Charms

                                        Lily P.O.V     I am Lilith. This week I turn sixteen, which is a dangerous age to be. See I live in Canada, not the old everyone is free kind of Canada but the new Canada. Some nut job about twenty years ago became prime minister and everything went to hell and nobody has changed it since. He made this rule that from the age of sixteen to eighteen a girl had to wear a charm around her neck, every girl had the same cherry charm signifying that she was still pure. Basically we hadn't had s*x yet. A game had been made of the whole thing because men from the age of eighteen to twenty are eligible to play. They get a prize for every charm they take, to take a charm they have to take the girls virginity. I've seen it year after year some girls throw themselves at the hotter men and men they have crushes on, other girls that try to keep the charm end up getting r***d and beaten. I didn't want to lise this new cherry charm.     I looked in the mirror on my bedroom wall. My hair was down to about my waist, black as night and straight. I have baby blue eyes and I'm about five foot five so I'm not short but I'm not tall either. My tanned skin was smooth all across my slim 140 lb body.      "Lily!" Mom yelled from down the hall. I ran down the hall to see my mother curled up on her bed almost in tears holding a small package. "It's time hunny. You're sixteen now, you are part of this stupid tradition." My mom managed to go almost the whole two years without losing her cherry charm but with a week left until her eighteenth birthday, my day, who had a crush on her for years, got his chance and pinned her against the wall and got her pregnant. The rules state that once you get a girl pregnant you can't participate in the competition, you do not however have to marry her. I took the small pendant charm from my mothers hands tying it around my neck, I give her a hug and went to my room once more.     I put on my school uniform, a pleated black skirt that ended just above my knees paired with a white blouse and black tie. We are aloud to pick our own accessories so long as they follow schools code of conduct. So I slipped on my red cape (I know what you're thinking "A cape really?" but my Nana made it for me and its warm.) I added my black knee high socks with the little bows. I decided to let my hair fall widely down my back for a change.      I ran downstairs and said goodbye to my father. He's a news reporter so he needs to get ready for tonight. See,  yes this happens every year but we still have to get an education so they put a time on it. Nothing can take place on holidays, two weeks in the summer and before six at night. It also has to end by three in the morning. I slipped on my black flats and headed out the door grabbing my bookbag on my way.                                 Colt P.O.V     I watched her walk down the road from my bedroom window like I have everyday for the past year. I have learned her patterns, where she likes to hang out, eat, what path she takes to school. I stalked her waiting for my chance to have her, she turned sixteen today and she had the charm around her neck. That meant every man would be after her tonight and I had to be her first. It was why I watched her. Knowing her mother would lock her in her third floor room with the barricades in place like every other mother did. This would last a few days until Lilith got restless and snuck out. I seen her get onto the bus and I decided to get ready, it was going to be a long night. Some stupid men or boys would still try to get in her room. I mean if I was stupid I would too, she's hot as hell. I stand good foot taller then her and with my history of body building I'm not a small guy.     I'm Colt and I'm nineteen, this is my last year to get a cherry charm but I only wanted one and I had to wait. I've been her neighbor for years and her father trusted me greatly. I planned to offer my help guarding her window tonight. They will let me since I helped guard their oldest daughter without trying to take her charm. I have planned this for years since high school actually. I pulled my jeans up and slipped on a simple black t-shirt. Looking in the mirror I seen my eyes, the ones that show no color just pure blackness which startles many people when they look at me, I finger comb my ear length brown hair in and attempt to tame it. With that being done I headed across the street to her house with a small box.