke laughed, failing to come up with something that she's never done.

"Alright, my turn. Oh, let's see, um. I've never... Ive never had a Dad that wished I was a stain on the bed sheets" Nathan's eyes didn't leave Lucas' face, he was taunting him and everyone knew it.

Lucas let out a deep sigh, walking over to Nathan, "Then you're welcome to mine"

"You know, Nathan-"

"What, Verena?" He snapped.

"Have you ever thought that, just maybe, your Dad treats you like shit because he regrets having such an asshole for a son?" Ren looked at her drink, "Here, you might want to drink mine also"

Chuckling as she walked away, nobody made the move to go after her. Well, except for Charlie.

"That was pretty badass of you, Rena" Charlie told her, stepping next to her.

"I wouldn't call it badass, I'm just fed up with people like Nathan. Treating people like shit then excepting everything to be fine" Ren told him honestly, "Wow, you and Nathan Scott are actually quite alike"

"Look, I know what I did was bad but you can't compare me to Nathan. We aren't even alike, not by a long shot" Charlie was taken aback by what she said, sure he left town without a warning but Nathan Scott? Well, he was satan.

"At least he's aware of the damage he's caused" She pushed past him and headed outside, she needed a breathe of fresh air.

"Look I know that I hurt you, okay? I can't change what I did or didn't do but I'm here now and I want you to see how hard I'm trying to help you see that I'm sorry and I wouldn't take back loving you for a second, I just wish I never made you doubt me" Charlie followed her outside, she was leaning on the rail and he stood next to the door.

"I was so in love with you, Charlie. I had even spent the first couple of weeks, telling myself that it was okay that you didn't love me back because I had loved you enough for the both of us" Letting out a shaky breathe, she turned around so that she was facing him, "After those weeks past, I began to understand things for what they really were. You only wanted to be with me cause you thought it was fun sneaking behind your Daddy's back. I was meaningless fun"

"That's not it, Rena"

"We were together for almost a year. I wanted to tell my friends, you didn't. I wanted to be seen with you but you didn't want to be seen with me. I wanted to march to your Dad and tell him that I loved you and I wouldn't step in the way of your dreams but you didn't want that. I understand now that you were ashamed of me but-"

Charlie stood there looking at her, watching her lips move so perfectly. Sadness washing over him when the tears that she fought with couldn't hold on anymore. All he wanted was for her to be comforted and loved and cherish. He wanted her. So he took the couple steps to her and kissed her, placing his hand on her cheek and the other on her lower back.

"I've never been ashamed of you, Rena" He said after they parted, placing his forehead on hers as they panted, "I never thought that I was good for you, it wasn't because I was ashamed of you, it was because I was ashamed of myself. I've never been the one to take things and grab it, I've never been motivated or driven to be who I want to be but you have and I was scared that people would see you, someone who was brilliantly magical and then look about me and think 'oh, yeah. That boys just going to bring her down' And I know, it's no excuse for my behavior and I am actively trying to change my narrative so it fits better with yours. I will tell my Dad about us, I will announce it at school, I'll tell anyone who is willing to listen if you promised to look at who I am and not who I was"

Verena closed her eyes, dreaming of a world where they were together. They were happy and smiling, talking about everything under the moon but it seemed to good to be true. So she left him there on the deck, hoping that the girl he loved would love him back.

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Verena walked home all by herself, she had let both Brooke and Peyton know that she was headed home and that they would talk about it later. She wanted to be alone or at least in the comfort of her own family.

"What's your problem?" Violet asked, she had walked passed Rens room and noticed her gloom. Violet had just finished a painting so she was wearing her painting overalls and had some acrylics in hand.

"Charlie's back" Ren told her emotionlessly.

"I heard. Didn't think you would want to talk about it with any of us though so we didn't say anything" Violet shrugged, setting down her paints and sitting next to Ren on the bed.

"What do you mean?" The older sister said, her eyebrows were furrowed and her voice raised.

"Come on, don't think that we didn't know about Charlie" Val chuckled at the door, making herself welcomed as she walked to the big bed and sat on it.

"How-How did you know?" Ren stuttered.

"Mom first noticed, told everyone that you were in love and then Dad caught on after weeks of denying it" Vee said, leaning on the door frame as she watched her three sisters try and comfort Ren.

"Funny how you guys are the only ones that noticed" Ren sighed, thinking about how her friends didn't even suspect anything.

"Like you gave them a chance, Verena. You kept lying to them, telling them that you were way to busy with a ballet competition and then telling them that the only reason you're sad was because you didn't get the spot you wanted" Violet told her honestly with the other sisters agreeing.

"You don't give people enough credit. Sometimes they surprise you"

"Yeah, Charlie sure did surprise me" Ren snapped, she knew what they were doing and it was annoying.

"He's a seventeen year old boy, Rena. You can't expect him to get everything right, love is complicated even when people make it out to be simple" Vee grabbed her sisters arm and squeezed.

"I didn't want him to get everything right, I just wanted him to love me. I wanted him to stay even when he felt that he couldn't"

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Ren walked down the flight of stairs and turned into the kitchen, grabbing a cup from the cupboard and filling it with coffee.

"I just cannot believe it" Mitch gritted, holding the newspaper tightly in his hands.

"What are you going on about now, Dad" Ren sighed, bringing her cup and standing next to her father, "Is that Lucas Scott headlining with Nathan and Dan Scott?"

"They'd run anything to make money, even if it wasn't true" Val said from the corner of the kitchen.

"Well Lucas should be able to sue for defamation of character, sticking him in with two people like Dan and Nathan can't be good for this poor kids reputation" Mitch scoffed again at the news paper.

"Not how it works but good try" Gwen said, walking in and taking the newspaper from her husband, "Finish your breakfast"

Nobody said a word after Gwen came in, they did as they were told and finished the last bit of their breakfast.

"So I heard Charlie is back in town" Gwen spoke, giving Ren a look with Mitch following after.

"Stop looking at me like that, it's creepy" Ren said, pointing at her Dads face.

"What face? Am I making a face?" Mitch looked around the room as he pointed up.

"Of course not, honey" Gwen gave her husband a loving pat on the shoulders.

"Whatever, I'm going to school" Ren grabbed her school bag with a groan, "Violet, Val and Vee are you guys coming?" The three sisters grabbed their bags and followed right after her.

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Ren stood by her opened locker, she was trying to put in her math book but her hands were filled with other things.

"Here let me help" Charlie said from behind her, he had heard her grunting and cursing so he thought his was the perfect opportunity to talk to her.

"I'm okay, Charlie. I can do it on my own" Ren groaned as soon as she heard his voice. She tried one more time to shove the book in her locker but the other things in her hand took a fall, "You're kidding me"

"Let me help you, Rena" Charlie sighed, bending down to his knees and grabbed the books.

"What do you want Charlie?" Ren groaned as he handed her the books one by one.

"We need to talk about the other night"

Ren let out a low chuckle, "No, we don't" slamming her locker shut, she began to walk toward the gym.

"Wait" Charlie called out, grabbing onto her arm before she could walk away from him, "Just Wait,
Please"

Ren furrowed her eyebrows at him, her face softened when her eyes locked onto his green ones.

"Fine, we'll talk later. Meet me at the river court tonight at 8" She gave him an awkward nod before turning back around.

"Yes, 8 o'clock! I'll be there!" Charlie yelled down the hallway, she could tell he was smiling by the way his voice rises with happiness.

She turned down the corner into the gym and saw the group of cheerleaders, already beginning the practice.

"There you are, V. Harlow. You are so late" Brooke glared at Ren, as she walked down the court, "And you aren't even dressed for practice. Seriously, I feel like I'm the only one who cares about this!"

"It's High School cheer, Brooke" Ren rolled her eyes at her friend and headed to the bleachers. Sure, she's gonna ditch the game on Tuesday but at least she came to show her support to her friends.

"Whatever. Peyton, you got the arms wrong" Brooke looked forward and caught a glimpse of Peyton ruining the routine.

"It's not brain surgery, Brooke"

"Okay, what's with the attitude?" Brooke scoffed. Ren furrowed her eyebrows at the girls and stood up from the bleachers.

"What's with your life? Aren't you embarrassed that the most important thing in your world is some stupid cheer?" Peyton looked at the girl with a harsh stare.

"Woah. What's happening here? I'm sorry I came in late but-" Ren walked cautiously to her two best friends.

"God. Not everything is about you!" Peyton yelled at her.

"Funny. I don't even remember that last time we made anything about me, it's always about you and Nathan and art and your weird pent up trauma" Ren let out a loud sigh, "If you want to talk about something Peyton, just say it don't be a bitch because we can't read your mind" She grabbed her bag from the bench and walked out of the gym. Maybe her talk with Charlie would be better then whatever that hell that was.

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Ren went straight home after her so called "practice" and she made it pretty damn clear that she was not in the mood. Honestly, she didn't even know why she blew up on Peyton like that but you couldn't say the girl didn't have it coming. She stomped right up to her room and threw her bag on the floor.

"What's got you all twisted up? It's only been a couple of day's since you sent in that tape to some university" Violeta asked from the floor, she had all of Rens magazines sprawled on the floor.

"It's not just 'some' university, Vi. It's The University of North Carolina school of art and if I get into this program I am practically a shoe in at the Paris Opera Ballet School" Ren groaned, plopping herself onto her King size bed.

"Oh, is that why you made Mom and Dad pay for French lessons?" Her sister looked up as if a light bulb went off.

"Violeta, why are you in my room"

Just as Vi was about to answer the girls heard screaming downstairs, looking at each other for a slight moment before rushing out of the room and downstairs.

"What! What's going on? Did someone break in?" Ren gasped for breathe, holding her chests as it went up and down.

"We live in a gated community and our Dad is Mitchell Harlow" Val looked at her with crazy eyes.

"Okay, whatever. Why are you two bimbos screaming?" Vi motioned to move on with her hands.

"It came, it finally came, Rena" Vee squealed, "It's from that university that has that program"

"No way" Ren whispered, looking down at the massive white envelope, "No freaking way" She screamed.

"Open it" Her sisters yelled.

Ren looked down at the envelope in her hands, looks at the stamp in the corner to the schools logo and then turned it over to open it.

"God I can't look" Vee said, covering her eyes with her hand.

The three sisters watched as Rens eyebrows furrowed while her eyes began to water, "Rena, I'm so sorry"

"I got in" Ren announced.

"What?"

"I got in!" She yelled louder, laughing as she jumped up in down from excitement.

"You got in?" Vee asked shocked, "Oh my god, you got in!"

Soon they were all jumping up and down, laughing and completely in shock. "Wait, isn't the school three hours away?"

Ren stopped jumping and looked at Val, "Well, yeah. I'll just have to drive there Friday night and come back on Sunday each week"

"That's a lot of driving" Vi whistled.

"It'll be fine with my Job at the dance studio and with my saving I have more then enough money for gas and to book a hotel for the weekend" Ren shrugged, smiling down at her acceptance letter.

"I heard Dad talking about letting you stay in one of his condos down there, I guess they had just finished putting in a new kitchen so it's been empty for awhile" Vee told her, walking along with the sisters into the living room.

Ren turned around swiftly, "What?" She stared around Vee who looked like a deer in headlights.

"Verity! That was supposed to be a surprise!" Val sighed, slapping the middle of her forehead with her hand.

"Look Rena, they didn't decide on anything but I'm guessing once you tell them that you got in, they will agree to let you stay at the Condo" Vi glared at Vee before crossing her shoulders.

"It's almost 5:00 so Dad should be home soon and I think Mom had to stay later so if you're going to make a grand announcement then you'd better start working on it" Vee shrugged her shoulders and retreated out of the living room.

Ren pondered on the thought of making this a big deal but setting something up for that wasn't worth the time so instead her and Vi headed back upstairs into the room, while Ren was staring blankly at the wall most likely still shocked by the events that just occurred, Vi was cutting out some things from the various posters Ren had.

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As soon at Mitch and Gwen got home they were bombarded with Ren and her acceptance letter. Her parents congratulated her and told her how proud they were and then the three of them sat down and talked about the possibility of using the spare Condo and just like Vi said, they had agreed on letting her use the Condo. After the serious talk about being responsible while staying by herself every weekend, Gwen and Mitch places themselves in front of Vee's copy machine and copied the letter a handful of times.

So with a copied acceptance letter in hand, she waited on the bleachers at the river court for Charlie. She had been ten minutes late herself so when she didn't notice Charlie anywhere, it didn't cross her mind that he wouldn't show.

Now almost two hours by herself with no sight of Charlie anywhere, she decided that waiting around for him to show was not something she was willing to do, well, not anymore.

Getting up from the bleachers with her bag on her shoulder, she made her way to her car when Charlie's red ford bronco blocked her in.

"Verena!" Charlie called out, getting out of his truck and running towards her.

"I'm done waiting, Charlie. Now move that scrap pile" Ren yelled, pointing at his truck.

"Look Rena, I'm sorry"

"I'm sorry" She said the exact same time he did, "Yeah, I've been getting that lot from you lately and you know what? They don't mean anything to me anymore"

"Just hear me out-"

"No!" Ren yelled at him, her voice was shaky and her throat burned from trying not to cry, "I am done hearing you out, I'm not kidding this time Charlie. From now on we are nothing, we aren't friends, we aren't acquaintances, you don't even say hi to me in the school halls"

"That's a little over the top, don't you think Rena?" Charlie let out a small chuckle as if any part of this situation was funny.

"You laugh now Charlie but when you realize that I was the only person in this god forsaken town who was willing to put up with you and your daddy issues, you'll realize just how good I was and I am not kidding, if you try to utter one god damn word to me I will make sure none of the boys on that basketball team pass you the ball" Rens voice was hard and her eyes were cold, how many times does she have to be let down to finally realize that he won't ever show up for her?

"I have a good explanation, I swear" Charlie pleaded, sobering up from his laughing fit.

"I'm sure you do, go tell someone willing to listen cause I'm not" She grabbed her door handle and pulled it open only for Charlie to wiggle his way in between the Jeep and her.

"I swear I loved you, Charlie and I tried so god damn hard to understand you and support you but after all this time I am finally realizing that all the stolen glances and whisperers of sweet nothings where just that, nothing. I was never yours Charlie but you were always mine and you new that, you new that I would ruin myself a million times just to feel a little ounce of love from you. Well, I don't want this faithless love anymore and I don't care what I have to do to erase you" Ren pushed him out of the way and hopped into her Jeep, shutting her door and making sure the doors locked, she looked at her rear view mirror at his daddy's old ford bronco and pushed the gear shift into drive, turning around on the basketball court so that she could get out.

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Ren didn't bother telling anyone at school that she was accepted to the program at the University, she just wanted the day to be over already and with both Peyton and Brooke still not talking to each other, everything was just getting a little too overwhelming.

But, her parents really wanted to go to the father-son game tonight and so did her sisters and even though Ren wasn't cheerleading tonight doesn't mean she couldn't cheer the boys on.

"Hey, Haley" Ren said, standing with her family, "Mind if we sit with you?"

"No, no. Go ahead" Haley slid down the bench to give the Harlow a little more room.

"Thanks"

"I'm guessing your talk with Charlie didn't go so well?" Haley asked, looking over at Ren who just by looking at her, you could tell she was sad.

Ren let out a long sigh, "No, it didn't. Two hours of sitting and waiting for him to show but I realized that's not even why I'm sad, I mean I just found out that I was accepted into that program I was telling you about but when the only people you wanna tell are either standing me up or blowing peoples heads off. Just makes me wonder if the only people I can really count on is my family"

"That's tough, I guess you'll just have to start hanging with Lucas and I more" Haley smiled at her, "Luke! Lucas! Hey, Scott!" She yelled, trying to gets Luke's attention.

"Woah, what happened there?" Ren pointed when both of the Scott boys turned around and the when Lucas blankly stares at her.

"He thinks I like Nathan"

"Oh. Well, do you?" Ren shrugged.

"Do I What?" Haley asked, looking at her confused.

"Like Nathan! God Haley, sometimes I wonder about you" Ren bumped her shoulder into Haley's and laughed.

"Oh. No, I don't think so. Well, I don't know" Haley groaned into her hands.

"Sounds like you do" Ren smirked, "Hey, it's not a big deal okay? You can't help who you like, you just have to hope they aren't who everyone says they are. In my case, Charlie is the exact opposite to his reputation. Asshole"

"Yeah well, tell that to Lucas I mean, I don't think I could live with myself and his creepy stare he give everyone when they disappoint him" Haley shrugged off her feeling like it was no big deal.

"Screw Lucas. You can't live your life tiptoeing around people just to make them happy, Luke has got you on this pedestal and it's not fair" Ren told her. She started clapping when the buzzer went off.

"Good evening lady's and gentlemen and welcome to the Tree Hill Ravens father-son charity basketball game. Tonight, the fathers battle the sons and the winners get bragging rights" The announcer said into the microphone.

"Are you ever sad that none of us turned out to be boys so you participate in games like these?" Ren turned to look at her Dad who was in the middle of Val and her Mom.

"Even if I had a son I wouldn't partake in this gender secluded game. What about the kids who don't have a father, what are they supposed to do? It's great that Luke has Keith but not every child has a prominent figure like that" Mitch rolled his eyes at the single thought of this game but he was really good friends with Keith and he's always been in Lucas's life.

"Well, you should put together your own charity fundraiser where everyone comes together and it's not all about one singular group" Valencia said from his side.

"That is a good idea, I'll see put in some calls to my contacts and see what we can do" Gwen said from down the bleachers, "Anyway, I'm going to sit next to Karen. I don't want to be embarrassed when your father starts booing at Dan Scott"

"That's the best part! He starts it and then the rest of the crowd jumps in" Vee giggles.

The group begin to actually watch the game, the kids were actually doing amazing and it was fun to watch them mess with their Dads. After they all came back from halftime and the Harlows got some few extra snacks, you could tell that something happened in the locker room considering Dans face is more killer like than normal. The game starts and Nathan ends up with the ball, he begins to run to the basket but Dan Scott body blocked him making him fall onto the floor.

"Let's hope the young mans okay"

"Boo!" Mitch yelled, standing up from his set a cuffing his hands together to make him louder, "Pansy ass move!"

The four siblings stood along Mitch and began to boo him as well, making the rest of the crowd start in.

"Okay, okay! Everyone take your seats so the game can begin again"

Mitch sat down with a smile, looking at Dan who was glaring at him but that didn't make Mitch back down, instead he gave him two thumbs up and a cheeky smile, "Lets go Keith!"

The game ended considerably bad, the Dads got bragging rights and the kids would have to hear about it for the next couple of months. The Harlows stood in the middle of the court talking to Tony who so happened to be Charlie's Dad.

"Oh yeah, it's gonna be crazy this coming up year with Rena's new program starting this fall" Mitch said, they had been talking about the school year and the pressures kids were facing, "With that, work, school, cheerleading and trying to have fun. It's gonna be a little hectic in her schedule but everything is worth it"

"You must be very proud, I wish I could get Charlie that devoted to something. I don't know what's gotten Into that boy but lately he's been acting like a sissy" Tony grumbled at the thought of his son being anything less then perfect.

"I'm not the only one with a busy schedule. Violeta taking her art classes, trying to put together a portfolio and teaching art to kids on the side, Valencia participating in three sports, volunteering at the children youth center and making meals for various shelters in Tree hill, Verity is basically ruling the world with her Technology, already in contact with this massive Tech company and is so ahead in school that she might graduate before me" Ren smiled at each of her siblings, she was a proud big sister.

"Yes, our girls are something extraordinary. I think part of the reason is that they grew up in a loving, gentle and caring household. We empathize feelings and make sure they are heard. They can go along way when they've felt love" Gwen smiled sickly sweet at Tony and ushered her family away from him.

"That was so cool, Mom! He could so tell that you were hinting something" Vee laughed along with her sisters.

"Yeah well, he had it coming. That bloke is a sorry excuse of a man and a father" Mitch grumbled.

The Harlows made it back home, they were all beat from the long night and headed straight upstairs to their rooms.

Ren stood in her bathroom trying to wash her face when all of her sisters piled in, "Uh, hello?"

"We just wanted to say, thank you" Vi said, sitting on the edge of the bathtub with Val while Vee sat on the toilet seat.

"What do you mean?" Ren asked, turning around to face her sisters with white foam on her face.

"Tonight, with Tony. We know that you didn't have to say anything and we would've understood. I mean, this program is a once in a life opportunity, you have the right to brag" Val continued.

"There's more then enough room in the brag department for all of us. You guys are the most hardworking people I know and it wouldn't feel right hearing someone talk about my accomplishments without acknowledging your guys' as well" Ren turned back around and shrugged, it wasn't really a big deal to her but it seemed like it was a big deal for her sisters.

"Well, that's not the only reason we came in here" Vee stood up and smiled. Ren looked at her confused, what were they talking about?

"We each made something for you that we think will either make you happy or help you with Ballet" Vi ran out of the room and came back with a canvas. When she turned it around, Ren immediately gasped. She had printed off numerous pictures of her, Peyton and Brooke throughout the years.

"Wow, Vi! This is amazing, thank you" Ren pulled her sister into a hug.

"Okay, okay. My turn!" Val said, handing Ren a CD, "I made you a mixtape, all the songs on here will remind you of something and it's perfect for the car ride to the university"

"Thank you, Val. I really appreciate this" Ren let go Vi and pulled Val Into a hug.

"And I designed an app for you" Vee finally said, pulling out her laptop and showing Ren, "All you have to do is record yourself dancing and this app will help you correct your pose, if you're off or not fully aligned"

"Seriously? I can't believe you did all this for me. All of you, I love everything" Ren wrapped her arm around Vee's neck and pulled her into a group hug.

Long time no see(: sorry about that, been busy with college starting back up and with moving.

Here is the collage that Vi made for Ren, it's super cute and I love it!

I am obsessed with the Harlow family, especially Mitchell Harlow. Who is your favorite so far?