Tangled Up in You (The Story of Us Book 2)

Prologue

A/N: I do not own criminal minds or any of its plotlines. I simply am modifying it and adding my own twist to certain things therefore some things may be wrong in my book or changed because I do not remember a whole lot about how life worked in 2005 except for the lack of technology and I kind of want them to have certain technology. I appreciate constructive criticism but I would like you to understand that the plot of this book is that Spencer was a very different person in college as a result of his friendship with the OC so I don't want people commenting about how something is out of character for him as that is the point. Thanks and when some topics that may be triggering come up I will try to put a disclaimer but if I miss one please feel free to inform me. This is my second Criminal Minds fanfic so I hope you like it! And yes this is the same disclaimer as the last book. ~Jess

Again cover credit goes to the amazing @-gxiltypleasure

TW: Mention of abuse and child molestation.

~11 Years Ago~

As Amanda Hotchner sits in her bedroom in her sorority house, she can't help but curse her father. He had been a controlling asshole for as long as she had known him. Hell, she and her twin were born more than a week early because he beat their mother for making their older brother a Halloween costume after Liam Hotchner had declared 10-year-old Aaron too old for trick-or-treating. But that wasn't why she was angry. She was angry because he was dead. She was livid because he had died without ever apologizing or saying he was proud of her for anything more than show.

Not only that but it was his fault that the most embarrassing thing in her life had happened to her. About two months prior, she had learned from Kristen that she had lost her virginity to Amanda's twin brother Sean. Amanda, not one to be left behind, decided that she would lose hers as well. Her mom told her that it should be with someone she loves and that loves her back. She didn't know if Spencer Reid loved her back but she knew that he loved her and he was a teenage boy. Sex is all any of them think about right? Wrong.

When she tried to have sex with Spencer, he had no idea what to do, and even worse neither did she and it was all her father's fault. When she was in school she had to get a permission slip signed to participate in sex ed and her father refused to sign it because 'he wasn't raising a whore' so Amanda was left completely clueless. Not even cosmo could help with this one, trust me, she had tried. But the magazine with 1001 tips on how to give a good blowjob had absolutely nothing about doing the actual deed so she had turned to other sources.

Her other source was none other than her best friend Lacey. Lacey was two years older than her as her birthday was in June so she graduated from school at 17 while Amanda graduated at 10. Lacey and Amanda were practically attached at the hip both being on the volleyball and cheer teams and both being in Kappa Delta Psy so Amanda felt comfortable going to Lacey for advice which had put her off the idea for a while after she learned that sex was the very same as what Julie's dad had done to her when she was 10 and what that awful man had done to her in Massachusetts just two years after.

It wasn't until she talked to Kristen that she learned that sex was different. That it felt good and it was supposed to. She said it was nothing like what had happened to them and the only person in the world Amanda might have trusted more than Kristen was Spencer so she believed her. But right as she was about to do the deed with Spencer, her phone had rung with news from her mother. Her father had died of a heart attack that afternoon.

Now here she was two weeks later sitting in her room all the way across the country in California rather than in Virginia for his funeral and will reading. It wasn't like she was going to be in his will and he had stolen enough of her life from her. Or at least that's what she told herself as she counted down the time on the clock on her dresser.